[nevver]

June 6th 1944, The 70th Anniversary of D-Day

[cologne1049]

The 82nd Anniversary of D-Day June 6th 1944 - June 6th 2026 Lest we forget!

[themaninthegreenshirt]

D-Day: The Allied invasion of Normandy

[robotblues]

the brothers Area

[cosmicretreat]

Linda Berhle as Ghita of Alizarr. The wizard in the bottom picture is the creator of Ghita, the great Frank Thorne.

[lobotomy-jpeg]

Oh huh! I hadn't realized I didn't post this one here on Tumblr! I finished this study in early March and have plans to have it be one of 3 pieces to go together 🙂‍↕️

[ID: Digital painting of Sherlock Holmes and Toby the dog, a study of Leyendecker's "Man with a dog" (1909) for Collier's Weekly. Holmes is in his coat, striped pants, top hat and grey scarf, Toby following a trace by his side. They are painted mid-motion. /end ID]

[nightbringer24]

Reading the latest Dr. Deveraux article about doing world-building and the how's and why's of recruitment in a pre-modern and pre-industrial society actually went, and it's very interesting because the how of the recruitment of soldiers is pretty directly tied to the why of the recruitment.

Now it's a very broad and complex topic, but he succinctly narrows the styles of recruitment of four main ways:

The Employment Principle - "I fight because I'm paid to fight."

The Entitlement Principle - "I fight because I have personal rights/legal status to fight." (The article goes into the more complex detailing on that)

The Vocational Principle - "I fight because it's my job" - Not the same as the 'Employment Principle' because this is more focused around the 'Warrior Class' in history, either as warrior aristocracy, warrior slaves, warrior settlers to use Dr. Deveraux's examples.

The Clientage Principle - "I fight because I'm obligated to". This is the one you see most often in the Middle Ages thoroughly, and practically all across Eurasia.

All of these are mutually exclusive from the other (a warrior slave in the warrior class is not a client, because it his vocation to fight not a duty expected of him from a lord) but they were not mutually exclusive in a society and each would have filled their own distinct niches in a society.

[thatwelshartist]

I was looking up facts about Cormorants to find a title for this and found out about the liver bird a mythological creature from liverpool that is literally just a cormorant which I find kinda funny

anyway still think what to call this maybe UKAI

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Moon Venus Conjunction

Credit: Bill Bradley

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[jadeseadragon]

Japanese Art of Kumiko, Wood Lattice Joinery Technique.

“Fireworks over Mount Fuji”

[weaselknievel]

absolutely in love with this pic from the Wikipedia page for Pikas

[sandmandaddy69]

[pocketss]

widehead

[elena-kukanova]

Escape from nargothrond

Luthien and Huan

watercolor on cotton paper Baohong, 49*31 cm

[therosecrest]

[mellie5ever]

[mellie5ever]

u heard about this shit?

[onlinebeast]

We are fucked

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Tim White (British, 1952 - 2020) for Robert A. Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1978 edition)

[barbariankingdom]

(via Richard Hescox. Cover art for “Lair of the Cyclops” ( Allen L. Wold, 1991). : r/RetroFuturism)