#leicester

[imagine-darksiders]

Working on my aroace fish earrings for Leicester pride tomorrow :)

[bishopsbox]

source: bishopsbox

Michael Swerts (Flemish, 1618-1664). Portrait of a young woman. Leicester Museum, England.

[unplaces]

Radcot Lawns, Leicester.

[useless-englandfacts]

let's gooooo fire brigades union!!!

[maggierosem1980]

Birthday dinner, cake and prosecco after a quick stop to see the Diwali lights on Leicester's Golden Mile

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Happy Birthday John 🎉🎉

John Richard Deacon was born today, August 19, 1951, Leicester, UK

[princesscatherineblog]

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge accompanies The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on a visit to Leicester on March 8, 2012.

[classic-art-favourites]

A House in London Road, Leicester by Wilfred Bosworth Jenkins (1857-1936).

[imagine-darksiders]

Catch me at Leicester pride tomorrow wearing the Irregular Choice Optimus Prime boots.

[timetoletgo]

Bradgate Park, Leicester UK / 2024

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... mural ...

Gilgamesh and Enkidu in Leicester, England

[unplaces]

Evington Rd, Leicester.

[wandering-cemeteries]

Welford Road Cemetery.

Leicester, England

2012

[slotumn]

Hot take headcanon is that Faerghan "toxic chivalry/guilt/etc" culture is not a religious thing, it's the evolved/repackaged version of pre-Seiros/Elites-era tribal honor codes. It persisted the hardest in the northernmost regions (=Blaiddyd, Fraldarius, Gautier, Galatea) precisely because the Church of Seiros' reach and influence wasn't as strong there until recently.

This is also why Faerghus cozied up hard to Church post-independence and emphasize that they're religious— because until then, many of them weren't. Church also saw it as an opportunity to really get them into the religion and stop remnant pagan/heretical practices still widespread in the north. (It only half worked, heretical beliefs persisted in western Kingdom until canon era)

Adrestia doesn't need to do any of that of course, they're the og believers and have Crests of the saints. The ultra religious + culturally chauvinist ones actually look down on northern honor codes for being "barbaric" and "un-Seirosian;" to them Faerghan fealty and loyalty to their king comes across as idol worship-y. You're not supposed to go that hard for another human being, you're only supposed to do that for the goddess!

Meanwhile Leicester's both looser about religion and generally don't care for the tribal honor codes anymore because they got a taste of commercialism + due to interactions with Almyra, but you still see remnants of the honor codes in places like Daphnel and especially Goneril. They both have mountainous (=difficult to navigate) geography, so the old customs/attitudes survived there longer than in other places. Also a bit of it in Ordelia too, again in the mountains.

[arc-hus]

Leicester University Engineering Building, Leicester, England - James Stirling

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[itsrainingpumpkins]

Autumn Colours, Welford Road Cemetery, Leicester