Christmas Archery
new saint knowledge gained thanks @morkaischosen
i am entertained that 'being shot by a bunch of arrows without being killed' makes you a patron saint of archery.
CLASSIC Catholic Church behaviour. The main unusual thing here is that he's the patron saint of archery, not "being beaten with clubs" - there are a lot of martyrs canonised as the patron saint of whatever killed them.
No, no, don’t apologise
This isn’t a dig at any creators or educators who use Robin Hood to talk about history or connect to the past, but it bugs me when films or TV use Robin in a bland or uninteresting way when he has such potential!
Robin with a posh accent, or Robin as dispossessed nobility, or Robin as a supporter of a good king against a comically moustache-twirling villain all lack the edge of a folk hero from ballads sung by commoners about a man who stood up to the corrupt church and the law to fight for the poor. And that feels like a Robin that would have some things to say about now.
(I did a longer rant about this with a more context on Patreon if you’d like to hear more of my thoughts)
Looks like D&D with Jacques Ze Whipper, Instructor Bensei, Sellsword Arts, and Tater the Bard is going ahead!
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