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Cot Valley is a magical place that feels a world away from the hustle of modern life. This beautiful valley even has its own micro-climate. As you walk down towards the V of blue sea enclosed by the valley walls, a stream winds it way beside the road, through sub-tropical plants and past ancient tin…
via The Prehistoric beach of Porth Nanven Cove — The Cornish Bird
The world of patron saints is a murky one. Job descriptions are hazy, the hiring process is opaque, job security’s nonexistent, and conflicts of interest are so much a part of the system that it’ll take a revolution to get rid of them. Take England’s patron saint, George–or St. George as he prefers to be […]
We’ve all heard the stories. Unsuspecting travellers on some dark, remote road being led astray by strange lights, false paths or mysterious strangers and becoming hopelessly lost. The Cornish call it being piskie-led, (it often happens on the way home from the pub) and there are certain paths that were once famous for such misadventures.…
I have been writing Steam Punk for years. My hero has an airship and this article has been very interesting to me both to add realism to my story and just for historical interest. Of course, my heroes airship has giraffe nets…just in case.
Lately I’ve had a huge interest in steampunk and a huge part of steampunk is airships. Today we shall learn all about the parts of an airship. It’s been a while since I’ve done a glossary post so here it is!
Steampunk Airship
First the three classes:
Rigid: This include ships like the Hindenburg and have an internal frame that holds a series of gas-filled bags. They are usually long and bullet shaped, often greater than 360 ft.
Semi-rigid: Instead of an internal frame, a semi-rigid airship uses a long metal keel that runs the length of the inside belly of the envelope. The Norge Italia is a good example and if you look closely in the picture you can see where the keel is attached to the envelope.
Non-rigid: Now the most common modern airship, this class includes the blimps, like the Goodyear blimp. These are less expensive than…
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This is a fascinating image. It shows a rabbit in the role of a noble. He is riding with his hawk as any noble would but this is absurd.
First of all the noble is replaced with a rabbit. Rabbits are an easy subject for anthropomorphic fantasies. In the modern day, we can think of Brer Rabbit, Peter Rabbit and Buggs Bunny so I suspect this character, long lost in the midst of time, is of the same ken.
Just like Buggs Bunny and Peter Rabbit he has turned the tables on his hunter. He is riding a hunting dog like a pony. In this next image, the rabbit is thuming his nose, the classic insult from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at a dog hanging from a tree. Clearly, the Medievals enjoyed as much as we do the reversal of fortune between the hunter and hunted. Remember the black humour of those poachers being eaten by lions.
I suspect that the rabbit heroes were also representative of the class struggles of the Medieval town in the same way that Raynard the Fox represented the struggles of a good man living in an evil time. The black pleasure of the evil henchman being tricked into a difficult situation by his greed.
The absurdity of the image is completed by the hawk. Complete with glove the rabbit is going hawking with a snail. The speed, grace, and beauty of the falcon replaced by the slimy, slow and clumsy earthbound snail.
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