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Plays for the sirens, 0 goals, does not know if she is itching her butt. Peak Blorbo material.

- opens 2018 USA vs Russia U18 video

- skips to random timestamp

- Margaret Elizabeth Flaherty in da box

June 1, 2025 - Women paint the Palestinian flag on the steps of Piazza Gramsci, in Orgosolo, Sardinia. [link]

if you like the prophetic dreams with beautiful, symbolic imagery and a side of deconstructing the Hero's Journey all wrapped up around themes of identity and metamorphosis, read Ladivine by Marie NDiaye

if you like the representation of how growing up in a particular place in the aftermath of great war and violence influences your worldview and politics, and how that worldview and politics changes over time, all centered on incredibly well-written women characters from childhood to adulthood, read The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

if you like a complex fleshed-out world with history, religion, customs, politics that are all richly rendered in an almost anthropological way, read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin

if you like a cast of characters who are misfits, outsiders, people deemed “freaks” by society written with a deep romantic streak and a moral frustration with the cruelty of mainstream culture, plus a tenderness and respect for the interior lives of children (and especially if you are an Arya fan), read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

if you like seeing a group of people thrown together by circumstance become unlikely allies and work together in a complex examination of power and morality plus some pretty weird sex, read Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler

if you like suicidal, depressed knights grappling with the inherent violence within, read literally any Lancelot story (I started with Chrétien de Troyes, but there's a whole world)

if you like the Winterfell murder mystery and all the very strange characters involved, read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

if you like a big cast of characters with complex emotional lives and also you love Jon doing agrarian economics so the Night's Watch can survive winter, read Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

Sardinia is far too often overlooked in discussions of medieval history despite being one of the most fascinating examples of a non-feudal european state. By the 1000s and 1100s AD, feudalism was dominant across europe as a system of governance and land management. It was really only Sardinia, Frisia, and some merchant republics which held differing systems of governance. In Sardinia's case, their system of four 'Judicates' (Judgedoms) was largely an inheritance from their time under Eastern Roman/Byzantine control. Still, this family tree demonstrates that dynastic rule was still prevalent, and these judges held power throughout the island. The fundamental difference was that the judges did not legally own the land, meaning the system of rent upon which feudalism functioned was not present in Sardinia.

The four kingdoms intermittently fought and squabbled, as was to be expected, but the relative isolation of Sardinia kept the power dynamics of the island sectioned off from mainland Europe for a couple centuries. History is more than a little murky during this time, but we have a few sources which were instrumental for creating this family tree (cited at the bottom). What I find most interesting is how you can see the end of that isolation here, when the ruling families (tending to go by the name Lacon-Gunale or Lacon-Zori, the association between these families and each other is also very unclear prior to 1000 AD) began to intermarry with powerful merchant families from Italy proper. The different colors-- representing the different judicates --all stop very suddenly with Cagliari, Torres/Logudoro, and Gallura all being overtaken by Genoa & Aragon in 1258, 1259, and 1296 respectively. Only the small western kingdom of Arborea remained under the 'De Serra Bas' dynasty, which had full control of the island occassionally during the wars which followed between Genoa, Pisa and Aragon. Independence slowly wittled away and by 1420, Aragon conquered the island, bringing an end to this fascinating period of European history. NOTE: I am not an expert of Sardinian history and do not have a degree in that kinda field. I do have academic training on proper research methods, which were instrumental to the research necessary for this chart. Still, feel free to correct my mistakes as the relationships between individuals is difficult to track (especially because of the tendency for rulers to have different names). ==========

Casula, Francesco. Biographical Dictionary of Italians - Volume 6. Rome: 1964.

Fois, Graziano and Maxia, Mauro. Il condaghe di Luogosanto. Olbia: 2009.

Manno, Giuseppe. Storia di Sardegna. Milan: 1835.

Mladjov, Ian. Rulers of Italy: Sardinia. Philadelphia: 2023.

Pasquale, Tola. Codex Diplomaticus Sardiniæ. Sassari, 1861.

Putzulu, Evandro. Biographical Dictionary of Italians - Volume 30. Rome: 1984.

Sardinia is far too often overlooked in discussions of medieval history despite being one of the most fascinating examples of a non-feudal european state. By the 1000s and 1100s AD, feudalism was dominant across europe as a system of governance and land management. It was really only Sardinia, Frisia, and some merchant republics which held differing systems of governance. In Sardinia's case, their system of four 'Judicates' (Judgedoms) was largely an inheritance from their time under Eastern Roman/Byzantine control. Still, this family tree demonstrates that dynastic rule was still prevalent, and these judges held power throughout the island. The fundamental difference was that the judges did not legally own the land, meaning the system of rent upon which feudalism functioned was not present in Sardinia.

The four kingdoms intermittently fought and squabbled, as was to be expected, but the relative isolation of Sardinia kept the power dynamics of the island sectioned off from mainland Europe for a couple centuries. History is more than a little murky during this time, but we have a few sources which were instrumental for creating this family tree (cited at the bottom). What I find most interesting is how you can see the end of that isolation here, when the ruling families (tending to go by the name Lacon-Gunale or Lacon-Zori, the association between these families and each other is also very unclear prior to 1000 AD) began to intermarry with powerful merchant families from Italy proper. The different colors-- representing the different judicates --all stop very suddenly with Cagliari, Torres/Logudoro, and Gallura all being overtaken by Genoa & Aragon in 1258, 1259, and 1296 respectively. Only the small western kingdom of Arborea remained under the 'De Serra Bas' dynasty, which had full control of the island occassionally during the wars which followed between Genoa, Pisa and Aragon. Independence slowly wittled away and by 1420, Aragon conquered the island, bringing an end to this fascinating period of European history. NOTE: I am not an expert of Sardinian history and do not have a degree in that kinda field. I do have academic training on proper research methods, which were instrumental to the research necessary for this chart. Still, feel free to correct my mistakes as the relationships between individuals is difficult to track (especially because of the tendency for rulers to have different names). ==========

Casula, Francesco. Biographical Dictionary of Italians - Volume 6. Rome: 1964.

Fois, Graziano and Maxia, Mauro. Il condaghe di Luogosanto. Olbia: 2009.

Manno, Giuseppe. Storia di Sardegna. Milan: 1835.

Mladjov, Ian. Rulers of Italy: Sardinia. Philadelphia: 2023.

Pasquale, Tola. Codex Diplomaticus Sardiniæ. Sassari, 1861.

Putzulu, Evandro. Biographical Dictionary of Italians - Volume 30. Rome: 1984.

its an impressive effort from flaherty skating coast to coast around everyone and perfectly executing a no look pass behind her while getting crunched against the boards.. but the more i watch this the more i think damn seattle really just let us do that

they let one of the slower skaters on our team literally skate circles around them. they sat there puck watching and left irving wide open. if i was a seattle fan id throw my tv out a window