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yet again, more useless statistics. love it.

I'm dying omg

you're all very good and nice but I'll stick to the Shire, respectfully

hi, aspiring webcomicist here, any tips for writing?

Yeah

reblogging to keep like a post it note

Idk if I should ask here but any comfort ghost fic recommendations? Am not feeling too great and I need some comfort.

Of course you can ask here, anon! I made a little list of some good ones off the top of my head. There's a bunch more, so if anyone has anything to recommend please add to the list!

You might already know I love Crush Me by @atmosghoul

Don't want to close my eyes by @chapel-of-rizztual where Mountain hasn't been sleeping and Aether helps him

I'm not sure if you like comfort with a (tiny) dash of spice, but Sweet like honey has very lovely comfort for needy Mountain from mommy Cumulus (the spice is breastfeeding)

A Burn So Lovely by FluffyRacken - Terzo comforting reader who had a bad day (with a nice murderghoul mention)

@everybodyshusband's regressed ghouls series is great

Stay with me by greedyopulence because Copia needs some comfort too

An angel sent from hell by @chapel-of-rizztual is you like smutty comfort - Aether helps Dew cum for the first time

In Veil of dusk by @feralghxuls Dew helps Mountain when he dissociates

Kitty Dew series by @sphylor is lovely

and

Sometimes Dew Needs Help Taking Care of Himself by yours truly (murderghoul mention)

@dewedup also provided two recs Best when shared with you by @crimsonclergy and Fluffy RainDrop by @media-nocte

I hope you feel better soon anon <3

can't wait to see another poll with more info / another post for my love of irl-useless statistics

because i'm interested

feel free to put in the tags how long you've had your account, how many fandoms they're for, etc

all RIGHT:

Why You're Writing Medieval (and Medieval-Coded) Women Wrong: A RANT

(Or, For the Love of God, People, Stop Pretending Victorian Style Gender Roles Applied to All of History)

This is a problem I see alllll over the place - I'll be reading a medieval-coded book and the women will be told they aren't allowed to fight or learn or work, that they are only supposed to get married, keep house and have babies, &c &c.

If I point this out ppl will be like "yes but there was misogyny back then! women were treated terribly!" and OK. Stop right there.

By & large, what we as a culture think of as misogyny & patriarchy is the expression prevalent in Victorian times - not medieval. (And NO, this is not me blaming Victorians for their theme park version of "medieval history". This is me blaming 21st century people for being ignorant & refusing to do their homework).

Yes, there was misogyny in medieval times, but 1) in many ways it was actually markedly less severe than Victorian misogyny, tyvm - and 2) it was of a quite different type. (Disclaimer: I am speaking specifically of Frankish, Western European medieval women rather than those in other parts of the world. This applies to a lesser extent in Byzantium and I am still learning about women in the medieval Islamic world.)

So, here are the 2 vital things to remember about women when writing medieval or medieval-coded societies

FIRST. Where in Victorian times the primary axes of prejudice were gender and race - so that a male labourer had more rights than a female of the higher classes, and a middle class white man would be treated with more respect than an African or Indian dignitary - In medieval times, the primary axis of prejudice was, overwhelmingly, class. Thus, Frankish crusader knights arguably felt more solidarity with their Muslim opponents of knightly status, than they did their own peasants. Faith and age were also medieval axes of prejudice - children and young people were exploited ruthlessly, sent into war or marriage at 15 (boys) or 12 (girls). Gender was less important.

What this meant was that a medieval woman could expect - indeed demand - to be treated more or less the same way the men of her class were. Where no ancient legal obstacle existed, such as Salic law, a king's daughter could and did expect to rule, even after marriage.

Women of the knightly class could & did arm & fight - something that required a MASSIVE outlay of money, which was obviously at their discretion & disposal. See: Sichelgaita, Isabel de Conches, the unnamed women fighting in armour as knights during the Third Crusade, as recorded by Muslim chroniclers.

Tolkien's Eowyn is a great example of this medieval attitude to class trumping race: complaining that she's being told not to fight, she stresses her class: "I am of the house of Eorl & not a serving woman". She claims her rights, not as a woman, but as a member of the warrior class and the ruling family. Similarly in Renaissance Venice a doge protested the practice which saw 80% of noble women locked into convents for life: if these had been men they would have been "born to command & govern the world". Their class ought to have exempted them from discrimination on the basis of sex.

So, tip #1 for writing medieval women: remember that their class always outweighed their gender. They might be subordinate to the men within their own class, but not to those below.

SECOND. Whereas Victorians saw women's highest calling as marriage & children - the "angel in the house" ennobling & improving their men on a spiritual but rarely practical level - Medievals by contrast prized virginity/celibacy above marriage, seeing it as a way for women to transcend their sex. Often as nuns, saints, mystics; sometimes as warriors, queens, & ladies; always as businesswomen & merchants, women could & did forge their own paths in life

When Elizabeth I claimed to have "the heart & stomach of a king" & adopted the persona of the virgin queen, this was the norm she appealed to. Women could do things; they just had to prove they were Not Like Other Girls. By Elizabeth's time things were already changing: it was the Reformation that switched the ideal to marriage, & the Enlightenment that divorced femininity from reason, aggression & public life.

For more on this topic, read Katherine Hager's article "Endowed With Manly Courage: Medieval Perceptions of Women in Combat" on women who transcended gender to occupy a liminal space as warrior/virgin/saint.

So, tip #2: remember that for medieval women, wife and mother wasn't the ideal, virgin saint was the ideal. By proving yourself "not like other girls" you could gain significant autonomy & freedom.

Finally a bonus tip: if writing about medieval women, be sure to read writing on women's issues from the time so as to understand the terms in which these women spoke about & defended their ambitions. Start with Christine de Pisan.

I learned all this doing the reading for WATCHERS OF OUTREMER, my series of historical fantasy novels set in the medieval crusader states, which were dominated by strong medieval women! Book 5, THE HOUSE OF MOURNING (forthcoming 2023) will focus, to a greater extent than any other novel I've ever yet read or written, on the experience of women during the crusades - as warriors, captives, and political leaders. I can't wait to share it with you all!

love it lol- I went crazy with the reasoning in the comments - I believe the 2 best ways are Galadriel or a Nazgul

yea

Men with hair past their shoulders

That's it that's the post

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oooooh I have the little fan thing for March

In celebration of the publication day of The Hobbit (September 21, 1937), I would like to submit for your consideration the cover art from the 1970 Dutch edition. Just look at that Bilbo.