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Monschau Germany
Monschau is a small historical town located in the hills of the North Eifel in North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen) in Germany,
situated just 4 km across the Belgian border. The picturesque old town
center has many preserved 300 years old half-timbered houses along the
river Rur.
© J.Höhn
Chefchaouen, a small town in northern Morocco, has a rich history, beautiful natural surroundings and wonderful architecture, but what it’s most famous for are the striking and vivid blue walls of many of the buildings in its “old town” sector, or medina.
The maze-like medina sector, like those of most of the other towns in the area, features white-washed buildings with a fusion of Spanish and Moorish architecture. The brilliantly blue walls, however, seem to be unique to Chefchaouen. They are said to have been introduced to the town by Jewish refugees in 1930, who considered blue to symbolize the sky and heaven. The color caught on, and now many also believe that the blue walls serve to repel mosquitoes as well (mosquitoes dislike clear and moving water).
Whatever the reason, the town’s blue walls attract visitors who love to wander the town’s narrow streets and snap some beautiful photos.
George is out here trying to get laid with a poster at the pride parade at ninety years old
This is George Montague, he’s an author who is currently campaigning to have a historic conviction for “gross indecency” from 1974 (PDA with his then-boyfriend) struct from his criminal record. You can sign his petition here!
The epitome of “Distinguished Gay”
Update as of 7 November 2018, this guy is now 95 years old and is still looking for his apology.
He’s still waiting for that apology.
if you ever think history isn’t an important subject just remember that my friend’s solution to poverty was to “just print more money”
Well isn’t it?
tell that to the weimar republic
[horrified german screaming in the distance]
Ok so many people may not know what this is about. After World War I in Germany the country was pretty much bankrupt and on top of that they were being forced by the allies to pay restitution for the war. In order to try to fix these problems the Weimar Republic which was the government that took over after the war decided to just print more money. Because of this the country faced hyperinflation which basically means that everything became majorly expensive and the money was pretty much worthless. This is a picture of a man that is literally carrying money around in a wheelbarrow because that is how much money it took to pay for things:
These are some children playing with stacks of money because they were cheaper than toys:
And here is another:
So in short no you cannot fix poverty by printing more money.
More Solarpunk inspiration images!! To recap: some of the defining features of how I imagine solarpunk are: Art Nouveau + other old styles of architecture and fashion, stained-glass solar panels, sustainable-energy-powered tech, lots of inner-city gardening, and lots of streetcars.
Okay, on to image credits:
1: Kingsbury, from Ghibli’s How’l Moving Castle
2: Stained glass dome, photo by Jyoti Srivastava
3: A streetcar running in Portland
4: Photo taken by John Meckley
5: Cityscape by Imperial Boy
6: Image by me, traced over image by Alphonse Mucha
7: GaiaOnline avatars made using tektek.org
8: Art by Owen Carson
I really wish I could draw my own cityscapes, but alas, I am no artist. Instead I have to comb the internet, searching for “close enough.”
Maybe someday I’ll have the disposable income to commission artists to draw pieces that are intentionally solarpunk….. Someday….
Just remember the following:
Hitler promised to make his country strong again.
Stalin vowed to restore the glory of his people.
Mao Tze Tung started the “Great Leap Forward” to make China better, more efficient, and stronger.
Trump promises to make America great again.
Hitler believed the best way to make Germany strong again was to murder an entire ethnicity, along with the gays, roma, and anyone else who happened to cross him.
Stalin instituted the Great Purge, took over the economy, and execute who knows how many farmers.
Mao Tze Tung seized all the farmland, shipped the actual farmers to the cities and the cityfolk to work on the farms, and shot anyone accused of being smart and/or badmouthing his regime.
Trump wants to build a wall to protect Americans from those awful Mexican rapists, register and/or deport the Muslims, and kill the families of people he says are terrorists.
Hitler sent his prisoners to camps in other countries to be beaten, starved, and worked to death if not immediately terminated.
Stalin sent his prisoners to gulags in Siberia to be beaten, starved, and worked to death if not immediately shot.
Mao Tze Tung sent his prisoners to “re-education farms” to be beaten, starved, and worked to death if not immediately murdered.
Trump probably has the same general idea, the way the rest of his politics are reading.
Hitler invaded half of Europe to push his master race idea. He was pretty friendly with Stalin until he decided to invade Russia.
Stalin invaded the other half of Europe for the glory of communism.
Mao was too busy waging war on his own people to invade anyone else but I’m sure he would have if his army wasn’t otherwise occupied. He was also pretty chummy with Stalin
Stalin is now thankfully dead but Trump is still working that Russian bromance.
Hitler’s policies resulted in the massive destruction of his own country, and the starvation and death of millions of not only his own people (the Jewish ones, anyway) but those from neighboring countries.
Stalin’s policies resulted in the starvation and death of millions.
Mao’s policies resulted in the starvation and death of millions.
We’ll have to wait and see about Trump. I am not optimistic.
Hitler had a cult following of devoted sycophants, and appealed to millions of Germans who believed in his message of superiority.
Stalin had a cult following of devoted sycophants, and appealed to millions of Soviets, though it was lethal to profess otherwise.
Mao was revered by his people and still is to this day.
Trump appealed to enough Americans to land him in the white house, despite his message of superiority, hate, and offensiveness.
Hitler controlled the media and used it as a propaganda machine.
Stalin controlled the media and used it as a propaganda machine.
Mao controlled the media and used it as a propaganda machine.
Trump wants to control the media.
Hitler was directly responsible for the deaths of over 6 million people.
Stalin was directly responsible for the deaths of 35-50 million people.
Mao was directly responsible for the deaths of over 70 million people.
Trump has time.
Oh, and finally
No one thought Hitler would rise to power.
No one thought Stalin would amount to more than a government thug.
No one thought Mao would be more than a political agitator.
No one thought Trump would win.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Dear British Museum, Musée du Louvre, and Pergamon Museum, please return my heritage.
Berlin, Germany 2013
Photo: Zeidon Alkinani
Not to mention The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Natural History, etc.
God I love tumblr history. I love tumblr analysis. I love looking back at how many things have changed in the past 9 years over this website and basically ugh please talk to me about the old country. The good old days, fellow comrade
SAME. ALWAYS. It’s so interesting, you could honestly write a book textbook-style about tumblr fandom over the past couple years, and it would still be shorter than a lot of fics that came out of said fandoms (which i’m currently talking about with @bokuroho actually!!!) And me and @anvard have stayed up many late nights discussing tumblr history. It’s so rich and interesting honestly
It’s so wild bc I can literally separate my life by what tumblr fandoms I was active in. Like there are entire years that are just like, the superwholock years, the homestuck years, the bandom years, with a couple months of overlap in between. My current contributions to fandom and tumblr in general have been informed by my past and the mistakes I’ve made in older fandoms… It’s wild and I wanna do a serious academic paper on it bc there’s a lot there that I just wanna collect somehow
Over the past 7 years I can very clearly divide it into what fandoms I was in. Star Trek, classic rock, Superwholock for a few months, Rooster Teeth, WTNV, Pacific Rim, there was a year in there where I bounced around from RT to Steven Universe to other small scale fandoms. Now I just kind bounce around from place to place, RT to Star Wars to the occasional small scale TV show.
God I love tumblr history. I love tumblr analysis. I love looking back at how many things have changed in the past 9 years over this website and basically ugh please talk to me about the old country. The good old days, fellow comrade
God I love tumblr history. I love tumblr analysis. I love looking back at how many things have changed in the past 9 years over this website and basically ugh please talk to me about the old country. The good old days, fellow comrade
SAME. ALWAYS. It’s so interesting, you could honestly write a book textbook-style about tumblr fandom over the past couple years, and it would still be shorter than a lot of fics that came out of said fandoms (which i’m currently talking about with @bokuroho actually!!!) And me and @anvard have stayed up many late nights discussing tumblr history. It’s so rich and interesting honestly
Someone make a timeline with example posts. It is our duty as the tumblr elders. We must protect our children from repeating the dark ways of the past.
Cat in the summer meadow, 1920 - Bruno Liljefors (Swedish, 1860-1939)
