◇ inter diversos amores et amicitias fluctuans ◇

major in medieval history and Latin literature ♧ a gothic soul ♤ with a queer heart ♡ expect occasional monkposting or knightposting or stuff related to the medieval history, literature, and Latin in general (sometimes nsfw) ☆

[lefresne]

Dog keeps stealing my ball of yarn and all I can think of is this manuscript illustration 🥺

[thaylepo]

the look on both the dog's and the spinner's faces tells me this was absolutely drawn from life

[thoodleoo]

the beauty of the modern world is that you can get basically anything printed on a blanket. anyway we fuckin on the cicero bed

[beidak-art]

Sketchbook knights.

1rst one is Huno's squire

[diioonysus]

"this is our time, no turning back, we could live, we could live like legends."

[fairyhagmother]

My very lovely housemate has an aunt who met her current partner while they were both catholic nuns and now they are married and are both psychotherapists

[the-mediaeval-monk]

Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire UK. July 2024.

It was incredible to see where Saint Aelred lived and died.

[eugaenia]

POV: You're a twelfth-century monk and you think of your body as of:

Like why. Why such a slutty metaphor 😭 (it's not even a biblical reference).

(From Aelred of Rievaulx's A Rule of Life for a Recluse)

[eugaenia]

You're a Cistercian, you say? More like a Transtercian to me. 🤷‍♀️

[rosquinn]

the name of the rose by umberto eco

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

I love that the knights are always beating the shit out of each other within an inch of their lives and then malory will be like “and then the good knights all went quietly to mass”

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

the knights shuffle into the confessional beforehand like “father I have started many a fight with my fellow knight” and the priest just sighs and looks at the dude in front of him with a black eye and blood covering his tunic and is like yes I can see that

[himynameisemail]

[ramlightly]

A Long Night

[tchaikovskyed]

"Realistic take on arthurian legend" uhhhh no thank you. I would like my arthurian legend to be full of whimsy and unserious gags. Stop giving us that zero lighting game of thrones-esque gritty nonsense and give us more arthurian legend in all their extravagant colours and silly quests!!!

[animentality]

[the-korova]

I am so glad that the word blorbos exists now. It’s so much more evocative and accurate than “comfort character”. Like, they’re different things. He doesn’t bring me comfort, he makes my hands itchy and I want to polish him with pledge. I want to put him in a Pringle’s tube and shake him. I want to brush his hair and put little shoes on him like a Bratz doll. That’s a blorbo.

[perplexingly]

Some of the most beautiful men I've seen in Czechia so far

[thoodleoo]

they really should warn you before you start studying history that it's going to turn you into a complete freak about at least one historical figure like. somebody should give you a heads up that someday youll be reading cicero's letter to some other ancient roman about his weeklong episode of explosive diarrhea from eating mushrooms ar a dinner party and still go online to post about his consular senussy

[sickfreaksirkay]

look at this illustration of sir tristram on his journey to avalon..... imagine arriving at avalon in this sick ass swan boat i just know all the other dead knights would be soo jealous