#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.

[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.

[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.

[noroalia]

life's been a mixed bag and im feeling weird? so eloquently put, im aware

[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.

[mashmouths]

rip marie de france you would've loved yuri

[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

[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*

[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.

[kirbyddd]

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

[sillygoosearts]

Oldtober Day #7 idea for kojuro's father, katakura kagenaga

[pettyprocrastination]

i miss thinking about tourneys

[distance-does-not-matter]

Wait did you have the Horrible Histories books??? Because I know so many people who watched the show but like no one who read the books and we didn't watch the show we only had the books and they're so beloved and no one seems to know them!!!

YES!!! We had the books and loved them!! Could be that we were homeschooled, which is often the explanation, but we’re also big history fans!! Those books are SO beloved. we still have the box set. I should really flip thru them again

[empressofthelibrary]

I am juuuust sleepy enough to feel artistically ambitious and impulsive

I wanna revisit the Pokemon fan-region and fakemon dex I started in high school and never finished

[wollfling]

4 am and I can't sleep bc my joints are in so much pain 😒