Yet, you incessantly stand on your head...

mattiasinks:

Future professions

It’s never to late to change track… I’ve already started designing my pillar, I’m a bit afraid of heights though 

gingerhaze:

Originally in the comic we got a little more exposition about Ballister and Goldenloin’s backstory, which I ended up cutting last minute to help the flow of the story. Maybe I’ll still shoehorn it in somewhere if I can, or else it will be in that minicomic when I finally get it done. I think it does change the perception of their relationship though, to know not just how long they were friends, but also how young they were when they were recruited by the Institution. Basically they were both orphans who showed some promise and were placed into Institution care at a young age to be trained as knights. As they grew up, Ballister began to rebel and question the Institution’s actions, while Ambrosius, less critical and more easily manipulated, clung stubbornly to his notions of chivalry and knightly glory. 

So what happened at the joust? Was it an accident or not? Hmmm.

B and G are close in age - Ballister’s probably slightly older, but he DEFINITELY started growing a lot faster than Goldenloin did. A shrimpy kid named Ambrosius…you know that kid got picked on a lot.

brokenlynx21:

Janelle Monae-  A funky girl with a lot of soul!

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odditiesoflife:

The Abandoned Ghost Continent of Antarctica

Antarctic spirits have an abundance of residences to choose from thanks to the huge number of ghost towns, deserted islands and other such haunts. For obvious reasons, Antarctica is a very popular place to abandon.

The most famous and disturbingly well-preserved of these places is the camp built by Robert Scott (pictured above) and his party on Ross Island in 1911. The seaweed-insulated wooden cabin and its outbuildings were supposed to be the team’s shelter when they returned from their attempt to be the first people to visit the South Pole. Scott and four others set out from the base to reach the pole. They reached it in January 1912 only to find that the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had gotten there weeks before them. All five men died trying to get back to the base camp. The final three – Scott, Wilson and Bowers – were just 11 miles from it when they died.

South Georgia is another Antarctic island that people rushed to abandon. At least seven whaling communities existed there during the first half of the 20th century. When all were up and running, the island was estimated to have 2,000 people living on it. Most of the towns are in the process of returning to a state of wilderness.

It is worth noting that these frozen islands have been the subject of heated arguments over who actually owns them – mostly by the UK and Argentina. South Georgia and the South Shetland islands are still possessed by the UK. The dispute over ownership of South Georgia was a contributing factor in The Falklands War described by Argentine writer Jorge Louis Borges as “two bald men fighting over a comb.”

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thehystericalsociety:

1925 (Via)

I feel like this is me at the beach.  Every summer.

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tyrant-of-tea:

imperialdalek:

byronic-heroine:

I’m just in love with this man.

I speak Irish.

The language of my people!

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fantomas-en-cavale:

Léon et Lévy- L’Exposition Universelle depuis le pont Alexandre-III, Paris, 1900

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peteoswald:

ANGRY AGGIE

Concepts for the angry Aggie sequence.

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theartofchina:

© Feng Hai | 冯海 (b.1971), New garden fantasies. 

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rufftoon:

“Lost”

Travelling to unknown lands can mean getting lost…and way in over your head.

Another quick sketch to end the night.

(Dammit Jack, get out of my brain!)