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archerinventive · 13 days
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Happy Faire Friday!
The sun is out and making me nostalgic for faire season.
Missing all my armored faire friends and crew.
I hope you all have a magical weekend. I can't wait for the New years shenanigans. ✨️
With @unicorn-shieldmaiden & Sarah F. ❤️
Photos thanks to Liv F.H.
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dabiconcordia · 4 months
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November Our twilight month November is, The evening of the year. The brilliant summer noontide left A pallor soft and clear. Dame Winter brings with quiet grace Her curtains all of snow, And pins them deftly into place With boughs of mistletoe. by Ruby Archer
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angelofthenight · 8 months
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Playlist for Last Man Alive
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( This just a playlist of random songs that go with/relate to my fic,, if u think of a song that u think should be here feel free to comment it and I’ll add it! Songs in green are the ones that suite the most perfectly )
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Closer - Nine Inch Nails
Don’t Blame Me - Taylor Swift
Boyfriend - Dove Cameron
Dear John TV - Taylor Swift
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - Taylor Swift
Never Ever Getting Rid Of Me - Waitress
Meant to Be Yours - Heathers
Karma - Taylor Swift
Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
I Did Something Bad - Taylor Swift
The Red Means I Love You - Madds Buckley
Lotta True Crime - Penelope Scott
Invisible String - Taylor Swift
Dead Girl Walking Reprise - Heathers
Jealous Girl - Lana Del Rey
Haunted TV - Taylor Swift
An Unhealthy Obsession - The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra
Love Story cover - Sarah Cothran
You’re On Your Own, Kid - Taylor Swift
Somebody’s Watching Me - Rockwell
Gods & Monsters - Lana Del Rey
The Beast in Me - Bonnie Pointer
Right Where You Left Me - Taylor Swift
Until I Found You - Stephen Sanchez
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Oblivion - Grimes
Yo Girl - Heathers
Always Forever - Cults
Hey Lover - The Daughters of Eve
Get Out Of My Head - Tryhardninja
Tag, You’re It - Melanie Martinez
I Wanna Be Yours - Arctic Monkeys
Paparazzi - Lady Gaga
Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift
Tonight You Belong To Me - Patience & Prudence
Cool for the Summer - Demi Lovato
Pacify Her - Melanie Martinez
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Knee Socks - Arctic Monkeys
Christmas Kids - Roar
You Don’t Own Me - Lesley Gore
You Don’t Own Me - SAYGRACE
Illicit Affairs - Taylor Swift
Smoke and Mirrors - Jayn
Enchanted TV - Taylor Swift
Little Girls - Annie 2014
Hellfire - Hunchback of Notre Dame
Call Me Crazy - Gabbie Hanna
MONTERO - Lil Nas X
Strawberry Shortcake - Melanie Martinez
You Belong With Me TV - Taylor Swift
Senpai Notice Me - Random Encounters
I Can Hear The Bells - Hairspray
All Men Are Pigs - Studio Killers
Gorgeous - Taylor Swift
Take A Hint - Victorious
Play Date - Melanie Martinez
Our Love is God - Heathers
Better Than Revenge TV - Taylor Swift
Ready or Not - Bridgit Mendler
Teacher’s Pet - Melanie Martinez
Norman fucking Rockwell - Lana Del Rey
August - Taylor Swift
Cake - Melanie Martinez
The Archer - Taylor Swift
Bloody Mary - Lady Gaga
Clean TV - Taylor Swift
Hopelessly Devoted To You - Grease
Final Girl - Graveyardguy
My Tears Ricochet - Taylor Swift
This Little Girl - Cady Groves
Obsessed With You - The Orion Experience
Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve - Taylor Swift
Lay All Your Love On Me - Abba
EVIL - Melanie Martinez
I’m Still Standing - Elton John
Using You - Mars Argo
All I Want For Christmas Is You cover - Chase Holfelder
Betty cover - Chase Holfelder
Michelle - Sir Chloe
You Are My Sunshine - Jimmie Davis
The Wolf - SIAMES
Obsession - Animotion
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! - Abba
Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
The Point of No Return - Phantom of the Opera
You’re the Inspiration - Chicago
I’m Just Ken - Barbie
Don’t You Want Me - The Human League
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The Calamity Trio are at the local Renaissance Faire, Sasha in her full armor is leading the group as she approaches a table where her fellow knights are eating lunch.
Knight1: Hark! It’s the Knight-Dame Sasha! It has been a while since last you’ve graced us with your presence. How hath thine been girl?
Sasha: I apologize for my prolonged absence but as many of you know I have joined the House Boonchuy with my marriage to Lady Anne and Master Marcy the Alchemist Archer.
Knight2: Aye, that was a lovely wedding, thank thee for the invite.
Knight3: That hath been several years ago. What bring-ith thy back now after so long?
Sasha: Life hath gotten into the way but also, I would like to introduce thee all to someone special as thanks to secret government wizardry, Lady Anne and I have made an heir!
Sasha reaches into the stroller that Anne was pushing. She holds up baby Lily who is dressed up as a lil’ princess.
Sasha: Behold! Lillianne Boonchuy! She is as strong and feisty as her mothers are beautiful. She shall make a great knight one day!
The other knights get up and coo over Sasha and the baby.
Anne: ………this has to be the dorkiest thing Sasha has ever done……
Marcy: Yeah, but it’s kinda cute. She’s our dork in shining armor. Literally, she polished her armor for this.
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gogmstuff · 1 year
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Middle and Late 1870s (from top to bottom) -
Le Salon de 1874 by Camille-Léopold Cabaillot-Lassalle (on sale at Ary Jean Art Gallery). From their Web site 1574X2000.
1875 Lady in Black with a Dog by James Archer (location ?). From meisterdrucke.de-kunstdrucke-James-Archer-197600-Porträt-einer-Dame-in-Schwarz-mit-einem-Hund,-1875 2308X3878.
1877 Toilette by Jules James Rougeron (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum - Tokyo, Japan). From facebook.com/MimiMatthewsAuthor/photos/toilette-by-jules-james-rougeron-1877-this-is-the-painting-thats-on-the-cover-of/2377279908990463/ 1174X1725.
Florentia Maria Crawshay 1849-1920), née Woods, as a Young Woman by ? (Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery - Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil, UK). From Wikimedia; fixed more obvious spots w Pshop 936X1200.jpg,
Princess of Wales Alexandra by W. & D. Downey (Royal Collection). From teatimeatwinterpalace.tumblr.com/post/167945509352/queen-alexandra-when-princess-of-wales-x 540X810.
Two elegant sisters in a luxurious interior by Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (location ?). From tumblr.com/artthatgivesmefeelings; fixed spots & some cracks w Pshop 2048X2809.
1879 Jacqueline Paton en robe noire by Léon Comerre (location ?). From tumblr.com/random-brushstrokes; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1627X3072.
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gods-and-monsters04 · 8 months
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I was searching online for images of Van Helsing to post, and I came across a gallery of concept art created for its video game adaptation!
Here’s what I have found:
(Apologies for the grainy quality of the images, I was unable to get them in higher resolution. I’ll leave a link to the gallery below)
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A trio of cinematic pieces for the game. One of them possibly a alternate version of Van Helsing’s battle with Mr Hyde in Notre Dame.
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Next are some pieces of alternate costumes that Van Helsing can wear. Interesting to note (although it’s hard to see) Van Helsing has a outfit that he wears during the 1400s, said to be 400 years ago. Another weird one is that he appears to possess a gun, possibly a prototype?
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Concept art for a Dwergi warrior. I kinda like it, with the spikey shell on.
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Next are original enemy types in the form of these Undead warriors and archers. Gotta say I love the more monstrous appearance of these guys, especially with the more animalistic skulls and the protruding spinal cord.
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Another creature and probably one of my favourite inclusions: a Gargoyle! I like how these creatures are included, given how Van Helsing makes mention of them when he chats with Friar Carl.
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Last one (Because Tumblr on mobile refuses to allow me to post more than 10 images) is a colossal set of haunted armour, with Gabriel attempting to attack it.
Anyway, that’s all I can post. If you guys want to see more of these images, check it at Sierra Chest.Com. That is where I found this out.
And let me know what you think about the artwork! I don’t know who did it but credit where credit is due to the person who made this artwork.
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cheddar-baby · 3 months
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New years chart 🥰 (titles under cut)
Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE Yoni Mayraz - Dybbuk Tse! TEKE::TEKE - Hagata Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World Sufjan Stevens - Javelin Dorian Electra - Fanfare Sampha - Lahai Magdalena Bay - mini mix vol. 3 Magdalena Bay - A Little Rhythm and a Wicked Feeling Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair Yoni Mayraz - Rough Cuts Tears for Fears - The Hurting Kate Bush - Never for Ever (2018 Remaster) Magdalena Bay - mini mix vol. 2 CMAT - Crazymad, For Me Doja Cat - Scarlet JPEGMAFIA - SCARING THE HOES Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour Comanavago - Heart Failure George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya Jacaszek - KWIATY Wilma Archer - A Western Circular Andy Shauf - Norm Feist - Multitudes Matthew Halsall - An Ever Changing View Billy Woods - Maps Chini.png - El día libre de Polux death's dynamic shroud - After Angel Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! Klô Pelgag - Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Le Cri du Caire - Le Cri du Caire Liv.e - Girl In The Half Pearl Madeline Kenney - Night Night At The First Landing SLAUSON MALONE 1 - EXCELSIOR Speakers Corner Quartet - Further Out Than The Edge yeule - softscars Allie X - Cape God Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
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styxnstars · 8 months
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Watch out for Johan's sister Jandira: she may be very pretty, but she's a whore and has broken many hearts 💔💅
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♥︎ she/her/they/them pronouns
♥︎ Lesbian ❤️🧡🤍🩷💖, sapphic 🩷🤍🩷, and polyamorous 💙❤️🖤
♥︎ Nonbinary 💛🤍💜🖤
♥︎ 18 years old
♥︎ 5'4" (she's an inch shorter than her brother)
♥︎ Her birthday is on January 20th 🎂🎉🎊
♥︎ Has mania, BPD, and anger issues in general
♥︎ She speaks English, but it comes out mostly broken. However, she is also fluent in Portuguese (the Portugal dialect) and Spanish (the Spain dialect) 🇵🇹🇪🇸
♥︎ Her last name is Barahona, a medieval Portuguese last name.
♥︎ Since she's never met Johan, she never grew up with him but lived in an all girl's castle in Spain for most of her life but lives with Sir Martín (their father) in Portugal now.
♥︎ She has a very heavy Portuguese accent and is somewhat indecipherable, but she's working to improve on having people understand her better! ^^
♥︎ She's always covered in rips, dirt, and blood no matter where she goes, she'll always show up anywhere with a raggedy appearance.
♥︎ She likes archery, the outdoors, loud music, any meat with bones in it, watching the sun set, dancing, visiting and hanging out with Johan when she can, annoying Johan, spending time with her dad, hooking up with girls, my self insert, drinking (her favorite is whisky), fire, cats (especially Azrael), and spicy foods
♥︎ She dislikes most men (due to bad experiences with dating them), horses, sweet foods, lashing out at people, nighttime, not being able to go outside, anyone who talks bad about/disrespects Johan, imperfect things, worrying about her appearance, spiders, anyone she thinks is prettier than her, Peewit, and Dame Barbara
♥︎ Jandira never knew her mother because she acted like such a brat and was too much for Madame Soliana to handle as she would get physical with her (hitting, biting, scratching, etc.). Therefore they were never close with each other.
♥︎ She's very close with her father Sir Martín, but Johan is not as close with him as she is. She went to live with her father in Portugal when she was 11 years old.
TW// brief mention of abuse
♥︎ Jandira has a VERY eccentric personality. She strives to be the best archer she can be as she doesn't want to become a knight like her brother. He worries for her physical health as it's more than she can handle. She's loud, energetic, and can act like (and is) a whore as she wasn't taught manners and has repercussions of mental illness from physical and emotional abuse of past romamtic relationships she's had. She says mean things to people, is extremely impatient, has a short fuse, bitches and moans about everything, picks fights, and does a lot of terrible things as a result. Johan is currently working with her to become a better person and even teaches her tips and tricks in archery <3
♥︎ Jandira never knew about Johan until very recently, but she likes him a whole bunch!! Johan has mixed feelings about her but is willing to give their sibling relationship a try :)
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ardentguilt · 4 months
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Ancestors Playlists
Putting these in the one post for convenience.
HANDMAID:
Ciara - Paint It Black
Blue Stahli - Corner
Eivor - Into The Mist
Blackbriar - Snow White And Rose Red
Digital Daggers - The Devil Within
Nostalghia - Nervosa Rex
Natasha Blume - Black Sea
I Monster - Who Is She?
SIGNLESS:
Riverside - The Day After
12 Stones - World So Cold
Icon For Hire - Too Loud (Acoustic)
Imminence - Death Of You
RED - Not Alone
Aviators - Bulletproof
Adam Lambert - Underneath
Sixx A.M. - Skin
SUMMONER:
Pop Evil - Footsteps
Slydigs - Light The Fuse
Nickelback - Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
Billy Talent - Red Flag
Emigrate - Spitfire
The International Noise Conspiracy - Smash It Up
Skillet - Feel Invincible
Celldweller - End Of An Empire
PSIIONIC:
Starset - Waiting On The Sky To Chang
Celldweller - It Makes No Difference Who We Are
Gary Numan - Ghost Nation
Kasabian - Club Foot
The Bloody Beetroots - My Name Is Thunder
Offspring - Dividing By Zero
Celldweller - Symbiont (Live Version)
Blue Stahli - Throw Away
DISCIPLE:
CHELLA - Heart Shaped Box
Sam Perry - Only Love
Digital Daggers - Feel Like Falling
Iron & Wine - Evening On The Ground
Halestorm - Beautiful With You
Fit For Rivals - Can't Live Without You
Damned Anthem - Zombie
Metric - Artificial Nocturne
DOLOROSA:
Leaves' Eyes - Scarborough Fair (Acoustic)
Meg Myers - Running Up That Hill
Lacey Sturm - The Soldier
In This Moment - Joan Of Arc
Blackbriar - I'd Rather Burn
Nostalghia - Stockholm Syndrome
Halestorm - Heart Of Novocaine
Spinnerette - Baptized By Fire
REDGLARE:
Enter The Haggis - Year Of The Rat
Meg Myers - Searching For The Truth
MOTHICA - Absinthe
Blue Foundation - Eyes On Fire
Garbage - Vow
Bexley - Run Rabbit Run
A Perfect Circle - Blue
Fit For Rivals - Agent Orange
MINDFANG:
Blackbriar - Arms Of The Ocean
Temposhark - Little White Lie
Depeche Mode - I Am You
Margo - Repeat After Me
DEZI - Venus In Gemini
Malukah - Sinking Ships
Sister Sin - Stones Thrown
8 Graves - Eye For An Eye
DARKLEER:
Beast In Black - Heart Of Steel
Greta Van Fleet - The Archer
Adelitas Way - Dog On A Leash
Lhasa De Sela - Anywhere On This Road
Emily Jane White - Requiem Waltz
Sarah Jaffe - Two Intangibles Can't Be Had
Matthew And The Atlas - Out Of The Darkness
A Perfect Circle - Weak And Powerless (Acoustic)
GRAND HIGHBLOOD:
The Riggs - Devil's Playground
Egypt Central - White Rabbit
Heaven's Basement - I Am Electric
Emigrate - Eat You Alive
Five Finger Death Punch - Welcome To The Circus
Saliva - Ladies And Gentlemen
Ice Nine Kills - Ex Mortis
I Prevail - Long Live The King
DUALSCAR:
Bear Bear And Friends - LOVE MYSELF
Saint Chaos - Blind Spot
Inglorious - Barracuda
MISSIO - Bottom Of The Deep Blue Sea
VUKOVI - La Di Da
Puddle Of Mudd - Control
Motionless In White - Wasp
In This Moment - Hunting Grounds
THE CONDESCE:
WE ARE FURY - Crown
Icon For Hire - Sticks And Stones
Innerpartysystem - Don't Stop
Nico Vega - Million Years
Recoil - Want
DeathbyRomy - I Kill Everything
Ive Levan - The Dame Says
CRMNL - Wicked As They Come
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wearepaladin · 1 year
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Sorry to break it to you but Dame Archer is a terf
Can anyone verify that?
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baelpenrose · 9 months
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Under Avandra's Eyes CV: Something in Common
Iris spots Edric Penlan speaking with someone unexpected and seizes an opprotunity, beginning to realize that she is, perhaps, better suited to her role in Faldrea than she thought. @canyouhearthelight had an excellent idea for helping flesh out this chapter and the dialog between Iris and her new friend.
Iris Iris was walking by the stables as Marcus toured the yard with D’Larc, having apparently agreed to talk to the boy about the way to come to peace with sharing blood with a monster. But Iris found something interesting as she walked - Edric Penlan, the younger knight, in…that wasn’t a knight’s garb, what disguise was that?
She instinctively slipped into her hunter’s tread, not making any sound as she walked, and slipped behind a wall, listening in.
“So the other knights are visiting now?”
“That’s right. And the woman with them - the imperial archer? She’s apparently a warrior, a huntress. Marrying a knight. Things are changing, Fiora.”
“I don’t know, my lord. I rather liked seeing you like this. Coming down to the village to see me.” The voice was a girl’s. About the same age as Edric. Fiora, Iris presumed. If this was the conversation - was Edric Penlan having a tryst with a commoner? Perhaps thinking about something that was clearly not a marriage alliance?
Iris thought about that with a smile. She’d gotten someone thinking, clearly. “I know. And I know you love the sight of grass in my hair, but think about it. We wouldn’t have to sneak around - and it’s not as though you’d be unhappy in a featherbed.” 
“Or that I’d mind having a fancy horse. Or access to the birds.” 
“Falconer’s daughter.” 
“Lancer’s boy. But tell me, what brought all this up if the Torins are making us think this is working?”
“Sir Baldor Torin is meeting with my father, and my father’s condition for the alliance Torin clearly wants is that Torin puts the weight of his word from being the Paladin of Veridal and backs the Bloodless.” 
“Wait, he did what? Are you saying…Edric, wouldn’t that mean…”
“Essentially, at least among the Chivalry, arranged marriages stop mattering. Bloodlines stop mattering. We become powerful on the basis of service and combat prowess, nothing more. Now, I’m not much of a hammer, but I’m an excellent sword and lance, and the Penlans have been on every battlefield Faldrea’s needed knights since we became knighted. This is going to change how things work for the Chivalry.”
“I mean…we might be getting ahead of ourselves. I don’t…I don’t really know anything about being a dame, or…”
Iris stepped out, still deadly quiet. If this was something she could help with, maybe it would help smooth things over with the generation they were meant to be peers with? Marcus was bonding with D’Larc, maybe she could bond with these two?
“I’m still learning to be a Dame. Marcus is still learning to be a Faldrean knight. At least one of you will know what you’re doing from the start. Is there some sort of…intrigue among the knights? That was never my speciality, I admit that was more Liza’s speciality, but I can help hold my own.” She decided not to mention that her integrity had won the opinion of the current Empress to their side of the Imperial Civil War. 
Both Edric and Fiora - who she could now see was wearing a leather bracer on one arm, that indicated she did indeed work with birds, and soft leather breeks…falconer’s daughter. Pretty, though. Better fed than she’d been. “One of the Penlan household vassals?”
Fiora nodded. “Yes, Dame Iris…”
“Stop that. I’m not standing on titles. I’m still not dealing with that. But look, if there’s a movement within Faldrea to change the Chivalry that helps both our houses…I can’t imagine that Baldor would oppose that. He’s never been one to stand on blood, unless it really interfered with serving his people. And now it definitely wouldn’t. Now, I do have a question: Does being a dame require I stop…using a bow? I’m not going to do that. I don’t like killing, but I love riding in the woods, and foraging, and the concept of…giving that up…”
Edric chuckled. “Oh, oh Pelor’s Lake! This is going to be iconoclastic. At the very least, Fiora, if this one wants to use a bow, your love of falconry isn’t getting in the way of anything should we wed. But Dame Iris - I do wish to ask. Do you think that you and Sir Marcus will be able to hold the House of Torin?”
“I suspect we’ll do just fine. We’ll have time to learn, especially under my father in law. I do want to ask though, what are you two intending with each other?” 
Fiora looked up, then down. “Uhm…I’d need to think about it. I guess I really want to ask. If you think a huntress, and someone who grew up as a commoner can be a Faldrean Dame. If you think that someone who grew up a soldier and a mercenary in the Empire can be a knight.”
“You left off that he used to also be an Asgarian horse raider, and that I hunted big monsters for a living, but yes. I do think we can. It’s just looking out for people. That’s the job. If you think you can be responsible for that, then you can figure out how to do it on a big scale. I mean, mediate roads to make sure people get grain shipments, or….I don’t know. Lead prayers, make sure families are growing, bless weddings, do things that people need and ensure that the villages grow and thrive. I think that most women who grew up commoners are ultimately more capable of doing that than most noblewomen in a lot of ways, actually.” Iris trailed off for a moment, thinking about her own mother, then thought about Imperatrix Isabella vi Aquilonia Imperia ni Fiorenz. 
“Actually, strike that, on this scale, common born women would basically always be better, and probably up to the scale where you actually need enough education to do a lot of math or reading about how money works. Anyway. Yeah, Fiora, you should be fine if that’s what you wa….” A massive series of crashes came from the yard, and Iris groaned. “Gods da- I am probably not supposed to say that in front of people anymore now that I’m supposed to be a spiritual authority for the commoners, but I can only assume that Marcus and D’Larc are sparring and I have GOT to get him to practice bonding with people some other way.”
Fiora started giggling as she looked at Edric. “Honestly, that’s…how knights bond. Showing off.”
Marcus’s battle howl hit her ears, and another set of metallic crashes followed, along with young D’Larc’s voice shouting, “I yield, I yield!” 
Iris grunted. “Yeah, that’s him. Okay. Anyway. If that’s how knights bond, go join him. I suspect he’d be interested in sparring with you anyway, and I could use a chance to talk to a Faldrean hunting girl, actually.” Her voice was casually commanding, and she didn’t even realize that was the tone she was taking until after he was in motion to obey her. 
Edric looked bashful, and Iris and Fiora followed him to go to the yard and sat down as he took up position with his sword, slipping on a mail surcoat and belting it into place to face off against Marcus. 
“So, I do want to ask, how do you usually hunt here? Falcons only, or do you use a bow?”
“I like falcons, my father raises them, my mother too. Have a long history with birds. Got really good at getting hares. Have one bird, call her Kite, never misses. Gathered enough pigeons and hares and rabbits over the years to feed a family when you couple it with turnips and carrots from the garden. Simple food, but…”
“It works, and that’s what matters.” D’Larc had stepped out of the way and Marcus was now squaring off against Edric, swords raised. The two young men raised their swords in vague salute, and Iris could feel Marcus deliberately pressing down his khym, as though deliberately choosing sportsmanship. 
Then both men blurred towards each other faster than her eyes could follow and began parrying against each other at a dizzying rate and she heard the same mad, raw-throated laugh that indicated that Marcus had found an exciting challenge. 
“I prefer a bow. I grew up using one my father made, hunting deer, mostly. As I got older, began using more serious tools. Longbow, first. Then tried an Asgarian recurve saddlebow, which I still prefer using from horseback or if I’m fighting in close. I like the Faldrean longbow if I get to fight from a long distance. My hunting bow I don’t use much anymore - strong enough to use something much heavier. I’ve hunted bloodvelds, these days. Bigger game, too. Few trolls. Mostly though, deer, boars, were my preferred quarry.”
“Foraging?”
“Eh, mostly leeks, tubers, spring onion, blackberry, the occasional bit of sage or rosemary. That kind of thing. I realize you’re in Faldrea but I should say those are common spices in Fiorenz.” Marcus and Edric’s swords were whirling, barely passing each other, and Marcus swayed out of the way, parried, and caught the other weapon on the crossguard before thrusting down, elbowing the other man in the gut and flicking his sword up to the hollow of his throat.
“You’re excellent, Edric. I would love to fight alongside you. Phenomenal fencer. Best match I’ve had in a long time.” 
The other knight gave a big grin. “I know your reputation. That means quite a lot.”
Marcus laughed it off. “Of course.”
Iris chuckled. “That’s Marcus. But…look. Fiora, if you want to try hunting with me sometimes, lady’s expedition, we can try it. Maybe not soon, but we can definitely try it. You and that boy marry, I suspect you and I are going to become good friends.”
Fiora blushed. “I…I thank you. You really think…”
“Yeah. Work on your confidence, village girl. Don’t let the highborns see you sweat, damnit. You grew up working for a living, don’t flinch from an easier life with more writing.” Iris played up a little arrogance that she absolutely did not feel, but if this was the new life she was not going to have anyone saying it was impossible for her or anyone else like her. 
Marcus and Edric clasped arms, and he walked over to her, kissing her eagerly. 
And, she supposed, if the core of it was just making things work, taking care of people…it wasn’t as if she couldn’t do it. She hadn’t lied once.
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archerinventive · 2 months
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Happy Faire Friday!
Taking a break from this cold weather to reminisce about warmer times at faire with @unicorn-shieldmaiden.
The sun was so intense that day, but thankfully we had some watery wenches to douse us off afterwards. lol
A huge thank you to Liv F.H. for capturing these moments. 💗 
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suzannahnatters · 9 months
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Hello,
I’ve been following you for a while. But some thing you have just posted has resonated with me. I’m writing my dissertation for my MA in creative writing and it’s an historical fiction set in the third crusade. And one of the big things that I am doing is trying to unpick the stereotyping and assumptions of the role of women and also the Templars in that time. You made reference to the Muslim writers. Could you share particular works that you have read that are useful in regards to the women in Outremer. At the moment I’m focused on the recruitment drive around Wales in 1188. But this is definitely something I want to explore later.
really interested to read your work.
Hey! Thanks for reaching out on a subject I'm so enthusiastic about!
Women in the Third Crusade include some lady knights captured at the siege of Acre by Saladin's army and a female archer in green who helped resist a Saracen assault on Frankish fortifications for hours one afternoon before being killed. You can read about these in Francesco Gabrieli's ARAB HISTORIANS OF THE CRUSADES.
For the lay (non-academic) reader, Geoffrey Hindley's A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES contains many errors of fact and interpretation and I would not ordinarily recommend it, except for chapter 6, on women in the Crusader states, which is actually a very decent introduction to the subject! I would also recommend reading some decent historical overview of the history of the Crusader states which will introduce you to some of the major players, like Morphia, Melisende and her sisters, Agnes of Courteney, Sibylla, Isabella I, Lucy of Tripoli, Isabella d'Ibelin and Eschiva d'Ibelin of Beirut...try Christopher Tyerman's magisterial, detailed and accurate GOD'S WAR: A NEW HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.
For the reader who isn't afraid of academic reading, have I got recommendations for you...
Susan B Edgington's GENDERING THE CRUSADES contains a brilliant collection of essays on various aspects of life for women during the crusades.
Helen J Nicholson's book SYBIL OF JERUSALEM reconstructs the life of Sibylla, one of the many ruling queens of the Crusader States. Forthcoming is also Danielle E A Park's FULK AND MELISENDE which will detail one of the most amazing queens, and her partnership with her much older husband, with whom she fought and won an early power struggle!
One book I'm aware of but haven't read on this subject is also Katherine Pangonis' QUEENS OF JERUSALEM - it looks written for a more popular audience but tackles some of the most interesting ladies of the 12th century crusader states.
Another very recent publication from the grand dame of crusader scholarship is Helen J Nicholson's WOMEN IN THE CRUSADES which I would love to read but haven't yet!
James Brundage's 1991 article on "Marriage law in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem" will add helpful context. Bernard Hamilton has a brief and mostly descriptive article on "Women in the Crusader States: the Queens of Jerusalem (1100-1190)".
Two articles that are not strictly about the Crusades but have helped me understand the period better in general are Katherine Hager's "Endowed with manly courage: Medieval perceptions of women in combat" on women warriors and Susan Mosher Stuard's 1995 article "Ancillary evidence for the decline of medieval slavery" which is highly relevant to the Crusader states given their numerous population of male and female slaves.
I hope you do read the WATCHERS OF OUTREMER books and enjoy them, too! I do find myself writing about a lot of the historical women I hear about, although I can't claim to be a real historian writing careful nonfiction!
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Dame In My Bed by Michael Storme Archer Book, 1951 Cover by Reginald Heade
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Trauma has become synonymous with backstory, but the tyranny of backstory is itself a relatively recent phenomenon—one that, like any successful convention, has a way of skirting our notice. Personality was not always rendered as the pencil-rubbing of personal history. Jane Austen’s characters are not pierced by sudden memories; they do not work to fill in the gaps of partial, haunting recollections. A curtain hangs over childhood, Nicholas Dames writes in “Amnesiac Selves” (2001), describing a tradition of “pleasurable forgetting,” in which characters import only those details from the past which can serve them (and, implicitly, the narrative) in the present. The same holds for Dorothea Brooke, for Isabel Archer, for Mrs. Ramsay. Certainly the filmmakers of classical Hollywood cinema were quite able to bring characters to life without portentous flashbacks to formative torments. In contrast, characters are now created in order to be dispatched into the past, to truffle for trauma.
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But in deft hands the trauma plot is taken only as a beginning—with a middle and an end to be sought elsewhere. With a wider aperture, we move out of the therapeutic register and into a generational, social, and political one. It becomes a portal into history and into a common language. “Stammering, injured, babbling—the language of pain, the pain we share with others,” Cristina Garza has written in “Grieving,” her book on femicide in Mexico. “Where suffering lies, so, too, does the political imperative to say, You pain me, I suffer with you.” That treatment of history feels influenced and irrigated by the novels of Toni Morrison, who envisaged her work as filling in the omissions and erasures of the archives, and by Saidiya Hartman, who espouses writing history as a form of care for the dead. Think of the historian-protagonists in Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s “The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois” and in Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing.” In these novels, my trauma becomes but one rung of a ladder. Climb it; what else will you see?
—The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal The New Yorker December 27, 2021
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I just read the 4th part to the Damian x archer!reader and I wanted to scry (scream and cry) because I LOVED IT SM!!!! When I was sending the request I couldn’t imagine what you wrote and I just loved the morning after part 🤭🤭
I have an idea for another part… or 5… I’m sorry I thought of one then another and another 😔
1 - Maybe in Damian’s POV (never see these) Since the scene when the team caught you and Damian the morning after naturally they teased you a bit but Damian has kind of been gravitating towards you more, like if the teams all together instead of standing in far enough just to hear but not be by people he would stand/sit next to you, and you and him hang out a lil bit, maybe even sleepovers or training together. Damian is developing a crush on reader but since he has a low eq (emotional intelligence) he can’t recognize it so dispute his better judgement he goes to Dick. After receiving advice Damian asks reader on a date. Readers like “Does Damian ‘I don’t have emotions (or some other cute insult)’ Wayne have a crush on lil ole me” and he’s like nvm but reader stops him like “Dames/Dami I would love to go on a date with you” kisses his cheek and walks away and he’s lowkey blushing
2- The actual date. The date could be like to an art museum and then a walk in the park w ice cream or street food and they’re just having a good time holding hands, laughing, and talking about anything and everything. After the date dañina walks reader to her room and she asks him to spend the time and he does (just kissing and cuddling). In the morning Gar calls a team meeting to show the Titans something and it’s newspaper and magazine headlines of their date “Damian Wayne on a date with mystery girl” “The Wayne heir has a gf?” and all that. But there’s this one photo of reader talking and looking at something and Damian is looking at her with a smile (SO CUTE 😆). The team is trying to ask questions but they just walk away together
3- The team is on a mission and while trying to protect a civilian the reader gets hurt and ends up unconscious. Damian stays by her side the entire time in the med bay REFUSING to leave her unless it’s to like shower and even then he has access to the surveillance in the med bay to always keep an eye on her. At some point when she’s unconscious he confesses that he might have feelings for her and he’s trying to figure it out but he knows he deeply cares for her and begging for her to wake up and maybe even says the first date was fun and wanted another one. So after like 3 days of being out reader wakes up and the first thing she says to Damian is like “So I was right, you do have feelings for me” or “is a second date the only reason why you wanted me to wake up?” He’s just so glad she’s awake he hugs her and everyone comes in after happy she’s awake
4- (This could be before or after reader and Damian start dating up to you) The Titans have to team up with the Batfam for a mission and the bats did a bg check on reader and dint like what they found except Dick (cuz he knows reader is good for Damian) and Batman (Catwoman, that’s enough by itself). So the entire time they’re making snarky jabs at reader bcuz if her past and it kinda throws her off her games as it reminds her of when her family abandoned her. During the mission Damian gets hurt but not too bad, he just needs to be bandaged and some rest but some of the bats blame the reader but the reader defends her self and goes to bandage Damian and Dick gets angry at them cuz they’re being harsh on the reader and sticks up for her. The look over shocked cuz reader is bandaging Damian (he only lets Alfred bandage him) and they’re whispering to each other, quiet giggles and smiles and when reader is done Damian hugs her whispering to her that’s it’s ok and what his family thinks it irrelevant . The bats go to her apologizing and say it’s cuz they’re protective of Damian as he’s the youngest blah blah blah and you can’t decide reader’s response.
5- Reader and Damian are out on another date and Talia interferes because she wants to meet her “future daughter-in-law” in the end she gets Talias approval.
OMG IN SO SORRY IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE 2 BUT FLIPPED 5 😭😭 I HAVE A PROBLEM IM WORKING ON IT
I don’t know who you are but I’m going to find you and I’m going to give you a fucking hug.
It’s fine I genuinely love all of these and I was thinking of making some small blurbs after they got together and you kinda helped me with some ideas because I want to write all of these.
But I do have an idea for part 5 which was supposed to be the last part to this unexpected series. Like I said I thought about making a some blurbs after I was done.
I may switch 4 up a bit just because with the reader’s backstory of being abandoned/abused by her family and chased out of town doesn’t seem like something that they would ridicule her for.
So if you don’t mind I would love to use these as small drabbles or something like that after I’m done with the main storyline.
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