1-2. How to Blow Up Two Heads at Once (Ladies)
3-4. The Age of Enlightenment: Adam Smith
5-6. The Age of Enlightenment: Gabrielle Emile le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise de Chatelet
shonibare is an absolutely fantastic disabled british-nigerian artist who combines african textiles with european colonial fashion and props to specifically question and critique the eurocentric history of african exploitation, and the way european wealth was extracted from african people and land. tumblr hates reblogs with links but i highly encourage everyone to look up his wikipedia and personal website. ive seen some of his pieces in galleries and they’re life sized, gorgeous, and incredibly haunting.
If everyone receives Minimum Basic Income, what happens to all the relationships where one of the individuals no longer has to depend on the other(s) to survive?
Just let that marinate for a moment.
Not just the economic landscape but the social landscape could be transformed.
Not for nothing, but this is literally part of the entire point of Universal Basic Income.
When abused people can just literally walk away, knowing they can still have enough money to live, the world will be a lot less sheltering of abusers and that is a massive fucking benefit.
It gets better than that, if we go with my ideal UBI scenario, in which we peg UBI to "enough to live in any major metropolitan city in the country" and do NOT adjust it for cost of living.
Suddenly, the poverty and scrabbling for survival of rural areas? Gone. That UBI will go a whole long fucking way out there. Suddenly, people who had to move to the cities to get jobs that paid enough? Can afford to move back. Heck, they can afford to get decent fucking broadband out there and continue working, just, not in the city. Suddenly, people who live in rural areas but want to move to the cities with like-minded people? That's affordable, too. Suddenly, people who want to have a bigger house, but are stuck in a tiny apartment in a city? They can afford to move out to where there are bigger houses.
Universal Basic Income would realign our whole damn society, and I think it would long-term be for the better.
[ ID: tweet by athelind: "Basic Income is not a 'solution' to the 'problem' of automation. It is the FULLFILLMENT of the PROMISE of automation." /ID ]
UBI would not only give abused people the freedom to leave bad situations and end hunger and homelessness, it would force corporations to pay reasonable wages to attract people to work crap jobs, which the corpos could then deduct from their (higher, to pay for UBI) taxes, creating a positive feedback loop that encourages better pay
many would use UBI to quit abusive jobs and find better jobs even if they pay less, because their costs of living are paid for
many would start small businesses, do crafts and handiwork, create art and media, increase their education and health (physical and mental), dive into science and research, and so forth. we'd see a boom in innovation and invention, and the world would become a better place for most folks
so, to appease conservatives: the economic argument is that the economy would grow a great deal. some tests that show it works in the real world:
Trials suggest it can liberate jobless people, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
Elinor O’Donovan was among 2,000 artists chosen to receive funding to support their creative endeavors.
heck, Ireland is already testing UBI for artists, and wants to implement it widely:
Upcoming Events See Events page for past events.
You’ve heard this refrain before – giving money to homeless people is not the best way to help them because it might be squandered, or spent
lots more info on Wikipedia:
the only argument against UBI comes from those who'd pay greater taxes - big corporations and the ultra-rich - but they'd do fine, because now there'd be more consumers of their products and services. and if they're not providing anything to society that would benefit from others doing better, well, they don't deserve to benefit from society
The father of Túrin Turambar, head of the house of Hador and the last of the lords of Dor-Lómin.
The first thing you'll notice about this is I made him look very late roman, with a spatha and a late roman helmet, and with a clasp bearing the heraldry of his house in his sword belt. I thing the aesthetic of early migration era/late roman fits pretty nice with the edain of most of the First Age, while the elves should look a bit more fantasy, and more "medieval" compared to men, at least in this time period of the Middle-earth.
The battle of Naseby was a decisive battle during the war and was the battle that show the effectiveness of the parliamentary New Model Army. However, my drawing isn't depicting that, but the clash at the parliamentary right between the Ironsides led by Oliver Cromwell and the royalist cavalry. The Ironsides managed to break the royalists cavalry and then charge the rear of the royalist infantry, wining the battle.
As an interesting fact, the left led by Henry Ireton didn't have a lot of luck and were put to rout by Prince Rupert's cavalry, but the latter decided to plunder the parliamentarian baggage train instead of attacking the infantry. At the time they returned to the battlefield, Charles I had ordered the retreat.
If you have trouble in telling who is who, just remember that the parliamentarians used orange sashes and the royalists red ones. And yes, I copied the Ironside with the pistol from an illustration made by Graham Turner. I needed a guy there and didn't knew what to do...
I literally had the idea of this while listening to Gimme the Price... I have a thing going on in my head about relating the songs heard on Highlander with She-Ra.
Anyways! She-Ra in plate armor! I have quite of an obsession of drawing She-Ra characters in some form of historical armor. I think it fits the series really well for some reason. Maybe is just a way my brain has to combine two things I really like? Who knows, but I love doing it!
Anyways! Armor!
Adora's armor is, of course, based on the gothic armor of Maximilian I (that was later gifted to Sigismund Von Tirol). Catra's armor is based on armors made in the Innsbruck style, and a few elements of armors seen in the Thun Sketchbook.
This is, of course, a redraw of a frame of the opening.
Hi! This is an interpretation of an armor described in an order to an armorer, made by a retainer of the Takeda Clan, Anayama Nobutada, during the Sengoku period.
This armor dates 1571, and is a dō maru constructed in the Mogami dō style.
Ver.1: It has a Zunari Kabuto, a kote with kikko in the shoulders, and, hence the order of the armor don't mention any, has no sode. The haidate are also absent in the order, but I decided to make them here.
Ver.2: It has a Koboshi Kabuto, and a pair of bishamon kote, with integrated sode. Again, the haidate are speculative.
This armor is representative of the middle to late stage of plate armor development in Japanese military history, which, contrary to popular belief, has absolutely nothing to do with contact with the Europeans.
This illustration was made with the help of Gunsen History (twitter.com/gunsen_history), on Twitter. And here is a translation of the armor order made by him: twitter.com/gunsen_history/sta…
Princes Maekar and Baelor Targaryen, clad in full armor and ready to face the black dragon of the Blackfyres!
Their armors are made in the german Kasten-Brust style of the early 15th century, with the characteristic box shaped cuirass and long and highly decorated clothes and sleeves.
The cloth skirt of Baelor is inspired on the one worn by a knight of the Ghent Altarpiece. The crest of Maekar's great bascinet is based on the dragon-crest of the helmet of Jaume I the conqueror
Let's start here by talking about a concept I've been kind of in love since like 2019-ish, and it's representing the Gondorians from Lord of the Rings as Byzantines, be it regarding clothing or equipment. In general, I like to combine gear from various periods of byzantine military, but mainly from the Macedonians and Komnenian dynasties. I also like to add some non-byzantine pieces, if it fits, like the mytrhil helmet of the Citadel Guard, which is inspired in a certain type of Hellenistic helmet.
So, to sumarize, what I'm sharing here are:
1- A Citadel Guard of Minas Tirith
2- Two heavy infantrymen from the city or one of the big fiefdoms of Gondor
3- A knight of Minas Tirith, clad like a cataphract
Dúnedain from the South and from the North. Of course, they're Boromir and Aragorn.
Boromir: Following my idea of a Byzantine Gondor, his clothing and equipment is mostly byzantine. The long padded jacket is a Kavadion, the sword is a stylized spathion, the shield is also supposed to be byzantine. The bracers aren't byzantine, of course, since I inspired them from the ones in the movies.
Aragorn/Strider: Aragorn before the reforging of Andúril and the creation of the Fellowship of the Ring. The interesting part about this illustration are his clothes and his sword (which isn't Andúril, of course). His clothes are based on a byzantine fresco depicting Saint Mercurius, with little changes I made here and there. The sword is a paramerion, a byzantine saber. The only thing isn't from the fresco is the bow and arrow.
Soooo... I've been playing the realeased parts of the Andromeda six VN (https://wanderlust-games.itch.io/andromeda-six) and I REAAALLY enjoyed it.
So I felt the need to draw my traveler! So meet Rue! Their wardrove is a little barebones as I just had fun imagining this small barely dressed person walking among the very stylish crewmembers in the first chapter. I think I'd like to explore other looks, from both backstory and later chapters, but for now I'm just proud I got a nice little portrait. I tried to imitate a bit of the artists' lovely style, but that would require a sense of style hehehe.
This week’s Finding Home update is page 500 of the comic, and it just hit a big milestone on tapas 👀🎉 as always, thank you thank you to everyone who reads
This week’s Finding Home update is page 500 of the comic, and it just hit a big milestone on tapas 👀🎉 as always, thank you thank you to everyone who reads
I did a quick doodle the other day and really loved how the pose turned out, so I decided I wanted to color it. So today I did it! Still surprisingly quick.
