Campaign 1 Episode 59: The Feywild
“Author of 25+ best-selling Pride & Prejudice variations”
Yeah, no.
my dad is going to see family in Ireland and England then going to just hang out in France for a bit so last yesterday before I drove him to the airport he handed me this weird basket I had never seen before full of little jars and bags or random coins, and requested I sort out the pounds and euros so he could take them on his trip. of course he knows exactly how to harness my autism and I happily sorted coins. on top of pounds and euros denominations represented include:
- Canadian and US Dollars, highest being like a billion American pennies
- some Namibian paper money
- Cuban pesos, as well as Cuban convertible pesos which they don’t use anymore
- lots of Franks
- some coins that I think we’re from Spain
- a few coins from Hong Kong
- a surprising amount of currency from Barbados
while I was amassing pounds I happened upon a one shilling coin, my father confirmed no we don’t use shillings anymore, and I wondered how long has it been since the UK got rid of shillings?
this simple question led me to the discovery of simultaneously the most wild and the most British thing I’ve ever heard of:
Decimal Day
what is decimal day? you may be asking yourself if you are a north American millennial like myself
February 15, 1971 the UK and Ireland switched it’s currency from pounds, shillings, and pence to just pounds and pence, and switched the currency from the most unhinged imaginable base 12 currency system, to a much more reasonable base 10 system
(this probably had something to do with the UK switching from imperial to metric measurements, but I didn’t google that)
in order to understand how unhinged British money was, let’s look at some conversions:
12 pence = 1 shilling
20 shillings = 1 pound
240 pence = 1 pound
like…. what? I cannot IMAGINE
also, when they switched they had new pence, as if everything wasn’t wild enough enough already. my dad remembers the switch happening. he says counting money was way easier after, but it was something both his grandmother’s were very concerned about. he thinks they had a cake.
anyway, shillings remained legal tender until 1990 and were worth five new pence (not old pence, be careful). after 1990 they were removed from circulation. I cannot IMAGINE the hassle of trying to manage that transition as a cashier.
I did find in the Coin Box some coins that said five new pence, and then some that just said five pence, but I didn’t think to look at the dates on them though.
and there we have
Decimal Day
the new pornbots’ url game is INSANE. complicit-rotting and warmmourning you would have done numbers if you were real
One of my mountain landscape d20s, in a “stained glass” style.
I love how the light shines through this one!
Numbers still to be painted - they’ll be white, so a lot more readable than it is currently!
"Doomed by the narrative" is sexy and all but i think the narrative wanting to save a character who is utterly set on dooming themselves isnt as much of a thing and it's so good as a concept
no language should be mocked other than french
Birds is “oiseaux” in French.
No letter is pronunced the way it should.
And there are seven of them.
ITS PRONOUNCED “WAZO” AND YES, I WILL DIE MAD ABOUT IT
oiseaux hits every vowel in the french alphabet and manages to only be pronounced with 2 goddamn syllables
got vowels coming out the oiseaux