hello tiny friends i keep in my pocket. tell me something I will find humorous but vaguely annoying
people have muscles behind their head that have the sole purpose to move the ears and it is complete evolutionary luck at this point if they work or not
oh I HATE this
you mean to tell me I’ve got an entire goddamn muscle group just sitting there FREELOADING???
I can’t wiggle my ears, but I CAN do that thing when you flex a muscle inside your ear and you can HEAR it flexing, like a rumbling sound. Looked it up, and apparently it’s the “tensor tympani”. muscle! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle#Voluntary_control I always kind of figured it was the muscle partially closing the ear canal, but apparently tensing your muscles makes a noise that’s 10-70 Hz!
Okay the fact we had this implies there was a PURPOSE to.having it.
to reach our final evolutionary form of course!
Gaud you are a coward for hiding this in the tags
Gaud were you going to tell anyone that that’s the wikipedia mascot
you guys are like i love milfs yes yum milf milf milf but you don’t like children and you can’t wake up before 10am and you don’t know how to drive automatic and you’ve never gone grocery shopping alone and you’re scared to order your hot chocolate at star bucks so how do you expect to help take care of deborah’s preschool kids in between rounds of that cougar pussy
In the early 1800s a man named Little Jon lived in this so called earth cabin (swe. ‘backstuga’) located in southern Småland, Sweden. An earthen cabin is built partially buried in the ground, in this case there’s three walls of stone and one wall made of wood. In Sweden earthen cabins was common in the forests from the 1600s until the late 1800s. Link
Fun fact! Saint Valentine was beheaded, and here is a photo of his supposed skull! (which is kept in a reliquary in rome because catholics are freaky that way)
I can never ever leave this website actually
I see a reference to the Sedlic Ossuary, love the decor in that place.
this is a church that supposedly had holy ground or something that let people rot really fast, Idk what that’s about, but people really wanted to get buried there, and so they had overflow of dead people. so they exhumed old bodies and stored the bones in the church, before someone eventually said ‘hey, this would make a cool fucking chandelier.’ and then they started using the bones to decorate. this continued for several generations.
the ground at the Sedlec Ossuary at Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic was “holy” because a Monk in the late 13th century went to the holy land and brought back a bucket of dirt from Golgotha and scattered it over the graveyard there. idk about rotting fast, never heard about that, but yeah…. word got around and it became Central Europe’s destination burial spot. Everyone wanted their bones and their moms bones and there uncle’s bone etc buried there, which because of the plague and the Hussite Wars, meant LOTS of ppl were hauling their relative’s bone to central Bohemia, upwards of 40,000.
Transporting a whole ass body back then was expensive and so most ppl would only bring a femur or a skull, Hence the big ass hut looking thing behind the crest pictured above. That’s nothing but femur on top of femur on top of femur with some skulls added in for spice. And they have 4 FOUR of those suckers iirc.
here’s a look inside of one
The Chapel wasn’t built until over 100 years later and the bones exhumed at the time of construction and stored inside because…. well what else were they gonna do with them. It was only about 150 years ago that the piles of bones got fancy tho. the family whose crest is depicted above paid some woodcarver to make the sculptures and bone mounds because rich Czech ppl in the 19th century were gothic af.
when I was there in 2016 they were in the process of trying to fix the Chapel, because the foundation was sinking or something idr, point was there was an issue with the foundation. This was problematic because the bone huts and really all the other bone sculptures were so fragile that if they tried to move them they would have crumbled completely. Also even tho there were tons of bones inside the ossuary there were still and incredible amount of bones still buried in the graveyard outside.
Any and all construction was very slow going. Cause as you can see
you couldn’t go a meter
without hitting a bone.
I believe they closed for a while the following year and are back open again, but I don’t want to think about what they had to do to make sure the bones didn’t just turn to dust during construction.
But yeah,one of the wildest places I’ve ever been. Now I just need to visit the Czech hell hole and I will have seen everything I want to see while living here.
Concept: the ghosts come alive at night to argue & move their bones to more desirable real estate. The bone chandelier never contains the same femurs twice
Fun facts!
That beautiful cathedral in which Maria and Captain von Trapp get married in The Sound of Music?
That’s the Mondsee cathedral in Salzburg. It’s truly magnificent. And, because Catholics have ABSOLUTELY NO CHILL regarding the Communion of Saints, it’s chock full of bejeweled skeletons.
This is Abbot Konrad II:
He lives (haha) right behind the altar and they had to put a statue in front when shooting the wedding scene because…well…bedazzled crown-wearing skulls grinning at you weren’t quite the vibe they were going for.
In fact the ENTIRE ALTAR is a giant reliquary and in addition to Konrad, there are 4 other skeletons (the “catacomb saints”) reclining on little red cushions in glass cases just beneath his perch.
Yeah. That’s the highest human ideal that we Catholics aspire to: living such a radically holy life (or dying a martyr like Konrad did in 1145) that you end up with your skeleton covered in gold and jewels and venerated by people for centuries.
Church of San Tiburzio, Parma, for the Florilegium exhibition by Rebecca Louise Law, during the Institutional event “Parma Capital of Culture 2020” (Italy)
Rebecca Louise Law is a british artist, best known for artworks and floral installations created with natural materials, and her talent would offer an alternative concept of beauty.
For this specific exhibition they used 200 thousand flowers. The title Florilegium comes from the Latin “to keep and to preserve flowers”.
