AspiringLuddite @AspiringLuddite@medievalist.masto.host

The fire wiped out all the wood store, cloth store, leather store, and bins in other stores. I'm building walls and fire doors now.

Better late than never ...
#dwarffortress

Nothing like a Forgotten Beast made of fire to slow your frame rate and kill a third of your population.

It's locked in the Old Brewery now while I recover. We took off one of its legs.

#dwarffortress

Today is the first day of Lent, and for quite a while now (at least a decade), we've been observing something like a medieval style Lent as an exercise in foodways and medieval culture.

I'm an atheist, so there is no religious significance for me, per se, but, during the medeival period, Lent was a cultural experience as much as a religious one.

Here's a post from 2011 with some thoughts - https://www.aspiringluddite.com/Apr11/Lent.shtml

#medievalist #sca

Sir Avery fighting for Zoe, defeated Lord Ranulf fighting for Lady Euphrosyne 3 bouts to 1 in a best of five final at Insulae Draconis coronet tourney yesterday.

Long Live Prince Avery and Princess Zoe!

#sca #Drachenwald #insulaedraconis

Interesting (and funny) analysis of why the medieval west thought bestiality was bad. Spoiler alert - much of it has to do with medieval Christian theology.

https://going-medieval.com/2020/01/20/no-bestiality-was-never-ok-you-absolute-rabid-weirdo/

Where has this been all my (professional) life?

https://centerpeer.org/products/1u-chair/#

Why yes, it is windy in Norfolk today. Why do you ask?

I just finished 'Vita Nostra' by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko (in translation, I confess)

I started out thinking it was like a dark Russian Harry Potter, and then it got weird.

Oddly, it seems like everything I'm bumping into now is about Soviet super children. We also just finished Stranger Things 3. And watched the first episode of Umbrella Academy.

When my left arm gets tired, my shield slips in every so slightly to my right, leaving a hole in my guard high on the outside of my left thigh.

Ask me how I know;-)
#sca

'Wine.'
'What color?'
'Red. ... Unless it's Pinot, then beer.'

I am loving Tim Minchin in Upright.

We went up to York this past weekend for the Panto, and stumbled into this place. It's the best £40 meal I've had in a long time, and may be my new favourite restaurant ... we had the tasting menu, of course ...

http://www.mrpscurioustavern.co.uk/

The National Museum of Finland in Helsinki is very good indeed. Sadly the medieval exhibition is still being built, to open in 2020. The prehistoric section is as good as any I've seen, and the 'interactive' bits are excellent - so often, 'interactive' just means 'glue an iPad to the glass.'

Bonus points for having a section in the 'Story of Finland' dedicated to heavy metal - with a soundtrack including (among others) Nightwish, Children of Bodom, and Stone.