#dadrielle

I was baffled for a few a minutes because I never realized that Xena actually AKNOWLEDGE Callisto's involviment with Eve....like, she really talks here as if Callisto its Eve's other parent LMAO

And I've seen really funny takes on this subject but oh my god Eve REALLY IS the child of two women WOW (maybe i'm just dumb for not having noticed before but anyways)

Or, even, GabbyWabs and the Two Dumb-Butts

I know that “The Haunting of Amphipolis” generally isn’t considered a comedy, but I for the life of me could NOT stop giggling through a lot of it, particularly Gabrielle’s reactions. Blame my “Man-Killer” theory if you must, but I watched “THoA” again and then made a bunch of goofy crack-subs to go with it. [Note: Read the actual subtitles first before reading mine if both appear on the same image/slide. Also, diagonal subs generally come last.] I even tried making GIFs! Yey! Ahem. So, without further ado, here we go:

“Aw, remember my kid? How I had to tell Lila to be careful of her because Hope was very smart? ...*dreamy sigh* Never thought I’d miss THOSE days!”

(GW does a fantastic Najara the Convert impression, does she not? XD)

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“And, spoiler alert! That too was not a good time!”

And what did Gabrielle learn through all of these adventures?

@dadrielle

OOO okay okay so i dont know very many headcanons other people in the fandom have. but i have heard a few through my friend maddy. and theres one i really really like.

when Xena's pregnancy thing happened and i was coming up with predictions as to how on earth THAT happened, she told me about a fan theory/headcanon that Gabrielle is trans, so the baby is biologically hers and Xenas. and i really like that idea way more than what the actual reason turned out to be.

i also came up with a headcanon that i am very attached to.

so meg has been pretty vocal about how badly she wants a family of her own, right? well, remember that family in chariots of war? the kids who were all like "wow xena we love you please stay with us and be our mom!" My headcanon is that Meg randomly stumbles upon that family, is mistaken for xena, and just sort of goes along with it because she's like "hell yeah finally a family who loves me!" and its like. she feels like she has to keep pretending to be xena in order to be part of their family but really they come to love her for who she is.

i actually started a whole fic about this idea lmfao. i just... need meg to be happy. so my headcanon is that THAT happens.

I'm sorry I'm distracted by "Directed by Michael Hurst" IOLAUS DIRECTED THIS?!

revieloutionne replied to your post:

@dadrielle I just looked him up for this and 1: yes, it is the same Michael Hurst and 2: HE VOICED VEXACUS IN NINJA STORM. The directing isn't listed on *his* wiki page yet, but the director credit on the Dino Fury list of episodes page links to him

Oh man, I actually do remember you asking me about that, and it was many many moons ago, so thanks for sticking with me through the various Adventures that this blog has been on since. I hope your comic is going well and I’m still definitely interested to read it whenever it should be done!

If you want to learn more about Ibn Battuta and his world, there is a book that looks very interesting: The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century by Ross Dunn, the most recent edition of which came out in 2012. It contextualizes Ibn Battuta within fourteenth-century Islamic society, the history and culture of the places he visited, and the scope of medieval exchange and travel across the East and along the Silk Road. (On that note, I’ve also recommended The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan before, but will add it in here.)

Likewise, you can look into King Musa I of Mali (Mansa Musa) who flourished at the same time as Ibn Battuta (Battuta visited his court/kingdom, if I recall correctly) and is sometimes regarded as the richest man who ever lived, king of the indescribably wealthy fourteenth-century Mali Empire. (Readers of DVLA may recall a brief anecdote about Mansa Musa inadvertently crashing the Egyptian economy due to spending so much gold on his pilgrimage to Mecca, which is true.) I also answered this ask a while back with resources on medieval African history, including a few books on Mansa Musa and Ibn Battuta and their lives, societies, and cultures, such as the city of Timbuktu’s role in medieval West Africa as a flourishing center of scholarship and Islamic manuscript study.