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God made all man in his image Honey, I'm, I'm no man I'm what's left when children go to war
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Idk what else to put into this drawing so im posting it.
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Im dryin up faster than lake mead just thinking about it
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evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting
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One Museum A Month - July: Funkenburg Westgreußen
(I know, I know, it's already August. I went in July, I just procrastinated the write.-up.)
Another open-air museum; this time it is a reconstruction of a germanic stronghold/fortress. The original settlement was excavated during the 1970s and is dated to about 200 BC - 50 AD.
Main wall and lookout
The reconstruction of the buildings was done with materials, tools and techniques that would have been available to the people. Similar reconstructions exist, but none of this scale. The wall and towers were very impressive.
View from inside
There was a walkway along the wall, that would allow for people to patrol the wall or look out over it, and to my amazement, it was accessible to visitors! I ciuld climb the towers as well, very cool. Especially considering that they were built with no modern tools, out of only roughly hewn logs, and as a result, were very uneven to walk on.
I did find the occasional modern screw, but things were mostly held together with wooden pegs and rope.
View from one of the towers
This ladder was polished smooth by people climbing it, which was very cool. I wish I knew more about wood, then I could tell you what kind this was.
There were several kinds of buildings enclosed by the wall. The largest was a longhouse typical for the time, a house built entirely above the ground with wooden flooring, that would have had room for both people and livestock.
The other, smaller houses were built by digging a hole in the ground and then erecting walls around it. There is only a single room, but a sort of platform running all the way around, big enough to sit or sleep on. Very clever.
This was just one of them, you get the idea. It was a hot day when I went but the climate in these houses was very nice.
There was also this very cool woven willow storage shed, put on stilts to keep the vermin out.
You'll notice that the walls are single layer and don't have that mud plaster the other buildings have; this is to encourage air circulation and prevent mold.
There were some recreations of everyday items, like this hand-operated millstone (very heavy!), baking ovens, three(!) weighted looms.
This one was the best of the looms. This is probably a handspun warp, one of the other ones looked like it was warped with macramee cotton lol
There were also several outfits on display, but the less said about those, the better. Well, one set had some tablet-woven belts. Let's not talk about the cotton, the hand seams, the lack of layers, the cuts. Or anything else.
No but seriously, what the hell happened here.
There was also one house where some fibre processing was happening! Examples of plant-dyed wool, which I of course enjoyed, and the weirdest spindle I have ever seen. I'm not gonna say it's inaccurate because I simply do not know, but I could not figure this thing out.
The whorl was dried clay, permanently attached to the stick (but obviously not fired), this sort of drop-shape. The stick still had the bark on and everything, but had a vertical notch at the top? No idea how this is supposed to work. But I am not that good with a hand spindle, and certainly don't know anything about historical spinning methods, so what do I know. There were no distaffs either.
All in all it was very fun! Not that immersive, and the details were a bit hit-or-miss. If you're interested in this sort of recreation, I would actually recommend the Opfermoor Vogtei over it. It's less impressive, they don't have a wall or big towers, but the rest of the structures are similar, they have a small museum, and it's a lot more atmospheric.
But, otoh, one has to cut projects like this some slack. There's clearly not a lot of funding behind it, and I'd bet a lot of it is run by volunteers, and privately financed. They're doing their best. And I love that people are enthusiastic enough about history and archaeology to maintain projects like this.
They do workshops and little events/festivals sometimes, and it really is a very cool place to visit.
Funkenburg Westgreußen, Rohnstedter Straße 20 99718 Westgreußen, open Easter-October, Wednesday-Friday 10:00-17:00, Saturday and Sunday 12:00-17:00
A fantasy story starting with the protagonist minding her own business gathering firewood, when a demon appears out of nowhere announcing that she belongs to him now. The protagonist demands to know on what grounds, she's never signed no damn contract. The demon is kind of baffled by this, and awkwardly explains that just now her father had promised his firstborn for something, and she is his firstborn.
The protagonist digs her heels in and says no, she never knew her biological father and by the way the demon explained the situation, evidently her father also doesn't know that he already has a daughter, so therefore the man who had made no contribution to her life after he bred and fled has no claim to her as something he could barter.
Not giving a shit about the fact she's gambling her life in doing so, the protagonist makes contact with the local woodland fae, asking them to negotiate on her side. The fae think that this is fucking hilarious and go with her. So, having lawyered up and with a reluctant demon in tow, the protagonist heads off on a quest to find her father and do whatever it takes to wrangle everyone involved into unmaking the contract.
Convene the Beit din, we have a matter to settle.
I imagine if the fae existed, Jews and especially rabbis would have a lot easier time dealing with them than gentiles.
If you need an exorcism you find a catholic priest. If you need to get fae contract divorced, you find a rabbi.
I am not Jewish, but I would buy every book of a series featuring a rabbi who has a side job dealing with the Fae.
The Exorcist and the Rabbi are partners... When the problem is talkative the Rabbi takes the lead, when the problem is violent the Exorcist is in their element.
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Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
A Jewish peasant girl turned moneylender, Miriam, ends up stuck married to the fae king of winter. The daughter of a duke gets stuck married to the emperor, who is possessed by a demon.
The plot is the two of them trying to survive, get divorced through any means necessary, and save their respective people.
r/knitting post of the day by u/Optimus_FineAsHell:
I was unknowingly working on a 35 foot long blanket for years
I started a blanket 10 years ago and put it down shortly after starting. It was on 30” circulars and I just kept casting on until I couldn’t fit anymore stitches. I was new to the hobby so I figured it would just be “blanket sized.”
I picked it back up about 6 months ago determined to finally finish this thing. I transferred it to 60” circulars to give myself more working space, and during that transfer I counted 450ish stitches, but that would just be a big king sized blanket right? So I kept going. But after about 9 balls of yarn and only 2 feet in length finished, I gave up and decided I would just crochet the blanket instead.
Halfway through my crocheted version, I ran out of yarn and made the sad decision to frog the knitted project for salvage yarn. After removing the circular needles, I thought it’d be interesting to see how wide the blanket actually was.
After straightening it all out I stared at my work, utterly dumbfounded, that I had been working on a 35 foot wide blanket this whole time. I am SO GLAD I did not finish this project as I would’ve cried at the monster I had brought into the world.
tl;dr - You should really pay attention to the size reference chart on your yarn and count the stitches when free-handing as a newbie.
And finally, the blanket:
🎶Ich🕺und👏mein🤩Karsten🤠sein👉Name🎵 ist💖Karsten😇
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ngl this is shocking enough it took me a few seconds to be sure I was parsing it correctly.
The official numbers are out: 9600 deaths during the height of the heatwave (June 22-28), 11900 deaths for 2026 so far, to July 26. That makes 2026 the deadliest year since these statistics started being reported in 2016.
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The thing about the No Money On Ao3 thing is also not just the legal questions attached to it, for me it's also the part where it's kinda like rocking up to the neighbourhood's solidarity no-charge bring-what-you-can cookout with your 30 bucks-a-snack micro-cuisine food truck because it's 'where the crowd's at'. It doesn't matter how good your strawberry foam fries are when you're standing next to the free vegan Gulaschkanone, that shit's picture book villain behaviour.
And like. I think we can all agree that none of us would have a problem with local restaurants showing up to the solidarity cookout, as long as the stick to the two rules of 'no making anyone pay anything at the solidarity cookout' and 'no overly aggressive advertising'. Like!!! You're welcome to come! You're even allowed to put up a little 'btw on thursdays I'm at the craft market :)' sign. You just can't demand payment and you can't put up your regular menu. Is that so hard.
Dustfinger and Gwin - for a friend who is leaving on a long journey.
Staubfinger, our literal Disney princess 💖
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Never in human history has there been a society where 13 was a regular age for girls to get married, but keep telling on yourself, you goddamn pervert
Disclaimer: I'm currently between Inkspell and Inkdeath so I don't know if this is something that changes later on.
Even if we assume Fenoglio felt he had to put this in his book because that was his understanding of medieval-ish societies, once he actually lives there and is confronted with this reality on a daily basis, he still seems downright cheerful about it.
This grown man, born and raised in the twentieth century, who has a granddaughter close to Meggie's age, does not show an ounce of "Well, this is very unfortunate, I sure wish I'd made different choices during my writing process back in the day."
Yeah, right!! It's one of the things I am focusing on in my reread, what Fenoglio stands for as a character and as an in-universe author. (Caveat: I'm only halfway through Inkblood, so my working theory as of now might not entirely hold up, but I did re-read the whole trilogy back when Revenge came out)
Fenoglio's Inkheart seems to be pretty dark, despite the fairy tale elements, with very simplistic worldbuilding. That's not in itself a flaw; Funkes worldbuilding is also undercomplex, and doesn't take many things into account that would be crucial in a real-world equivalent. Worldbuilding serves the story, and all that.
What is a flaw, however, is that Fenoglio is not able to see past his original vision. He's stuck on how he intended things to be, how it is meant, and is unable to see what it actually is.
An example: He intended for the Speckfürst to be the good foil to the evil Natternkopf, never mind that in reality, they are both pretty shit rulers who neglect their people. The Speckfürst is weak, he doesn't care that the feud is getting out of control, he doesn't protect his people. But Fenoglio fails to understand the problem, even as he sees with his own eyes how dysfunctional this government is. He doesn't consider that his carelessness made his work inherently flawed. Instead, he attempts to force it to work in the way he always intended, he brings back Cosimo, and again, takes not a single moment to consider what would actually make a good ruler in this scenario.
Fenoglio's fatal flaw is, I think the inability to take criticism. He believes he's perfect. He doesn't accept feedback, he never stops to examine his work with a critical eye. Even when he is confronted with a real world full of real, living beings, he still refuses to think anything through. If the story is misinterpreted (or in-universe, if reality doesn't adhere to Fenoglio's vision), that's not due to his limitations as a storyteller, it's the reader who's wrong and misunderstanding him.
This refusal to accept anyone's voice but his own is what prevents him from growing as an author, and it is also why his attempts to 'fix' the story backfire.
It's like you said. He might have realized that "all girls are married in their early teens" was a shitty, misogynistic thing to write into his story. He might acknowledge that he would not write it that way today. But he doesn't. Because he doesn't see anything wrong with it. Because he thinks he's above criticism.
I want to finish turning a dress into a skirt! It has technically been a wip for several years and I have a definite plan to finish it now!
Turning a dress into a skirt! That does sound like fun, @muchadoaboutm, how did it go?
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Edit: I swear this was my ask when I reblogged it yesterday but now it's someone else's? There's a very weird bug going on here. Anyway. Sorry for the confusion.
Ah shit I completely forgot about that 🥲 it just now showed up in my activity? So. Here I am, a few months late. And I don't seem to have taken any pictures. My apologies for all of this. I don't remember whether I sent it off on time but @bonsaibovine did end up getting it eventually 😅
