nicknamed ‘the handsome’
died before the age of 40 but compensated by living a full and interesting life that did not consist of fruitless guerrilla warfare interrupted by long boring spells in the slammer
literally the sultan’s favorite boyfriend
you think i’m kidding but i’m not fucking kidding
so his dad who was ruler of wallachia (aka southern romania more or less) sent radu and vlad to the ottoman court as political hostages when they were kids and they grew up there along with the future mehmet the fucking conqueror
you know. the dude who conquered constantinople in 1453, brought an end to the eastern roman empire etc etc
that dude
turns out mehmet had a ridiculous crush on radu
so one day mehmet tried to get handsy and radu thought to himself, what should i do in my precarious position as political prisoner from a small-fry principality on the fringes of the empire when the heir to the ottoman throne is putting the moves on me?
I KNOW I’LL STAB HIM IN THE LEG
so he did. he did that
and then he went and climbed a tree and refused to come down until mehmet got patched up and probably limped over all c’mon baby don’t be like that
like i bet stabbing the sultan got you a one-on-one appointment with the royal executioner. except not for radu because he was that much of a badass
meanwhile vlad was probably planning to LISTEN WHO FUCKING CARES
anyway
so radu eventually of his own volition became mehmet the conqueror’s boyfriend and they went on many exciting adventures together
like the siege of constantinople
where was vlad at the time? being kicked out of his own country because his standard approach to politics was ‘devise new and exciting ways to torture and kill people slowly’. despite what certain history books will have you think he was super unpopular with… everyone basically.
radu was highly educated and spoke multiple languages and was all about turkish and persian literature. also possibly converted to islam though sources tend to contradict eachother on that
by the time radu was 22 mehmet gave him a command and started sending him places
like wallachia to overthrow his brother who was being politically inconvenient
SO MUCH GAME OF THRONES-GRADE BACKSTABBY DRAMA HAPPENED YOU HAVE NO IDEA
also radu married a serbian (or possibly albanian) princess named maria despina and had one daughter
died suddenly in his late 30s, which is code for ‘probably poisoned’
and in conclusion: a genuinely interesting historical figure you don’t hear enough about because his brother was a vampire or something
In these trying times, as we debate whether or not certain individuals need a punch, I think we should look less to Captain America, and more to Squirrel Girl. For Squirrel Girl actively advocates for, and regularly succeeds at, non-violent resolution…
…but also teaches us that, failing that, you kick the guy’s butt to the friggin’ moon.
Squirrel Girl sez: There is no situation that a judicious application of wholly deserved violence will not solve if the aggressor is not willing to compromise.
Eat nuts and kick butts, folks.
Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)
40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)
Excellent basic crochet video series
Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)
Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)
How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)
Another drawing character faces video
Literally my favorite art pose hack
Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??
Introduction to flying small aircrafts
French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding
Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)
Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)
Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)
Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:
Calculus 1 (full semester class)
Learn basic statistics (free textbook)
Introduction to college physics (free textbook)
Introduction to accounting (free textbook)
Learn a language:
Ancient Greek
Latin
Spanish
German
Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)
French
Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)
Hi! Could you, please, if you have some free time, write a short Bleach/Harry Potter crossover, with Urahara Kisuke and Harry Potter as the main characters? Thank you very much in advance. (Btw, you're very awesome!!! You write so well!)
Hi, thank you so much, I’m glad you like my writing!
Though, if you’ve been following my stuff, you’d probably also notice that I am, like, completely incapable of writing anything short hahaha. Especially for anything that remotely involves worldbuilding. I’ll see what I can do?
You should probably just start running if a treatise on how reiatsu and magic are comparable yet not is not your up of tea.
Is now a good time to mention I do have one of those cliched “Dumbledore tries to outsource Voldemort to people who might be more equipped to handle an immortal mortal” WIPs lying around.
They may look like an Impressionist masterpiece, but these rare nacreous clouds have been spotted ‘painting’ skies above the UK in a rainbow of colours. Photographers across the north of England and Scotland have captured the stunning ‘mother of pearl’ formations which sit in the lower stratosphere. (Source)
I did a very quick, sketchy comic because I was extremely inspired by this post. (Credit to @pinkdiamondprince for the original post.)
The entire analogy was just fantastic and so, so accurate, and I wanted to make a comic for it, even if it’s very sketchy because my attention span is nil.
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