Bert Builds a World

World Building and Progress Blog for my Ruined Earth Cli-Fi Novel.

[manfrommars2049]

Armor Girl by Sangsoo Jeong via ImaginaryArmor

[bertsbookmarksbook]

[elugraphy]

川の畔の巨大発電所→詳細 Abandoned giant power plant in river side.

[bertsbookmarksbook]

A Pattern Language for Urban Nature – The Nature of Cities

1 We are part of nature We are part of nature and we are interdependent with nature. 2 We think we can be separate from nature We cannot escape this interdependency. Even when we try, we are tied to living systems by umbilical cords of technology, constrained by natural limits. 3 Human culture … Continue reading A Pattern Language for Urban Nature →

[wombywoo]

pop pop!  👊 💙

[throughwinterfields]

bokehm0n

[nutsacktorturer]

Mongolians are cool because they’ve merged their traditional and modern ways of life so rather than having poverty due to losing all their important skills they just live in their yurts with their cows and 827474874mbs internet

[nutsacktorturer]

sure their GDP in dollars is low but when you can survive like your anscestors did it doesn’t mean anything, nothing wrong with adding a motorcycle and wifi into the mix

[hieronymus-botch]

Everyone should live like their ancestors did 1000 years ago but with the addition of wifi tbh

[the-everything-man]

Adapt. Survive.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this is the single most inspiring piece of information I have yet to come across in all my moments in this world

[byzantinefox-deactivated2018120]

where is that picture

ah here we go:

[char-portraits]

Paladin by Illimim

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

[char-portraits]

Seer by Jason Engle

[scifi-fantasy-horror]

by  Aleksandra Skiba

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

A Warrior’s Ballad by Hieu Nguyen

[artist-aivazovski]

Windmill on the Sea Coast, Ivan Aivazovski

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/windmill-on-the-sea-coast-1837

[therealvagabird]

Mira - by Ismail Inceoglu

“Let the four winds fill your wings,

That you may see the world with raven’s eyes,

And breathe deep of its wide majesty.”

—Vagabird

[steampunktendencies]

Old Mill. Wow!

[tgolemo94]

This looks like a massive puzzle straight out of a tomb raider game… I’m living for it

[thacmis]

Water wheel in Zhangjiaje Yellow Dragon Cave, Hunan province of China

[valar-morghulis]

by L PF

[char-portraits]

Tomyris by Veysel Kara 

Tomyris (/ˈtoʊmɪrɪs/; from Eastern Iranian: Tahmirih “Brave”)  also called Thomyris, Tomris, Tomiride, or Queen Tomiri, was a Massagetean ruler who reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian people from Scythian pastoral-nomadic confederation of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in parts of modern-day Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, western Uzbekistan, and southern Kazakhstan.