u/TheEggnoggamer

Good morning everyone, I hope I find you in good spirits. I have always been fascinated by mystery and Dr.Holmes and Dr.Wattson but have only now had time and surpassed enough of my dyslexia to actually read the work. So I have little prior knowledge other than the basic knowledge and some of the monster crossovers like Sherlock Holmes and the house of Dracula. Anyway:

I am reading chapter 3 of A study in Scarlett and am at the scene in which Holmes and Watson have entered the crime scene at the abandoned house and Holmes asks: "you sure that there is no wound?" Pointing at the splashes of which lay all around.

My theory: so, I have no deductive skills. This is just a fun idea as to what may have transpired: the man is well dressed and is middle aged. His immaculate collar and cuffs are remarked but he is described as...well..unattractive to put it politely. He has cards (so far undescribed so I will assume playing cards) and despite having no wounds there is what seem sto be copious amounts of blood amongst the scene.

He is well dressed and middle aged, with immaculate cuffs and a frock coat and tophat, so he is someone of importance or at least high status. Given the group often associated with top hats, let's assume he is a businessman of some sort. He is unattractive and even described as having an ape-ish face so it is unlikely this was a crime of passion. The playing cards in his coat suggest he may be a gambler of some sort. So most likely he crossed the wrong person by possibly cheating at a game because why else would someone go as far as to elaborately murder someone when they could have just shot them on the spot? This was personal.

So, this business man has a possibly secret lust for gambling and gambled against the wrong person. Earlier in the book when Watson met Holmes, Holmes expressed joy over breakthrough of his in forensic science.

What do I think happened? This man's killer was so distraught over this game in which he was likely cheated out of a lot of money that was denied to him: that he decided to murder him not with barbarism like a hatchet or gun, but through the stealth of injecting him with an unknown substance that caused him to convulse violently and bleed profusely before succumbing to the release of death.

Due to it being a syringe, there appears to be no wound on the body as the puncture is too small for the investigators to see. I think Holmes will use the test he created upon their first meeting to reveal what was injected into the victim

Don't spoil it for me please but due let me know if I'm on the right track or not!

Movies like Manic (2001), To the bone, Precious and Let Me In (vampire movie)

I have a notebook I store my Norse myth, history and futhark notes in and I added a little doodle of my own rune stone. I'm still learning so forgive me if the grammar or spelling is not correct!

It is supposed to say:

Trolls dwell here. I call you to dwell here and speak.

The gods here. The Jötunn. Us. Ride together and be wise.

Trøll buá ðangat hér, ek kalla Yðr I buá hér I mæla. Þá Aessir ðangat. Jötunn. Okkar, riða saman í vira vitr.

This is a good learning moment. Let me know if there are any corrections I need to make!

ABC Family & Cartoon Network all the way to the mid-late 2010s always put out the BEST Halloween and Christmas specials and movies🎬

I decided to buy Rise+Sunbreak and make a bit of a spectacle out of it! I organized my desk and made apple tea with cinnamon sugar. I have 3 Ultimate, Generations ultimate and Iceborne (and use to have Tri 😔). So I figured why not give Rise a try too! So far I'm liking the aesthetic I'm seeing. It's Monster Hunter but just a little cuter and leans more heavily into Japanese culture & Shintoism and Kami. It's also a little more colourful! This is gonna be relaxing

Thanks Squirrel Tatctics for introducing me to Cabot cheese. It really is damn good cheese. *mh...boy that cheese*

Sacred rites, Norse spirituality, nature, isolation. I've already seen the Ritual, Midsommar, The Northman and Hagazusa.

*Can you guys stop spamming -the ritual-? You're not being funny. No one is laughing. You're just being highly obnoxious and stealing a comment section from people who have something meaningful to post. Seriously. Grow up. I've blocked over 30 people now and I'm about to just delete the post. You aren't the funniest person ever. You're just cringe and showing how much of a loser you are that your idea of peak comedy is just trying to be as obnoxious as possible like a YouTube over reacting loudly to the slightest sound in a horror game.

So I bought a hauberk a few weeks ago but I didn't realize I had become an extra large. So the hauberk wouldn't fit me. I tried. It was an awful struggle. Then earlier today, I remembered my gambeson has lacing holes on it and I have a tool box. So I used my pliers to open the rings and remove the sleeves. Then I used some old twine I had laying around and laced one of the sleeves to my gambeson. There was enough space in the rivets to also lace on my pauldron! Since it worked so well, I'll be doing the right arm on Monday! This also makes my set easier and faster to get on since I have fixed my pauldrons and soon both maile sleeves to my gambeson!

During the medieval period (mainland Europe) did knights, men at arms, bowmen and other military personnel decorate their gambesons? I do not exclusively mean heraldry. Did people wear some kind of patch or maybe paint something on their gambeson? Or was decor exclusively for flags and tunics and shield crests?

I have my gambeson here and finally got some new pauldrons to attach to it via arming tassets. But I'm curious if soldiers have been recorded decorating their gambeson. I mainly ask about gambesons because well, you can't put a patch on steel plate haha and I dont think painting the plate would go well either.

I now have a bit more availability (and affordability) to venture to my local bookstore. Yesterday, my friend and I decided to head over and get some books we had been looking at last week but decided to come back for another time. I'm excited to dive into this.

I bought some pretty thick books. The legend of Zelda: history of Hyrule. This book goes in depth about the lore within the Legend of Zelda series as well as concept art and developer notes. I'm new to the LOZ series and this book looks like it'll be fantastic!

Next I picked up a compilation of Norse myths and legends. As someone who is a practicing Norse Pagan, this book is definitely one that I needed to get my claws on. Stories are a major part of our belief system. The cover is sick as well! I have a smaller, shorter book of Norse myths but in hindsight I see it as a bit of a children's book. Plus it was written by...neil gaiman..yikes.

Lastly I snagged a book that contains various stories of Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson. everyone knows this dynamic duo but I only just developed a taste for investigative mystery and deduction.

If you'll excuse me, I'm going to make some hot tea with honey and crack open these books throughout the day : )

What would you rate my haul? What did you get this week?

So, when it comes to wearing medieval armor during a zombie apocalypse (of any variety) I see A LOT of people grapple to many misconceptions and just straight up false information about armor all in an effort to claim that it would be a bad idea. I am here to dispell these misconceptions. Here is my armor (new pieces on the way). I also attend renfaires, am an aspiring Buhurt fighter and I have been studying the medieval period for a long time.

"Knight armor weighs hundreds of pounds"-

No, it doesn't. If it did, no human would be able to wear it. Also, during the medieval period, regardless of what land you fought for as a knight, cavalry or infantry or archer: people were not all wearing the same identical armor. People wore what they could afford. So armor weight varied from person to person depending on what you could afford, what you chose to wear, what material the pieces were made from etc. Some people wore full plate armor, some wore padded gear with maille over it. In my experience, I'd say maille weighed more than the average breastplate or cuirass. There were all kinds of armor. Steel plate, maille, gambesons, brigandine and more. There are also smaller pieces that most people outside of the history nerd community don't know about such as couters and standards. All of these pieces are pretty light, even together, they still on average when worn together will come up to about 70-90 pounds at most. When distributed throughout your body, the kit doesn't weigh much.

"You're a tin can waiting to be opened"

Humans have a decent bite force, zombies are probably stronger. But either way, a Z is NOT biting through a a thick helmet, maille coif, hauberk (maile shirt), gambeson, tunic, steel plated leg armor with both maile and padded chauses under them. Also, a direct punch from a fist covered with a maile mitten enough times can put anyone down.

"What about heat?"

Yes it is true that historically, soldiers in armor fighting in the summer, did overheat. However, we have many modern methods of temperature regulation that can be applied.

"You can't run in it"

Actually...yes I can and so can you. Like I said, armor does not weigh as much as you think it does and as long as it is put on correctly: it does not get in the way of your mobility.

If you have more questions, please ask rather than just assume or base your perceptions on fictional work : )