No, Mr. Horse, don’t worry, I certainly don’t have a Plinko down here! What I do have is this lovely cask of wine, specifically for horses, Amontillado in fact! Exquisite vintage.
I know you’re not supposed to be in this hospital, but if you’ll just follow me down this corridor—no, that’s not blood on the floor, it’s color theory, I’ll explain it later—I can bring you to this cask of wine that is certainly NOT a plinko machine—
Hi, if you're still looking for CR characters, may I suggest Pumat Sol or perhaps captain Avantika?
for some reason i always imagined Avantika with a lot of wrinkles you know just really dry sunburned saltburned skin not necessarily old but with face that looks old
or maybe matt said she is hot and my brain just conjured the hottest pirate he could master and this is it :\
anyway i love drawing her
also
Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol and Pumat Sol
I know this post is already long enough but I'm reblogging again bc I feel like we really didn't do justice to the wonderful dildo clock right in the middle of the city square. Okay so.
- Yes, this baby is a clock. No, you absolutely can't tell what time it is from looking at it.
- It's *supposed* to be bullet shaped. The people don't agree.
- It chimes at noon just like any other church / city hall clock does in every other city! A useful friend and companion to every tourist wondering what time it is :))
- Just kidding. It chimes at 11 am because it's ~quirky like that~.
- (...okay actually it's bc of a historical event slash legend tied to an unsuccessful siege of the city in the 17th century but I don't feel like retelling the whole story. the important thing is that this baby is Very Bad at, you know, Being A Clock)
- Every day at 11 a little glass ball rolls from the top and can be caught at one of the openings. If you catch it you get to keep it as a lil souvenir! (Yay!!) They're kinda expensive though so the tax payers end up paying for a shit ton of funky novelty marbles instead of, idk, a shelter to help solve the city's homelessness problem (less of a yay..).
- Speaking of the marbles, apparently people started building traps to catch them so they can sell them online. The materials keep falling through into the machinery and damaging it, though... Honestly on brand. We've got questionable diy. We've got taking a nice thing and abusing it in pursuit of some easy money. We've got public property damage. Very Czech! Home sweet home, 10/10.
- Oh let's not forget... As mentioned in the thread above, the clock gets a lil jacket every year on NYE. Of course it just looks like a giant condom. But it's not a public sex ed slash health and safety campaign, unfortunately. It's to protect the clock from fireworks (and drunk people doing drunk people shit, probably). But it really doesn't help beat the penis allegations, lol.
Every now and then I mention something about the city of Brno to my american friends and it often causes much confusion/concern, so I wanna try to make a list summary of Everything Wrong With Brno
imma start
there is a place called Hell
there is a public transport stop called Crematorium, it is named after the nearby crematorium
it is oddly easy to take the wrong tram and accidentally end up at the Crematorium
Quick translation of what's been said above for anyone interested:
1) "smoking traffic signs": there's been confusion over this with some folks thinking it meant that (non)smoking areas are marked with traffic signs but no. It's the signs themselves that, in fact, smoke. Or the poles, rather. Apparently they serve as vents of an underground heating system. Neat.
2) that building in prev's reblog is the swastika-shaped school mentioned earlier. (In fact, it's an episcopal grammar school / kindergarten. So you know. Yikes). The shape is apparently meant to resemble a kneeling angel but...yeah. I'd say they missed the mark on that one. Apparently it used to be a branch (?) of Auschwitz, though this location served as a work camp, not an extermination one.
3) prev then also mentions Kounicovy koleje, which is a student dorm building that used to be a prison and an execution site during the war. (there's a picture in a different reblog chain here if you want to look through the notes). Prev also adds that their grandma told them of a teacher she used to have. Apparently this teacher lived right next to this building at the time and went crazy due to that experience (not my words and idk the context, just translating).
4) the screenshot of a bunch of tags also mentions that the faculty of law (of Masaryk university) resides in a former gestapo building.
_____ yea to be fair most of this country is fraught with sights like this. WW2 is everpresent, especially in the bigger cities and along the borders. Many beautiful and historic buildings have an awful dark past cause they were seized and used and defiled by nazis (or later on by the communist party). They've been reclaimed since which is definitely good, but it can get creepy at times. _____
Every now and then I mention something about the city of Brno to my american friends and it often causes much confusion/concern, so I wanna try to make a list summary of Everything Wrong With Brno
imma start
there is a place called Hell
there is a public transport stop called Crematorium, it is named after the nearby crematorium
it is oddly easy to take the wrong tram and accidentally end up at the Crematorium