Candlewick Rain

"Some find the process... unnerving... but rewarding."

[candlewickrain]

[candlewickrain]

And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain And, like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again Rise again, rise again Though your heart, it be broken or life about to end No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again

[sharpenededges]

[black-white-and-leather]

[elvnterritory]

[ymutate]

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Moonlight, circa 1907

[venustapolis]

The tower of Annowre (Alan Lee, 1996)

[beanysprout]

its been a hot second since ive drawn any bugbots

[candlewickrain]

"Some cultural critics point out that the reason for the popularity of the mechanized chassis is likely far less technical: we made them the most powerful fighting machines that could stride across the earth, and we made them look like us."

Lancer Handbook

[verdepaola]

"Io sono abituato a cibarmi

di nuvole e di lontananza”.

Eugenio Montale, da una lettera a Irma Brandeis, 1933

Ara Ko photography

[sacred-portal]

[candlewickrain]

"I think I might be dropping my arm when I extend"

"what makes you say that"

[verdepaola]

Art by Marcin Minor (Polish illustrator, b.1978).

[verdepaola]

Bertha Wegmann (1846-1926, Swiss & danish artist), "Dandelions".

[cl3m3ntin3]

[polkadotmotmot]

Jin Young - Happy Melody, 2024 - Acrylic on canvas

[xanaxfarts]

Red sunset and sickle Moon provide a backdrop to the giant basaltic shield volcano of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Fine volcanic dust particles pumped into the atmosphere by the 1991 eruption of Mt Pinatubo and dispersed by strong winds created this spectacular sunset worldwide.