Well, keep in mind that Tyrion doesn’t exist yet when Tywin pulls off the Rains of Castamere….
Kevan and Tygett make sense, although there may have been some pushback that Tywin’s actions were radically skirting the rule of law as-is, so when you’re publicly arguing (to the king) that you’re acting to restore law and order, massacring people and taking their land to give to your younger siblings is not that convincing.
At the same time, Tywin seems to have been very jealous of Casterly Rock’s power and wealth – while Kevan and Tygett were taken care of as befits a Lannister, there’s no cadet branch, no gift of land or a holdfast. Instead, Tywin gives them rewards that keep them under his thumb and retains all the wealth and power for himself.
The Grand Canal is something of an outlier, both because of its immense length (1,115 miles) and because because it involved the construction of summit-level canals (i.e, canals that rise and then fall, in order to connect two separate river valleys) rather than simple lateral canals (which have a continual fall).
But it’s not like there weren’t canals built in the Middle Ages outside of China. You have the Fossa Carolina, which Charlesmagne had built to link the Rhine to the Danube: the Glastonbury Canal which dates back to the 11th century, the Navigilio Grande which was built to connect Milan to the Ticino river in the late 12-13th centuries, and the Stecknitz Canal build in the 14th century.
So in terms of whether canal building is feasible in Westeros, it depends on how long and/or complicated the canals are built.
Felt a bit padded, imo. Also, not super into the idea that Batman can’t be happy and be Batman, or that being married means you can’t be a superhero, which is a bit of a thing with DC.
But then again, I seem to be something of an outlier with Tom King, in that I only seem to like his stuff half as often as other people.
In your economic development plans, you mention multiple infrastructural, technical and financial reforms to farming. However a issue that seems to have gone largely unmentioned is the process of Land Reform. Unreformed land practices mean you can’t easily or quickly implement new innovations, due to the land being fragmented or held in common. So it seems a Enclosure or something similar should be a major part of any plan. But of course they come with some nasty social issues to address.
I would take exception to the argument that land being evenly distributed or held in common would necessarily prevent innovations in agriculture. Rather, it would simply require different forms of social coordination – a lot of medieval agriculture was coordinated through manorial courts, for example.
As for the guilds:
That certainly is the picture of guilds that we get from Adam Smith et al., but whether that’s the whole story is another question. The guilds, as I have written, primarily existed to ensure a balance between labor supply and labor demand that would allow for their members to earn a living wage. Whether that’s viewed as stifling trade depends on one’s position vis-a-vis labor supply and labor demand: it’s certainly to the advantage of the merchant that there be as many weavers as possible, but that’s not to the advantage of the weavers, if they’re underemployed and poorly paid as a result.
Indeed, when it comes to the long-run of economic development, I don’t think you get the critical mass of skilled workers, especially skilled workers with capital, one needs to kick off a commercial and later industrial revolution without a guild system to train and protect them, especially in the fledging phases of development. This last part becomes particularly clear when you see how often guild masters become merchants and industrialists themselves, once again in the early phases of economic development.
Finally, economic development and the development of capitalists are not the same objective.
when you don’t do a warm up and go straight into lineart and your hand does the thing
Thats a sign of inflammation of the wrist called carpel tunnel . I had surgery because it got so bad I couldn’t draw anymore.
Yikes D8.
That’s why it’s so important to do stretches and draw with your whole arm (ok, arguably hard with a tablet versus a big gorgeous easel) and etc but I forgot today bc I am a moron and it was great
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people warm up to draw? like… how?
not an artists but climbing hand and lower arm exercises;
trying to find more and better diagrams for other stretches but yeah it’s super important if your gonna be using your arms a lot.
Adding this important video for all the artists out there, take care of your hands ♥
This is good for me as well, pipetting can cause the same kind of problem
Worked really well for me, when cane usage started to give me RSI.
Took a second to get my hands on it, because Comixology is bad at carrying over subscriptions when teams change, but yeah, I have some thoughts.
So far, it reminds me a lot of Brubaker’s run, that emphasis on the paranoid thriller style.
The two main threads of the issue are:
Cap and Bucky working together to try to shut down “HYDRA nostalgics” while dealing with “resisters with shady pasts” who’ve got a foothold in the new government, what with Thaddeus Ross hiring Sharon Carter on the one hand, but also suggestion that Selene’s in the U.S government and Von Strucker somehow managed to get himself on the good list.
Bringing Russia into the HYDRA narrative with Selene (the former Black Queen of the Hellfire Club) liberating a mysterious Alexa in Russia, demonstrating how Russia reacted to HYDRA’s world conquest and their more hardcore attitude to the aftermath.
Not quite sure how they link together in the end, with the exception of Selene being both active in Russia and in the U.S government, and the way that the issue frames Steve’s street level helping ordinary people against Selene’s exemplary punishment of a HYDRA holdout.
I’d say what I liked best in the issue is the Cap and Bucky rapport, the perspectives of the two of them as “a warrior who hates war” (which makes sense for a man who’s made a shield his signature weapon) vs. someone “who’d seen the worst of human nature” and knows how to take the shot in the meantime.
The cyborg Nukes being used as “lone gunmen” on the National Mall are certainly a scary thought, and combined with the discussion of protesters and counter-protesters, very much getting a “ripped from the headlines” vibe out of that particular plotline.
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