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[figs-oliomedley]

The worst part of Ninjago Dragons Rising is that because it’s serialized, they can set up like a million mysteries that won’t be answered by the end of the season. I NEED THAT SWEET CLOSURE, DAMMIT /j

[canisalbus]

✦ Bread ✦

[aqua-regia009]

Monastery Garden in Snow, c.1829 - oil on canvas ― Karl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808-1880)

[satevari]

[allthingseurope]

Jeronimos Monastery, Portugal (by mas.si)

[omercifulheaves]

Monks Walk To The Mountain Monastery of Athos, 1905 Art by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi

[cy-lindric]

Mouse & viper

[kittarts]

[heiligetod]

Athos (2016)

[ancientsstudies]

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos by michaelthecanadian.

[iko66]

Meteora Monasteries, Greece

[techn0balkanic]

[canisalbus]

✦ Mom ✦

[aqua-regia009]

Monks in a monastery courtyard, Storm over a Lake in the Background (1856) Oil on canvas. ― Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1778-1856)

[thestuffedalligator]

I’ve talked about this before but I feel obligated every now and then to talk about the time Jimmy Stewart smuggled a yeti finger from a Nepalese Buddhist monastery to America.

The Pangboche Hand was the skeletal hand of a yeti who was a disciple of Lama Sangwa Dorje, and the finger of the hand was stolen in 1959 by a Bigfoot researcher named Peter C. Byrne after the monks refused to let him take the hand for research. Once Byrne got the finger into India, “It’s A Wonderful Life” star Jimmy Stewart, James “Anatomy of a Murder” Stewart, smuggled the finger out of India and to the States by — allegedly — hiding it in his wife’s lingerie case, because no gentleman would ever check a woman's lingerie case.

Byrne, by the way, was hired to steal the finger by eccentric millionaire oil tycoon Tom Slick, who spent the ‘50s obsessed with cryptozoology before dying in a plane crash in Montana. Not important for the story, important to me personally that you know this.

And I tell you this because “Jimmy Stewart smuggled a yeti finger in his wife’s lingerie case” is a fun collection of words and also to remind you that cryptozoology is awash with colonial assholes who will step over other cultures to find the “proof” they feel entitled to.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]