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Hey man, ahead of this heatwave I'm gonna go ahead and rip the veil off of something for you:

The reason American Southerners have the luxury of saying that 90 ain't that bad and it's not unbearable until it's 100 is 1) prolonged exposure to high temperatures over multiple decades 2) our mindset for these living conditions.

You don't have number 1, and you can't just acquire it, so I need you to adopt number 2 immediately. How do you live like a Southerner in the heat?

Don't be a hero.

Stay inside. Buy a box fan, put it next to a bucket of ice, and wrap your arms around it like a lover. Do not leave the shade under any circumstances. If a dude makes fun of you for getting out of the sun, don't get mad, just think of a funnier insult to call him while you flip him off and go stand under a tree.

Southerners love nothing more than to exaggerate and lie to each other. Like I think we got off on the wrong foot when you walked in on us saying things like "It was only 110, I didn't even take my damn jacket off" when really, last week it was 95 at 10 PM and we were on the bed buck nekkid in front of the fan moaning incoherently and praying to die. So yeah, we can take extreme heat. We also want you to think we can take ludicrous heat. You must learn to talk shit and then be a hypocrite and a coward in your actions, because this will serve you best.

It sounds like I am joking but I cannot express to you how much I am not. Do not fuck with Mother Nature, because that bitch will kill you. Take every opportunity to lower your body temperature and drink water, because that is what all of us in hot climates are doing all the time, and that is why we are not dead, even when it seems like we should be.

(And yeah, we do go through like two and a half ugly weeks in April every year where everyone wants to absolutely just goddamn drop dead because none of us have our heat tolerance back, but we must go to work anyway, which must be a crime. And yes, when it gets below 70 we really all do short circuit and cover ourselves in seven jackets, except for Shorts Guy.)

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PHAINON - For the Sun is Set to Die

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✍️ even more fic writer asks!

This one is a behind-the-scenes dive into a specific fic. Followers can send an ask with a number & the fic they’d like you to talk about ✨OR✨ you can decide what fic you’re focusing on and just ask for numbers. (Or reblog and answer everything like a Q&A)

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When you are used to the no-nonsense, no-context approach of medieval Irish stories, trying to read Old Norse saga literature does feel kind of like you're being told a medieval story by Uncle Colm from Derry Girls.

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though the world be sundered and our souls set adrift, where you walk, my dearest friend, fate shall surely follow.

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Making medieval underwear - linen edition

So you want to make some medieval clothes? I, along with many others, would recommend you to start with a set of underwear. If you haven't sewn a lot before, it's a good way of getting into it with some slightly cheaper fabric before you break out your lovely wool (assuming you want to use period appropriate fabrics, that is). It's also a nice way of getting used to the shapes and checking fit, as shirts and shifts will often be similar to the clothes that go over them.

In Europe, underwear in the middle ages would most often have been made out of linen or hemp. These fabrics are great for garments you will wear next to your skin because they get softer the more you use them and they can take a beating so you can wash them as needed. Unfortunately, they also do not last very well from an archaeological standpoint - in conditions where animal fibres are fantastically preserved, plant fibres will rot away. This means that cold and wet places (north west Europe for instance) will have very few linen garments preserved that we can look at to see how they were made. We do have some shirts preserved, but I don't believe we have a single pair of braies - something that has led to a lot of head scratching regarding their construction. We do have a lot of depictions of them though!

But you're here for the links, so let's go.

A bit of everything

An article on underwear in the Maciejowski Bible - here we have a few different patterns for braies, some nice tables of hose and tunic colours, some information on hose construction (not what I want to focus on in this post but it's there), pictures of braies, shirts and shifts, plus links to further reading.

Shirts and shifts

Handcrafted History's medieval linen shirt tutorial - Handcrafted History is a treasure of a blog with plenty of tutorials. I'll probably be linking to other specific posts in the future but I can really recommend just having a browse if you're into medieval stuff.

Maille is riveting's medieval under linen shirt - shirts are fairly straight forward but it can be nice to look at a few different takes. This is another general blog recommendation as well!

Handcrafted History's viking/medieval shift or underdress - it's basically a shirt but longer!

Braies

I saved a bunch of links mostly focused on long braies when I was trying to figure out their construction. You could just open one of these links and go for it but I like to have options and there are a few different solutions going on here.

Experimental underwear - using 6th-7th century linen trousers from Egypt and Syria as a basis.

Quick&Dirty Braies - I'm into the H construction of these because they could theoretically be made from just one big rectangle with zero waste, and we know that people wasted as little fabric as possible.

Buck's Retinue braies - this site features two types of braies. The classic baggy ones plus a pair of short braies that appear later in the period as clothes get tighter and shorter. I feel like the short braies could be made in a very packer friendly way if that's relevant to your needs.

Maille is riveting's medieval long braies - basically the same pattern as the link above, but with more pictures. I think I want to try this version at some point in the future. (I particularly like cutting out a little rectangle of fabric to make attaching ("pointing") your hose easier. I have small eyelets on mine and it's. Frustrating.)

Damberg's brokor - a Swedish site with good pictures of some different types of braies. Google translate usually does fairly well with Swedish to English.

Viking history's early medieval braies video - this pair is slightly more fitted than many of the others.

ArmStreet's how to wear medieval braies - I had to share this as the posture of the guy putting on the braies is so endearing to me. I even giffed it so I could put it in the group chat. The construction of these seems pretty cool! I wish they sold a pattern for them as well because I don't want to spend that much money on something I could just make.

BONUS: Handcrafted History's bathing dress - you could definitely use this type of dress as a general purpose shift as well. Or make yourself a nice bathing dress!

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i want to know more about the time phainon wandered aimlessly after the destruction of aedes elysiae. what all was he doing, did he take on odd jobs or did he just walk around amphoreus killing any black tide creatures he encountered without thinking?

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Phainon waiting room (i just started hsr)

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dawn ☀️

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phainon ult doodle.!

ik ts kinda ahh but bear with me guys 😭😭🙏

reblogs are appreciated here 💥 💥

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me, eating a pile of nuts, cheese, and apple: mmmm tasty

the medieval peasant in my head watching me eat: thou knowst what would MAKETH this meal? dried fruits.

me, getting out the raisins: god damn, etheldred, you are SO right

the medieval peasant in my head: yet thou art still not heeding mine words regarding the blasphemy

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that fatass

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phainon and flamereaver

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The fact that I’m in the historic preservation field and still everyone I know is celebrating the Nottoway plantation burning down because we have standards

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