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Description This is Dirge - she's a nightmare of sorts. Say hullo Dirge.

=racking cough=

Dirge introduced herself to me the other day as I was playing with my paints, she then sat me down (though I had plenty else to work upon) and asked me to write this out for her:

Dirge's Alphablight
A is for Affliction, the bubble of breath,
B is the Battleground, corpse littered with death,
C is Contagion, D for Disease,
E, an epidemic that is brought on by fleas

F bringeth Famine, and G with its Grief
H is humidity that has no relief.
I is the Itching, with its scabbing stains,
J is for Jealousy, a rot in the brains.

K cries in Keening, L is lepers despair
M is the plague moon, with malignant stare
N is Necrosis, the sloughing of flesh,
O brings bad omens that start it afresh.

P is the Pestilance, death comes as you bloat,
Q follows Quincey with its closing of throat.
R is the Ravings of a rabid stray
S is the Stench as it withers away

T bringeth Tetnus and the locking of jaws
U is Ulceration with its festering sores
V for the Vermin that crawl in the night,
W with the wasting that steals a man's might.


X for the cross roads, with gibbet in place
Y is Youth blighted and withered from grace.
Z was our Zenith, the best is long past
And here the tale ends, we are done now, at last.


Dirge, bless her little fetid socks, and the above mangled poetry are both (c) to me. I shall bite anyone who touches her (provided they haven't contracted gangrene or worse from the contact)
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Comments: 30

NonieR [2016-02-07 18:44:34 +0000 UTC]

The art is great, the rhyme even better, but "bless her little fetid socks" would make me your fan for life even if I hadn't seen one kickstand or beard hair of the series that first brought yer art to my attention, you!

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melanippos In reply to NonieR [2016-02-07 22:10:54 +0000 UTC]

I do love Dirge - you can imagine a zombie horse standing all slumped and with sagging, soggy socks over her hooves.

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NonieR In reply to melanippos [2016-02-08 18:16:21 +0000 UTC]

Dirge - curried with the thorns of hatred and groomed by self-hating emo ghosts! (Or something like that.)

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melanippos In reply to NonieR [2016-02-09 10:46:24 +0000 UTC]

She's not got a drop of hatred or self pity in her She's more like that old, smelly dog that sits close to you and drools on your socks without any selfconciousness of their flatulence. She is pestilence and she's all about sharing.

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NonieR In reply to melanippos [2016-02-11 23:03:26 +0000 UTC]

Ahah! Thanks for the correction on Dirge; I wouldn't want to draw her attention to MY socks any more than it is already.

--Nonie

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AlectorFencer [2008-03-17 13:54:00 +0000 UTC]

This is great! The colours are so sublte yet so strong. I don't know how to describe how stunned I am.

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Theck [2007-12-04 12:08:18 +0000 UTC]

when you do peices like this, do you paint the white over the red or the red around the white?

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melanippos In reply to Theck [2007-12-05 06:06:58 +0000 UTC]

On this particular one I spattered the pink and purple across the page then found the shape of an equine neck, painted in the head in white gouache then the blood red watercolour. There was not sketching it started as a demonstration on laying a wash with different colours and evolved into Dirge.

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Queen-Le-Fra-Fra [2007-11-20 00:35:07 +0000 UTC]

Would you mind if I borrowed your poem? I wanted to do an art book for my boyfriend and it would be perfect.

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melanippos In reply to Queen-Le-Fra-Fra [2007-11-20 00:46:22 +0000 UTC]

Hrrm...
As long as it's a one-of gift and I'm given due kudos as creator then I grant you permission.
Thats the poem only though. Dirge doesn't get loaned out. ^_^

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Queen-Le-Fra-Fra In reply to melanippos [2007-11-20 01:25:57 +0000 UTC]

Lol. Of course.

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Aprilweredragon [2007-05-19 09:44:33 +0000 UTC]

Is that a dragon? Cool picture anyway

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Aprilweredragon In reply to Aprilweredragon [2007-06-01 09:09:05 +0000 UTC]

Oh!

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melanippos In reply to Aprilweredragon [2007-05-23 07:07:34 +0000 UTC]

Dirge is related to one of the horses pestilance rides ^_^

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Aprilweredragon In reply to melanippos [2007-06-01 09:18:11 +0000 UTC]

oh

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dananew1 [2007-05-01 22:40:43 +0000 UTC]

Very cool poem, and the picture goes so well with it! I love the blood splatter effect.
That poem made me shudder...

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melanippos In reply to dananew1 [2007-05-03 04:41:02 +0000 UTC]

Dirge isn't out to make a person shudder per say - disease is just what she is ^_^

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dananew1 In reply to melanippos [2007-05-03 21:34:00 +0000 UTC]

True, awesome concept, a definate

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rynaga [2007-01-22 00:49:05 +0000 UTC]

i love the emotion behind this. nice facial expression and coloring. the blood brushwork is well done.

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melanippos In reply to rynaga [2007-01-22 07:05:40 +0000 UTC]

The blood isn't brush work but Breath work - I fwhuffed the paint across the board away from her face.

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daemon-lover [2007-01-18 07:13:38 +0000 UTC]

I love the way the watercolors came out on this. You are so good at this!

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melanippos In reply to daemon-lover [2007-01-18 07:22:47 +0000 UTC]

This was 7/8ths plain and simple fortune - I blew paint over a scrap of paper - saw a curve of a neck and applied white gouache until it was done.

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daemon-lover In reply to melanippos [2007-01-18 07:37:35 +0000 UTC]

Don't you love those moments? I rarely get them... XD

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Blushing-Mog [2006-09-23 16:16:46 +0000 UTC]

I love the painting.. and the little bits of curly hair. It all looks so delicate... and the poem is grotesquely interesting... love the rhyme scheme.

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melanippos In reply to Blushing-Mog [2006-09-26 04:28:55 +0000 UTC]

I *think* its loosely based off 'a is apple pie. B baked it, D delt it...' Only it got a bit out of hand ^_^;

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koyamori [2006-09-22 21:20:30 +0000 UTC]

Veeery different! The little story that goes along with the picture neat too:3

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AsryaKino [2006-09-20 22:39:19 +0000 UTC]

Hullo Dirge.
Don't bite me Dirge.
I need that hand back now. Thank you.

She's great Love the alphabet

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melanippos In reply to AsryaKino [2006-09-20 22:56:27 +0000 UTC]

Dirge is more likely to breathe on you than bite - she's fairly fragile. Not particularly vicious, just noxious.

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AsryaKino In reply to melanippos [2006-09-20 23:18:32 +0000 UTC]

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Queen-of-Randomness [2006-09-20 17:24:39 +0000 UTC]

Stunning poem and picture! I'm not a big fan of morbid stuff, but this is fantastic!

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