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Tbh milkmaids were the prettiest women because they would get mild cases of cowpox instead of skin wrecking smallpox and it was the origin of the smallpox vaccine (vacca means cow in latin).
Huh I didn’t know humans could get mild cowpox
A great many pathogens can be “weakened” with various processes, heat is one, but also the surviving strains in a living being that beat the disease via immunity may also carry weakened strains and this is where we learned to deliberately contract smallpox via poking someone’s skin pustule and poking ourselves with that pus.
Gross but highly effective. This is how George Washington inoculated his army. (Which of course he learned about through a Reverend in Boston who learned about it from his slave, Onesimus, which makes sense as smallpox was ravaging Africa for over 10,000 years, they figured it out eventually.)
Thank you so much for sharing this interesting information.
Same, I get it a couple of times a year, and it’s only ever extremely severe. I would love to know the secret.
Do medieval shows only hire conventionally unattractive men? I always thought the convention was to have attractive people play important parts or “good” characters, regardless of gender, but admittedly I don’t really watch many medieval shows.
Witcher?
Game did a good job of having the ugliest polish man with a pitchfork in the town…
Then the local alchemist has a dump truck ass with eyeliner on.
If you’re talking about my girl Keira Metz, she’s a witch, not a standard alchemist. Woman definitely engages in performance enhancing magic
Had to look up. Got alchemist and herbalist confused.
It was tomira. I did remember the ass lol
I looked her name up on google and half the images are indeed about said dump truck lol
*Attractive evil villain enters scene*
“…they’re gonna get a tragic backstory and sacrifice themselves for some noble cause.”
*3 seasons later*
“Oh goddamit.”
By “important or ‘good’ characters” I wasn’t trying to say “protagonists and morally good characters”, though there are certainly plenty of authors and directors who follow that rule.
When your entire idea of middle ages comes from people funking around marginalia creatures this is what happens. But the middle ages were an early-capitalistic moment with more dynamism than you’re told. Even under feudalism people must have had personal interocurses, private and economical. Imagine the scams of the time.
they’re both drunk, though. so that’s more than normal.
through big chunks of human history, being sober was an exception.
Through big chunks of my Saturday being sober was an exception.
Your move.
What’s wrong with their noses?
That’s just the comic artist’s style.
I see. I find it distracting.
This is a trope in all middle ages media I’ve seen. I’ve been watching someone play KCD2, and it’s not as bad… but still there and jarring.
The only place where I can think of where it seems more fair is, ironically, some animation? Barring anime’s sexism… problems, there’s less incentive for that, heh. I liked Avatar’s peasants:
Help! Help! We’re being repressed!
But that’s because Avatar was good and stuff! I like the peasants though. They all seem at like the same level of dress and stuff! Look at that (Earth Kingdom?) people in the first picture! That’s real nice!
It’s Bolin/Mako’s Lower Ring family! And, clockwise, Jang Hui fishing folks and Republic City homeless.
Folks like this (along with some notably badass women) are the bread and butter of the shows, though. I don’t ever remember hitching to think ‘huh that farmer lady looks like a skimpy model’
The girl’s shirt in the first panel is my favorite part of this comic.
No bag of hot chip though
Rf gay os creme?
Milkmaids famously shaved their armpits after lathering them with double cream.
