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Part 2 of the 10 Sketch Challenge offered on my journal: [link]RainbowFishy-chan said: I'm gonna request some fluffy SuFin (so unexpected right?). I would like them to be chibis, but they don't have to be.
Here ya go! I'm still working on my chibi style, so these aren't really chibi, I guess, but I like tiny feet.
The 'early' SuFin is based on something once wrote to me: "Having studied some Finnish folk religion, the idea of Finland having some magic sounds... well, acceptable, yes, but also pretty damn hilarious. The shamans with their rituals. Finland getting high on poisonous mushrooms." Oh Sve, your life will get so much easier once you get your hands on some glasses. I hope the squint is obvious.
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I was about to go to bed, but you made me laugh and now I don't feel tired anymore.
You also made me dig out my notes from that folk religion course to check the time line of Finnish prehistoric culture to see when the shaman times took place. It seems they were during the Stone Age, which in Finland's case means probably something like 8600-1500 BCE. And when were eyeglasses invented? In the 13th century or something? Not of much help for Berwald as far as recognizing edible mushrooms is concerned. So I take it that Finland had about 7000 years time to feed defenceless Sweden fly agarics.
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The earlier magnifier available to Europe were reading stones, basically lard quartz and glass pieces that magnified what was underneath. These were available around 1225, but they would have taken a while to migrate from Italy and Spain to the barren north.
Glasses were kind of awkward ovals attached to basically scissor handles that perched on the nose by the 1300s. The folding scissor style had turned into something like pince nez on ribbon frames by the 1600s, and then in the 1800s the glasses that we recognize were born. I like that Sweden's rise to power and stability generally coincides with the rise of glasses technology.
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Anyway, Finland has had quite a long time to feed Sweden his poisonous magic, but I do think that Sweden quickly got the idea that eating nice smelling things that Finland gave him only leads to trouble. Which is a pity because Finland is so nice, but clearly it would be better only to indulge for politeness' sake.
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