They used to put redacted in trees with women gathering them in bushel baskets. The last thing those doodles were about was reality.
I mean, women would have less use for men if that was real.
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I accidentally fell into a research hole… again… and I found the Filid, the privileged poets of the ancient Ireland. Check this out.
Filid were divided into seven grades. One of the lower and less learned grades was bard. The highest grade was the ollamh, achieved after at least 12 years of study, during which the poet mastered more than 300 difficult metres and 250 primary stories and 100 secondary stories. He then could wear a cloak of crimson bird feathers and carry a wand of office.
And then I thought, wait, to get this title of the poet supreme, they had to write 300 poems and 350 stories? They likely weren’t long stories but damn. Stories were like a currency that could get you a higher position in society.
They were worth something BUT you had to write a ton of them before you were acknowledged.
I guess that hasn’t changed a whole lot. Modern society prefers fiction over poetry but it’s still the same that for anyone that doesn’t win the popularity lottery, you have to work your behind off to get anywhere.
Oh, my, this is fascinating stuff.
flyting , (Scots: “quarreling,” or “contention”), poetic competition of the Scottish makaris (poets) of the 15th and 16th centuries, in which two highly skilled rivals engaged in a contest of verbal abuse, remarkable for its fierceness and extravagance. Although contestants attacked each other spiritedly, they actually had a professional respect for their rival’s vocabulary of invective.
That sounds like a rap battle to me.
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You find things repeat over the centuries. One of the proper forms of music mentioned on the NT was alot like rap with percussion. Greek word, Jewish writer, lots of papers written on what the heck was meant there because people argue about whether or not those same passages would use instruments .
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humans will be human
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Speaking of search results, I was looking up reptiles and these popped up as suggested questions. You know that more than one person had to type it in to show up in the suggestions.
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Sometimes I don’t know whether I’m highballing or lowballing an audience.
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At least these are more intelligent questions than “How is babby formed?”
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I’m screaming at the first two! 
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Mammal evolution is a little more complex than that
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I know this already 
- it’s why I told my fiancé yesterday that humans evolved from mermaids. 
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Yeah…and then the mammals went back into the ocean to become ceteans.
Biologically accurate mermaids are kind of scary to me.
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2011’s Mermaids: The Body Found is really good!
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I searched cool bar scenery recently to expand on an upcoming scene. Some people are really creative architecturally.
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Names of parts of a rifle
I forgot what the long part was called. Not nozzle.
It’s the barrel.
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I’d go with the industrial asthetic. You know, converted warehouses with hardware showing, lol.
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I do like that look!
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Omg, I hate when I forget the name of something and then I try to describe it to Google. 
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Sometimes, it can be like…
Me: Google, what’s the thing that does the stuff?
Google: *insert perfect answer here *
Me: (how did it know?) That’s it! Thanks Google!
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Haha, yes! That too!
On a side note: I posted a new chapter. 
Back on the topic: I had to search up time zones. It isn’t strange but for my story I had no idea how the time zones work in my story. Different region/nations have different times.
I do know this there are thirteen months in a year and eight days in a week.
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