#medieval nonsense!!

[memesonnets]

Hi my name is Don Quixote of La Mancha the Knight of the Rueful Figure and I have a rueful figure (that's how I got my name) with purple bruised ribs and tall stature and gaunt features and hair turning gray and a rather hooked aquiline nose and large black drooping mustaches and a lot of people tell me I look like Amadís of Gaul (AN: if u don’t know who he is begone!). I’m not related to Lady Oriana but I wish I was because she’s an incomparable flowering beauty. I’m a knight errant but some of my teeth and grinders are missing. I have long lank limbs. I’m also a defender of damsels, protector of orphans, succourer of the needy, righter of wrongs, undoer of injustice, and I wander a magic countryside called the mountains of Spain where I’m in my first year of knighthood (I’m forty-nine). I’m a gentleman (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly armor. I love my great-grandfather's forgotten corner of the house and I cobble together all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a doublet of fine cloth with matching shoes and velvet breeches and a helmet, morion, visor, breastplate and backpiece. I was riding outside La Mancha. It was early morning so the rays of the sun fell obliquely and the heat did not distress me, which I was very happy about. A lot of giants stared at me. I put up my pasteboard visor at them.

[anghraine]

By popular demand (aka two people asked lol), a secondary Women's Wrongs Poll for characters I considered for the first one, but ended up not choosing for various reasons:

[thursdaymoonrise11]

Finally back after a long two week break and I do apologise for going awol 🥺 i promise i will be back and active again and replying to anything i've missed HL-wise 🫶

i did have one really exciting thing happen to me that i'm not allowed speak much about at the moment, but as a peace offering for being inactive, here's a very AMBIGUOUS drawing of an mc / oc from that (thing) just so I have somewhere to put it🥹(ambiguous because i don't want to jinx anything lmao)

Hogwarts legacy content will resume from now!

[questinghrpodcast]

HERETH are our first 10 quests for thou to behold and pursue. Cometh over to Spotify or Youtube for more updated nonsense from Ari and Maggie!

[idlespright]

An open window. We have a challenge here.

It is not easy.

But if we set our mind to it we can get up. And up.

And become the perfect

rat-burglar!

[hanzajesthanza]

don’t let me reread because i saw this

and an image of reynevan pleading innocent like the crying cat meme flashed across my mind

[taliesin-the-bored]

The difference between old Welsh literature and old Irish literature is very simple. In old Welsh literature, there are five page runs of names. In old Irish literature, there are five page runs of adjectives.

[horizon-verizon]

The fact that absolutely no one ships Aegon III and Jaehaera besides TG tells you everything you need to know. This is such an unnatural relationship, you know that everytime Aegon III looked at Jaehaera, he just saw her father.

I couldn’t care less about reconciling and uniting the two fighting branches House Targaryen; traditionalist misogynists deserve to be punished. Aegon III getting a second chance at life, having a a bold and vivacious daughter who worship him despite his quietness and allowing his other daughter to keep a dragon egg despite his trauma and hatred for dragons is infinitely more compelling than him constantly distancing himself from the living reminder of his mother’s death.

Aegon III and Jaehaera were married for three years but they never became close. Why “it seemed like the king was fonder of Myrielle than he ever was of Jaehaera” ? Why did he spend his time with Gaemon Palehair instead of her ? Why did GRRM emphasizes how much Daenaera make Aegon happier and more alive ? Why did Aegon gave Jaehaera’s doll to another girl as soon as she died ? He literally cared more about Larys Strong and Tyland Lannister than he ever did about Jaehaera.

I should hope Daenaera is not either metaphorically nor literally "worshipping" Aegon; I'm assuming you meant that Aegon was given necessary personal attentive care. And Larys Strong? why?

Yeah though, agreed. Problem is that fans expect Jaehaera and Aegon to eventually "get over what's happened to them" bc their supposed inspirations (Elizabeth York and Henry VII Tudor) had a seemingly harmonious marriage despite Henry having been, technically, on the Lancastrian side. However, as I noted in this post, Henry actually got rid of one of Elizabeth's family's biggest opps: ther own uncle, Richard III, who people suspected/suspect either killed or somehow rid of her her two younger brothers. And the Yorks are responsible for Henry Tudor's father's early demise when while he was in Wales, the Henry VI deposed Richard York. In retaliation, Richard sent 2,000 men under a William Herbert to take South Wales. When they arrived at its castle, they took the stronghold and captured Edmund Tudor. As those troops moved on, Edmund was left behind & imprisoned in a Castle, where he eventually got infected with the bubonic plague and died.

However, that was also 3 months before Henry Tudor/Henry VII was born and we don't really know how close Elizabeth ever was with richard III, whereas Aegon personally witnessed his own mother get eaten by a dragon at the too-understanding-and-vulnerable age of 10 & Jaehaera very likely witnessed her own brother get murdered by Blood & Cheese. These things would definitely help in both of these two accepting each other aside form just wanting the war to end; they had much more room to. (I cite a few more reasons in that linked post above.) Though there is an aspect coming from this marriage in how that marriage--like Aegon/Jaehaera's--was supposed to "heal" the rivalry/prevent more wars.

More in Aegon's case he was directly, nearly mutilated by Alicent's suggestion and further threatened by her very hostile presence before and after their marriage. Esp after she tried to get Jaehaera to kill him. The likelihood of Aegon ever being close to Jaehaera and vice versa is so low there's no point in contemplating it.

Really, after Jaehaera's death the greens were no longer a true issue and their supporters no longer could use them for their own ends. Unwin Peake notably does what Otto did, but he didn't use Jaehaera or any green when he pushed his daughter Myrielle forward. even though Jaehaera was a girl and it'd be self-contradictory for a supposed green supporter to try to use a marriage with her against Aegon, we also saw Rogar Baratheon try to use not only a female child-Targ against Jaehaerys but a female child who already took her religious vows. Or, they could decide to do as Unwin did: plot to bring Aegon/the crown more under his power through replacing/killing Jaehaera for their own female relative. Or marry Jaehaera herself. There's the potential that even if she didn't marry Aegon, Jaehaera wouldn't be left alone. Or if kept to the Red Keep, she's be taken and kept elsewhere until she's forcibly married. But even still this is speaking to the potential for futile chaos; I still think that bc the greens' whole thing was that the succession can't come from the female line, if anyone were to try to use Jaehaera in these ways, they wouldn't get very far. At the same time, they were all just weary of any more bloodshed, so marriage to Aegon it was.

So this idea that for there to be true peace Jaehaera had to marry Aegon for political "peace" is partly salient; but otherwise, was she all that "necessary" for Aegon's long term and short term, personal or political peace of mind and safety? Eh. He certainly wasn't for hers by the end.

[nostalgia-tblr]

'house of the dragon' does the General Medieval Vibes well enough that every now and then i think "oh, that's not historically accurate" and then have to remind myself this is just a fantasy setting.

[jessicas-pi]

about once every two months the medieval AU consumes my entire existence... guess it's time again...

[rrcraft-and-lore]

IMPORTANT QUESTION.

YOU MUST CHOOSE!

[vanderwoodlings]

Maybe it’s about Lily and the idea that a woman has to belong to someone. Sine manus marriage isn’t without a hand truly, it’s just remaining in your father’s. Maybe it’s about how we never see her father but for that one scene, about how William is never there. Something almost resembling freedom and it terrifies her

[thepoisonroom]

did i ever tell y'all about the time i went out with someone who referred to my parents as "the landed gentry" because they own their house

[iamthepulta]

My advisor has left me huge fucking shoes to fill, lol. I'm half about to say 'fuck it' and make a left turn into Babylonia. Nobody needs to learn about Damascus steel, right?? Right??

[nonsense-aesthetics]

Electromedieval

[mizuthe-cat]

Mutuals I would take you with me to the medieval torture museum