• what she says: i'm fine
  • what she means: it's 2 am and I can't stop thinking about the Pied Piper. Initially i thought it was just an old faerie tale but i've been reading up on it and it turns out that at some point in the town of Hamelin, a bunch of children really did go missing all at once in fact a stained glass window in the local church in 1300 was made to tell the story AND Hamelin's written history literally BEGINS in 1384 with the sentence "it is 100 years since our children left." There are a ton of theories about what the piper could actually represent but historians are pretty much convinced that something did take away children en masse in the 1200s in Hamelin and to this day we still use the phrase "it's time to pay the piper." When will we pay him? Who was he???? Like okay I see the theories but what if some flute paying faerie really just led a bunch of kids away in 1284 I cannot get over this.

Tags: history according to tumblr THE PIED PIPER WAS STRAIGHT UP A REAL THING OKAY LIKE I DUNNO IF THERE WAS A LITERAL FAERIE WHO'D BEEN FUCKED OVER OR WHAT BUT I TEND TO THINK SO I DO IN FACT TEND TO THINK THAT I WAS THAT KID WHO WAS WARNED AGAINST PLAYING IN FAERIE CIRCLES OR WANDERING THE WOODS ALONE OKAY AND LIKE OBJECTIVELY FAERIES DO NOT EXIST BUT ON THE OTHER HAND DO NOT FUCK WITH THE FAIR FOLK oh huh apparently that's a tag i've used before