The Friday Five for 19 June 2026

Jun. 18th, 2026 06:07 pm
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1. What is your biggest waste of time in your home?

2. When at work, what is the activity that you find wastes the most time?

3. When getting busy with a date or significant other, what ritual could you do without?

4. What is the biggest waste of time on the Internet?

5. What do you do at a restaurant to waste time when waiting for your meal?

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European Castles

Jun. 16th, 2026 03:44 pm
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Not sure how to word this...

I'm looking for information on castles? In particular the keep, which was a residence for the nobility as well as a last line of defense.

Some questions include:

  • Wikipedia only talks about English, French, Italian, and Spanish castles having keeps. Did castles in northern, central, and eastern Europe not have keeps, or is this just a matter of fewer English-language sources on, for example, German, Danish, and Polish castles?
  • If you know of any good diagrams or floor plans with labels of castle keeps - both the kind of "generic" cross-section illustrations you see in children's educational books (the larger and more visually detailed the better!) and of specific real-world castles. Preferably castles that actually served as fortifications in addition to residences, rather than castle-esque palaces like Neuschwanstein Castle. It's difficult for me to reconstruct spatial information with text, so visual aids are helpful. It's very hard to find good educational pictures with an image search these days, there's too much AI-generated inaccurate bloat in the results.
  • Relatedly, photos or illustrations of the castle's interior.
  • Who (if anyone) resided in the castle, aside from the noble that owned it and their family, and the servants? Also, more information on the duties and types of servants who would have been present in the castle.

I, um, am sorry if this is too broad. ^_^;

The Friday Five for 12 June 2026

Jun. 11th, 2026 11:03 pm
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These questions were written by Dreamwidth user archersangel, who used a random letter generator, for random questions.

1. What is place you have visited, or want to visit, that starts with D?

2. What is a food that you like, or don't like, that starts with R?

3. Own anything that starts with the letter M?

4. Know anyone whose name (first, middle, or last) that starts with N?

5. Favorite movie, book, TV show, or song whose title starts with T?

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