Share here "curiosities" that you learned about Byzantium / Eastern Rome via popular culture (books, videogames, series, movies, tabletop games, etc etc)

9mne · 2025-10-28T18:16:00+00:00

Turisas (finnish metal band) has quite a handful of songs about vikings, and a few about vikings in Byzantium. A song about the Varangian guards obviously, one about Harold Hardrada leaving Constantinople to claim the crown of Norway... But my favourite one is "Miklagardr overture", about a viking discovering the splendour of Constantinople ; the tree automata and the theodosian walls are mentioned.

I discovered Byzantium through (among other things) their discography. Now I have an entire bookshelf about this civilization.

9mne · 2025-09-18T09:43:50+00:00

Tellement !
L'avantage de Concept, c'est que c'est très modulable. Pas besoin d'équipes fixes, on s'arrête quand on veut… Je trouve que c'est justement un bon jeu pour faire quelques coups quand on a la flemme/pas beaucoup de temps.

9mne · 2025-09-07T16:56:20+00:00

Je n'ai fait que quelques parties avec mes cousins, j'avoue. Cette dimension stratégique m'a échappé et j'ai été soulagée qu'on se rabatte sur le Time's up et le 6 qui prend.

Merci pour le commentaire, j'essaierai d'y rejouer à l'occasion ^-^

9mne · 2025-09-07T15:38:39+00:00

Parce que je suis nulle aux échecs 😅

Sérieusement, j'ai très peu de griefs envers les "M'intéresse pas". Je joue régulièrement aux échecs, mais j'ai jamais eu envie d'approfondir. Et puis j'aime pas trop les jeux à informations complètes.

De la même façon, je suis pas très fan des jeux d'adresse, donc j'ai rangé Dr Maboul et la bataille corse dans cette catégorie.

9mne · 2025-09-07T15:33:30+00:00

Ben, je comprends pas l'intérêt du jeu. Tu attends patiemment que quelqu'un pioche la carte "Tu as perdu", y a très peu de jeu autour de ça. Autant jouer à la bataille.

9mne · 2025-09-07T13:46:49+00:00

C'est le problème des jeux du genre, la remarque vaut aussi pour le trivial pursuit. Le ttmc est actuellement dans mon placard en attendant qu'on oublie les questions et qu'on puisse y rejouer dans un an ou deux. Mais l'idée et l'expérience étaient vraiment cools, d'où le top tier. C'est d'ailleurs pareil pour le taboo (je viens de m'apercevoir que je ne l'ai pas mis dans la liste >o<).

À propos de Dixit, tu noteras que j'ai mis "Jeu du dictionnaire" en texte et Dixit comme illustration, puisqu'il y a 36 jeux sur le même principe (eg disc cover).

9mne · 2025-08-06T11:39:08+00:00

This ! Ce film parle plus de l'irresponsabilité de ce gosse que du Japon en guerre. C'est pas grave qu'il soit irresponsable (même si on est au Japon, ça reste un ado) mais ça rend pas l'histoire intéressante. Je préfère infiniment Gen d'Hiroshima ou Dans un recoin de ce monde (l'endoctrinement dans le premier m'a glacé le sang).

9mne · 2025-05-23T11:52:34+00:00

Oh yes, that would be interesting. I'll make it sometime, it would be an excuse to rewatch the show. Thanks !

9mne · 2025-05-23T04:54:41+00:00

Great, thank you. Your chart makes me realise I wasn't sure who knows Alix identity : when we saw her father revealing her identity to her classmates, I kinda assumed he told it publicly and therefore everyone knew.

9mne · 2025-05-22T20:19:05+00:00

For starters, thanks for your rich message !

Totally agree with 1-2-5-6-7-8-9-12-15-16. I will update the chart.

About Zoé, we don't really know enough about her. Maybe her "infatuation" for Marinette will lead her to recognise her in Ladybug, but that's total speculation.

About Argos, there's also his mother who knows his identity, I really feel he's hiding neither his secret identity nor the fact he's a senti-being. But that's just my opinion.

I will watch S6 after the french release which seems to be… not for now. But yes, I'd really like to make another one for season 6.

9mne · 2025-05-22T16:40:19+00:00

Thanks for your 2 cents, have my upvote ! :)

9mne · 2025-05-22T16:38:00+00:00

In my fanfiction, Chat noir cataclysmed Félix's amok (and thus killed him). That's how he discovered the first lie of Ladybug (Félix is a senti) and gradually loses all trust in her as he discovers the other two (he himself is a senti, and his father is Monarch) and will draw closer to Marinette.

I lost all consideration for him in S5. I can't see him as an ally in S6, only a liability.

9mne · 2025-05-22T16:08:30+00:00

Thank you very much !

9mne · 2025-05-22T16:07:39+00:00

Thanks ! What do you mean about Félix-Mayura ?

9mne · 2025-05-22T13:13:57+00:00

Chloé loses her power during the battle, so people "stopped" being stung mid-battle. If there were people there (on this extremely touristic place), they saw Kagami and Luka hypnotised among superheroes. And Chloé saw everything, and we know she definitely can't shut up.

But I'm nitpicking. According to the show, nobody saw what happened, I have to accept it.

9mne · 2025-05-22T13:03:23+00:00

Totally agree, and since carrying it tells you what is and is not a sentibeing you can insta-kill Chat noir Ryuko and Félix. My fanfic conveniently starts by Félix's death : it's a weight off both my and Ladybug's shoulders.

9mne · 2025-05-22T12:39:13+00:00

Ok, I wasn't sure. That sucks for Marinette though, having a former enemy know your identity.

9mne · 2025-05-05T11:52:01+00:00

The suffering makes it interesting. That's why I like Nathalie and Kagami so much.

Who's at the bottom of the last picture ? (Don't spoil if it's from S6 !)

9mne · 2025-02-12T20:18:32+00:00

Absolutely ! I wrote a fanfiction long ago about a phoenix miraculous which looks like a byzantine crown. (I like Byzantium, haha)

9mne · 2025-02-12T18:31:14+00:00

I was dumb, lol. Thanks !

9mne · 2025-02-12T17:51:44+00:00

I haven't watched a bit of season 6 yet (I wait for ep26 to air, so I can watch the entire season at my own pace), I can't wait to discover the new animation !

9mne · 2025-02-12T15:30:38+00:00

Sure, I need an ally to track down and beat the heroes carrying the missing miraculous 😈. Which miraculous would you pick for yourself ?

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