#lemonleaf.txt

And to end everything nicely: I hope your vacation is going well! 🫶

right?? i don't expect things to be exactly the same! i actually think making rhaenyra and alicent the same age was not a bad idea. it could have provided fertile ground for a lot of interesting social commentary. not only did we get none of that, but the price seems to be absolutely not worth it.

it's becoming increasingly clear that you can't make changes to the source material if you do not understand its themes and message. and unfortunately asoiaf is SUCH a misunderstood text, my god

oh, red roses, i'm afraid i always suck at this type of question! surprising no one, i've always loved the medieval period, as a vaguely-defined aesthetic interval. what a completely predictable answer! 😂 i'm a complete dilettante, though, as i have had a total of 1 measly medieval history course in uni, so i'm coasting on vibes most of the time. i do love castles a lot, though, and i visit as many as i can during my holidays. and sometimes i go down the rabbit hole when it comes to the late bronze age collapse.

but, you see, my schooling was mainly in the 20th century, and by that i mean the "short century" of 1914-1991 with a few courses on the long 19th century (1800-1914) leading up to it, and both of these periods have always been interesting for me to study, perhaps the intervals i also found the ~easiest, so studying them at university-level felt the most natural choice for me. to be honest with you, i don't really dislike any historical period, but i probably wouldn't have appreciated sitting for exams on them! whereas the 19th-20th centuries just tended to gel better in my mind and i could make the most sense of them.

i really like the social & cultural aspects (what a vague descriptor LOL) but i avoided them like the plague in uni, because i could not stand studying them for actual grades. i like finding out about them organically through reading (social history is a super important field & i will fight anyone to the death to defend it), but i would have legit lost my mind if i had to be quizzed on matters like church and society LMFAO. from the very beginning i was a brat! so i always, always chose the political/diplomatic modules without question, without blinking. it's the balance of powers and hegemonic stability theory for me all the way

it's funny because it's exactly what i did for my aforementioned one medieval course, because during the exam we had to pick the type of question we wanted to be quizzed on, and i immediately went for the political/diplomatic pile because for the economic/social category the professor had us reading stuff like crop rotation and i nearly had an aneurysm when i opened the course book. the way i immediately skipped all that and just went to petty kingdoms and my elizabeth i book,,,,,,,,,,,,

we focused a lot on the world wars, in the least shocking turn of events, and spent a lot of time on the leading causes, peace treaties, formation of international organisations, regimes etc. nothing like painstakingly writing pages after pages of course notes on the treaty of versailles wednesdays at 8:00 in the morning. it does something to a person! 👌