Jonathan Dean

@hergrim.bsky.social

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Delivery driver and r/AskHistorians mod. Dabbler in medieval history, fantasy nerd, Australian. They/Them 🏳️‍⚧️

A light blue ceramic bowl on a glass hotplate next to the frypan. It contains a base layer of brown rice, with curried sausages on top. The curry sauce is a light brown, and the components of the curry are clearly sausage, carrot, potato and peas, with the onion harder to see and the lentils nearly invisible.
A portrait style photo of an electric frypan full of discrete ingredients on a glass style electric stove with white tile spalshback in the rear. The frypan contains two 2L iceream containers, each about half full, one of which has carrots and the other of which has potatoes, a plastic container for sliced cheese containing two sliced brown onions, a 500g packet of thin sausages, a 1kg bag of frozen peas and two packets S&B curry mix, one mild and one hot.
A screenshot of YouTube that was definitely not modified by an unskilled hack using GIMP, a program they have almost no familiarity with. The taskbar of the computer resembles that of Windows XP, as it's a Linux distro known as "FreeXP", and it shows both Firefox and Htop running. The putative video screenshot has a disheveled looking Robert Pattinson looking at a laptop screen in the lower left corner, taking up approximately a third of the screen, with a blue background on a vertical top-to-bottom gradient (light to dark), and a still from the movie "The 300 Spartans" extending from the top right corner to a third of the screen from the right, and approximately half the screen top to bottom. The still from "The 300 Spartans" has the Spartans in a hollow "wedge" formation, advancing cross rocky terrain towards four single lines of "Persian" infantry, with the sea to the right hand side and some small trees and rocks on the left. The title of the video, which is not full screen or in theater mode, is "Ancient Warfare Expert Rates 10 Battle Tactics in Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider", and on the right hand side of the screen are an ad and other Insider videos.
A Reddit comment from a user named "ItsFridaySomewhere" that reads: "You could have just spent that $20 on a hentai dating sim on Steam and I'd have judged you less for it." It has 2.4k upvotes.
A crudely drawn map of the area in which the Battle of Agincourt took place, kludged together from a variety of sources dating from the 17th century down to the 1950s. The background is white, with orange contour lines and the 19th century road network drawn in black. The village of Azincourt (labelled "Agincourt" on the map) is in the top right of the map, with Tramceourt to the left, about in the middle of the map. Maisoncelle is at the bottom of the two, roughly in between the two other towns. The village extents, including assumed gardens and closes, are in a yucky blue-green colour intended to be reminiscent of the 19th century military maps, with dark green woods. A small section below Azincourt is lighter green, potentially being where some prominent hedges once were.
A modified version ox xkcd 2501, featuring a male and female stick figure. Dialogue is as follows Female stick figure: Medieval English archery is second nature to us historians, so it's easy to forget that the average persion probably only knows primary sources like CCR Ed. III, V4, P29 and 7 Hen. IV, c.7. Male stick figure: And 33 Hen. VIII, C.9, of course. Female stick figure: Of course.
Take a stereotypical steampunk rifle - all wood and shiny metal, with the ergonomics and general aesthetic of a brick - and give out a giant rectangular magazine and a bipod. There is a gap between the magazine and the barrel extending from just behind the pistol grip to just ahead of the trigger guard. That's a VBR CAR.
A Tweet or Skeet from E. J. Dawson (@ejdawsonauthor). Text: My husband upset me this morning and now I'm inflicting it on all of you. The is an image of a hot drow woman with a sword and buckler next to Saxon Hale, a buff shirtless Australian man with chest hair in the shape of Australia. Below the drow woman is the caption "Drow Elves" with the following bullet points - Live in a place called the Underdark - Exiled from the surface Under Saxon Hale is the caption "Australians" with the following bullet points: - Live in a place Down unda - Exiled by the English. At the bottom, below both images, is the phrase "Known for dangerous creatures including big spiders. Conclusion: Drow have Australian accents.
A fair skinned red haired man in purple clothing with white cuffs, collar and belt is wearing a purple and yellow medieval style cap and pointing at a darker skinned man with black hair dressed in what appears to be a moderately light blue shirt. The pointing man is telling "I SHALL DEFEAT YOU IN MORTAL THOUGHT EXERCISES", and both men are looking very happy to be having this duel. In the background is a brown haired man with spiky hair and a gold and blue pseudo-military jacket. He is hesitantly reaching out towards the man in purple, with a sweat drop on his right cheek. The image is a panel from Ale Presser and KB Spangler's webcomic "Side Quested", which you should definitely be reading.
A white haired woman (Scarlett) with red flecked crystal earrings, blood splatter on her face and a red dress is on top of a pink haired woman (Terenezza) wearing a pink dress and a tiara, their noses almost touching. Scarlett has a wicked grin and is saying "I think, I had not punched you enough at the ball", while Terenezza grits her teeth in anger.
A chart showing the curve a heights in Australia, with a red line at 173cm representing my height and a blue line just past 175cm showing the average for Australia. I am taller than 1/3rd of adult male Australians and shorter than 2/3rds.
A clumsy map entirely in ballpoint pen. A major river valley runs from right to left, the right side being at about a third of the way up the page, and the left side being a fifth of the page from the bottom. At about halfway across the map is a major town with a bridge, a heavily traced line indicating a major road leading to it from bottom left (starting a quarter of the page from the left hand edge) to the top right (about a quarter of the page from the right hand edge). Above the town are several valleys with small streams running into the river. Two are on the right, the rightmost one being the biggest, and a very small one is on the left. Between the left hand and central valleys is an almost fist shaped body of land, the "wrist" being the space between the two valleys. The top left of the map is a bunch of curly lines, denoting a forest, and several wooded areas are drawn in a similar fashion. The rest of the map is a mess of minor roads and small shapes indicating villages and hamlets of various sizes.
A tall, gorgeous woman with white hair and he eyes is wearing a crown of roses and smiling as she pulls on fingerless leather gloves with studs on the knuckles specifically for punching people. She's wearing a red dress with some black lacing serving as corsetry and a black bow is on the right side of her collar. In the background is a rose arc, and her smile is joyful menace rather than a besotted adoring smile.
A light blue cutting board on a grey benchtops. On it is the dreaded snagshi: a sushi roll made with a beef sausage from the supermarket. Instead of rice, the filling appears to be spaghetti, and two pieces of chopped onion indicate that it's present in the filling too.
In the top left hand corner of the image is a recurved bow terminal from the previous image. The right hand half of the image is a sketch of a long yew bow from Poland, close to two metres long, with a more detailed drawing of the top terminal. The design is much more advanced than that of the Charavines fragment, with the terminal of the Brzegu bow being identical with the siyah of a recurve bow in design, and the body of the bow having a hexagonal kind of cross section.
An archaeological drawing crossbow prod and a collection of terminals from bows or possibly crossbows. The crossbow prod is entirely intact, approximately 980mm long and 35cm deep. It is slightly decurved, with a deep "D" cross section at the centre and an approximately round section in the middle of the limb. Two of the terminals show signs of being recurved, with a D or very deep D shape and two nocks (one presumably for a bastard string). Some of the limb remains, and shows a very flat ovoid cross-section. The remaining 5 terminals would have belonged to essentially straight bows, with four of the five have a D shape at the terminal and double nocks, but lacking enough of the rest of the stave to give a good idea of the limb cross section. The fifth fragment has a simple loop nock and is essentially a very broad and shallow oval for the entire length, including the terminal.
The foreground, reaching right back almost to the horizon is a deep green sea of wheat, with a line of gum trees midway towards the horizon reaching up into the light grey clouds. A sliver of yellow canola runs from right to left, just below the horizon, becoming progressively slimmer. On the left fifth of the photo, just below the horizon and rising up into the sky, is a large hill, part of a ridge that runs behind the canola field and can barely be seen beyond this one hill.
A clear Pyrex dish with handles at either end, sitting on top of a glass top stove, in portrait mode. Inside the dish is a pasta bake, with a small chunk in the top right corner already eaten. The cheese is mostly in the centre of the dish, with the area within 1 inch/25mm of the edge having little cheese present. The cheese itself is a 3 cheese blend, so not all of it has fully melted and some of it is orange.
A red haired man with a purple and yellow cap wearing a purple tunic with white collar, cuffs and belt has a stupidly happy expression on his face and is pointing from middle left to front fight while yelling "I shall defeat you in mortal thought exercises". His opponent, positioned at the front right of the frame, is darker skinned, with thick eyebrows, black hair, a navy tunic and has a vicious smirk. In the rear middle of the frame is Prine Leopold, who has spiky brown hair that sticks up, a expression of concern, a sweat droplet running down the left hand side of his face, is wearing a gold and navy uniform and is hesitantly reaching out towards the purple wearing man on the left hand side of the frame. The image is from K.B. Spangler and Ale Presser's excellent webcomic, "Side Quested".
A very angry red-haired woman with clenched fists is in the foreground, while a smug looking woman with white hair that has purple tips is in the background. The white haired woman is saying "Good news - tarrifs are back on the menu" in a white speech bubble. The red haired woman has a speech bubble that has a red to yellow gradient, top to bottom, and is saying "Everything shall burn!". Flecks of red surround her, and the border is a clumsy combination of yellow, orange and red (top to bottom) because the person making the edited image ran out of time to much around with GIMP. It is a panel from K.B. Spangler's "A Girl and Her Fed" - an excellent webcomic you should check out.
A confused looking kangaroo covered in snow with a speech bubble saying "WTF?". It's from the old animated short "The End of the World", a ridiculous (and hilarious) parody about nuclear war.
A large blue rectangle with the crude figure of a man in armour. The arms and legs are in yellow, while the head and torso are in red.
A long blue rectangle with four ranks of six red rectangles. The red rectangles are much close side-to-side than back to front.
A large blue bowl on a marble pattern placemat, filled with a salad consisting of quinoa, black beans, corn, red onion, red capsicum, tomato, coriander and cucumber.
The top third of the image is a solid green that transitions into a landscape about halfway down the image. On the left-hand side of the image is a photo of Sam Farraway, a balding man in his 40s dresses in a cheap white shirt. On the left of the image is a mock up of a ballot paper, with the suggested order of candidates numbered from 1 to 10, with Sam Farraway as number one. The solid green bar in the top third of the image contains the sentence "How to Vote for Sam Farraway", with the subtitle of "The Nationals for Calare". The suggested voting order of the candidates after Sam Farraway is 2) Jennifer Hughes 3) Ross Angus Hazelton 4) Vicki Elizabeth O'Leary 5) Jase Lesage 6) Kate Hook 7) Andrew Gee 8) Julie Cunningham 9) Sue Raye 10) Ben Parker
The image is of a black chicken (or "chook", in proper Australian terminology), facing forward, with red corrugated iron behind it. Its eyes stare into your soul and it. Does. Not. Blink. It stands, almost as still as a statue, moving its head mere millimetres to track you. There is no sign of life, it does not seem to breathe, it just stares. The chook knows what you did. The chook is coming for you. Run!
A confused looking kangaroo covered in snow with a speech bubble saying "WTF?". It's from the old animated short "The End of the World", a ridiculous (and hilarious) parody about nuclear war.
A photo taken in a bathroom mirror of a moderately muscular, cis looking person with a balding head wearing clip on earrings, a skin tight light blue t-shirt and a black miniskirt. He has barely discernable breasts and is smiling.
A Chiko roll in its paper bag. The paper bag is white, with the stylised Chiko logo - an orange oval with parallel sides and rounded ends , featuring "CHIKO" in red block letters. The Chiko roll itself is a tube of golden pastry containing a filling not unlike a spring roll.
Two historiograms labelled "Minimum" and "Maximum", each showing calculated draw weights for the Mary Rose bow. Minimum Draw Weights: 80-90lbs: 1 90-100lbs: 6 100-110lbs: 18 110-120lbs: 23 120-130lbs: 24 130-140lbs: 22 140-150lbs: 15 150-160lbs: 7 160-170lbs: 4 170-180lbs: 1 Maximum Draw Weights 110-120lbs: 1 120-130lbs: 1 130-140lbs: 5 140-150lbs: 13 150-160lbs: 18 160-170lbs: 16 170-180lbs: 20 180-190lbs: 16 190-200lbs: 11 200-210lbs: 8 210-220lbs: 5 220-230lbs: 4 230-240lbs: 2 240-250lbs: 1
The calm Carribbean sea takes up the bottom two thirds of the photo. Where the sea and sky intersect, the sun is halfway below the horizon and partially obscured by clouds. The result is a deep orange glow that highlights the bands of clouds in the upper atmosphere and the column of cloud from lower in the atmosphere that partially hides the sun. Right at the top of the photo, whisps of cloud catch a small amount of this orange light.
A stained glass window of a 14th century knight. His shield and surcoat feature the Cross of St George, and he stands with one hand holding a spear and his other on the hilt of his sword. Several panes, including those making up his right forearm and scabbard, are clear, having been replaced recently and left clear to indicate that they aren't part of the original window.
A section of a map from 1610 with an abbey listed a "AB. Labaye demone"
An image of several fields from a cadastral map with the identified "au bout de bois de Labbroye"
The rideaux on the western bank. The grade varies but is generally between a 30% and 50% slope