I know, I know: “grotesque”
It’s why things have taken a downward turn. We need to get gargoyles back onto our schools again.
That’s a solid platform if you decide to run for office.
I’m a Stonemason, the actual issue, beyond modern architecture not taking weather into proper regard(I.e. shedding rain as a part of design) and more of minimalist bent to modern buildings, is the lack of skilled stone cutters. It’s a dying trade, and at least where I am (Scotland) schools keep closing down as there’s not enough students to keep the schools open.
The platform to run on would be to support and encourage trades and keeping the old knowledge alive.
It’s just another trade being eliminated by cheap manufacturing. Anyone with a 3D printer could download a gargoyle design, create an injection mold, and fill it with a fiber-plastic that resembles stone at a distance. While it requires talent and investment upfront, you could manufacture thousands of gargoyles in the time it takes a stonemason to make one by hand. It could be lighter, more detailed, and cheaper. And if you were to create market demand, you’ll find 100 knockoff manufacturers coming out of countries without labor laws or IP protections.
Those cheap ones are available in cementious materials, they’d be fine for new build stuff, but that wouldn’t fly with historic buildings, where it’s often government mandate that things are replaced like for like. I work in conservation, and when we pull a stone, the replacement is often sourced from the same quarry (if possible the same vein) as the original. Mortar matching is also a thing, where a sample is sent into the lab, and the exact same mixture is used, right down to the bits of shell from the same beach if possible.
Also those cheap ones really don’t have the lasting power of actual stone.When you put it that way, I might have to start installing gargoyles on buildings myself.
Imho, do it. We need a little more decorative element in our buildings. Brutalism is not good.
I’ll buy one, but I’m not going to make them. I barely have time to get the dishes done and keep up with laundry.
We don’t need to make that many gargoyles though. They were mostly installed on high cost architectural buildings, not houses.
I’m any case, it only took this guy 17 seconds to make one from some the old fashioned way:
Water jet and a block of stone.
No gargoyle left behind!
And crown moldings. There’s a direct correlation between the decline of crown molding, and the decline of society.
I hate crown molding lol
Fun fact: They are called gargoyles because they gargle water out of their mouths.
Yes! The etymology for both words is the French word gargouille, meaning throat. Gargouiller in frrench means gargle as we know it in English, and a gargoyle has a spout where rain water exits it’s mouth when it’s raining (via its throat)
From memory if it doesn’t spout water it’s called a grotesque.
Should have been Disney Grotesques!
I dont know. They can almost certainly spit water out of their mouths.
I have spent way too much time on the internet. My mind went somewhere very naughty halfway through that sentence.
I almost posted something much worse, but decided to go with what I sent instead. You aren’t alone.
Nah, they’d have to provide drainage from their mouths in stone form for it to count.
Wow that show brings back memories.
Grotesques!
Goliath will remember this
He’ll wax philosophical about how humans used such a negative term to describe something they don’t understand.
The best part about that show is that most of the Voice Actors were almost all from Star Trek TNG.
I’m sure there’s a fan theory out there that it’s all a single Holo Deck TTRPG.
That is cool! I saw some gargoyles in China and they were so cool! I just called them dragon gutter spouts because I didn’t know this. Actually, I took some pictures, might as well share one.
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I removed their comment. Sorry that happened.
People gonna project their insecurities on other people, no worries. Thanks for taking care of it.
Then why aren’t they called Gargwaters? Shouldn’t they gargle oil? 🤔
Checkmate, libgargs!
gargoyles, a name that came to Middle English from the Old French word gargoule. The stone beasts likely earned that name because of the water that gargled out of their throats and mouths; the word gargoule is imitative in origin.
The evil spirits won. They’re not exactly going to ward off themselves now.
Nah, with modern glass buildings the spirits smack into the windows and break their necks.
Nah, the vampire zombie-makers won.
We need more gargoyles.
The 90s rocked. The 90s had Gargoyles.
The math speaks for itself.
Fat gargoyle, animal gargoyle, trog gargoyle, impossibly buff gargoyle, old gargoyle, neanderthal gargoyle… sexy lady with wings.
In case anybody hasn’t seen it, the relevant Oglaf (NSFW)
the 7 genders
Fun fact time. They’re basically water drainage pipes, but fancy. They’re named gargoyles because it sounds like they’re gargling when water comes out of them.
I think it’s actually because the root word for gargoyle (and gargle) translates literally to “throat”.
They are essentially a decorative throat.
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Gargoylin’ on deez nuts
It’s true. In my country, we have like 3 gargoyles and we can barely function. We have one as our moral compass, another as a weather forecaster, and the last one as a spooky Halloween decoration. We’re lucky we know the day of the week as it is.
This is quite accurate
Upvote for “grotesque”
I call this a conspiracy of the thugs for avoiding Batman messing around their plans!
Well, somewhat the opposite since the use of gargoyles was rooted in fear and superstition and later tradition. As the levels of fear and superstition in society decrease, so too does the use of gargoyles.
Well, so they were there to protect us, right? Who is protecting us now? The president? Don’t be ridiculous!
WE USED TO MAKE stEAL
Back then rich people don’t know what to do with their money, so they spent it on fancy scuppers. Now we have many other avenues to waste money instead, like the stock market.
They also had the stock market. That’s not an excuse. Today’s assholes are just worse than yesterday’s assholes. It’s the only explanation.
Dude, 3d printers tho. Poor people could be making ornament.
Unless you’re in the World of Darkness, in which case the gargoyle index is a measure of Tremere tomfoolery
Have you ever tried to decipher one talking in Discworld? Painful hahaha
