Humor me for a sec

He/him . 28 . Choleric. Observe properly.

[plaguedoctormemes]

Well, this blog had a good run and while I still love plague docs and I cherish the positive memories from this blog, I have other passions in my life currently that take priority + i just really do not enjoy the online social culture of tumblr much nowadays to bother being active again on a blog with such a large following (it makes me a bit too nervous and irritated just thinking about it)! Additionally, to be super frank, I really enjoy engaging with my plague doctor fixation in a more explicitly roleplay/horror/nsfw lens nowadays and I'm just not comfortable with sharing that stuff here, considering I didn't really make this blog NSFW from the beginning and I have no idea how many of the thousands of my followers here are minors or followed me not expecting or consenting to see NSFW content or redirects to said content.

I'm sorry for never really being that active and interactive in the plaguecore community despite people trying to interact with me! I'm just not really good at cultivating online friendships. IRL i'm not shy at all but making friends online is difficult for me. But just know that I admire all the other doctors in the community and I wish y'all all the best. Y'all are so cool and I've learned so much from people so much more eloquent and educated than myself!

I'm going to keep this blog up for awhile more and I'm still going to keep my plague doctor aesthetic blog up (@plaguedoctorpropoganda) indefinitely because I genuinely love it and it brings me joy, but I'm currently relearning HTML/CSS so I can make a neocities or nekoweb website and put my avid discussion of my interests there. I would also like to engage with my plague doc interest in designated roleplay/horror/NSFW spaces without worry. I guess if that interests you, let me know though? IDK what i'd do with that information, perhaps when the inspiration strikes... Thanks for indulging in my special interest with me for so many years. Even though plaguecore and this blog existed for awhile before it, I'm so thankful that plaguecore blew up and brought so many people so much comfort and humor during the worst of the COVID pandemic and inspired so many people. See you on the flip side!

With love,

Dr. Grim

[fugoslawbooks]

Discord is rolling out worldwide Age Verification and all accounts will be set to teen by default.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Age verification for all.

[plaguedoctormemes]

Just in case you needed a little reminder of one of the many reasons that this is very bad and you should consider looking for alternatives:

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

[plaguedoctormemes]

Well, this blog had a good run and while I still love plague docs and I cherish the positive memories from this blog, I have other passions in my life currently that take priority + i just really do not enjoy the online social culture of tumblr much nowadays to bother being active again on a blog with such a large following (it makes me a bit too nervous and irritated just thinking about it)! Additionally, to be super frank, I really enjoy engaging with my plague doctor fixation in a more explicitly roleplay/horror/nsfw lens nowadays and I'm just not comfortable with sharing that stuff here, considering I didn't really make this blog NSFW from the beginning and I have no idea how many of the thousands of my followers here are minors or followed me not expecting or consenting to see NSFW content or redirects to said content.

I'm sorry for never really being that active and interactive in the plaguecore community despite people trying to interact with me! I'm just not really good at cultivating online friendships. IRL i'm not shy at all but making friends online is difficult for me. But just know that I admire all the other doctors in the community and I wish y'all all the best. Y'all are so cool and I've learned so much from people so much more eloquent and educated than myself!

I'm going to keep this blog up for awhile more and I'm still going to keep my plague doctor aesthetic blog up (@plaguedoctorpropoganda) indefinitely because I genuinely love it and it brings me joy, but I'm currently relearning HTML/CSS so I can make a neocities or nekoweb website and put my avid discussion of my interests there. I would also like to engage with my plague doc interest in designated roleplay/horror/NSFW spaces without worry. I guess if that interests you, let me know though? IDK what i'd do with that information, perhaps when the inspiration strikes... Thanks for indulging in my special interest with me for so many years. Even though plaguecore and this blog existed for awhile before it, I'm so thankful that plaguecore blew up and brought so many people so much comfort and humor during the worst of the COVID pandemic and inspired so many people. See you on the flip side!

With love,

Dr. Grim

[prokopetz]

Standard sword and sorcery fantasy film periodically interrupted by cutaways to an in-universe historian from a notional period hundreds of years after the depicted events explaining the film's various historical inaccuracies. There's a recurring tangent about how the film's protagonist is a conflation of three different guys, all of them much weirder than the end product of that conflation.

[prokopetz]

At one point the historian remarks that the film's principal villain probably never existed, but you can tell from their thousand-yard stare that there's some Poe's Orangutan level discourse about that topic.

[amashelle]

Honestly would love to see a King Arthur movie with this framework.

[amashelle]

Still thinking about this.

Except now I’m envisioning:

Standard King Arthur movie with the usual ‘back in the 6th century…’ establishing blub, which looks a little odd because it started with a specific year, which was crossed off and replaced by another, which was also crossed off and replaced by ‘~6th century, give or take’ along with a few other editorial addendums.

Opens with Uther and Merlin discussing the siege of Tintagel. Things go smoothly until Uther’s name is used, cue the first interruption to explain that Uther was probably an ‘invention’ of Geoffrey of Monmouth, but then that academic is interrupted by a Geoffrey apologist (possibly yours truly) to defend his work with a complicated spiel that gets interrupted by the actor who plays Merlin insisting ‘we should get back to the story’

What follows slowly unravels into a poorly disguised academic debate mediated by the Merlin actor as the voice of ‘well I was actually There!’ And it slowly becomes clear that not only does he genuinely believe he’s Merlin, but his version of the story is absolutely the most unhinged and least academically supported version and relies largely on the French Romances for some reason*.

*the reason being that this is an accurate representation of many fans, who hold the Romance era as the ‘Cannon’ for King Arthur even knowing it is not the ‘Historical’ or even ‘Original’ narrative.

[plaguedoctormemes]

I'm so normal about the pathologic 3 trailer with an original track by Akira Yamaoka. I can be trusted to behave normally about the pathologic 3 trailer with an original track by Akira Yamaoka.

[leonkennedysprostate]

for those wanting to help venezuelans affected by the bombings through donations, these are currently the best ways to go. will add more links as more is set up

cruz roja (red cross)

doctors without borders

[redacted-metallum]

Let's outlive some motherfuckers this year

[marinella-ela]

[brapclinic]

unrestrained winter fun

[certified-cervid]

stretching my back and other joints medievaltorturestyle

[prokopetz]

Some of my favourite pieces of Christmas media are the ones that are straight up Evangelical propaganda, but they don't want to appear as such, so they copy and paste Santa Claus into Jesus' place. Like, I appreciate the hustle, my dudes, but I cannot begin to explain how many heresies you just promulgated.

[prokopetz]

Some day I want to see a Catholic-flavoured Christmas special that attempts a doctrinally sound depiction of Santa Claus as a saint while retaining the elves and flying reindeer and home invasions. I want to examine the theological implications of Rudolph in 44 minutes plus commercial breaks.

[unofficial-vatican]

Important distinction: do you want Santa Claus as a saint, or do you want Saint Nicholas of Myra to be immortal and have elves and reindeer etc.?

[prokopetz]

Yes.

[prokopetz]

@buildmoreworld replied:

santa is not saint nicholas tho

Whether Santa Claus is or is not based on Saint Nicholas is a fairly complicated question. Certainly, there are some extant Father Christmas myths which demonstrably draw heavily on the hagiography of Nicholas of Myra; the extent to which these myths inform the composite "Santa Claus" figure of contemporary Christmas observances really depends on which version of Santa Claus we mean!

[sabotflask]

Source

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

New holy trinity just dropped

[screenshotsofdespair]

[thefleetingflashofa-sword623]

Ive got elf methods hit my DM 5$

[red-mercer]

Read that as "elf menthols"

[thefleetingflashofa-sword623]

If you think youre getting elf menthols for 5 dollars youre off your fucking rocker kid

[bounce-a-coin-off-your-witcher]

Oh you're writing a gay smut fic with a fantasy setting? Don't forget to give one of your characters a

[philosophicalparadox]

It’s not that mysterious though.

Anyone carrying a bladed weapon carried oil. (More on that in a sec) Oil is what you use to clean and condition steel, especially, since water will rust it.

Many people in the Middle Ages used scented oils for their skin and hair from noblemen to lowly serfs.

Oil was incredibly abundant and quite cheap. The TYPE of oil however does matter in this.

Sheep oil (rendered from their fat) was very common and used for all manner of things from making soap to treating skin conditions. Rendered sheep fat has a very light texture and is a decent carrier oil without too pungent of a scent. Unfortunately it did rancid fast so it was common to add lots of herbs to it to help preserve it, especially rosemary, borage, marjoram and citron peels. This is how it became a common “perfume” oil used to scent hair skin or clothes. Nearly anyone would have had this handy somewhere.

Rendered pork oil was very common too and was most popular as a cooking oil.

Vegetable oil made from walnuts, almonds and flax seed was by far the most common non-animal oil. Nearly anybody had a bottle of almond or walnut oil in their pantry or on their person. These were by far the most popular oils used for conditioning steel, with walnut oil preferred because its tannins also gave armor a patina that kept it better. Only the absurdly wealthy ever wore polished armor. Everyone else blackened it to make it keep better. Walnut oil is good at doing that.

Walnut oil also works well as a lubricant. People back then DID use sexual lube by the way. No prostitute would be caught dead without it. Their favorite types were walnut and olive oil, though almond oil might be used in a pinch. They also used watered down acacia gum in southern Europe, which was sticky but slick and easy to re-wet.

Olive oil though was THE oil in Europe. It was expensive, comparatively, but obviously people considered it well worth its cost because it was found everywhere south of the Seine and frequently seen in even minor lordly houses or knights quarters much farther north. Considering quite a few people of the time thought it had aphrodisiac qualities when applied as certain way (likely because raw olive oil has a warming effect) I think you can imagine the most common reason it was sought after by men in particular.

Olive oil was also used in medicine and just about any church had some floating around somewhere because it’s conveniently good at treating minor infections and is wonderful for toothaches.

So the mysterious vial of oil isn’t at all mysterious and even if he were carrying it around with the sole intention of using it for sex, that wouldn’t actually be that strange either.

[pauljpeg]

"I want molly" "I want percs" well you're getting leeches

[plaguedoctormemes]

I'm using this platform to say: you really should watch the first and second legend of hei movies. please. you need to right now. RIGHT NOW. The animation. the worldbuilding. the characters. the ACTION. is so exquisite. Pleasepleaseplease watch these movies. The first Legend of Hei film can be streamed on crunchyroll and youtube and the second, i've heard, can be found on bilibili (i have no experience with using bilibili, i saw the second movie in theatres). But also hey what is that is that a ship? 🏴‍☠️

[corundumb]

I know what I'll be doing 👀

[trashdogpenultimate]

RULE NO. 1 OF WOUND CARE: ignore itttt :33

[centers-for-disease-control]

DO NOT

[diseases-for-center-control]

RULE NO. 2 OF WOUND CARE: go swimming!! in a pond or especially a public pool :)

[centers-for-disease-control]

WHO TF ARE YOU?!?!?!