Your water elemental wife is normally a very patient woman, but not as much after you tried mixing her watery form with Kool-Aid while she was sleeping one night. Despite her apparent irritation, you can’t help but love the flavor of her fruit punch… to the jaw.
And the bone church is still the most Goth thing ever…
Do I want to know where those bones come from?!
In the mid 14th century, during the Black Death, and after the Hussite Wars in the early 15th century, many thousands were buried in the abbey cemetery, so it had to be greatly enlarged.
Around 1400, a Gothic church was built in the center of the cemetery with a vaulted upper level and a lower chapel to be used as an ossuary for the mass graves unearthed during construction, or simply slated for demolition to make room for new burials.
After 1511, the task of exhuming skeletons and stacking their bones in the chapel was given to a half-blindmonk of the order.
Between 1703 and 1710, a new entrance was constructed to support
the front wall, which was leaning outward, and the upper chapel was
rebuilt. This work, in the Czech Baroque style, was designed by Jan Santini Aichel.
In 1870, František Rint, a woodcarver, was employed by the Schwarzenberg family to put the bone heaps into order, yielding a macabre result. The signature of Rint, also executed in bone, appears on the wall near the entrance to the chapel.
Essentially it was a popular burial site for wealthy Catholics and they ran out of room. Eastern Europe is wild. [X]
I feel like “catholic to goth pipeline“ is one of the most accurate things I’ve seen today.
Last night I had a dream that was literally Disney’s Aladdin except Jafar was replaced with Judge Frollo and Iago was replaced with Kaa from Disney’s takes on The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Jungle Book, respectively. And it was kinda interesting to see how those characters changed with the drastically different plot, setting, and heroes to oppose them.
Well now I really wanna hear Tony Jay sing “Prince Ali (Reprise)”
Tyrannosaurus was not the most dangerous animal in the park. Having imprinted on its handler since infancy, the creature maintained a docile temperament all the way to adulthood, and indeed seemed to prefer feeding from its designated trough to pursuing prey. Its interactions with staff and guests showed at most a mild curiosity, and the only real terror the beast inspired was when it snuck up on trainers to sniff their hats.
The raptors were not the most dangerous animals in the park. Hollywood had greatly exaggerated their size, first of all, and while they had a mischievous streak (one individual in particular was fond of stealin zookeepers’ wallets), they were far from the hyper-intelligent murder lizards everyone expected. Their intelligence was less of the predatory sort and more the comical intelligence of a corvid, devoted mostly to play and caring for their fellow flock members.
The mosasaur was not the most dangerous animal in the park. Though it held no loyalty to the zookeepers, it had taken to training well enough, and would dutifully move to a specific section of the tank when signaled, giving the keepers space to carry out any business they needed to accomplish in its tank without fear of harm.
No, by far the most dangerous animal in the park was the Struthiomimus. Everyone expected it to be easy – what were these animals in pop culture beyond being fodder for the carnivores? Surely the bird-mimics couldn’t be much of a hassle. Sadly, they weren’t just any bird mimics.
No, in temperament, the Struthiomimus mimicked a swan.
Highly territorial and vicious to the bone, more keepers had suffering brutal beatings by the struthis than had been hurt by the rest of the park’s fauna combined. And when they learned to chew through the fences…
Well, let’s just say the Tyrannosaurus never experienced a more terrifying day in her life.
This is my new favorite story.
ok, but in the book, they had to blow up a raptor with a rocket launcher
just saying
There’s a book about my dinosaur park?
er, well you said hollywood exaggerated the size of raptors so I assumed that you were talking about Jurassic Park, since I am unfamiliar with any other hollywood films that contain raptors
Ah, no, see this post is about my original dinosaur park story. I call it Billy and the Cloneosaurus.
Monsters and Stuff 