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Wilbur Whateley.

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ive been sure of my curse since i was 11

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Dis my patrol car.

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Share the crave.

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I have discovered the truth about chainmail bikinis, and it is imperative those wearing such armor do not think about it too hard or they may inadvertently cross the line between Sexy Hero and Homicidal Pervert.

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Nope (Jordan Peele).

this is like something directly and vividly extracted from one of my nightmares. it’s just a water slide but i have a teensy weensy phobia of them

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Leaping lizards!

@a-captions-blog

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I think they'd have fun watching media together.

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that's a happy ending, kindness in action can do some good here and there.

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

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Happy Pride!

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Available in the US via Deaf Crocodile!

The Outcasts (1982) - IMDb

Bloody brilliant film!

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Always love, always reblog.

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Ha ha, I love these!

Gotta admit, any one of these would work on me.

Love me some burritos.

Source: could be worse comics

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Thank you!

hey, I really love in your GOT fics especially your sense of military strategy and idk... kingdom building for lack of a better word? and I was wondering if there's any particular sources or histories you read that helped you develop how a sense of that would work.

Aw, thank you!

A caveat here: I have spent literally decades reading history for both research and for fun, and I am terrible at remembering titles, so I wouldn't say these are particular sources. Also, I note that as a storyteller, I'm not especially interested in realism. I read history for illumination and inspiration, not to use as a model.

All that said, here are a handful of sources that I love and happen to remember as I type:

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (many versions out of copyright and available via project gutenberg).

Everything written by Barbara Tuchman who is probably my single favorite writer of history.

A Military History & Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars -- I think this will be tough to process if you don't first read several histories of the Napoleonic era to give you an understanding of the period and events, but it's a peerless book for learning how to translate historical descriptions of battles into a more grounded understanding of where and how the soldiers involved actually were and how they moved and interacted.

Nelson's Navy is also a great reference work for Age of Sail, as is the period source A Young Sea-Officer's Sheet Anchor, which is also out of copyright but worth getting in a printed version for the illustrations.

Podcasts/videos: Fall of Civilizations is fantastic, The History of English (as in, the history of the English language) & The History of Rome are also great. If you're willing to shell out for a membership to Great Courses for long enough, the 48-episode History of Egypt by Bob Brier is also wonderful.

I also highly recommend the heavily moderated AskHistorians subreddit which is a great rabbit hole in which to lose three days where you should have been writing. :P

I invite other people to chime in with useful sources that I can go read!

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