#the medievals were right

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 326

“So erm, how are we going to explain… this…?” Sam motioned around at the entirety of them with a clawed hand, an unimpressed expression on her maw. 

“I mean, we could just, not do so?” Danny sounded a tiny bit uncertain about that, own claws tapping against his legs from where he sat. “I mean, Tucker seems happy enough-” 

“Okay, I didn’t come here to be called out like this-” 

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[superconductivebean]

#1216: addition to the #1215

so, about the exchange between aesop and julia:

@mrs-sharp

julia says to aesop, after rescuing highwing and feeling unwell after being up for 24+ hours, that she's someone he could've been

aesop gets petty and grunts, she was someone he used to be

julia was offended, aesop was offended by the exchange followed, eleazar was unhappy to see his grandkids fight, julia got in detention until the end of november (aesop realised he did stupid and turned that detention into teaching her some additional potions and dada ; by an extension, everyone became Very Confused at what has she done to get on his nerves to deserve that much of detention time)

[hauntingblue]

The king and queen are visiting Paiporta and they receive them with mud xd two men have spoken to the king and told him to do something, but we all know that he is going to go to his palace and cross his arms because It's literally the only thing he can do. Is this what had to happen for people to realize that asking the king for help is nonsense? He has no power, he is only there to parade around. They have kicked out volunteers from the site to let the king and his escorts (police and military) pass, which is the first time they have touched that ground and they are going to do NOTHING. The president is doing the same. The president of Valencia is doing the same.

[babtest]

begging discworld fans to actually learn what copaganda is. you're being cringe

[beyondtheepleasureprinciple]

bring back reading out loud in your own room im being so fr

[giantkillerjack]

They shouldn't let me write Merlin because I would have Merlin realize he's a class traitor and kill Uther before the opening credits were done rolling. and then Arthur would get his shit together too and also kiss Merlin. and then I guess the show would just have a tolerable ongoing plot for the first time ever, with dynamic engaging goals and growth for characters that were finally likeable, and......

Actually, I take it back: the only reason I would not be an ideal choice for the head writer of Merlin is that the show ended like a decade ago, and it would frankly be poor business sense to hire a new writer at this stage.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

forever grateful to @cicelythereaper for pointing out that by spelling conchobar's name "cnychwr mab nes", a welsh author essentially renamed him Fucker son of Ness

[hovelicher-unsin]

i learned of kenningar recently. basically they are metaphors used in the old songs of the edda, composed of usually two or three parts. for example "svanfjalla" means "swan mountain" and therefore means "waves" or "hestr svanfjalla" – horse of the swan mountans – means ship.

and these kenningar usually are just these two or three mushed together words to make space for the meaning of another one, but they could be a lot more complex and have up to five or six parts and with these, as they aren't used in other texts and are specific to one poem, the poets probably showed off their skill.

we can read these old texts and read these kenningar and translate them and all these words stand in for a simple thing, but the poet was so proud of their way to describe it. and we can still see the skill, we can maybe feel an echo of that pride because who wouldn't feel like a genius when making up a six word metaphor for a simple word like the ocean?

old texts connect us with the people back then. a poem from hundreds of years ago is still a poem and we can read it and we understand it and we know the pride of one's skill that inevitably shows itself.

how i am i supposed to feel normal about this.

[tricoufamily]

those playdough ass sims aren't gonna fit in with that beautiful beautiful lighting let's get a move on i wanna see some realistic skin folds (MODELED not a flat texture) and blemishes and subsurface scattering i want that-specific-breed-of-maxis-match-tiktoker-you-know-the-ones tears

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[brujahinaskirt]

in my experience as a literary editor you have like, two kinds of historical fiction people on twitter:

thinks good historical fiction must be 100% accurate to history regardless of how incomprehensible this may make it to modern readers (this goal is impossible and undesirable btw, especially when we get into linguistic changes)

thinks good historical fiction must actively attempt to sanitize history (e.g., exclusively use modern terminology, identity concepts) in order to avoid offending others and believes that modern readers are too dumb to separate historical fidelity from active bigotry on behalf of the characters and author (I mean maybe on twitter they are)

both are wrong and annoying and completely out of touch with the genre and with good writing practices in general, but are nevertheless WAY better than the main type of historical fiction person on reddit & youtube. who, regardless of location or century or court records, only knows how to say this:

"women and gays and blacks would have been hanged :("

edited to add: historical fiction people on tumblr are like

*shares post containing blatant oversimplification / outright misinfo / giant screed with no sign of a single legitimate citation* "GOSH THIS IS SO GOOD TO KNOW!" *proceeds to 'correct' everyone around them based on a fucking tumblr post any freaking rando could have squeezed out*

[sodrippy]

pissed the fuck off bc my neighbours music is so fucking loud. but its kind of a vibe so i cant get too mad

[cuubism]

Tagged by @moorishflower, @academicblorbo, @notallsandmen, @valeriianz :)

Rules: Tag 10 (or less) people you want to get to know better

relationship status: crazy cat lady & recipient of many "do you have a boyfriend yet? 👉👈" questions at family gatherings. (The answer is "No, and we're not going to get into it unless everyone gets real cool about a bunch of stuff real quick.")

favorite color: coral pink, olive green, & maroon

song stuck in my head: I think I've banished it, but the last song was that one tiktok song 'if we ever broke up,' I don't even LIKE this song, what gives 😂

three favorite foods: soup (any). spaghetti & meat balls. this one flourless chocolate cake my mother makes that's 98% pure dark chocolate. that's the good stuff.

last song I listened to: EVOLVE by The Warning -- such a fabulous up-and-coming hard rock band! That I discovered by utter happenstance, thanks YouTube.

dream trip: I want to go so many places but the one I'd classify as a dream trip based on sheer difficulty in making it happen in real life is China. China is financially, politically, and logistically challenging when leaving from the US - not to mention the language barrier. But maybe one day. (This is reminding me to get back to my Duolingo Mandarin lessons - I was doing so well and then dropped it for six months, whoops.)

last thing(s) i googled: Oh! The Met Cloisters for a future trip. Y'all Sandman medieval enthusiasts should definitely make your way to the Cloisters sometime (NYC). It's fantastic. You definitely want to see the unicorn tapestries. They also have a garden of poisonous plants.

Tagging @avelera, @dreamlings, @im-not-corrupted, @magnusbae, @pellaaearien

[ofrabjousnight]

cadaver effigies my beloved

[kirbyddd]

why does wikipedia have the review from Games Workshop's own magazine about its own game as critical reception