Miej Kupalnocki, Happy Midsummer, Etc Etc Etc!

miłej kupalnocki, happy midsummer, etc etc etc!

from both me and my favourite slavic-adjacent king!

kupalnocka (noc kupały, kupala night, etc) is the traditional west and east slavic celebration of the summer solstice, love, and cleansing. among a number of other things, women weave garlands of flowers, herbs, and ferns and send them floating down rivers and streams to divine their future luck in relationships. to have it brought back was seen as a confession of love (even if for one night...) and a man would sometimes follow a particular woman's wreath even into deep or dangerous waters to return it. people would head into the forest to search for the legendary fern flower. which does not exist, of course. but who could blame you and maybe somebody of your choice for spending hours, alone, in the woods, all night, looking for such an important, elusive flower...

fun fact: the embroidery pattern is riffed from the traditional handicrafts of a region spread between poland, ukraine, and belarus! most slav per stitch!

more xiaoven royalty au concept work i guess 

The Path To Freedom [PART 4]

Read from left to right

There is an intended contrast between this comic's Mykola and canon Mykola: Both long for freedom, yet one seeks clarity over his own thoughts and feelings to free his true self from external brainwashing (comic) - while the other (canon) does have clarity over his emotions- but views those as the brainwashing itself, an "internal" brainwashing, he wants to *lose* sight of himself and be free of the sane state of mind. Seeking the truth vs seeking a chosen illusion, that's their difference.

Old drawing of Kaeya my beloved <3 How we feeling about the latest Archon Quest?

drew some outfits

I kept seeing this fan design of tighnari so of course I had to draw it myself <3

(He’s looking at his ears cause Cyno just called them cute)