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[weedmarik]

“wait, yugioh’s a sports anime?” always has been

[papergardener]

The problem started with stirrups.

So I’ve been working on writing Merlin fanfic and, like a moron, I decided I wanted it to be more historically accurate because the actual canon is a shitshow about that.

I start doing some writing, some researching, and discover that stirrups won’t arrive in Britain until the 10th century or so. King Arthur is like… early 500′s roughly.

So no stirrups. That’s not a big problem. Except it is argued that it might have been a major contributor to feudalism. Which, ok, good to know. So Arthur is pre-feudalism, got it. Shouldn’t change too much, right? (wrong)

Oh, what’s this that feudalism requires for those new wealthy landowners?

Fucking. Primogeniture.

(friendly reminder: this is the right of inheritance for the firstborn son. Like for land, or titles of nobility… or kings)

So if my research is right, King Arthur didn’t have an inherent right to the throne because he was the firstborn male heir. He was fucking ELECTED. (or maybe a lady in the lake threw a sword at him, who knows, this is all myth anyway)

But the fucking kicker?

The thing that DOESN’T EXIST in King Arthur’s time?? Because feudalism won’t show up for several centuries?

Fucking.

Knights.

In summary, the story of King Arthur is just modern day fanfiction from medieval/feudal Europe with rampant OCs, overpowered everyone, too much fucking drama, and like three different werewolves.

Also no stirrups.

[heroofthreefaces]

this is how i learned young there’s no such thing as canon

[star-anise]

King Arthur was ahistorical fanfic in the 12th century when the tales as we know them took shape, and in every retelling since then. It’s basically always been about projecting the author’s values backwards in time to an idealized past.

There’s literally a book exploring this and how modern retellings have continued the spirit of High Medieval versions called Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy. Because silk and potatoes, like stirrups, knights, and feudalism, also didn’t exist in post-Roman Britain.

There really is no “historically accurate” way to write King Arthur. Even attempts to set the story in the 6th century are constructed ahistorical fantasies. You basically just have to decide which brand of anachronism you want to go with.

[petermorwood]

Write your Arthurian story whatever way you like. Everyone else does…

[dduane]

(amused expression) Doing that…

[ekjohnston]

ME TOO

[ivorygate]

[psychohelmet-cultjesus]

Reminder that

Everyone at studio bones has the hots for Reigen

[stuck-in-jelly]

One:

Bones:

[acepsychic100]

Don’t forget the thirstiest one

[stuck-in-jelly]

Shit you right, I forgot

[beefmonsters]

@pandadistractions

[pandadistractions]

even the animator that does the pain on glass frames wants him

[pandadistractions]

and don’t forget:

[yaushie]

so who else gets irrationally afraid and embarrassed about their interests being known to people in real life

[queenofattolia]

#i’m not embarrassed but#i hate the thought of having to guard what i love#and defend any of my interests to others#people are the worst i don’t want them to know me

[musicalhell]

I call this “residual anxiety from being bullied for everything that made me even slightly unusual every day in junior high.”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

[caseyd1a]

[imflare]

i thought id add some simple colour, it was more a mindless stress relief than anything haha

[imflare]

I'm low-key glad Tumblr will pull the plug for me which I've been too chicken to do becaysey "archival reasons"... sad to let Tumblr go but I'm never on here these days anyway!!

find me on twitter: @ furerumatsu

Here's to hoping another highly customisable longform text allowed blogging platform crops up sometime!!

[krablord]

Visit Original Link

[S] Collide

for people who’d prefer an audio player besides bandcamp.

[nativenews]

[usamilovelove-deactivated202005]

wtf

[usamilovelove-deactivated202005]

this post is just calling anti feminists racist

[geekandmisandry]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[voidambassador]

Would you look at that, the shoe fits

[drhds]

Which one of you Gays photoshopped the glass slipper into a Louboutin 

[batfangzz]

omfg first off WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK and second @drhds it’s LOUIS VUITTON NOT LOUBOUTIN 

[oppa-homeless-style]

give me your fucking wig

[kama-aina-killmyself]

Theres discorse here but im not sure what kind

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

Did they think Louis Vuitton and Louboutins were the same thing?

[goth-aunt]

Yes they did

[kontrollsysteme]

wow

[997]

this post deleted tumblr from the app store

[monkeyhazard]

Preview of my postcard for @bondsbeyonddimensions zine.

PREORDERS ARE STILL OPEN!!!!

[allforbts]

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[platypusinplaid]

this is THE funniest punchline I’ve ever seen

[yosb]

On opening night a woman told Miller his play was “a time bomb under American capitalism,” and he hoped she was right. But if it were just a matter of politics (Miller was at the time a committed Stalinist sympathizer), the play would not have lasted. His protagonist, Willy Loman, however, is an Everyman, someone who heedlessly believes all the lies that are fed to us - the ones about success and self-realization, the ones about consumerism, the ones about the necessity of being, as he puts it, “well liked.” At the time, the fancier critics thought Willy lacked the noble stature for tragedy. But that’s nonsense. We don’t live in an Aristotelian age; we live in the age of Donald Trump. And Willy, trying to pass on his false values to his sons (and incidentally destroying them as a result), has become an ever more poignant and prescient figure.

[catchymemes]

10 tricks you didn’t know you could do with your food.

By Blossom

[audrey-hepbae]

The internet went from showing food recipe videos to alchemy in less than a decade. There’s going to be a quick video on how to make the philosopher’s stone from tomato sauce next week. 

[jaspertheshark]

make an engagement ring for your partner with a hot coal and some skippy you got on sale

[czoedy]

My preview for the @bondsbeyonddimensions​ zine.

[bondsbeyonddimensions]

We are happy to announce that preorders for the Bonds Beyond Dimensions Zine are open!

Hello! As the title says the store for our zine has opened and wil stay open untl November 10th! 

This is a zine project which pays tribute to all the 6 series of the franchise and the theme of the illustrations is the dynamics of the protagonists and rivals from each one of the series! We got over 50 artists to work very hard and the zine includes several illustrations for all the series, as well as good deal of crossover ones!

This zine will be printed in A4 size (letter size) with over 50 illustrations in full color, the artists also made lots of merch! We have stickers, buttons, prints and charms! Each available on different bundles.

Once preorders end, you guys will wait for about a month so we arrange all the printing and shipping of the products and you will get an email when your order has shipped! Everything will be shipped from the U.S. so for people from other countries, we ask you to be patient ;D

The shipping cost will be 5$ within the U.S. and 10$ for international fans!

You can find our store here!

Reblogs will earn you our eternal appreciation! And thank you all for your support!

@fandomzines @zine-scene @zinefeed @zineapps

[bondsbeyonddimensions]

Announcement

After considering for a while and tweaking with the settings of the page (and more than one try and fail :P) we could finally customize the shipping options of the account for the zine, so now that it’s done we have enabled payment through Paypal!