#and they be fremdly

[averyghe]

When there already were mafas, and before there were anyone else… There were pseudo-crustaceans. Called that way due to having vertebrates, and not completely segmented bodies, while still resembling several insect and shellfish species of the later earth, those creatures leaved in a lush forests which have covered in that era. The most notable out of all of them were T’Kar – a gathering of the several inspectors species gifted with an intellect. They built their villages in thickets, and along the coast lines, living relatively peaceful lives, of fishing, hunting, and feeding on what the Forrests and Waters could provide for them. From the slime fish they catches with the obsidian fishpens, to the bodies of the giant mushrooms, first fruits and vegetables, which they learned to harvest due to the help of Mafa, who they had a long story of co-existence with. Even despite T’Kar we’re not been able to speak the same language as mafa – their voice-apparatuses simply were not been able to produce the same sounds, they still leaved in peace with their amphibian neighbours who served a role similar to older siblings to the crustaceans. It was the mafas who teached them pottery, agriculture, and the secret of windmill mechanism… They even teached some chosen ones magick – those T’Kar used to become shamans and spirit guides for their tribes. The ones who will stay awake during the winter in the colder regions, when the life in the villages used to stop for the inhabitants to spend the winter in a hybernation. Those shamans were also the ones to communicate with the spirits as well as mysterious visitors of the planet – such as race of Milguan – mysterious wisdom seekers from a far a way system of Magal in a Centipede Constellation. Milguan visited Mars as a place of spiritual power, – as it was one of the first planets with a corporeal life to appear. They marched through the wetlands, and mushroom jungles, with their attire of the spice and gas filled suits, shining with an ever changing colorfull lights from the behind of crystalline visors of their helmets. They brought shiny gems to trade, and a stories to tell. And so they told them as to Big Hats – the leaders of the Mafa-Covents, as to the children in a spore-swiped village streets in the middle of the mushroom groves. What a beautiful stories, indeed… But don’t think that the T’Kar didn’t have stories of their own! Fairy-tales and legends, of the hunters defeating powerful beasts, and the mischievous Forrest spirits – they travelled with a merchants on the backs of the Ch’Karka – throughout all of the primeval continent. They were told in a remote swamp-settlements, where T’kar dealt with a monstrous face-haded mollusks, yet in the brown Forrest’s in the villages of the smiths and potterers, where the giant Ragaa, ate the tops of a primitive trees. And of course the shepherds of the pseudo-beetles, who domesticated those gigantic herbivores used to hide in a blue undergrowth also listened to those stories, and told their own in return. In those days… In those old Martian Days. Eventually, there will become less of crustaceans as they will be replaced by other species moving from the water to the land. But T’Kar… Well, they will stay here and there right until the end of the Mars…

[kradnie]

fremdly fire @hairymoths

[jathis]

You got pink vibes for sure! ❤️

Am jus a fremdly creachur!

[thusjuniperus]

there are so many ways to make adjectives and adverbs in this language....... the adverb form of "fremd" cannot be "fremdly"

I love when I'm reading something full of normal words and suddenly there's a word I've never seen in my life. and I'm like, is that a typo? but it isn't. it's a real word

[thebeautifulmushroom]

(draws pool noodle) this town ain't big enough for the both of us

* draws plastic light saber * oh sick I love a good duel * bonks you on the head *

[mossykatt]

YO

COME SPAM MY INBOX I’M FUHKIN B O R E D

[thebeautifulmushroom]

@lesducks

[shelbyrpg]

fremd

[whumpwillow]

Cyan, pastel green, and yellow (writing!)

this is the most fremdly ask 😌

[the-busy-ghost]

Richt excellent, richt hie and mithty Prince, our derrest and best belovit Brothir, We commend ws unto zow in oure maist hertlie wise. Zoure ambassadoure Doctoure West deliverit ws zoure lovyng lettrez in quhiwis ze schew ws that quhare ze harde of our seiknes ze tuke grete hevynes. Deerest brother We ar greitly rejosit that we se ze have respect to oure disese, and thairfor We geve zou oure hartlie thankis and zoure writing is to ws gude confort. We can nocht beleve that of zoure mynd or be zoure command we are sa friendly delt with in our faderis Legacy, quharof we wald nocht have spokyn nor writing had nocht the Doctoure now spokyn to ws of the sammyn in his credence. Oure husband knawis that is withhaldin for his saik, and will recompens ws safer as the Doctoure schew him. We ar eschamit thairwith; and wald God nevir word had bene tharof. It is nocht worth sic estimacioun as is in zoure divers lettrez of the sammyn; and we lak na thing; our husband is evir the langer the better to ws, as knawis God, quha richt hie and micht Prince, oure derrest and bestbelovit brothir, have zou in governaunce. Geven under oure Signete at oure Palace of Linlithgw the xj day of Aprile.  Your lowynn syster Margaret.

Letter from Margaret, Queen of Scots, to her brother Henry VIII on 11th April 1513. Printed in full here.

This is one of the few easily accessible letters written by Margaret in 1513. Written five months before the Battle of Flodden, it is addressed to her younger brother Henry VIII and was apparently written during Dr Nicholas West’s embassy to Scotland that year.

I have provided a very rough “translation” of the letter in updated language below, just to make it a bit easier to understand:

“Right excellent, right high and mighty Prince, our dearest and best beloved brother, we commend us unto you in our most heartly [loving] manner. Your ambassador Doctor West delivered [to] us your loving letters in which you show us that when you heard of our sickness you took great heaviness. Dearest brother, we are greatly pleased that we see you have regard for our disease, and therefore we give you our heartly thanks and your writing is to us good comfort. We cannot believe that of your mind or by your command we are so strangely** dealt with in [the matter of] our father’s legacy, whereof we would not have spoken nor written had not the Doctor now spoken to us of the same in his credence. Our husband knows that it is withheld for his sake, and will recompense us safely as the Doctor showed him. We are ashamed therewith; and would [to] God that never a word had been [spoken] thereof. It is not worth such consideration as in your diverse letters of the same; and we lack nothing. Our husband is ever the longer the better to us, as knows God who, right high and mighty Prince, our dearest and best beloved brother, [may[ have you in [his] keeping. Given under our signet at our palace of Linlithgow, the 11th day of April.

Your loving sister,

Margaret.”

Margaret begins by greeting her brother fondly, and says that she has heard how concerned he was about her recent illness. She thanks him for his letters, which she says were a great comfort to her. 

She then moves onto a more awkward subject. Margaret had been left a small ‘legacy’ in her father’s will which Henry VIII was currently withholding. She says she would not have brought the subject up if Dr West had not already mentioned it during their meeting at Linlithgow on 10th April, but thinks that the withholding of the legacy is so strange that she cannot believe Henry would do so. 

She then explains that her husband (King James IV) knows that the legacy is being withheld “for his sake”- presumably because James was not being entirely cooperative with Henry’s plans with regard to France and the Holy League. Because of this James has promised to recompense Margaret. Margaret protests that the affair is altogether shameful for her, and that the legacy is not worth so much trouble. She then emphasises that she lacks nothing and that her husband’s behaviour towards her is better every day, as God can witness. 

She ends by hoping that God will keep Henry her ‘dearest and best beloved brother’ and signs off from Linlithgow.

The letter is an interesting one, though short. In itself it cannot be used to establish Margaret’s full opinion with regard to the tension between her husband and brother. Probably her full thoughts were never committed to parchment anyway. However, as one of the few easily accessible sources from Margaret’s own hand, which might reveal her mind in the months leading up to the war, it is perhaps not what most people would expect. 

English diplomats’ reports occasionally hint that Margaret had promised to work to preserve the Anglo-Scottish alliance, and Scottish historians writing decades later would claim that she was completely against the war- but I can’t think of many contemporary sources that explicitly demonstrate this. I do find it hard to believe that Margaret would have been happy to see the alliance she had been sent north to preserve fall apart, nor would she have been 100% ok with war breaking out between her birth country and her husband’s kingdom. But it was a difficult situation, especially for women, and there is also no contemporary evidence that Margaret acted as anything other than a loyal wife in 1513. Henry’s withholding the legacy- which was not worth very much in the grand scheme of things, except sentimentally- may have seemed a bit petty or even spiteful in the eyes of James IV (and perhaps even Margaret), and is only one aspect of a complex situation.

In any case it’s extremely open to interpretation and I’m sure many would disagree with my assessment. This letter is one of only a few associated with Margaret during her husband’s reign which are at all well-known. Probably more documents exist that have not been so widely published that would give a different perspective- I certainly have not read everything on the subject. But it’s definitely an extra piece in the puzzle that I think not enough people are aware of.

One last note- I always find Margaret’s sentence structure a bit difficult to follow, so I have had to take some liberties with my half-assed transcription and interpretation”, which is why I provided my source for people to make up their own minds. The letter is calendared in Hannay’s ‘Letters of James IV’ and in  Letters and Papers Henry VIII, but Ellis gives a full transcript (I think there might be a few typographical errors though). I thought sharing a source for the full letter might be useful- there’s also some other transcripts of letters in the volume which are very interesting.

** The original says ‘friendly’ but both Hannay and the L&P Henry VIII quote this as ‘fremdly’ which makes much more sense in context- like the modern Dutch word ‘vreemd’, ‘fremd’ meant strange in Old Scots. So I’ve translated this as ‘strangely’. 

[thebeautifulmushroom]

This account endorses and supports slander of Brittany S. Pierce

This account endorses and supports the love and protection of Brittany S. Pierce, and wishes a certain Christina a very fight me

[mossykatt]

BTW SORRY BOUT TYPING IN ALL CAPS IM NOT LIKE ANGER SCREAMING OR ANYTHING IM JUST V CHAOTIC N HYBER N FREMDLY N FULL OF LOVE N I JUST CONSTANTLY GOTTA HHHHHHHHHHH

[thebeautifulmushroom]

Na ;D

Ok! Sorry, I was cursed with not being a Math Gay *awkward finger guns*

-*struggles for pun as well*

*awkward thumbs up back*

Hmmmmmm want a pun about sodium?

[peeptier]

🐹 heckin cool af but also is so nice and fremdly?? cant possibly be intimidated when ur a good bean ;w;

AWH thank you!! im glad im not intimidating 😭

[betweendoctorsanddetectives]

fremdly reminder: "we have this website. it explains the true meaning of comic books 'cause people miss a lot of the themes. but then all the comic books started coming true" "oh... interesting"

[terrifyingjellyfish]

fremdly rinder that i'm love u ???

hahaha ty sweetheart