To balance out all the stupid disclaimery crap that the Internet now necessitates, have a picture of a medieval gay assassin on fire.


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So I went and 'shopped more Indian wedding outfits onto these guys because it's the closest you'll get to decent photo references as to what they would've actually worn at medieval Persian courts ( Read more... )

-*Blink* I had no idea "black" and "white" come from the same etymological roots in English (or at least the offline iPhone app version of Wiktionary seems to think so).


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Forgive me if I've mentioned it before--I honestly can't remember--but I'm still torn about this idea of a spiritual Jaffar/Princess fic I want to write. One where she has a spiritual crisis about what she sees as Jaffar's polytheism, the way any religious medieval person would, and is seriously worried about whether her husband would be cast into ( Read more... )

Lookit what I made in Potatochop! Grouse, 35 years, all by myself!


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Ladies and gentlebeings, it is my honour to present to you some of Ja'far ibn Yahya al-Barmaki's parents' favourite dishes, collected from Annals of The Caliphs’ Kitchens. (Psst... you can download a PDF of the book hereThe first three are cold pullet (pullet=tiny chicken) dishes to be served as appetizers. I really hope I can try that first one ( Read more... )

Have been totally unable to write emails or to make phone calls today, so apologies if I owe you emails/replies. Just saying this because I'm feeling super-introverted today and just so groggy I need to gather my strength.

This is mostly happening through devouring medieval Islamic cookbooks. It's helping. I've already gone through this 13th ( Read more... )

In case you are coming here from Tumblr, here are my two previous posts on my current situation--basically, I got a flat that turned out to be unliveable in and now I am incredibly strapped for cash because the new flat that I've just found is even more expensive and the costs of moving and whatnot (especially when my move here swallowed up all my ( Read more... )

Defy Not the Stars features so many OCs I'm just going to drop a Dramatis Personae here so it'll be easier to keep track of who's who. (Look! A cast list! Like in a proper historical novel and stuff!) Some of the characters don't have more than a couple of lines, but like with movies and TV, I'm sticking to characters with speaking parts.

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