#medieval parenting

[moon-meerkat]

Please help me find a post for a class

a while ago i saw a post about a medieval text instructing parents to, if their child learning to walk tripped over an object, scold the object in question. i really want to mention it in the short historical part of a presentation for my class on Child and Teenager Rights, but tumblr being tumblr, i haven't been able to find it. i would REALLY appreciate if someone were able to send it my way, esp by wednesday evening

[mysharona1987]

By Gemma Correll.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Me, watching "Wish" with the 5 year old I babysit:

"You see! Asha said 'hello' in Hebrew, Arabic, and Spanish, indicating a medieval Spanish culture! This island is probably located near Spain where there was a great comingling of Muslim, Jewish, and Catholic Spanish cultures and the al-Adalus period, while not as utopian as we would like to remember it..."

And she was just looking at me like

i have no idea how to talk to children

[lilybug-02]

Artfight against @ejsuperstar ft. The Mad King and Chip. They're both so evil. I hope they have the most extravagant downfall of any onscreen villain.

This interaction is based on a little fic writing >:)

[litcest]

Next time someone tries to shame you for writing that incest AU, remember that the Medievals wrote many incest AU for their favourites saints.

From Judas Iscariot, to Pope Gregorius, to Saint Albans and Saint Andreas of Crete, a favourite pastime for writers seemed to be to create fake biographies for these religious figures who had lived centuries earlier, and include salacious details, such as unwittingly marrying their mothers before embarking in a journey in search for penitence.

[hedwig221b]

Heeeeyyy 💗💖💜💗💖💜💖💗

I MISSED Y'ALL SO MUCH 😭 I'm back and I'm already elbows deep into writing sterek like they make me crazy with their chemistry I'm choking crying throwing up anyways this sterek brainrot never fucking ends I guess

[roimargot]

A small comic I made abt young Arthur who sees a growing romance between Lancelot and Guinevere for the first time English is not my first language so if you see any mistakes feel free to correct me!

enjoy your meal arthuriana fandom

[turndecassette2]

I do remember those magic knight people! Every once in a while I go back on your blog to try to track down those drawings because I like them and the concept in the description so much. I would love to hear more about them. Do you have a story planned out?

yeah, vaguely. so for the cosmology; there's this dystopian city I desperately need to draw a map of built above the fossilised remains of an ancient hell. the city mines the hell for 'hell-flesh', a semi-sentient magical substance that's kind of the physical container of the souls of the damned. I suppose this is like fantasy rare earths for fantasy compute or w/e. this has been going on for a while and the city is, kiruna-style, gradually falling down the pit. also as more of the hell is laid bare, semi-autonomous demonic creatures are let loose, maybe as a kind of immune response against human incursion.

(imagining this sort of thing + branching passages. but in the middle of an italian intra-feuding city-state w a population ca modern day singapore)

a kind of grid of bridges and fortresses has been built above the pit to protect the fancier, upper parts of the city from the decaying/descending bits below. the lower city is mostly miners etc & due to the fucked up mutagenic influence of living near a hell & touching hell stuff all day the people in the upper city treat them with suspicion. there's a 'join the US navy-army-whatever to get health insurance & education & basic human dignity' or like french foreign legion situation where by joining the elite magic army manning the little fortresses, ppl from the lower city can gain some access to the upper. in the reverse I guess for the upper city ppl it functions a bit like 'the wall' in asoiaf where criminals, noble bastards etc go to maybe redeem themselves or die horribly.

the fire magic used by the guards to fight demons etc is derived from the burning corpse of a god that is said to have been there since before the founding of the city (presumably the entity responsible for the hell situation in the first place). by swearing fealty to this dead(-ish) god one gets the ability to summon his divine flame but you forfeit your chance at an afterlife, or maybe you go to hell (no-one is quite sure). everyone kind of assumes once the body is fully burned the god will return/reincarnate (and either save or destroy the city, depending on who you ask).

the politics part; at its founding the city was part of some empire that has since collapsed (pretty recently). the city is dependent on trade to stay viable/fed and to appease the new warring states/mini-empires that have sprung up around it. the current ruler is a reclusive young queen & she has her favourite lord/advisor, an ageing academic who is sort of trying to liberalise the place or make it superficially less fashy. other lords dislike this & are working to either find her a proper king or hasten the return of some deity or other that will return the place to its former glory.

I guess the story? has this noble child bastard protagonist from a shady family* of word-mages who is sent to the 'centre' fortress & works her way up to become the apprentice of some hero-knight demon slayer guy with a possibly shady past (I think rn the name I have for the guy is Chaimé & idk if this is a good name? like the spanish jaime but w more e, & the tiny bastard is Myia I think). I imagine her being the sasuke to a happier, more popular girl who saves her from a demon (embarrassing) then is outed as a half-demon herself (she's the redhead in the drawings) & Myia warms up to her as she (demon girl) becomes increasingly isolated from the outside city (being supposedly dangerous or too powerful? I don't think Myia has much natural magic or w/e in her aside from being a nerd & very persistent).

sorry there's a lot here that would be SPOILERS if I ever actually made this into something coherent enough to be an actual comic ha ha. the knight/mentor guy gets dragged into a kind of fantasy 'business plot' & I guess part of that would be like, seeing to what extent he goes along with it & if he's actually a good person ha ha. + there's a bunch of other characters w stuff going on that I haven't figured out the looks of yet but. they're important in my head. the big bear-ish bf guy who gets sent on an expedition down the pit etc

* I have a distinct image of these people living hidden away in some gormenghast-style estate. they've habsburged themselves into being mostly deaf but the only ones around who can fully read/write the divine language that lets them do word-based magic & the other houses kind of have to put up w their weirdness. also scheming nobles in dune using sign language is 1 of my favourite things in the new film adaption & I like the idea of outsiders being forced to learn to sign (or else being cut-off from higher level magic) as some sort of power move? I don't think they involve themselves that much in politics since that's below them but are def part of the 'bring the gods back' thing, for better or worse. anyway after 'avas demon' (GUILTY PLEASURE I know it has such pretty colours but comes from such an unhinged part of the internet, will never stop apologising for this) started posting again I realised it had a character w the same look & vibe so will try and re-design protag girl to look more like this cute person I saw in a fashion post on IG

... let's see how this goes. came up w all this BS after some viz lady at comicon asked me if I wanted to make them a manga but it's grown from being too little to being too unwieldy to pitch. will see after I finish up my current projects. how much blood, swearing & genocide can a story have before it stops being YA. I think chainsaw man is sort of YA but dorohedoro isn't

[opencommunion]

Adoration of the Shepherds, from a 1262 Gospel manuscript created by Toros Roslin, one of the most celebrated illuminators in Armenian history

[escespace]

Let's talk, let's be friends:

Aithusa is, in my opinion, the strangest plot hole of all plot holes (and there are too many of those). So, considering the - no prophesied but- foretold by the Great Dragon about the white dragon that would help Merlin and Arthur fulfill their destiny... Adding that to the fact that we spent our time looking for ways to justify the prophecy of the golden age and the return of magic when we never saw any of that on screen (literally the golden age was the friends made along the way)... The question is:

After all, there's no way he didn't know what would happen to Aithusa if he neglected her (he know a little too much). BECAUSE MERLIN ENTRUSTED HER TO HIM. She is the last of his much-missed species, after saying so much that he regretted being the last, it doesn't make sense that he lost her by accident

Tell me the reason for your answer (let's keep the fandom alive WE ARE TRENDING TODAY 🥳)

[icethinggigachad]

"Hadron" originates in particle physics, as a term it was introduced in 1962. If he were born in 1962, he wouldve been way too young to be in college with Ford in the 1970s.

Therefore: there is no way that Fiddleford's could have given him that name originally.

This opens a few possibilities:

1. Fiddleford's parents gave him that middle name retroactively for some reason. Like they read about the latest in particle physics somehow, looked at their nine or ten year old son, then decided "this is your middle name now!"

2. Fiddleford is trans, and chose it himself. Deciding to name himself after physics stuff like a giant nerd.

3. Fiddleford is not trans, but for some reason decided to give himself a nerdy middle name anyway. Just because.

[bedtimegiraffe]

I am so stuck on what PB is trying to tell me with these outfits.

(Character sizes adjusted for head canon height reasons)

Why is Baldur the odd one out? Given that King Arlan and Baldur are close, while Aerin is barely there and very much considered less important by both of them, why are King Arlan and Aerin dressed in the same color? Doesn't it look like Arlan and Aerin are the two who go together (not to mention the similar names)?

(On a practical note, Aerin is a fully unique character model as far as I can tell. King Arlan has the same face as an awful cop character (which was, in retrospect, a sign), but his outfit is definitely new. I think Baldur's base body is a repeat (?) but the rest is new. Basically, they could have done whatever they wanted with these outfit!)

Is Aerin trying to fit in and telegraph that he aligns with their father and Baldur just wears whatever because he doesn't care?

Are the character designers trying to show that King Arlan and Aerin actually have more in common? They're definitely the smart ones who are good at pretending to be harmless (the 'Gentle King' who would totally execute his son and Mr. "I know you'll accomplish anything you set out to do" while actively working against your goal over here).

I don't know why they're designed like this! I want to understand!

[veunho]

Playing Elnea kingdom as if Knights and Scholars are sort of like nobility, and trying to figure out arranged marriages between them (and also my character) on first gen to get the best talent odds on future generations is a NIGHTMARE

[finleycannotdraw]

Hi! Your drawings are absolutely adorable and I like them very very much. How about prompt n°27, kisses for a cover? Because I'm pretty sure they did that at least once -

aaa thank you so much!!!

27. kisses for a cover

I took this to mean, like, disguise? my first thought was the good old kissing in an alley to hide from someone chasing them, but I decided to go with the fake-relationship-to-sabotage-an-arranged-marriage route instead!

I know I’ve read a fic with this premise but I can’t find it.

Y’all: reply with your favorite fake relationship fics?

[saamaton]

the owner of this blog died because they had to look at their uni courses for the upcoming semester and try to figure out what to do with their life

[an-ruraiocht]

i mean this in as non-judgmental a way as i can because not everybody has the same knowledge and that is a morally neutral fact but it does astound me that people can know enough about beowulf to know that it's in old english but not know enough about either of those things to understand what period they belong to