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mediumaevum:

Building a Monastery the Medieval Way

Historians, architects, archaeologists and volunteers in Germany are teaming up to build a medieval monastery the old-fashioned way. Working conditions will be strictly 9th-century, without machines, rain jackets or even coffee. It will take decades, but they hope to garner fresh insights into everyday life in the 800s.

Read the article (03-2012)

les-baleines:

nicoception:

brizzbee:

puppetmasterc:

cafeaulaittt:

this is the best of all things.

GEEKING OUT.

this is the best thing I have ever read. 

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GOOOOOOD.

I might need to start doing this, just for kicks.

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eldritch-abomination:

sirdefnesaur:

when Graham fucking Norton thinks you’re acting gay

you’re probably acting REALLY fucking gay

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Citadel of birds by *TheCobs

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rainbowbarnacle:

roachpatrol:

ragestuck:

Listen, I get the fact that there is such a thing as homosexual fetishization and that there are many depictions of slash out there that are harmful to the portrayal of gay men in fanworks.

Fact still stands you’re attempting to generalize that all straight girls are stupid and completely incapable of creating realistic and respectful fanworks involving gay men ever ew stay away from my identity you icky girls.

Which basically means you can fuck off.

Shithead.

Hey, what this dude says. Also, I got some shit to pick with this my own self. 

“My experience and identity are not your personal plaything. I do not exist to satisfy some unfulfilled emotional void or fantasy life of yours, nor do I exist to feed your personal fetish. You are not me.”

Am I the only dude who’s noticed that it’s sickeningly sad how this kid has hit on exactly what’s so miserable about your gender and orientation being objectified — by lashing out at straight girls without the slightest trace of self awareness at his own hypocrisy? Straight girls who are a commodity, whose bodies are presented for male consumption across billboards and bus stops and tv spots, whose characters are awarded to our male protagonists for their heroism, who are told repeatedly that they do exist to fufill emotional voids and fantasy lives, who exist as personal fetishes. Straight girls are so intrinsically defined by male desire that the very concept of lesbian sex is either conducted and presented for the male gaze or rejected outright as useless perversion. 

So guess what! Being objectified sucks hard, regardless of who you are, but the kind of shit this kid thinks he’s coming up with has already been done on a massive macrocultural level to the very people he’s railing against. He needs to take a few deep breaths and learn some goddamn empathy. How are you going to seriously and fairly ask for consideration, respect, and solidarity when you aren’t ready to hand any out yourself?

Yeeeah, this. That is an incredibly broad brush he is painting with. 

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mediumaevum:

“Medieval dream” dress with detachable sleeves, flax-linen gorget and wool hood

As most of our costumes this great garb is self-designed, but inspired with and based on original medieval samples and portraiture. This design is most close to Western Europe XIII century style. 

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les-baleines:

osaka-chan:

<3 Howl 

The way his hair moves, though.  Wow.

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I repeat, tea doilies. Made of sugar.

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