mattie lubchansky: ok honey i’m gonna go drive my oxcart in the mud for a few hours. it’s grueling work but it’s honest. for real if i hear a distant piano twinkle signifying i’m the protagonist of a Tides of History episode, portending an era of massive societal change, im gonna be so pissed off

ok honey i’m gonna go drive my oxcart in the mud for a few hours. it’s grueling work but it’s honest. for real if i hear a distant piano twinkle signifying i’m the protagonist of a Tides of History episode, portending an era of massive societal change, im gonna be so pissed off

this person was not real. but they would have been typical for the time

god i hope nobody ever says that about me

I'd be okay with not being real

just once i'd like for these little commoners to have their anecdote end with "and they had a great day! and a huuuuge wonderful dinner. and it was just the same tomorrow"

when they do it about me that’s how it’s gonna go

If you have a moment while digging out the cart be sure to record any idle musings about the state of human progress and cultural development

Did any of your children recently return to your village newly married to a spouse who works as a merchant and speaks a different, but mutually intelligible dialect of your language?

surely no one will find the wreckage of my small ship laden with tin ingots after being lost at sea traveling through the interconnected Mediterranean

You might even enter a state of wonder if you hear that piano tinkle…a state of wondery, possibly.

*loads Manor Lords saved game*

They always end up murdered

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