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In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.
This post is spreading and I feel bad about it because it contains misinformation, so for the record: Ludwig II did not in fact have infinite discretionary funds. He only acted as if he did. He never dipped into the public coffers for his building projects, but he spent his own fortune extravagantly and borrowed heavily from everyone he could think of. By 1885, the year before his death, he was 14 million marks in debt.
~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~
I always find this inspiring because try to name another prince of a German state. What did the rulers of Hamberg do? The Grand Duchy of Hesse? Gone with the wind, no one knows them anymore. But Mad Lad Ludwig built a top 5 most famous castle in the entire world. Money is fake, castles are real. Go broke and die like a winner.
EXCUSE ME, this is still wrong. He built 3.
Neuschwanstein, literally the inspo for the castles in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella
Hohenschwangau, the practical castle
Linderhof, the final, the smallest, and the MOST fab.
Every room is incredible and the park is beautiful, but shoutout to The Bedroom, the biggest room
The Hall of Mirrors, which he probably wandered by candle light because he was a serious night owl
The Dining Room, with a wishing table that lowers to the kitchen, and rises with a crank, returning magically full of food
The Venus Grotto, constructed for the sole use of Ludwig to larp to his heart’s content
A full artificial cave, it features a waterfall, fake stalactites, and a custom-designed swan boat floating on an artificial lake. The first electricity in Bavaria was generated here, to change the colors of the stage lights and to power Ludwig’s fountain and wave machine.
Now THAT’S ~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~
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was visiting a friend who has a farm, and one of the chickens has a home made flared cone on, so i asked what was up with that and she said “that’s diesel, and she’s suicidal” so obviously i went ??? and she pressed the door lock on her truck fob so the truck beeped, and this dumbass bird SPRINTED full tilt across the garden to shove her head in the tailpipe. she has to be locked up and coned so she doesn’t gulp down toxic fumes direct from the pipe for some idiot bird reason. she is obsessed with doing this and has to be locked up any time someone is using a vehicle.
i told her i posted about this and she has an update (which i guess content warning for animal harm [the animal did it to it’s damn fool self])
she found this out the first time when she auto-started her truck to warm it up before work one below-freezing morning and came out ~5 minutes later to find (the then unnamed) diesel with her head stuffed in the tail pipe hanging limply by her idiot neck and thought that she was dead, ran over and pulled her out, and the chicken went “oh hi! anyways mind if i get back in there?” and did it a-fucking-gain??
best guess is bc she feeds her chickens with a pvc gravity pipe like this
and despite having ~40 other chickens who don’t fuck this up, diesel went “food comes from tubes, this is tube, ∴ this is the ~secret~ food hole that the others do not know about. i will be rewarded with golden seed for being the cleverest of them all :)” and is now on 24/7 vehicle related suicide watch. fine line between docile and dumb sometimes.
my artists rendition of the morning in question
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i actually never ever want AO3 to be censored bc nothing is more fun than reading the tags on a fic and going “huh. didn’t know there was a market for that.”
squinting at a tag and trying to decide how badly I want to learn a new word
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to raise money, Wikipedia should do that thing CNN did where they sold shirts with headlines on them. I would kill for a shirt that had the article title and Wikipedia layout for Homosexuality in Medieval Europe
no killing necessary, you can get any wikipedia page on a shirt from wikishirt and 10% of profit goes to wikipedia
The last Wikipedia page you visited is the shirt you’re getting, how is it?
This is the best shirt I’ve ever owned
I am definitely pleased
It’s alright
Not good
I will burn this shirt before I let anyone see it
I don’t use Wikipedia/I’m bald/etc
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Driven to tears of joy over a spoon designed like a sea slug I spotted on eBay
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a perfect world where people go to play minigolf and say to each other “so. if this is minigolf, then whats golf?” and no one knows because golf hasnt existed for hundreds of years by that point
They reinvent golf from minigolf and what they come up with involves rolling beach balls through a theme park
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My huge Lucy
That’s her special and silly peanut butter paw.
She actually has…2!
SHE HAS PEANUT BUTTER PAWS!!!!!!!!!!
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you would think, like, “oh, we’ve already thought of all the metaphorical ways we can say penis/vagina. we’ve already come up with the full list of nicknames. we have exhausted the list of innuendos. there is nothing else new to be said about this” and then you’ll open a random explicit fic and make the most improbable linguistic discovery of all time
would you like to share with the class 🤔
saw the term “gummy walls” last night and had to sit alone with god for a minute
would you like to unshare with the class
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With SNAP and WIC programs being paused until further notice, I wanted to share that TooGoodToGo is a great way to get bread, bakery items and even prepared foods for cheap. It was created to reduce food waste. As it’s grown, restaurants and stores continue to be added.
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thinking about that gambling addict who made the most sophisticated bomb the fbi had come across (at the time) and put it in a casino as revenge and the fbi couldn’t disarm it so they had to evacuate the area
just hit the juckport 1 trillion
The bomb in question contained roughly 1,000 lbs of dynamite and was constructed like a malicious point-and-click puzzle.
You couldn’t tamper with it in any way without setting it off, and a number of those switches needed to be toggled in the correct order to deactivate it.
nope there was a pendulum inside that would complete a circuit to the detonator if the bomb was moved
hi i would have just moved it slowly and carefully. its not hard
This particular bomb, to my knowledge, is still being used in bomb defusal schools. Pretty sure the replicas have still never been defused.
you literally just have to move it out of the building hi its easy
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ALThi guys question ☝️ why does the werewolf themed reeses got a white topping
ALTHey Everyone I Was So Distracted By The Collective Werewolf Boyfriend Pulling Out That I Forgot About A Vital Part Of Werewolf Lore ☝️
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