Happy ArtFight 2023, everyone!! It was super fun and I'm really happy I got to take part this year!
I was super hyperfocused on moths this year lol -- I might be again next year 👀 there were so many cool moth characters and I didn't get to get to them all, I've still got a bunch bookmarked! -- so here's all my attacks from this year! In order:
Olive for @harmonymarigold
Turon for @turontot
Carnage the Moth for @flakytartart
Motti for BlueDaLoser
Raziel for Soonde36
And a friendly fire of Ann and Apollo for @ariisonfire/@ari-fire-arts
This was really fun!! I loved getting to experiment with you guys characters and seeing all the cool ideas people have! I'm super excited for next year!
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Juan van der Hamen y Léon (Spanish, 1596-1631)
Still Life with Sweets, 1622
The Cleveland Museum of Art
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🏴🤝🇵🇱
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A little Turoń in the meantime
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TRAVEL BACK A CENTURY OR so, to a chilly winter night. Christmas has come and gone, and New Year’s Eve is on the horizon when a group of carolers approach your door. They’re dressed as figures from the Nativity. Elated, you welcome them. Then you notice a terrifying stranger among them: a tall creature with musky-smelling hair, silver bull horns, and a snapping jaw pierced with nails. He dances and jumps to the music, sometimes pouncing on children.
Meet Turoń, a symbol of virility. Polish Academy of Sciences folklorist Ewa Masłowska says the figure’s name derives from tur, the Polish word for aurochs, an ancient bovine that roamed much of Eurasia but was hunted to extinction by the 17th century. Turoń was one of the traditional characters portrayed by mummers who wandered and danced through the streets of Poland from Christmas through Lent. Unlike other European winter creatures, such as Père Fouettard and Krampus, Turoń does not dole out punishment. Instead, says Masłowska, this hirsute representative of ideal manhood brings blessings of fertility, including a good harvest for the year ahead.
Performing as Turoń descended from a millennia-old pre-Christian Polish tradition, when men dressed as aurochs and danced in rituals intended to bring fertility to their communities and farmland. The modern Turoń entered each home to chase people, particularly children, and dance frantically to the music. He then collapsed into a lifeless heap on the floor, only to be “reborn” when the carolers or hosts provided him with a small sip of vodka. After drinking it, he sprang to life again. According to Masłowska’s research, this ritual of life, death, and rebirth echoes another ancient pagan tradition in Poland: symbolizing the lunar cycle of waxing and waning through different animals, which in turn also represent ritual rites of passage for humans. In the tradition, the impressive horns of the aurochs are a symbol of the crescent moon.
The tur—and, by extension, Turoń—is primarily associated with fertility, strength, and masculinity. Even today in Poland, the phrase silny jak tur, or strong as an aurochs, conveys power and sexual prowess in a man.
However, it turns out that even the virile Turoń needs protection. Turoń behaves aggressively, and the costumes are particularly fearsome, the mummer’s face completely hidden, to fool evil spirits that might also have been out and about on the cold winter night.
“The mask was to protect against the devil, against evil. If they are in the mask, it means that they are strangers,” Masłowska says. “The evil is also a stranger, so the evil will not disturb [Turoń, thinking it is one of their own].”
Turoń’s terrifying appearance, and tendency to chase children, allows the figure essentially to blend in with malevolent creatures so that they leave him alone, letting him stealthily deliver blessings to the community.
The tradition of Turoń coming to your door around Christmas more or less died out in the 20th century, though mummers dressed as aurochs were sometimes spotted in the days leading up to Ash Wednesday and other times of year.
However, much like the revival of Krampus, now a global phenomenon, the Germanic Frau Perchta, and the shaggy kukeri of Bulgaria, Turoń is making a bit of a comeback. While the blessing bull figure is likely enjoying more attention as part of a pop culture trend celebrating the darker characters of winter holidays, there’s something else behind renewed interest in the tradition. Some practitioners of Rodnovery, a modern interpretation of pre-Christian Slavic beliefs, are reviving the ancient pagan fertility ritual of stado, which involved men dressed as aurochs, and bringing the dancing bull back to Polish streets.
So if a tall creature resembling a bull shows up at your door, don’t dismiss him out of hand. Just have the vodka ready.
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Going over some more of the creatures in my cryptid nesting doll enamel pin kickstarter, here's the holidays guys.
First is the krampus. Krampus is an Alpine creature that has become fairly popular in modern times. Its origins lay with other pre-Christian masked creatures of lore. It is one of many who would parade through the streets as part of a tradition to scare away evil spirits that came with the winter, the grotesque features of the masks and bells all being part of this. As a sidenote I also want to put out that despite some articles claiming this, Krampus is not an individual in traditional lore and has nothing to do with Hel, the latter being from Krampus the Yule Lord by Brom.
The turoń is a Polish creature, part of other similar traditions of parading through the streets to frighten away winter evil. In Poland this is known as koliada, which is in modern times is the term for caroling. The turoń in particular is a horned creature whose name comes from the word for aurochs. It creates a commotion as it parades around, eventually tiring, waiting to revived with food and spirits.
Mari lwyd is a part of Welsh tradition first written about in 1800, but with a likely longer history. The mari lwyd joins wassailing groups, as a horse skull on a poll covering someone with cloth. Mari lwyd would sing a song asking to be permitted into the house while those being visited would counter with verses of excuses as to why they can't be let in. As with many caroling traditions, eventually the homes would relent and give the wassailers food and drink.
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Vegan Filipino Turon (Banana Lumpia)
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I don't like talking about twitter drama anywhere but I just found the funniest twitter drama I've seen and it's literally about turon (a filipino snack made up of a fried wrapped banana with glazed sugar). Here's the translated thread as I guide you to this insanity:
"I SCOLDED CASHIERS AT SM MANILA SUPERMARKET.
The line to buy a turon was long and there were only a few turon left on the stand. I was in the middle of the line and there was a lot more people behind me that wanted to avail a turon."
"There were 2 cashiers that were on break or had clocked out maybe that went to the cashier of the turon stand, and I heard that they were trying to reserve 2 turon. The cashier said 'Go to the line hey' but these two insisted that they don't need to go on the queue. So my blood started boiling because I really hate getting cut off in line."
"Then the one cashier took 2 turons for the two cashiers that cut in line. One of them said 'Dat ours?' then the cashier gave the turon to the two cashiers that cut in line and were waiting at the counter to pay. So my blood boiled even more."
"Then I told the cashier 'Miss you actually let these two cut in line while there's so many people in line, you're being unfair to the people waiting at the back' the cashier said 'Ah the two, sir?' Then I replied 'Obviously, yes!' with a bit of an angry tone in my voice."
"The 2 cashiers that cut in line for the turon were already holding them then I told these other two who were assigned in the counter that 'If you don't give up the turon, I'll let your manager know, there's a lot of people in line hoping to buy it too.' Dont tolerate that kind of attitude. So unfair!"
"The two cashiers didn't really say anything and they took the turon from the other two that cut in line. I just don't get why there's these kinds of people that could already see that there's a line but are still forcing themselves in and would choose to be unfair to others."
"Given that they're employees of SM, shouldn't they be more understanding because we're customers where they work. I'm not saying that the customer is always right, I just wish that they also know what's right and wrong. And there, I was able to buy a Turon with Chocnut*. Delicious!"
"And the people in line behind me because they were also able to buy some. 😊"
Additional Context:
Turon in SM is priced at PHP 25 which is relatively cheap. It's bout 0.50 USD?
More comparatively, seeing as OP looked at least middle to upper class (we'll discuss that later), it would've been easily affordable to him, but maybe a bit of a struggle for the two cashiers since they make less than the national average and are also contractual, often losing their jobs and not having any benefits.
Chocnut - a popular Filipino peanut butter chocolate that has a powdery consistency. it often melts in your mouth and is widely popular and beloved across the country.
This shit blew up and I mean blew up like this was just over ONE thread
It blew up so much that TURON started trending in Filipino twitter
Most people agreed that although cutting in line is bad, it seemed like OP felt way too proud of himself and probably should've just let it go because they were probably underpaid, overworked employees who only had 15 minute breaks.
OP's replies were also reeeeally self-important like
Person 1: mygod girl just dont anger a hungry person. lols
OP: I stood up not for myself but for the people who were in line too and willing to wait. Again, respect and let's just be fair.
Person 2: Oh no, he rly thinks of himself as a hero after what he's done here 😭😭😭😭
People jokingly started calling OP patay-gutom (lit. dead-hungry), a term we use here for someone extremely hungry and typically those who are hungry because of extreme poverty so OP decided to prove the haters wrong by... telling people that he was actually a millionaire???
Person 3: You're a bit patay-gutom sis in this part. All that lashing for turon? Hahaha. Get a life girly!
Person 3: This is the deleted tweet of sissy @/op's handle
[Screenshot of OP's tweet with an attached censored image of one of his bank account information that shows that he has 1.5 Million Pesos.
OP: Me who's patay-gutom and a girly with no life, is this okay now? Or do I SS my other banks? Jkkkk✌🏻]
So anyway, here's some of my favorite tweets translated!
The turon of SM, bow
The turon of SM is queued for
The sweet banana, sugar and chocnut
Spreads at every bite
Giving joy to those in line and the cashier
Yet the poor cashier
Who stood for ten hours
Was denied two of the turon...
Next time you should just buy turon here I mean you have P1.5 M in Metrobank anyway
[Image of the top of a menu for Amanpulo Clubhouse Restaurant]
The line for turon at SM jk:
[screenshots of two videos of people slowly walking in a line in a crowded railway station]
motherfucker your thread is so long that if you just used the time you used to type to just go to the next sm to buy turon
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It's officially been about a day and half since this happened but it's still trending right now which is pretty crazy. I don't think I've ever been this blown away with discourse over filo twitter until now. I will probably think about Turon Man for a good while.
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Gorjas (Abi Marquez voice)
Chocnut turon for the second time around. Coz why not chocnut
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The Ger, Salon and Turon peaks near Eaux-Bonnes, Pyrenees, Béarn region of southern France
French vintage postcard
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Lily Maymac 🌸💋🍒🌸 Turon 🤩
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Headcanon: Ray is Filipino, Mighty is Mexican, and they both love bonding over food
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Sari-Sari - Turon (Banana Lumpia)
Original mesh, textures and bento animations, 1 li, copy/mod
Includes bento holdable turon on a stick for M&F (left & right hands).
And a turon plate as item giver (gives bento holdable turon for M&F for right hand).Turon is a fried crunchy and sweet snack in the Philippines.
It's traditionally made with ripe yet firm Saba banana slices and jackfruit (optional), brown or washed sugar. All rolled in a lumpia wrapper (like a spring roll wrapper), and fried until caramelized. 🍌
For Asian Pacific Heritage Festival! 🙌✨
Event is open throughout the month of May! Come and visit! 🌞💛
We also have a little gift at our stall:
Sari-Sari - Philippine Flag (bento)
Original mesh, textures and bento hand hold pose.
We made 2 versions for different hand sizes. Each version has its own bento hold pose. Please use the one which fits your avatar's hand best. The flag is mod/copy anyways so you are free to resize and move it!
Mabuhay! Maraming salamat sa pag-suporta! 🇵🇭💖
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Turon / Filipino Banana Lumpia With Caramel Sauce Recipe
Indulge in the sweet and crunchy goodness of Turon, a Filipino favorite. Follow this easy recipe for a delicious Banana Lumpia with Caramel Sauce.
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