In the grand scheme of things, you probably haven’t heard of the Mycenaeans. That’s okay, we all get that Ancient Greek democracy and theatre overshadows everything and all. The Mycenaeans were the people who lived in mainland Greece between approximately 1750 to […]
I feel the first thing I should mention is that the Middle Ages as a whole span a thousand years. It makes it confusing when someone mentions one thing and assumes it was true for the entire duration of the era. This […]
There’s no such thing as an original story. We’ve told them all so many times, we’ve developed archetypal arcs and structural beats. We know when a story isn’t right. And everyone and their mother has a modern retelling of some ancient myth […]
There’s a common misconception out there about what Old English actually is. Whenever I ask someone what they think about Shakespeare (because I’m a nerd), they always go off on a rant about how Old English is totally incomprehensible and why couldn’t […]
We all know of how Camelot fell from grace when Lancelot accepted the queen’s invitation to her bed. Can you ignore such a thing from a queen in the first place? But being the person I am, I stumbled upon Galehaut, a […]
Oh, sexuality labels. How we hate thee! Does it really matter who’s gay and who’s not in this day and age? I don’t label myself. What’s the point? Does anyone listen to them when I say anything? No. Do people make assumptions […]
When it comes to horror stories, there’s something inherently human about the primal need of reassurance that our lives aren’t as bad as someone else’s. Why else would we watch the sort of media where the heroes have absolute hell thrown at […]
Oh, horror tropes. When we think of horror, we have a preconceived idea of what we mean. Thunder and lightning over a spiky castle nestled in the mountains. A young woman running from something through an overgrown forest. That feeling you get […]
