#scone of stone

[micahdawolf]

Fun fact, in Terry Pratchett's "DiscWorld" novels, Dwarven bread is exactly this! It's can even be used as a weapon, in fact instead of a crown, the Dwarven king sits on a specialty piece of bread ( the Scone of Stone) that's been passed for generations and only becomes the king once he's sat on it!

It's stupid that bread goes bad so fast. Bread should last ten million years on your countertop. You should be able to feed yourself off the same loaf of bread from the day you are born to the day you die. They should pass down bread between generations like a family heirloom. There should be remnants of still-good bread after the heat death of the universe.

[offense-is-the-best-defence]

Still furious our government let the Scone of Stone be taken to London for the coronation

[fullcravings]

Peach Scones

[these-detestable-hands]

Honestly feeling kinda meh about it but I'm still happy I experimented a bit with the weird lineart

[bisexualbaker]

[Image one: Photo from a Discworld book. Text reads, "[…] cleaned out the coffee jug, haven't you. I can tell. This is love-in-a-canoe coffee if ever I tasted it. The other stuff had flavor." Image two: Web translation results for two words from Portuguese to English. Medici = Doctor, Vetinari = Veterinarian. End ID.]

I had to find out that there's an actual Stone of Scone from a newspaper in the break room at work.

It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.

[loverofwhump216]

Presenting the first of its kind (I looked, it's the first on AO3) a Hell's Belles and Cafae Latte Crossover.

Title: Therapy and Scones

Characters: Cyrus, Sharkie, Nicole, Penny, and Jennifer "JC" Charles

Rating: T for Teens and Up for mentions of violence and mild language

Summary: Cyrus takes a trip down to Hell to deliver some coffee and baked goods to the people of the Hellp Desk. While there, he opens up about his latest brush with death. Set after Cyrus's Kidnapping, but before Sharkie's Reincarnation

This story would not exist without the help of @mysteriouspegasus. It was their wonderful idea of putting Sharkie and Cyrus together that brought the story to life. I just acted as a tool.

If you read this story please be sure to thank her in the comments as well. Her name is TallyCharming on AO3

[jess-the-reckless]

Back on my baking bullshit with gluten-free cheese scones.

Can't recommend this baker enough - every one of her recipes that I've ever tried has worked beautifully. I'm a big fan of her gluten-free focaccia, and pizza dough. I usually tweak recipes to suit me, but the only thing I would add to this one is when she says to combine the milk and eggs, beat them. Whisk until frothy before adding to the dry ingredients, because you want to get as much air into a scone dough as possible. For the same reason, don't overknead your dough or roll it too much: you'll knock the air out of it. A good scone dough should fart discreetly when you bang the cutter into it, releasing a soft little ffft. Bonus points if it fires a tiny puff of flour across the surface.

[duchessofostergotlands]

With the Stone of Scone leaving it is a good time to remind everyone that it was stolen from Scotland by King Edward I and kept for centuries until 1950 when a group of four Glasgow University students snuck in to Westminster Abbey and took it back. It’s an amazing story and a miracle they managed to pull it off given how absolutely terrible their plan was (for example, before they even got out of the Abbey they dropped the stone on the ground and it split in two):

[anthropomorphique]

the scone of stone is real???? hahaha

The Stone of Destiny being transported from Edinburgh Castle for the coronation of Charles III.

[scotianostra]

On 11th of April 1951 The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, was found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.

It’s always good to get details from the era in posts, this is a contemporary newspaper report of the event.

Three and a half months after its removal from the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey early on Christmas morning, the Stone of Scone was to-day deposited in Arbroath Abbey in Scotland. Three men drove up to the abbey and carried the stone, which was draped in a St. Andrew’s flag along the main aisle before laying it at the high altar, on the grave of King William the Lion of Scotland.

The stone was handed over to Mr. James Wishart, custodian of the abbey, who remained with it until a detachment from Angus County Police took possession. Afterwards it was removed to Forfar, where it lay in a locked cell at police headquarters for the night. On top of the stone two unsigned letters were left: one addressed to the King and the other to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland as “successor to the Abbots of Scone.”

The letter to the King read:

“Unto his Majesty King George VI, the address of his Majesty’s Scottish subjects who removed the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey and have since retained it in Scotland, humbly showeth.

"That in their actions they, as loyal subjects, have intended no indignity or injury to his Majesty or to the Royal Family.

"That they have been inspired in all they have done by their deep love of his Majesty’s realm of Scotland and by their desire to compel the attention of his Majesty’s Minister to the widely expressed demand of Scottish people for a measure of self-government.

"That in removing the Stone of Destiny they were restoring to the people of Scotland the most ancient and most honourable part of the Scottish regalia, which for many centuries was venerated as the palladium of their liberty and which in 1296 was violently pillaged from Scotland in the false hope that it would be the symbol of their humiliation and conquest.

"That the stone was kept in Westminster Abbey in defiance of a royal command and despite the promise of its return to Scotland.

"That by no other means than the forceful removal of the stone from Westminster Abbey was it possible even to secure discussion as to its rightful resting place.

"That it is the earnest hope of his Majesty’s Scottish people that arrangements for the proper disposition of the stone may now be made after consultation with the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland who as successors of the Abbots of Scone are its natural guardians.

"That it is the earnest prayer of his Majesty’s loyal subjects who have served his Majesty both in peace and war that the blessing of Almighty God be with the King and all his peoples so that in peace they may enjoy the freedom which sustains the loyalty of affection rather than the obedience of servility. God save the King.”

The letter which was addressed to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland asked that the representatives of the Church should “speak for the whole people and arrange with the public authorities in England that the Stone of Destiny will be retained in Scotland.”

wo Arbroath town councillors, Mr. D.A. Gardner and Mr. F.W.A. Thornton, both of whom are prominently associated with the Scottish Convention movement, were waiting at the entrance to the abbey when the three men arrived. Mr. Thornton helped them to carry the stone in, and Mr. Gardner went to Arbroath police station to inform the police that the stone was lying in the abbey.

Mr. Wishart, who is 63 and has been custodian at the abbey for nine years, told a reporter that the men got out of the car and started to take a heavy object from the back seat. Councillor Gardner came up and said: “Is that the Stone of Destiny you have?”

Mr. Wishart said that Mr. Thornton and three men carried the stone on a wooden litter up what used to be the nave of the abbey between the ruins of the pillars. “They laid it at the three stones which marked the site of the high altar. They carried the stone in a reverent manner, their heads were uncovered, and it was a solemn and impressive little ceremony. The men shook hands with me and wished me the best of luck and then went. As soon as I knew that the Stone of Destiny had been placed in my charge I locked the gates.”

Mr. Wishart said that the three men were “young well set-up lads,” but apart from that he was unable to give a description of them. The car was big and dark-coloured, but he did not note the registration number. “I have always told visitors that one day the Stone of Destiny would come to this historic spot,” he said, “and I am glad that my words have come true.”

On 13 April the Stone was returned to Westminster Abbey.

A wee bit history behind the stone, the first Scottish monarch to be crowned atop the stone in the 11th century, with John Balliol the last King to use the stone on Scottish soil in 1292.

In 1296, the stone was captured by Edward I as spoils of war and taken to Westminster Abbey. On St Andrews Day 1996, the Stone of Destiny was legally returned to Scotland with a ceremony and celebration befitting its status. Since that day, it has remained within the confines of Edinburgh Castle alongside the Honours of Scotland. Thousands lined the Royal Mile to see the stone escorted from the Palace of Holyrood House to the castle.

[levon]

BARK BARK WOOF BARK

[sam-amr]

On the occasion of the coronation of the King of England& what is Stone of Scone.

The legend of the Stone of Destiny goes back to the foundation myth of Scotland. In about 1400BC, an Egyptian Pharaoh had a daughter called Scota, who married Goídel Glas. They were exiled from Egypt and eventuallty settled in north-west Spain. Their descendents later conquered Ireland and became the Scotii, who also in time came to rule Scotland.

I doubt this story because the English stole thousands of Egyptian artifacts and create stories as usual

[alephskoteinos]

There are people who seem interested in tying the coronation ceremony to pre-Christian rites. I've seen Francis Young claim that it emerged as a Christian compromise with earlier pagan rites of investiture... without actually describing what those pagan rites were or their relationship to the Christian coronation. One thing that gets brought up though is the so-called Stone of Destiny. I'm guessing that's this thing:

From what I can gather, it's supposed to be an ancient ritual stone that was used by the Scottish monarchy to inaugurate new kings/queens, and was later used for the kings/queens of Britain as a whole. Supposedly, this stone has been in use since the pre-Christian era, but the thing is, no one really knows where it came from or when it first used.

And I'm thinking, has anyone ever actually dated the Stone of Destiny for its origin? Do we know that it was actually part of a series of ancient pre-Christian rites, or is this just a convenient mythology for the British monarchy? But even if it was, it wouldn't make the British coronation rites somehow non-Christian. It would simply be Christian ceremony incorporating pre-existing elements, not unlike what the Catholic Church had already done.

[fullcravings]

Cherry Scones Recipe

[these-detestable-hands]

Man the best hetero ship dynamic is guy who is so so normal about his job and a woman with a thousand meter stare (either an ID or anxiety). Examples:

Lorenz x Marianne

Partitio x Castti

Cyrus x H'aanit

Raphael x Lute

I know there's more but these are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head

[shakespearenews]

The specifics of the rock’s creation are unknown. But the Telegraph reports that the stone “is rumored to have biblical connections” and may have been used in Scottish rulers’ coronations more than a century before its first recorded use, in 1057, when Lulach, stepson of Macbeth, was crowned king at Scone Abbey. (The Shakespeare character was based on a real ruler, but the early 17th-century play that bears Macbeth’s name has little in common with his actual life.) During these early coronations, the stone “was believed to roar with joy when it recognized the right monarch,” writes Steven Brocklehurst for BBC News.