Jester's my fav

Jane and the dragon! it's wonderful and I love it! you're always welcome to talk with me☺️ I ship jester and Jane but am open to other ships as well. I promise I'm nice.

[adalheidis]

Well, is he?

[burburduhart]

Jane w.i.p

I've been wanting to draw Jane and the dragon stuff for awhile now but just didn't get to it but then I was listening to this music on YouTube and it made me think of Jane and the dragon and just had to draw something for it.

[burburduhart]

whisper

I don't know how these week prompt things work but I thought I'd give it a go for janther.

[burburduhart]

Jane's mom and Pepper

I had so much fun with Cuthbert I did more of these. Forgive me for not doing dragon.

[memecucker]

I remember in my medieval philosophy class my professor once mentioned that silent reading wasn’t always the norm and that rather people would read outlouad typically. One of the most well known examples of this is in Augustine’s Confessions where he remarks that he was astonished at how Ambrose of Milan would read books silently and without moving his lips or mouth at all. It wasn’t that people didnt have the ability to read silently like people would be aware if a situation called for them to read the contents quietly such as a politician or general recieving a letter with sensitive information. The point rather is that in those cases the person would intentionally will themselves to read quietly and if you were going to sit down and read a book or scroll the default was that you would read it out loud so someone that read silently as their norm would be seen as ‘odd’. And by ‘odd’ I dont mean that people thought they were a freak or stupid just that it was a strange quirk. 

As a matter of fact reading silently might’ve been seen as a sign that someone was an incredibly heavy reader such as with Ambrose. The reason being that one of the reasons vocalized reading was the norm had to do with how people wrote texts like it was pretty common for there to be irregularities with the script or especially that it was highly common for writings tonothavespacesinbetweenwordssoreadingoutloudfeltlikeamorenaturalasawaytomakeouttheindividualwords. An incredibly ‘veteran’ reader like Ambrose (Augustine also mentions Ambrose could read quickly) might develop mental shortcuts letting them more easily pick part the individual words that had been squished together and in doing so simply gradually drop the habit of reading out loud because it wasnt an aid to them any longer. In Latin Europe this changed when Irish monks in the late 7th century developed the practice of writing with more uniform letters as well as separating different words by leaving blank spaces between them. This slowly spread to the rest of Latin Europe (at least with the monastaries) until it finally became the norm in the 12th century, just in time for the explosive importation of scientific and philosophical literature from the Arabic world which was nice.

Anyway back to before that happened, something my professor said that was pretty interesting was that that if you stepped into a medieval library before this change ocurred is that youd be struct by how much talking was seeming to go on the monks read to themselves. That combined with the fact that the expensive nature of books often meant might could be attached to chains meant that a medieval library would be have a continuous din of murmuring and rattling metal which is interesting imagery for a library.

[tinagodiva]

Lichtenstein Castle, Germany 🇩🇪

Lichtenstein Castle is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle located in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was built between 1840 and 1842 by Duke Wilhelm of Urach, inspired by the novel “Lichtenstein” by Wilhelm Hauff. The castle stands dramatically on a cliff in the Swabian Alps and is often called the “Fairy Tale Castle of Württemberg.” Today, it is a popular tourist attraction known for its stunning architecture, historical weapons collection, and breathtaking views. 🇩🇪

[vangoghcore]

by _nancy_dc

[waitafrikk]

@crabussy

[edenlouiseart]

Happy 20th Anniversary to the show that raised me 🐉💖🗡️

[gogogoats]

This is like a warm hug!

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of Middle English trivia is that in medieval England, illusionism – that is, stage magic based on sleight of hand – was considered to be part of the juggler's art, which eventually caused many words for "magic" to acquire a secondary meaning of "juggling", and vice versa. If you read in an account from the period that someone practised jugglery, that means they were either a juggler or a sorcerer, and sometimes the context does not help!

[tassjis]

[incorrectjane-andthedragon]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

[itssowholsomicoulddie]

Another year for this immortal fandom!

[playwrongs]

In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.

[playwrongs]

This post is spreading and I feel bad about it because it contains misinformation, so for the record: Ludwig II did not in fact have infinite discretionary funds. He only acted as if he did. He never dipped into the public coffers for his building projects, but he spent his own fortune extravagantly and borrowed heavily from everyone he could think of. By 1885, the year before his death, he was 14 million marks in debt.

[insomniac-arrest]

~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

[centrally-unplanned]

I always find this inspiring because try to name another prince of a German state. What did the rulers of Hamberg do? The Grand Duchy of Hesse? Gone with the wind, no one knows them anymore. But Mad Lad Ludwig built a top 5 most famous castle in the entire world. Money is fake, castles are real. Go broke and die like a winner.

[the-barefoot-hatter]

EXCUSE ME, this is still wrong. He built 3.

Neuschwanstein, literally the inspo for the castles in Disney's Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

Hohenschwangau, the practical castle

Linderhof, the final, the smallest, and the MOST fab.

Every room is incredible and the park is beautiful, but shoutout to The Bedroom, the biggest room

The Hall of Mirrors, which he probably wandered by candle light because he was a serious night owl

The Dining Room, with a wishing table that lowers to the kitchen, and rises with a crank, returning magically full of food

The Venus Grotto, constructed for the sole use of Ludwig to larp to his heart's content

A full artificial cave, it features a waterfall, fake stalactites, and a custom-designed swan boat floating on an artificial lake. The first electricity in Bavaria was generated here, to change the colors of the stage lights and to power Ludwig's fountain and wave machine.

Now THAT'S ~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

[marzipanandminutiae]

I love that- and I cannot emphasize this enough -none of this was tax money

the public paid for zero of his fairytale castle hobby

rare European monarch W as far as spending money lavishly goes

[iamwellsamuel]

Jane and the dragon fanart, who else remember this show?

[gogogoats]

So gorgeous!

[character-vs-character-polls]

Jane Turnkey VS Greve von Dy

Jane Turnkey

Greve von Dy

I can’t choose

Voting ended onJun 15, 2025

[incorrectjane-andthedragon]

We actually won this poll!

[incorrectjane-andthedragon]

*modern au* Caradoc: Gwen, there's something I should warn you about. Gwendoline: What is it? Caradoc: When Jester was looking after Lavinia, she somehow got ahold of a book he owns, some teen fantasy novel about a kingdom at war and things like that. He found her reading it. He's not sure how much of it she actually grasped, since she couldn't understand most of the big words, but she seemed to have gotten a decent idea of the plot and was pretty invested in the violent parts. And now- Gwen: Is that where her new fixation on books way above her reading level is coming from?! Caradoc: Yes! Oh my gosh, she's *already* asking for more? Gwendoline: Yes! She's obsessed now! I spent the afternoon desperately trying to give her a kid-friendly summary of some book about teen assassins. I don't even know what's so appealing to her about these, it's not like she likes the romance! Caradoc: It's the violence and gore, isn't it? That's-that's just all she wants. Now that she's had a taste of *real* fictional violence instead of the watered-down stuff...oh dear.

[aprill-99]

Character A: “The real tragedy was the friends we made along the way.”

Character B: “Don’t you mean ‘treasure’?”

Character A: “No. Having to care about other people has been a real bummer for me and my personal goals.”

[itssowholsomicoulddie]

Gunther

[thelightfantastik]

so i rewatched mismatched today

[itssowholsomicoulddie]

The heck, this fandom is small but mighty. There are so many talented people! Look! Look at this lighting! Look at those hands! Look at the interpretation of their clothes and hair!