Catillest: Hooray for Heraldry: catillest:
Like many overstimulated media junkies of the 21st century, I can’t travel anywhere without my iPod. Equally stimulating and vital for my commutes is a book. My eyes, ears and brain all need some kind of co…
Alona’s Amtgard: Heraldry Basics (Shields): alonatwotrees:
So, the basics.
For me, the very first part of designing heraldry, is designing the shield, or escutcheon. This is the one I use currently, it is simple, it is clean, and it does not have any …
margoism:
nevver: Literary Devices
“There is a fantastic description of a crowd scene by one of the Russian journalists of the 19th Century. The Czar had a military parade outside of Moscow in a large open field. As a big crowd gathered there the army started to hand out some free bre…
“Only then did we dare go in without attacking the crumbling walls of reinforced stone, as the more resolute had wished, and without using oxbows to knock the main door off its hinges, as others had proposed, because all that was needed was for someo…
“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn’t write down what he has learned and experienced, that which he carries within him will pe…
“Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn’t write down what he has learned and experienced, that which he carries within him will pe…
“When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can’t be answered.” – Ryszard Kapuscinski
“When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can’t be answered.” – Ryszard Kapuscinski
“…in our dreams we do not think differently, we remember differently.” – John Lukacs
