NorsePlay.

Last month I had the pleasure of attending an artmaking party where a surplus of supplies were made available to guests, along with a pretty good refrigerator & bar full of creative lubricants. (Being very NorsePlay, I brought a Danish Raspberry Kringle to share, which got eaten first!) Our host scored some off-brand Shrinky Dinks, which he announced most enthusiastically ... but I had no actual idea what that was, somehow bereft of such a thing growing up, though I wasn't the only one there who didn't know what that was exactly. Once I got through evaluating the room for flirtworthiness, I grabbed the sheet of hard plastic material, a set of fancy colored pencils, and went to town, taking an unexpected three hours to finally create this: Above is the final result with the sunlight from behind through the opaque drawing surface! Note the scale compared to my fingertips. Using a portion of the holster design that I made a matching T-shirt from, plus the Bjornkult text banne...

What's always bothered me about the iconic Torslunda helmet plates is there's wolfen Ulfhednar and boar-helmeted Svinfylking, but no actual bear-headed Berserkir since the former two are a specialized Fylgja-centric subset of the broader elite warrior Berserker category. So after weeks of questing for visual references followed by 12+ hours of fierce digital holmganga with a desktop graphics program, NorsePlay has victoriously filled in this archaeological werebear art blank to give us aspiring bearshirts an image to identify with, which I then specifically theme-crafted for my custom Byrna LE's holster: Just as one names a weapon of note in the Edda s & Sagas, I've named my kinetic/pepperball/teargas chemical ball launcher Ǫndbítr ( ᚭᚿᛐᛓᛁᛐᛧ ), meaning Breath-Biter, because this is exactly what it does -- it effectively robs potential assailants of their breath when hit . ["This is my  Ǫndbítr! There are many like it, but this one is mine!" ~ Fullkominn...