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notre dame is burning.

this is ok.

it has happened before. it will happen again. it has been lost before. it will be lost again. and again. and again. and again. art and architecture are transient, and temporary, and 850 years may seem like a lot to the individual, who will live maybe 100 if they are very lucky and very healthy, but even the pyramids at saqqara have only existed for about 6000 years and that’s still not all that much, if you consider the grand scheme of things.

yes, this is terrible. as someone who is deeply religious and literally a professional historian with a focus on art and architecture, this is terrible. im mourning. im gutted. im horrified and upset and miserable. but.

it’s not over.

victor hugo wrote hunchback because notre dame du paris was in the process of collapsing and falling apart, and revitalized the entire world’s focus and love for this church, and that was not even 200 years ago. it led to it being renovated.

the roof has fallen in. the scars of fires are on its buttresses. the rose window has fallen out. the beams and piers have collapsed. the spire has toppled. the stones have suffered, and will suffer again, but it is not gone.

renovation work is essential. sometimes things collapse and burn and break and have to come back. it’s not a terrorist attack, it’s renovation, an accident, but we have so much evidence, history, carefully documented everything on one of the most studied places in the world.

it’s not the end.

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“I don’t know when I decided my cats talk like Victorian orphans but I’m liking it.”

By Hannah Hillam

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Twelve standard Dungeons & Dragons player character backstories:

Heroic fighter for truth, justice, and killing bad guys and taking their stuff

Dwarf dwarfing dwarfily something something dwarfdom

On the run from the law due to a harmless misunderstanding in which eight people died

Bad gambling debts with the actual Devil

Likes swords a little too much

Traveller from a far-away land whose particulars don’t really matter because it’s mostly an excuse to put on an outrageous accent

Just, like, really hates their dad

Member of a group that seemingly consists entirely of kind-hearted loner rebels against a nebulously oppressive status quo

Unjustly persecuted for the trivial peccadillo of eating people’s faces

Evil in theory

Novella-length tale of tragedy and intrigue that’s somehow never relevant in actual play

Hoping no one notices they lifted their backstory from a Naruto character

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Me: I want to draw something breathtaking

My brain, in its infinite wisdom: Ferret, but longer

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i’m so sorry

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reloading about 30 hours back in enderal because you found out its possible to save someone

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Tharael: at least if I die there will be no one to mourn me. a clean cut, if you will

Prophet: DING DONG YOU ARE WRONG!

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Replaying Enderal because Forgotten Stories DLC is out is one of the most conflicting things I’ve ever did.

On one hand, I get to experience the amazing story Enderal has, travel with Calia and Jespar again + all the new content FS brought us

On the other hand though, I know where the story is going and I. DON’T. LIKE. IT.

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Ok since this is my side blog designed for reblogs and personal bs

I JUST MET THARAÊL AND THATS A TRUE VOICE PORN

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let’s stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them

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Oh yeah, I love Tolkien’s books. The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and…*reads smudged writing on hand* The Salmon Riot?

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i’m saving my brain for special occasions. if i use it every day it’ll get dirty

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The abandoned Mys Aniva Lighthouse, Sakhalin Island, Russia. Built in 1939 by Japanese engineer Miura Shinobu, it was reclaimed by the Soviet Union after WW2 and turned into an autonomous nuclear-powered lighthouse. It’s said to be still radioactive today.

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Imagine doing this in front of a 14th century peasant

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Jan Skrzetuski: The stars look beautiful tonight

Jurko Bohun: Yes, they do

Jan: But do you know what else is beautiful?

Both: Helena.

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Maitimo (pre-hand incident)

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