Tristan S. Rappさんのイラストまとめ

These travels did not sate King's restlessness, and in 1959, during the years of the Cuban Revolution, King travelled to that island, more specifically the region of Matanzas. At the time he was 31. His purpose was to join the syncretic Yoruba-Catholic cult of Santería there.

It's very striking how many things people often associate with the Middle-ages actually belong (wholly or mostly) to the Early Modern period: Witch-burnings, wars of religious schisms, the divine right of kings, the Spanish inquisition - even many knights in plate armour

The concept of a 'city' must have been so strange to the people encountering it for the first time.

"Wait, you live thousands of people huddled together within a stone's toss? Right next to each other? Doesn't that like... smell?"

I've always loved this about the work of artists like Karol Schauer & Libor Balak, that they make their reconstructed ancient cultures look & feel like actual CULTURES. There are patterns, mosaics, body-paints, odd idols. You aren't quite sure what's going on, & that's the point

Are we really to believe that a culture like the European Bronze Age, who made such ridiculous and extravagant objects as the lurs, pendants and brazen horses on the left, lived otherwise in so muted a colour-palet as that on the right?

I've always had a soft spot for reconstructions, through paintings or models, of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. There is something inimically bucolic about them. Yet one thing I have noted, and which I think is a real shame, is the persistent and near-total lack of colour

What this means, in terms of understanding The Northman, but also the authentic Norse sources, is that raiding, pillaging, feuding, belittling and even slaving were, within that culture, fine. What mattered was bravery, determination, and to face death with insolence and humour.

On the positive side, agricultural damage has been less than expected, and large amounts of economic aid has been provided by numerous nations. The volcano that caused the catastrophic eruption, Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, is deemed unlikely to experience repeat eruptions.

@Tomi_Tapio @MatejCadil Well, it's based directly on Tolkien's own piece

@punishedkomrade Yeah, they were Deinonychus - number (6) here rather than number (2). It was still >marginally< smaller than shown in the movies, but most of this hubub about Velociraptor comes from ppl thinking it's been downscaled when really they're just looking at another animal