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No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

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wlwillow

eek-a-tron

Couple of interesting additions:

1. Ferdinand Cheval tripped over a stone and was inspired by its shape, eventually stating, "It represents a sculpture so strange that it is impossible for man to imitate, it represents any kind of animal, any kind of caricature. I said to myself: since Nature is willing to do the sculpture, I will do the masonry and the architecture."

Here's the tripped-over sandstone in question, which explains some of the abstract design:

Oh, and also:

2. He tripped and started this when he was 43.

rimonoroni2

i’m always thinking about that news story where a three year old boy who wandered away from his house and ended up in the middle of the woods was found by this local great pyrenees farm dog who herded the kid back to his unrelated owners house. and the guy was like. whose kid is this

rimonoroni2

that dog must have been like. hmm. this isn’t a goat. some human must have left their puppy behind by accident. i have to bring this to management. surely my owner will be able to sort out whatever has occurred. that kid was like i’m all alone and scared and omg a big fluffy puppy is here to help. and that fucking farmer looking at his dog like. who’s toddler did you steal???

humanpersonface

I think it is very important that everyone see the good boy in question. His name is Buford.

southernoir

If you can’t appreciate a dog named Buford, you have something wrong with you.

mabithebard

Marius socking Montparnasse in the 1st US National Tour is hilarious bc this would be absolutely INCONCEIVABLE with their brick counterparts. Marius Can't-Even-Fire-A-Single-Gunshot-Signal Pontmercy is not getting within a MILE of the Devil's Dandy

(Source: AC Mallet's recently released 1991 proshot on Youtube)

eidleweiss301

The Ladies Guide to Petticoats and Piracy makes so much more sense when you remember that the girls are sixteen. Like, yes of course Joanna was willing to marry a man she didn't love and was actually quite scared of as well as hang an entire species out to dry because said scary bad man threatened to shoot her dog, she's sixteen. Of course Felicity is more scared of seeing her ex bestfriend than she is of severed fingers and gunshots, she's sixteen. Of course Sim was willing to steal from a museum just to stick it to her dad and get what she deserves as the oldest sibling, she's sixteen. Of course the girls are fawning over the baby dragon, and talking to him like he can speak english, and nearly crying because he keeps holding onto their legs and won't let go, they're sixteen. Of course their periods are a recurring theme throughout the story and Felicity is super bitter about it and won't stop making her brother uncomfortable about it, they're sixteen. Of course all three of the girls are willing to go on a quest at the drop of a hat and sail uncharted seas and defend a species of dragon with their very lives because they think they're cute and the idea of them dying makes them sad, they're sixteen. They're not dramatic, or irrational, they're sixteen.

happygirl2oo2

Always remember the three G's of the Montague siblings:

[background fanart credit to @brittlestarry, idea inspired by this]

realtraditsart

Chiikawa-style Kazutora but make him have internal turmoil

gnappapon-art

Baji-Chifuyu-Kazutora and cats.

starmybunny

Reincarnation AU with Aunt Tina

simpleodditiesart

jumpershirt

Kon

rederiswrites

Look, it's simple. If a person has to actively work to make money, they're not "the rich" and they're not the problem. A surgeon making $200k a year still stops making money if they stop showing up to do surgery, because they're still selling their labor. The radical discrepancies in how we value different skills are certainly a problem, but the guy who makes money when he doesn't even get out of bed is the one making money on the value of other people's labor.

ryanthedemiguy

Uh, hey, be careful about that, because it sounds kinda like you think people on disability or social security (for retirement especially) are a problem

rederiswrites

I'mm'a be real, bud, that is such a gross misreading of what I've said that I almost have to assume you're not arguing in good faith. To argue that people on disability are "making money on the value of other people's labor" is a colossal stretch. Hell, in the current system, it's a stretch to say they're making money at all. "Barely surviving, if that" would be more accurate.

People on disability aren't "making money on other people's labor". They're being supported by taxes because we as a culture believe that all people deserve to have their basic needs fulfilled. If your response to "aim your anger at capitalists, not laborers who get paid more than you" is to whatabout with disabled people, who rarely have any capital at all and are in no way the subject of this post, you may be doing exactly what the post is warning against, and aiming your anger at the wrong people.