weird medieval guys
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I'VE HAD TO KEEP THIS QUIET FOR SO LONG BUT NOW THE CAT CAN FINALLY ESCAPE THE BAG I wrote another book!! and it's coming out this November! it's a little like a birdwatching guide, except it's a word watching guide! i poured my heart into it!! you can even pre-order it now!! link in biooo ahhh
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#vindicated
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"come on Adam just eat the apple, nobody is watching"
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new substack for da paid subscribers ✌️😗
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
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bruce mouat, your icy eyes, cool demeanor, and precise curling have entranced me
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new podcast ep (and subtle cover design flex)
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swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century
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I’m so excited for you guys to read my new book
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I'VE HAD TO KEEP THIS QUIET FOR SO LONG BUT NOW THE CAT CAN FINALLY ESCAPE THE BAG I wrote another book!! and it's coming out this November! it's a little like a birdwatching guide, except it's a word watching guide! i poured my heart into it!! you can even pre-order it now!! link in biooo ahhh
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오이를 서리하는 고슴도치 민화랑 비슷하네요. 귀여움.
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It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
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my SPOOKIEST blog post yet (it’s not very spooky but it is interesting)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
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Unsolved historical mysteries that keep me up at night
Pondering all of the things that have been lost to the vast, gaping void of the past.
https://open.substack.com/pub/weirdmedievalguys/p/unsolved-historical-mysteries-that?r=29j4cv&utm_medium=ios
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We did Snoopy, we did Gromit, which cartoon dog do we raise from the ranks next? I propose this diva
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they’re doing this to me tomorrow
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A beautiful and healthy 400 year old oak tree near my house was mysteriously assessed as “dying” and cut down after surveyors said it was thriving probably a coincidence that the landowner wants to let a local football club pave over the site but couldn’t bc of the tree
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coming to nyc soon, should we have a wmg meetup?
19 days ago
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im so glad i was a yuri on ice fangirl when i was 16 bc all my normie friends are getting oneshotted by heated rivalry but i was thankfully inoculated against ice yaoi
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i’ll never forget when my dad was trying to convince me it’s okay to eat shrimp with the shell on. he said “it’s not harmful, it’s the same stuff your fingernails are made of.” yum. thanks dad!
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new article (paywalled this time, any support appreciated!)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
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Reading the travel diaries of Bertrandon de Broquiere (1400-1459 AD), one of the first white boys to say Inshallah
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what if we kissed while singing little tunes from the 15th century heart shaped book of french love songs ?
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going through the archives for some real old school deep cuts. dredged up this guy. love his cut-glass tumbler
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i need to keep blogging what weird medieval things should i blog about
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People talk about our food killing a medieval peasant, but in the Middle Ages they were drinking viscous beer made with egg whites and flour that made you shit yourself
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old school climbers were hardcore, the first guy to climb Nanga Parbat (~27,000 feet) did it alone with no ropes or oxygen, just copious amounts of nazi meth
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new substack article combining my special interests of typography and the middle ages!!!
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
26 days ago
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i like to have 4-5 pints on a weeknight, but i do not like to have had 4-5 pints on a weeknight
27 days ago
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burns night fit!!! i did the address to the haggis
30 days ago
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the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock
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a book light, italy, 15th century
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what if we booked this for a wmg meetup…..
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a guy i sat next to in high school history class is now the manager of a multi-billion dollar ai investment hedge fund and i can’t wait for him to get arrested for financial shenanigans so i can leak the story to the press that i always found him a bit obnoxious but i never held it against him
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normal dog, switzerland, 15th century
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an axe with heart-shaped holes in the blade, japan, 14th century
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three hares (holy trinity) germany, 16th century
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Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!!
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...
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when I was 8 or 9, I got really into the poetry of e. e. cummings, so I got a book of his work from the library and copied a bunch of the poems down. my mom found them and thought she had accidentally raised an avante-garde modernist fourth grader and freaked out
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Rabbit, Sweden, 15th century
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Woman drinking wine with her dog, Persia, 17th century
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thinkin once more about this lost dog someone posted in my old neighbourhood group one time
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came back to bsky to share some advice from a medieval French courtesy manual: "If you have a beautiful chest and a beautiful neck do not cover them up but your dress should be low cut so that everyone can gaze and gape after them".
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they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms
3 months ago
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hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!!
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
4 months ago
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hey gang
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told everyone in the club that someone spilled their drink on my head and it was true!!! (the person was me)
6 months ago
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told everyone in the club
6 months ago
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one of the reasons i only buy used clothes is because secretly i don’t like it when my clothes look new. “oh yeah i went out to a store and bought this because i wanted to wear it” noooo
8 months ago
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when i read a substack article and find more than one comma splice i close the tab immediately
8 months ago
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just clocked they’re called heathens bc they live in the heath
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it’s so cool that el greco painted stuff like this in the early 1600s and people were like “hmmm…..bit odd! not sure about this!” and then 300 years later people looked at it again and were like “OHHHH”
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hello all! i need a recommendation—books to gift to a very clever well-read english lady to cheer her up while she recovers from surgery :) she has very broad interests but especially loves history and especially women’s history !
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