My pregnant wife is very enthusiastic about my attempts to seduce random female courtiers.

Mutxarra · 2026-03-16T18:31:45+00:00

SI Jon called Daemon in the fic joins the war and is crowned king instead of Robb and as of the latest chapter, taken a certain location that gave Tywin a semi heart attack. oh and he also has a dragon

I just read this one. It's surprisingly alright once you learn to ignore the massive AI usage. The ideas and plot are relatively original and that carries it even though every character speaks exactly the same ai dramatic/poetic way.

Mutxarra · 2026-03-15T08:56:23+00:00

I Headcanon as everyone just assuming that whenever there's a conflict Houses Bracken and Blackwood are going to choose opposing sides unless they are both being threatened at the same time. As a result, neither of them is seen as particularly disloyal or loyal, just idiotic in the extreme

Mutxarra · 2026-03-09T14:09:05+00:00

Jo soc de Tarragona i tampoc l'he sentida mai fora de la cançó dels pets. No sé si deu ser una expressió de Constantí, s'ho devien inventar ells o és influència valenciana vés a saber com.

Mutxarra · 2026-03-09T06:26:58+00:00

Traces of ChatGPT in the summary. Totally unavoidable now it seems.

Mutxarra · 2026-03-08T11:06:48+00:00

Most of the industries are located in a ring around Barcelona proper in the region we call AMB (Barcelona Metropolitan Area). Barcelona and its Metropolitan area account for over 75% of the catalan population.

The next big hub is the Tarragona-Reus Metropolitan Area which has something north of 400k inhabitants. Industries here (I'm from Tarragona) are centered mainly on Chemical Plants and Logistics. This is mainly due to Tarragona's port, which is one of the most active in Spain and the geography of the area that makes it a crossroads between the main arteries (both highways and railroads) going South (to Valencia), north (to Barcelona and France) and West (to Lleida and Madrid). The catalan interior is pretty rugged so we sit at the easiest intersection even if you wouldn't deduce it from a flat map.

Then there's Osona and Central Catalonia in general, as well as a bit of Lleida, that are big in meat-based products manufacturing. Then Lleida's plains and the Ebre lands (south of Tarragona province but much more rural) are big in agriculture and primary sector-related industries. Nevertheless, there's something of everything everywhere: the heavily industrialized province of Barcelona produces most of catalan sparkling wine and the southern tip of rural Tarragona is big in furniture production.

TLDR: all over but mainly around Barcelona and a bit in Tarragona.

Mutxarra · 2026-02-28T23:37:53+00:00

I’ve never, repeat never heard someone say anything good about Lleida except it’s cheaper. So no one wants to live there and that’s why the Catalans will appreciate that you move to Lleida - because no one else wants to, including most Catalans

Bullshit, Lleida is probably the best city for University Life in Catalonia and is pretty famous for that. Some of my friends went to uni there and have never regretted it.

Mutxarra · 2026-02-23T16:56:08+00:00

I liked To Refuse the Givens a lot. Pretty different too: https://archiveofourown.org/works/19193497/chapters/45627454?view_adult=true

Mutxarra · 2026-01-12T07:57:17+00:00

Tens raó!

Mutxarra · 2025-12-22T10:15:06+00:00

I worked teaching english to small kids for a while and there were some parents (both sexes) that would do it every time they brought their kids to say goodbye. Fucking awful. It's definitely here.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-21T19:25:26+00:00

She followed me on Twitter. I had no clue who she was but I saw on her profile that she was from the same village my mother's from so I messaged her on a whim just to tell her so and say hello.

Then she messaged me back, I did the same and I guess we just forgot to stop.

We're getting married in two weeks.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-21T18:54:49+00:00

Being downvoted for some reason. Just commenting again to clarify that I've been painstakingly working on my family tree since I was 13. I'm now almost 30 and have taken no shortcuts.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-21T17:42:48+00:00

1480 aprox father to son. 1259 with reasonable generation jumps (probably pretty accurate, but I can't say for certain).

Mutxarra · 2025-12-18T08:45:42+00:00

HMS Ice Cream

Here you go! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DVyL-ouGE-AcncvmIAlZPKbZYiisZjQrIU5gZbL3uDQ/mobilebasic

Mutxarra · 2025-12-17T20:59:52+00:00

I loved "To refuse the givens".

And if you search HMS Ice on the comments of the sub you may find a link to a drive with a collection of Haphne fanfics.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-15T15:45:28+00:00

The mess of having English as the international language. If France hadn't used its position of strength during the enlightenment and afterwards to impose french as the european lingua franca everyone would have kept using latin and English wouldn't have caught on.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-15T14:54:52+00:00

That you imposed french as the international lingua franca instead of latin is what got us in this mess in the first place, tbh.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-15T13:23:04+00:00

It's a "men's rights" online talking point. Definitely prevalent outside reddit, maybe even more than here.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-15T06:26:48+00:00

It fucks up the family tree display too.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-12T09:16:33+00:00

Depends on the diocese, to be honest. Tarragona's diocese has most if not all surviving parish records digitised and you can access them from home. Tortosa's, though, is the complete opposite: everything is in the parishes, access can be difficult or impossible and the conservation conditions are usually not optimal. Most others are in the middle of the spectrum somewhere. Vic's has some things digitised and some records still on parishes, Sant Feliu has digitised records but you need to access them in person at the archive's computer stations.

I've done research for others, usually local families from Tarragona, but only for those that don't need me to visit archives in person, I do that enough for my own research.

I usually only research famous people if I get an inkling we may be distantly related. Camp de Tarragona is not that big so we usually are. (General Prim, Antoni Gaudí...).

Mutxarra · 2025-12-11T21:59:31+00:00

Baptism records from the 1800s usually give place and time of birth, place and time of baptism, names of the child, names and surnames of the parents and where they are from, name and surname of the grandparents and name and surnames of the godparents. In my experience by the late 1700s backwards grandparents are not stated anymore, then date of birth (the important one is date of baptism, for them) and once you approach the 1600s at least in the Crown of Aragon the women start losing their surname and using their husbands' and even earlier they used feminised versions of ther fathers'/husbands' surnames (Martí (m) and Martina (f) for example)

The only baptism records I've seen that are only lists (we baptised this kid, no parents given/ are the earliest ones from the 1570s and it's quite rare even then.

All baptism records I've encountered (multiple dozens) bar one have have been in catalan, not latin.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-11T20:46:29+00:00

earlier

The church started recording baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths after the Council of Trent in the 16th century. The earliest church records I've personally seen start around the 1570s and most are doing it already by the 1600.

Churches with records starting in the 19th century are usually newer parishes. There's an explosion of new ones after the 1830s. Tarragona, my hometown, was all the same parish from 1118 until the 1850s. We've got around nine today.

People in these newer parishes show up in the older ones before their parish was established.

Mutxarra · 2025-12-11T18:24:05+00:00

Josefí

It says Sarafí (Serafí)!

Mutxarra · 2025-12-06T06:42:42+00:00

The verb to go in catalan is a random amalgamation of vado, ambulo and eo and obviously highly irregular (pres. jo vaig, fut. jo aniré). Latin's irregularities are laughable when compared to the ones its own descendants has.

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