Aspiring Sapient Land Beast

21, He/Him. Mostly here to look at other people's stuff.

[wenceslaustheslightlyinert]

Here's a buncha stuff from AO3 that I liked. Please check em out, they're quite neat:

Veni, Vidi, Vinum

HBO Rome fic about Titus Pullo's time in a tavern-shaped purgatory.

The Huntsman and the Herbalist

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 fic about Herbalist Barnaby's romance with a widowed huntsman. Minor Henry of Skalitz/Hans Capon appearance.

Paddling Out (THE REPEATER CORPSE CONUNDRUM)

Disco Elysium fic about the main protags'/pairing's investigation into a murder in a repeater station. Formatted in the style of the game's dialogue text.

Fitra

Historical RPF about Berke Khan's mother regaling her history to her son. Her identity in this fic is as a daughter of Muhammad II of Khwarazm, following a claim based on a contemporary source alleging that Berke was born some time around the Mongol invasion of Khwarazm.

Outside the Circle

True Detective Season 1 fic. Rust Cohle/Marty Hart, set in a post-canon where Rust starts shacking up with Marty out of convenience. Contains NSFW bits starting from the middle.

My Voice Will Haunt You

Kingdom Come: Deliverance fic, Henry's Mother/Radzig Kobyla in tandem with Henry/Hans. A "What If" where Henry's mother survived Skalitz. Some teeny, negligible Hansry NSFW bits so far, currently finished, author might make a KC:D 2 sequel in the future.

The Half-life of the Rhetorical

OC setting with bits of antiquity history. Two spirits lament about how their famous deeds in life were turned into thought exercises that focuses on their least favorite parts in those deeds.

May The Sunrise Bring Hope Where It Was Once Forgotten

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Red Dead Redemption, Arthur Morgan/Sadie Adler featuring major appearances from canon and non-canon pairings. Arthur barely survives the ending and starts travelling with Sadie. IMO the second half is a bit drawn out, but other than that this is a solid fic. Smatterings of NSFW after the main pair gets together.

The Songs and the Stories, The Lies and the Glories

A Knight of the Seven Kingdom fic, Duncan the Tall/Baelor Breakspear, about Baelor's rule if he survived Ashford Meadow. TW for canon incestuous couple (Bloodraven/Shiera Seastar). One instance of short but very colorful fondling, currently ongoing.

[english-history-trip]

King Alfred the Great’s lost remains 'found under car park', TV show researchers say

The long-lost remains of King Alfred the Great have been found buried under a car park, investigators claim.

Alfred died in 899, and his bones were repeatedly moved. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral until 1110, when his remains were moved to Winchester's Hyde Abbey, where they were interred before the high altar between the bodies of his wife and son. The abbey was demolished after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, and the place was left in ruins. In 1866, during construction of a workhouse on the site, the English antiquarian John Mellor excavated the area, found what he thought were Alfred's bones and had them reburied at nearby St. Bartholemew’s Church. But in 2013, when archaeologists exhumed and carbon-dated the bones from St. Bartholomew’s churchyard, they proved to date from over 200 years after Alfred’s death - sparking Graham's interest and search. He said: "Whoever’s bones they were, they weren’t Alfred’s. So, I decided to discover what happened to them. "The quest has taken me 13 years.”

[lostinhistory]

shut up they did not find another goddamn king under another goddamn car park

[kilncreatures]

neighborhood animal found subsisting on saucers of milk left by endeared pensioners

[despazito]

[bidonicart]

A memory that is only mine

(poem by Saadi)

[kintsugizh]

[gvq]

[scarlett-the-seachild]

think this has to be one of my favourite headlines of anything ever

[dingusmcdougall-deactivated2023]

The best thing about that article is that there gets to be a point where you’re like surely. Surely we can’t get sexier and less-martyr-y than this. And that point is about a 3rd of the way through the piece.

[greencheekconure27]

Adding one of my faves not included in the article:

Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667) Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irène, c.1625,

[thecyndimistuff]

I think you guys constantly undermine the exploitation and colonial abuse that Hawaiʻi and Polynesia endures. i promise you indigenous polynesians aren't focused on being excited about representation in the live action moana they're much more concerned by the disney tourism propaganda they've been constantly pushing in their slop movies

[inthesensethat]

[hexthelex-deactivated20250420]

This is true btw

[letmeliedown]

the podcast If Books Could Kill has a really great episode on the original book and its legacy! just a bunch of misogynist evangelical bullshit really

[iwantwings44]

[captain-price-returns]

the average red state is closer to Sharia Law than Zohran’s NYC

[chameshida]

Out dogged

[girlnephew]

[fightinggameheritageposts]

fighting game heritage post

[lagonegirl]

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html

OMG 

[pinehutch]

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.

[i-hate-you3000]

OH MY GOSH????

'Modern-Day Slavery': Many Southern States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governor's Mansions and Capitol Buildings - Human Trafficking Sear

When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he not

At Least Seven States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governors' Mansions and Capitol Buildings

The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."

[joy-haver]

Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think

[sisterreisaid]

I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed

[kaccvcate]

I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.

[thealogie]

can every writer and director in hollywood just get in a big big room and pinky promise to not release a movie about wwii for like 5 years. every summer we have to hear about a movie called Platoon about the untold story of one platoon who had to carry one mechanical part across occupied france and without it the allies would have lost the war. it stars every white actor in the UK

[gladiolarp]

As part of the war reparations Iran should force Hollywood to produce a bunch of English language movies about the Iran-Iraq war and like a hagiographic Nassrallah biopic.

[strombolicious]

[captain-price-returns]