Blackbird - Blog Posts

I’m sorry for not being on! (+art)

I am so so sorry about being logged off for so long! I just, have done it! And for that, I’m going to post a whole LOT of my art that I drew after this, from a whole array of fandoms. So let’s start! ( I may post some on there own if I really want) TW: some gore near the beginnin. if you want to see the non gore, go past the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd artworks

So, this a piece of art of an older bubbles (Ppg) getting shot in the head with a lazar. I got inspiration for that of something I drew before that

It Harold from c.u, or tetoc. (I’m NOT saying the name) getting stabbed from an alternate universe him fro the books. And yes, he’s also older.

This, is gory thing of a thought of ‘what if the scalpel actually fell in his eye?’ And tada.

This is a (unfinished) piece of art of a character interpretation of a game I never talked about. it’s what I think user looks like from ‘there is no game’

now this. This is an idea on my au… if nole from blackbird, gets experimented on and turns into….. that…..

Some Grackles! These birds are incredibly common but I still enjoy watching them.

Four and Twenty Black Birds

If there are twenty four blackbirds in a pie, are the black birds blackbirds? Or are they ravens? Or starlings? Grackles? Crows? Coots? Cormorants?

Furthermore, would that be a flock, a mob, a murder, a cover, a constable, a conspiracy, a dissimulation, a murmuration, or an unkindness of black birds in the pie?

If it's a murder, I fear for the king. They ate the maid's nose, after all.

Black bird

New morning, old year "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" said the rooster.

"The Lay of St. Kenelm"

Once again, another submission to the local college magazine Blackbird fro the July edition. This particular poem is based on the legend of St. Kenelm, an Anglo-Saxon prince who ascended the throne at the age of seven upon his father's death. He was quickly martyred/assassinated by his jealous sister Cwendred, who asked her lover to carry out the dirty work.

     "Once a good King past to Death

Cynewulf by name

And left he but a stripling heir

Young Cynehelm by name.

     "Had Cynehelm two sisters great

Yet scarcely 'like, the twain

Burgenhild' a maiden loyal

And Cwendred, woman vain.

     "To slay her kith and gain the crown

Was Cwendred's only want

And so she bid her lover dear

To do a task so gaunt.

     "Slay the child for me, my love

Cooed Cwendred to her man

Finish him with scarce a word

And take his life in hand.

     "So Ascbert went a' riding then

With Cynehelm one day

Hunting in the forest deep

For a prince to slay.

     "Stopped they for a brief respite

For Cynehelm to rest

And up behind did Ascbert come

At his dame's behest.

     "But Cynehelm spake Nay my lord

You shall not slay me here

Yet take this rod and plant it there

And bid my end come near.

     "So planted he a rod of thorn

And sprung from it an Ash

Then 'neath that tree did Ascbert strike

And Cyn'helm breathed his last.

     "But from the grave his Soul did fly

In likeness of a dove,

 - As prophecy foretold by dream -

Beyond the boughs above."

Again, you may re-post or share this this as you like, but please remember to  cite my name (Benjamin Spick) and the name of my blog (tiedinknotsart) as your source! This is my original work and is very important to me. Don't steal it!

The June Submission for Blackbird

So much has been going on lately! New stamps, new cards, new writing. Etcetera Etcetera. 

For my June submission to the magazine Blackbird, I decided to write a poem in ballad-form, based on a mixture between Norse Mythology and Scandinavian/Christian folklore.

     "Out was Ask upon a Day

And Embla did the washing

Out hung linens fresh and sweet

Yet her children needed washing.

     "Out was Odin on the Day

And through the forest riding

And with him Hoenir and Lodur

Upon that Day a riding.

     "Fast they came to Embla's house

And went they to her knocking

Inside did Embla wash her babes

When her lords they came a knocking.

     "Pleased she was upon that day

For half her babes were drying

But shamed was she upon that day

For half her brood was filthy.

     "Beneath the floor she hid her brood

The ones still needing washing

And came back Embla to her door

To answer them a knocking.

     "In came they as she bidded them

And they began a talking

Of earthen songs and goings on

And babes in cradles rocking.

     "Wholesome kin you have my dear

Said Odin while a talking

Yes, my lone said Embla dear

Whilst they four were talking.

     "But Odin knew this false to be

For he was one All-Seeing

And spied he more of Embla's brood

Down below unseeing.

     "There they are and there they stay!

Said the three lords shouting

To us you lied our Embla dear

Upon your husband's outing.

     "So from the babes below did

Hoenir take their feeling

And Lodur paled their rosy cheeks

And Odin hushed their breathing.

     "So man-folk here above belong

In the daylight shining

And elf-folk Embla left for shame

In shadows dark and pining."

(One note: this is my original work. You can share this, but if you do so, please cite me and this cite as a reference! This was written by myself, Benjamin Spick, in May of 2012) 

Print and poem (both my own) for the May edition of Blackbird Monthly, a publication by a local community college.

WIP - My character (no name yet) the alchemist fox! He's a good singer and he has blackbird familiars.

"Canadian robins are the birds that say, “Tweet, eh” and smell like Tim Hortons donuts."

The American robin (Turdus migratorius) is one of the most recognizable birds in North America. It is a thrush in the thrush family (Turdidae) and a close relative of European blackbird (Turdus merula). It is also a symbol of spring in the United States and Canada, as its return marks the end of winter.

It's not that my room is dusty; it's just full of octopusesesesesessesss!

Handsome little Blackbird I saw at the end of January this year staying home while sick (plus a horribly out of focus shot but i attached it anyway because it makes me giggle)

also woah first tumblr post! still figuring out the kinks so any advice (especially on image descriptions)would be much appreciated. hopefully i'll keep this consistent but i think its gonna keep me motivated to get out and improve both my birdwatching and photography :))