Having been attacked by bandits, Rosamund the Fantasy Heroine is required to patch up her hot...er...travelling companion, who now has a first AND a last name, the excitement!
#shorts
#fantasyheroine
Music:
Floating Home - Brian Bolger
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiEzrQfZAfE
You're here? At the very first episode of Stuff You Like? Mercy. If you're braving an archive binge, do leave a comment and let me know, I will salute you. :D
Action Girls, Asteroid Thickets, Faster Than Light travel, and SPACE! A review of Ryk Spoor's novel by Sursum Ursa.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNfRnUwyUws
The ASA rules for ads and advertising content when you're a YouTuber are a bit murky sometimes, but I did my best. And no, I don't fancy an influencer box, though I'm sure it's a very kind offer.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGzIIkr89A4
A monologue for #Shakes450: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2, Scene 1. "These are the forgeries of jealousy..."
Full text:
TITANIA
These are the forgeries of jealousy.
And never, since the middle summer’s spring,
Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
By pavèd fountain, or by rushy brook,
70Or in the beachèd margent of the sea,
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.
Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,
As in revenge, have sucked up from the sea
75Contagious fogs, which falling in the land
Have every pelting river made so proud
That they have overborne their continents.
The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain,
The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn
80Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard.
The fold stands empty in the drownèd field,
And crows are fatted with the murrain flock.
The nine-men’s-morris is filled up with mud,
And the quaint mazes in the wanton green
85For lack of tread are undistinguishable.
The human mortals want their winter here.
No night is now with hymn or carol blessed.
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
90That rheumatic diseases do abound.
And thorough this distemperature we see
The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
95An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,
The childing autumn, angry winter change
Their wonted liveries, and the mazèd world,
By their increase, now knows not which is which.
100And this same progeny of evils comes
From our debate, from our dissension.
We are their parents and original.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLLxT4xwtU
Ursa's never really been aware of the Giant Robots Punching Giant Monsters genre up to now, but... Rinko Kikuchi, optimism, two Science Guys, Idris Elba, Guillermo del Toro's Visual Storytelling of Pretty, AND Charlie Hunnam's abs? Yeah, I think she's sold.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7UVk2p_-cw
Caroline and Rosamund have been a bit busy of late, but Caroline made some time to watch King Charles's Coronation and, well...it gave her IDEAS.
Music: Invitation to the Castle Ball - Doug Maxwell
#fantasyheroine #shorts #onecrisisatatime
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sm5HIQQ3q8
Would Enola Holmes’s whalebone corset really be able to stop a knife? Turns out, maths and history say: maybe!
Sources:
Mary Sarah Phillips stabbing case: https://www.mimimatthews.com/2015/09/30/saved-by-her-stays-the-19th-century-barnsley-murders/
Corsets stopping bullets: https://www.annmarieackermann.com/saved-by-her-corset/
Stab energy in Joules: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bullet-stab-resistant-vests-uk-police
Energy of 9mm bullet: http://wredlich.com/ny/2013/01/projectiles-muzzle-energy-stopping-power/
Critical energy baleen: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329037422_Lessons_from_the_Ocean_Whale_Baleen_Fracture_Resistance
Forces generated in stabbing attacks: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5748396/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ygDjfbNJFQ
Sometimes you just need to stop beating your head against the wall for a bit.
Sometimes you need something else.
If you know how to tell the difference, do let us know.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXOEtRzYpFY