Ancient Queens, mostly Queens Regnant, made by Midjourney, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci. I’m pretty sure Midjourney got many of them horribly wrong.
1 Kubaba of Sumeria 2 Hatshepsut of Egypt 3 Nefertiti of Egypt 4 Elissa “Dido” of Carthage 5 Queen of Sheba 6 Semiramis of Assyria 7 Salomé Alexandra, Queen of Judea 8 Cleopatra VII of Egypt 9 Boudica of the Icenia, Britain 10 Zenobia of Palmyra 11 Medb of Connacht, Ireland 12 Empress Theodora
Cover art commission for an upcoming TTRPG book detailing 1000 fantasy drinks. It’s beautifully written and the creators put so much love into it—K!ckstarter here!
Thanks to @/httpaladin and @/clericalcleric for being so great to work with!!
so glad this is getting some hits; Chiron Star (and Erin Baumann, who sings on the track, and Jamie Price, who created the harmonies) all did amazing work.
this is my casual reminder that if you would like to download the full theme song version of Starship Iris, as well as an instrumental version if you feel like doing some karaoke, you can find them for sale for a very reasonable price on Chiron Star’s bandcamp here.
Chiron Star keeps a portion of the profit and he totally deserves it; he worked so hard and really created something special, I think. (The remainder of the proceeds go back towards making the show.) apologies if you’ve seen me link to this page a billion times, but I still periodically get people looking for a place they can download the theme song, and it is always a nice feeling to connect them up.
sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry
there is a disk. it is 12 inches in diameter, it is made of copper, plated with gold. there is an inscription— “To the makers of music – all worlds, all times” on its surface. it lies on the space probe, Voyager 1, launched in 1977, to explore interstellar space beyond our solar system.
it contains human existence.
116 images— the sun, the location of our solar system, mathematical and physical unit definitions, and our planets, including a blue and swirling white sphere simply labelled “Home.” it contains images of human dna, of our atoms, their structure, the way they divide, our anatomy, our conception, our birth.
it does not contain an image of war. nor of disease, nor poverty, nor crime, religion, or ideology.
it does contain a father looking lovingly at his daughter. it does contain the picture of a tree toad in a gentle hand, of a woman eating a grape at a supermarket.
the remainder of the disk is audio. a 90-minute selection of music from all over the world, sounds, and greetings. there are greetings in 55 different languages, one akkadian, spoken in sumer about six thousand years ago, and one wu, a modern chinese dialect. the greetings call out to a friend. it wishes them well. it asks them if they have eaten yet.
but it contains other sounds too. it holds the sound of rain, of thunder, of a volcano and an earthquake. it holds the sound of mud pots and trains. it holds the sound of a mother kissing her child.
with little to erode it in space, the golden record would probably outlast all human creation. it will be 40,000 years before it approaches another planetary system. if it does, it cannot find intelligent life. intelligent life will have to find it, retrieve it from where it floats silent and small through space. we still don’t know if they would understand it.
in 7.5 billion years, the evolution of the sun would burn the earth up, and we would not exist any longer, but the voyager would fly on, bearing a memory.
bearing a disk with a little inscription etched by hand on its surface.
