Ok but imagine at the beginning of Sandman Season 2 they do the S1 recap only instead of some serious voiceover it’s Hob Gadling doing the Luis from Ant-Man style of recap.

Except it’s not even like Hob’s being cheerful about it, he’s just repeating back to Dream what Dream told him about what else happened in Season 1, but at increasing levels of hysteria

Philosophia et septem artes liberales, "philosophy and the seven liberal arts." From the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century)

"I'm ready to support [insert character's] war crimes!!!!!"

MY BROTHER IN CHRIST war crimes do not exist in the feudal society hotd is set in nor do child brides for the LOVE of fucking christ stop applying 21st century morals and laws and reasonings to a fucking MIDDLE AGES FANTASY I am INFURIATED I just want to enjoy watching team black slay without fucking team green muppets whinging about laws and concepts that DO NOT EXIST IN WESTEROS SHUT THE FUCK UP thanks

While at Dover, ahead of setting sail to France, [Henry VII] granted: 'Power to Arthur prince of Wales, duke of Cornwall and earl of Chester, as keeper of England the king's lieutenant there, to grant licensees to elect to conventual, but not cathedral, chapter; to assent to elections, make restitution of temporalities and receive fealties on elections of minor prelates, but not with respect to greater prelates, without the king's command: and to present to benefices not exceeding the taxation of 40 marks, churches of the taxation of 20 marks and under to which the chancellor is accostumed to present, being excepted'.

— Gareth Streeter, Arthur Prince of Wales: Henry VIII's Lost Brother

Some things 6-year-old Arthur Tudor did whilst his father was away in France between 9 October and 13 December 1492:

Signed at least eleven documents of official royal business

Authorised a series of pardons to men across the kingdom who had failed to appear before the magistrates' bench

Sorted the financial settlement of the dowager Viscountess of Lisle

Ordered sheriffs to arrest offenders in Essex

Placed a bond of recognisance on a group of rioters in Bristol

Ordered the arrest of a man who had wronged a Spanish merchant

The unicorn hunt

Come join us this weekend - I’ll be on this medieval history & fantasy writing panel! And it's ~free~! And @thebestpersonherelovesbucky will also be there! And we're both doing readings! *throws confetti* Register here

Prithee, Philipa Watercooler: what news brings you to the cloisters of Office-Park-by-the-Subdivision seeking an audience with Bishop Phonescroller? Has Lord Pizzaparty selected a successor?

goal of the year is to write enough to consider myself a writer!!! Good thing I hold that my year starts in March!!!!!!

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If shallow readings of medieval text has a million haters I am one of them. If shallow readings of medieval text has ten haters I am one of them. If shallow readings of medieval text has one hater then that is me. If shallow readings of medieval text have no haters then I am dead. If the world condones shallow readings of medieval text then I am against the world.

dating sim writing (potentially more interactive writing? but who's to say; this is just what i'm working on right now) is so fascinatingly mechanical.

like. there are questions that i've thought about in regards to more narrative writing and pacing---how long does it take to establish a relationship (of any kind)? what keeps it from feeling rushed?---that become entirely different questions when one of the characters that you're dealing with is at least partially determined by the reader. and here developing and exploring the relationship is the point; there's less available to reveal through external plot, and more space for conversation, but at the same time, there's a balancing act where you're trying to create the feeling that things are developing organically (not necessarily on rails!) whilst within the mechanical constraints of coding something up (there are some rails!).

But like: how many choices should a reader have in a conversation to make it feel like they have input? How many of those should mechanically matter? What's the line between feeling like you have narrative freedom and feeling like you're being asked to make a lot of choices that don't particularly matter? How do you create something that is on rails (a conversation tree about a particular topic should touch on X number of things) without it feeling on rails?

And then there's questions of overarching structure, and how things tie together; whether every conversation should advance character or relationship progression and if they don't, how one determines when things progress; whether routes are self-contained, and if they're not, how one makes interactions across routes feel natural and interesting, and so on, and so forth, and it's so interesting to think about.

Wigalois fights with the Muslim knight Karrioz. From the Leiden manuscript of Wigalois, an Arthurian romance written in Middle High German in the early thirteenth century.

Source: Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden, LTK 537, fol. 72v

I WANNA COSPLAY SO BAD

I AM IN WITHDRAWAL

any painter in lothric kingdom can attest to the royal family only commissioning art either of people burning to death or their wyverns burning people to death

The recordings from the Rainbow Space Magic virtual convention are up over on the RSM YouTube page!

This has my reading session, and also the panel I was on/moderating about writing fantasy and medieval history, and @thebestpersonherelovesbucky's panel as well!