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mothecho

They should invent a way to sit hunched over doing crafts that is Good for your body

messierobject65

Me, by Vuillard

#I got old #without noticing #now it's too late #still pretty comfy #edouard vuillard

thefloatingstone

Do you ever think about Doggerland?

Like how fucked up is it that it’s just….. gone.

I tend to forget about it and then when I remember it again I’m like “Oh yeah! There’s like an entire country sized stretch of land that’s just fucking GONE.

well…. “gone”….

thefloatingstone

Things I have learned since making this post;

The running theory (I can’t remember if it was definitive proof or not but I try not to make concrete statements on history any more) is that what caused the sinking of Doggerland was not the slow heating up of the Earth leading to a gradual melting of ice and snow causing the rise of the ocean….

What flooded Doggerland was a massive fucking CHUNK of Norway FELL INTO THE OCEAN and it caused the largest tsunami we have physical evidence for on earth and it fucking flooded Doggerland IN ONE SINGULAR DAY with a rush of water so strong, large and powerful it literally had the force to rip people to shreds when it hit them

kedreeva

Doggerland on Wikipedia

brightwanderer

I do think about Doggerland, fairly frequently! And I feel it’s important to point out that its disappearance absolutely was because of “the slow heating up of the Earth leading to a gradual melting of ice and snow causing the rise of the ocean”. By the time of the tsunami, the land area would already have been reduced to a handful of small islands.

In general, a true tsunami (caused by displaced water) is never going to permanently submerge an area of land, because the water displacement is temporary and it will return to where it came from (causing huge damage on the way, of course). However, with islands that were already barely above sea-level, it’s definitely possible that such a huge inundation just obliterated their topsoil and left them below water level.

It’s hard to say, though, because the end of the last Ice Age was a wild time for water moving around and getting into places it shouldn’t. In particular, as the glaciers melted you’d often get huge meltwater lakes forming behind dams of ice and rubble which might then burst, suddenly dumping nearly inconceivable amounts of water all over the downstream terrain. One of these bodies of water, Lake Agassiz in North America, was so huge that it covered multiple states, and it’s thought that it drained very suddenly into the Atlantic ocean about 8000 years ago (i.e. contemporary with the flooding of Doggerland), dumping so much water into the ocean that global sea levels rose 1-2m over the course of a couple of years.

And if you’re wondering - yes, it’s theorised that this event, or the combination of the others like it, was responsible for the flood myths that exist in so many cultures. Coastal and lowland settlements around the world would have found themselves in a period of time where the sea just kept rising - not overnight, but inexorably and seemingly without any end in sight. Many, many cultures would have retreated to higher ground, only to find a few months later that the water was once more lapping at their doors. In some ways I find that even more profoundly terrifying than the idea of a wall of water sweeping everything away.

loving-n0t-heyting

Has everyone seen xkcd Time?

You should probably see xkcd Time

http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/mobile/

xkcd Time - at your own pace

o-craven-canto

That’s not the only case!

That region had tropical climate, even at the peak of the last glaciation. There could have been a thriving agricultural civilization in those bygone river valleys 10,000 years before it started all over again in the Near East, and we wouldn’t know.

cansomebodytellmewhatsgoingon

Oh, dude, the amount of outburst floods that happened at the end of or during the Pleistocene is OBSCENE. The Altai Floods, which created giant ripple currents like sixty feet tall. The Black Sea Deluge Hypothesis, which could explain the lack of Paleolithic sites on Turkey’s northern coast because they all drowned. The Missoula Floods. The Missoula Floods. Floods with the height of skyscrapers that would hit you like a truck going down the highway. Floods that were 50x more river flow than the Amazon and happened in an area 38x smaller. Floods that happened SO often and were SO strong that they literally created the Channeled Scablands and is partially why the area isn’t very forested because all the topsoil got scrubbed away.

And don’t even get me started on the Zanclean Flood, because WOW

pied-piper-pluto

Someone else might have already mentioned Some Facts About Doggerland, a piece of writing that gives me huge emotions every time I read it, but if not please enjoy!

mumblingsage

To fellow Doggerland fans, I also want to shout out Julia Blackburn’s Time Songs: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land.

mumblingsage

In honor of this post coming back around on my dashboard, here are more maps of Doggerland through the ages, from Barry Cunliffe’s Europe Between the Oceans.

stupidusernamepolicy

At the bottom of the Adriatic Sea there are remnants of roads from the Stone Age

messierobject65

I have a long-standing historical fantasy about learning what the inhabitants called their location, long before written records and absent any extant markings. "Doggerland" is pretty compelling; it rolls off the tongue, it describes a sunken land by the boats that trolled the shallow waters, but it wasn't what the people named their fields of roaming mastodons.

#history #time machine #map of the world

punishedsaints

#welches in the wild #jellly farm

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi

I'm not a gatekeeper so yall. the best thrift stores are the ones that look bad. do not go to cool trendy thrift stores with hot alt twenty-something employees. (I mean you can if you want but enjoy paying $40 for a fuckass shirt.)

here's what you actually want in a thrift store:

in a rich town

run by a church

staffed exclusively by little old ladies

most of the clothes will be butt ugly. but they will also be 1) good quality and 2) cheap af. the 70 year olds running the shop think a thrifted shirt should be $3 and they are correct. everyone else shopping there is over the age of 45 so you won't have to throat punch any depop resellers over a cunty little top. you will get hyped up by old ladies and if you frequent the same shop they may start trying to set you up with their grandkids. everyone wins and who knows their grandkids might be hot.

messierobject65

Bonus good if it's connected to a food pantry.

#tree of life #blue hill maine

writers-solace

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

messierobject65

This is why my fiction always includes high-functioning HR departments.

#tolkien getting leave time for his PTSD

a-mel0n

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

messierobject65

I have so many mutuals from the internet I had to go look them up and count years and my goodness they're a lot.

#internet pact #internet pack

busket

he's gonna die one day soon and it wont fix everything but it'll feel great and the whole world is gonna fucking party together

busket

no it applies to one man and you know exactly who I'm talking about

messierobject65

I just listened to a sober and detailed discussion of the demands on US infrastructure for this event that can be anticipated, but not assigned a date. It was fascinating.

#sewer capacity #crowds in the street #spontaneous parades #cult members shooting people #who knows

aviantastic

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

fluentisonus

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

cryptidofthecove

fleurdelis221b

BC babe 🫡

messierobject65

This reminds me of something I painted

#people #birds #bird art

stephfandomdumps

poll game!

there were ~60 conspirators to kill caesar but they only managed to stab him 23 times. assuming a conspirator got to stab him a max of only 1 time, try to split yourselves into the same percentages as those 2069 years ago

23/60 who did stab him = 38.3%

37/60 who didn't stab him = 61.7%

Voting ended onMar 13

messierobject65

Honestly I thought more of us would be stabby stabby stabby

#stabby stabby 🔪⚔️#the ides #vanilla extract

lilaccatholic

I got this while scrolling on instagram to try to convince me to join threads and I—

We did it. We finally saved her.

reinanova

terror-billie

starlightshadowsworld

Bawling my eyes out brb

messierobject65

Now we can write the sequel <<rubs hands together big stretch>>

#be still my heart #typing furiously #lovers to lovers

wrishwrosh

ive said it before and i’ll say it again not enough historical romance focuses on technicalities

wrishwrosh

really for this kind of thing it’s no use going to published trad romance and i should know that. the really good shit is 400k on fanfiction dot net for a heterosexual pairing you’ve never considered from a piece of media you havent thought about in years written by a bored doctoral candidate who’s read a lot of primary sources from the long 18th century

wrishwrosh

recently rediscovered my absolute favorite entry in the genre: customs and duties by tortoiseshells, which is an insane technicalityromance set in 1738 boston, ft the stuffy british navy guy from pirates of the caribbean/ofc, smuggling, puritanism in the john calvin sense, the legal realities of widowhood, several real historical governors of massachusetts, debts, accounts, and of course customs regulations

marzipanandminutiae

I would also like to nominate and psyche's lamp shall darkling be, a story based on the 2025 Frankenstein movie that gets into the intricacies of 1850s convent school life, the process of Catholic ecclesiastical courts verifying miracles, multiple points of mid 19th century marriage and inheritance laws pertaining to property, and also spells the word connection with an X so you know the author has been in the 19th century literature trenches

messierobject65

"I know waaayyy too much about farming shade tobacco in the Connecticut Valley in the 1960's and now I'm going to make it your problem" is my very favorite genre.

#let me tell you about leaves #no really #tobacco worms and incidental romance

thejewellerybox

#fashion #gorgeous #embrace

puddingcatbeans

babe i don't care that he is morally unjust or unforgivably problematic. babe have u considered that he's unapologetically hot while he's doing incredible harm

#james tiberius kirk