#the middle ages were magic

[ironychan]

Medieval Madness expecting me to take this story seriously when the protagonist's name is fucking William de Cantaloupe.

[pickle-the-lad]

No, I will not be providing any more contacts, just that this is for a story.

[theadventureofhistorygirl]

Because everyone needs a fish bazooka!

Meanwhile in Medieval Europe...

[spotaus]

I think my brain should ruminate on the important characters but for some odd reason I'm staring at an unimportant side character and nodding in interest to myself. 😌

[milfbrainrot]

when will shows focus on the hot powerful milfs instead of their annoying boy mentees

[skwivr]

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[aftertheradar]

hi! sending out for someone who's more talented than me please? I have a fanart request. (If nobody wants to make this then i'll just wait till i have more money and commission it)

Also Spoilers for both The Locked Tomb Series, specifically Harrow the Ninth and Nona the Ninth, as well as Parahumans: Worm. i've been rereading them both and noticed a parallel between two characters and i want to use this (half joking) request for fanart as a way to talk about it.

anyway here's my idea: can you draw John "Jod•Emperor of the Nine Houses•The Prince Undying•The Great Resurrector•The Necrolord Prime•The Man Who Became God And The God Who Became Man" Gaius the First and Eidolon drinking tea and eating peanuts together? Maybe while the Ressurection Beasts and the Endbringers destroy everything in the background?

I'm already writing the fanfic to match it don't worry

edit had to fix a typo because my autocorrect always changes book 2 to "Harris the Ninth"... which will be my next crack fic project naturally.

[icewindandboringhorror]

the struggle of just coincidentally disliking a piece of media that a lot of conservatives also dislike, but for completely different reasons, so sometimes you'll see youtube recommended videos like "here's why X was so bad" and you're initially like "oh yaayy, yeah I had a lot of criticisms of that too, I'm curious to finally see someone really break down why the plot didn't work! I love media analysis" and then the video is just "it's bad because there's WOMAN in it!!!" ..........ok....

[honey-beebo]

i got the okay from my professor to write historically accurate fanfiction about witches in the 1500s for an assignment and i’m trying to figure out a way to write about the Wittebane brothers without making it too obvious or based too much/little in toh universe…….

[dbphantom]

maybe i should have gone into practical effects instead of computer science...

[critterofthenight]

i had such a fun dream, i didn't wanna wake up :c

[mybrainproblems]

brain is just mii waiting room music as i consider where i've ended up in my supernatural fandom journey

[uhhhhmanda]

All I can think of is the Ask A Mortician video about the secret porpoise eating that occurred on a monastic island in the middle ages.

Arnold Böcklin (Swiss, 1827-1901) - St. Anthony Preaching to the Fish (1892)

[prokopetz]

I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

[sunshine-zenith]

Daddy’s gotcha, daddy’s here, see? Nothing to worry about, not as long as your dad is there to catch you…

[motheatenscarf]

While I do think this has potential to be a fun idea in a high magic fantasy setting to hand-wave how like... cave-ins, and tunnels, and miner lung work.

Um.

Respectfully, I think even, irrespective of cave-ins, and tunnels, and black lung, you really can't forget about how class politics and the Blight interact in specifically Dragon Age.

If a horde wakes up and rampages through Orzaamar, or even just a small darkspawn raid comes to pillage and steal and taint, the gentry want a nice padding of casteless between them and the danger. And while letting the sun touch their skin might make them casteless on the surface, it's the better alternative to being murdered by darkspawn, and they'll want the surest escape route for themselves.

The modern layout is kind of intentional and speaks to like... the themes... of the setting...

It would be cool if that was maybe how it used to be, though?Handwave some explanation about the Titans protecting them from those cave-ins or something? Let it serve as a metaphor for how the casteless live as ghosts who've been forgotten by the wealthy and haunt the old estates that also got left behind?

I think it would have been cool if the Dragon Age Dwarfs (or just any dwarfs) built their cities so that the lowest sections were the Diamond Quarter where the nobles and important individuals lived and the upper quarters were the places where the poor people and dusters lived.

My reasoning being; dwarfs have specific stigma to do with the surface and even stepping into sunlight by accident can get you banished. So it makes sense that you'd push all the dusters to the top, where any expansion to their homes might end up expanding into the surface and have the nobles live deep down, cradled by the stone and the ground. I just think height wouldn't be associated neccessarily with wealth/luxury etc. in the same way.