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"I look at a guy like MJF who can talk the talk. He is another young guy who I think is really talented. It’s scary to think of where a guy like that might be five years from now.” (Bleacher Report)

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Visiting the parents, taking the opportunity to pillage my medievalist dad’s astonishingly large library for books of world-building inspiration for witcher fic medieval fantasy, and OH BOY did I hit paydirt:

I’m especially looking forward to the one on medieval travellers, since that’s what our bold heroes spend 90% of their time in fanfic doing, and, ah -- most fic writers don’t realize how different hostelry was back then. To wit, there was only ever one bed, if that. You shared with whatever other rando(s) happened to be passing through. Two beds, for two separate people, especially people who know each other, is wildly anachronistic. (@jackironsides​ has an excellent fic that touches on both Jaskier’s and Geralt’s differing experiences with those norms.)

(There’s also a great anecdote in Shakespeare’s Pub, a history of the George Inn, in which this guy is bunking with a stranger, and in the middle of the night the man rolls over and starts groping him, murmuring, “Oh, Margaret, Margaret!” Guy 1 shoves him off and is like, Wake up, man, I am not your wife! Then he goes around telling it like, LOL funny story, this guy was asleep and mistook me for his wife!

And I’m like, oh bb, oh you sweet summer child. That man knew full well what he was doing, it just gave him plausible deniability in case you weren’t About It. That was the 16th century equivalent of tapping the adjacent stall in a Central Park bathroom.)

And, OH OH, look what that book even has, the better for writing everyone’s favorite bard:

(Meanwhile my dad is like, HARRUMPH HARRUMPH, You’d better remember that those books are BORROWED.