For all that I take the piss out of everyone-has-an-eagle in Europe- especially two-headed-chernobyl-eagles- guess what I only just discovered to be the royal crest of the house of Mercia? You know. My Mercia. The Kingdom from which my Midland-massive are descended from.

Oh, of course.


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N-NRGHHHHHHHH.

y-yes.

;3;

ARGH. AND NOW A RANT. SOB.

[Edit] Argh. Time to be pedantic, but "everyone knows that the UKs national flower is the rose, right?"

No. Wrong. England's national flower is the rose. And before anyone accuses me of being Anglo- centric, and picky, I'm not! D8
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Ack, so...
I've been wanting to write something Napoleon-y for a good while now. It's such a mad, interesting part of history that I thought it'd be fun to explore. Next thing I'd know, I'd written 17,000 words of rubbish. I've not done it any sort of justice, and it's probably more historically inaccurate than Inglorious Bastards, but it's too damn ( Read more... )