Prickle-Eye Bush

[real-language-facts]

resurrected a dead language and it came back wrong

[victoriansecret]

Eighteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenth ceeeeeeeeeeeentury <- the long 18th century

[mosswolf]

But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues.

god me too mate. adhd king

[prickleeyebush]

Aramis, who had the third canto of his poem to finish, behaved like a man in haste.

[taciturn-nerd]

Peter Wimsey: my ideal date would be a long romantic walk on the beach while we hunt for clues for a murder

[peterfromtexas-deactivated20250]

Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

[supapoopa]

What a time to be alive.

[tenthcorner]

“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.

The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.

Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)

[kineticpenguin]

I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it

[brunhiddensmusings]

just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone

[stephendann]

Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll

[fromaliminalspace]

a rough translation of inscription on the runestone:

On the seventh day of May in the year of 2016 on hither spot the mighty warrior Ulf hath slain a dragon with his spear.

so yeah, happy birthday to this dragon-slaying event and to it only

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

Happy Ulf Hath Slain A Dragon With His Spear!

[orphankin]

10 years!!

[taciturn-nerd]

'Listen. Harriet. I do understand. I know you don't want either to give or to take. You've tried being the giver, and you've found that the giver is always fooled. And you won't be the taker, because that's very difficult, and because you know that the taker always ends by hating the giver. You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person. 'That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said'

[prickleeyebush]

What you think the Three Musketeers will be: sword fights, chases, political intrigue, high romance, cool hats, etc, etc, etc

What a good proportion of the Three Musketeers actually is: Guys I spent all our money and now we have none :(

[what-even-is-thiss]

So many people who wanna argue with me about King Arthur clearly haven’t read the actual medieval texts. I know this because if they actually read the source material they’d know that when it comes to King Arthur, everything is made up and the points don’t matter.

[what-even-is-thiss]

“King Arthur couldn’t have fought the Roman Empire”

Try telling that to Geoffrey of Monmouth.

[what-even-is-thiss]

“You can’t just add in new characters”

Try telling that to Chrétien de Troyes. Aka the guy who invented Lancelot.

“Arthurian canon isn’t French”

Clearly you don’t own an air fryer. Also clearly you haven’t read literally anything written after the Norman invasion.

“Arthur needs to be a knight in shining armor”

If he lived at all he lived almost a thousand years before widespread adaption of plate armor.

“He can’t be in plate armor because that’s anachronistic”

Try telling that to Thomas Mallory.

“The fairy stuff is leftover from Celtic myth/Celtic gods)

A lot of that stuff including the lady of the lake wasn’t added until the 12th century actually. Centuries after England was christianized. It was also mostly added by the French poets.

[what-even-is-thiss]

God, I sure hope so.

[padnick]

“Um actually, Excalibur wasn’t the Sword in the Stone—“

According to Mallory, Arthur had two kick ass swords named Excalibur from two different kick ass sources.

[kleinergeist]

Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,

[basingstokemercury]

Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane deserve at least Holmes and Poirot-levels of detective fame...

A romance for the ages, two brilliant equals rather than one genius with a bumbling sidekick (Sayers never assumes her readers are stupid either), a pair of broken and frightened people who come to understand that having each other makes the healing hurt less... What more does one need?

[cryptotheism]

Said with an incredibly condescending sneer: "Whimsyless."

[sapphireswimming]

(via @rexbasileus) #me when people havent read dorothy l. sayers' quintessential detective novel series

[prickleeyebush]

I'm just imagining D'Artagnan eavesdropping on the Bonacieux's argument. Like:

Madame Bonacieux: Where did you get that money from?

Bonacieux: The Cardinal and the Comte de Rochefort.

Madame Bonacieux: What the guy who KIDNAPPED ME?

D'Artagnan, listening in: oh this guy's an idiot. Good.

[prickleeyebush]

“Ah Madame,” said D'Artagnan, entering by the door which the young woman opened for him, “allow me to tell you that you have a bad sort of husband.”

King of taking an opportunity I love him for it.

[prickleeyebush]

I'm just imagining D'Artagnan eavesdropping on the Bonacieux's argument. Like:

Madame Bonacieux: Where did you get that money from?

Bonacieux: The Cardinal and the Comte de Rochefort.

Madame Bonacieux: What the guy who KIDNAPPED ME?

D'Artagnan, listening in: oh this guy's an idiot. Good.

[prickleeyebush]

“But that is not a man's name; that is the name of a mountain,” cried the poor questioner, who began to lose his head.

[taciturn-nerd]

I appreciate how human Peter Wimsey is. You see him admit he loves solving criminal cases, but he feels guilty for enjoying the "game" when people's lives are at stake, even if they are facing justice for something they committed. And when you see him suffer periods of PTSD that he's had since his time in World War I, his light-hearted banter doesn't look like the careless foolishness of a rich lord disconnected from reality, but a man who is trying to recover a sense of peace or at least trying to cope.

[taciturn-nerd]

I love Lord Peter Wimsey. He collects first editions. He's a foodie. He literally waxes poetic all the time. He has PTSD from the war. He loves solving mysterious crimes. But he's never doing it alone. His valet Bunter is Proper with a capital P and can sleuth out the tea from fellow service-workers over tea. His mom, the Dowager Duchess, is always down to help him out. You said she's doing a fundraiser in order to get info from a suspect? Sure she'll play along. Officer Parker does so much of the legwork and major props to Lord Peter's "Cattery" aka his army of widows and spinsters who infiltrate companies and towns and get the intel he needs.