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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Having this tiny blog that was never intended to be perceived at all do just that, and to a pretty noticeable degree, kinda throws me for a loop lmao.
This is mostly just a place for my ramblings and to collect stuff I think is cool, but I'm glad y'all seem to like it too :)
Ooh reminds me of this "matcha bun" I ran into on google ages ago
My brother had lost the right to mock my deeply unwise vending machine purchase because he's spending his weekend driving to Iowa to buy a 1954 Cadillac limousine.
He doesn't have an explanation for this other than the fact that it's cool. And honestly, that's a pretty compelling argument
Oh good, he's named it.
He got her and she's gargantuan
THE BIG is home!!
Update: brother says: tell your internet people- I’ve been making the car shiny and it is COOL.
He's correct. This is excellent.
I left my brother unattended he traded the little corvair next to THE BIG for this thing. I think he's building an armada
He is casting spell of car repair on it, I think.
Brother has been left unattended and has gotten himself a 1970 Cadillac DeVille.
And now it just needs a plate!
Other options are LONNNG and LOMMMG.
it should definitely be
LOMG
LONNNG
LOMMMG
Couldn't think of what else to do with the outside of the house for a minute, but I think I have an idea for the next poll!
Front yard material
grass & shrubs
gravel & potted plants
sand & desert plants
moss garden
concrete w/ water features
Assrou N'Swoul counterweight veil pendants made of brass, iron and copper are received by a girl as a gift from her mother. Their size indicates the wealth of the girl’s family.
The method of laminating used on these pendants is known as the “sandwich” technique, which involves very time consuming and delicate work by the Mauritanian smiths. From: Africa Online Museum; Niger; Tuareg Wedding and Bianou Celebration.
alright, door poll time. Heavily edited a chart, but it gets my point across well enough
which door?
wooden door
glass door
sliding door
steel door
french door
panel door
patio (style) door
screen door
bamboo door
barn door
pocket door
louvered door
Why is trying to find a proper visual chart for exterior door types such actual bullshit :/ especially on mobile
Let's pick some windows! Gotta have a little light 🌤🪟
which window shape?
rectangle
archtop
circletop
quarter circle
gothic
ellipse
rounded rectangle
pentagon
trapezoid
napoleon top
I'll add however many feel right for each outside wall, we're just gonna figure out a good shape here
they really don't make Bigass Cabinet For Computer anymore. we were at the used furniture warehouse the other day & they had so many. that's the way things should be. lock away that wretched machine when you're done looking at it
Lock That Fucking Thang Up
We need a new generation of cabinet makers to update the design for these things. Or maybe figure out how to passively cool them.
The secret is to drill holes in the side of that panel that encloses the tower. Mine has holes there and it's fine most of the time except the dead heat of summer. I do want to add more holes.
Or replace the side panels by the tower with metal mesh. It’ll increase airflow and give the cabinet an updated industrial/rustic look.
Porcupine-Fish Helmet from Kiribati, c.1800-1880 CE: this helmet was crafted from the carcass of a porcupine-fish
This helmet was made using the skin of a porcupine-fish that was killed and then carefully dried. The front edge is lined with vegetable fiber and human hair, and it's equipped with coconut-fiber ties that were used to fasten the helmet onto the wearer's head.
Above: another porcupine-fish helmet from Kiribati
Helmets with this design are also known as te barantauti, and they were created as part of a traditional costume that was worn by the warriors of Kiribati (an island nation located in the South Pacific). Most of the surviving examples date back to the mid-1800s.
Above: a porcupine-fish helmet displayed with a high-backed cuirass, wrist-guard, and spear, c.1800s CE
Te barantauti were typically worn with body armor that was crafted from coconut-fiber and stingray skin, along with braided wrist-guards covered in shark's teeth, high-backed cuirasses, and wooden swords, spears, and daggers studded with stingray spines and shark's teeth.
Above: wrist-guards and cuirasses from Kiribati, c.1800-1880 CE
In some cases, the warrior's helmet was crafted from coconut-fiber instead. The same material was also used to construct sleeves, belts, and "overalls" that effectively covered the rest of the body.
Above: a coconut-fiber helmet with a full set of armor
The porcupine-fish helmets provided very little protection -- they were primarily created and used as a way to intimidate enemies during ritual combat.
As this article explains:
The men of Kiribati were famed for their fierceness, and when it came time for battle, they dressed the part, in head-to-toe armor made from coconut fiber and stingray skin. Their weapons were wooden swords lined with sharks’ teeth.
The crown jewel of Kiribati armor, though, was a spiky helmet made from the porcupinefish. A member of the blowfish family, a porcupinefish looks like an adorable big-eyed cartoon character—until it’s threatened. Then, it sucks water into a cavity between its body and skin and inflates to several times its normal size, stiffening the spines that usually lie flat.
Porcupinefish helmets, known as te barantauti, were made by capturing one of these agitated, puffed-up porcupinefish, killing it, peeling the skin away from the body, and drying it. The spiny skin that remained was reinforced with coconut-fiber padding and fashioned into a brittle helmet.
Though the helmets offered little in the way of actual protection, they instantly made their wearers appear bigger, taller, and more formidable.
For Kiribati warriors, this intimidation was more important than protection from death. That’s because in traditional Kiribati culture, a person who took someone’s life—even in a fair fight—paid with their most prized resource: their land. So instead of going for the kill, warriors sought to wound and humiliate their enemy. Fish-skin and coconut-fiber offered just the right amount of protection.
Above: a shark-tooth spear from Kiribati, c.1800s CE
Unfortunately, most of the surviving helmets, weapons, and pieces of armor are now housed in Western museums:
Over the years, dozens of these helmets made their way into museums across the globe, while few remain in Kiribati. The Smithsonian actually has three, the British Museum five, and Sweden’s Världskulturmuseerna “at least eight,” according to their digitization curator Magnus Johansson. One te barantauti even wound up at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, in the tiny town of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Over the last four decades, since Kiribati gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1979, the armor has taken on a new meaning—as a potent symbol of local culture. It features on tourist trinkets, but also stamps and school mascots. “The armor is not just a garment to me,” says Rareti Ataniberu, an I-Kiribati craftswoman. “It is a piece of art, a craft.”
Above: an armored warrior from Kiribati, mid-1800s
Sources & More Info:
Hakai Magazine: Kiribati’s Porcupine-Fish Helmets were More about Drama than Defense
Atlas Obscura: The Mystery of the Puffer-Fish Helmets of Kiribati
Pacific Presences: Fighting Fibres: Kiribati Armour and Museum Collections
Time Magazine: Why Indigenous Artifacts Should be Returned to Indigenous Communities
The Museum of New Zealand: Te tauti from Kiribati
The Museum of New Zealand: Rere (Knife or Short Sword) from Kiribati
The British Museum: Porcupine-Fish Helmet
Alright, back to making a house! Let's pick a style of roof.
which roof shape?
Gambrel
Mansard
Saltbox
Pyramid
Skillion & Lean-To
Flat
Shed
Butterfly
Open Gable
Boxed Gable
Dormer
M Shaped
here's how to make a cigarette advent calendar for the best gift 🚬🎄
Ah right lol, I forgot we were doing this thing
House poll #4
number of stories?
1
2
3
We won't be too silly with it, don't wanna overwhelm myself with too many rooms to draw
Alright, so since both wood and brick are tied for the walls on the last poll, I guess we'll do a combo! Which honestly sounds adorable, this is gonna be a real nice house :)
Next question though, House Poll #3
Should we paint the exterior?
yes, but just the wood
yes, but just the bricks
yes, both
no
If any of the yes options win, we'll pick the color next. But for right now let's just decide if we wanna do it at all
what color for the wood?
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
purple
pink
black
white
The bricks will probably be red, but I'm open to the suggestion of a different color! Lemme know in the tags or replies!
