ameliaearharts:

skirts, guns, and boots → songs for a rogue band of female airship pirates [listen | cover art credit]

song of sophia dead can dance | snake song isobel campbell and mark lanegan | ninety-niners bear mccreary | big bar fight greg edmonson | fix the boat or swim abney park | when the chips are down anais mitchell | ben heals the girl jeff beal | flowers of red hill tempest | haven andre fratto and leah siegel | the ballad of black jack jezebel the clockwork dolls | ain’t no grave crooked still | voyage dans la lune | jo blankenburg | london, 1856 walid feghali

The Great Sept of Baelor

mildlyamused:

_{Dagger owned by Princess Adile Sultana (1825-1898)}

The frilly pink-ness of this murder weapon appeals to my soul.

understructure:

The Royal Palace of Portici, Italy by wamcclung

mizufae:

i hope the key looks like a fish or a rabbit or something

paramaline:

paratactician:

gnarville:

Mouse Armor

Summon my Bannermice. The blood of our extremely small ancestors cries out for vengeance.

#this seems like a thing Flan would like

YOU UNDERSTAND ME

theoddmentemporium:

The Ethiopian Caterpillar

Thought to date back as far as 1820, this incredible pre-electronic mechanical robot was made by Swiss watchmaker Henri Maillardet for sale to aristocratic Chinese buyers. The rare gold, enamel, jewel and pearl-set automaton mimics the gracious undulating caterpillar’s crawl with a clockwork powered mechanism which drives a pair of gilt-metal knurled wheels.

The body is realistically designed to represent a caterpillar comprising eleven jointed ring segments, framed by seed pearls, and decorated with translucent red enamel over an engine-turned ground, studded overall with gold-set rubies, turquoise, emeralds,and diamonds. The underside is decorated with champlevé black enamel. When the automaton movement is engaged, the caterpillar crawls realistically, its body moving up and down simulating the undulations of a caterpillar by means of a set of gilt-metal knurled wheels. The automata work is composed of a barrel, cam and two leavers all working together to create the crawling motion.

Born 1745, Maillardet was a Swiss mechanician who worked in London producing clocks and other mechanisms, including various automata, including a famous set depicting magicians and others which could write in French and English. When one was presented to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute in 1928 it was of unknown origin; but once restored to working order, the robot itself provided the answer by penning the words ‘written by the automaton of Maillardet’.

You can watch a video of the caterpillar in action here.

scrapscallion:

acidarmor:

Lie Sang Bong F/W 2009

For those interested in the detail

OH MY FUCKING GOD