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Let's irresponsibly breed a dog together!

Share as much as possible that dog gotta be atrocious by the end of the week

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Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

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Tourists near cabins on lake Issyk-Kul (Kirghizia, 1970s)

#kyrgyzstan #photography

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Kyrgyzstan, Scott Turner.

#kyrgyzstan #photography #mountains

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Джамиля (1969) dir. Irina Poplavskaya

#dzhamilya #film #kyrgyzstan

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You know what fantasy stories don't use enough? Different measuring scales, and confusion caused by them. Because before the metric system, practically every place and culture had their own measures for weights, lengths and distances. It would be fun to add that into a story for added realistic cultural confusion.

The average dwarf is four or five feet tall, but not in human measures. Yeah they're still shorter than humans but the dwarf foot (and the namesake measure of length) is bigger in proportion to their body. "Is that in dwarf feet or human feet?" is a common question to hear on construction sites, wherever human carpenters and dwarf masons are working together.

A dedicated local Common Misconception Historian has a pet peeve about the whole "princess Featherblade was only 12 years old when she led the attack on Marshland Halls" -myth, because the historical recordings on the human side are off. While she was remarkably young, that myth came about back in the day when humans were still trying to apply "dog years" to elves, and in an elven life span, 120 years is not a direct equivalent to a 12-year-old human.

A whole culture whose smallest unit of weight loosely translates to "about as much as an apple", and varies from region to region depending on the size of local apples. These people are famed for their alchemists, whose uncanny ability to simply measure their ingredients by heart, making their recipes essentially impossible to replicate. This famed skill is a matter of survivor bias - the ones that don't have that knack ten to explode into fine mist.

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«The Bliss of Girlhood» (Блаженство девичества)

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Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Silueta Series, Iowa) 

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Agnes Varda, por Martine Franck

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#furniture #interior design #FAVOURITE

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Tourists near cabins on lake Issyk-Kul (Kirghizia, 1970s)

#Kyrzgyzstan

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Aiperi Medet (Kygyzstan) techs Adeline Gray (USA) 10-0 - 2024 Zagreb Open

#😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳 #women

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#polymestor goes with his sons into death but then is dragged back...#killers like clytemnestra and orestes take their victims into death and leave them there#the origin point of these thoughts is actually oedipus at colonus#but VERY much hecuba and all three electra plays and the classic sophoclean *she exits silently into the house to kill herself*#also the way phaedra and hippolytus invert each other in death and directionality#it'd be interesting to do antigone with a setting switch during the choral ode where she does her own lament#so that the skene becomes the cave where she's imprisoned and then turns back into the palace for the last scene

keep thinking now about the idea of the ancient greek stage building as a doorway into death, which is separated from the stage (the space of the living) by the screen of the skene. cassandra calls it as much ("the gates of hades") when she enters the house of atreus. by convention characters cannot die on stage but must exit, usually into the skene, to be killed. cassandra's just extra explicit about it because of her foresight, but every entry into the stage building is a step into death. and then some people come back out of it!!!

#classics

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Harald Sohlberg

Havfruen. 1897

#harald sohlberg #norge #art #water

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Harald Sohlberg

Fisherman's Cottage

1906

#harald sohlberg #art #norge #a northern country

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Claire Tabouret’s Hand-Painted Home

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Harald Sohlberg - The Mermaid (1896-98)

#harald sohlberg #art #norge #a northern country