iMarq

Das mit 180 Metern Höhe im wahren Sinn des Wortes herausragende Hauptquartier für 4000 Mitarbeiter von Atlassian soll hinter dem alten Bahnhof von Sydney als der höchste „Hybrid Tower“ der Welt entstehen. Hier ein Beitrag dazu in deuscher Sprache: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/atlassian-projekt-der-hoelzerne-turm-von-sydney-16853114.html

beardnomad

Rain Rain go away🌦️

That’s how nature’s shower looks like.

Kingdom of Lavender

Kingdom of Lavender

So I’ve been working on writing Merlin fanfic and, like a moron, I decided I wanted it to be more historically accurate because the actual canon is a shitshow about that.

I start doing some writing, some researching, and discover that stirrups won’t arrive in Britain until the 10th century or so. King Arthur is like… early 500′s roughly.

So no stirrups. That’s not a big problem. Except it is argued that it might have been a major contributor to feudalism. Which, ok, good to know. So Arthur is pre-feudalism, got it. Shouldn’t change too much, right? (wrong)

Oh, what’s this that feudalism requires for those new wealthy landowners?

Fucking. Primogeniture.

(friendly reminder: this is the right of inheritance for the firstborn son. Like for land, or titles of nobility… or kings)

So if my research is right, King Arthur didn’t have an inherent right to the throne because he was the firstborn male heir. He was fucking ELECTED. (or maybe a lady in the lake threw a sword at him, who knows, this is all myth anyway)

But the fucking kicker?

The thing that DOESN’T EXIST in King Arthur’s time?? Because feudalism won’t show up for several centuries?

Fucking.

Knights.

In summary, the story of King Arthur is just modern day fanfiction from medieval/feudal Europe with rampant OCs, overpowered everyone, too much fucking drama, and like three different werewolves.

There’s literally a book exploring this and how modern retellings have continued the spirit of High Medieval versions called Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy. Because silk and potatoes, like stirrups, knights, and feudalism, also didn’t exist in post-Roman Britain.