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c. ó cathail
@ocathail.bsky.social
armchair medievalist, diva coder, fig newton enjoyer
hello bluesky, longtime lurker here. Just wanted to share a little project I made for fun (I'm not a historian) that lets you (roughly) calculate your weregild!

The config is kinda janky so it might say it's not secure but if I swear not to steal your data 🙂 www.weregildcalculator.com
Weregild Calculator
Calculate your worth in early medieval England! Discover what your life would be valued at in Anglo-Saxon times with this interactive weregild calculator.
www.weregildcalculator.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
December 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
lately ive been really into a recipe I call buttercracker, where you put a little butter on a cracker and eat it
December 4, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Is raccoon rabies back on Cape Cod? Are porcupines back on Cape Cod??? I talked to the guy who is trying to solve these mysteries. Check it out: www.capeandislands.org/local-news/2...
Rabid raccoon found dead in Eastham, raising questions
The state Department of Public Health has confirmed that a raccoon embedded with porcupine quills found dead in Eastham on Sunday was rabid.
www.capeandislands.org
November 26, 2024 at 2:20 PM
to solve the literacy crisis we have to do something about those non-book books that are just name swapped fanfic and titled like "a (verb) of (noun) and (noun)"
November 21, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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I'm just gonna say it: if you think ANYTHING has "no place" in fantasy, you don't have the imagination to write good fantasy and you should work on that.

And I'm dead serious. If you can think in the scope of what's fantastical and grandiose about a fantasy setting, but you tell me you can't make 👇
September 21, 2024 at 3:39 PM