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The Tale Of Gytrash

Come meet the spooky puppo Gytrash! Also! Mythic Mayhem now has its own website! Which is mobile friendly too!

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Saint George and the Dragon!

It is April 23rd (Saint George's Day) so here are some fun facts!

The original Saint George had legends in the 4th-6th centuries, and his story was one of matyrdom, dying for Christian values etc. whereas the Saint George And The Dragon myths were an 11th century embellishment. Here I have him as a roman officer in the sort of cavalry armour that would have been worn in 4th-6th centuries, with metal plates sewn into fabric. The dragon is obviously a 11th century addition! Saint George's horse is traditionally white, as he is one of 14 Holy Helpers in Roman Catholic tradition, so in pictures where he's lined up with the other 13 helpers he's given a white horse to say "this one is George". Saint George also has a white flag with a red cross.

Growing up in the UK, I know him as the Patron Saint of England, but he is also Patron Saint of Ethiopia, Georgia, Catalonia (Spain), Aragon (Spain) and Moscow (Russia). He is also the patron saint of soldiers and livestock!

His battle with the dragon may have taken place in Beirut (Lebanon), Silene (Libya), Cappodocia (Turkey).

The dragon pictured above is a dragon from my project, the green wyvern (Megavipera viride), which has a wide distribution throughout Europe and North Africa, which hopefully covers all the regions George is said to have fought the dragon in!

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dropped the walrus vs fairy question on a group of psychologists today and not only did the majority agree the walrus would be more surprising, the one with the strongest background in research responded to the ‘but fairies aren’t real’ argument with “are your beliefs so inflexible that you’ve never considered you might be wrong about what’s real and what’s not?” and honestly i haven’t recovered

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Hmmm, Well it sort of would fall under Lindwyrm perhaps. But more like a Hindwyrm XD. Maybe a leaping variety to snatch prey.

Though with the deep chest and less serpentine form, it would lean closer to a wingless wyvern in build. Similar to Heraldic Wyverns and some medieval depictions.

Or perhaps it a single headed Hydra.

Either way this dragon is 100% adorable.

What would you call this kind of dragon?

A wyvern without wings? A wyrm? Something completely different?

My RPG group had a hard time imagining it and finding the correct name for this one, so I had to sketch it

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A little fanart for @delyth-thomas-art! They make some cool comics, def check them out!

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BOOP?

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From Barnard’s 1916 yearbook.

My modest collection of vintage ex libris / bookplates.

Shiver in wonderment: Weblog ◆ Books ◆ Videos ◆ Music ◆ Etsy

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Cute little baby dragon

‘Hours of Joanna the Mad’, Bruges 1486-1506 BL, Add 18852, fol. 126v

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The Tale Of The Beithir

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Who's excited for Friday?!?

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Tired Webcomic Creator Noises

Gags … ah yes lets make art into mindless content spat out by Ai cos we've been literally killing creators with inhumane workloads to spit out as many episodes as possible for mindless consumption.

I make my comics with passion and love of the craft! I have a degree in Comics, I spent years...years learning, practising, experimenting, adapting. I recall the days where you may get a page a week, or a few at the start of the month back in the 2000s era of self hosted webcomics and smackjeeves. (Rant below)

I've had to learn how the whole scrolling format worked to adapt to where all the readers had gone to, having been taught the traditional print page formats. And now cos its suddenly a massive money maker for these few hosts and they've pushed creators to the brink with the sheer volume they want pumped out that of course they want to use AI.

But it will speed up colouring! I have multiple tools available by the software I use and made by the wonderful people who love creating that colouring isn't that much of a chore, Its my fav part honestly. And its also a job sector within comics, colourists are skilled artists and this is another way to trim the fat, to pocket more money and keep churning out the 5th millionth villainess story.

Yes I am in most views a tiny creator, I haven't even broken their 1000 sub goal to even try applying for ad rev in the near 5 ish years on webtoon. But what I make I love, I spend hours researching folklore, scripting, drafting the whole kabudle like many other creators. And other than the kind supporters on my Patreon and Ko-fi I don't make much from the hours, days, weeks I pour into what I make. But at least I know its made with my own hands. That its made with love as corny as that sounds.

Ai is creeping its tentacles into everything, now ethically trained ai tools to help smaller creators would be fine. Most creators already rely on 3d tools to speed up things like backgrounds for webcomics. But when we don't know what its trained on, and is marketed wholesale as something anyone can use to make "content" is where it gets insidious. I am all for anyone with the desire to create and tell a story to go out there and do so, whether a beginner or a master. Part of the joy of a long running webcomic is seeing the artist grow both artistically and literary. But with ai it will be all one homogenous style, a copy of what ever is the hot thing. We already have amazon stuffed to the teeth with ai generated books, videos, merch and more all to be sold in some get rich quick manner. (need I point at the Willy's Wonderland incident). Youtube videos being spat out by faceless accounts stealing and regurgitating content at the speed no human video making team can easily match without cutting out quality or fact checking.

It is tiring. Creatives as a whole are treated poorly for decades, and now with the rapid late stage capitalism, website /social media enshitification and the blind headlong rush into the next big money making thing (watches the nft crash). I can't deny Covid sped this up, as everyone was locked inside and turned to what we creators made for comfort. But that content eating boom, lead to more demand, faster output and tighter budgets. We are seeing journalists being cut, game designers in their thousands and recently Dreamworks cutting a bunch and pushing to make their Robot film come out sooner due to public demands.

Skilled creatives are being treated like disposable fast food restaurant employees. Used til they burn out, get injured and even die! And then are simply replaced.

I've never been a creator with huge ambitions to work at places like DC, Marvel or Top Cow. I simply wished to create and share stories with the world, to bring smiles, to create art that evokes emotions, inspires others to look around themselves and create too.

Art is for everyone. You just need to take that scary jump, there is a whole array of welcoming communities willing to teach and share. I wouldn't have improved so much without the kindness of the webcomic groups I've discovered and learnt from. Everyone is always learning, and there no shame in not knowing how to do a thing. Even I started with the cheesy how to draw books as a kid and made my own pokemon and digimon.

Don't let the world treat your art as content. It is "ART" as much as what's kept in the louvre is seen as art, so is that little stick man doodle on a postit.

So Try something new, try a new material, a new style.

And support the artists you enjoy, tip their Ko-Fi, pledge to their Patreon, buy a sticker or print. Share their posts and tell them what you love about what they make.

Don't let machines steal away the art in HEART.

#delyth thomas art #life #webtoon #webcomics #ai #ai art #fuck ai art #navar #art #ramble #rant #art rant

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I am absolutely disgusted to learn that crown owns our castles and the profits are sent to Westminster. Wales is struggling, our economy is struggling, our people are struggling, our health services are struggling, and that money could go to the betterment of our lives - instead it goes to England.

despite the fact we maintain the castles and land, we don't own them. they are in OUR country. ownership should belong to us, the people who built them. we maintain them. we work in them. theyre ours and we should be able to use the profits generated by them to help welsh people, not allow the money be funnelled into the monarchy.

the fact the crown owns so much of wales is such an outdated and medieval concept and has no place in modern society.

petition here:

please sign. I am disgusted.

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Please help the National Museum Of Wales

Please sign the petition!!!!

#cadw #wales #petition #heritage #national museum wales #books & libraries #support history #history #art #paleontology #historians #uk #uk politics #help wales

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Please help the National Museum Of Wales

Please sign the petition!!!!

#wales #welsh #museum #history #petition #signal boost #geology #paleontology #palaeoblr #support education #support history

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The Tale Of Y Ddraig Goch

Welcome to the first tale from Mythic Mayhem, a webcomic where myths and legends are brought to life via comic form. Working on bringing obscure myths, monsters and magic to light from around the world. Gwydion and I do hope you will visit again.

You can find us and stay up to date via Webtoons!

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/mythic-mayhem/list?title_no=320375

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Happy Saint David's day from Gwydion and Goch!

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