Unofficial Splinterlands Museum of Everyday Love and Life (#USMELL): Goblin Graduation

Unofficial Splinterlands Museum Of Everyday Love and Life (#USMELL) - Announcements and Artifacts

Edition 2: Goblin Graduation

This is the second in an irregular and unscheduled initiative of posts documenting some of the non-battle related events of everyday life in the Splinterlands.

So much is focused on the battles here in the Splinterlands that it can be hard to remember these creatures also have lives that aren't warring. The mission of The Museum is to document the artifacts of everyday life in the various parts of the Splinterlands. We display wedding and birthday invitations, Bar Mitzvah and Quinceañera photos, birth announcements, fashion exposés, tourism pamphlets, government and religious propaganda, love letters, coffee stained poems on napkins, advertisements, articles left on the ground, and other traces of life in the Splinterlands easily forgotten and overlooked in the midst of all the warfare.

Artifact 2:

Magi Tower Graduation Celebration Dinner

This invitation to celebrate the graduation of Goblin Psychic, Vic Chuibtaar (pronounced: Chewy-b'tar), is a fairly typical example of the yearly graduation festivities connected to Magi Tower Magic graduations. Goblin's are known to be incredibly loyal to and proud of their families. As such, they spare no expense to celebrate the achievements of their offspring. Pictured in this invitation is a stained glass the Chuibtaar family commissioned to commemorate Vic's graduation. Vic is the first of the family to graduate, his prior siblings having been expelled for casting disease hexes onto their least favorite teachers. The family is hoping (and scheming) that the stained glass will be chosen, from all the artworks offered by prestigious families in honor of the graduates, to be incorporated into the ever-evolving architecture and design of the Anumün Bar and Grill.

Notice the typo in the date of the event and the strange font mismatch in the "ü" on "Anumün." These kinds of oversights are typical of Goblins who tend to notice the big picture with little interest in details.

Anumün Bar and Grill

Anumün Bar and Grill is usually the site of the graduation after parties. The bartenders and waitstaff are some of the most accomplished wizards of the Splinterlands who have all taken an oath of non-violence. They surround the people and properties of the bar with protection spells. These are particularly important on graduation night as the tradition is for graduates to take a swig of mead for every one of their graduating comrades. The bravado of young wizards who just earned their wands combined with a few barrels of mead and port (goblins love the sweet stuff), mean some pretty substantial magical prowess is necessary to keep the Goblins from destroying themselves and all of Anumün. The Bar serves as a sort of cauldron containing the fiery events of the evening so the rest of the land can rest free of explosions and transmogrifications. These graduation celebrations are likely the reason the Magi Tower is located between two forests and two mountain ranges - to keep the rest of the Anumün inhabitants safe from the fraternity rabble rousing and magical mischief making.

#USMELL Needs You!

Do you have a Splinterlands cologne advertisement or Summoner journal page you think might be a good fit for the Museum Collection? Do you have a great idea for a logo for the Museum? You are welcome to bring these items to our attention to consider for the museum collection curation by tagging or curator, @squishna, and adding the tag #USMELL. As with most of us in the Splinterlands, I will be busy battling, so I do not promise a quick response, but I am excited to discover what kinds of paraphernalia of everyday life we can dig up together.

All contributors chosen to be added to the museum collection will receive a free card. The value of the card will be determined by the quality of the contributions, and the revenue coming into the Museum through Upvote, Reblog and Token donations.

Behind the Scenes

How the artifact was made:

I used Canva to make this artifact.
Canva is more of a graphic design tool than a drawing tool.

• I started with an invitation template.
• Added the portrait of the Goblin Psychic from the Lore section of the card's Splinterlands website.
• I used a filter called Mosaic to get the stained-glass effect
• And chose a Gold Circle Frame to give it some shape and the feeling of a graduation announcement.
• I used the Elements Tab to find and add a graduation cap and sized it and angled it to fit on the Goblin's head.
• I did a search for classic Goblin names to give this Psychic a more specific personality, and chose the color fonts from the color palette in the pictures.
• In order to make the words pop from the busy background, I used the neon effect for "Class of 2021" and background for all of the other text.

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