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And she shall repay you a thousand times. [Indie OC Blog - will happily RP with anyone! Occasionally NSFW, though outright smut will be avoided.] Tracking: themindcanbite, Daine Darnalei Mun Tags: The Dragon's Slave, Sketchbook of the Dragon's Slave

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Don’t forget to smile while intimidating someone.

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Date a Dragon who calls you her greatest treasure

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Forget the friendzone, tell him he’s the son you’ve always wanted.

[themindcanbite]

Dem, my DARLING! <3

[Welcome back!]

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Elegant Armor Gown by Lillyxandra

[calyxofawildflower]

Hey let’s destroy the pernicious myth that preteens were regularly marrying in medieval and early modern Europe and were having children as young teenagers. It’s just not true. Church records show the typical age people got married was around 18-23. Sure, around a third of brides were pregnant at the time of their marriage, but premarital sex was actually completely fine in medieval and early modern Europe if the couple intended to marry. (Oh look! Another historical fact the Victorian period completely mangled!)

Very young girls were not having babies in medieval times, people. The only people who ever bring this non-fact up are paedophiles looking to defend their dangerous paraphilia. So cut it out. Stop spreading this myth. It’s not historical, it’s not factual, it’s not true.

[calyxofawildflower]

By the way the texts in support of these facts are here and here.

“Emerging evidence is eroding the stereotype of medieval child marriage. Goldberg and Smith’s work on low- and lower-middle-status women has refuted Hajnal’s argument for generally early marriage for medieval women. Even Razi’s ‘early’ age at marriage for girls in Halesowen hardly indicates child marriage, as a large portion of his sample married between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two… .  Goldberg has offered evidence from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Yorkshire showing that urban girls tended to marry  in their early to mid twenties and rural girls married in their late teens to early twenties, and both groups married men who were close to them in age.” (Kim M. Phillips, Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, c. 1270-1540, p. 37 (x).

Bolded for emphasis.

[estel-tuioira]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the only people in the middle ages who married before their late teens/early adulthood were aristocrats, because their marriages were treaties between their respective families. An middle-class or poor woman’s dowry might be three pigs or a crate of apples - a noblewoman’s dowry might be six villages and the right to use a port (or a goddamn country). 

And even when an aristocratic couple were married at nine, it was understood that “married” and “having sex and having babies” were not synonymous, as noble and royal couples were expected to wait until both were grown up before the marriage was consummated.

[whitmerule]

Yep. 12 was the minimum legal age for consummation for girls, 14 for boys. In most cases, however, going by the dates of first children in any given marriage, it seems that husbands rarely pressed this and had the common sense and decency to wait until she was physically fully grown - apart from everything else, childbirth is dangerous enough for adult women, let alone for kids.

As with anything there are exceptions: a notable one was the case of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII (Henry Tudor). She was married at age 12 to Edmund Tudor. The Wars of the Roses had just broken out, everything was politically very dicey and dangerous and she was of a very valuable bloodline, so from that point of view perhaps it makes sense that Edmund pressed his legal marital right. From his point of view it was the right decision: he died a year later, leaving her pregnant with Henry Tudor. Both mother and child almost died, and she never conceived again. Which is precisely why everybody knew it was not a good idea.

And yes, non-aristocrats generally married much later, including into their twenties and thirties - and women often remarried, frequently preferring younger men, because by that stage many women had a fairly well established household/income and could therefore pick and choose to please themselves. (Hello, Wife of Bath!) 

Pre-marital sex in theory was frowned upon, but in practice not really so long as it got legitimised at some point. And the technicalities of ‘legitimate’ aren’t so formal as you’d think: though there was pressure from the church to involve a priest at some point for the purpose of social recognition, technically by canon law all you needed was for each of the parties to freely say ‘I take thee’. Scholars differed on whether or not this had to be followed by consummation to be binding, but as a rule the church might well dissolve a union on appeal if the exchange of words had not been followed by consummation, or if it was proved that one or both parties were coerced into it (eg, by family pressure). Free and willing consent was very important. 

So basically, since all you needed for marriage was the consent of both parties and consummation, in many cases pre-martial sex was probably more-or-less marital sex in any case, especially once you get a degree of social recognition, the couple starts living together, etc. The pressure in the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period to have an actual wedding at an actual church door (ie, in the foyer - you then go inside for mass once the wedding ceremony’s happened) was more about having the union formally witnessed by the social group and acknowledged by families than about legal requirements - plus of course the local priest always has an excellent reason to say sternly that it isn’t real unless God has witnessed it, because he gets a marriage fee out of it. ;)

tl;dr: yes, technically consummation at age 12 was occasionally a thing but only in extreme circumstances amongst the aristocracy, most people were much more sensible about sex and age, and also anybody using the middle ages to justify paedophilia is creepy and needs to be denied all access to modern medicine and just given a box of leeches and the equipment for testing their own urine.

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It IS a cards against Shakespeare! It's called Bards Dispense Profanity and it's awesome.

A MIGHTY NEEEEEED

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what!!

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someone buy me this omg

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paging @tchy

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Oh god.

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Commission of Malachai for @xxcubus !!

Thank you so much for commissioning me, it was a blast drawin’ him ; v ; )/ !!!!!

Commission Info

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Stunning Conceptual Scarves Emulate Butterfly Wings

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Her collection of butterfly cloaks and scarves are inspired by real butterflies and their beautiful and complex anatomy. Printed in Musline, each piece is a dainty, soft and delicate piece of textile, which reminds us of hidden treasures, fairies, and the magic found in the enchanted forest. Deeply impassioned by fairies and fairy tales, each design is a story-telling piece you can find in her Etsy shop.

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[actiasteeth]

“And I fell in love instantly.”

“It’s probably nothing.“ 

“It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.“ 

“If you see something, say nothing and drink to forget.“ 

“And you may find, as time passes, that you remember it less and less.“ 

“Look, I’ve probably said too much.“ 

“If you don’t hear from me again, it has truly been a pleasure." 

"We are not history yet." 

"You are safe now." 

"You can let go now." 

"We have nothing to speak about. There never was." 

"I have chosen to not be certain of anything at all." 

"There are many things I wish I could remember." 

"I do not live but I exist." 

"I don’t know if he listens to me sometimes." 

"We can do this together, you and I." 

"You don’t know what to say." 

"I know what I saw." 

"Regrets just bear us down." 

"You are all to me." 

"Think nothing of it; it’s forgotten." 

"There—now you know. Has that filled an emptiness for you? Are you any happier now?" 

"I have something of urgent importance to tell you." 

"And for now, existence is enough." 

"No, not you! Not you!" 

"Please, stay safe inside." 

"I just don’t believe violence is ever the answer—it is a question. The real answer is far more terrifying." 

"We can get along." 

"I’m coming in there." 

"There must be something beyond this something." 

"I will try not to be long." 

"I don’t know where I am." 

"I told you I would be back." 

"I let that woeful beast live." 

"We have each other." 

"As with life, and as with all things, it will pass." 

"Am I in Hell?”

“I am certain that there must be more to us than just us." 

"Let’s not dwell on our corpse strewn past; let’s celebrate our corpse strewn future." 

"I probably won’t miss you." 

"Well, let’s just find out together, shall we?" 

"And it’s just no good anymore. We can’t carry on like this." 

"Nothing is real, I don’t think. Whatever; who cares?" 

"When I die, I want to have earned it." 

"The present tense of regret is indecision." 

"The future tense of fear is either comedy or tragedy." 

"I can disappear if I want to." 

"And what if the void is not as void as we thought?" 

"Time is weird; so is space. I hope ours match again someday." 

"We should all be so lucky to set our own futures." 

"I fear for what we know." 

"I fear for what we don’t know." 

"We have nothing to fear and never did." 

"It is likely I will learn nothing from this." 

"After everything that happened, I just wanted to see you." 

"It is too late for us." 

"But maybe you shouldn’t sleep in your home anymore. Just in case." 

"Your sadness will know no bounds." 

"Nothing will be the same." 

"Nothing has ever been the same." 

"When something is this weird, one shouldn’t assume to understand anything specific about it at all." 

"Ignorance may not actually be bliss, but it certainly is less work." 

"No one has ever known anything—not really." 

"I don’t know much about anything at all, honestly." 

"Everything is some level of probably, nothing is a promise." 

"You don’t know, and so it might very well." 

"Nothing ever really happens to me." 

"Thanks, that means lot. Not to me, but your words hold a lot of meaning intrinsically." 

"So it’s best just to stay away." 

"It cannot give you what you need." 

"Oh, you don’t even want to know." 

"But it wasn’t what I thought it would be." 

"I’ll be back as soon as I can." 

"You have no idea how often it is just you and me." 

"There always seems to be something upsetting you." 

"It’s not that there’s nothing coming to get you; there’s everything coming to get you. But relax anyway." 

"Don’t worry. All is as it was meant to be." 

"It was meant to be lonely and terrifying and unfair and fleeting, don’t worry." 

"This is because I am also slightly malicious. Sorry about that." 

"Thinking about it now, nothing seems good, let alone perfect." 

"And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and the cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool." 

"And sometimes we’re annoyed. And disappointed. And that, too, is a part of how love works." 

"I just thought it was time for us to make a home together.”

[indiiesmemes]

send a ☜ to interact with a younger version of my muse!

[themindcanbite]

Nonsexual acts of Intimacy - Select from the following for my muse to respond to...

♔ : Finding your muse wearing their clothes

♕: Holding hands

♖: Having their hair washed by your muse

♗: Your muse falling asleep with their head in my muse's lap.

♘: Cuddling in a blanket fort

♙: Sharing a bed

♚: Head scratches

♛: Sharing a dessert

♜: Shoulder rubs

♝: Reading a book together

♞: Caring for each other while ill (specify which party is which)

♟: Patching up a wound

♤: Taking a bath together

♧: Your muse playing with their hair

♡: Accidentally falling asleep together

♢: Forehead or cheek kisses

♠: Your muse adjusting their jewelry/neck tie/ etc.

♣: Back scratches

♥: Your muse crying about something

♦: Slow dancing

[silvertonguedgod-archived]

The Arcadia Evacuation

Cast of characters (by RPer), links to RP blogs. Under ‘read more’ cut for length. Timeframe: 1 day ( Feb 8, 2016 ). 

Ink

GM (NPCs)

Ink 

Chalenna (owned by Tai)

Javilynn (owned by Javi)

Daine

Daine 

Iris 

Mike and Rachel 

Thea

Eloki

Loki 

Emma (owned by Meghan)

Ce

Cecelia Wells 

Lucky Luke 

Malachai 

Remy 

Nick

Tiran 

Caelar

Jack

Ace (observer)

Sakura

Koishe

Kichuna

Mius

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Reblog if your muse has a nice butt

[wordsnquotes]

Art without emotion it’s like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

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She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell.

Nikita Gill (via wordsnquotes)

[themindcanbite]

Roses are red, And violets are blue, Sugar is Sweet That much is true

But flowers are transient Food turns to dust And my heart is craving More formalized troth

Woo me with Winters Held fast, far from snow Sing, in the Summer Of me, ‘ere you go

Ply me with laughter In memory, dress That for hours you And I may wander, yet

Red is the rose, dear But the sky is so bright I want so much more from you Than sweetness, tonight