Morgana Pendragon Deserved Better.

an ophelia

Hey I just wanted to let you know I love your art style and that you’re extremely talented!! I hope you’re having a good day and staying safe

this is so kind! I’m so happy that you enjoyed my art, and I hope the same for you <3

Got inspired by Rey’s force-pilgrimage in Chapter 62 of the epic Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors by @kylorenvevo

ophelia: [goes mad]

us all, hundreds of years later: THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME THAT’S ME

I love your "once upon a time there was a wicked witch" art and I'm thrilled at being able to buy prints on redbubble but would you consider making them available as tshirts or do you think the formatting wouldnt work?? I would love to wear them 🥺

ty for the suggestion!! I exported them with transparent backgrounds and put them on a whole bunch of products, hopefully one is up your alley! and hopefully they come out looking ok if you decide to buy... I’ve never ordered from redbubble so no idea what to expect

naiad

a knight, sent after a witch. does he have an ethical crisis? do they fall in love? does she drown him in her mountain spring?

HOWEVER despite checking out a bunch of books on the internet archive, I was unable to find a reliable source confirming the existence of Fatima as a cultural figure before 600 B.C. If anyone is still in uni and can find something on JSTOR I’d love to check it out.

I still chose to depict her this way, firstly because I think it’s interesting that attributes of the Moon Goddess as an archetype are preserved across cultures and time periods even as her name changes (Ishtar, Astarte, etc.). I also felt drawing Muhammad’s daughter would run counter to the generally aniconic tradition of Islam. Maybe that’s an odd thing to say, since this is a quote by a radical feminist author and the poem itself is explicitly critical of religion and religious traditions. But I think criticizing institutions and treating individuals with respect and courtesy can exist simultaneously.

Anyway, because of my foggy sourcing, the iconography is not obvious, but the figure’s palm is extended in an allusion to the ‘Hand of Fatima’. I’m unsure (I’m this a lot) about when exactly the hamsa symbol and Fatima as a cultural figure became connected… but to be fair to me, I think many historians are also unsure.

yo quick question what mythology is Fatima from in your art

The incarnation I was going for with my depiction was Pre-Islamic Arabian moon goddess

tagged by the eternally lovely @schweetheart to post 10 pictures from my camera roll that represent me. I nearly gave up since most of it is people and places, but after a bit of scrolling, I present:

attempts at gouache

a little paintbrush case I sewed

Forgotten Gift by my mum/Bog Girl by me

charcoal life drawings/Greta the Strong by Daniel Sobol

a deceptively undercooked pie/witcher sketches

tagging @alice-the-brave , @jascel , @softlytea , @saowa , @ultrathrust , @crowsandcabbages , @godferdom- try this if it’s your sort of thing! and anyone else who’d like to join is welcome <3