Monsters by Chauskoskis

By Chauskoskis's for a show at Dragatomi.

Plush Dungeons and Dragons monsters

By Travis Lampe.

Honest book titles

From the Better Book Titles Tumblr.

Link roundup

1. "The whole pretense of 'California casual' is a lie, and doesn't stand a chance when it comes to how seriously New Yorkers take their summers."

2. Propaganda presented straightfaced by NBC.

3. I decided not to get one, but threeA's very cool action portable JC figures are available right now - - approximately $60 each shipped to the USA.

"What followed the Reformation was, actually, the Counter-Reformation"

Freedom of information:

If the printing press did propel the Reformation, one of the biggest ideas it propelled was Luther’s newly invented absolutist anti-Semitism. And what followed the Reformation wasn’t the Enlightenment, a new era of openness and freely disseminated knowledge. What followed the Reformation was, actually, the Counter-Reformation, which used the same means—i.e., printed books—to spread ideas about what jerks the reformers were, and unleashed a hundred years of religious warfare. In the seventeen-fifties, more than two centuries later, Voltaire was still writing in a book about the horrors of those other books that urged burning men alive in auto-da-fé

Plush monsters by Travis Lampe

Plush beholder and owl bear by Travis Lampe for an upcoming show at Stranger Factory.

*Buy Travis Lampe toys at eBay.

Dishonored cosplay

Cosplayer from the Dishonored PAX party.