i still use tumbler

tourists are posting pictures from several different places in the country and tagging them with the name "gjaldskylda". they seem to be under the impression that it's the toponym of the beautiful waterfall/lava field/mountain/etc. they're visiting.

You can read the article if you like, but the long and short of it is this:

In the earlyish 2000nds Irish police kept pulling over truly dreadful drivers, and when asked for their drivers licence, they all appeared to have the same name: Prawo Jazdy.

And in it went to the database, but mysteries remained: why does this man of mystery have over fifty identities? And the culprit seemed to give a different address each time.

The police were stumped.

Until they googled it.

Yeaahhh turns out “Prawo Jazdy” is just Polish for driver’s license, and while Irish driver’s licenses say “driver’s license” on the first line THEN the owner’s name, it’s flipped on Polish licenses.

FROG WIZARD!!!!!!

ayyyyyy come look at my fucked up OC

Amalgams are mobile platforms that consist of stacked colonies of microscopic entities informally known as demons, which are bonded parasitically to the body of a magician. A byproduct of magic use on or near significant quantities of standing water, demons spontaneously swarm puddles or lakes in the presence of magical energy. They crave and feed on magic, which also appears to have a cohesive effect on them: normally individualistic, single-cell-like demons will bond together while feeding and create larger and more intuitive beings.

While demons largely ignore normal humans (although ingestion of contaminated water may result in severe health problems), they will aggressively pursue magicians, who often avoid and fear water for this reason. Demons are highly parasitic in nature, and contact with bare skin will result in them burrowing into and anchoring themselves to the body of the magic user, where they will remain, feeding off their latent energy. While smaller sites of contamination on the limbs can be localized and easily removed, the same cannot be said for the unfortunate magician who falls into a teeming lake of demons.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.