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A Cossack and the Devil by Edward Cossack, 1960s

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some jwqs character designs i made a while ago based on my researches on early tang dynasty! I'm not sure if it's accurate enough but i had fun doing these

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nangong jingnu is so aghh

sketchy drawing i wasnt satisfied with but the dragon is🙂‍↕️

also the colors lost all their vividness?? help

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(OLD ART !) My collection of Ukraine folk dress I draw years ago

One of the country that sparked my love for folk dress of European. Huge love !

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some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:

Point Defiance Steps

Mates

Rising Tides

Vashon Steps

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Utena AU from insta & twitter !

[full view I guess ?] (@astroprojection notified me the 2nd Utena isn’t fitting)

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Inazuma’s post archon quest political status quo is absolutely the funniest out of all the nation the Traveller has visited so far. The thing about power is that is a social phenomenon and not a natural one. The exercise of power is entirely dependent upon the perception of legitimacy. The edicts of rulers who are perceived as legitimate will fall on deaf ears as the masses feel no reason to obey them. Inazuma’s civil war was a crisis of legitimacy provoked by a ruler stepping beyond the bounds of what the people were willing to accept as legitimate rule. Its resolution saw the reversal of the illegitimate edicts as well as the removal from power of all those who enabled them with the exception of the Shōgun. In practical terms, peace is made possible not by the restoration of the Shōgun’s legitimacy but rather by the dissolution of the power structures that enabled the Shogunate to act in illegitimate ways. The Kujou clan is in disarray and soon to be replaced within the Tenryou Commission, the Hiiragi clan is likewise on unsure footing (made worse by the possibility of Hiiragi Chisato marrying into the Kujou clan), and the Shōgun herself has proved herself to be not only fallible but easily manipulated by bad actors. Thus, the peace is not being made on the Shogunate’s terms, but rather on the rebels’.

The Yashiro Commission is the only organ of the Shogunate that has escaped from the chaos with its legitimacy intact and it has continually bolstered its legitimacy by holding festival. With the backing of the Grand Narukami Shrine, the Commission is likely the most trusted and well regarded institution in the nation. Additionally, they have a tacit alliance with Watatsumi Island, whose forces still occupy Yashiori Island and have yet to be demobilized. Whether Ei realizes it or not, it is unlikely that she has the power to govern Inazuma without the support of the Yashiro Commission, the Grand Narukami Shrine, and Watatsumi Island. In fact, what little legitimacy she retains resides entirely within her capacity as the Narukami Ogosho, the traditional deity of Inazuma, and not within her capacity as Shōgun. While on paper, the Shōgun remains the ruler of Inazuma, in practice it seems that the exercise of power is likely to require the tacit assent of the Yashiro Commission in order to be perceived as legitimate. Should the Shogunate act in an illegitimate way, the Sangonomiya troops remain in a position to intervene. Further, (and no one seems to talk about this??) the Yashiro Commission purposely stayed out of the fighting, which means that the Kamisato clan has a completely unbloodied armed force that could easily march into Inazuma City should the need arise. It’s even possible that the Yashiro Commission has more troops on Narukami Island than the Tenryou Commission, as the latter have yet to decamp from their fort in Kannazuka.

This means that the status quo is such that the exercise of power in Inazuma requires the tacit consent of a five-hundred year old fox whose main motivation is the desire to alleviate her boredom and the cunning bobba slurping homosexual with whom she has a potent rivalry. Further, their de facto rule is guaranteed by an autistic fish priestess whose special interest is winning wars and her battle hardened guerrilla army. And strangest of all, this seems to be working out perfectly fine for everyone. Resistance to the new regime is minimal as the Tenryou Commission has proved to be more loyal to Kujou Sara than the Kujou clan and the Kanjou Commission is entirely too weak to mount any resistance to the combined might of the Tenryou, Yashiro, and Sangonomiya forces. Of course, it helps that Ei has seemingly no interest in directly intervening in anything but Inazuma’s weather and the odd Genius Invocation Tournament.

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"tumblr is the gay website" "tumblr is the communist website" tumblr is the sheltered white USamerican suburbanite shut-in website

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nervous system, autonomic

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we have always lived in the castle illustrated by thomas ehretsmann for centipede press

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sugar plum harpy

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This arena got everything: birth records, baptismal records, records of death, my own birth, absolute birth, a shining place in the absolute darkness, a gold plated Shangri-la, day and night, paradise lost, Sodom, endless darkness. The Apocalypse.

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Anyways musical shiori was so good. She scares me.

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Dungeon Meshi Convention Episode