A lover of history and specultative fiction

Corinth is highly respected within her city, sometimes seen as a patron within certain circles and one to confide in when seeking information, not without payment of course.

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

The Edict of Expulsion is a royal decree expelling all Jews from the Kingdom of England that was issued by Edward I on 18 July 1290; it was the first time a European state is known to have permanently banned their presence. The date of issuance was most likely chosen because it was a Jewish holy day, Tisha B'Av, which commemorates the destruction of Jerusalem and other disasters which the Jewish people have experienced. Edward told the sheriffs of all counties he wanted all Jews expelled before All Saints' Day (1 November) that year.

Jews were allowed to leave England with cash and personal possessions, but the debts which they were owed, their homes, and other buildings—including synagogues and cemeteries—were forfeited to the king. While there are no accounts of attacks on Jews during their departure on land, there were acts of piracy in which Jews died, and others were drowned as a result of being forced to cross the English Channel at a time of year when dangerous storms are common. There is evidence from personal names of Jewish refugees who settled in Paris and other parts of France, as well as Italy, Spain and Germany. Documents which were taken abroad by the Anglo-Jewish diaspora have been found as far away as Cairo. Jewish properties were sold for the benefit of the Crown, Queen Eleanor and selected individuals, who were given grants of property.

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I’m not “media illiterate” for wanting the lore that was introduced to be actually developed, regardless of the fact that the show is “character-based.”

I’m not “media illiterate” for wanting more than ONE character of the cast to be focused on.

I'm not "media illiterate" for not wanting to see gender-based violence.

I'm not "media illiterate" for wanting to see non-stereotypical and good representation of transwomen.

People who can't connect the artist with the art they CLEARLY and OPENLY made for themselves, with their own fantasies and morals.

People who see a white person, who hired a lolicon, racists and openly said they enjoy racist humor, take a black man's song and instead of saying "she clearly ignored the importance of the song and it's meaning" they say "it's not that deep. *racist slur*"

Media literacy isn't "writer wanted this to be like that, i know that so i am media literate and you're not"

It's knowing how to connect the dots and say, for example "Hey! This person lived at this specific time, in this specific region, had these specific life events, these types of people around them.... This is their work and these events/people/cultural phenomenons are present in it."

It's knowing that Kafka's work reflects life of a Jew when Jews were concidered subhuman. It's not about capitalism, sure it can look like that, but that's not the very specific experience HE had.

It's knowing Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita because he wanted to present the evil, as he himlswf was victim of CSA. He did NOT write it as erotica and he did NOT want it to be romanticised, the reason it was is because no one respected his work because at that time it was still normalized for old men to abuse young girls.

It's knowing that classic male writters in 1600-1900s lived in time where women had no rights, had to serve men and were married off as children to men twice or even thrice their age and it was basicaly a-okey to view them as property.

It's knowing that most classic American writers supported or benefited from slavery if they didn't fight against it. So ofc they would ignore that black people are human beings.

I love how this post came full circle

Literacy isn’t just about seeing the creator intent. I think we can all see now what Goose that trying to accomplish .

It’s about analyzing biases and seeing new perspectives!

Me personally, I’ve learned a lot just from people in the comments of this post, even from people who disagreed with me.

Policing people’s opinions and trying to shut down conversations is how a fandom goes sour.

THAT is why this fandom has become so toxic. Same with MHA, STH, and so many others.

(p.s white people don’t get to decide what is racist towards POC’s + Me calling out weird writing choices isn’t transphobia)

I never engaged with this fandom much, especially since i didn't even watch the show until recently. I already knew it was "toxic" but everyone was saying it like it was just people hating on goose, but once i looked into it i saw more Goose glaze.

The hate i did see was mostly directed at people who mildly disagreed with Goose or people whose opinions were not popular in the fandom. For Goose? Not so much, but maybe i was just late + i dont use twitter which is the worst as I've heard.

I also saw her tweets on here almost immidietly and wondered why no one talked about THAT. Not only that, but she is very aware of the "hate" she gets (putting it in quatations because not everything is hate. Especially bit earned criticism) and still tweeted some INSANE stuff. I know she didn't ask to be famous, but wouldn't you rather NOT give anyone more material for negative comments?

The "media literacy" is just a buzzword here at this point. If you so much as say you don't like something, it's not even just your opinion, you're immidietly called an idiot.

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