Illustration: Night King

"Night King" by Jack Nolan

Source: Reddit

Paintings: Cersei Lannister

Cersei Lannister by Isabel Madrigal

Photographed by Ninjaassassinguy

Source: Reddit

One of the Redditors notes "That dress has a similar colour scheme to Sheogorath's clothes from Shivering Isles. Fitting. Mad God, mad Queen."  Another remarks that, "It's a true mark of artisan quality when a painting of a fake queen from a fictional tv show makes you want to smack the shit out of the painting."  I have to agree with the last.  Cersei is far and away my favorite television character to root against... at least now that Joffrey is dead.

"You could be the king, but watch the queen conquer 👑 👑 👑 It only took me a year and a half but I finally finished a Queen Cersei painting?? Also someone come hang out with me please because I need something to do now that this is done"

Crafts: Stark Sigil

Stark Sigil made of Butterfly Wings by Kimburgly

Source: Imgur via Reddit

Yeah, pulling apart an animal to make a sigil feels more like a Bolton thing than a Stark thing, but who knows, maybe these butterflies failed to kill all the wolves. Still, this piece reminds me of that story about Orson Lanister, and I can't help but imagine the artist making "Kuh, Kuh, Kuh" sounds as she made it.

Mural: Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones Mural located in Melbourne, Australia

Photographed by Deceptacone

Source: Reddit

I love how universally adored this show is, but how much does it have to suck to dodge spoilers for an entire day until the show airs locally? Ugh.

Mural: Arya Stark

Arya Stark Mural located in Barcelona, Spain

Photographed by ElLoboBorracho

Source: Reddit

Wow, great mural.  Who gets to park in there?

No one.

Link Round-Up: July 28, 2017

"The King in the North" by Jorujam

Game of Thrones Fan Art. Pencil and charcoal on paper

The British Library has digitized Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook ('The Codex Arundel') and made 570 digitized images available online: The notebook of Leonardo da Vinci ('The Codex Arundel') is a collection of papers written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452, d. 1519), in his characteristic left-handed mirror-writing (reading from right to left), including diagrams, drawings and brief texts, covering a broad range of topics in science and art, as well as personal notes. The core of the notebook is a collection of materials that Leonardo describes as 'a collection without order, drawn from many papers, which I have copied here, hoping to arrange them later each in its place according to the subjects of which they treat' (f. 1r), a collection he began in the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli in Florence, in 1508. To this notebook has subsequently been added a number of other loose papers containing writing and diagrams produced by Leonardo throughout his career. Decoration: Numerous diagrams. More on Leonardo's notebooks from The Guardian's Jonathan Jones. [Via]

Built-in bookshelf wall with a hidden door: a step-by-step guide

Correlation vs causation taught by xkcd cartoons "Hill for the data scientist"

Dragon Hammer forged by Ilya Alexseyev of Man At Arms: Reforged.

Paintings: Because It Felt Good

"Because It Felt Good" by Inna Vjuzhanina

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I don't think there's ever been a character more fun to hate than Cersei Lannister.  You root for her to get her comeuppance, then you root for her to get her revenge.  In this portrait Vjuzhanina catches everyone's favorite villainess in a moment of quite introspection, looking every inch the evil queen.