#ring forts

[blackcrowing]

This is honestly a bit of an embarrassing question, but I've always had a hard time picturing ring forts and when I google them I find things like this

but in the mythologies like the Ulster cycle, Emain Macha is supposed to be huge (relatively speaking) I'd imagine it housed... idk at least 100 maybe up to 500 people in total. So I'm still having a hard time picturing THAT ring fort...

So I guess my question here is does anyone have some reconstructed pictures that would show a ring fort that large or can explain a little better how a whole community would look in a ring fort? All these pictures that I've found look like single farm/family sized

#ring forts #irish #ireland #iron age #archeology

[emilybeemartin]

Just to tie in my two themes this month----

Additional notes, because poll options apparently limit their characters:

Frodo finds great peace in watching the tides rise and fall throughout each day. He attends all the ranger programs on birds and seashells and fills pages with sketches and poetry.

Sam meticulously selects postcards in the gift shop for each of his friends and spends a whole morning writing and addressing them. He also buys Junior Ranger hats for his kids and a variety of Appalachian jams for Rosie.

Park rangers launch a Missing Person search for Aragorn when they realize his car's been parked at Avalanche Creek for three days. The search runs for almost a week before he comes strolling out the opposite side of the park, supporting one of the SAR techs who twisted an ankle during the search.

Legolas is first drawn to Olympic for the towering, mossy temperate rainforests, but the ground goes out from under him when he steps onto Second Beach for the first time. He spends an entire day watching the light and tides shift on the sea stacks, and he leaves feeling both full and hollow, like a bell that's just been rung.

Mammoth is only Gimli's first stop on a cavern tour, followed by Jewel and Wind Caves and Carlsbad Caverns. Wind Cave is his favorite for the unusual formations. He makes an obnoxious tween boy cry in Carlsbad for breaking off a speleothem.

Boromir is on a tour of military parks. He asks so many questions to the intern working the info station at Fort Sumter the kid has to go find the park historian. His favorite site is Vicksburg because that place was buckwild, though he silently judges one of the reenactors for his clumsy handling of a black powder rifle.

Merry also makes stops in Jurassic and Dinosaur National Monuments. He watches every park video, takes selfies in front of all the fossil exhibits, and earns his Junior Ranger badge at each one. He buys a keychain for Pippin.

Pippin actually gets four citations, mostly for trying to stick his hands in mud pots. He doesn't mean anything by it---he's just so delighted and curious about the bizarre landscape. He winds up with several thermal burns and dumps a king's ransom in the donation box on his last day.

Gandalf gets dinged by rangers for not paying the $5 fee for Trunk Bay, but he acts senile until they eventually decide to drop it. He gets postcards from everyone and responds to none of them.

Faramir and Eowyn are traveling together and do many of the same hikes and rides, but they do have some different preferences off-trail. Eowyn drags Faramir to a rodeo and the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson Hole, and he goads her into Ranger Shelton Johnson's living history programs on the Buffalo Soldiers in Yosemite.

Eomer is bike-packing on his sport cruiser motorcycle. He goes to Roosevelt south unit for the wild horse herds but ends up spending half a day watching a prairie dog town. He takes 400 photos of them, mostly blurry, and texts them to Eowyn.

#i actually did legit trip planning for this post #whats my choice? #I'm the ranger in Yellowstone who keeps finding Pippin putting his face in the goddamn paint pots #during office hours I follow the updates of the SAR in Glacier #after that I catch up with Faramir in Teton to hike Paintbrush Divide and casually ask what his brother's up to #oh he's going to be at Fort Laramie next week? #you don't say #when I get back to YELL I put in for emergency days off #do i give a damn about Fort Laramie? no #lord of the rings #lotr #frodo #sam #aragorn #legolas #gimli #boromir #merry #pippin #gandalf #eowyn #faramir #eomer #national parks #31 days of national parks

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

a slightly scribbly Eddie for @akemima's promptlist, day one - cool outfit! well, i don't know if its Cool, but it sure is an outfit!

#mannnnn i forgot jewelry existed... could have slapped on some cute rings or earrings... #i forgor... outfits are not my forte... it shows in my choice of daily clothes as well... #i also didn't realize i didn't give him a full body until i was pretty much done so. No! Oopsies! #drawing eddie continues to be comforting and yet a total pain in the ass! #i love him! i hope he goes Through it! i hope he Dies Traumatically! i say this Every Time! #but yes cute prompt list. excited to do more #slowly though... writers brain perseveres rn... #scribble garnish #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #eddie dear #looking directly at the drag prompt. yes please yes please #eddie in drag is everything to me she's so gorgeous. augh. ough #i must find the perfect Dress...

[bird-inacage]

A Prapaisky Gifset | Parallels: First Meeting (LITA EP8) VS Wedding Day (Wedding Plan EP1)

Look at just how far our babies have come🥹 From Prapai callously reaching out to touch Sky without his permission and Sky immediately stopping him - to Prapai gently cradling Sky's hand in his own and kissing it reverently as Sky watches on.

#LITA #love in the air #love in the air series #wedding plan #wedding plan the series #prapaisky #paisky #prapai x sky #sky x prapai #prapaisky the wedding #fortpeat #fort thitipong #peat wasuthorn #pai kissing sky's hand after he put a ring on it #UGGGHHHH the feels

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Gold Ring with Greek Openwork Inscription ('The Love Token Of Polemius'), Corbridge Roman Town Museum, Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

#roman #roman army #roman style #roman metalwork #roman living #roman fort #roman culture #romans #roman empire #roman design #roman britain #gold jewellery #gold ring #ancient living #ancient culture #ancient craft #metalwork #archaeology #hadrians wall #relic #Corbridge

[toomanyassassins]

the more I think about the mutiny at Terror Camp, the funnier it becomes. like... that was only their second stop. imagine you are on a road trip across the continent, you make it to your second hotel of the journey, and suddenly everyone is pulling guns on each other, one of your team leaders got stabbed in an arby's parking lot, the guy you hired to keep everyone safe is now openly mutinying with some rat guy who wasn't even supposed to be on the trip in the first place, and now you've ordered both of those guys to be hanged for their crimes. your dog is dead, the rat guy ate it. one of your other team leaders gets lost and almost immediately starts chewing on his shoes. the rat guy took your only doctor. several people got mauled by a bear.

and it's only. the second. week. of travel.

#looking at where terror camp wouldve been on a map versus how far away fort resolution is #like in lord of the rings terms they haven't even made it passed the outskirts of hobbiton #'if I take one more step it'll be the farthest from home ive ever been' *immediately gets mauled by bear* #terror meme #the terror amc

[katyahina]

Ranni's two sisters (if not cousins?)

It is not just my thoughts, but more like three people discussing the ideas hahah. So, @swallowtail-ageha brought to me the idea that the name of the towers deeper in Caria Manor, The Three Sisters, could be not quite a fancy architecture name, but refer to actual sisters, given the description of Carian Filigreed Crest that we get from Iji:

The way it is specified here that Ranni is Rennala's daughter makes it feel as though other princesses were not, so they could have instead been daughters of Rennala's siblings! I will get to the possible interpretations, but I just want to bring up something interesting that I think makes it even more likely that specifically TWO other princesses existed! When I heard the suggestion about there having BEEN three sisters, I instantly remembered this bit:

Besides a 'normal' Mausoleum, in Liurnia, there are interesting two Mausoleums pretty close to each other geographically, that are unique compared to others! You probably remember them - they do not have a bell underneath but they can leap like frogs, they do not have any spirits around, and they can ONLY duplicate the ashes of the bosses that aren't shard-bearing demigods:

^ Like that, same character (thanks @val-of-the-north for all these screenshots). And there are no other Mausoleums like that.

So, yeah, Ranni once having had two sisters would likely mean that they were not contenders for the throne, as there were no extra sits resorted for them in Leyendell. But this could be more than same fate as those demigods / shard bearers who "failed" Marika. Like, think about it! There are two Mausoleums in Liurnia, that still was a domain of Carians at some point, which behave "downgraded" compared to others, whereas normally Mausoleums are where fallen/failed demigods got buried:

With how these Mausoleums are, it seems like people that are buried in them are not demigods / had no shard, yet still were important enough to earn a burial of this type? And like... would not that make sense if 'being important enough' was being related to the royal family?

I am not entirely sure why they would have no shards themselves? This is where variants really start to split! @swallowtail-ageha suggested that merely being Radagon's child was not all yet to be one, and I can see that! This is actually the full idea:

^ These are ALSO very good points! These Mausoleums are for those who died during Night of the Black Knives, so I agree that whatever the reason for them to (very likely) lack shards is, they died that night too.

And back to the reasoning, me and @val-of-the-north were also discussing the potential ideas of either 'sisters' being actually cousins or Rennala being divorced twice, hah..

The cousins idea would defeat the purpose of the name Three Sisters, sort of, unless you could say it meant 'sisterhood' of princesses. The Japanese name is スリーシスターズ (Surīshisutāzu), like... you can already see that it is English name, simply English 'three sisters' written in Japanese with syllables, rather than Japanese words used. And in English language, sisters could mean not just literal! (Japanese script found in this ( x ) document). What works with it is not just description of Carian Filigreed Crest refering to Ranni being Rennala's daughter as the unique thing, but also Renalla herself showing unambigiously special feelings towards her! It is harder to say a lot about the idea that Rennala had someone before Radagon, it could have happened under pressure of having had a heir, and so the first divorce (or maybe even more likely, loss) did not break Rennala like Radagon leaving did, since she didn't love that previous person? It just leaves even more things to work with- not exactly a bad thing if you love writing many headcanons!

And as for these variants, it made both me and Val think of a guy that might have been relevant:

On the portraits we see Rennala, Azur, Lusat, the conjoined twins guys, (very likely) Sellen and... this guy. Honestly? Could have been not actually a simp really devoted scholar in Raya Lucaria that delved deep into Moon stuff, but Rennala's brother! The royal family basically took over Raya Lucaria, and considering Moon worthy as much as the Stars was specifically what they brought into it! But Azur and Lusat, teachers of Sellen, have been very important already, since the former direction of the academy is connected to them. At the same time, their associated colors are turquoise and blue, whereas Twinsage crown features the same colors both, and Sellen... well, she knew Azur and Lusat, and has been around long enough to deeply resent how much academia has changed. All things considered, she was equally important to the twins before getting banished. The remaining guy behind Lazuli Conspectus sticks out in comparison... unless he tagged along WITH Rennala when she took over the academy!

And yeah, alternatively, he could have just been her previous husband, that was more just a tool under pressure of having heirs; she took over Raya Lucaria before marrying Radagon, and maybe something just happened with that guy, which did not effect her very much since she didn't feel anything for him. A little bad look though.. unless there was a plot twist of Radagon murdering the guy but it was one of the things wiped from collective consciousness with Celestial Dew, and that's why nobody seems to mind? Perception filter! I am not sure with which idea I agree more myself 🤔 But yeah, if the third person is involved, I'd say it had to be this guy - father of the other two "sisters"... Whether they'd be actually cousins or actually half-sisters.

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So yeah, these are the thoughts! Sorry that was probably a little chaotic, Elden Ring theories are totally not my forte compared with BB ones! It is just that Swallowtail activated my brainrot with that suggestion and I instantly had something to add to that, hahah;

#elden ring #elden ring theory #elden ring observation #lunar princess ranni #rennala queen of the full moon #not art #text post #pfffft #yet again i do not really know which version to pick? #but Radagon seeing Rennala being already married and going 'no you aren't' is morbidly hilarious dshfhs #again ER is not my forte but I needed to get this all out #damn if DLC comes out and we actually have two other princesses mentioned I'll throw myself into a window /pos

[sandros-travel-blog]

Cahergal Stone Fort, Ring of Kerry, Ireland

#cahergal stone fort #ring of kerry #ireland #roadtrip

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Serana, drinking: I feel something. A slight tingle in my fingers. I think it's affecting me.

Gunmar, also drinking, voice slurred: What did I say? She can't hold her liquor!

Gunmar: *passes out* *faceplants the table"

Serana:

Serama: Game over.

Sorine Jurard: lol

#serana #volkihar vampire #vampires #fort dawnguard #dawnguard #sorine jurard #gunmar #nerevar queue and star #incorrect quotes #incorrect elder scrolls #incorrect skyrim quotes #tes #the elder scrolls #skyrim #the elder scrolls v: skyrim #source: the lord of the rings

[elfsroot]

"By river you have the chance of outrunning the enemy to the Falls of Rauros."

#The Lord of the Rings #lotr #lotrgifs #aragorn #celeborn #movie: the lord of the rings #character: celeborn #character: aragorn #mine: lotr #mine: gifs #not the most glorious return to gif-ing cause my photoshop kept crashing and this coloring is horrendous #blue-ish scenes definitely aren't my forte #but i refused to give up #i felt like celeborn needed some love

[boysbeloving]

don't think about kinn's ring....

don't think about how kinn's ring would press hard and cold against porsche's entrance while kinn fingers him...how it would bruise porsche's skin a bit...how kinn would shift it a bit so that it goes in and comes out of porsche to give extra friction...how (once he's done prepping porsche) kinn turns the ring to the inside of his finger and then proceeds to pump porsche....how it would rub along the length...how it would add pressure to the vein making porsche arch his back off of the bed...how kinn would gather the pre.come on his ring and then suck it excruciatingly slowly....making a show out of it all while maintaining eye contact with porsche....how kinn then feeds 2 of his fingers to porsche to suck on and porsche swirls his tongue around kinn's ring in his mouth, tasting himself and kinn...how kinn then drags his wet fingers down porsche's chest...the ring leaving a wet trail...how the ring would rub against porsche's hard nipples....how kinn would keep doing it till porsche's nipples are rubbed red and over sensitive...

and when kinn lies down next to porsche to go to bed after a particularly tiring night, he raises his hand to get a good look at his ring.....the ring which has been a symbol of responsibilities he didn't ask for, a burden that sits so heavy on his finger, a reminder to be a boss before a human, a crystallisation of the expectations placed on him....kinn thinks this ring has finally found its purpose as he looks at porsche's blissed out face on the pillow next to his....kinn kisses the ring and presses it softly on porsche's cheek and dozes off next to the love of his life

but don't think about it okay 🙃

(other things not to think about x x )

#kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #kinn theerapanyakul #porsche pachara #kinnporsche la forte #bl series #bl drama #kinnporsche drabble #is it though? does it qualify? anyway...just my feelings #kinn's ring means a lot to me....as you can tell #'do you see the ring on my finger??!!' yes bb i do now put it to good use #kinnporsche fic prompt #idk if the kp fandom writers do drabble challenges or prompt challenges #if anyone decides to anything with this then please let me know! please please

[fayeandknight]

Forte is typically a pretty quiet dog. Aside from singing his sad song to remind me to eat lunch/it's his turn to train, he doesn't vocalize much.

But last week I switched to a ball reward at agility practice and came prepared with one he is particularly fond of this week.

On our first run he actually complained at me for being late with cues. It's interesting to me because he doesn't really do that for food rewards, despite his love of cheese. On the next run I tried to cue him sooner and I thought he was paying more attention to me.

Afterwards a classmate came up to us and said he'd noticed that Forte was making a bigger effort than usual to look to me for cues and that I was being clearer with my body language. Basically complimenting us on improving our teamwork. He said it's subtle but as someone who runs collies of various flavors (both border and bearded) he wanted to point it out because it took him years to figure out with his first dog.

It's so cool to be on this journey with him and makes me appreciate having Forte as my teammate.

#dogblr #forte #belgian tervuren #dog agility #Forte is so much fun #but does feel like racing with a Ferrari #so grateful i have handling experience with a slower dog first #not that Faye was a slouch in the ring #but i feel like i wouldn't have made the progress as a handler i have #without working with a slower dog first

[thistoowillpasss]

#elden ring #this lady is behind fort faroth #I forget she is there but yeah. just ponders the sea. doesn't even sing. mutters a word sometimes

[theconqueeror]

should I watch Motherland Fort Salem?

also do recommend fantasy shows with sapphics or female leads

#waiting on gf to finish with her Willow and Rings of Power but I want something else to watch while i wait #motherland fort salem

[bird-inacage]

Wedding Plan | EP3 Behind the Scenes: Wedding Rings

Now I don't want to be greedy but can we have some scenes of them holding hands with their rings on? Or playing with each other's rings whilst holding each other's said hands? (I love that shit). Please?

If not.. I might have to write that shit.

#wedding plan #wedding plan the series #love in the air #love in the air series #prapaisky #paisky #prapai x sky #sky x prapai #fortpeat #fort thitipong #peat wasuthorn #if you don't ask you don't get #and im asking you BL gods #give us more (ring focused) cameos please

[kj4ta]

Ring-billed Gull Juvenile

#ring billed gull #photographers on tumblr #seagull #beach #fort lauderdale #original photographers #kj4ta