boldriley:leupagus:feels-like-fire:spooky-ooky-rattling-bones:unatheblade:My friend Leia Weathington
boldriley:leupagus:feels-like-fire:spooky-ooky-rattling-bones:unatheblade:My friend Leia Weathington, award-winning author of Bold Riley, tweeted an idea for an adventure story about “a Swedish Viking lady and an Islamic bean-counter lady tearing ass across the continents in the 12th Century”. Well I happened to know that Vikings frequently hired themselves out to the Byzantines in Constantinople, which would have put them in direct contact with the Islamic world, and yes Viking women were known to fight, and there is at least one historical account of women fighting with the Varangians (Vikings, Saxons, Danes and Rus in the employ of Byzantium). The Viking woman is wearing Varangian costume and the Muslim woman is wearing what may be totally inaccurate period costume, but decipherable reference of 12th Century Muslim women is really hard to find.The Viking womans costume is so accurate it pleases me to no end!I SPY A LEIA WEATHINGTON (ish). Awesome art! Love it!OH MY GOD THEY BOTH LOOK SO AWESOME AND GRUMPY. I just want like the story of them broing across the land, judging people and having amazing eating competitions where, like, Viking lady murders a deer and they’re in some kind of remote place and so Muslim lady is like WELP WE GOTS TO EAT IT ALL TONIGHT UNLESS YOU’RE TOO MUCH OF A PUSSY TO TAKE THE LEFT HALF and Viking Lady is like DID YOU JUST IMPUGNE MY HONOR AND MORE IMPORTANTLY QUESTION MY ABILITY TO TOTALLY PUT AWAY HALF A DEER, also can I have the brain you always make a face over that part and it’s delish and Muslim lady’s like, … fine but I get the gizzards.Look I’m just saying.GUYS. IM WRITING IT FOR YOU. BE PATIENT MY DOVES. -- source link
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