inspirations'n'such

Collecting medieval, magical, and beautiful images for inspiration and world-building purposes. I promise an interesting scroll :) request tags ~ I tag nsfw(under the tag "noodly doodly"), scopophobia, insect, snake, flashing, strobing//

[pnglove]

[unusual-suspects]

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[rowecommaadam]

Howard V. Brown (1878-1945), "The Model Workers"

[70sscifiart]

Brown was a really cool 1930s pulp sci-fi magazine artist. This one isn’t sci-fi, but it still might be my favorite work of his! Which is an odd thing to find myself saying, given that — as longtime readers may have noticed over the 13 years I’ve run this blog — I really like sci-fi art.

[steampunktendencies]

Installed in the year 1410, this 600 year old clock in the city of Prague is the World’s oldest astronomical clock still in operation.

[fuckyeahlotrcast]

Elijah on the set of Fellowship

[depsidase]

[natureisthegreatestartist]

I just harvested this year’s ‘Glass Gem’ ornamental corn. Aren’t the colors glorious?

[dirtshrines]

Pozega-Slavonia, Croatia

[oldpagesclub]

Zofia Fijałkowska illustration for "Stubborn kitten" publilshed in 1956

(book from my private collection)

[lamus-dworski]

Illustrations by Zofia Fijałkowska for a ‘Tale about a Fisherman and a Fish’, 1964.

[images edited via Pstrobazar]

[dogpuppy]

[mortalcolddecay]

Iceland to Svalbard by buen viaje on Flickr.

Fin whale carcass the bears have been feeding on for the past year.

[horusboris]

may i have the vertebrae please?

[homeplanets]

being wrong about something is actually ok because being right feels good and when you're wrong you selflessly give another person the chance to correct you and be right and feel good about it. you're actually giving them a gift you might have made their day so if you think about it i actually made the world a better place by messing up that id on inaturalist

[useless-catalanfacts]

Masculine cape made of green silk velvet with golden embroidery. Years 1651-1675.

Source: Museu Virtual de la Moda de Catalunya [Fashion Virtual Museum of Catalonia]. Kept in Museu del Disseny [Design Museum] in Barcelona, Catalonia.

[snototter]

A black crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) foraging for food in Bartow, Florida, USA

by jdlacy

[mysteriousbogbody]

Doodle of Ceto

[thethingsiveseen-photography]

The sheep on the hill… (Near Coniston Water, Cumbira).