🐙

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

This post is spreading and I feel bad about it because it contains misinformation, so for the record: Ludwig II did not in fact have infinite discretionary funds. He only acted as if he did. He never dipped into the public coffers for his building projects, but he spent his own fortune extravagantly and borrowed heavily from everyone he could think of. By 1885, the year before his death, he was 14 million marks in debt.

[insomniac-arrest]

~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

[centrally-unplanned]

I always find this inspiring because try to name another prince of a German state. What did the rulers of Hamberg do? The Grand Duchy of Hesse? Gone with the wind, no one knows them anymore. But Mad Lad Ludwig built a top 5 most famous castle in the entire world. Money is fake, castles are real. Go broke and die like a winner.

[the-barefoot-hatter]

EXCUSE ME, this is still wrong. He built 3.

Neuschwanstein, literally the inspo for the castles in Disney's Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

Hohenschwangau, the practical castle

Linderhof, the final, the smallest, and the MOST fab.

Every room is incredible and the park is beautiful, but shoutout to The Bedroom, the biggest room

The Hall of Mirrors, which he probably wandered by candle light because he was a serious night owl

The Dining Room, with a wishing table that lowers to the kitchen, and rises with a crank, returning magically full of food

The Venus Grotto, constructed for the sole use of Ludwig to larp to his heart's content

A full artificial cave, it features a waterfall, fake stalactites, and a custom-designed swan boat floating on an artificial lake. The first electricity in Bavaria was generated here, to change the colors of the stage lights and to power Ludwig's fountain and wave machine.

Now THAT'S ~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

[marzipanandminutiae]

I love that- and I cannot emphasize this enough -none of this was tax money

the public paid for zero of his fairytale castle hobby

rare European monarch W as far as spending money lavishly goes

[bookthief404]

Literally exactly what I would do

[beroebluejeans]

Whenever I am thinking very hard about The Locked Tomb, I find it important to remind myself Tamsyn Muir did compare the series to the KFC Double Down.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/muir_interview/

[cheetopuffpaws]

Never NOT reblogging this every time I come across it

[bookthief404]

tell me about the fork regret

Prongs were far too long and the curve too deep 😔

[bookthief404]

Instant fork choice regret

[bookthief404]

No matter who a person is.

No matter how intimidating or proud.

They are all equally as gormless when they dont know where the bagging area of the self scan is.

[bookthief404]

Standing outside with my colleagues who vape and taking a drag of my yogurt pouch

[bookthief404]

I actually dont care what happens after I die i just really really wanna spectate the immediate aftermath. Like pleeaaasee I wanna see people's reactions. I live for the drama, lemme see what people do, how im found etc I wanna know so bad

[bookthief404]

Actually ashamed im a customer sometimes those people are so annoying

[bookthief404]

When I feel sleep rising up to wrap its warm embrace around me I feel like I'm sinking into it, literally. I can feel the moment it happens and it is one of my favourite feelings. It is made so much better by your presence. I adore holding you and sometimes I crave it when I am alone. I want nothing more than to be surrounded by warm and sinking into it with absolute willingness.

Sonverb 6 15 15 12

[bookthief404]

~The Tibinator~

You might think the Tibinator quibbles too much, But I've observed interesting habits that go as such:

On Saturdays they may dripple - just a little here and there, They love to catch plugners and let them play in their hair.

Sundays call for scrounging up scoundrels for sport, Then snorting snaflax and smelling of all sorts.

Between Sunday and Monday they're bemellowing in gaps, (It's for bismirching gloors and mumping tax.)

But Monday to Thursday is a different story, Severe brishdaw and brawling always ends in glory.

On Friday the Tibinator finally slows down, They galumph, skiddadle, pabot and clown.

Let this be a story that holds real girth, And exists to remind that there's no life without mirth.

[bookthief404]

so much of my life is spent tidying

[bookthief404]

Cute, subtle Halloween decor 🥰

[spiribia]

we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

[ferrettoy]

this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber

[m0thmancore]

hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction

[ferrettoy]

the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip

[mmhue]

THEY CAN REST NOW

[dungeonclown]

ye murph spectrum

(he who makes my favorite characters. and cody is there)

[sootchild]

Ep 20 Ragenarok pt 2

I had one more drawing in me that needed to be done.

Ep 1 || Ep 20 ||

[bookthief404]

If I eat these dry biscuits will they soak up the liquid in my bladder because I can’t be bothered to get up to go to the toilet.