Not-so-secret-Viking

Slytherin, fire nation, House Targaryen, Dark age/early medieval re-enactor, 2nd year History and Theology student. An Englishman that prefers coffee? MADNESS! I normally follow back everyone when I can, but if it looks like a spam blog or a primarily inactive one I wont

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Taken by Chris Doyle Photography at Sherwood Pines 2018

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Taken by Chris Doyle Photography, at Newark Castle 2018. 

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Only day you can do this

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so cute

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the age old tale

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oh my god…

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12th century round-tower Timahoe, Co Laois, Ireland

Source 

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Oxford

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Nicole is going to steal your fucking organs

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Get Out (2017)

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Literally o my god wtf Nicole

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... I'm tempted...

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Hendrik Maarten Krabbé  (1868–1931) - Military Men - ca. 1900

Hendrik Maarten Krabbé, or Heinrich Martin Krabbé (4 May 1868, London - 22 December 1931, Amsterdam) was a Dutch genre artist and portrait painter.

i always thought it was funny how in the lord of the rings sam and frodo head out and after awhile sam’s like “mr. frodo if i take one more step this is the farthest from the shire ive ever been” and then a ways after they meet up with merry and pippin on their daily vegetable run like jesus christ sam get out of the house once in awhile

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Okay to be fair Sam is a working class dude with a physical job who lives on the west side of the Shire while Merry and Pippin are spoiled rich kids with loads of leisure time who live a decent ways further east so cut the guy a break he carries the One Ring to Mount Doom when Frodo can’t and does not deserve this kind of talk. 

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im here for this tolkien callout culture

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Folding fan of Empress Maria Feodorovna C. 1867 Austria

© The State Hermitage Museum

Materials: Wood, silk carved and painted to imitate the Lily Of the Valley leaves and flowers. 

Веер деревянный, с резными раскрашенными пластинами в виде цветов и листьев ландыша.

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Having a go at filling it in

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And a silly attempt at a flower, no pattern. Still just trying to get used to it. Cotton thread on cotton.

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So i recently decided to pick up embroidery, this is just dicking about with some scrap wool gettig used to the stitches.

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pop culture intertextuality is just so damn *fascinating*

today a parody movie (50 shades of black) comes out, based on the 50 shades of grey movie, which was based on the 50 shades book, which was based on twilight, which was somewhat based on interview with the vampire (which anne rice based on an earlier short story she wrote), which was based on Dracula and other vampire stories, which originally came from Dr. John Polidori’s The Vampyre (even though Vampires were a thing in folk tales before then, he was the one who made them all classy, etc.)

so really, like so many things, this is all Lord Byron’s fault.

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“Kelpie” by Johan Egerkrans

The Kelpie is the supernatural shape-shifting water horse that haunts the rivers and streams of Scotland. It is probably one of the best known of Scottish water spirits and is often mistakenly thought to haunt lochs, which are the reserve of the Each Uisge.

The creature could take many forms and had an insatiable appetite for humans; its most common guise was that of a beautiful tame horse standing by the riverside - a tempting ride for a weary traveler. Anybody foolish enough to mount the horse - perhaps a stranger unaware of the local traditions - would find themselves in dire peril, as the horse would rear and charge headlong into the deepest part of the water, submerging with a noise like thunder to the travelers watery grave. The Kelpie was also said to warn of impending storms by wailing and howling, which would carry on through the tempest. This association with thunder - the sound its tail makes as it submerges under water - and storms, may be related to ancient worship of river and weather deities by the ancient Celts, although this is difficult to substantiate.