Living in transition

Kyne. I’m shorter than you probably think

[coffeeecatss]

Feathers dance with fallen leaves 🍂

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(alt title: “like maybe they could just be happy or something”)

[princessdraconic]

you know, you're right. being landed gentry in the military and intensely christian is the real punk

[maidthings]

[fuckdumblr]

[thedreadpiratecam]

microdosing hell by being awake and literate

[mauricetheblurst]

the clanging of his armored ass cheeks brought down the walls of many a castle

[depsidase]

[elfcollector]

DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS (2009) — developed by bioware.

[fairycosmos]

you literally have to unironically listen to some shit like party rock anthem so you don’t kill yourself

[byjove]

I know this is kind of a hot take but I think creating a religious ethnostate is bad

[officialboredom]

Heavy is the hole that holds the cock

[smalllfieldmouse]

my ex used to get pissed off every time i showed them this video they would be like "that's not how a train works" really angrily and storm out of the room

[drops-of-universe]

why do men have this eternal fear of being used for money they don’t have lol

[papidehasbi]

[crabussy]

you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing

[dracoj]

what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this causes ur brain to try to kill you with knives and hammers.

[captain-price-returns]

Snipers of the Third Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front, photographed in Germany in May, 1945

[thestuffedalligator]

If a Minotaur design is just a bull’s head on a fully human body, I tend to think that’s more visibly monstrous than versions that try to incorporate more cow elements into the design.

Like if your Minotaur looks like this:

It’s less visibly human, but it looks more cohesive. By incorporating bovine elements throughout its design, it looks biologically stable. It looks like it evolved into this or was designed with intention. It looks like it’s supposed to look like this.

If your Minotaur looks like this:

Uh Oh that’s a kindergarten craft glued together and forsaken by the gods. This is the result of the mad tinkerings of chaos. It looks like it was thrown together with scraps of what was left lying around. It Will Kill You Or It Will Explode Because Of Poor Engineering

[alexanderwales]

Salt was hugely important before refrigeration, and one of the ways of getting salt was from the sea or from brine springs. There were a few ways of doing this, which depended on the natural resources available in the area. You could put the saltwater into a large, flat pool and wait on dry air and the sun to do evaporation until there was no water left and you just had the salt, or you could boil saltwater using enormous quantities of fuel to get rid of the water.

But in places where big pools weren't feasible, they did everything in their power to reduce the amount of fuel required for the production of salt, because fuel takes a lot of time and effort to collect and drives up costs.

Enter the graduation tower!

The idea is that you take some source of salty water, pump it up to the top of a wooden tower filled with brushwood (typically blackthorn), then let it trickle down, which greatly increases evaporation by maximizing surface area and exposing the water to the wind along the way. When the saltwater reaches the bottom, it's saltier than it was, and you can send it through again until it's reached the point of saturation. If you do this with ocean water, you can reduce the amount of fuel needed by a factor of ten.

Plus it looks and sounds awesome - these were sometimes called thorn towers.

And at the start of the 20th century, when other forms of salt production had skyrocketed in efficiency, the graduation towers began to be used for healthcare, because as you might imagine, the air next to the graduation tower is very salty, more than it is next to the seaside. From what I can find it seems like the main thing it does is thin mucus, though there are a lot of other health claims.

There are still a few working thorn towers that you can go visit, mostly in Germany or Poland, but they're either historical curiosities keeping a tradition alive, or health and wellness centers, distilling down a brine spring for supposed special properties.