#thisisevenharderthannamingablog

[queer-ragnelle]

Oddly enough when I did my modern Arthurian-adjacent series I did give Lancelot a smoking habit. Just seems like that sort of guy apparently?

He totally is. I have proof. Here he is lighting up with Guinevere.

Bonus Lancelot and Mordred smoke break as well.

[clairedaring]

Your posts have intrigued me; I am starting E1 of Mandate.

Hiiiii 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶

Oooooh enjoy the show. I really wish I could binge the show in one go as well, definitely a story worth bingeable rather than dreadfully waiting every week for a new ep 🤗

[helshades]

Salut! French etiquette question: how does one sign off a friendly, informal letter?

Depends! Is that letter to a friend? Do people actually write letters to friends still...? I dunno. In any case, you may sign off with the very friendly bises, ‘kisses’ (as in, a smack on the cheek), or the childish, and therefore more affectionate, bisous (‘kissy-kissy’?). Je t’embrasse is also a solution, slightly more formal, more ‘letter-like’, for the appropriate occasion.

Now, if the letter you’re signing off is addressed to someone you don’t know that much but aim to be vaguely cheerful at, Cordialement generally is the go-to send-off these days. People use it a lot in emails, when the more pompous, rigid courtesy phrases often seem out of place. Recommended at the bottom of electronic letters:

Cordialement

Sincèrement

Salutations/Sincères salutations/Avec mes salutations (Best regards)

Cordialement vôtre

Sincèrement vôtre

Bien à vous (Yours truly)

En vous souhaitant cordialement une excellente journée

Avec mes remerciements (with my thanks)

If you’re so friendly that you’re at tutoiement level—first name basis, the whole shebang—you may write Bien cordialement (not so elegant but many people don’t know this), Bien à toi (a bit formal these days... my frequentations aren’t too posh, I guess), or circle back to the all-purpose Cordialement. You’ll always end up back at the Cordialement. Learn to hate people who manage to abbreviate it, hideously, into Cdlt, suggesting they’re too overworked to muster basic politeness. Hisss. @a-room-of-my-own!

[petermorwood]

Hi Peter! I have noticed you post a fair amount about the differences between tournament equipment and actual fighting gear, and I was wondering if you could suggest any resources on the history and evolution of the former events? I was reading a story recently that included an ungodly number of tournaments, and I've gotten curious about how those were actually run, and how they might have changed over time. Thank you, and I hope you have a delightful day.

What I know is stuff I’ve picked up over literally decades of reading from hundreds of books, so I can’t give you much of a summary.

However, conveniently enough, there’s an Osprey book available to answer your question (I’m beginning to think there’s an Osprey book either available or in the works to answer any arms-and-armour question…)

The author, Christopher Gravett, is assistant curator of arms and armour at the Tower of London, and can be assumed to know what he’s talking about.

The book should be easy to find, either new, second-hand or free from a library, and there’s an excellent “further reading” list at the back.

Hope this helps! :-)

[distractionactivated]

thisisevenharderthannamingablog replied to your post : A question for my friends and followers who are...

I don’t see a downside to looking into whether this is the result of something treatable. Diagnosis via internet is not terribly reliable.

You’re right, it’s just... Part of it I did see the doctor and it was, part of it was anaemia, but with that now (I think) under control, I’m happier and better able to cope with everyday life but I don’t feel significantly more energised, I still can’t do the things I want to be able to do. It’s a question of whether to go back to the doctor with just ‘I dunno I just still feel limp’ or just try to try harder lmao. I guess the fact that going to the doctor feels like too much work is its own answer, actually!

(thank you, that feels like a useful conclusion, especially along with the sustainability one)

[killian-whump]

On the general subject of blocking, just my own perspective -- I block people at the drop of a virtual hat, or did back when I spent a lot of time in fandom tags. (I probably still have every RP blog in two fandoms blocked, just because they were cluttering up my tag reading with stuff I couldn't care less about.) There's nothing personal about it most of the time.

I do get that - especially in cases where special interest blogs clog up the tags. And as a special interest blog, myself, I am aware that some people may block me simply because whump ain’t their thing and they don’t want to see it, and that’s absolutely fine by me. However, most of the people who have blocked me are all part of the same group of friends, and whump doesn’t seem to have been a factor. It's more of a Mean Girls “You can’t sit with us” vibe, tbh ;)

I think a lot of the problem is just that everybody has different ideas about how to use the block function and what it means that it’s practically guaranteed to cause misunderstandings. And the only real solution for that is for people on BOTH sides to acknowledge that those on the other side of the equation may not see things the same as they do. Folks who find themselves blocked should keep in mind that it may not be anything personal... but people who block others should also keep in mind that some people will take offence to it.

[destinationtoast]

@hittosama @solrosan @thisisevenharderthannamingablog Yay! I'm glad I'll have good writing company if I do a nano nanowrimo. :D ( @shoku-and-awe did you say you were participating, too?) And I love hearing others' variants! @hannahrrrr go you! 2 years is an awesome stint. :)

[queen-mabs-revenge]

@thisisevenharderthannamingablog replied to your post “Also lol my boss is out of town until the end of the week and i have...”

Time to catch up on some reading?

See, that would be the sensible thing, wouldn’t it? But no, I’ll probably just obsessively refresh this stupid website, cry over fictional characters and waste away into nothingness?

Because why shake things up?