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Hi. I reblog things (a lot sometimes). Mostly fandom things. lots of Tolkien, and whatever else suits my fancy. I have many side blogs! so if you get a billion reblogs from one of t hose right next to a bunch of likes from this main you can probably figure it out. (banner: the painters honeymoon, lord frederick leighton. pfp mine)

[colubrina]

there's this one guy on twitter who's somehow been misfiled and belongs on tumblr

[mostrovskaa]

Princess Morwa in front of the view of Malwaria castle ✽

[penny-anna]

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

[penny-anna]

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

[penny-anna]

perhaps a good way to sum up the issue here is:

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

this is in spite of the fact that black people were a lot more common in medieval europe than potatoes.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Tradwife content is out, tradmonk content is in. Watch me illuminate this manuscript boy

[neverwonderneverremember]

sleep is stolen time. don't let them take it from you anymore. tonight. we are staying up. til one billion o clock.

[alternis]

saw a post letting people know that your ao3 bookmarks are viewable on your account unless you make them private, which suggests that the median ao3 user does not use ao3 in what i will call 'the optimum fic-finding treadmill' where you find a fic author you like and look through their bookmarks to find more fics that are good and then look through that author's bookmarks for even more good fics. like a conga line of great but extremely specific tastes. or one of those chessboard rice doubling analogies and oh no that is a LOT of ao3 tabs.

[cozy-stardust]

Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.

[spider-artdump]

[pikopuri]

girls love having their little digital archives

[pikopuri]

girls love having their little digital archives

[pikopuri]

girls love having their little digital archives

[eggnogtoast]

trying to bed a knight like: *unbuttons your jupon* *unbuckles your cuirass* *unbuckles your gorget* *takes off your hauberk* *stops to catch my breath* *unbuttons your gambeson* *takes off your shirt*

[theodorafrompluto]

Tomb in the Crypt of Arundel Castle (19th century)

by Samuel Rayner

[big-moss-inc]

If I was a knight would you let me swear oaths to you be honest

[big-moss-inc]

Pleaaase bro just let me be your blade

[anattmar]

Fly, Mary

[backwardsegg]

all of my project hail mary stickers i have on my etsy !! i had a blast making these 😸

https://backwardsegg.etsy.com

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you