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[werewolfetone]

Sometimes twitter is worth it

[neapolis-neapolis]

Giardino dipinto (inizi I sec.), dalla Casa del Bracciale d'oro - Parco archeologico di Pompei, Napoli.

[qwiddit]

[partlymadeofgold]

This map was designed by Kenyan artist Priya Shah.

You can read about it here: https://minds-africa.org/fabric-map-of-africa-the-art-of-storytelling/

and buy copies of the map here: https://www.miakora.com/fabric-map-of-africa

[awritersrejections]

saw your tags @did-sm1-say-catfish and yes, that link is broken! I looked into it, and it's because there are now multiple maps, including a map of India—

Here's a new link for purchasing purposes

[india-official]

WOW THIS IS SO COOL :O

[st-just]

Endlessly awkward to finish something and it's, like, fine? Solidly mid. But then you look at the popular reception and the top review starts

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[woman-respecter]

it’s so hard for me to listen to heartbroken/angry breakup songs by straight men bc no matter how good the song is i’ll be like i’m not sure if i fully believe you. let’s hear her side of the story.

[werewolfetone]

It’s also mad rereading asoiaf and thinking about how out of everything in these books the thing a lot of those books that were trying to be ‘the next game of thrones’ in the 2010s took away was that if they wanted to be as good they should kill off a load of characters

[werewolfetone]

Like the cultural zeitgeist surrounding it while GOT was airing needs to be studied because everyone correctly identified that it was good but every single thing they pointed to as the thing which made it good and should be imitated was so astronomically wrong that most of the time it was something that isn’t even in the story. how the books about the pitfalls of mediaeval politics in a world where the author plays with retellings of historical events instead of writing about them directly spawned 8000 derivatives where the lesson learned was ‘kill everyone, grimdark world where babies die, but it’s going too far to make this mean anything it needs to just be set dressing’ is beyond me

[werewolfetone]

It’s also mad rereading asoiaf and thinking about how out of everything in these books the thing a lot of those books that were trying to be ‘the next game of thrones’ in the 2010s took away was that if they wanted to be as good they should kill off a load of characters

[werewolfetone]

I did think about it and my actual opinion on new world crops being in westeros: I'm not on principle against them having those things, either as native crops in this world or as something the characters traded for. the issue is not them having sweet corn or peppers in a mediaeval europe style world, that kind of departure from reality would be fine in theory, it's that the author doesn't particularly make any effort to explain at all why goods that were jarring to me at least as things that come from the americas in real life would be present in a fictional country which is otherwise not inspired by the americas, via either of those routes. which indicates to me that he isn't going for a fantasy 'my continent is not europe, there's dragons, I can have native corn and feudalism if I want, or they traded for it' thing, he probably just didn't think about it. which is problem attic because the reason people wouldn't think about sweet corn being grown in europe in real life to the degree that you can have inconspicuous sweet corn in a middle ages inspired world involved millions and millions of people dying. so. friend that's too woke I guess

[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[normal-horoscopes]

God I fucking love being a monk at the Monastery of Lindisfarne on this fine morning of June 8th, 793. I love looking at all the gold and silver objects and alive monks that live here.

[werewolfetone]

The author of the book painted an extremely bleak picture of the historiography but I'm very curious if we know if saint ignatius's family also started calling him the name he 'mistakenly' started using because he thought it was the same as his name because they started with the same letter (???) or if they were like yeah bro I'm not calling you that

[pjackk-bot]

New idealogy i call it Alcohol Feminism

[meatgoat]

[incrediblysincere]

no citation but im choosing to believe lenin patronised the worlds first cat cafe

[incrediblysincere]

saying "according to local legend" and "it is said" before making up some absolute bullshit

[werewolfetone]

I like this book I’m reading about catholic reform being written by a priest but also so far being basically incapable of making ignatius sound like he wasn’t just walking around saying whatever when they weren’t making him talk about religion. sorry what do you mean you changed your name by accident because you ‘thought it was the same as your actual name’

[werewolfetone]

A whole chapter about how he did nothing but wander around and almost get executed over and over again because he kept accidentally making everyone think he was lutheran and then somehow got confused and accidentally changed his name to another spanish name that sounded similar even though he was spanish it’s just so nice that they’ve canonised someone as representation for people who have that one thing they’re really good at but otherwise don’t know what’s going on

[werewolfetone]

I like this book I’m reading about catholic reform being written by a priest but also so far being basically incapable of making ignatius sound like he wasn’t just walking around saying whatever when they weren’t making him talk about religion. sorry what do you mean you changed your name by accident because you ‘thought it was the same as your actual name’

[classicalcanvas]

French Novels and Rose (1888) by Vincent van Gogh