Porto Venere, Italy (by Thomas Weiler)

Ulcion Thornsong, a bonesinger of Il-Kaithe

Excuse me while I sneeze 30 times in a row…

Villa Cetinale, Ancaiano, nel comune di Sovicille, (Siena) Toscana, Italia.

Grace Jones as Katrina in Vamp (1986) dir. Richard Wenk

Wolf of Ansbach, 17th century

X-Men: First Class (2011) | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Helmut Moik (Austrian,b. 1956)

The Ever-watchful Pelican (Dalmation Pelican), 2003 

Turkish helmet, 15th century

from The Louvre

Ulfberht Sword excavated from Ballinderry, Northern Ireland dated from the 9th Century on display at the National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology in Dublin

This is one of a family of 5 surviving swords in Ireland that bear the name “ULFBERHT” inscribed in the broad and shallow fuller of the blade. Such blades are thought to have been made in the Frankish lands around the Middle Rhine. The town of Solingen, which produced fine sword blades in the Middle Ages, came from this region and it is thought to be one of the origins of the “ULFBERHT” swords. It is unlikely to be the name of a person as they have been found in sites dating from the 9th to the 12th centuries.

So the “ULFBERHT” brand name was put on hundreds of swords over a period of 250 years. It is likely the brand name was a powerful mark as such swords have been found in high status graves all over Europe. Frankish and Viking blades were found as highly prised goods in Baghdad, travelling along the Silk Road. Much of the steel for these blades was Crucible Steel from India which travelled the same route to Europe.

The sword was found in a crannog in Ballinderry, Ireland while it was being drained by the Board of Works of Northern Ireland. With the sword, animal bones, part of a bone comb as well as two spearheads and an axehead, all from the 9th Century.

Photographs taken by myself 2017

Today was portfolio day on Twitter! I wanted to post my favorite works on here as well since this is more my usual stuff, and some new followers have not seen them~

While I love doing mlp AU designs, I do miss drawing my ocs and more adult oriented pieces.

Craig Nelson’s 1988 Crime Zone poster

Parliament building, Budapest / Hungary (by qWantumqWark).

Work-in-progress animated music video