And who can tell you what Andalusada is?

My blog for writing hard-boiled dieselpulp adventure in a Moorish alternate history.

[ancienthistoryart]

Giant mosaic called "Tree of Life" on the floor of the palace built by the Umayyad Caliph Hisham bin Abdulmalik in Jericho, Palestine.

[brucebocchi]

[brucebocchi]

the third word in the tweet negates the possibility of this being elon musk

[memewhore]

[transmortifried]

bootyshorts with this printed on them

[uncle-cazador]

[eric-coldfire]

"You give up a few things, chasing a dream."

[xphilosoraptorx]

You wouldn't get this on other websites

[cipheramnesia]

Because other websites didn't ban OSHA.

[brassmanticore]

Residents of Tunisia’s rock hewn houses

Reuters photographer Zohra Bensemra recently spent time in southern Tunisia’s Djebel Dahar region, where locals have lived in underground homes for centuries. […]  Reuters reports that fewer of these underground homes are now used, with some falling into disrepair: “In recent decades, rural depopulation has meant fewer people live in the homes, which are composed of rooms hewn into the walls of an excavated circular courtyard. The few remaining families say they are attached to the homes and the land or see no way of moving.” 

The Atlantic 

Reuters

[shabbytigers]

“Trump could be a moderating force on Bolsonaro”

hottest take ever in the history of the world, seen on reddit while waiting at the register to pay for a tired sandwich so I can eat a 3:45 pm lunch

[breha]

honor ursula k. le guin in 2018 by envisioning a world free of borders and capitalism and also with some sick wizards, maybe a spaceship

[yidquotes]

[magpiesthree-deactivated2018121]

Complete list of what I want from Ravnica

[charlesoberonn]

I made this last night and forgot to upload it

[hellatrans]

Hey peeps I’m in a tough situation right now. I’m unemployed and struggling with mental health issues. I have zero money besides from whatever I make on my etsy store. Today I discovered my dad who I live with has just been given his 2 weeks notice and will soon be unemployed also. We may face the very real possibility of eviction which leaves me with nowhere to live in this city. For me to claim centrelink disability payment I need to have psychology appointments that I can’t afford. I also need to find a new trans friendly psych that is within my distance (neither me or my dad have our own car and I don’t even have a drivers license anyway). I have 2 cats that I also need to keep fed as well as myself and have bills I need to pay. I hate asking but please if you can you can help me by buying something from my Etsy store or giving to my PayPal.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/thepaintslap

Or if you would like to send money to my PayPal please message me.

[westfailia-deactivated20240822]

having a constitutional monarchy in my experience is basically the equivalent of having a celebrity be head of state and when they die their kid becomes the new celebrity head of state and everyone takes it super seriously despite this being an obvious waste of time, money and effort.

[meg-elle]

Ethereal 

Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, Spain 

[perplexingly]

Muslim knight with her Slavic love

[coyote-696]

Complete list of Leipzig University magical manuscripts (links)

Due to Joseph Peterson s amazing generosity with information I found out about one of the most ...

This is an incredible collection 

[thedesertgod-deactivated2020013]

This dude doing God’s work

[theologay]

fiction media i want

quirky/surreal sitcom with a prominent snarky will they wont they wlw subplot

thriller novels that dont valorize pigs

rollicking adventure-fantasy/scifi novels in which much of the plot hinges on religion

ne noir movies with lesbian main characters

dark comedy movies with lesbian main characters

[andalusada]

Why is Prussia partitioned, and then partitioned again?

Holy Prussia was partitioned the first time because it was developing a familiar Prussian militarism, convinced it could do no wrong, and had pissed off most of its neighbors.

The Second Partition of Prussia was because Holy Prussia responded to the First Partition rather poorly.

[andalusada]

"Umayyad Seville has just won the Nine Years’ War. (And more importantly lost the peace, but that’s for another ask.)" Here it is, another ask.

Status quo before the Nine Years’ War:

France controls a large swathe of Alaxia, bordering on both English and Scottish colonies

Franco-Scottish alliance vs. a historic Anglo-Moorish alliance

Caribbean hotly contested

During the Nine Years’ War:

A convoluted succession issue ends with the union of England and Scotland

France cedes most of its Alaxian territories to Seville

The net result is that the Moorish Empire was left vastly overextended, with a lot of very poorly-defined borders competing with a unified England-Scotland that no longer needed the Moors as a counterweight against France.

Which in turn meant that none of the other colonial powers in Europe needed an alliance with Moorish Spain, which definitely didn’t help when it collapsed 50 years later.