#medieval setting

[orkazh-arts]

✨ Meet Kathalandra “Kass” and Thaerys, the two protagonists of my new sapphic fantasy romcom story 😌💅✨

It is well-known among the Courts of several kingdoms that Princess Kathalandra and Princess Thaerys are not the best of friends. Some might even say that, being complete opposites in both personality and manners, they can’t stand each other. But when - following her betrothal to Princess Thaerys’ older brother - Kathalandra comes to live with her future in-laws and Thaerys is put in charge of showing her around the castle and kingdom, both of them start to realize that there is more to the other than meets the eye… ✨

#original art #wlw #sapphic story #sapphic #medieval setting #medieval romcom #fantasy #fantasy romcom #queer romcom #my art #princesses #reluctant future in-laws to lovers #yes Red is betrothed to Green's brother at first #kathaerys #SFR #sfr-tag

[boizdocry]

Playlists and stuff for writing - Dungeon Synth's gold mine pt.1

No need for introduction with Dungeon Synth Archives and their awesome mix xD This one works well if what you need is neat, "Bach-esque" background music playing while you work at your last Medieval flavoured adventure. Also, great stuff for studying and planning, too. Enjoy!

#dungeon synth #music archives #awesome mix #awesome music #ambient #writing #music for writing #music for studying #medieval fantasy #medieval setting #inspiration #asmr #relaxing music #music for writers #Youtube

[nightyelfy]

It's isekai otome novels time!

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#novels #isekai #otome #editio #korean novels #romance #fiction #women's literature #woman protagonist #translation #authorized translations #medieval setting #prince and princesses #pleasant reading #chapters #love #books #women's fiction

[cripplecharacters]

howdy :) i’m writing a fantasy novel with a physically disabled character that has a lot of very stiff joints (especially the fingers and the wrists.) she got her disability from an accident (magical curse), so i plan on having her learn to adjust and adapt to her disability by having her change her wardrobe over time to clothes that would be easier to put on and off with her stiff joints. originally she has a bunch of medieval-y clothes (bc the novel is set in medieval inspired times), with buttons and laces and things that require precision. what suggestions do you have for some clothes and other things that might be easier for her to wear?

Hi there, thanks for your question!

I'm not a medieval clothing expert by any means, but I'll give this a shot. I'll try to keep my advice as vague as possible to suit various settings, since "medieval" is pretty broad and doesn't specify locale.

I don't personally wear modern adaptive clothing so I can't fully speak to how you might adapt modern techniques to a medieval setting, but I can give you a general idea of which medieval clothes might be easiest for her to wear. Also, since this is fantasy, you can fudge the details however you like to make it work for your character even if it's not fully "historically accurate."

My immediate thought for this character would be button hooks. They're Victorian in origin so quite a bit later than medieval, but I see no reason why they shouldn't exist in a medieval fantasy setting as they're not too complex and all the elements to create one would presumably still be present in this society. They're long, thin metal rods with a hook at the end that are used to pull buttons through closures without needing to use your fingers and are especially useful for clothing with very small and/or a large number of buttons. Different versions of them are still used in the modern day as assistive devices to help with getting dressed, particularly for people with arthritis.

Depending on your setting, and particularly if your characters are wearing some version of a corset, supportive kirtle, or stays under their external clothing layers, it might already be common practice for characters who need bust support to have assistance in getting dressed and doing their laces up, so that would take some of the pressure off of this character to get dressed by herself. I'd also expect this character to prefer clothing with front closures or laces that are easier to reach, rather than clothing that is done up at the back or side. Depending on the nature of her curse, she might wear a supportive garment anyway even if she doesn't need bust support, as corsets/kirtles/stays can actually alleviate some chronic pain, especially for people with scoliosis or other skeletal/spinal differences.

She might have clothing made specifically for her or seek out clothing cut similarly to a shift, so just a large unfitted tunic or dress that can be slipped on over the head and doesn't have any elaborate laces or buttons (in most cases). It would be loose and baggy on her by design, but it would alleviate the dressing struggles associated with achieving a tighter and more fitted silhouette. Basically, I'd think anything with uncomplicated square or rectangular cuts sewn together--anything wide enough to go over her shoulders and fall straight down her body without tapering. Belts would come in handy to secure and support any external garments that she couldn't lace up herself and to give her silhouette some shape if she'd like. Also--pins! Pinning clothing in place has real historical precedent so if she wanted to pin something up on her body rather than tie it, especially pinning different layers of clothing together to hold them in place, she could absolutely do so without necessarily standing out.

I hope this was at least a little bit helpful! If you'd like, you're more than welcome to offer a follow-up with more specifics on a time period and location that you're drawing from so we can offer input on specific garments. Other disabled people (especially those who wear adaptive clothing) & people with more historical costuming knowledge than me are absolutely encouraged to chime in!

-Mod Faelan

#mod faelan #anonymous #acquired disability #joint stiffness #adaptive clothing #medieval setting

[sad-hippie]

Can we please, please, please stop calling prostituted women in a medieval setting sex workers? What kind of choice do you all think these women had? They were either forced by starvation, violence or sold into it, and usually the story will confirm that for you. Besides, most of them would have started as children and known no way out of it, nor would have brothel owners allowed them to.

#medieval setting #asoiaf #hotd #I know people are just trying to be respectful #but its use will sanitise the men who take advantage of them and the brothel owners #shae

[a-froger-epic]

So, sometimes (rarely!) I suddenly write a fic in a few hours, and tonight was that sort of night. I had no intention of writing, should really be sleeping, but @nerdysketches 's stunning fem!Brian fanart inspired me so much that I... wrote whatever this is! 😁 Very happy to participate in @femqueenweek ❤️💕❤️ and thank you to @ivyyflowers and @ronniesshoes for holding the event!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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#femqueenweek #Fem!Queen Week 2022 #Maylor #King AU #Royal AU #Medieval setting #Idek #Queen RPF #Inspired by fanart

[thevrigelanwanderer]

Starting far north - but not yet the furthest…🌑

📍Starthe, Vrigela (The Stone Pyre)

(Made in Procreate - Free brush stamps linked!)

#procreate #fantasy #medieval #medieval fantasy #medieval setting #medieval location #digital art #fantasy art #fantasy location #high fantasy #arpg #arpg art #role play #roleplay #fantasy roleplay #roleplay account #fantasy aesthetic #fairytale #fairy tale roleplay #adventurer #adventure ready #digital artist #digital painting #landscape #fantasy landscape #starthe

[sanctus-ingenium]

Collectable woodblock prints commemorating individual conquests were commonplace in the theocracy, distributed by the church as a way to announce its victories.

get a print here :>

#setting: mez #just wanted to draw something mindless & fun tonight. what's up #medieval bestiary art #fantasy worldbuilding #pantera got the final blow in with aid from the other pictured beests

[alpaca-clouds]

How to cook in a medieval setting

Alright. As some of the people, who follow me for a longer while know... I do have opinions about cooking in historical settings. For everyone else a bit of backstory: When I was still LARPing, I would usually come to LARP as a camp cook, making somewhat historically accurate food and selling it for ingame coin. As such I know a bit about how to cook with a historical set up. And given I am getting so much into DnD and DnD stories right now, let me share a bit for those who might be interested (for example for stories and such).

🍲Cooking at Home

First things first: For the longest time in history most people did not have actual kitchens. Because actual kitchens were rather rare. Most people cooked their food over their one fireplace at home, which looked something like what you see above. There was something made of metal hanging over the fireplace. At times this was on hinges and movable, at times it was set in place. You could hang pots and kettles over it. When it came to pans, people either had a mount they would put over the fire or some kind of grid they could easily put into place there with some sourts of mounts (like the two metal thingies you can see above).

If you have a modern kitchen, you are obviously used to cook on several cooktops (for most people it is probably four of them), while in this historical you obviously only had one fire. Of course, as you can also see in the picture above, you could often put two smaller pots over the flames or put in a pan onto the fire additionally. But yes, the way we cook in modern times is very different.

Because of this a lot of people often ate stews and soups of sort. You could make those in just one pot - and often could eat from the same stew for days. In a lot of taverns the people had an "everything stew" going, which worked on the idea that everyone just brought their food leftovers, which were all put into one pot everyone would eat from.

Now, some alert readers might have also noticed something: What about bread and pastries? If you only have one fireplace and no oven, how did people make bread?

Well, there were usually three different methods for this. The most common one was communal ovens. Often people had one communal oven in a neighborhood. Especially in a village there might just be a communal oven everyone would just put their bread in to bake. (Though often this oven would only be fired up once or twice a week.)

The second version to deal with this some people used was a sort of what we today call a dutch oven. A pot made either of metal or clay with a lit you would put into the hot coals and then put bread or pastries into that, baking it like that.

There was also a version where people just baked bread in pans on the fire, rotating the bread during the baking process. At least some written accounts we have seem to imply. (Never tried this method, though. I have no idea how this might work. My camp bread was mostly done in dutch ovens or as stickbread.)

Keep in mind that the fireplace at home was very important for the people in historical times. Because it was their one source of warmth in the house.

🏕️ Cooking at Camp

Technically speaking cooking at camp is not that different - with the exception of course that you have to drag all your supplies along. And while in Baldur's Gate 3 and most other videogames you can carry around several sets of full-plate armor and several pounds of ingredients so that dear Gale can whip something up... In real life as an adventurer running around you need to make decisions on what to take along.

If you have read Lord of the Rings, you might remember how many people have criticized Sam for actually dragging all his cooking supplies along and how sad he was for not being able to cook for most of the time, because they were very limited in taking ingredients along.

So, yes, if you are an adventurer who is camping out in the open, you will probably need to do a lot of hunting and gathering to eat during your travels. You can take food for a couple of days along, but not for a lot.

A special challenge is of course, that while you can cook food for several days when you are at homes, you do not want to drag along a prepared stew for several days. So usually you will cook in smaller batches.

A lot of people who were journeying would often just take along one or two pots along.

So, what would you eat as an adventurer travelling around while trying to save the world from some evil forces? Well, it would depend on the time of the year of course. You would probably hunt yourself some food. For example hares, birds or squirrels. Mostly small things you can eat within one or two days. You do not want to drag along half a dead deer. In the warm months you might also forrage for all sorts of greens. You also can cook with many sorts of roots. Of course you can also always look into berries and other fruits you might find.

Things you might bring with you might be salt and some spices. A good thing to bring along would be herbs for tea, too, because I can tell you from experience that water you might have gotten from a river does not always taste very well - and springs with fresh water are often not accessible.

Now, other than what you can access the basic ideas of camping fires and cooking with them has not changed in the last few thousand years. While modern people camping usually have a car nearby and hence will have access to a lot of ingredients. But the general ideas of how to build a fire and put a pot over it... has not really changed.

So, yeah.

Just keep in mind that for the most part in historical settings until fairly recently, there was not much terms of proper kitchens. People cooked over an open fire and hence had to get at times ingenius about it.

#dungeons & dragons #baldurs gate 3 #lord of the rings #medieval europe #medieval #cooking #medieval cooking #food history #historical settings #history #european history #writing #fantasy #writing resources

[snippity]

bite the hand that feeds you

#ffxiv #ffxiv art #cyella #cylva #shadowkeeper #digital art #artists on tumblr #my new years resolution is to work on my original setting more #but i had the urge to draw medieval heraldry looking animals #that turned into more cyella fanart #id in alt text

[historyhellyeah]

What is Iridi?

Iridi is a land/continent that is seperated by a magical barrier from the rest of the planet.

Its inhabitants are beings we only know out of fairy tales or have not heard of at all... They are called 'Fey' and have two main characteristics all different races share: they are nonbinary until they declare otherwise and are immortal. They can be killed through violence and certain diseases though, so immotality only applies to their natural lifespan. The rest of the planet is inhabited by humans, who (for the most part) live in ignorance or indifference to their invisible neighbours. Keep in mind that the barrier does not allow humans nor Fey to cross into the others realm.

On certain months in the year the barrier weakens and humans as well as Fey can cross over. This is the reason, why humans in the land bordering the barrier fear and despise the Fey.

#worldbuilding #creative #introduction to Iridi #medieval setting #fantasy world

[blakedotpng]

Theyd be buds I think!

Bonus doodles :3

#they’re actually pretty similar #one thing I forgot to list is that theyre both set in futuristic medieval settings #TransFail solidarity #nimona #nimona movie #nimona fanart #nimona 2023 #jim hawkins #jim hawkins fanart #treasure planet #treasure planet movie

[iphigeniacomplex]

breaking my silence on chess the musical to say that i would literally not give a fuck about this show if i thought it was good or fully successful at what it is saying. SORRY! i love how messy she is. i love how since 1984 and continuing to this very day people with entirely different perceptions of and opinions on the musical have attempted in their own ways to "make it good" by creating all these different versions with like notably different plots, characterization, and song order, and i love how fucking bad the vast majority of these are despite it all. i hope people keep trying to fix chess the musical forever and until the end of time. i hope no one ever figures it out. i want every currently living theatre director in existence to make their own version and for all these versions to come out on broadway at the same time, making that year's musical season entirely comprised of various different versions of the cold war chess musical by tim rice and half of abba. i want not only our greatest minds but also our middlest-of-the-road and worst minds to come up with their own conclusions as to why chess does not entirely work in its original form or any subsequent forms like to really think about it and yes i do want someone to dedicate their entire life to perfecting chess by releasing version after version after version until they die peacefully but still, as always, in the grips of obsession. i want marriages to be broken up. i want mental states to be shattered. i dream of this world

#it speaks! #ive said this on another platform but i dont like using that platform none of my friends are there. so you all get the expanded version. #pearl's chess rant: deluxe edition. and im not even finished. #i want at least one intrepid director to do what ppl do with shakespeare and set it in a completely different era -> #<- & change the central political conflict but not enough so its still like. well now this is about medieval feudalism why is it also -> #<- still about a chess proxy war ... that just makes no sense. it just doesnt make sense ........ #'breaking my silence on chess the musical' sam knows i think about it still. but for the purposes of public appearance. you understand. #chessposting #chess the musical #<- real ones know i rarely maintag but i want all seven active chess fans to see this bc i need their insights

[lithi]

Welcome back little idiot

#Pokemon presents #Pokemon Z #Pokemon legends Z #a Pokemon game set in medieval France. this is gonna be so funny #zygarde #Pokemon legends ZA #???? #Pokemon legends Z-A #Pokémon legends Z-A #ZA…. AZ….

[katabay]

THE SHERIFF AND GUY OF GISBORNE

uh. try to stay with me for a second. so incest motifs are a huge part of medieval lit. you see it in arthuriana cycles, you see it in romances, it's a whole thing.

Incest and the Medieval Imagination, Elizabeth Archibald

so robin hood. both adaptions and the text itself, tend to get interesting with guy of gisborne. and I will say that while I found the media being discussed in this text absolutely fucking insufferable to watch, the discussion on it was delicious, impeccable, show stopping

Mouvance, Greenwood, and Gender in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Brian J Levy and Lesley Coote

and with regards to discussions on the origin text (which I love and adore forever)

Horseplay: Robin Hood, Guy of Gisborne, and the Neg(oti)ation of the Bestial, Stuart Kane

we're. getting to the point, I promise. guy of gisborne and the sheriff in my own "adaption" are not cousins, but brothers in law (fucked up brothers in law are my thing over on my other blog. brutus and cassius? I'm there. caligula and lepidus? all over that, baby!) because I'm aiming for an adjacent transgression.

on the topic of adjacent transgressions and guy's comment in this comic about cannibalism: there's an overlap in various genres of literature, predominantly in branches of horror and tragedy: between cannibalism and incest. (additionally! a lot of texts will take on christian subtexts and allusions, so there's a bonus homoerotic cannibalism discussion happening wrt communion that I'll get into in the future) it's about. chomping. the teeth, you know.

Managing Monsters, Marina Warner

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

there's a 100% chance I will revise the sheriff's design at some point, but I wanted to draw the flowers exploding out of the spine so bad

AND FINALLY, the neck focus on guy is half due to his fate in his origin tale (beheaded) and half my own invention: I girl-with-a-green-ribboned him. a little narrative necromancy, if you will.

#long post #outlaws in the woods tag #im sorry for how long this is and also bc its 2am but also i am not sorry. i love medieval literature and horror #the sheriff wants to crawl inside guy's ribcage and eat his lungs #he is. interestingly enough. horrified at what everyone else does to guy's body #its about possession. obsession. who else has the right to eat you etc #im going to go folk catholicism forced sainthood on guy and every second of it is going to be awful for him #i will do narrative necromancy but i will adhere to the rules of the setting and the setting is TERRIBLE #i love it! sorry guy of gisborne. #anyway you guys ever watch showtime's borgias. favorite show. so. so uh. you know that one scene. the---

[cadaverkeys]

didnt kno if i should upload these as well. my very basic side character reference sheets. brother godfrey/kit the exorcist/master frank the undertaker.

#GUY WHO DOESNT LIKE DRAWING MEN FORCED TO DRAW MEN #my own punishment for doing medieval settings #sorry brother godfrey is rockin da medieval hightops. divine swag. #kit has the one two buckle my shoeeeee #ocs #oc #they dont get specific character tags bc i cant emphasize how not important they will be for the overall narrative #theres no children in hamelin #seerdoesart #character design