The Thing People Miss About Medieval Smells And Lighting A Lot Of Time Is The Fact That Everything Is
The thing people miss about medieval smells and lighting a lot of time is the fact that everything is fire powered. All their heat and all their light. Now I don't know if you have ever been to a place where all you have had is fire but it smells. It smells strong. The smell of fire will pretty much drown out most other scents. So it is likely you wouldn't always smell the person next to you, especially if the wood was wet and made a lot of smoke. You are going to stink like it for days even under modern circumstances where we bathe more regularly and also don't have to continually do this. Don't get me wrong, a city stink will still out stink it with the sheet amount of poop, but it is perfectly okay to imagine a medieval bar where everything just smells smoky.
This fire effect is also why you can always find shady corners in taverns. They didn't have high ceilings. They had some torches/candles/fireplace in a low ceilinged room. It is crazily easy for a pickpocket or anyone to just linger in there, especially once people have been drinking, and just not be noticed. Sure your eyes adjust, but everyone has different night vision and it all depends on how rich of a place you are at as to how much fire is available. Maybe if you are lucky it is a full moon.
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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.
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Whisperer by Alessio Albi
“When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.”
— Carl R. Rogers
Ok ok listen
The _white savior_ narrative in the way it is portrayed in 80's romance movies but in gender reverce
A white woman who comes as a part of some expedition to the distant exotic lands falls in love with a local man.
«but he's a savage» her sister says as she tells her about her situation.
«yeah I know» she replies «but he's a man, isn't it's what he's supposed to be?»
«yeah, but he has no etiquette and would probably treat a woman like you poorly»
«but sister dear you are married to a white man, and I can't really see any difference»
reblog if you’re okay with people writing fanfics of your fanfics and/or fanfics inspired by your fanfics
A vampire has worked at the local 7-11 for the past 5 decades. No one has the heart to slay them—partly because they're a good employee, but mostly because they think the vampire is doing a "great job" hiding their vampirism (they're really not).
Such news frustrate and discuss me so much, I literally can not.
This shit is dystopian, AI was never meant to create art, it will never be able to.
a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted
their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"
"Every writer"?
come on
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