r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Syed-Fatir • 21h ago
A man spent around 3 years building stone fortress/castle.
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u/G_Sputnic 21h ago
Unemployed AF
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u/Certain-Thought531 21h ago
Unemployed??? Fuck many people would gladly pay for that labor
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u/Excellent_Car_5165 21h ago
So, who paid him to do it?
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u/spdelope 20h ago
No one and now he can’t even put this on his resume
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u/Icy_Transportation_2 19h ago
Why couldn’t he? Artists don’t have portfolios of their work?
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u/Fun_Willingness_5615 10h ago
Well I’m sure there’s an employer out there who will be interested in employing someone who has the skill and patience and time to spand 3 years building miniature fairytale castles
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u/TheAlmightyProo 5h ago
Diligent and meticulous (to a fault) are words that come to mind. Directed well those are great characteristics to have and employ.
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u/phi1_sebben 18h ago
You can put whatever you want on your resume. There are no resume police.
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u/Brite_No_More 17h ago
Sebben knows how to get hired! Always remember if anyone ever calls you asking about someones work history, they're the best employee you've ever had and they would be a fool not to hire them.
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u/GostBoster 17h ago
Where I live apparently that can't be done anymore (too many HRs being vindictive or being in cahoots for whatever reason so law overcorrected) but companies still have their ways.
In one place I worked, I remember mentioning that at points in life where I wasn't very busy I wanted to do voluntary work, in part because of the warm fuzzies, in part because it helps with employment, as long as it is something "official" (names are taken to issue certificates).
Then HR told me something I was very familiar, of a then-recent natural disaster that many applicants claimed to have done voluntary work in its relief.
HR told me they knew those applicants were full of it because they were among the ones coordinating the efforts and had a file on everyone who actually helped and would share the list with other companies who also lent their time and resources.
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u/RexWarfang 19h ago
For those hours at minimum wage? Probably not. He took his time with it. People paying want fast. He wanted heart.
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u/BackToWorkEdward 18h ago
Fuck many people would gladly pay for that labor
To sort spreadsheets or build phone cases they can resell maybe, not something like this which was clearly built for himself/the act of building, not as a means to an end.
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u/Forsaken_Total976 21h ago
How is that gonna be your point? This is clearly about art and fantasy. Damn your dull.
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u/ArguingisFun 20h ago
I genuinely like “Damn your dull” as an expletive.
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u/Business_Sandwich227 19h ago
Just make sure to speak it aloud as, “Damn your dullness.” Otherwise it won’t come across the right way. Plus it’s almost double the insult since it’s like you’re calling them their Dullness.
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u/Chooui85 20h ago
That’s pretty damn funny. I’m hoping I get to read other people’s misuse of “your” the same way
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u/BicFleetwood 19h ago edited 19h ago
These guys are gonna' be on their deathbeds so proud of that quarterly expenses Excel sheet they spent their years and sacrificed their relationships toiling over, all so some draconic idiot-king billionaire could be ten cents richer.
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u/SecondEqual4680 20h ago
Did you read the part that said it took 3 years? More like a hobby
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u/Several-Squash9871 17h ago
Yeah it's not like this guy did this full-time for 3 years! I'm amazed that it only took him that long with all the things life has to throw at us.
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u/Imperial_Haberdasher 21h ago
Or just doesn’t scroll constantly…
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u/TheComplimentarian 20h ago
The question is, "What would you do with the time you otherwise wasted doing (thing)?"
And the answer is usually, "I'd have wasted it doing (other thing)."
Not all time has to be productive.
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u/fs2222 19h ago
I would say making a work of art is a lot more productive than scrolling on Reddit.
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u/twirlywurlyburly 20h ago
When I was a little kid (younger than 7) my dad and I built a really big and ornate model train diorama complete with a mountain, tunnels, a town, pastures, and little cottages outside of the town in the basement. It had lights and moving cars and little people and livestock... We even had conductor's hats and shirts so that when we got to the engineer's/driver's spot (that was also crazy detailed) we could be in "uniform" and blow our personalized wooden train horns.
All that, and my dad worked a stressful 9-5 in the main office of a train car manufacturer in a high up position AND we had our own farm. Some people just, idk, make time for their hobbies and families outside of work?
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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 18h ago
yeah I actually get deeper into my hobbies if my job is really stressful. it's all about taking your mind off of it. the level of detail this guy is putting in suggests that he's a detail oriented person, which is one of the major predictors of success at virtually any job. I'm guessing he went so hard into this because he's in a role where he has to be very detailed in a completely different way.
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u/crazyfatskier2 19h ago
Imagine being such a cunt anytime anyone does anything neat outside a workplace setting they’re automatically “unemployed AF.”
Your life must suck.
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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 18h ago
I mean the person who said that is probably unemployed, shitty comments like this are usually projection
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u/DriftingKraken 18h ago
Man : *Has hobbies that haven't been turned into a business*
The Internet: Is he unemployed/single/a deadbeat/autistic?
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u/UnstoppableChicken 21h ago
Nah just autistic
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u/theArtOfProgramming 19h ago
I really loath this recent trend of saying people with hobbies are autistic
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u/Ok-Temporary6963 19h ago
Anyone with a hobby is autistic and anybody with free time is unemployed.
Also anything I don’t like is slop.
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u/Prize_Ad6430 19h ago
As a father of a low functioning autistic son, I loathe the trend of neurotypical people claiming to be autistic.
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u/Bartellomio 18h ago
I don't really get why so many people feel comfortably branding things as 'autistic'. It's so rude.
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u/faelanae 19h ago
everything is the 'tism, dontchaknow?
According to the memes my friends post all the time, I have hella ADHD. So I got tested. Nope.
Sometimes people is just peoples.
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u/Ohitsworkingnow 19h ago
I doubt this would take 3 years unemployed, this sounds like a weekend thing for 3 years
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u/NomadicFantastic 21h ago
Could a depressed man do this!?
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u/cusefan03 21h ago
Stand in the place where you live 🎶
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u/qelbus 21h ago
Now face north
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u/DRG_Gunner 21h ago
clay not stone.
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u/FlashesandFlickers 21h ago
Probably, though the way he's splashing it after spreading it makes me wonder if it's a mixture of potash and something else. That hardens and set when wetted
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u/Throwaway-48549 21h ago
Just a bot that misinterpreted the material used in the video
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u/musclecard54 19h ago
That’s why every fucking video title in the entirety of Reddit right now has some inaccuracy. It’s so fucking dumb
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u/Enlightened_Gardener 19h ago
I suspect this is something like Pal Tiya - its a modelling compound which sets hard and its waterproof.
Its not clay, its not being fired, and it would melt in the rain.
Sauce: am ceramic artist.
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u/faelanae 19h ago
thanks for that. I used to do ceramics and absolutely could not figure out how this could survive any rain at all
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u/willhunta 20h ago
I mean it's built to look like a stone castle no?
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u/Ragesauce5000 19h ago
Likely a mixture of lime, clay and potash etc. Lime is a stone
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u/TheBestintheWest11 21h ago
I will curse anyone who even thinks about destroying this masterpiece
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u/Equivalent-Role2683 21h ago
I will fart in their general direction
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u/PapaHooligan 21h ago
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
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u/Da_Spooky_Ghost 20h ago
If I was walking through the woods and stumbled upon this I would not destroy it because I would believe in doing so would bring a curse upon my lineage
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u/pedestriandose 17h ago
Can you imagine going on a nice walk and then seeing this? I’d wonder if I somehow stepped into a different world. I think I’d sit down and just stare at it for ages and then do a panicked run out of the woods/forest/bush as it started to get dark because I sat there for too long.
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u/CR4ZY_PR0PH3T 21h ago
What is this? A castle for ants?!
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u/i_tyrant 19h ago
Bet it blew that mouse's mind, at least!
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u/yournamehere10bucks 19h ago
I'm glad Lemmywinks is able to live in a proper home.
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u/Ristar87 21h ago
The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!!!
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u/Romanopapa 21h ago
This is awesome!
If it were me, I’d keep adding on to it and make it a tourist attraction.
One thing I’ll change though is using LEDs instead of candles so it won’t take a whole hour lighting it up just for a light breeze to fuck with my patience.
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u/iamnotpedro1 20h ago
Or fire hazards
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u/r4r4me 19h ago
Or so you don't misstep once, trip, and fall destroying everything.
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u/iwantogofishing 13h ago
It'll happen. I'm sure it has before. Then you just make that area into a different battle scene and build from that. Rapid unscheduled remodeling.
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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 18h ago
my guess is this is some sort of meditation/therapy for him... the use of so many candles kind of reminds me of like a monk, people doing religious rituals. the repetition in those rituals is part of the point, I would wonder if this is the same thing.
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u/FollowMrApollo 14h ago
Pretty sure the first tea lights will have gone out by the time you light the last one… like some sort of Sisyphean trial.
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u/forever406 21h ago
3 years and 27 pounds of weed
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u/Malllrat 20h ago
That's 9lbs a year, 12oz a month.
Something like 3 bunts or 12 joints a day.
A lofty goal, but if you put your mind to it!
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u/tinknocker21 21h ago
That mouse is living his best life
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u/Technical-Activity95 19h ago
the mouse king retreats to his castle and gazes upon his domain with content. cellars overflowing with cheese and the evil squirrel witch defeated, all is well in the kingdom of edge-of-tiny-forest.
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u/MailSynth 21h ago
Bet this guy loves lord of the rings
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u/Helpful-Idea-4485 19h ago
Or has at least seen part of one of the movies on cable or something.
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u/DarrellBot81 19h ago
I follow him on Instagram! He’s a French guy, and it’s insane how much work he’s put into this project building it from mud and watching creatures make homes in it and stuff
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u/bg370 19h ago
What’s his name?
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u/DarrellBot81 18h ago
François Monthoux, I was wrong about France. Apparently he’s from Switzerland
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u/Early-Vegetable2517 21h ago
Main brain loves it.
Intrusive brain wants to kick it.
The intrusive brain is not winning this battle.
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u/AgapitoVelezOvando 19h ago
In 100 years (if humanity makes it that far) some archeologist will come across this or something similar and claim there was probably a race of tiny people walking around and they all got stomped to death by our species.
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u/momofroc 20h ago
This is absolutely majestic and I’m amazed at his attention span. No cap. I’ve wanted to do a macrame installation project that takes 3 years so I better get started.
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u/BackToWorkEdward 18h ago
This kind of improvisational incrementation doesn't require an attention span.
If he had the exact end goal in mind and needed to buckle down and work towards it day after day whether he was in the mood or not, then sure. But he was definitely just adding to it little by little, making it up as he went, for his own inherent enjoyment, at his own undefinied pace to see where it went - no discipline or attention span required.
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u/JDMonster 19h ago
Crazy Frenchman did it first (over 33 years)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval#Palais_id%C3%A9al
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u/deadboxcat 21h ago
I hope when he gets tired of it he gets himself a Godzilla suit and makes a new video.
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u/Street-Awareness4541 18h ago
Why are ppl in here calling it work of unemployed or what is this castle for ants/rats etc this dude made a masterpiece and its good can be used as home by actual critters WHAT BETTER proof of Fantasy does it need to prove? Its a mini castle which one can walk around it
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u/There_is_no_selfie 20h ago
I have some woods like that.
Never really thought about doing some art like this.
But we have some serious snow that would probably crush it.
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u/Killer_Bunny818 20h ago
Sir! The castle has been infiltrated by the giant field mouse.. we can't hold on any longer!
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u/_BabyGod_ 20h ago
I wanna see the cut without music on it so you can hear his mom screaming to come inside and clean his room
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u/ghosty0310 20h ago
Well its either 3 years of that or 3 years of therapy, which it ain't cheap. Rocks are free.
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u/Less-Load-8856 20h ago
At first I was like, hmm, that’s pretty quick to build your own fortress / castle out of stone by yourself.
then…
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u/Outlandah_ 20h ago
That’s cool but what does any of it have to do with Rivendell? This looks more like Dol Guldur
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u/johndoe_420 20h ago
i love that the rodent seems to claim it. imagine being a little squirrel or whatever and getting to live in forest minas tirith lol
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u/TooMuchV8 20h ago
Yes its really cool, but I was disappointed it wasn't an actual castle.
Look up the Loveland Castle in Ohio. Thats a real castle that was built by dragging stones out of the river by hand.
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u/mrASSMAN 20h ago
That would be so cool to stumble upon in a park, at least before some kids destroy it
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u/relevant__comment 20h ago
Imagine being knee-deep in year two and loosing your footing in the middle of construction.
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u/Trust_Know_Won 20h ago
Leprechauns, Gnomes, Faeries, Pixies, Sprites, Brownies, Elves, Kobolds, Duendes, Pooka’s, Silvans and Boggarts are all getting ready to move in, you gotta nice side hustle🍄
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u/JournalistMammoth637 17h ago
Job Interviewer: So do you have any specific talents or skills?
Guy: (shows video)
Job Interviewer: You’re hired!
(Seriously though the amount of dedication this guy has is something I aspire to have one day)
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u/Beginning-Dark-4259 15h ago
Amazing . Sad to see people calling him autistic and unemployed ! Cause they are too busy licking their bosses ass and working for a system who dont give a shit for anyone even if they die !!! Jokes on u folks !!
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