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I love that archaeology is so often just chance & luck. In AD 105, the Ninth Cohort of Batavians were called away from their long-held post in northern Britain, at the utmost NW limit of the Roman Empire. /1

@Caleb_Howells25 @RealTomEmanuel I mentioned popes but I was garbling that memory & actually thinking about Emperors -- Leo I specifically. Ashe does a good job showing that G. of Monmouth is talking about Leo I. The Sulpicius/Simplicius/Supplicius connection is one of Ashe's weaker threads.

@STORI3D_PAST @RealTomEmanuel /2 But in reality, Pope Supplicius isn’t mentioned in the context of Arthur’s European conquest. He is mentioned as the teacher of Walgan (Gawain), the nephew of Urien Rheged, a historical figure active from the mid to late sixth century. Thus, Supplicius cannot be Simplicius.

@ra66539092 @nonregemesse This passage is about the idea that before wealth and riches and kingdoms and shimmering clothes and bright swords and all that, people were simpler & happier.

@STORI3D_PAST @nonregemesse What did Alfred mean by this?

What's this? Oh nothing but King Alfred in AD895 writing, word-for-word, "Oh, how happy the First Age was of this Middle-Earth." #Saxon #Silmarillion

Sure. A dozen years on Twitter, no hit Tweets. Six months on BlueSky, one gets picked up. At least it's a good one, with no typos!

@eriq49 They didn't fit on any shelf so had to live in bins. The bins were always in the way, no matter where I put em. The spines really needed conditioning & that was a big and nerve-wracking job! And shipping costs are so high it took forever to sort out a reasonable shipping plan.

@STORI3D_PAST I had that in cardboard covers from my Grandma. Why was it a nightmare to own?

Welcome to 90lb (41kg) of bad idea. The 28-volume 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica I won at a live auction a year ago. Finally getting ready to list on eBay. Little chance I'll make my money back on it, but at least it was a nightmare to own!

The hardest part about having the heart of an archaeologist/historian/preserver -- nature is patient, relentless, and she always wins.

Who wants an extremely early 1822 set of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations," intact in original/contemporary binding? Hopefully a lot of people! The father of much of Western economic thought & a lightning rod of controversy still today. ebay.com/itm/2258617564…

@aarontpratt I got burned twice on Hudibras and am now an enemy of Butler.

@AbigailFalanga Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels

What movie has the best soundtrack? This one is certainly a contender!

@coffeecatharine Yeah the new series definitely have a different vibe. I really like Strange New Worlds though. But I kinda grew into ST on TNG and then DS9, so those are my comfort series.

@coffeecatharine Sadly no, she's brushed me off! I did give her like a top-8 or so she really should know if she's gonna wear the shirt. I give it about a 15% chance she's done any of it! Kids.

Daughter came home from the thrift store with a Van Halen shirt. I said, "Have you heard any Van Halen?" She said, "No." Let the lessons begin!

@coffeecatharine Over the past year I went back and watched or rewatched them all. Like, everything. I was a big ST nerd in the 90s then fell away from it all. So all the 21st C stuff was new to me. I'm rewatching "Enterprise" now. Prob my fave series.

@coffeecatharine I'm on such a Star Trek kick these days, it's driving my family nuts.

@nodoomforyou Likely FREE-end. There was an alternate spelling. freond, that was probably more like FRAY-und. Just a matter of loca dialects & accents.

@STORI3D_PAST Neat. Wonder how it was pronounced

Around AD900, in English the word friend was spelled... friend.

Coincidentally (?), when Tolkien wrote his Moria scene, the time between his writing & the writing of this Old English line was 1040 years. When the Fellowship is standing in front of Moria's west gate, it's probably the first time the word "friend" is spoken there in 1040 years.

@AbigailFalanga It's the scene on the Stairs of Cirith Ungol when Smeagol sees Frodo & Sam sleeping peacefully & he starts to remember what real love & friendship are. Then Sam wakes up and yells as Smeagol for looming over them.)

@AbigailFalanga When Tolkien went back a year or so later and re-read where he had made Sam snap at Smeagol right when Smeagol was closest to breaking free of the Ring, he wept. Tolkien had made his beloved Sam make a huge (if understandable) mistake, and it hurt him to think about it.

One of the hardest things for me as an author is allowing my characters to make mistakes and have flaws, especially if I wasn't planning on it. I don't like second-hand embarrassment! Why do my characters have to do dumb things?! 😫

@mrdavidrowe This would be a fun question on BlueSky this weekend. The group there are chatty & very thoughtful.

@mrdavidrowe We had a friend who thought they may need a ride to Boston to catch a flight (1 1/2 hr drive). They were so apologetic even at bringing it up, & I found myself asking a similar question. How far would I drive a friend in need? Boston seemed easy. What about NYC, or DC?

A friend needed to borrow $4. No big deal. I would gladly have lent him $20. Even $50. But what would be my limit? How valuable actually is that friendship? This question has haunted me for the last few months – measuring depth of friendship by how much I’d be willing to lend.