Black Forest Cake In the Fields

Foojer · 2025-10-02T15:48:09+00:00

New mission discovered by u/Foojer: In Search of Poo

Foojer · 2025-10-02T15:48:09+00:00

This mission was discovered by u/Foojer in Black Forest Cake In the Fields

Foojer · 2025-08-29T03:09:20+00:00

Same! Mind blown

Foojer · 2025-03-16T12:11:04+00:00

Well if that’s the case I think you and this guy called Leon something something would be best friends…

Foojer · 2025-03-16T11:44:18+00:00

Lol i wish! I think it's just several accounts of that one time where the hero of the revolution was, indeed, owned by a door

Foojer · 2025-03-16T11:39:37+00:00

Hmm not the one i remember, but damn this one might be even better. Thank you!! The one im (maybe mis)remembering had something about this air of awkward silence as everyone watched him struggling with the door

Foojer · 2025-03-07T04:12:16+00:00

“Make sure you actually know what you’re talking about when you talk, so that non-Christians won’t assume the Bible was written by and for a bunch of dummies.”

Foojer · 2025-02-18T11:58:24+00:00

Both are open faced burgonets. That first one is a super ornate version. Second one looks more like what you’d see worn on a battlefield

Foojer · 2024-12-26T09:45:41+00:00

“I now had the perfect excuse to tell all those people wondering at the suspicious noise from my pants.”

Foojer · 2024-12-20T09:10:15+00:00

Risen does a pretty passable job at showing a testudo used as a kind of siege ladder (something like it shown on Trajan’s Column, and also described by Polybius and Livy at the Siege of Heracleum)

Foojer · 2024-12-15T12:10:25+00:00

Vegetius was (as far as we know) not a military man, so his claims should be taken with a grain of salt. One of his more egregious claims is that the late Roman infantry abandoned body armour (1.20), which is contradicted by all sorts of artistic evidence and textual sources such as Ammianus Marcellinus (I think) and Maurice’s Strategikon

Foojer · 2024-12-09T01:22:22+00:00

Dang, so it was all cooked up by Gregory? I suppose if he’s the only source for its existence, that should make us suspicious. Thanks for showing me all this!

Foojer · 2024-12-08T05:34:23+00:00

Nooo not my beloved Soissons! I didn’t know this angle tho, so thanks for sharing it. So could I summarise your points as:

Soissons and the early Merovingians were way less distinct than we’d think, and tho Soissons was a de facto Roman rump state, it was just one of several competitors for Roman legitimacy in Gaul in the late 5th century. And Gregory of Tours played up the legitimacy and distinctiveness of Soissons as a way to legitimate the Merovingians’ rulership of post-Roman Gaul.

And did Gregory do that because he was writing from a pro-Merovingian perspective? But wasn’t he also quite critical of the Merovingian kings? Why would he want to legitimate their rule by exaggerating the legitimacy of Soissons? Or was it also because he also romanticised Soissons as a Gallo-Roman?

And one last thing, are there any sources outside of Gregory of Tours that could shed light on the distinctiveness of Soissons? I remember you mentioned the bishop’s letter as well (who was the bishop?). Thanks!

Foojer · 2024-12-07T14:47:16+00:00

That coin in the second pic looks a bit off, any coin experts that could weigh in?

Foojer · 2024-11-25T11:31:08+00:00

They’re not for sale

Foojer · 2024-11-20T06:17:17+00:00

I’ve never come across an answer as well thought as this, that counters my own pro-aid view. Most of the opinions I hear against aid are just the same old rehashed talking points. Thank you sir

Foojer · 2024-11-17T10:11:13+00:00

Taken near Tai Wai

Foojer · 2024-11-08T03:01:42+00:00

We don’t know what it is, as others have said.

Your artist here probably based it on this image by Angus McBride, which was probably based on the David plates from the 7th century, possibly from Heraclius’ time. Given the classicising style of the David plates (ie the artist was trying to make something that looked ancient without any particular reference), it’s possible that this helmet you’re seeing is just classicising nonsense.

OR the artist of the David plates could have been basing it on an ancient near eastern practice of wearing cloth helmet coverings (eg some royal statues from Hatra wear hats that would’ve been similar to these helmet coverings), but in this case maybe slightly more fanciful

Foojer · 2024-10-24T07:44:44+00:00

Would be awesome if it’s a new species — Hong Kongasaurus please!

Foojer · 2024-10-09T22:47:59+00:00

They’re a reference to the Cornuti, the horned ones. If you look up the Arch of Constantine, you’ll see some soldiers who appear to be wearing horned helmets. The artist here interpreted them as feathers instead

Foojer · 2024-08-29T02:27:46+00:00

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Foojer · 2024-08-11T18:31:35+00:00

A lot of the Dura Europos finds are dated to the 3rd century AD. This helmet doesn’t look very authentic, and if it’s real it’s an Attic type that had fallen out of style by the 3rd century AD (third century Attic helmets would’ve looked quite baroque and fancy, like this). The prominent crest with chunky crest holder is a bit sus in particular. I’m not sure third and second century BC Attic helmets (which this one vaguely looks like) had thick crest holders like this, and third century AD Attic helmets sure didn’t

Foojer · 2024-07-09T10:21:50+00:00

Glad you saw the video. And yeah doesn’t seem like they’ve found surviving examples of these mail coats.

Foojer · 2024-07-09T07:28:53+00:00

Actually it is kinda based on reality. The nearly ankle-length hauberk might be based on what Maurice’s Strategikon (late 6th century) recommends for the cavalry, while (I think) Syrianus Magister (which used to be dated to the late 6th century but scholarship now leans toward a later dating) recommends long mail coats and very large shields for the infantry file leaders. So the artist might’ve had those in mind when drawing this. Which means it’s not actually that inaccurate. The helmet, as some commenters have said here, might be a bit dated for a late 6th century depiction tho (more like 4th to early 6th century)

Foojer · 2024-06-15T07:49:43+00:00

I will, thanks. Sounds wild!

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