#1848

Busy crows. Caw caw; or, the chronicle of crows. 1848.

Alexander Von Bensa (Austrian, 1820–1902)

Yao from Guild Wars 2

"Just as a fun fact: this character is agender and uses neutral pronouns, which they took care to translate even in languages that do not have neutral pronouns by default. It was the first time I saw them being used on a non-indie game in my mother language so I'm very fond of the character as a result"

「焔は形を持たず、されど人はそれを祖国と呼ぶ。」

“the flame has no form, yet people call it their fatherland.”

I draw germania, or Germany in hetalia in ukiyoe style, after I tired hetalia France in Chinese Qing Dynasty art style, now I used the different mixes

his work can be read as a tribute to the Germania figure associated with the 1848 revolutions—the same allegorical image that presided over the Frankfurt Parliament. At the same time, it reflects on nationalism and the Romanticist fantasy of the medieval past. Germania, or this personified Behemoth, never lived through the medieval world; the armor he wears is therefore not a historical relic but a projection of nineteenth-century imagination. It no longer functions as armor in any practical sense and serves a purpose no different from the elaborate dress of a courtesan .