Into The Forest, Further

casual reminder that this museum has their entire collection digitized and available free for public use: https://art.thewalters.org/ and they have armor/weapons there

“Was that not how you loved someone? By hammering your body into whatever shape they liked best, and handing yourself to them like a hilt?” ― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

A dictionary of the English and Italian languages by Giuseppe Baretti is a bilingual dictionary from 1790!