Some training card illustrations i made for Birdwood Games' upcoming board game Forever Home! Was a fun challenge fitting in various types and numbers of dogs interacting with these different shapes.

Graphics and art direction by Dann May.

Vem aí... Dog Park

Vem aí… Dog Park

A editora e distribuidora espanhola Last Level acaba de lançar no mercado um jogo licenciado através da Birdwood Games que certamente não deixará os amantes do fiel amigo indiferentes – Dog Park. Dog Park é um jogo da autoria de Lottie Hazell e Jack Hazell com ilustração de Kate Avery, Holly Exley e Dann May para 1 a 4 jogadores com mais de 10 anos e uma duração aproximada de 40 a 80…

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Alright, I’m now moving on to S15E03 “Follow My Leader” in my series 15 Holby watch. As usual, I’ll keep liveblogging every episode of the series unless someone says it’s annoying.

Edit 1: Oh hey, hi Dr. Lilah Birdwood! I didn't realise she appeared in the very first scene.

Edit 2: Jac: "This is Hanssen. There will be a method to his madness. There always is."

Edit 3: Serena complaining about being on AAU 😂

Edit 4: Chantelle!

Edit 5: Henrik!

Edit 6: I'd forgotten this was the first appearance of Chantelle's boyfriend Torchwood Boy. I know his name is Rhys but I'm just going to call him Torchwood Boy. He also went on to masquerade as a guy named Joshua and have a thing with Marty. ...Or maybe the actor was just playing a different role. 😉😆

Edit 7: "Down here [AAU] may be Hell, but I am still God." That's actually a really badass quote, Michael.

Edit 8: For some reason, the way the chairman's daughter speaks reminds me of Ashildr from Doctor Who.

Edit 9: The chairman’s daughter saying he (Mr. Cunningham, the chairman) thinks Henrik is a liability and is just waiting for him to put one more foot wrong... have I got good news for you, Mr. Cunningham! 😂

Edit 10: Henrik saying “progress has to involve risks”. Didn’t they later establish that as being something Anders had said?? (Fredrik says something like it in “Losing Game”, Henrik says he recognises it because they’re the words of Fredrik’s grandfather.) Wild.

Edit 11: I love Sacha. He's so great.

Edit 12: Mr. Cunningham to Jac: "Don't let Hanssen drag you down with him. You've got his back. Has he got yours?"

Edit 13: Oh, of course Serena would be the one to spill the beans about the Herzig to the chairman 😂

Edit 14: Henrik, Jac, and Elliot all operating together!

Edit 15: Aaand there we are, Jac's vote of no confidence in Henrik.

Edit 16: I love Chantelle so much. And Henrik, but that goes without saying.

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ANZAC and Ottoman relations at Gallipoli

I answered a question on r/askhistorians the other day and I think it's actually a good little read.

So, after the landing on the 25 April and a counter-attack two days later on 27 April the Ottoman forces didn’t launch another large attack on Anzac for almost a month. Eventually Essad Pasha was able to bring four divisions into the line, about 40,000 troops, for an attack on ANZAC. The attack went in on 19 May and was an absolute disaster for the attacking Ottomans. They suffered around 10,000 casualties, including about 3000 killed against the ANZAC’s roughly 600.

No man’s land between the two lines was carpeted with dead Ottoman and Anzac soldiers whose bodies quickly began to spoil in the Mediterranean sun. After three days the stench from the corpses was becoming unbearable and the threat of disease spurred both sides to action. After some aborted attempts at bringing in those left in no man’s land an Ottoman emissary, Major Kemal Ohri, blindfolded and carrying a white flag was led through Anzac lines to meet with Lieutenant-General Birdwood to negotiate a truce for the burial of the dead.

With the assistance of the Red Crescent and Red Cross an armistice was agreed to and on 24 May working parties from both sides met in no man’s land to clear the battlefield and bury the dead. New Zealand surgeon Percival Fenwick was part of the Anzac working party described the day in his diary.

A few yards climb brought us on a plateau, and a most awful sight was here. The Turkish dead lay so thick that it was almost impossible to pass without treading on the bodies. The awful destructive power of high explosive was very evident. Huge holes surrounded by circles of corpses, blown to pieces. One body was cut clean in half; the upper half I could not see, it was some distance away. One shell had apparently fallen and set fire to a bush, as a dead man lay charred to the bone. Everywhere one looked lay dead, swollen, black, hideous, and over all, a nauseating stench that nearly made one vomit.”

Although the work was grim, relations between Anzac and Ottoman soldiers was cordial, bordering on friendly. Fenwick described his Turkish counterpart as ‘a charming gentlemen’, with whom he conversed in French. Clutha McKenzie, noted that “Our men conversed with the men of the enemy as far as limited vocabulary would allow, which isn’t far.” Tahu Rhodes remembered that “There was no ill feeling between the Turks and our men, and at Quinn’s Post they shook hands and wished each other luck before returning to their respective trenches.”

This sort of amicable relationship was fairly typical of the troops themselves, both Anzac and Ottoman. There was some ill-will towards German troops at Gallipoli, mainly officers, but the Ottoman troops gained the grudging respect and sometimes admiration of Anzac soldiers which was apparently reciprocated. According to the account of a Turkish soldier:

A friendly attitude developed between the soldiers of the two hostile sides who were supposed to kill each other. They were giving the buttons they tore off their uniforms to us as a war memento, and in return they were asking for something else. Our soldiers were not allowed to give their buttons because of the military regulations of the time. They looked for other things, and in the end tokens like coins changed hands. At the same time, the soldiers were offering chocolates and sweets to each other while trying to communicate in sign language. The truce commission tried to prohibit this sort of friendship, but as soon as the commission observers left, shows of friendship continued. I saw an Australian soldier who was trying to measure the height of our tallest soldier and our soldier was letting him to do so with a smile on his face. As time passed the area was starting to look like a festival place and those who worked in the area went as far as embracing each other. “

Given the horrible living conditions shared by both sides at Gallipoli, the closeness of the trenches to one another and that war is largely made up of long periods of boredom, it’s not particularly surprising that both sides attempted to relieve the tedium by getting to know those opposite. Sniping games were played with scorecards held up after particularly good shots, letters were exchanged, often accompanying gifts of bully-beef or tobacco. This letter was received by Australian officer Major Leslie Fussell, from Turkish soldiers expressing their thanks for a tin of bully beef that had been thrown into their trenches by Major Fussell at Quinn's Post whilst instructing his men in the art of bomb throwing. The action was misinterpreted by the Turks as a friendly gesture who returned this note along with a parcel of tobacco thanking the Australians for their thoughtful gift.

In the early days of the campaign, before adequate reinforcements were available to rotate units, a single Anzac unit could hold a portion of the line for weeks at a time, getting to know the Ottomans opposite and forming routines. In his doorstopper of a book Gallipoli, Les Carlyon tells the story of an Australian light horse unit that had come to an unspoken agreement to allow an elderly Ottoman soldier to gather firewood in no man’s land every morning. When the light horsemen left, they failed to mention this to their replacements and the elderly Ottoman soldier, not knowing a relief had taken place was shot and killed on their first morning. This sort of live and let live attitude was often tacitly allowed by officers in the line, but fraternisation was loathed by senior commanders for its tendency to undermine the discipline and fighting ability of the men.

But officers still considered themselves gentlemen and so I’ll leave you with a letter to the Ottoman commander, left in the headquarters dugout of the Australian 3rd Light Horse Brigade on the evacuation of the peninsula that shows the attitude of at least some Anzacs towards their enemy.

"The Brigadier presents his compliments to our worthy Turkish opponents and offers those who first honour his quarters with their presence such poor hospitality as is in his power to give, regretting that he is unable personally to welcome them.

After a sojourn of 7 months in Gallipoli we propose to take some little relaxation...and in bidding 'Au revoir' to our honourable foes we Australians desire to express appreciation of the fine soldierly qualities of our Turkish opponents and of the sportsmanlike manner in which they have participated in a very interesting contest, honourable, we trust, to both sides.

For a little while we have been with you, yet a little while and you shall see us not. For us it is a matter of deep regret that the ancient friendship so long existing between the British and Turkish Empires should have been thus disturbed by the insidious machinations of the Arch-enemy of humanity.

We have left this area and trenches in which we have taken considerable trouble and pride, clean and in good order, and would be grateful if they may be so maintained until our return, particular care being asked in regard to matters of sanitation, so vital to the well-being of an army.

We hope that you will find the wine, coffee, tobacco, cigarettes and food to your taste, and a supply of fuel has been left in the cupboard to ameliorate in some measure the discomfort during the cold watches of the winter

Our only request is that no member of the nation who was guilty of the inhuman murder of that noble woman Miss Edith Clavell to whose photo this message is attached, will be permitted to pollute with his presence the quarters of soldiers who have never descended to such barbarous and ruthless methods".

Enjoyed the appendix. Very detailed political economy section. Was hoping for a bit more culture and society material because that's a strong part of your world-building. Great military unit analysis. Also got a good sense of the post-war Atlantic world, and sorry if I missed it, but what's the situation like in the rest of the world? Awesome series! Next? Idk, how about character analysis of great video games villains, starting with Jon Irenicus in Baldur's Gate 2?

Sure, I can write an essay about Irenicus, send it to me in a separate ask so people won’t have to wade through Celtic Tiger stuff if they don’t want to read it. I’m also happy to answer questions about the Celtic Tiger universe, if you have any questions about culture and society stuff feel free to ask, I’m happy to worldbuild in that region. I did try to stick a bit closer to the economic and military stuff because I can provide screenshots, and as you can see, there were a lot of them.

Anyway, the world situation in the rest of the world.

Central America: Syndicalist Centroamerica was successfully invaded by Mexico and Canada early in the Second Weltkrieg, so most of central America are puppet states of the Entente.

South America: Brazil and National Populist Argentina joined the Reichspakt. Peru and Bolivia merged to form the Peru-Bolivaran Federation. Chile is now under a military junta. 

Africa: Central and Eastern Africa had a long and bloody territorial war after the collapse of Mittelafrika. Somalia and Ethiopia under Emperor Haile Selassie are fighting over the direction of the various countries in the region. I’d imagine there are diplomatic conflicts and brush wars between Selassie’s Confederation of Lions and the Somalian ALDI. France still maintains its colonies in central and western Africa and looks to integrate them into the French Union. Jan Smuts runs South Africa, and the Germans control what is modern-day Namibia and Angola. 

Middle East: The Cairo Pact successfully invaded the Ottoman Empire (this was an older version before the Ottoman rework, the Cairo Pact usually always won). Egypt is the clear regional hegemon in the Middle East.

Russia: Russia is torn in two between the Reichspakt-aligned Black Baron Pyotr Wrangel and the Transamurian Republic under Aleksandr Kolchak, aligned with the Japanese. Kolchak hates the Japanese overlordship and Wrangel chafes under the Reichspakt, meaning Russia could turn into a powder keg at any time.

Indian Subcontinent: The Bhartiya Commune was destroyed but Japan and the United Kingdom still have no permanent settlement between the British Raj and the Japan-aligned Princely Federation and the Azad Hind. While the Bhartiya Commune may have been crushed, Indian independence and dissatisfaction at both colonial masters might cause a new type of independence movement. 

East/Southeast Asia: Germany controls Vietnam under its puppet emperor Bao Dai, and Siam is allied closely with Japan. The Dutch East Indies has liberalized considerably following their appointment of a local as colonial governor, but independence movements are still likely to continue. With the Netherlands facing severe problems at home thanks to a Union of Britain invasion, I’d imagine if the Insulindian independence movement wanted to pick a time to strike, it’d be then. The newly formed Federal Provinces of China will have to deal with the Chinese concessions at some point; the Chinese could easily overwhelm the Legation Cities but that would involve going to war with the Great Powers, who have nukes at this point.

Oceania: It’s actually pretty peaceful. Australiasia returned to democracy following the retirement of Birdwood. The UK issued the Westminister Declaration, and New Zealand peacefully separated from Australia, and both are fully-fledged independent countries, although they’re still in the Entente. Until the rise of the Second Emu War, Australia might be the place to be.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

Top Three Parks In Melbourne

The city of Melbourne is one of the popular cities in Australia and Oceania. It is the capital of the state of Victoria and is widely recognized for its impressive history and culture. The city has been ranked among the most livable places in the world. It is also regarded as Australia’s sport capital as it hosts thousands of games and sport competitions. The city of Melbourne has a temperate Oceania Climate with warm summers that support outdoor activities. These activities are carried out in the beautiful parks around the city. Below are the top three parks in the city of Melbourne:

·         Fitzroy Garden: This is a beautiful park located at East Melbourne VIC, Australia. Apart from being a great place for relaxation and recreation, the park also houses one of Australia’s historic buildings which is Captain Cook’s cottage. 

·         BirrarungMarr Park: This is a scenic park sited north of YarraRiver. It is located at Batman Ave, Melbourne VIC, Australia. The name of the park was gotten from two aboriginal languages one from Melbourne and the other from Adelaide. It has picnic sites and play area for kids.

·         Royal Botanical Garden: This is a beautiful park covering 38 hectares making it one of the largest parks in the city. It is located at Birdwood Ave, South Yarra VIC, Australia. The park hosts different events and it features a large theater.

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The first illustration i did for Birdwood Games' upcoming board game Forever Home! It's a very cute pattern-building game about rehoming dogs and i had so much fun doing the art.

The game is out on September 22nd for the dog & boardgame lovers among you!

Here are the best cheap hotels in Virginia!

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1. The Commonwealth

You might think that you know the Commonwealth because it has been a landmark hotel in Richmond for over 100 years. And much of what we have been known for—excellent service, spacious suites, and a location that can't be beaten—remains. But we have completely reinvented ourselves, and now offer a unique experience in Richmond.

2. Graduate Charlottesville

Allow yourself to get some time back while enjoying your vacation at the Advanced Academy. Our hotel is located in the heart of this historic city, away from the University of Virginia, Rotunda, and Lawn.

The convenient Main Street location gives you easy access to all the restaurants, shops, galleries and more. The fun will continue back at the hotel in our cafe and an outdoor bar. Maybe challenge your friends to a game of Foosball or Ping Pong in our game room.

3. Linden Row Inn

Linden Row Inn is an award-winning 70-room historic hotel located in the heart of Downtown Richmond. The hotel consists of seven-row houses built in the mid-1800s and carefully restored over the years.

Many of the hotel's guest rooms are furnished with antiques from the middle and late 1800s, and the hotel is proud to be featured on the National Register of Historic Places.

4. Comfort Inn Ballston

Enjoy a cozy combination of warm rooms, friendly service, and great facilities at the Comfort Inn Ballston hotel near Ballston Metro.

5. Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Winchester, VA

If you are looking for a family-friendly hotel in Winchester, look no further than Country Inn & Suites of Radisson, Winchester, VA. The rooms have a flat-screen TV, air conditioning, a fireplace and can be accessed online because free wifi is available, allowing you to rest and refresh easily.

6. Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Roanoke, VA

See why so many travelers make Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Roanoke, VA their hotels when they come to Roanoke. Offering an ideal blend of value, comfort, and convenience, it provides a family-friendly setting with a range of amenities designed for travelers like you.

You can enjoy relaxing rooms with flat-screen TVs and air conditioning, and you can stay connected during your stay as Roanoke Country Inn provides guests with free wifi. The hotel has a 24-hour front desk, outdoor furniture, and newspapers.

7. Best Western Williamsburg Historic District

The Best Western® Williamsburg History District Hotel is located where it all began! The hotel is within walking distance to Williamsburg Colony; two miles to Busch Gardens® Europe and Water Country USA®;

Just minutes to Jamestown and other attractions in the area. The College of William and Mary is less than two miles. Williamsburg Premium Outlets® is less than five miles.

8. Hampton Inn & Suites Richmond/Glenside

Located in the heart of the Richmond Virginia metropolitan area, the Hampton Inn and Suites Richmond / Glenside provide easy access to popular culture, sports, and entertainment attractions.

Spend a day at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts or the Confederacy Museum - all within five miles of our Richmond, VA hotel. Enjoy boating, canoeing, water skiing and fishing at the James and Appomattox rivers or thrilling rides at the Kings Dominion theme park.

9. Boar's Head Resort

Here, the border between the past and the future, between rest and play, between serenity and energy dissolves. Stay at Boar Head Game invites guests to explore our network of nature trails.

Play a round of golf at our Birdwood Golf Course or enjoy our state of the art club and racket. Refresh body and soul at our spa, then enjoy the fare at one of our delicious dining establishments.

10. The Mimslyn Inn

This refined Georgian Revival inn is only 3 minutes to the Luray Caverns, gardens and museum, and 10.6 miles from the Thornton Gap Entrance of Shenandoah National Park. Each of the 45 rooms has been individually decorated with relaxing tones, beautiful fabrics, rich patterns, classic furnishings, and modern amenities.

Bedding with knees provides special comfort. Large windows with natural light illuminate most rooms, allowing you to see the lively landscape of the outdoors.

More ideals for you: Top 10 Cheap Hotels in Louisville

From : https://wikitopx.com/hotels/top-10-cheap-hotels-in-virginia-711150.html

Another home illustration I did for Birdwood Games' upcoming board game about rehoming dogs called Forever Home!

Was lovely to paint so many warm, comfy scenes.