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Goblinological Fantasies
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Podcast exploring archaeology, history, and science and its relation to fictional world building. Companion project to "Welcome to Goblin Town". Also manages @harusakiemon.bsky.social
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And the conversation about foodways inspired this illustration about goblins preparing nuts and sardines. #DnD #FantasyArt
A black and white digital drawing of two goblins. The female goblin is sitting on a blanket on the ground. A large flat stone covered in large leaves is positioned between her legs. Nuts are piled on top of the leaves. The female goblin is smashing the nuts with a human skull. The male goblin is standing nearby. He is holding a skull filled with sardines. There is a caption describing a song: bish bash, smish smash. beat the nuts into a mush. crack crunk, thud thunk. mix the mash with fists of fish.
December 8, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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Results of the stream:
A goblin fairy
#fantasyart #monster
A black and white digital drawing of a fairy creature. They resemble a goblin wearing a tunic with fungal designs and a pleated skirt. They are holding a wand made from a femur bone as the handle and crossed sticks as the head of the wand. Their face is a large beak and bulging eyes. It is unclear if it is a mask or not. On their back is a large spade shape and bat wings.
November 17, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Preview of today's session:
#DnD #demon #monster
A crawdemon has Dagmar in its grip and is lifting her up to one of its maws. The crawdemon monster has a body like a crawfish, but both ends form fanged mouths. There is no clear head or tail. The center of the body is supported by 6 long segmented legs. 3 long arms with pincers sprout from each of the mouths.
August 4, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Some coins for #WelcomeToGoblinTown that I did during the art stream:
-Red-crested Pochard
-Legendary hobgoblin that continued to live despite being beheaded like St. Denis of Paris
#DnD #archaeogaming #numismatics
A digital painting of a bronze coin that features a red-crested pochard duck in a sitting position. A digital drawing of a silver coin featuring a hobgoblin head in profile being held in a hand. The head is rendered like an ancient Roman emperor. The head has a crown with cherry blossom iconography. The head has long flowing hair with some of it tied up in meatballs. There is a crescent moon in the corner of the coin.
July 29, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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I also do monsters. Not sure who to talk about the Crawdemon, but I did talk to Dr. Mittman about unicorns and the Tarasque #DnD #fantasyart

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A digital drawing of a red arthropod-like monster. It is long with six segmented legs. Each end of it's body has a fanged mouth and three arms branching out. Each arm is long with pincer claws. There are no eyes. It seems to be the same from the back or the front.
July 21, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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I'll never top this thumbnail image that I made for this episode. It doesn't quite fit the contents, but does nicely set up the mood: monsters in medieval art with Dr. Asa Mittman.
(And yes, I know Leonardo da Vinci is Renaissance not medieval)
#ArtHistory #unicorns #Tarasque
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An edited photo of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Jesus is depicted as normal, but all of the disciples are monsters from the TV show Sesame Street. It has the title for the episode: "Goblinological Fantasies - Ep. 04," "Man Was the MONSTER After All".
April 14, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Part of the popular conception of buddhist sculpture thinks of buddhas as just heads. A local psychic even has a few big ones in their front yard
A screenshot of an image search for "buddha sculpture." Most of the images are of sitting buddhas, but two are just disembodied heads.
April 1, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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An illustration inspired by my conversation with Dr. Emma Yasui @ponopls.bsky.social about starches and foodways in Jomon Japan~
#archaeology #archaeogaming #goblin #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons

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A digital drawing of two goblins preparing food. One female goblin is sitting on the ground with a large flat stone between her legs. She has nuts on large leaves placed on the stone. She is smashing the nuts with a human skull. A young male goblin is standing by with another human skill turned upside down and filled with sardines. They are singing a song: "Bish bash, smish smash. Beat the nuts into a mush. Crack crunk, thud thunk. Mix the mash with fists of fish."
March 11, 2024 at 5:46 AM
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Finally made an icon. I tried to make it look like a medieval European manuscript painting. I think it looks good even thought I had no idea what I was doing
A digital painting of the Mayor of Goblin Town. He is painted in profile with flat, subdued colors. He has green skin and long curly white hair. He is wearing a white frilled collar and a fur coat. He is wearing three hats, one on top of the other.
February 11, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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I hadn't realized that this was probably the inspiration for the Marvel Secret Wars #1 (2015) cover
Comic book cover for Marvel's Secret Wars Issue #1. Two Earths are colliding in the far background. An assortment of Marvel superheroes are swirling about in space reacting with astonishment and horror.
January 21, 2024 at 10:32 PM