#herefords of tumblr

[wreywrites]

Disclaimer:

Tiger Shark is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Except for Alvan's cow, Freckles, who is absolutely based on my actual cow, Freckles.

[dharmaart]

More cow art from earlier this year, this painting is of a Hereford cow. I remember seeing a lot of Herefords when I lived in NZ so painting them has a nostalgic vibe for me.

[wemlisbemlis]

caramel n her carrot pal :)🥕🧡

[itsstreetlove]

Sitting on Sir Edward Elgar's Head

Hereford ~ August 2023

[wandering-cemeteries]

A knight's tomb belonging to Sir Richard Pembridge who died in 1375. Hereford Cathedral.

Hereford, England 2012

[dhavaer]

Bloodborne

I bought it (finally). It's good.

I'm currently up to the Forbidden Woods. I've killed all the bosses prior to that except Paarl, as he's optional and doesn't gate anything I'm into.

It's been interesting as I've been somewhat interested in the game from a considerable distance for some time. It's kind of like when I finally watched Avatar after hearing about it on Tumblr for 2+ years.

My starter weapon was the Threaded Cane, because I remembered hearing it was good. It is. I like having incredible reach, although I was very confused why stealth attacks weren't working until I looked it up and apparently the whip mode can't do them.

Boss experiences:

Cleric Beast: took three tries, mostly because I had no idea what I was doing. Getting back to it after failing is annoying.

Father Gascoigne: took about ten tries. I have no idea what I did differently the final time; I got destroyed over and over and then he went down like a chump for some reason.

Vicar Amelia: two tries. Bought the saw spear for this, smacked her legs, stabbed her in the head a bit. Apparently she has a healing move but I never saw it.

Witches of Hereford or whatever: two tries. The first time the second witch held her paralysis spell until I was right in her face and I got wrecked. Second time she used it from long range, so I could dodge it and it gave away her position.

Blood-Starved Beast: about six tries. The first five were awful - I used so many resources trying to fight it I ran out of absolutely everything useful, even bullets and blood. Then the sixth time I just stayed still and shot him in the face every time he tried attacking me. Took about four shots - it got a little dicey on the third one but I ended up barely using anything.

Currently trying to save up echoes for the Holy Blade.

[kaliesuriens]

Tour on my farm! Part 1

The Cows ❤🐮

( theres a few videos about my cows, gonna put a list with their names below )

( I used it to pratice my inglesh, so its not good)

* the tumblr only allow one video so I gonna post the others later

The list with their names, The meanings and what they are and a flag with were their races come from:

• Princesa: means princess, she's a Red angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• Flor: means flower, Red angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• Viena: means the capital of Áustria, she's a Braford, so her blood is 3 parts Hereford 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 1 part Brahman 🇺🇲

• Peteca: means a kind of Toy made out of feathers and a bag with sand, she is a mix with Sindi 🇮🇳 and red angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• California: because of that american state, shes Sindi 🇮🇳 with Red angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• Santana: this word came froms the name Saint Anna, sindi 🇮🇳 with Red angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• Pitanga: its a red fruit, sindi 🇮🇳 with Red angus🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• Saveiro: its a pick-up from Chevrolet, sindi 🇮🇳 with Red angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

• Goiaba: its a fruit each usually came with a maggot inside, sindi 🇮🇳 with Red angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

•China: in my regional dialect it can mean Girl, she is a gray brahman 🇺🇲

• Escócia: means Scotland, gray brahman🇺🇲

• Erika: its a pretty german name, gray Brahman 🇺🇲

• Monique: its a pretty name, gray brahman

• Charrua: its the name of the natives who once lived next here, gray brahman 🇺🇲

• Violeta: means violet, gray brahman🇺🇲

•Abobrinha: means pumpking, gray brahman🇺🇲

• Polaca: means polish, gray brahman 🇺🇲

•Sherazade: its a pretty arab name, gray brahman

• Rio III: means river, gray brahman 🇺🇲

• Pocã: means tangerine, half red angus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 half gray brahman 🇺🇲

• Geni: its from the song Geni e o Zeppelin from Chico Buarque, she is half gray brahaman 🇺🇲 and half Indubrasil 🇧🇷

• Iracema: its a native indiginous name and the name of a really good book, gray brahman 🇺🇲

[horta-in-charge]

Things I’ve decided are Canon TM for the Andorian First Contact AU (afc!au):

From other people’s fics-

Per @theandorianimperialarchive ‘s fic series on AO3 (which I’ll link in a reblog because it disappeared from my tabs 😭) the P’Jem Commando Quad did meet in a Vulcan POW camp.

I also really love their Andorian-Orion interaction concepts… which is to say it has excellent world-building that has destroyed me. Would not recommend reading that part if you’re squeamish or if you couldn’t handle Soval in the chair. Let’s just say that I absolutely want to destroy the Orions after reading that more than the Xindi wanted to destroy Earth in ENT S3.

The main universe Andorian cultural exploration is high key a yes in this, but that’s the 3rd(?) part of their Mirror Tales series. It’s sad but also really cute.

Emigre is required reading for cultural things as well, not sure if the author has a tumblr but READ IT. It’s very well thought out it’s unfinished though. The Keth system is quite interesting, I’m not sure if it’s fully like the Bajoran d’jarras or not.

There was another fic inspired by Emigre which I will also link once I find it that had some cool cultural exchanges as well (it does involve questionable blood transfusions). Also unfinished. And I think they may have gotten Keval’s name wrong? Unless they created a new OC. Their interpretation on quads is interesting but I’m a fan of the 4 genders and I’m also keeping the bottleneck semi-canon (it just gets put off another century).

@toebeans-mcgee sent @deepspacedukat an ask a bit ago that I loved about Andorians being able to sense human pheromones and LIKING it, unlike Vulcans. The gist is that’s why Tholos thinks T’Pol smells good in P’Jem.

My brain-

The Andorians were just checking out Earth to make sure they weren’t going to be attacked (again). They had no intention of keeping us except we kind of won them over (the pheromones probably have something to do with it).

They’re more helpful with technology than the Vulcans are in the normal ST canon but still very secretive. We end up getting some rudimentary shields from them eventually for the NX project but we do have to make them ourselves. We do give them rudimentary transporter tech in exchange (only cleared for inanimate objects, not people).

Humans colonize the moon and Mars successfully before building the NX-01. Transporter technology becomes advanced enough that they can piggyback beams through several orbiting stations and ships to supply the colonies. Mars looks nicer than we see in Terra Prime (ST:ENT).

Transport ships (mostly) have Warp 3 capable engines by the time NX-01 construction begins. The Enterprise has a Warp 5 engine still until the Xindi arc when it gets upgraded to a Warp 6 engine (part of the 6 month layover is running tests).

The Andorians introduce us to the Betazoids because they think it’s funny we look so alike. They don’t expect us to make friends with them because humans are still a little squicked by telepathy. We surprise them.

Pre NX-01 engine tests end up with us meeting Vulcans. They’re ‘okay’ by human standards and help repair the ship’s warp field generators. The Vulcans end up introducing us to the Tellarites (not sure how yet, probably through the IME) and we get along after the adjustment period (after all, Tellarite manners are a 180 from most human cultures).

Part of the reason Andorians continue to help/trade with us is because Earth is Space Australia TM and has a lot of medicinal plants (for aliens). The IME does request human doctors once they find that out. Hereford/Herford Medical School (HCOM- Her(e)ford College of Osteopathic Medicine) is a popular IME selection pool. Because this is my own thing I can put my OC’s in it and I will, but you can also ignore it if you want. Totally down for anyone to borrow this au if they give me credit.

The Andorian Government is very upset with us being so friendly towards pretty much their two biggest Space Rivals that they nearly cut all contact with us (and they would if it wasn’t for those plants that they can’t synthesize compounds from).

By the time the NX-01 is flight cleared we’ve met Klingons (IME? Some ambassador accidentally getting into a duel? I don’t know). The first mission is still the same. T’Pol is still the science officer, Phlox is still the CMO, Earth tech is mostly the same but works a bit better. We still have hull plating along with the shields because humans do love a backup system.

Pretty much (so far at least, unless I have more thoughts) all the ENT episode canon is still canon except for the not knowing Andorians, Tellarites, and Klingons.

[madwickedawesome]

i was gonna do chem hw so i left tumblr then got distracted by tiktok then saw a hereford so i came right back. I LOVE HEREFORDS!! THEYRE SO ADORABLE!!!!! SOME FARMERS CALL THEM BALDIES BC OF THEIR WHITE FACES ABDBBABDA THEHRE SO CUTE

THE SILLAYS!!!!

[r-rook-studio]

The Week 1 #City23 Update: Nottingham and Cape Crescent

So I started this project over on Cohost, but I'm going to switch to posting my public updates here on Tumblr.

Around the time I kicked off work on this, I saw this semi-viral Tweet, and while it might be half joking, it's pretty spot on for what I want to do in #City23.

Cape Crescent, ME

A paranormal investigation originally called Lunaris, I swapped that out for something that sounded more like New England. I don't make my own maps and I'm not going to start, so I'm making a fictional reinterpretation of Ogunquit, ME for this.

During planning, I'd set up a few factions, and a few concentrated areas (as well as doom clocks, which I'll be setting up later), including a benevolent society that organizes the town's werewolf, a local sinister occult society, a private paranormal research foundation with government grants, and a Tourism Board that represents the non-paranormal people of the town.

During this first week, I focused on locations and the NPCs in them that would—at first glance—be part of the Tourism Board, but I made sure each one had at least one tie in to some other faction.

Bishop's Diner, where Olivia Bishop, the owner, is wary of of the Ghost Bay Research Foundation and it's projects in the bay, and the short-order cook Carson Caine, is the estranged son of the necromancer who runs the occult society.

Clifftop Motor Lodge, where the owner, a friendly recluse who rarely comes into town, is secretly funneling supplies to one of Ghost Bay Foundation's projects.

Old Main General Supply, a grocery, hardware, and gas station where the owner Micah Redding runs the Benevolent Society for the local werewolves. His son Clay, one of the wolves, is friends with Carson Caine, and they often commit petty crimes together.

Nottingham

For Sherwood and games with a similar OSRish vibe, Nottingham is a chance for the outlaw band to come out of the woods and into the town. I pulled factions and locations from historical Nottingham, including the Whitefriars (Nottingham's old Carmelite friary), Lenton Priory (the French Cluniac monastery that actually sent monks to engage in banditry), the Sheriff (a royal appointee who lived in the King's Nottingham castle), and St. Mary's Church. As I go, I'd like to come up with some guilds or other lower-powered secular/street-level authorities to represent groups of typical citizens. During this first week of #City23, I focused on an inn within the walls: The Three Foxes, an inn whose owners need to realize it's a nexus of the tunnels and caves of underground Nottingham.

Most of this week was adding NPCs:

Claire Jarry, the owner, who came to Nottingham from Rouen for reasons she won't discuss. She knows how to navigate the tunnels under the inn to make her way to the Priory and the large parish church of St. Mary, and uses her access to blackmail the clergy.

Clove Jarry, Claire's oldest son, who transitioned and left town to become a highwayman. Clove and his wives frequently visit the inn when they come to Nottingham via a secret tunnel that leads under the town's walls to a forgotten smuggler's cave in the wood. Clove's mother and brothers know about the tunnel.

Ronan Jarry, Claire's middle son and likely heir.

Vital Jarry, Claire's youngest, is a seductive con artist and crook who's found a tunnel that leads to the cellars of Nottingham Castle, and is planning to steal from the sheriff even if it brings the sheriff's wrath down on other criminals and outlaws.

In addition, there's a customer, Colman, who's a sturdy man who can drink most others under the table. A generous sort, he often escorts people home after they've had too much, but no one's noticed yet that some of those people have yet to be seen again.

I've also started documenting some treasures.

Ronan possesses an amulet whose central stone is made from a hard, amber-like resin that contains the souls stolen and trapped by the cruel Bishop of Hereford. He entrusted the amulet to his mistress who surrendered it to Clove. The bishop's mistress has gone into hiding and both she and the bishop want the amulet back.

Colman possesses an "amulet"—really a poorly painted image of an unnamed saint on a simple leather thong. If the saint's image is fed enough of a living person's blood, it will keep a dying person alive indefinitely.

(Sorry, there are enough +1 arrows in RPGs and Robin Hood deserves better.)

Making Progress and Giving Myself Room

In the first nine days of 2023, I've gotten 5 entries for Nottingham and 6 for Cape Crescent. That's not too bad. It's been a rough start to 2023, and some of the health issues my parents are facing are making it look like it'll keep being stressful. Working on #City23 has been, in many ways, a lifesaver, though I'm giving myself space to take breaks as I need to.

[petnews2day]

Herefordshire dog groomer celebrates 10-year anniversary | Hereford Times - Hereford Times

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[capemayvibe]

The Hereford Inlet Lighthouse has been in operation since the late 1800s, shining its guiding light across our waterways helping… https://capemayvibe.com/things-to-do-in-cape-may-nj/the-hereford-inlet-lighthouse-has-been-in-operation-since-the-late-1800s-shining-its-guiding-light-across-our-waterways-helping/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[artparks-sculpture]

A sculpture titled 'Hereford Bull (Wall Mounted Head Trophy Papier Mache sculpture)' by sculptor David Farrer. In a medium of Papier Mache.

[theoutcastrogue]

Solid start! "Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales" is an amazing resource. I would also suggest Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood, which is more accessible to beginners, I think. But how about an appetiser? Here's some of my favourite ballads:

Robin Hood and the Beggar: trickery, disguises, daring escapes!

Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar: Friar Tuck shenanigans

Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford: nobody likes bishops

Robin Hood and Maid Marian: the 2 nobles (Robin's a noble here, it's 17th century) fight each other in disguise, they recognise and kiss, and go off to the forest to live happily ever after "by their hands, without any lands"

Robin Hood and the tanner: sometimes you root for the other guy!

I agree that Scott's Ivanhoe was important and started a lot of things (it invented Robin of Locksley, for one), but Robin's a tertiary character in the book (secondary? I don't remember, it's been a while, by which I mean decades), and if that's all you're interested in, just check out wikipedia's section on "Lasting influence on the Robin Hood legend" and get done with it.

For how Robin Hood evolved in modern times, I'd start with Howard Pyle and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883), it was hugely influential for both the story and the imagery, and it's fun to read. (Another important illustrator is N.C. Wyeth, whose Robin Hood (1917) also influenced superhero costumes.)

All this is laid out in detail and chronological order in Robin Hood: Development of a Popular Hero: Part I, II, and IV. (Tumblr ate Part III, dammit, but you can read the full text sans pictures at The Robin Hood Project.)

If you like podcasts, Criminal Records Podcast and The History of English Podcast have episodes on Robin Hood.

For analysis, there's tons out there, I suggest Stephen Knight's Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism and Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition. More recently, there's Lesley Coote's Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon. I also think it's a good idea to read Hobsbawm's Bandits, where the whole social bandit theory is laid out. There's a lot to be said and argued about it, but it's foundational.

And here, lemme copy the Robin Hood section from my Rogue Studies™ Resources / Bibliography :

Robert B. Waltz, The Gest of Robyn Hode: A Critical and Textual Commentary (2013)

University of Rochester, The Robin Hood Project

Stephen Knight & Thomas H. Ohlgren, Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales

Allen W. Wright, Robin Hood Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood

Stephen Knight, Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition (Brepols, 2012); Robin Hood: Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism (Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 1999)

Alexander L. Kaufman, British Outlaws of Literature and History: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Figures from Robin Hood to Twm Shon Catty (McFarland & Company, 2011)

Lesley Coote (ed), Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon (Routledge, 2020); Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces (Routledge, 2021)

Stephen Basdeo, Geste of Robin Hood blog, especially the tags Robin Hood, Outlaw and Bandits ; “Robin Hood the Brute: Representations of the outlaw in eighteenth century criminal biography”

Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883)

Joseph Ritson, Robin Hood: a collection of poems, songs, and ballads relative to that celebrated English outlaw (1853)

Thomas Percy & J. V. Prichard, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1900)

Peter Sutton & William Langland, Piers Plowman: A Modern Verse Translation (McFarland & Company, 2004)

Mike Dixon-Kennedy, The Robin Hood Handbook: The Outlaw in History, Myth and Legend (The History Press, 2006)

Nick Rennison, Robin Hood: Myth, History & Culture (Pocket Essentials, 2012)

David Baldwin, Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked (Amberley Publishing, 2010)

…I really need to make a Robin Hood masterpost.

Any recommendations on where to start for someome who wants to know about Robin Hood?

Sure thing!

The thing about Robin Hood is that, because what we have are later written recordings and remixes of an older oral tradition, the sources are somewhat spread out between multiple texts. So what you want is a good collection of different sources, and preferably one that's a modern translation with regularized spelling (unless you like struggling with Middle English).

Waltz' The Gest of Robyn Hode: A Critical and Textual Commentary is a good place to start, because it not only has a modern translation of the Geste (the earliest written text of Robin Hood), but also a wealth of context and analysis.

Knight and Ohlgren's Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales also has a good selection of the Robin Hood ballads that introduced important characters like Guy of Gisborne, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, and so forth to the narrative, as well as some of the 16th and 17th century Robin Hood plays that were responsible for the whole shift from the yeoman Robin Hood to the noble Robin (or Robert).

I can also recommend Ritson's Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant Relative to That Celebrated English Outlaw, which was the first scholarly attempt to collect and collate and make sense of the disparate historical texts and attempt to fit them into a coherent narrative.

Finally, you should probably read Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, which is the work of meta-fanfic that made Victorian medievalism the massive fandom that it was.

[jeff-rees-jones]

Stained glass windows at Hereford Cathedral by Tom Denny 2007

[ahedderick]

Ok, I’m just not over the whole *hands you a cow* thing yet. Sorry.

*continues to hand you cows* *contin -