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imagine showing people your bravest most noble knight and he falls over in front of everyone sounding like pots and pans crashing to the floor

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i hope i am not merely a blog to you but also somebody you would get rained on with at a historic site

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ive been embroidering for nearly half my life and it still blows my mind how cheap it is as a hobby tbh. it can be as expensive as you want to make it, sure. I've definitely invested in nicer tools when I had the finances to do so. But relatively compared to other hobbies it's kinda nuts that a splurge on materials is like. 9 bucks for a pack of some of the fanciest needles you can buy. Silk thread for 6 dollars. The industry gold standard thread is the stuff already available at every single craft store in the USA. If you follow exacting patterns that require a lot of color changes it can add up, but those are often projects that require weeks or months of work. Let's say you had 50 color changes and the project uses most of each skein. That's months of hobby-ing right there, for about 50 dollars plus the cost of base materials which is under 10 dollars.

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digging a grave for the defeated monster ydrogant

in an illustrated copy of "apollonius von tyrland" by heinrich von neustadt, bavaria, before 1420

source: Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, Chart. A 689, fol. 88v

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Played in the snow today

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"I asked ChatGPT-" Well I asked the immortal Dragon that Uther chained in the caves beneath Camelot and HE told me to commit treason

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One of my highlights of Rowany Festival (the Kingdom of Lochac’s biggest camping event: basically our version of pennsic) is the day I take a few hours off to go wander in the woods around the campsite. I grew up in the forest, so have a good enough sense of direction that I’m not concerned about getting lost, and will sometimes wander pretty far.

One Festival, a few years back now, I was on such a walk, and I found a long disused road. I’m talking four metre trenches gouged by water flow type unused - it was almost a hazard by foot, let alone car. I followed this for a while, until it joined up with an actual road.

I popped out onto the road, thinking it could be nice to walk along a cleared flat surface for a bit. Nearly immediately, however, I heard a car behind me. I very quickly realised that I am a small, feminine person out alone, and noped the hell out of the situation, ducking back into the undergrowth and scurrying quickly off to a safe distance, before turning around to observe.

The car stopped about where I was, and a family got out - mum, dad, and I think two young girls. They looked around, got back in the car, and drove off.

…at which point I realised that what THEY had seen was someone dressed entirely in green and brown medieval clothing (complete with accessories like “actual cloak” and “a very real knife”) pop out of the forest, turn around and see their car, look alarmed, and then run back into the forest.

I wonder if they still talk about me.

*gets dressed up to spend time in the woods alone*

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Details at the Arts and Sciences display at Pennsic 2025.

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My most recent make is this ancient Minoan ensemble! It consists of a tunic (heanos) worn under a flounced wraparound skirt shaped like a double-bladed axe (labrys). Despite how heavy the linen skirt is, the entire outfit is surprisingly easy to move around in. I even waded into the river to rescue a bee!

Hot Girl Activities

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Oooh, congratulations to both of you!!

Rides number 107 and 108 for 2025

We won Equestrian Champion at the weekend Society for Creative Anachronism tournament! 🥳

It was hot out, but it was a fun event!

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Bats/Murciélagos en masse, kinda cranky or butterfly-y

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me and the boys have a couple of chains wrapped around the sword in the stone hooked up to mikes toyota tundra gonna pull that fucker out like a tooth.

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I bring you gladsome tidings of a woman who needle-felts creatures from the Luttrell Psalter.

That is all.

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Simply compelled to try and crawl into the nearest body of water at all times in full costume. This was back in May at an embroidery event I went to with a friend, absolutely gorgeous location! 🌿

Bonus: ‘this is fine’ as the wind completely takes over my veil lol

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Monastery of Batalha, Portugal

Construction began in 1385