"two men sitting alone drinking wine, bit suspect innit?"

like, i have no proof that jones is homophobic, but he sure as shit has unaddressed biases pertaining to men having sex with each other in the medieval period. i also would not be surprised is jones was homophobic. his work has that energy.

and richard i fucked dudes, come on. not saying he did so exclusively or even fell in love with guys, but he had sexual contact with men.

like, i've never really thought there was anything between richard ii and oxford except some inter-war all boys public school type dynamics, but i might start insisting they fucked to spite people like jones.

i am talking about dan jones. except he's not a historian, he's an author, but you know. but he does is twice (arguably three times, but it's hard to do with my boy edward) in his plantagenet book.

which is funny cos the notebook itself is a "shakespeare insults" one i got when i went to the rsc production of edward ii earlier this year, and now it's full of quotes about and from my main man hugh.

he is the point where my autism and my gender converge and, honestly, i am never happier then when i'm doing anything related to him.

or maybe i'm just immediately bitter cos jones is going with the 'worst king ever' narrative with edward ii.

as someone who approaches all history from a post-modernist, post-foucauldian, and largely marxist position, but actually only cares about queer history, pop medieval history is so lacking in actual interest and challenge it's staggering that anyone bothers.

angus wilson wrote a whole ass comedic novel about it nearly seventy years ago and nothing has changed.

honestly, all history outside academia is captured by this stupid right-wing traditionalist nonsense that makes it fucking *boring* to everyone except war mongering gammons, but medieval history is the most caught up in it.

do people just not know how to hold a pen properly or something.

i don't go out of my way to use fast drying ink either, and my favourite pens are gel pens in 0.7 or fine nib fountain pens. i prefer writing with really wet, free flowing ink, so how anyone is smearing oil based ink idefk.

i also went to caerphilly castle again today, for the 5th time this year, so my fixation is in no way diminishing.