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Representation gothic

periegesisvoid:

There is a new strong female character with short hair and a sword. She is straight “to break stereotypes.” There are dozens of strong female characters with short hair and swords, and they are all straight “to break stereotypes.” There has never been a strong female character with short hair and a sword who was gay or bisexual at all. All new such characters must be straight “to break stereotypes.”

latining:

prokopetz:

invisiblemelonmoose:

prokopetz:

invisiblemelonmoose:

spader7:

medievalpoc:

prokopetz:

Consider:

  • Victorian England: 1837-1901
  • American Old West: 1803-1912
  • Meiji Restoration: 1868-1912
  • French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830

Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible.

It really just comes down to whether a given individual or group is looking for reasons to include, or reasons to exclude. Hypothetical groups like these can go a lot further than this, too.

OK I WANT THIS REALLY BAD SO I MADE THIS REALLY QUICK

As much as I absolutely adore this, you’d probably have to come up with a fairly good reason for them to all meet up together in the first place. I mean, MLK and Anne Frank were born in the same year, but they lived on different continents and had no opportunity to meet. I’m not saying these cross cultural interactions are impossible, but choosing a certain region with an era isn’t necessarily exclusionary. It just doesn’t occur to people (or rather most writers in general) how well these eras matched up or how to connect these extremely varied backgrounds.

just make it a fighting game and ur good tho

I didn’t pick those roles at random, mind. All four of them are outlaws of some description, and thus have incentive to travel outside their native range – and in particular, all four of them would have any number of plausible excuses for ending up in San Francisco during the late 1860s or early 1870s. Once you’ve got them within shouting distance of each other, getting them in the same adventuring party is a simple matter of Plot.

I feel dumb for not picking up on that. :B I’d definitely be curious to know just what kind of hijinx they’d be getting themselves into (I can already imagine an Ocean’s Eleven-esque heist).

Out of curiosity, why San Fran? I’m a west coaster myself, but I usually picture New York when it comes to historical fiction.

1. San Francisco in the early 1870s is both very prosperous and a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

2. It’s more plausible for a vaquero and a ronin samurai to meet there by chance – New York is on the wrong coast entirely for that.

3. Emperor Norton.

@prokopetz, if you write this adventure, I will buy it.

^+1

downtroddendeity:

On the earlier subject of Discworld, it took me an excessively long time to realize that the storm that sent Vimes back in time in Night Watch was the same one from Thief of Time. Even though it even says in Night Watch that the lightning hit a clockmaker‘s shop and Lu-Tze tells Vimes he “got caught up in an event.”

huntersonthewing:

askfordoodles:

littlemissbloo:

whitmerule:

pardonmewhileipanic:

red3blog:

pardonmewhileipanic:

notcuddles:

nesft:

#CROW NO

Crow: CROW YES!

It’s actually impossible to measure how many fucks a corvid give because there is no device sensitive enough to register such a tiny amount.

science/animal side of tumblr… explain to me the birb thing

Tail Pulling is a behavior noted in many corvids. The practical application is to create a distraction that will allow the birb to make off with the target’s food. Imagine being in the lunch room and a large fellow has a Twinkie you covet. You can’t just take it from him because he’ll defend his Twinkie. But if you thwap him on the back of his neck and then dash around to snag the Twinkie while he investigates, you stand a decent chance of enjoying spongey goodness. This is basically that in birb form.

Except corvids don’t only do this as a distraction. Sometimes they seem to just being doing it to mess with other animals/birbs. But to use my lunch room analogy, there are times you might thwap someone sneakily on the back of the neck just for amusement. Primates exhibit behavior that appears to be just be annoying other animals for amusement. Given how intelligent crows are, its not unlikely that this is a manifestation of an innate desire to just fuck with someone else for the fun of it. Such as this from the link above:

THANK YOU FOR THE BIRB KNOWLEDGE

BECAUSE IT IS FUN

This speaks to me on a molecular level.

birbs just wanna have fun

Sorry to hijack a little, but to put it bluntly, corvids are also pretty BALSY. They are more than prepared to harass other huge birds of prey which could deal them a lot of damage. There’s plenty of cases of corvids ‘riding’ other birds as well. It’s often to harass the larger bird out of the area, but as @red3blog said, they quite often (in layman’s terms) enjoy fucking shit up for fun.

‘Where the hell is the seatbelt on this thing?’

I mean they deserve a medal for having such huge bird balls imo

Literally no fucks are given by corvids. Ever.