Via link-dowsing (it actually sort of counts as work, I was looking for visual references/ideas for illos) I came across this photo-essay on modern steampunk-inspired artists and artisans, which has some pretty cool pictures and links in it. You have to overlook the obnoxiously-patronizing tone of the text and the self-congratulatory cluelessness ( Read more... )

So another former bloody-handed dictator beloved of the Hegemony (State and Church) has managed to die in bed without answering on Earth for his crimes, agéd and coddled in house arrest with the best of medical care in exile, proving that crime most certainly can pay, if you do it on a grand enough scale. His death this way is meaningless - he wasn ( Read more... )

via Americablog, In the spirit of jmhm's Claude Raines Award -

Even Diem only claimed 98%(98.2 to be exact.) When our newly-approved, properly-Christian puppet overset the former handpicked puppet Bao Dai of the French-American alliance in Indochine (but still, as a scion of old royalty, preferred by locals, even if a sybaritic playboy something of a ( Read more... )