Jere "I'm not a muscle man" Pöyhönen

I think this is an incredibly important video to watch

MOTHER AND FATHER

The original green sleeves of Eurovision, Kateryna Pavlenko of Ukraine's Go_A! (Guest starring :O and sunglasses from Australia's Voyager.)

It’s crazy it’s party

De sneeuwpoppen van 1511

In 1511, after six weeks of freezing temperatures in Brussels (Belgium), the townspeople joined forces in an event subsequently called “De sneeuwpoppen van 1511″ (“the snowmen of 1511″; also called “the miracle of 1511″).

Together they built roughly 110 snowmen over the whole city, most of them political, satirical, and/or scandalous. The examples included a defecating demon, a snowman and a snowwoman having sex in front of the town fountain, a snow virgin with a unicorn in her lap in front of the ducal palace (apparently meant to protest the absence of Charles V), a humiliated king, a snow dentist, several mermaids, several snow prostitutes, and some more snow unicorns.

Some arguments ensued because the poor would often destroy the snowmen built by the ruling classes. Eventually, all the snow thawed during the next spring, and Brussels was flooded.

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By the way, if any of you, like me, are nerds who love maps, I highly recommend checking out the Turgot map. I won't link it or tumblr will eat this post, but you can find it just by searching Wikipedia - it's an incredibly detailed 3D map of Paris made in the 1730s, and by "incredibly detailed," I mean

incredibly

incredibly

INCREDIBLY

DETAILED!

Look, there's Notre Dame! Individual trees! Individual lampposts! Individual boats!! (Some of them even have little people in lol, though clearly not to scale)

The full scan is over 35,000 pixels wide, guys! That's over 10 feet of map!! All drawn and engraved by hand! I'm freaking out a little! What an absolutely amazing piece of history & art!

Gdańsk, Poland by Martyna Damska

A light on a reef

Until the end of the 17th century one of the threats facing shipping heading to Plymouth on the southern coast of England was the isolated and treacherous Eddystone reef, 23km directly offshore. Much of the hazard is underwater, creating complex currents, and extraordinarily high seas are often kicked up when conditions are very windy. In 1620 Captain Christopher Jones, master of Mayflower described the reef: “Twenty-three rust red […] ragged stones around which the sea constantly eddies, a great danger […] for if any vessel makes too far to the south […] she will be swept to her doom on these evil rocks.” As trade with America increased during the 1600s a growing number of ships approaching the English Channel from the west were wrecked on the Eddystone reef.

King William III and Queen Mary were petitioned that something be done about marking the infamous hazard. Plan to erect a warning light by funding the project with a penny a ton charge on all vessels passing initially foundered. Then an enterprising character called Henry Winstanley stepped forward and took on the most adventurous marine construction job the world had ever seen. Work commenced on the mainly wooden structure in July 1696. England was again at war, and such was the importance of the project that the Admiralty provided a man-o-war for protection.

The Winstanley Lighthouse, by English School, 17th century (x)

On one day, however, HMS Terrible did not arrive and a passing French privateer seized Winstanley and carried him off to France. When Louis XIV heard of the incident he ordered his release. “ France is at war with England, not humanity,” said the King. Winstanley’s was the first lighthouse to be built in the open sea. It was a true feat of human endeavour. Work could only be undertaken in summer and for the first two years nothing could be left on the rock or it would be swept away. There was some assistance from Terrible in transporting the building materials, but much had to be rowed out in an open four-oared boat in a journey that could take nine hours each way. Winstanley’s lighthouse was swept away after less that five years, during the great storm of 1703.

John Rudyerd’s wooden lighthouse of 1708, by Issac Sailmaker, c. 1708 (x)

Winstanley was in it at the time supervising some repairs- he had said that he wished to be there during “ the greatest storm that ever was.” The next lighthouse was built by John Rudyerd and lit in 1709. Also made largely of timber and with granite ballast, it gave good service for nearly half a century until destroyed by fire in 1755. During the blaze the lead cupola began to melt, and as the duty keeper, 94- old Henry Hall, was throwing water upwards from a bucket he accidentally swallowed 200g of the molten metal. No one believed his incredible tale, but when he died 12 days later doctors found a lump of lead in his stomach.

Smeaton’s Eddystone Lighthouse, by John Lynn (active 1826-1869) (x)

John Smeaton, Britian’s first great civil engineer, was the next to rise to the challenge of Eddystone. He took the English oak as his design inspiration - a broad base narrowing in a gentle curve. The 22m high lighthouse was built using solid discs of stone dovetailed together. Work began in 1756, and from start to finish the work took three years, nine weeks and three days. Small boats transported nearly 1000 tons of granite and Portland stone along with all the equipment and men.

  Sir James N. Douglass’s Eddystone Lighthouse, Plymouth, England, photochrome print, c. 1890–1900. The remnants of John Smeaton’s lighthouse are at left. (x)

The Smeaton lighthouse stood for over 100 years. In the end it was not the lighthouse that failed; rather that the sea was found to have eaten away the rock beneath the structure. In 1882 it was dismantled and brought back to Plymouth, where it was re-erected stone on the Hoe as a memorial, and where it still stands.

The Eddystone lighthouse today (x)

It had already been replaced by a new lighthouse, twice as tall and four and a half times as large, designed by James Douglas, which now gives mariners a beacon of light visible for 22 nautical miles (40,78km).

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN 1.06 | Stealing Home

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022 - ) S01E07 · Full Count

Chanté Adams as MAX CHAPMAN in A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022-)

LUPE GARCIA + JESS MCCREADY A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022-)

“Stealing Home” — 1x06 A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

I am so fucking torn between wanting Lupe/Jess to be a thing and wanting them to stay platonic buddies

Like at first I strictly rooted for them to remain friends, cause it’s so refreshing to have two lesbians just being best buds and nothing romantic between them, and they are literally the definition of chaotic bros

But then this scene happened and it was pretty fucking fruity. 

Lupe’s face practically screams “dammmn that’s hot” inmediately followed up with “hang on, that’s my bro…whut??”. Look at her expression at the end. That is the confused lesbian expression. I know the confused lesbian expression well.

Also Jess doing the exasperated-yet-amused wife eye roll & head shake

Plus it would be so cool to have a butch/butch relationship which has practically never, to my knowledge, been protrayed in media. Yet I kinda also love them as femme-crazy platonic bros being wingman to each other in gay bars. Like I  can just see Jess trying to impress some girl with some wilderness shit about taming wild boars and Lupe being like ok tell us about every single wild boar you’ve tamed

~To ship or not to ship, that is the question~

lupe, esti and jess are my favourite trio from the show actually