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romanceclub-lovers · 7 months

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Love, Sin & Evil

Vampires archetypes.

The three archetypes of vampirism in love, sin & evil, symbolizes the three main vampires and who created the genre.

The wolf is an old aristocracy that has not unclenched its fangs of tradition and power through the centuries. Producer Dracula. The main vibes are taken from Castlevania and Vampire Ball.

Clan: Carstein

The cat is a mystical vice and temptation, inherited from an ancient era when vampires were not yet undead in the modern sense, but were either ghosts, witches, or demons.

Ancestress - Carmilla. The vibes are taken from the most romantic images of Bathory and of course Lilith.

Clan: Limia

The bat is a prehistoric image of a ghoul before it became romanticized from the hands of Russian and British classics. Those. a humanoid beast living by hunting and thirst.

His ancestor is, of course, Count Orlok from Murnau's Nosferatu, performed by Max Schreck. The picture decided to concentrate specifically on the monstrous part of the vampire and his obsession. I would especially recommend the interpretation of this image in the film “Shadow of the Vampire”.

Clan - Strigoi.

Hunters

Balmont {I didn’t come up with the name}

Time period: 18th century.

And the third pillar of vampire hunters. This time from Japan. The Castlevania series revolves around a family that has been fighting Dracula for centuries. Of course the last name was changed from a Japanese corruption back to the real one. Actually, this is the image of daring heroes who never give up and find a way out of any situation. Her character was infused with Hollywood and anime notes of enthusiasm and pathos (especially in the person of the smart, cool heroine).

The comments noted the similarity with “Dee Vampire Hunter” and it is more than true. The image was, of course, based on the works of Yoshitaka Amano and Ayami Kojima, which generally influenced the visual style of both Castlevania in particular and the entire Japanese game development in general.

Her weapon is also a gaming reference. Only if in the original it was some kind of strange boomerang cross, then I put a real historical Wurfkreuz in her hands.

Mysticism.

Abraham Van Helsing

Time period: End of the 19th century.

Another father of all vampire hunters whose name has become a household name. However, in the endless series of action games, it was forgotten that the original character was actually a doctor and scientist.

In addition to the original source itself, his image has a lot of ahem... the doctor from "Ball of the Vampires", if only he weren't so shamefully comic. I really liked the concept of this old man who: “Well, first I’ll give my aching knees a nice rest, and drink this wonderful lavender tea, and then I’ll rid the world of this troublesome misunderstanding called vampires.”

In the story, he personifies the path of the logic - everything is knowable, everything is manageable, everything is conquerable. The power of science! Where there is not such a clear line between the annoyingness of bedbugs and the tyranny of nosferatu. Of course, he is either German or Austrian by origin.

Solomon Kane.

Time period: Late 16th - early 17th centuries.

The character is as ancient as the very idea of hunters of evil spirits in the media. And in general the “father” of this archetype. By the way, it came from the pen of Howard, who also gave us another immortal Archetype: Conan the Barbarian.

In my story it displays the "Athletic" path i.e. act rather than doubt. Yes, in general, an unpleasant bloke who embodies the ideals of fanaticism capable of breaking even an ancient vampire with courage, and this trope “Who is the bigger monster?”

By literary origin he is British, but I also put a lot of Dutch traits into him.

Well, as I said above, Jorge de Fantasma speaks about him in SIF (Sail in the Fog) as a comrade-in-arms of his ancestor in the fight against evil spirits. This is also what Collins means when he talks about his shaman ancestors who converted to faith (and in the books he hunted evil there too).

Source note: A. Tepish TG

#romance club game #romance club #love sin & evil #rc love sin and evil #rc lse

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mosaicofdreamsanddragons · 1 year

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Confessions of a medievalist: I have never read Mallory’s Morte Darthur cover to cover.

So I now present to you things I didn’t realize about Morte Darthur chapter 1:

Kay was still “nourishing” and was handed off to another woman so his mother could “nourish”baby Arthur. Meaning he was not old enough to get weened. So Kay and Arthur’s age difference is smaller then the three years (as I had always assumed) and probably no more then one.

Sir Ector (Kay’s dad, Arthur’s foster dad) knew the king was giving him this baby and got a lot of rewards for it. Yet when Arthur pulled the sword he was shocked and confesses Arthur’s blood was of a higher status then he’d assumed. This leads me to believe that he thought he was Igraine’s child by her first husband and the king was just getting rid of him like he did with all of Igraine’s daughters (marrying them of and then putting the youngest in a nunnery)

Morgan is sent to a nunnery and then married off. Which seems odd to me. But I guess Uther just didn’t want to raise her until she was ready to be married off.

Oh and Uther goes and gets himself into a war two years after arthur is born. It seems to be implying that’s why he never went to go get him. Which makes sense…but I still don’t like this guy, he killed a woman’s husband to sleep with her, raped her, didn’t tell her the baby was his and left her stressing about it for a good while, sent all her children away. If Merlin’s gonna manipulate him on his deathbed to secure Arthur’s throne I am not gonna shed a tear over it.

It didn’t say Arthur was 15. It’s left quite vague. All we know is he’s older then two. Which, I sure hope so

Kay knows what the sword is the second he sees it. It’s Arthur who doesn’t. Kay immediately goes “oh I guess I’m king now” and goes to tell his dad but is completely willing to explain that Arthur found it and seems not to care that Arthur gets the crown.

Arthur swore as long as he lived he’d never let anyone but Kay be steward. Like that’s an oath he takes. Explains a lot about the Dutch tradition and why he never gets fired.

The aristocracy kept trying to delay his coronation. It’s kinda funny.

#arthurian legend #king arthur #Morte Darthur #sir thomas malory #sir Kay #Kay #Sir Ector #king Uther #king Uther is the worst #morgan le fay #she gets mentioned!#Igraine deserves so much better

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dutch-and-flemish-painters · 1 year

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Jan de Herdt - Portrait of the family of Imperial Goldsmith Franz Wilhelm de Harde von Antorﬀ -

oil on canvas, height: 150 cm (59 in); width: 194.5 cm (76.5 in)

Jan de Herdt, in Italy also called Il fiammingo (Antwerp, c. 1620 – between 1686 and 1690) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. After training in Antwerp, he spent his entire career abroad, first in Northern Italy and later in Vienna and other cities in central Europe. He was mainly a portrait artist but also painted genre scenes as well as religious, mythological and allegorical subjects. He was part of a network of Flemish and Dutch painters working for the court, aristocracy and ecclesiastical institutions of central Europe.

#Jan de Herdt #golden age #antwerpen #people #portrait

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homomenhommes · 8 months

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …

1466 – Erasmus was a Dutch humanist and theologian, who merits serious consideration by queer people of faith. Born Gerrit Gerritszoon, he became far better known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam: Erasmus was his saint's name, after St. Erasmus of Formiae; Rotterdam, for the place of his birth (although he never lived there after the first few years of early childhood; and "Desiderius" a name he gave himself - "the one who is desired".

He left a legacy as a scholar and church reformer. His career spanned the years leading up to, and after, Martin Luther's break with the Catholic Church that became the Protestant Reformation. Prior to the split, Erasmus had himself been fiercely critical of the Church, arguing forcefully for reform of the many and manifold abuses. He had close relationships with Luther and many other leading members of the Reformation movement, which his ideas strongly influenced. However, when the break came, he chose to remain formally inside the church structures, and not outside of it.

Some LGBT activists have hailed Erasmus as a gay icon from history. Circa Club for instance has no doubt, using that precise term and including Erasmus in it's collection of historical gay icons. The primary basis of the claim is a series of passionate love letters he wrote to a young monk Servatius Rogerus. While at the Augustinian monastery at Stein near Gouda around 1487, Erasmus wrote passionate letters of friendship to the fellow monk, whom he called "half my soul", writing, "I have wooed you both unhappily and relentlessly"; this correspondence contrasts sharply with the generally detached and much more restrained attitude he showed in his later life.There were also allegations of improper advances made to the young Thomas Grey, later Marquis of Dorset, while employed as his tutor.

Erasmus's best-known work was The Praise of Folly, a satirical attack on the traditions of the Catholic Church and popular superstitions, written in 1509, published in 1511 and dedicated to his friend, Sir Thomas More.

1903 – British poet and novelist Evelyn Waugh was born on this date (d.1996). The English writer is best known for such satirical and darkly humorous novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust and The Loved One, as well as for broader and more personal works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honor trilogy, that are influenced by his own experiences and his conservative and Catholic viewpoints. Many of Waugh's novels depict British aristocracy and high society, which he satirizes but to which, paradoxically, he was also strongly attracted. In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished autobiography. His travel writings and his extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published.

The overt homosexuality of his brother Alec Waugh may have caused Evelyn to hide his own tendencies behind two marriages and seven children. Alec Waugh, like their father, publisher Arthur Waugh, had gone to school at Sherborne, and it was assumed that Evelyn would follow. However, in 1915 Alec was asked to leave, after a homosexual relationship came to light. He departed for military training, and while waiting for his commission to be confirmed wrote a novel of school life, The Loom of Youth, which was published by Chapman and Hall. The novel, which alluded to homosexual friendships in what was recognisably Sherborne, caused a public sensation and offended the school sufficiently to make it impossible for Evelyn to go there. Much to his annoyance he was sent in May 1917 to Lancing, in his view a decidedly inferior establishment. He later went to Oxford.

He arrived in Oxford in January 1922; in October 1922 the arrival of the sophisticated Etonians Harold Acton and Brian Howard changed Waugh's Oxford life. Acton and Howard rapidly became the centre of an avant-garde circle known as the Hypocrites, whose artistic, social and homosexual values Waugh adopted enthusiastically; he later wrote: "It was the stamping ground of half my Oxford life". He began drinking heavily, and embarked on the first of several homosexual relationships, the most lasting of which were with Richard Pares and Alastair Graham.

After gallantly protecting T. S. Eliot from "the specious assumption that he was homosexual," T.S. Matthews in Great Tom, suddenly became viciously ungallant: "It is peppery, glaring little men like Evelyn Waugh who are sexually suspect - as his diaries bear witness."

Indeed, his diaries do clearly reveal him as a Gay man. But then so do his novels, particularly Brideshead Revisited, in which the friendship of Charles and Sebastian, despite the limitations of what he was allowed to write in the early 1940s, is magnificently drawn.

1909 – The Anglo-Irish born painter Francis Bacon (d.1992) was a descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon. His artwork is well known for its bold, austere, and often grotesque or nightmarish imagery. Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20s and worked only sporadically until his mid 30s. Before this time he drifted, earning his living as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs

Bacon early discovered that he attracted a certain type of rich man, an attraction he was quick to take advantage of, having developed a taste for good food and wine. One of the men was an ex-army friend of his father, another breeder of race-horses, named Harcourt-Smith. Bacon later claimed that his father had asked this friend to take him 'in-hand' and 'make a man of him'. Francis had a difficult relationship with his father, once admitting to being sexually attracted to him. Doubtless, Eddy Bacon was aware of his friend's reputation for virility, but not of his penchant for young men. In the early Spring of 1927 Bacon was taken by Harcourt-Smith to the opulent, decadent, "wide open" Berlin of the Weimar Republic, staying together at the Hotel Adlon.

His visit to a 1927 exhibition of 106 drawings by Picasso at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris, aroused his artistic interest, and he often took the train to Paris five or more times a week to see shows and art exhibitions.

In 1929 he met Eric Hall at the Bath Club, Dover Street, London, where Bacon was working at the telephone exchange. Hall (who was general manager of Peter Jones) was to be both patron and lover to Bacon, in an often torturous relationship.

In 1964, Bacon began a relationship with 39-year-old Eastender George Dyer, whom he met, he claimed, while the latter was burgling his apartment. A petty criminal with a history of juvenile detention and prison, Dyer was a somewhat tortured individual, insecure, alcoholic, appearance obsessed and never really fitting in within the bohemian set surrounding Francis. The relationship was stormy and in 1971, on the eve of Bacon's major retrospective at the Paris Grand Palais, Dyer committed suicide in the hotel room they were sharing, overdosing on barbiturates. The event was recorded in Bacon's 1973 masterpiece Triptych, May-June 1973.

In 1974, Bacon met John Edwards, a young, illiterate, handsome Eastender with whom he formed one of his most enduring friendships, eventually bequeathing his £11m fortune to Edwards after his death.

Bacon died of a sudden heart attack on April 28, 1992, in Madrid, Spain. Bacon bequeathed his entire estate (then valued at eleven million pounds) to John Edwards after his death. Edwards, in turn, donated the contents of Francis Bacon's chaotic studio in South Kensington, to the Hugh Lane gallery in Dublin. Bacon's studio contents were moved and the studio carefully reconstructed in the gallery. Additionally draft materials, perhaps intended for destruction, were according to Canadian Barry Joule bequeathed to Joule who later forwarded most of the materials to create the Barry Joule Archive in Dublin with other parts of the collection given later to the Tate museum.

Bacon's Soho life was portrayed by John Maybury, with Derek Jacobi as Bacon and Daniel Craig as George Dyer (with some lovely frontal nudity on Craig's part) and with Tilda Swinton as Muriel Belcher, in the film Love is the Devil (1998), based on Daniel Farson's 1993 biography The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon.

1949 – Caitlyn Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner), known as Bruce Jenner until 2015, is an American television personality and former track and field athlete.

A former college football player, Jenner came to international attention as a decathlete, winning the gold medal in the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, and setting a world record not beaten until 1980. With the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete" for the Olympic decathlon win, he was also an American cult hero winning an event dominated by Soviet Union athletes during the Cold War. He leveraged his celebrity status to endorse products and subsequently starred in numerous movies and television specials including several made-for-TV movies, and was briefly Erik Estrada's replacement on the TV series CHiPs.

Jenner was married for 23 years to Kris Jenner (née Houghton; formerly Kardashian); the couple and their children appeared beginning in 2007 on the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Following their divorce in 2015, Jenner came out in a television interview as a trans woman, initially preferring masculine pronouns until his transition was more complete. In June 2015, Jenner revealed her new name, Caitlyn, and a preference for being referred to using feminine pronouns. Many news sources have described her as the most famous openly transgender person in the world.

Bruce Jenner that was.

Jenner is a professed Christian, leans politically conservative, and is a Republican. Prior to her public gender transition, she had been married three times. Her first marriage was to Chrystie Scott (née Crownover) from 1972 to 1981. They have two children, son Burton and daughter Cassandra, known as Burt and Casey. Jenner and Scott's divorce was finalized the first week of January 1981. The same week, on January 5, 1981, Jenner married actress Linda Thompson, in Hawaii. By February 1986, Jenner and Thompson had separated, and they subsequently divorced. They have two sons together, Brandon and Sam Brody, known as Brody. The two sons starred on the reality show The Princes of Malibu and Brody Jenner was also on the reality show The Hills.

Jenner's third marriage, to Kris Kardashian (née Houghton), occurred on April 21, 1991, after five months of dating. They have two daughters, Kendall and Kylie. While married, Jenner was also the step-parent to Kris's four children from her previous marriage to the late lawyer Robert Kardashian: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob. The couple announced their separation in October 2013, though they had actually separated a year earlier. Kris filed for divorce in September 2014, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce terms were finalized in December 2014 and went into effect on March 23, 2015, because of a six-month state legal requirement.

In an April 2015, 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer, Jenner came out as a trans woman saying she had dealt with gender dysphoria since her youth, and that, for all intents and purposes, "I’m a woman." Jenner cross dressed for many years and did hormone replacement therapy but stopped after the romance with Kris Kardashian in the early 1990s became more serious. Caitlyn recounts having permission to explore her gender identity on her own travels but not when they were coupled, and that not knowing the best way to talk about the many issues contributed to the deterioration of the 22-year-long marriage which formally ended in 2013.

1990 – Placido Domingo and Andre Watts raised $1.5 million at a fundraiser for the Gay Men's Health Crisis.

2008 – Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic premiered to a star-studded audience at San Francisco's Castro Theater. Milk would go on to win various Oscars at the 2009 Academy Awards.

2009 – President Barack Obama signed the The Matthew Shepard Act (officially the "Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act") into law. The Act expanded the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. It was finally passed after almost two decades of attempts to pass it through Congress and over stiff opposition by members of the Republican party. During debate in the House of Representatives, Republican Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina called the "hate crime" labeling of Shepard's murder a "hoax."

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agentem · 2 years

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I have been thinking of how to cast Dracula for tumblr’s screen adaption. Here is what I have so far. Need more input. Let’s cast this thing.

JONATHAN, male in his 20s, British. He is loving and kind, but he is also a talker, and effervescent about the things he cares about (Mina, work, various spices). But he can also be a bit tightly wound, has very set notions of the world, which will be upended. Type: Daniel Radcliffe-ish?

MINA MURRAY, female in her 20s, British. Curious, clever and thoughtful. Mina pretends she is not a “New Woman” but does have odd ideas. Loves graveyards, Jonathan and Lucy. Doesn’t know she is brave but proves her mettle. Type: Christina Ricci in Casper? (Winona Ryder is not far off really).

LUCY WESTERNA, late teen or early 20s, British. Is younger than her friend and advisor, Mina. She is strikingly beautiful, and you might think that would make everyone hate her but she is so kind and careful with everyone she meets. Even scorned suitors become her friend. Type: Am thinking about Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde and Sana Stark in Game of Thrones.

VAN HELSING, older male, Dutch. Must have accent. He is jovial and friendly, but also a scholar who will prove to be a warrior. Man of letters. Actor must do comedy and also action. Type: Dutch Nick Offerman?

QUINCEY, 20s-30s, American. Texas accent required. I have straight fancast Jonathan Majors in “The Harder They Fall.”

MRS WESTERNA, 50s-60s, British. Character actress. About to die at any moment.

MR SWALES, elderly man. Comedic. Accent work required. Will not recur.

ARTHUR, 20s-30s, British. Upper crust but not a douche about it. Type unknown to me. What do British aristocracy do? I am American. Explain.

JACK, 20s-30s, British. I don’t have a good character read. Send help. (ETA: “Good forehead”? Really?)

DRACULA: A cardboard cutout of Gary Oldman from the Coppola movie.

RENFIELD: Could be anyone. Wildcard. Probably played by a rock star.

If any actor-types are out there, pls put yourself on tape. Thnx.

Co-screenwriter who actually knows how to write scripts also needed.

#Dracula daily #Dracula #jonathan harker #mina harker #lucy westerna #van helsing

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emotionally-charged-arson · 11 months

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I can only send asks from my main blog I guess, but if you wanted to talk about this more: do you have any favourite historical eras you like to make art/design outfits for?

To preface this: „if you wanted to talk about this more.“

Yes. Literally the answer will always be yes I have a weekend headache‘s worth of information on this topic and how the gods of mankind‘s combined religions have held me back from bringing it up in every single conversation remains a mystery to me. Anyways:

Victorian and Edwardian periods, Western Aesthetics/Art/Dress/Whatever of the 1830s up through World War I if you’re talking in non-British-Exclusive terms lol. I’m only JUST starting to get into 1920s and 30s stuff and I’m not super interested in anything pre-1800s except a couple of art movements I really like the look of (Dutch Golden Age, Eastern Orthodox, etc.)

My sorta „specialty“ is the Gilded Age, so 1870s to 1900s America. I got into this literally right before Transitus was announced in 2020 and yes I 100% looked at the album and went „….ok yea it’s giving Northeast US aristocracy (very glittery and bright and obsessed with upholding appearances, unfathomably loaded with cash even by today‘s standards, post-civil war thinly veiled „slavery is bad yea but let’s not treat ‚em like actual human beings just yet“ racism, etc.) and we’ve just been riding that train ever since.

Worth mentioning my most prized possession is an annual collection of a Philadelphia homemaker’s magazine from 1883. Has the coolest visuals and most unhinged columns and recipes I’ve ever seen. I’m obsessed with it.

#art #history #answered ask #1880s #Victorian era

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burlveneer-music · 5 months

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Raja Kirik - Phantasmagoria of Jathilan

“The Phantasmagoria of Jahtilan” is a music performance by Raja Kirik in collaboration with singer Silir Wangi and performer Ari Dwianto. This project investigate the Jathilan horse dance, a folk trance dance popular in Java, Indonesia, as a way of regaining strength despite defeat. Jathilan is an acronym of “Jarane jan tjil-thilan”, which translates to a horse that dances irregularly. The current form of Jathilan developed after the Java War (fought between Javanese rebels and the colonial Dutch empire from 1825 to1830) as a folk practise to grapple with the defeat by the Dutch Empire and the devastation caused by the civil war between the Javanese population and the Javanese aristocracy who supported the Dutch. In Jathilan people use stick horses made of bamboo as a form of appreciation as well as an expression of support for rebel leader Prince Diponegoro's horsemens who fought bravely against the Dutch colonial forces. Despite the actual defeat of the rebels, Jathilan itself always depicts an imaginary victory of the local rebel cavalry against demons, monsters, or the colonisers. This heroic performance therefore has multiple purposes: to entertain, to encourage, to heal, and to unite people against oppression. Raja Kirik’s “The Phantasmagoria of Jathilan” is an artistic exploration of the Jathilan tradition, re-interpreting its musical, vocal, and dance forms. Syncopated electronic rhythms combine with the metallic percussion of homemade instruments that is as trance-inducing as it is bellicose. Beautifully monotonous singing in a captivating repetitive melismatic style weaves through lilting melodies that gust out of makeshift wind instruments. With frantic, seemingly endless forward propulsion, the music of Raja Kirik inhabits a wide emotional breadth, cycling from disappointment to anger to loneliness. During the piece, the dancer embodies various heroic characters, such as Bujang Ganong, Menak Jinggo, Hanuman, or the non-fictional hero prince Diponegoro. At times the dancer also becomes a dance instructor and MC, who interacts with the audience. Produced by Raja Kirik Phantasmagoria of Jathilan: Yennu Ariendra: Electronics, Voices Johanes Santoso Pribadi: Handmade instruments Silir Wangi: Vocals Ari Dwianto: Dance Cover designed by Wok The Rock Images taken from installation art “Subterranean Thunder #1” by Jompet Kuswidananto at Kohesi Initiatives, Yogyakarta. Curated by LIR. Photos by Yudha Kusuma Putra

#Bandcamp #Raja Kirik #indonesia #electronic #world music #2024 #folk #jathilan

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legend-collection · 2 years

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Reynard The Fox

Reynard the Fox, also known as Renard, Renart, Reinard, Reinecke, Reinhardus, Reynardt and by many other spelling variations, is a trickster figure whose tale is told in a number of anthropomorphic tales from medieval Europe.

Reynard The Fox 1846 by Granger

He seems to have originated in French folklore. An extensive treatment of the character is the Old French Le Roman de Renart written by Perrout de Saint Cloude around 1175, which sets the typical setting. Reynard has been summoned to the court of king Noble, or Leo, the Lion, to answer charges brought against him by Isengrim the Wolf. Other anthropomorphic animals, including Bruin the Bear, Baldwin the Ass, Tibert (Tybalt) the Cat, Chantecler the Rooster and Hirsent the She-wolf, appear to give testimony against him, which Reynard always proves false by one stratagem or another. The stories typically involve satire whose usual butts are the aristocracy and the clergy, making Reynard a peasant-hero character. Reynart's principal castle, Maleperduys, is available to him whenever he needs to hide away from his enemies. Some of the tales feature Reynard's funeral, where his enemies gather to deliver maudlin elegies full of insincere piety, and which features Reynard's posthumous revenge. Reynard's wife Hermeline appears in the stories, but plays little active role, although in some versions she remarries when Reynard is thought dead, thereby becoming one of the people he plans revenge upon.

Reynard appears first in the medieval Latin poem Ysengrimus, a long Latin mock-epic written ca. 1148-1153 by the poet Nivardus in Ghent, that collects a great store of Reynard's adventures. He also puts in an early appearance in a number of Latin sequences by the preacher Odo of Cheriton. Both of these early sources seem to draw on a pre-existing store of popular culture featuring the character.

The 13th century saw the light of a Middle Dutch version of the story (Van den vos Reynaerde, About Reynard the Fox), comprised of rhymed verses (scheme AA BB). Very little is known of the author, Willem, other than the description of himself in the first sentences: This would roughly translate as:

Willem, die Madoc maecte, Daer hi dicken omme waecte, Hem vernoyde so haerde Dat die avonture van Reynaerde In dietsche onghemaket bleven (Die Arnout niet hevet vulscreven) Dat hi die vijte van Reynaerde dede soucken Ende hise na den walschen boucken In dietsche dus hevet begonnen. Willem who has made Madoc, and suffered many a sleepless night in doing so, regretted that the adventures of Reynaert had not been translated in Dutch (because Arnout had not completed his work). So he has researched the story and in the same way as the French books has he written it in Dutch.

Who this Willem was, remains a mystery. Madoc of which he here spoke, probably another one of his works, is also still an unknown text to this day. Illustration from Ghetelen in Reinke de Vos (1498)

Geoffrey Chaucer used Reynard material in the Canterbury Tales; in the “Nonne Preestes Tale”, Reynard appears as “Rossel” and an ass as “Brunel”. In 1485 William Caxton printed The Historie of Reynart the Foxe, which was translated from a Dutch version of the fables. Hans van Ghetelen, a printer of Incunabula in Lübeck printed an early German version called Reinke de Vos in 1498. It was translated to Latin and other languages, which made the tale poplular across Europe. The character of Tybalt in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is named for the character Tibert/Tybalt the “Prince of Cats” in Reynard the Fox. Goethe, also, dealt with Reynard in his fable Reinecke Fuchs. Reynard is also referenced in the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight during the third hunt.

#reynard the fox #france #europe

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Do you think William will get as much pushback as Charles is getting regarding coronation choices? Tbh, Camilla’s grand children might be viewed as a slap in the face to the aristocracy but as far as we’ve seen William is allergic to pomp and circumstance and traditions. Charles might be the last British monarch to be crowned and William will just have a swearing in and call it a day.

I think things might look very different by the time it’s William’s turn. If there is still a monarchy I can see William doing something similar to what King Felipe did, or even the Dutch King. The British do like their pomp, so who knows. As for the pushback Charles is getting, it’s a rough time economically and he seems to be alienating his base of toffs. I mean what’s the point of having all these barons and earls of they have to be a BFF of Charles in order to get an invite? This coronation is turning into a family and BFF celebration instead of a state occasion. Completely selfish.

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Ghosts Stars Names Clarence - Clear/ One who lives near the River Clare

Clarence had both Scottish roots in the ancient kingdom of Dalriada and Irish heritage as it may be in relation to the Clare River in the West of Ireland. It could also be in relation to the title Duke of Clarence from the 14th century, implying royal heritage. It is a name that was very popular during the late 19th century and early 20th century, so he may have been born around the time Fanny was living on Button House. He also may have died before Captain was stationed at Button House and thus would’ve been around during the 1920s-1938. It’s also possible he’s from the late 14th century around the time of Edward IV and Richard III’s reigns.

Since all the names at least briefly allude to the character’s personality or status within their lives, Clarence may have been some kind of moral guidance or advisor, due to his name being associated with clear and water. He could’ve been a calm person who went with the flow and thus would’ve been a compatible friend for Robin. His name also being a title given to a 14th century royal prince who married someone of the Claire family may also imply royal heritage.

Godric - God ruler

Godric originated in Anglo-Saxon England, with many saints and sheriffs of the 11th century having that name. The name could form from anywhere between the 5th and 11th centuries. Like most names during that time, it holds religious significance. The name died out after the Norman conquest, so it is likely Godric was from before William the Conqueror, so at least before 1066. He would have come from Early Medieval Europe.

Since his name is in relation to God, there isn’t much we can gain from its meaning. Similar to the plague ghosts his name is a product of his time and would mostly be religious in some way. However, he may have been around during the time of the Romans invading, or a bit later when the seven kingdoms were established. We’ll never really know until we’re shown him. He could be of German descent.

Elizabeth - God is my oath

Elizabeth has roots in both Hebrew and Greek, coming from the Hebrew words shava meaning oath and el meaning god. It was a name more common in Eastern Europe from the 12th century. In Medieval England it was sometimes used to honour a saint. Due to Elizabeth I’s reign it became very popular during the 16th century, though it stayed a top ten name until 1945.

The name Elizabeth is was also a Dutch family name Elisabeth, which may imply Dutch heritage. She could have either been from around the Middle Ages, during Elizabeth I’s reign, or just after death. The name implies importance and someone who is very regal, so she may have been part of the aristocracy during James I/VI’s reign. She may have been around a similar time to Humphrey, or may have been born in the second half of Elizabeth’s reign.

William - Resolute protector/strong-willed warrior

The name is of Germanic origin but was also popularised in England by the reign of William the Conqueror, it is also derived from the name Wilhelm. It is comprised of the elements Wil, meaning will of desire, and helm, helmet or protection. Similar to Elizabeth, William is a name that has been popular for centuries and has stayed in the top ten most common. It is typically knows as of old Norman origin.

His name implies he may have been a soldier or warrior of some sort, perhaps having fought in a war. It may also imply the polar opposite, that he was supposed to be a soldier but deserted the army he was a part of. Either way, he may have been named after the arrival of William the Conqueror or departure as a tribute when the king died. The ghost could also possibly be from that time but be compartment unrelated to conflict, being named later on during the reign of William and Mary or William IV.

#bbc ghosts #we know nothing about them so speculators of course #fanny button #the captain #thomas thorne #julian fawcett #pat butcher #humphrey bone #robin bbc ghosts #kitty bbc ghosts

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Jan de Herdt - Portrait of an unknown man with his art collection - 1663

oil on canvas, height: 103 cm (40.5 in); width: 135.5 cm (53.3 in)

#Jan de Herdt #golden age #antwerpen #Italy #Austria #portrait

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Caribbean Currency 2

Continuing from the last post I made.

(Pictured: Florentine Guilder from 1341)

So I did a bit more reading around, mostly in the interest of grasping living wages and cost of living in the 17th and 18th centuries. In doing so I came across more in depth information about Dutch currency beyond the Lion Dollar, namely the Guilder.

Guilder, which is the English term for Gulden, which is German and Dutch for just “golden”, an informal term for “gold penny”. It is largely considered interchangeable with the Florin, as the currency was widely used all across the reach of the Holy Roman Empire. Anyway.

A Guilder was essentially worth half a Lion Dollar. Recall earlier, a Lion Dollar is worth between 4 and 5 Shillings in English currency. It takes 20 shillings to make a pound, thus 4 to 5 Lion Dollars to make a pound. Hence, it takes about 10 guilders to make a pound, so a Guilder is roughly equal to 1/10th the value of the pound or English Guinea. This is all noteworthy because the Guilder was the long accepted go-to currency for foreign reserves, likely due to its equal value and standing with the Florin and its widespread use across central Europe.

In reading on all this, I too found the values of ships were often rated in tonnage. Specifically about 20 pounds to the ton. Using some ships in Devil’s Eye for a quick reference...

La Demonia Roja, a massive Manilla Galleon, weighs in at 1000 tons of storage, giving it a massive value of 20,000 pounds.

The Barracuda, a simple schooner, weighs in at a mere 100 tons, giving it the value of 2000 pounds.

The Barracuda’s long standing rival and competitor from their piracy days, the Dutch vessel Diantha, being a converted Fluyt (a ship with a unique design meant to maximize tonnage without taking up too much area), weighs in with 400 tons for a value of 8000 pounds.

The HMS Cavalier, a 6th Rate warship oared frigate captained by an old former friend of Ravyn Hurley’s father, Post-Captain Jack Davenport, weighs in at 300 tons for a value of 6000 pounds.

For comparison’s sake, the annual wage of the First Lord of the Treasury of England was 4000 pounds. It’s a little sad that Ravyn’s pride of a ship is worth less than that, but such is life. Middle class wages were expected to be anywhere between 40 and 75 pounds a year, which is about what would be expected for a merchant trader who owned a ship. Given the costs of a ship and hiring a crew to captain and sail the ship, the loans must be outrageous. Despite that, a ship was a long term investment that often paid for itself several dozen times over several decades of use, which is why piracy for stealing such vessels was a lucrative business to begin with.

Other notable wages and fees of the 17th and 18th centuries include:

Coach rides were 5 pence per mile if you rode inside the coach, and 2 pence per mile if you rode on the outside.

River ferrying was about 3 pence per mile.

A cheap shared bed at an inn would cost you 2 pence a night - but an unfurnished room for rent would only cost 1 shilling a week, so it was actually cheaper to pay by week if you were staying over long term. (Things like this are again, why Ravyn needs Robert around to manage the crew’s finances!)

Servants only made between 2 and 5 pounds a year in earnings, but their estate would pay for their clothing, food, and board, which were the most common and costly expenses of living at the time. A more experienced housemaid could make up to 8 pounds a year, and an exceptional housekeeper could make up to 15 pounds a year.

Lastly, it was generally assumed anyone making 500 pounds or more a year were considered wealthy to some degree or another. I don’t know how far up one must go the wealth ladder to be considered nobility or aristocracy, though.

As for the money the Heyder family pulls in, I’m still working that out. I’m imagining Robert having a fairly large amount of disposable income, but not enough to where he can just liberally throw money at any and every problem he comes across. Otherwise it would start begging some questions. I’ll get back to that later.

#OOC #real history #given the Heyder family's closeness with the Hawthornes #and the fact both of Robert's sons work jobs #it wouldn't make sense for the family to be fabulously wealthy #but they are more comfortable than most #again im still working on it

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