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im thinking a dw redacted group listen (a la the gallifrey relisten) where we listen to 1 episode a week on a specified day. more info:

the whole series is free to listen/download (with transcripts also available)

there are only 16 episodes (plus 1 mini episode & 1 trailer)

most of the full episodes are 20-30 minutes long

s1 is 10 episodes + 1 mini episode, s2 is 1 trailer + 6 episodes

also, the 3 main characters are 3 queer girls! the lead is a trans woman and the other two are both Black sapphic women!

if you ARE interested but unsure if you can participate, please vote YES — this poll is just to gauge interest, not ability to participate

the one who actually

legally owns it

Explanation: Rupert Lowe, the leader of the Restore party, claimed that the only British people are people born to two people born in the UK

I love this little asshole so much!!!!!! :D !!!!!!

No nuance. If you don’t have a mother/are no contact etc this is not a poll for you.

he has never seen disney's the little mermaid

he thought the song Poor Unfortunate Souls was from phantom of the opera

he has never seen phantom of the opera

he thought disney made phantom of the opera

he thought phantom of the opera was animated

"i couldve sworn i saw an animated hunchback"

...wait do you mean the hunchback of notre dame

The aim of the project was to travel 270 km / 168 miles between Helsinki and Turku in Finland, and to highlight the possibility of horse travel in modern society. Since then they've took to promoting horseback efforts in urban landscapes with several European collaborators and artists.

Yli-Vakkuri and collaborators first spent eight months practicing riding to become safely self-sufficient in saddle, and bought a Finnhorse gelding Toivottu Poika ('Awaited Son'). The route followed, as closely as possible, the old coastal royal country road of the premodern era, Kuninkaantie/Suuri Rantatie, and took 9 days.

Toivottu Poika is a very average example of his breed, standing at some 155 cm / 15.1 hh tall. The Finnhorse is a relative of for example the North-Norwegian Lyngshest breed, the Icelandic horse, the Swedish Gotlandsruss pony and the Estonian landrace horse and Tori horse breed. It is a mid-sized light draught and trotter, a sensibly realistic mediaeval country travel horse equivalent.

For more hardcore short-term treks, looking into competitive endurance riding can be helpful. Mongol Derby might be one of the most intense races, as it recreates the Chinggis Khan era postal system of swapping horses continuously over a 1000 km / 620 mile route.

By only including skilled endurance riders, keeping up a constant fast speed and swapping horses every 40 km / 25 mil, the Mongol Derby route only takes 10 days even though it's several times the length of the Trans-Horse project. This is the speed of highly organised imperial messengers with the supporting cultural infrastructure, professional marathon runners where Yli-Vakkuri and Toivottu poika were leisure hikers.

the last i checked, the map of roads stretches from Calais, France to Moscow, Russia west to east and from Košice, Slovakia to Tornio, Finland south to north. it doesn't cover all of Europe, for example Sweden and Norway are empty at the moment, but it is quite extensive and still being worked on! in addition to showing the old roads, you can calculate the distance and travel time from one city to another, and there are a lot of options:

and that's not all! here's a description from the site itself (emphasis mine):

"Viabundus is a freely accessible online street map of late medieval and early modern northern Europe (1350-1650). Originally conceived as the digitisation of Friedrich Bruns and Hugo Weczerka's Hansische Handelsstraßen (1962) atlas of land roads in the Hanseatic area, the Viabundus map moves beyond that. It includes among others: a database with information about settlements, towns, tolls, staple markets and other information relevant for the pre-modern traveller; a route calculator; a calendar of fairs; and additional land routes as well as water ways."