“I shall never forget the occasion where I was visiting a school as a writer and the whole place suddenly fell into an uproar because the school tomboy - a most splendid Britomart of a girl - had beaten up the school bully. Everything stopped in the staffroom while the teachers debated what to do. They wanted to give the tomboy a prize, but decided reluctantly that they had better punish her and the bully too. They knew that if, as a child, you do pluck up courage to hit the bully, it is an act of true heroism - as great as that of Beowulf in his old age. I remember passing the tomboy, sitting in her special place of punishment opposite the bully. She was blazing with her deed, as if she had actually been touched by a god. And I thought that this confirmed all my theories: a child in her position is open to any heroic myth I care to use; she is inward with folktales; she would feel the force of any magical or divine intervention.”
Ok so the first couple times i saw this quote i 100% thought that Britomart must be some sort of English grocery store, but i finally looked it up today and turns out she’s a lady knight from the 16th century epic poem The Faerie Queene. Here I am, an illiterate Fool, chuckling to myself thinking that Diana Wynne Jones was comparing this girl to a fucking supermarket…….. Broad as a Tesco, she was. The strength of a thousand Asdas. She could have bested both Marks AND Spencer
That made me smile. Just to point out that here in Auckland there IS a Britomart shopping centre, and a Britomart hotel and even a Britomart transport centre – it’s a downtown area filled with shops. And I suspect that of the people who realise that it gets its name from H.M.S. Britomart, the ship that did the first British survey of the area in the 1840s, which gave its name to Fort Britomart and then to the area, only a tiny handful also know that the ship was named after the warrior woman from The Faerie Queen.
Running a horror-themed D&D one-shot, and my players asked me to make pre-gens for them. My secret hope is that they’ll be too distracted by their own character sheets to realize What I Did Here.
So a couple weeks ago I was at a MP100 panel at a con and they had mob and reigens and ritsu’s english VA’s,and reigens va, right at the start of the panel, said hewwo™ four times while mobs va was mimicking him
So someone mentioned that the lemon drink reigen drank in the pic is nonalcoholic. This means reigen developed a pavlovian reaction to lemon drinks!! I dunno if that’s sad or concerning or both.
Me, first seeing the official art: Aha dummy. Reigen’s drunk when he’s not even drinking an alcoholic beverage lmao :)
Me, realizing that Reigen’s either allergic to lemons which causes his face to flush, or is so used to drinking alcoholic lemon drinks that his body subconsciously responds to it and forces him to have alcoholic reactions:
when abortion got banned in poland there were like three posts with 4k notes from poles and other eastern euros but whwn abortion ban in texas USA suddenly uncountable amount of awareness help donation organisation posts all over 20k reblogs easily what the shit. NOBODY from usa shared a donation post from poland, where even one dollar is large amount, while people from the nonwestern world are shamed for not rebloging yours. like, geniuenly, my heart out to the women of texas who are in need, but, american hypocricy is killing me,like every single time, "i cant believe this happened here" "its finally serious" shut up shut up shut up i hope america explodes
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