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Anybody's grandparents looking for a third? Trying to inherit a house.

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I WILL ALSO DO THIS FOR YOUR ORIGINAL WORKS. I WILL DO THIS FOR MONEY IF YOU FEEL BAD ABOUT IT. I AM DESPERATE FOR THE DATA

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that yippee moment when I have free will and i use it (data collection, medieval peasant yuri, and applying to jobs i want)

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yeah i would describe my transition as █t�. pretty much im trans U+FFFC OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER

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my little brother & i are having a scholarly debate about mornings

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anyone got any additions to my absolutely baller playlist

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aw fuck dude i just gave you kibble and goat's blood...you love kibble and goat's blood c'mon

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update: I think I'm going to redesign the map of Merlin (the show) to fit my own tastes (the map of Wales)

at the rate we're going with how late i have to stay up for work doing absolutely nothing, am gonna end up writin a fic about an oc who's a cheesemonger

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guys i fear i am about to have a laundry list of works cited for a theoretical fanfic i am unprepared to write (all my works last for three paragraphs and get dropped)(i really like character building and worldbuilding and really struggle with creating stories within them in the sort of way that is beyond what you would see from court documents and censuses)

at the rate we're going with how late i have to stay up for work doing absolutely nothing, am gonna end up writin a fic about an oc who's a cheesemonger

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hell yeah I do!!!

So, like, for starters, they probably both have about two siblings. Possibly more for Lucia (I'll mention this later down the line but I think she'll be slightly wealthier in peasant terms). Obviously Bridget has a brother (which, typically, if the father/husband dies then the women + and dower they had would become property of a brother or a son/son in law), but I think she'll be already an adult and at least currently something of a singlewoman. While typically this would be something of a burden for the brother and his wife (more mouths to feed was an issue and would have soured some of the relationship), I think that as she is a brewster by trade, the extra hands in the household are balancing out the mouths to feed (after all, she's managing to both make enough ale for their household's needs and sell it too—what's not to like?) though I've yet to determine exactly why she's still a singlewoman though it's been a few years since she entered adulthood.

I'm leaning that one of them will attempt to or at least consider becoming a laywoman (peasants do not become nuns. That is Rich Family Behavior.) and I think if I do a setting like Merlin it'll be really interesting with relation to religion should they actually see anything of the plot. I guess that's truthfully what will be some of the most delicious meat of the story: religion was both there as a belief but also as a way of marking the year, of keeping warm, of maintaining love and community. Which will also make it that much worse when they divert from the norms.

I also suspect, given the cheesemonger job, that Lucia will be on the higher end of peasants (though of course this isn't by much, it's more of a "we can afford to employ/house seasonal servants" then a "look at our extremely fancy house).

On the names: I prefer saint's names as their names as I think it indicates a lot about what their families wanted for them, and it gives them a specific day that they will care about. Currently their names are saints associated with their professions, but that's also subject to change. I'm also thinking about changing their bynames. Frankly I picked those based on the sort of byname given for a profession, but I think having some variation by throwing in nicknames or patronymic names or locative names would also be good. So a work in progress as well.

I've 100% got to study some maps and figure out which manor they'd be working under, and how the leasing went. Of course, they're also going to go to weekly court and have taxes and tithes to pay, so that needs to be figured out as well.

...There's some paragraphs you can chew on while I think about more lol enjoy

at the rate we're going with how late i have to stay up for work doing absolutely nothing, am gonna end up writin a fic about an oc who's a cheesemonger

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I need dick on a new level never before seen

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As you should be. The cheesemonger's name is Lucia Hakkeches, she's soon-to-be an adult, and her family is considering marriage for her, though they can afford to have her within the household for longer yet. The brewster's name is Bridget Tappestere (age TBD). Her father has passed and now she and her mother live in her brother's household.

at the rate we're going with how late i have to stay up for work doing absolutely nothing, am gonna end up writin a fic about an oc who's a cheesemonger

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oh I'm doing fine, it's just the horrors in this case are children that I'm paid to take care of, so, like, I have to stay up until they are genuinely asleep. so I get a lot of late night free time with 0 Internet connection

at the rate we're going with how late i have to stay up for work doing absolutely nothing, am gonna end up writin a fic about an oc who's a cheesemonger

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tumblr would you still love me if I wrote about a brewster or a cheesemonger with like, bear with me here, the setting being Merlin or some random ass medieval media like that.

at the rate we're going with how late i have to stay up for work doing absolutely nothing, am gonna end up writin a fic about an oc who's a cheesemonger