I recently heard about a 400-year-old tree in a nearby village, which made me want to estimate the age of the big lime tree behind my house. I measured the circumference at my height then divided by Pi to get the diametre then multiplied by the growth factor for this species—and I learnt that my lime tree is about 255-260 years-old! It was born in the 1760s... I also went and measured some of my beech trees and the oldest ones are ~190 years-old, which makes sense as it’s the age of the house. I’m not sure why this lime tree is so much older than all the other trees on this land, but it makes me want to give it a little plaque, maybe one that says “I was 25 years-old during the French revolution.”
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ok so here's a bloodborne post. every dream or nightmare in bloodborne needs two things:
1. a host/dreamer
2. a being to create the dream
in the nightmare frontier/nightmare of mensis the dreamer is micolash and the creator is mergo.
we know for sure the nameless moon presence made the hunter's dream, and the obvious conclusion is gehrman is the dreamer. my personal pet theory is the doll is a second dreamer, the real host of the dream, because you find her sleeping in the old abandoned workshop
when you end a dream you have to kill both the host of the dream and the creator, ex, killing micolash then mergo, killing (freeing) gehrman and then the moon presence
so here where i get a little confusing okkkkk. the doll is the reason the game loops. the purpose of the hunter's dream is to keep hunters alive, at least when they start out hunting. hunters can leave the dream, like eileen and djura, but can they really? they reset when you start new game plus. everything resets. you are able to end the nightmare of beasts by ending the mensis ritual, but micolash was already long dead and a skeleton when he 'woke up', meaning gehrman would be as well. the doll, however, would just go back to sleep. she has an immortal doll body, if she wakes up there is no actual consequence. in the childhoods beginning ending you become the new creator of the dream, and the doll is the host, so gehrman is unnecessary. in the ending where you replace gehrman you are replacing his role as the surrogate child of the moon presence/collateral, and the doll is the host. in yharnam sunrise you 'leave' the dream, but you can't actually leave. the only thing left is new game plus. there is no way to permanently kill the doll in the game, and you need to kill both the dreamer and the maker of the dream to end it
i believe the moon presence created something unintendedly bigger than herself with the dream, it's become an endless self powering cycle that resets the entire world instead of just keeping a few hunters alive. the great ones are sympathetic in spirit, but she didn't really understand what laurence (and associates) was asking for because she can never actually die. so now no one can ever die! N that's my post
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I have successfully identified the HUGE friction point of “mowing the lawn” as actually being “asking the neighbors to use their mower” and also “struggling with a gas mower” and, following that, “other neighbors asking if I need help starting the gas mower because I am too weak to reliably pull the ripcord thing”
More importantly, I have solved it by ordering my OWN mower that will be arriving Thursday (so that, honestly, I can put it together and mow the lawn again on the weekend because it’s still so long that I know I’m gonna have problems with it if I don’t—but it should be easier because I will have my OWN mower by then)
And to do that I have successfully navigated the “how big in sqft is my lawn, dad” question and the “but my neighbors already judge me for my (lack of) lawn care; they will surely also think I’m a doofus for preferring a reel mower” pride point and have spent $100 on a mower similar to the one we had growing up that I actually enjoyed using to the point where I would go “no mom don’t worry about it, I’ll mow the lawn, can I mow the lawn??”
So although my lawn is bigger than the one I grew up with (and weedier, but less full of dog poop), dare I say. that I might be. looking FORWARD to mowing my lawn this weekend and really going Full Dad
Also part of my positive motivation for the reel mower was—not gonna lie—the review from a guy saying that he wasn’t a hippie who cared about the environment or wanted a hipster way of mowing the lawn and didn’t prefer drinking his coffee out of a French press, but boy did he appreciate this reel mower when he didn’t think he did! HILARIOUS. Unwittingly effective to me, a person who ranted about the stupidity and environmental unfriendliness of lawns and lawn mowing for a solid ten straight minutes just a few hours ago, and who might therefore be classified as the hippie and/or hipster who really loves their cold brew (tea) and who also is desperate for a mower that will not use gas
L M F A O
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"HOW are we ever going to get our streets clean and uncluttered with all these dirty people messing it up?? They just keep bringing in more junk!"
*magic sparkle POOF and a cheerful worker appears*
"You need HOWsing™!"
*rotating shots of Unsightly Camps and Trash Piles replaced by HOWsing™, appropriate infrastructure, and unionized sanitation crews*
"Trash piles and unsightly camps got you down? Try HOWsing™!"
"Tired of needles on your streets? Try HOWsing™!"
"Does worry of new cholera epidemic keep you up at night? It's time for HOWsing™, now with indoor plumbing!"
*camera pans over clean streets with mixed use buildings and large, lovely shared public spaces that don't require payment to exist in*
"This is what HOWsing™ can do for YOUR neighborhood!"
*housed neighbor gasps* "Thanks, HOWsing™ fairy!"
*chuckle* "No need to thank me, I'm a government program paid for by fairly taxing all those conglomerate companies profiting off your manipulated need for ever more junk! Say, that's kinda like what you were complaining about your unhoused neighbor in the opening scene, wasn't it?"
*both laugh, screen dissolves to closing text:*
TRY HOWSING™ NOW!
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... please share some bernardino lonati info crumbs with us? Please 🥺 ascanio too if you want to
(PS. your art is so beautiful aaa💗)
YES (also thank you! 💗) oh my god okay so
They were!!! friends!!
Bernardino Lonati was from Pavia, and Ascanio spent a lot of time in Pavia in the earlier parts of his life and was also the apostolic administrator of Pavia, so it's very likely they knew each other as teenagers (Ascanio refers to Bernardino as his "cardinal from home")
Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini
and they were only a couple of years apart in age (Lonati was born in 1452, Ascanio was 1455)
Lonati was one of the cardinals that Ascanio had "made," (Sanseverino is another). Before that, though, he was Ascanio's secretary!
Popes, Cardinals and War, D.S. Chambers
in 1497, Ascanio fell seriously ill, like a lot of Rome thought he had died despite being alive because of how bad his condition was. Lonati was someone Ludovico Sforza got in contact with to try to navigate the situation, and Lonati and Sanseverino were part of a group that banded together to prevent Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) from seizing Ascanio's assets in the event of his death.
Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini
Every time Ascanio would go against the Vatican for one reason or another/in conflict with the pope (the reason is that Ascanio's loyalty went to Milan first and always), Lonati was one of the cardinals that always sided with him :)
So when Lonati fell ill and it was clear things weren't going to get better
Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini
Ascanio rushed to be with him in his final hours and was so grief stricken over it that he had to be physically pulled away from Lonati's bedside because they were concerned that Ascanio would become ill as well (this was later in 1497). After Lonati died, Ascanio took care of the finances: Lonati wanted to pass the beneficiaries on to family members, but could not do this without Ascanio signing off on it since Ascanio was the apostolic administrator of Pavia.
Asanio did him one better: He wrote to his brother, knowing that he could ensure Lonati's last wishes, and had the income from S. Savino and a third of the income from S. Antonio go to the son, and the minor benefits go to the nephew, and the remaining 2/3rds of the income Ascanio had donated to charitable works in honor of Lonati's soul.
and he was in charge of the funeral arrangements and monument :')
Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini
Lonati was buried in Santa Maria del Popolo, a church associated with Ascanio, and later Giuliano della Rovere (Pope Julius II) would have a tomb commissioned for Ascanio there too, which I feel so so so normal about.
Also, Lonati was considered a "poor cardinal" while he was alive, Ascanio was the driving force behind getting Lonati additional incomes.
Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini
and for some Ascanio trivia: he was gambled (literally) with Rodrigo Borgia on occasion, and was apparently an amateur musician on top of the Everything Else He Did 🎵
A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Milan, edited by Andrea Gamberini
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