Origin: As a first name: British, Old English, Old French. As a surname: Irish, English, Scottish.
Meaning: Bailiff (an officer of justice); City fortification; Berry clearing; Berry wood
Notes: A neutral name that "is often associated with strength and stability. As the steward of a castle, a bailey was a person who was responsible for the safety and security of the castle and its inhabitants. They were strong leaders who were trusted to keep the castle running smoothly and to protect it from invaders." (Source)
"Its alternate elements are “beg,” meaning “berry,” and “leah” meaning “wood/clearing/meadow.” It was and continues to be a surname, as well." (source)
Alternative spellings for this name are Bailee, Baileigh, Bailie, Baillee, Baillie, Baily, Baley, Baylee, Bayley and Bayly.
So I'm slowly getting back into sci-fi (and Azimov's books specifically) and I gotta know if the fandom is present here (I charm ye tumbler to show me the content).
Also, I remember that when I was first reading the Robot series I didn't really understood the whole R. Daneel Olivaw hype, cuz I was genuinely in love with Elijah Baley. Later in the series I understood why people like him so much, but he still was on the third place for me, cuz R. Giskard Reventlov appeared and took the second place. Detective Baley is still my fav tho, even up to this day
Mock covers I designed and partially illustrated +AI
Actually all of these were for The Caves of Steel, I just decided to pop another title on for the heck of it. If it were The Naked Sun, the Spacer worlds wouldn’t so densely populated, and they'd be wearing more foreign clothing.
Plain artwork without text:
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thinking about daneel's "go, and sin no more" today. thinking about how young he was in that book and how that was probably the first time it was left totally up to him how to reprimand someone's behavior (i.e., whether to punish or forgive the crime at hand). do y'all think fastolfe knew that by putting daneel in charge of the murder investigation he'd allow daneel the chance to learn how to show mercy? do you think he could have guessed it would be because daneel met some shaking chihuahua of a man, and that said man permanently changed how daneel saw humanity and emotions? do y'all ever think about how elijah was daneel's first glimpse into a world of spiritual healing, conflicting actions, and trusting someone to do the right thing for the betterment of the people around them? and what that says about the way spacers exist compared to earthen culture, and how for a society that claims to value their robots as equals, it took an agoraphobic, bigoted earther to teach daneel how to forgive? to allow daneel to recognize when someone had wronged him and his family? to acknowledge that daneel would likely be handling the loss of sarton for the rest of his life? and that the most healing action sometimes isn't the obvious choice? cause uh. i'm thinking about it.
It is still my headcanon that when they first kissed Daneel forgot to close his eyes. He sort of knew about the earth’s custom but he wasn’t able to process that in time XD (also Lije was kinda drunk)