Lord Liaden Posted March 20, 2023 Report Share Posted March 20, 2023 What if he had his tonsils removed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 20, 2023 Report Share Posted March 20, 2023 There are other lymphatic nodes available. Go for the adenoid! Old Man and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 21, 2023 Report Share Posted March 21, 2023 Good point! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 8, 2023 Report Share Posted April 8, 2023 http://curious-places.blogspot.com/2013/07/khaylah-buqshan-palace-khaylah-yemen.html DentArthurDent 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 Thanks to Bazza for recommending these. Waitomo Glow-worm Caves, New Zealand DShomshak, Old Man, Khymeria and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 15, 2023 Report Share Posted November 15, 2023 Winners of the 2023 Natural Landscape Photography Awards I don't understand the awards system but it hardly matters for this thread. tkdguy, DShomshak and DentArthurDent 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 16, 2023 Report Share Posted November 16, 2023 #7 -- The Fagradalsfjall Fires. Fagradalsfjall means "the mountain of the beautiful valley". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 17, 2023 Report Share Posted November 17, 2023 This item just turned up in my internet front page newsfeed. A secret library walled away decades (centuries?) ago should be good for a Fantasy scenario or two. Plus it's in Tibet, for extra mystical glamor. Unveiling the Unseen: 84,000 Unread Manuscripts Discovered at Monastery (msn.com) Dean Shomshak L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 18, 2023 Report Share Posted November 18, 2023 That practically writes itself (pun intended). For story-creation purposes you only need to ask yourself two questions: What? and Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted November 21, 2023 Report Share Posted November 21, 2023 Another library turned up in my newsfeed: Oxford's Bodleian Library. The slide show even notes it as a "Dark Academia" setting, and that its shelves have appeared in various Fantasy and superhero movies. Inside Europe’s oldest library with 13 million books and bizarre membership rules (msn.com) Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 22, 2023 Report Share Posted November 22, 2023 Pretty sure the room in picture 2 was in a scene in... Shadow & Bone? Or was it Enola Holmes? Man, now it's going to bother me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombrown803 Posted November 22, 2023 Report Share Posted November 22, 2023 Both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 9 Report Share Posted January 9 For the name alone: Castle of Oblivion A well-earned name, considering its ostensible purpose. Sadly, the link doesn't provide a good location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted January 9 Report Share Posted January 9 Remarkably hard to find a location for the place more specific than a whole province, even using non-Anglicized names. I did find an awful story about one of its more notable prisoners, who definitely deserves a "Worst Husband In History" nomination, the lousy rat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 2 Report Share Posted February 2 Another great real place name: The Stele of Vultures Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 All Things Considered tells me that in late February, Horsetail Falls in Yosemite Park sometimes catches the light of the setting sun to glow like golden fire: the Fire Fall. Here's the story: https://www.npr.org/2024/02/29/1234996308/the-fickle-golden-magic-of-the-yosemite-fire-fall Here's an image: It happens only a few minutes, weather conditions permitting. What happens if you step into the Fire Fall? Gain super-powers? Transport to another world? Release a powerful spirit? Something beyond getting wet, as it is obviously an intensely magical event. Dean Shomshak L. Marcus, tkdguy, DentArthurDent and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 It's anyone's guess who you'd find at the top: Darth Vader, Sauron, or just Surtur taking a whiz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 You find Yosemite Sam, extatic that he's finally got that gold. Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 Quick, throw the ring in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 1 Report Share Posted March 1 No, wait, what? But it's mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 2 Report Share Posted March 2 Quick, throw L. Marcus in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 2 Report Share Posted March 2 Okay! *rapidly dopplering wilhelm scream* Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted March 13 Report Share Posted March 13 https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/37916 DentArthurDent and DShomshak 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 13 Report Share Posted March 13 Those water gods have been fickle toward California over the past few years. Much of the state in cultivation now would be desert if not for extensive irrigation. But Cali's profligate water use will not be sustainable under pressure from global warming. One day that "temple" will be an ironic ruin. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted March 13 Report Share Posted March 13 (edited) Gods being fickle is a prime reason to build temples. The article's mention of hundreds of miles of pipes reminds me of the NOVA episode about the ruined city of Petra in Jordan, perhaps best known to movie audiences as the setting for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. A poet called it the "rose-red city, half as old as time." Petra was a rich trading city on the frankincense trail from Yemen to the Mediterranean. Its greatest marvel, though, might have been its reservoir and urban pool, fed by an immense system of channels and cisterns built to catch every drop of rain that fell anywhere near the city. IIRC the city fell when a massive earthquake broke the dam of the main reservoir. Hm. More grim foreshadowings for Californians to consider. But it was a wonderful city while it lasted. ...And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. --T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land Though for a contrary view: On their own feet they came, or on shipboard, Camelback, horseback, ass-back, mule-back, Old civilizations put to the sword. They and their wisdom went to rack. No handiwork of Callimichaus, Who handled marble as if it were bronze, Made draperies that seemed to rise When sea-wind swept the corner, stands; His long lamp-chimney shaped like the stem Of a slender palm, stood but a day; All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay. --William Butler Yeats, "Lapis Lazuli" (I drew on the water system of Petra when writing the revised and explanded description of the desert city of Gem, for White Wolf's game Exalted. It was a running gag through the game that Gem was always on the verge of being destroyed.) Dean Shomshak Edited March 13 by DShomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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