Here is a thing

[lost_spook]

I am very tired from the hospital visit (plus parents) yesterday, as it was in the afternoon. Afternoons are resting time, not doing excessively tiring things time. So I will catch up sometime soon when I am able. In the meantime, I am getting by through rewatching The Shadow of the Tower again. This inevitably led to me having a go a giffing

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[swordznsorcery]

What fabulously anachronistic underpants! :D

Exotic menageries were very much a thing across mediaeval Europe, and monkeys were particularly popular, probably because they're clearly adorable, and little ones can be fairly easily trained. Mediaeval writings speak of "apes" fairly frequently, entertained by their similarities to humans. Mediaeval art depicts them a lot too (although mediaeval art being what it is, they look more like hairy children with tails). A monkey in the court of Henry VII certainly isn't beyond the bounds of possibility. Whether he actually had one is a different question! (But then I doubt that he was a very tall, russet-haired American, either, so... ;) ).

If I could send you more energy, I would. Best wishes.

[lost_spook]

Well, it's just as well he was wearing some! ;-)

And, yes, it's not that any monkey would be anachronistic, anything but - it's just that according to my flist, that is a South American monkey in England in 1487! (Liadt wrote me a little crack fic to explain that it was given to Henry by his time travelling Tudor spies, which is probably as sensible as anything else in SotT.

<3

[swordznsorcery]

It's a South American monkey? Oh dear, I have monkey fail. Ah well.

Well... monkeys most likely reached the Americas by rafting across the ocean (on fallen trees or whatever), so maybe this one did the same thing! Time-travelling Tudor spies is better though. :)

[lost_spook]

I wouldn't have known either, but one of my flisters pointed it out last time I posted a monkey gif someone else had made. :-)

And, lol, yes, maybe it was just a very determined monkey? It had heard tell of a faraway land where a really cute monkey could make a fortune performing for kings and queens and it was going to get there somehow!

Other Monkeys: Stay home, stop this madness!

Cute Determined Monkey: I HAVE A DREAM. *builds raft*

[swordznsorcery]

Yours is an awesome monkey, and soon it will conquer the world! Beware, or it will have Disney chasing it, wanting the movie rights.

[lost_spook]

:-D

If Disney want to pay me for the movie rights, I am more than happy to sell them, where can I tell them this?

[swordznsorcery]

Hmm. Maybe Twitter?