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This scene still haunts my soul 🔥🔥

Really proud of how this came out!! Took about 3 hours and 4 minutes

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a new art piece based heavily on Grissaecrim's 'Montrals' here is the link to that pic: https://www.deviantart.com/grissaecrim/art/Montrals-828834903

@grissaecrim

And of course I had to add Fives and a Loth-Cat

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And are you two…? No. We're not. I tried and I tried, but she loves another.

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♦️ The Keystone ♦️

Wiping sweat from his dark forehead the man—man I must say, having said he and his—the man answers, “Very-long-ago a keystone was always set in with a mortar of ground bones mixed with blood. Human bones, human blood. Without the blood bond the arch would fall, you see. We use the blood of animals, these days.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

Proposed interior illustration for 'The Left Hand of Darkness', chapter 1: Parade in Erhenrang. Made as personal work for an ongoing portfolio project.

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HELP

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Decided to start a drawing of Black Mercy this VERY late last night. Not my greatest, but it’s doable.

Never in my entire life did I think I would see a canon boob-windowed Superman...

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Ganja & Hess (1973) dir. Bill Gunn

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London Stone

After spending a couple of years on holiday in the Museum of London, this chunk of limestone recently returned to its home on Cannon Street, where it has resided for…well, no one is entirely sure. What can be seen today is allegedly just a fragment of the original, which may have been put in place by the Romans to mark the start of a milestone system.

By medieval times the rock had gained its moniker of London Stone, and was an important landmark to the City of London. It became a place for making deals, passing laws, issuing proclamations, and swearing oaths. In 1450 the rebel Jack Code struck his sword against the stone to proclaim his sovereignty during his uprising against Henry VI. The stone was uprooted from the road in 1742, and eventually found its way into an alcove of St Swithin’s Church. Badly damaged in the Blitz, the church was demolished in the early 1960s, and London Stone was placed into a rather dull grilled and glazed alcove, where it was not easily visible – a situation that is thankfully remedied in the new 111 Cannon Street.

Beyond what is recorded, many theories have been offered over the years to explain the origin of London Stone. Was it the altar of a temple to Artemis, erected by the Trojan Brutus, son of Priam, after he defeated the giants lead by Gog and Magog? Perhaps it was a stone where Druids sacrificed victims, or had some other similar sacred significance – after all, it is apparently located on a ley line between St Pauls and the Tower of London. Or could it be the stone from which a young Arthur pulled a sword, revealing himself as the true King of Britain?

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Engraving of Roger Bacon, Thomas Bungay, and a Brazen Head from Robert Greene's The Honorable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bongay (unknown artist, 1630 CE). (via Wikipedia)

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A List of Random/Strange/Fascinating/Horrifying Things in Early Modern Drama

This is still a work in progress - I'm pulling things from my comps list, so new things will get added! But feel free to add your own additions, as well!

Man is beheaded and then flayed onstage (Cambises)

Child is shot through the heart by the king, who's drunk, to prove that drinking doesn't affect him (Cambises)

Same king also has the child's heart cut out and brought to his father to prove it went through the heart

King marries his first cousin (which is considered incestuous) and then has her killed for saying nice things about his brother (who he also had killed) (Cambises)

Man is stabbed by his sword through the side as he climbs onto his horse (Cambises)

Younger brother kills older brother bc he was convinced he was going to have the younger brother murdered; mom kills younger brother bc older brother was her favorite child; populace murder the king and the queen bc they assume they were both part of the younger brother's death (Gorboduc)

Man murders his mother and her lover in revenge for his mother murdering his father and is both forgiven for it and married off to his cousin in what turns out to be a love match (Horestes)

Robert Greene is obsessed with speaking brass heads (Alphonsus, King of Aragon and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay)

Kings' wives die and their emotional control/ability to think rationally is suddenly gone (Thomas of Woodstock and Tamburlaine the Great)

Man kills his son for cowardice (Tamburlaine the Great)

Man uses captured kings as "horses" to draw his chariot (Tamburlaine the Great)

Man bashes his head in against the bars of his (literal) cage; wife does the same (Tamburlaine the Great)

King dies on the battlefield and to prevent the army from figuring out he's dead, his advisors put him in a chair and carry him across the battlefield to his tent so they think he went in to rest (aka early modern Weekend at Bernie's) (The Battle of Alcazar)

Man is wounded when he enters, is stabbed by multiple men and left to die, and then narrates his entire life story for over a page before dying (The Battle of Alcazar)

New king orders the body of the pretender to be flayed, the skin dried, and stuffed with straw as a reminder of what happens to people who cross him (The Battle of Alcazar)

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New Adventures of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988) || For Whom The Bell Tolls by John Donne

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Still gets me that the Rani called Mel a "painted doll of a princess" like you're telling on yourself a little there I think, even without the other line to really dial up the toxic yuri of it all

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Justice League - Starcrossed Part 2 (S2E25)

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Second Birthday drawing, because I'm indecisive :)