This Is Duke Bluebeard In My Mind

lol

Oh my

Writing a woodwind quintet about various North American cryptids and you guys gives them such peculiar names. Squonk. Goofus Bird. Hugag. The list goes on.

And then he gave him his horse and that horse was given to him and …

Chrétian de Troyes is legit the funniest medieval writer i’ve read so far??

Like. percival is all masquerading as a badass knight and then the moment he opens his mouth everyone can immediately tell that he’s an idiot. he won’t stop talking about his mom and it takes his mentor to give it to him straight to get him to stop. he’s called an idiot to his face.

And the whole time arthur is like, Kay i swear to god it’s ok for perceval to act like an idiot because no one knows who he is, but if you act like an idiot you make me look bad, so sit the fuck down.

LIKE??? THIS IS LITERATURE

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Tune into this weird collection of vintage radio imagery.

"There was a land The Lioness had conquered.

'Please, cease your marching,' Begged a wretch, 'I cannot bear to see my forests burned, my home razed, my people bled.'

The Lioness heard him, and considered. Her first and second fingers she pressed to her thumb. Her nails scraped, she had fashioned a beak from her claws. She plucked the man's eyes like worms from the earth.

'There,' The Lioness spoke, 'You will not see it.'"

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tickles me pink when you get a quest to kill ghosts in an rpg. like yeah this massive broadsword is gonna do just fine against these things.no rites no helping them move on just fucking cleaving them in twain

Bravo also to Robert Eggers for probably the least bad depiction of Transylvania in Western vampire cinematic history:

1. Having actual Romanian actors doing the dialogue in Romanian. You'd think this is a low bar to clear but nope.

2. High quality costume design that looks pretty accurate to 19th century Romanian and Roma peasantry, even down to specific braided hairstyles from the Transylvanian region.

3. Depiction of Roma people but refrains from having them as some typical Hollywood exoticizing role like a magical fortune teller etc. They're in like half a scene, just chilling and playing music in front of an inn.

4. Use of the word "strigoi" which are actual spirits in Romanian folklore, unlike the term "vampire" which didn't exist in Romania.

5. Sorry to the Nosferatu moustache haters, but a Romanian nobleman would have had that exact facial hair.

6. Depiction of religion (nuns, churches) that actually looks like Eastern Orthodoxy and not some vaguely spooky goth Christianity.

HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY DAY and happy birthday to me

I finally redrew, compiled and made enough to put together a 46 page zine of Sapphic Disco Elysium stuff. If you follow me, you'll see a lot that is familiar, but I have gone back and redrawn basically... most of it. and added to it. and honestly, there is a lot I didn't get to, so the pdf comes with lifetime updates

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[non genderswap DE zine]