The cheeseman

The Happenings continue, I see…

This is what my girlfriend got me for my birthday.

You guys what if I started another Crusader Kings campaign?? (I have four already)

I think I've mastered the slightly disheveled hair look.

Dang my third Shardiversary passed almost a month ago. Hard to believe I've been here for over three years.

Also I finished the first season of Frieren.

That was…

One of the best shows I have ever watched.

NOW I HAVE TO WAIT A WEEK FOR EACH NEW EPISODE TO COME OUT DAMMIT!

I LOVE CRUSADER KINGS II THIS GAME IS SO GOOD

The band ROME has so many great songs. Been listening to them a lot recently. Their two newest albums are great, so are A Passage to Rhodesia and Le Ceneri di Heliodoro.

Last two weeks of class let's go.

Locking in chat.

Grandpa just dropped a nuclear lore bomb that we are descended from John Adams, Davy Crockett, and Daniel Boone.

Stunned for 1d4+1 rounds.

Short Change Hero by The Heavy is a banger.

The Wheel of Time turns...

YOU GUYS SHOULD WATCH FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY'S END IT IS SO GOOD. I'VE ONLY SEEN THE FIRST TWO EPISODES BUT I LOVE IT

I watched Return of the King in theaters on Sunday (extended edition, of course), and now I want to read the books again.

I do have a fancy illustrated copy I have yet to crack open...

Tennessee Ernie Ford's version of Army of the Free is such an absolute banger

Changed my pfp to this

Considering a pfp change

Woke up with a bloody nose. Stupendous

I think, often, of times long past.

Of ages far away from the here and now. Of days from whence came legend, and myth, and story.

Charlemagne, Robin Hood, Le Morte d'Arthur.

A time of kings and queens, lords and ladies, knights and generals, of tales of heroism and tragedy.

William of Normandy, who forged a kingdom and a four-hundred year dynasty with naught much more than the strength of his own will.

Elanor of Aquitaine, a wife to two kings and a mother to two more, who spoke with as much force as her husbands and her sons.

Bohemond of Antioch, who, when faced with overwhelming odds in the First Crusade, even yet hurled himself into the fray as a raging lion and pulled that holy mission from the very knife-edge of disaster.

Joan d'Arc, a young woman of no renown who rallied the people of Orleans to victory against the besieging English and personally crowned the young Dauphin as King Charles VII of France.

Sir William Marshal, a general and bodyguard to three kings who never lost a duel, conducted himself with the utmost chivalry, and who was inducted into the Knights Templar not long before his death.

Charles Martel, called The Hammer, stood his ground at the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.; dominating the battlefield in spectacular fashion, cementing he and his descendants in European history.

The Battle of Montsisgard, where Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, called the Leper, stood against a force many times his own with the fate of his kingdom on the line, and emerged not merely victorious, but hounded his enemies all the way back to the Nile.

And the Fall of Constantinople on the Twenty-ninth of May, Fourteen Fifty-three, where Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last scion of Rome, raged against the dying of the light unto his last in the defense of his great city.

I long for times such as these.

Yet, I do not miss them. Not in truth.

I do not miss the savagery and brutality of those wars, I do not miss the plagues and famines.

These years... I miss the idea of them.

The chivalry, the heroism, the honor, the stories and myths and legends. The men and women who stood larger than life in these days long gone by.

The stones and monuments of Europe whisper still of their lives and tales and achievements. The cathedrals, the castles, the towers, the palaces. The names of cities, countries, even fields and rivers give reverence and memory to an age far away.

They stood long before I was born, and even so shall they stand long after I am gone.

Nothing-ever-happens-chuds (me) in shambles over this weekend. 2026 has started of with a bang and I've a feeling that this train has no brakes.

Merry Christmas! Christus natus ex!

I still haven't finished The Prince... was really enjoying it as well. Fascinating book.