An interesting design for a Millennium Falcon sized freighter that doesn't look like the Millennium Falcon.
I dunno what this is, but isn't it dramatic?
A Star Wars Old Republic space battle.
Friendly neighborhood Spider-man...
I love Dacians and their falces. Or falxes? Not sure which is the better plural form. Truly one of the forgotten great barbarian populations of Europe; forgotten because they don't have obvious successors like the Germanic and Celtic peoples did, sadly. Although they lost their culture, they are probably among the core of the population that later emerged as Romanian, though—after getting washed over by a major wave of Romanization. The original Dacians were probably more "Nordic" than the Romanians are today.
For what it's worth, I do also subscribe to the idea that the Dacians and Thracians were likely very closely related genetically, culturally and linguistically, although given the paucity of evidence for all of the above, that's a dicey subject. I tend to see the Dacians as Thracians that pull Celtic in terms of culture because of the waves of earlier Celtic tribes who washed over the region. I also like, although I don't find it tenable given what we know so far, the notion that Thraco-Dacian might have been related to Balto-Slavic. Anyway, keep in mind that Pliny and Strabo both tie the Dacians and Thracians together, often via the Getae, saying that they speak "the same language" even though they obviously all three had different identities.
On either Phobos or Deimos. Love the gigantic surface of Mars looming as the whole sky.
Speaking of Mars, this Michael Whelan picture of Thuvia and her banth has always been one of my favorites.
When you like Darth Maul, but you can't use Darth Maul exactly, you get something sorta like this.
I like futuristic military vehicles. And who said tanks needed to have treads anyway? I mean, I'm sure that there's a perfectly valid engineering reason why we went with them instead of big tires, but I like this look.
When the hounds of Tindalos come for you because you're crazy. Or something.
I think I often forget about using Classic Mythology in my work, unfortunately. I should use it more.
This was, in my opinion, the obvious best series of Lin Carter, a kind of faux Barsoom. That doesn't mean that it was great, just that it was his best. It petered out near the end, but it had several good short novels in it before that happened.
An alternate Mandalorian design.
John Colter, one of Lewis & Clark's guys, and a total awesome fellow.
A very stylized, yet awesom picture of the Monkey King, somehow suspending himself on the end of his staff.
Another of my favorite Burroughs covers, this time by the legend, Frank Frazetta himself. This time, the cover for the Mood Maid.
A somewhat more macho version of the duel between Morgoth and Fingolfin than I usually imagine it. But cool.
I just like this image. I remind myself frequently that my fantasy is as informed by horror as a genre as it is by classic high fantasy or even sword & sorcery tropes.
Some cool Warhammer artwork of the Mortarch of Grief being commissioned, or whatever, by Nagash himself. I do with that they'd return to the original Warhammer setting, though. Even when they have cool ideas for this new setting, the context that they're in just doesn't do it for me.
An illustration of the city of The Mountains of Madness.
A vampire devolved into a feral, bestial state.
A fascinating alternative design for the Emperor's Throne room, with a kind of samurai fantasy vibe.
Anothe Frazetta cover for another Burroughs novel, this time The Mucker. Again with the samurai.
I do also really enjoy this kind of pseudo-realistic old school positive thinking hoorah America kind of science fiction art, too. Even though I normally am not quite sure what to do with it, because relatively near future harder science fiction that isn't dystopian or neo-cyberpunk can be fun to read or watch on occasion, but I don't do any of it myself.
I dunno. A foo tiger or something. Whatever, it's a cool image.
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