Rustsæter

I'm a 28 year old Norwegian. My favourite music is folk metal, wich is kind of the theme of this blog. I also like comics and cats and some other things.

[madcat-world]

Conquered Antiquity - Ryan Bittner

[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.

[elalmadelmar]

The one that always gets me hardest is the theorized flooding of the Mediterranean. In other words, at one point the Mediterranean was much smaller and most of that basin was dry land. There’s an old series of fantasy books exploring what a civilization on the floor of what’s now the Mediterranean sea might have looked like (and being fantasy, there’s magic and psychic animals and such; being older, I can’t exactly recommend it since it’s a Product Of Its Time in some very unfortunate ways), and ending with the crisis of their whole world flooding as the last remaining fragment of the land barrier across the Strait of Gibraltar crumbles away and lets the Atlantic in.

It’s hard to know what might have been down there, since we can’t exactly do archaeology on the seafloor.

[myriadplethorae]

… since we can’t exactly do archaeology on the sea floor YET

[minipliny]

I want to add to this that I was at an anti Brexit protest and someone had a sign lovingly depicting Doggerland with “Bring Back Doggerland” on it which haunts me somewhat. The socioeconomic forces are only part of what oppresses us. We need to battle our xenophobic geology….bring back our land bridge home….

[svetzzi]

go away forever with me

[kopytki]

drew fanart of the thang

[psalidodont]

paleozoic menagerie

[trashcatgallade]

tbh i never really considered seals. until i finally saw one irl and was like omg. the creature

this is my artistic representation of what they looked like on the beach from where i was standing in the distance

it was the most magical day of my life

[sparrowlucero]

Gallivanting Gargoyles

each of these is available on my kofi as an adoptable

[hollowvoidly]

[callmebliss]

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

[macleod]

I've seen this passed around a few times, and I have one thing to say:

It's online. The book was carefully and wonderfully recreated online by hand. You can find it here. The entire book is this easy.

calculusmadeeasy.org

[debelice]

Love Rainy Weather....

[theterribletenno]

videos that make me feel creature

[louisegluckpdf]

labs that are also churches. to me

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)

[nenuials]

SOLAS // THE DREAD WOLF

↳ I suspect you have questions.

#TheDreadWolfRises

[fieldsarebreathing]

[anneboyer]

what resembles the grave but isn't

Always falling into a hole, then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying “ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole,” getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying “this is not your grave, get out of the hole”; sometimes being pushed, saying “you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave,” and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying “this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole,” all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually;  sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there’s just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating  the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying “look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from that which resembles the grave but isn’t!" 

[ggdgart]

For the past while I’ve been working on a comic called Lady of the Shard, about an acolyte in love with a goddess. It’s somewhat experimental and more than a little gay. You can read the whole thing for free over here.

[everythingfox]

Kitty shredding

(via)

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

Morning mood: getting emotional about millennia-old amateur art. Like yes, there are showstopping masterworks from every culture dating back tens of thousands of years, and that's usually what gets attention and display and reverance. And those were the kinds of pieces that usually get protected in graves or tombs or temples, set aside somewhere safe enough to last centuries.

But sometimes I see a little clay figure that didn't have practiced hands spending hours skillfully smoothing sharp designs into it, and I can still see the little divots of fingerprints and shaky carvings of a two-dots-and-a-smile face. Sometimes I see a manuscript or a scroll where the lines of text wander around the page, the characters or letters getting bigger and smaller and cramping at the edges. Little carvings of horn or bone with asymmetrical eyes and a wonky expression that's trying to be a smile. There's beauty in skill, but in amateur art I feel like I can see the hands of the person who made it.

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

Specifically thinking about this guy by the way. Sculpture in Thailand during this period was about to dominate architecture with massively complex dragons and building-sized Buddha statuary and gilded elegance. And somebody sat down one day and made a lumpy little snake. And it's now a museum piece because humans have always just loved keeping the little pieces of art they make.

[blue--folder]

Uluru blackh●le rise, me, pixel art, 2022