I am unknown: so what? These verses believe; they love; they hope: that's enough.
Arthur Rimbaud, from a letter to his mother written c. April 1870, featured in I Promise to be Good: Letters
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guy who's stuck in a timeloop for so long he stops wanting to leave it. guy who started out trying to escape but slowly grew used to and became comforted by the familiarity of the repeating day. guy who is no longer who he was before the timeloop. guy who is offered a way out and violently refuses it because he can't leave, doesn't want to leave. guy who escapes the timeloop by chance or force or accident and doesn't know how to live anymore. guy who keeps going through motions that don't match the situation and keeps having conversations that aren't actually occurring. guy who panics every time he realizes he can't predict the next instant. guy who left the timeloop but still lives with it.
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I just want everyone to finally realize that the gritty, dark, and âsuper hyper Hollywood manly-man-manâ that we constantly see Robin Hood portrayed as in movies and media is just... itâs wrong.
He is very clever, an expert marksman, and his charisma is off the charts...
But the man is an absolute dingus, a himbo, a goofball, and without the people around him he would have been done in by the elites WITH GREAT HASTE!
The stories you see on screen are just... itâs what people think they want Robin to be.
But that makes him just âgeneric action hero who can literally do anything by himself and doesnât need anyone else to help him, those around him are dependent on BIG HERO MAN Robin Hood to save them.â
And thatâs... itâs NOT TRUE!
I would absolutely do anything for an actual telling of Robin Hoodâs many stories but... from the perspective of those around him.
âEverything You Didnât Know About Robin Hoodâ - A Telling of His Heroic Journeys By John, Tuck, Stutley, Scarlet, Alan-A-Dale, and Marian
It just opens with like...
Chapter 1: âWhat a f*cking idiot.â
And of course âChapter 1â gets scribbled out and replaced with âChapters 1 - 34â because thatâs the whole damn thing.
Again, ROBIN IS NOT A FOOL, but this is a dude with a DEX stat of 20, CHA of 19, and the rest were just garbage rolls.
Half way through someone brings up âTHE MARKSMANSHIP CONTESTâ and everyone groans.
âWE GET IT! HE HIT THE ARROW WITH THE OTHER ARROW! WOW! GREAT JOB!â
And then Will Stutley just goes off about the one time Robin missed an incredibly easy shot at a non-moving target from three feet away.
Of course every time Alan-A-Dale starts to speak on the subject of Robin it somehow turns into a MUSICAL, and everyone is just very confused...
âAlan, you know we love your ballads, but we all know that the good Friar is tone deaf and couldnât hit a note that high even in his wildest dreams.â
Alan slams his hand on the table saying âITâS MY TURN TO SPEAK AND IN THIS VERSION WE ALL WERE SINGING, DAMNIT!â
Will Scarlet begins to talk about how Robin and Marianâs duel in the woods was âAN EPIC SWORDFIGHT THAT LASTED TWO HOURS!â and Marian just chokes on her drink.
âTWO HOURS!? It was barely five minutes! We took a break half way through, Will! Do you know how HEAVY swords are!? Robin was not built for swordplay like that!â
Will just befuddled by this information sputters and tries to catch his wits and continue the story before Tuck interjects.
âWill, my boy, thatâs not the type of swordplay that lasted two hours.â
The room explodes as Marian busts out laughing and John begins screaming at that response.
This ENTIRE time Robinâs band of Merry Men are just absolutely roasting him, and then we cut to an Epilogue where we hear from Robin himself for the first and only time.
âThe hero history will surely remember as one man standing against a tyrant was actually the efforts of those around me and not myself.â
Robin spends that entire epilogue speaking so kindly of those closest to him, those who fought alongside him, who lifted him up to make him appear the hero that everyone saw and remembered.
But THEY were the heroes, and he was just the one who brought them together and kept their spirits high.
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And yet, no, we get a live-action remake, that no one wants, of the Disney film and a bunch of GRUFF ANGY BUFF MURDER HAPPY adaptations instead.
Yâall, media doesnât know Robin Hood at all.
I Know Robin Hood And THAT, My Friends, Is NO Robin Hood!
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quotes by Victorians about the 1920s view of their generation's women
"We are frequently told that the Victorian woman...generally behaved like a pampered and neurotic infant. This is all moonshine. I do not think that I ever saw a woman faint before I came to London in 1869, and not often after then...they enjoyed a hearty laugh, and a good many of them a contest of wits with any man." -Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, 1927 (written by a man born in 1850)
"What queer ideas the girl of 1929 has about the Victorian period- they are not a bit true...Marriage was by no means the end and aim of our existence. Oxford and Cambridge claimed quite a few of us after school days were over. We had great ideas about 'life' and what it all might mean to us." -St. Petersburg Times, 1929 (written by a woman born in 1853)
"True, debutantes were chaperoned at balls. But that fact did not prevent them from dancing as frequently as they chose with their favorite partners. The idea that girls in the Victorian era spent their days sewing seams and practicing scales is another fallacy." -Gettysburg Times, July 1, 1927 (quote from the Dowager Lady Raglan, Ethel Jemima Somerset, who lived from 1857 to 1940)
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