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themyskira:

A while ago, for fun, I started doing some reading on some of the stranger naming choices made by the Puritans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. (Yes, for fun. I am a dork.) Here are a few of my favourites:

A Sussex jury roll from the 1600s includes the names Accepted Trevor, Redeemed Compton, Kill-Sin Pimple, Fly-Fornication Richardson, Search-The-Scriptures Moreton, The-Peace-Of-God Knight, Stand-Fast-On-High Stringer, The-Gift-of-God Stringer, and Fight-The-Good-Fight-Of-Faith White, Obediencia Cruttenden, Called Lower, Hope-For Bending, More-Fruit Flower and Meek Brewer. Some other wonderful Sussex names around this time include Safely-on-High Snat, Mortifie Hicks and the marvellously-named Humiliation Scratcher. And let’s not forget Be-Stedfast Elyarde, Faint-not Dighurst, Hew-Agag-in-pieces Robinson, Swear-not-at-all Ireton and Obadiah-bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-their-nobles-in-irons Needham.

Here’s another good naming method: There was a tradition among some Puritan villagers of opening the Bible and selecting the first name their eyes landed upon, which led to some interesting christenings. One poor child was landed with the name Ramoth-Gilead as a result of this method, reportedly leading a rather bemused parson to ask, “Boy or girl, eh?” There’s some evidence that certain parents, whose reading was perhaps not the best, would simply open the Bible and choose a word at random – hence the existence in Connecticut of Maybe Barnes and a girl by the rather unfortunate name of Notwithstanding Griswold. One child in England was christened Sirs, the parents insisting that it was a Scripture name and citing as proof the passage “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Another Puritan named his dog Moreover after the Gospel passage “Moreover the dog came and licked his sores.”

Yet another story tells of a priest who was befuddled when a woman informed him that her child was to be name “Axe-her”. “What name?” he spluttered. “Axe-her,” repeated another woman. After much discussion he discovered that the women were referred to Achsah, the daughter of Caleb. This may also explain the existence of an Axar Starrs in Stockport – the daughter, appropriately, of one Caleb Starrs. The name Axar remained popular in Devonshire for some time.

A little boy called John wound up with an unfortunate bonus name due to his godparent’s strong accent and a misunderstanding at the baptismal font. “What name?” the priest asked, to which the godparent replied, “John honly.” The priest dutifully went on to declare, “John Honly, I baptise thee…”

Thomas and Elizabeth Pegden, residents of Kent during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, named their first four sons after the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. When Elizabeth gave birth to a fifth son in 1795, they decided to continue this theme by naming him after the next book of the New Testament, and thus he was christened Acts-of-the-Apostles Pegden. According to one source, his nickname was Actsy, “for the Vicar of Boughton has heard a parishioner speak of her uncle Actsy Pegden.” An older relative bore the name Pontius Pilate Pegden.

In the late 1800s, a Thurstonville man named his four sons Love-well, Do-well,Die-well and Fare-well Sykes. Around the same time, another boy, being the younger sibling of sisters Faith and Hope, was given the name And Charity.

Another fellow, rather bemusingly, named his son Judas-not-Iscariot.

Zachary Crofton, died 1672, clearly scoured the Scriptures in order to find names for his children. His five sons were called Zachary, Zareton, Zephaniah,Zelophehad and – presumably after all alliterative possibilities had been exhausted – John.

The Presbyterian clergy were fond of foisting on illegitimate children names reflective of the sins of their parents – names like Helpless, Repent, Repentance,Forsaken, Fly-fornication.

Among many other excellent Puritan names, there was also:

  • Abstinence
  • Abuse-not
  • Continent
  • Creature (a unisex name, apparently!)
  • Do-good
  • Experience
  • Fear-not
  • God-helpe
  • Hate-evil
  • Increased
  • Job-rakt-out-of-the-asshes
  • Joye-in-sorrow
  • Lament
  • Learn-wysdome
  • Magnify
  • More-fruit
  • More-triale
  • Muche-merceye
  • No-merit
  • Obey
  • Original
  • Preserved
  • Refrayne
  • Renewed
  • Safe-on-Highe
  • Silence
  • Sin-deny
  • Sorry-for-sin
  • Thanks
  • The-Lord-is-near
  • Unfeigned
  • What-God-will

All of these are trumped, however, by a Puritan girl who, when asked for her Christian name, replied, “Through-Much-Tribulation-We-Enter-The-Kingdom-Of-Heaven, but for short they call me Tribby.”

Awesome Puritan names

“no-merit” oh my god why

This is great and I’d just like to add that a member of Oliver Cromwell’s government was named Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damnéd Barbon.

Well good luck finding any of those on a Coke bottle. 

I named a character a traditional name, for her era.
Constant Sex

radioactivesupersonic:

Not friendly at all reminder that “you have to learn that not every person can be saved” is a garbage moral.

You, personally, are not obligated to save everyone you meet. But “some people just inherently cannot be saved, by you, themselves, or anyone” is garbage.

Can we please stop acting like pure evil irredeemable villains are novel or interesting. They’re not. They’re literally the norm, and they’re frequently absurd grotesque caricatures, often of mentally ill people and often of people who have experienced trauma.

I feel like I cannot make a post of any kind of even vaguely sympathetic read on any antagonistic character without at least one person jumping on the post like “but Clockie, can’t we just have someone with no morals, qualms, or sad backstory that we can just hate and watch the heroes demean and attack without any remorse?”

I really absolutely promise it is possible to feel bad for someone and want them to do better without justifying all of their behavior. It is actually completely possible to hold “you sure did kill that guy” and “you sure are coming from an awful place that hurt you a lot” at the same time without one devaluing the other. 

medievalpoc:

The British Library’s Medieval Manuscripts Blog has done an entry here featuring one of my faves, Egerton MS 1500. 

It’s full of genealogies that include Cleopatra, Ptolemy, Saladin and other rulers, all painstakingly illuminated in this 14th-century chronicle from southern France.

I’ve posted about it before, but one of the most common questions I get is, “what race was Cleopatra, REALLY?” which is funny because we can literally never know. BUT.

We have this very intense cultural assumption that not only was everyone we know of “from history” a white person, but that all intervening imaginations and permutations, especially Medieval European ones, MUST have been what we would consider a white person. And that is just very much not the case. at all.

This manuscript isn’t making a case for what any of these people would have actually looked like. What it does do is make a very strong case for what a French illuminator in the 1300s thought they WOULD HAVE looked like…and that is very, very interesting.

It’s fair to say that Cleopatra is always depicted as beautiful, and here’s she’s shown with dark skin contrasted with very white teeth, as are many of the other dark-skinned royalty shown here. Between depictions like these and works of literature being created at around the same time (Sir Morien’s description for example), I’m starting to think that the contrast of dark skin and white teeth was also a kind of standard of beauty, not unlike pale skin being shown with almost violently red cheeks and lips. It’s fascinating to think about.

Source: medievalpoc

a very short star wars meta

darkfrog24:

uncle-whisky:

jumpingjacktrash:

in the first movie, when leia got rescued, she was expecting some kind of actual military operatives with things like a plan and an exit strategy and a working vehicle. this is why she was so salty about instead being rescued by basically the duke brothers and an angry carpet in a past-warranty space winnebago.

like when the bad guys capture a diplomat you’re supposed to send mission impossible, not cheech & chong

Leia wanted a full D&D party, and what she got was a Rogue with no Bluff, a wizard who left his spell sheet at home, and a barbarian who made charisma his highest score.

If I was expecting Halo 4 and got Spaceballs instead I guess I’d be pissed too.

How I accidentally got in print

Once upon a time, back when i was a minifridge, i used to email back and forth about fannish stuff with this one friend. Now, i was, (and still am) VERY careful about who knows about what i’m interested in because well. i hate explaining myself to people that don’t care? *Shrugs* it’s not particularly rational : I just. really don’t like people knowing about my “fandom side”

So anyway, Email Friend is a HUGE Narnia enthusiast, and my Lord of the Rings obsession was still in its heyday and i wanted to share it with my friend. So one thing led to another and i made The List.

 I called it “The Narnian’s Guide to Middle Earth”. This thing was like 20+ items long and 100% HORRIBLE.

It was a joking comparison between the two stories and worlds that involved a LOT of pointless obscure trivia and artistic license interpretations to make each comparison work. This thing was like Supreme Dork, and even i knew some of the comparisons were a bit of a stretch. I didn’t even TRY to make it quality.

It was never intended to be anything but an incredibly elaborate inside joke, so when Email friend asked if she could show it to another friend of ours who might think it was funny, i said “sure! why not!” assuming that she was showing it to this other friend privately as well. i proceeded to forget all about the whole thing as we moved on to other jokes and conversations

………..

a couple weeks went by before the disaster hit. People started coming up to me from all over school telling me how funny they thought my “Narnia thing” in the school paper was. I was dying. it was like my pathetic obsessive soul had been laid bare to the WORLD. Every person that mentioned it felt like a cheese grater to the face.

You see, the friend that Email Friend asked to show it to was the editor of the school newsletter. I knew this. What i didn’t know was that Email-friend taken the “ok to show it to” as an “ok to submit for publishing” and Editor Friend inexplicably decided that my stupid list was exactly the sort of thing to publish in the school-wide newsletter. With my name on it.

You have to understand, my school is tiny. There’s only a couple hundred students even though it covers grades k-12. my graduating class had 12 people in it.  people actually know who you are. EVERYONE KNEW. all my classmates, the headmaster, EVERYBODY knew who i was and that i wrote this horrible, tacky, appallingly dorky thing. weird phrasing and obscure nerdery and ALL.

I’m preeety sure everyone involved has forgotten about it by this point but i still think about it and wince sometimes :

….i just looked through my old emails and i STILL have the stupid thing. no i am NOT going to post it. its had quite enough publicity for one lifetime