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Robyn. 31. Wellesley '17. Brooklyn. White. they/them/theirs. Librarian attempting to be creative. Currently immersed in Solavellan hell.

[wibblyrlin]

florence welch photographed by lillie eiger

[yourkillingfloor]

Very important clip actually

[televisionenjoyer]

CAPTAIN JANEWAY JUST SAID RPF IS FINE???

[televisionenjoyer]

I'm crying she basically just said

[fanlore-wiki]

In case you didn't know, RPF is short for Real Person Fiction, see the Fanlore page for more information. And while you're there, maybe also check out the Fanlore page for Kathryn Janeway.

[so-you-melted-22]

The fact that we have a desert in Germany still freaks me out. Like this should not be, but it is.

[green8fang]

You can’t just post something like that without telling us where. I want to visit the German desert! 

[so-you-melted-22]

It’s somewhere in Brandenburg in the general area of Cottbus

[itsyveinthesky]

The Lieberos Heath lies about 20 kilometres north of Cottbus in Lower Lusatia. In 1994 it was transferred from the Bundeswehr to the state of Brandenburg and became a nature reserve, fauna-flora habitat and European bird sanctuary. The biodiversity that can be found here is enormous. Today pines, heather and dry grasses lie quietly in the landscape on 25,000 hectares that was a former military training area.

Within the heath we have the desert everyone is talking about. The Lieberos Desert, also known (also just “desert” or “LIttle Siberia”) is a sandy open area of about five square kilometres within the Lieberos Heath.

As late as 1992, many a commuter travelling between Lieberose and Peitz had to stop on the main road. Russian forces were holding their manoeuvres and the road went right through the tank firing range. At least it was closed before the shooting. The area had been a military training ground much earlier. The Nazis had big plans for the Lieberos Heath. When the Waffen-SS began to build up its personnel at the end of 1942, they needed accommodation and training sites. For this reason, the SS Kurmark training area was to be expanded. Forced labourers from all over Europe and concentration camp prisoners arrived in the region. Jamlitz, Groß Muckrow, Chossewitz Ullersdorf and 13 other villages were to be forcibly resettled.

The Lieberos Desert was also created during this time. The cause was a large forest fire that left 1700 hectares of bare land behind. Decades of military use, rolling tanks and transport convoys ensured that the open terrain was preserved. At a good five square kilometres in size, it is still the largest desert area in Germany today.

The grandstand on General Hill was built for the Waffenbrüderschaft manoeuvre in 1970, when 50,000 soldiers from the Warsaw Pact countries moved through the desert and heathland. Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Soviet Union’s party and state, and Erich Honecker watched the spectacle from there. The Russian forces left in 1992. But the traces of the military are far from gone. Thousands of hectares of the area are considered contaminated with munitions. This makes it difficult to extinguish forest fires. The paths leading through parts of the area are safe. In the Sukzessionspar you can wanter through nature and see how it is slowly returning.

At first, mosses and grass grow in the desert sand, small pines and birches advance further and further. The desert becomes steppe, later the pioneer forest becomes a mixed forest. And the animals come back. Spiders and insects, even the Italian grasshopper have already been sighted. Eagles circle overhead, wolf packs feel undisturbed. Inf fact this is where the wolf first returned to Germany, the first pups on German soild were born in the Lieberos Desert. Moose also come over for a visit from Poland.

[ilikemarthajones]

A small correction: the first wolves born in Germany after they resettled here weren’t born in the Lieberose Heath, but the Muskau Heath.

[tired-biscuit]

you know that trope where it’s princess + knight, but they’ve both been captured by the bad guys and the princess is now gripped by the jaw by the villain, receiving a thin cut to her cheek while remaining completely still with a defiant look in her eyes even as a droplet of blood begins to trickle out of the wound, all while 3 people AT THE VERY LEAST need to have their hands locked on the knight because he’s thrashing around like a wild animal, trying so so so desperately, violently, to get to her?

yeah, that’s porn to me.

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aaaaa omg a coworker just came to my desk like "oh, you changed your name? me too, look!--" and pointed out her badge and then her ringless hand and gleefully announced, "divorce!!" and we exchanged congratulations and fist bumped djdnsnjs best interaction of my entire transition

[noahbaumbachmaritalstatus]

STATUS: DIVORCED (POSITIVE)

[socialistexan]

[fontana-michael]

Why Peter Cushing is my favorite Van Helsing:

Everyone loves a distinguished old man in a Victorian get up.

He decides punching Dracula in the face is a strategy worth at least attempting. Every other Van Helsing portrayal I’ve seen tries to go after Dracula with an assortment of paranormal weapons, but Cushing’s Van Helsing isn’t afraid to throw hands when that fails or he drops whatever religious item is protecting him.

He’s always the most competent figure in any Dracula film.

When he gets bit in Brides of Dracula, Van Helsing decides cauterizing the bitemarks with a hot iron is a brilliant idea and then just throws holy water on it like it’s nothing.

It’s Peter Cushing.

[cykelops]

another history making marvel post I never see anyone talk about is “so is nobody helping blade kill all those vampires”

[cykelops]

found it

[skippyisntfunny]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

Pulitzer Prize type shit

[wizardshark]

Why's this dude built like crash bandicoot

[spooky-narwhal]

Everything about this damn post is so funny to me. The lighting of the arm from the flash. The posing of the arm like a dramatic death from a novella. The fact the photo somehow got taken still and looks this good. The subreddit name. The fact this guy really is built like crash bandicoot

[importantcatpics]

[stoatviet-union]

[pomrania]

Major human pastimes:

frying dough

classifying things and then arguing about the classifications

[afloweroutofstone]

[zoesupreme]

Christopher Nolan almost allows colors into his mythical epic shot on 70mm IMAX film. thank god they stopped filming in time.

[depsidase]

[holy0ak6-deactivated20240421]

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via bree newsome bass on twitter: 

“The widely circulated timeline created by @Zerflin does a great job in showing how recently slavery & segregation occurred & that they lasted longer than the modern era. 

“I'd like to offer this timeline as another way of viewing the same period of history to show the constancy of both Black resistance in US & efforts of the white power structure to maintain racial caste since 1619.”

https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/986427881680228354

[isuggestrevolution]

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