Breaking My Nonverbal Streak Each Time Someone Mentions My Hyperfixations 🗣️

is it bad ive genuinely concerned buying horse electrolytes as an actual means?

like ik horses eat different stuff and if i JUST had horse electrolytes id become deficient in other ways and over hyped in more ways, but theres probably some balance, like just a few mg into some powerade would probably not do any immediate harm

@michaelcycael got me thinking about if someone touched baldwin when he was blind would be be able to comprehend if someone was there

Baldwin immediately after the battle of Marj Ayyun:

had a genuine nightmare that i was getting employed by Edward norton and my blog got pulled up during the interview

RIP King Baldwin IV

You would have loved the Couchmobile

Your favorite KoH character besides Baldwin? 😁

Short answer, Sybilla, long answer, Sybilla and/or Guy.

I know Guy is a bad.. guy, HOWEVER i absolutely love how they played so much into how *evil* he could be and made him look so comically villianous which managed to make me laugh with how well they played it up, they gave him one of the only french accents in the film and made him talk all smug-like in contrast to more of the normal acting characters, (besides Balian, who is a complete stereotype while also having the personality equivalent of flour).

Sybilla, shes pretty and a somewhat complex female character and one of the only women characters we see who pull the plot forward, while she is widely inaccurate in terms of sleeping with balian and going against Guy and them having this weird conflict which is far from the historical reality, i absolutely love her outfits and i could fix her indefinitely

so ik you all are probably tired of the cosplay pics and stuff but i do have a photoshoot with my friends scheduled sometime when its cooler in my area so im here asking for inspo on some Baldwin poses to do for the shoot, i will likely have props but will bring any i see fit (a sword, chess board, a rose..?)

any reccomendations would be nice, including if some need drawing refs :)

Non-fiction books and papers about Baldwin IV

I already posted about this before, but recently I saw that people were looking for books/papers about Baldwin so here is the list again:

Baldwin’s contemporaries:

The Chronicles of Ernoul - Ernoul

The History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea – William of Tyre

Travels of Ibn Jubair/The Rihla of Ibn Jubair – Ibn Jubair

Contemporary books:

Baldovino IV di Gerusalemme: Il Re Lebbroso – Illaria Pagani

The Leper King and His Heirs – Bernard Hamilton

A History of the Crusades, Volume 2 - Steven Runciman

The Crusades: An Islamic Perspective – Carole Hillenbrand

Research papers:

Saint Catherine’s Day Miracle: The Battle of Montgisard - Michael Ehrlich

1174: A Letter of Condolence from Saladin toBaldwin IV of Jerusalem - Eric Böhme

A Leper in Purple: The Coronation of Baldwin IV of Jerusalem - Stephen Lay

Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and the Challenges and Qualities of Leadership - Declan Krebs

Baldwin IV of Jerusalem as the image of the ideal ruler of the Middle Ages - Ilyichev Anton Vladimirovich

Leprosy and the case of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem: mycobacterial disease in the crusader states of the 12th and 13th centuries – P. D. Mitchell

Neurological evaluation of the leper king Baldwin IV of Jerusalem – A. L. Guerrero-Peral

The Body and Authority: Leprosy of King Baldwin IV – Mark Gregory Pegg

The Minor Kings of Jerusalem-King Baldwin IV as a Model - Aisha Marshoud Humaid Al-Harbi

An honorary mention:

Queens of Jerusalem - Katherine Pangonis (I love this book because it focuses primarily on women of the time and persons like Sibylla of Jerusalem and Agnes of Courtenay, Baldwin also gets a mention tho) - 10/10

new post! don't ask what the left arm is doing im not sure either (im very tired:;)