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true friendship is willfully making someone’s emotional devastation over fictional characters worse

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I never know who to tag @fingerprint-insurance @thesandmanin1389ismytypeofguy @writerkenna ignore if that's not your thing

Starting a tag game!

Take this uquiz: https://uquiz.com/quiz/JE844B/are-you-the-main-character-or-a-side-character

And do this picrew: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1414503

@rain-mcgay @pinaple @necromancers-incorporated @gloriousvermin @glbtrx @kimu-dem @dirtybandaids @nikoisme @dootznbootz @apparentlyautistick @fraudfrogz and anyone else! No pressure yall!

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Whatever you say beautiful love💖

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playlist!!!

i think i accidentally let an introject give us the nigel colbie haircut but a little longer and i dont know how to feel about it so have this playlist

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa5fpOUr793IV4plpGAxMO79-9iPcOGcV&si=4zLVLtsD6lDhmbV2

(the youtube is the same playlist as on spotify, and the first four songs on both are directly inspired by @gali-in-distress whos post essentially sparked this tangent when i promised myself i would be writing but this helped cause ill be able to think more!)

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there really are few emotions i find more compelling in a story than "you should be afraid of me. please don't be afraid of me"

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Sometimes it's useful to look at your dialogue and ask yourself, "would a real human being talk like that?" But it's also good to ask the follow-up questions of "would the way a real human being talks sound good here" and "does this character actually talk like a real human being or are they weird about it."

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look, not that it matters but

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look, not that it matters but

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two mimir

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Well it's not a WIP Wednesday, but can I interest anyone in a Silver Fox Alex? 👀👀

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random extra

like minds shitpost (26/26)

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like minds shitpost (25/26)

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ELECTRA HE♡RT

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Self reblog because I just found out today's the 12 anniversary of "Electra Heart"

Alex and Nigel as songs: Marina edition

Are You Satisfied?; The Family Jewels; Teen Idle; Immortal - by Marina.

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I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS??

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Alex and Nigel as songs: Marina edition

Are You Satisfied?; The Family Jewels; Teen Idle; Immortal - by Marina.

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The Battle of Forbie

As you may have noticed, I am not a proponent of any portmanteau names for Alex and Nigel. Call me weird, but none of them please me, so I will continue to abstain from using them.

HOWEVER

In a spirit of generosity, I have come here today to feed the Forbie enjoyers. I give you:

The actual Battle of Forbie

The Battle of Forbie, also known as the Battle of La Forbie or the Battle of Hiribya, was fought October 17, 1244 – October 18, 1244 between the allied armies (drawn from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the crusading orders, the breakaway Ayyubids of Damascus, Homs, and Kerak) and the Egyptian army of the Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub, reinforced with Khwarezmian mercenaries. The resulting Ayyubid victory led to the call for the Seventh Crusade and marked the collapse of Christian power in the Holy Land.

The capture of Jerusalem by the Khwarezmians in August had caused great alarm among both the Christian and the Muslim states. Al-Mansur, the Emir of Homs and an-Nasir Dawud, ruling Kerak, joined the Templars, the Hospitallers, the Teutonic Knights, the Order of Saint Lazarus, and the remaining forces of the Kingdom of Jerusalem to take the field against the Egyptian Sultanate.

The two armies met near Forbie, a small village northeast of Gaza. Over 5,000 Crusaders died. 800 prisoners were taken. Of the troops of the knightly orders, only 36 of 348 Templars, 26 of 351 Hospitallers, and 3 of 400 Teutonic Knights survived.

Hiribya (Forbie) - not appearing on this map. I highlighted Ascalon, as Forbie was nearby.

I have also taken the opportunity to highlight Sidon and Maraclea for those who aren't already familiar with the locations. It's worth reiterating that despite the way the movie uses Maraclea as a personal name to refer to the person involved, the story itself is about a lady OF Maraclea and a Templar knight or lord of Sidon.

Ever since @currentlyonstandbi speculated about it, I have solidly embraced the head canon that perhaps the original story was actually about two men, past lives of Alex and Nigel, but the story was later changed to a man and a woman due to homophobic pressure. After all, the skull symbolism of this story is reportedly part of the accusations made against the Templars for "head worship"-- the veneration of skulls as idols in violation of the precepts of the Church. The other major charges laid against the Templars? Homosexuality and sodomy.

Was any of this intended by Greg? Of course not. That man blindly stumbled through this script running on fumes from half-remembered random articles and vague conceptions gleaned from the shallow pop culture portrayals of occult societies that were plentiful at the time. But it fits together well in a way that feels satisfying and with reasonable internal consistency.

Imagine two Templar knights who fall in forbidden love while fighting in the Holy Land. The tragic death of his lover drives the other mad with grief and leads him into dark acts of desperation. Their story gives rise to a potent myth that Nigel reads 700 years later. The myth calls to them with familiarity, directs their fate, and leads them to the same tragic outcome.

(Excuse me while I sob on the floor for the next 5 hours.)

A Few Key Dates for Context:

1209 - Massacre of the Cathars at Beziers (Kill them all; God will recognize his own.)

1244 - Battle of Forbie

1307 - Downfall of the Templars, under accusations of heresy and homosexuality/sodomy.

1300s - Playing cards arrive in Europe. There is speculation that the cards were adopted from the Egyptian Mamluks by the Crusaders in the Holy Land who then brought them home to Europe.

That concludes today's unhinged lesson in the power of random Google searches and paying close attention to the history of certain tags on Tumblr. I'm still not gonna use #forbie, but I can at least enjoy the strange coincidence here.

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