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I love teaching middle school. one student just insulted another by telling him he looked like King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem without his mask on.

#lmao #that's rough #baldwin iv

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Hiiiiii! I get really shy with commenting on people's works idk why but I just wanted to say that I really really love your tiberias series! He's one of my top faves and you're the only person I have seen who writes for him! You're very talented! I can't wait for Isolt and tiberias to have some romantic scenes lol! Hope you're having a good day/night! 💓

Aww, thank you so much, kind anon - this really made my day this morning! 🤍

Yes, as far as I know, I'm the only one writing for Tiberias in the KoH fandom. Which is a bit lonely at times, but perhaps someone else will join me in my delusion someday, haha. I'm all the more happy you like my fic! There'll be plenty of romance going forward, I promise. Well, some more agonised suffering first, but then they'll move on to the wooing.

Also: no need to be shy about interacting with me / my stuff here or on AO3, I'm not in the habit of biting people :)) Have a lovely day as well!

#asks #kingdom of heaven 2005 #kingdom of heaven fanfic #my writing #raymond iii of tripoli #tiberias #that grizzled seductress

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haha funny meme (brainrot)

#this pose is really making the rounds now huh #baldwin iv #memes #let him direct the traffic in jerusalem

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same energy

#awww #tired kitty #i am glad people are finally embracing the multiplicity of animals that tiberias somehow resembles #wolfhound? cat? lion? this man has it all #tiberias #raymond iii of tripoli #my emotional support old man

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Kingdom of Heaven

#oooh lovely! the entire gang #kingdom of heaven fanart #baldwin iv #sibylla of jerusalem #raynald de chatillon #guy de lusignan #imad ad din #Saladin #balian of ibelin #tiberias #raymond iii of tripoli #godfrey of ibelin #the hospitaller

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Just a casual reminder that no matter how unhinged you think the smut you wrote is, it will never be as unhinged as 2005 livejournal KoH fics

#i remember coming across these when i discovered koh four years ago #the fandom was absolutely wild back in the day #nice bit of archaeology #baldwin and the cucumber scarred me for life though #baldwin iv #tiberias #labeling this thing the lepic was an inspired choice btw

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This is so random but I’m so excited to have found your blog! I can’t get over the movie and especially as a history student people who genuinely like something like it enough to make a blog are rare?! Also you’re german like me I think? Loving it

I'm glad you found your way here, then!

I started this blog a little over three years ago because, like you, I couldn't get over KoH and I was so sad there wasn't even a trace of its fandom left anymore. So I thought, why not try to revive it? And now here we are, almost 500 posts and 600 followers later, and this thing has long taken on a life of its own.

And yes, I'm also German : ) Es gibt ein paar von uns hier im Fandom, aber wir sind generell ziemlich international aufgestellt, haha. Freut mich!

#asks #kingdom of heaven 2005 #new people! #also it's insane that it's been three years #i was in the middle of my undergrad when i started the blog and now i'm very nearly done with my masters #its so wild to me

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"[...] narrative interest in Kingdom of Heaven focuses not on the outcome of the conflict between the Crusader Kingdom and Saladin but on the way it was fought, on means rather than ends, performance rather than goals. In the end, how the hero performs is more important than the fact that he lost the battle and surrendered the city. [...]

"Scott perhaps best encapsulates the anxieties that surround hard-bodied masculinity and the mourning for its loss in his uncanny image of Baldwin, the leper king of Jerusalem, whose death precipitates the destruction of the Crusader Kingdom. Rather than focusing the audience's attention on the ravages of the disease of leprosy (at least until after his death), Scott depicts him in a funereal image of a male body swathed in white robes and veils, his face hidden by a beautiful but lifeless silver mask. Baldwin is beautiful but inanimate on the outside - a hard-bodied shell - living but hideous on the inside. His voice detached from his body, Baldwin becomes a ghostly acousmatic, despite his physical presence onscreen. His voice seems to issue from an inanimate shell, cut off from its origin in a human body. He is his own - and his kingdom's - funeral effigy. In this figure the hard-bodied masculinity of the crusaders in Kingdom of Heaven is exposed as a performance, a disguise that hides the rottenness within the kingdom beneath its beautiful but dead veneer. The image allows not only the crusaders but Scott's audience to mourn lost glories."

- Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman, Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010, pp. 231f.

#kingdom of heaven 2005 #baldwin iv #i came across this while doing research for my thesis #the authors have written a lot on the reception and remediation of arthurian legend #and then i saw that they had a book on the middle ages on film #there's so little academic material on koh i'm always surprised when i come across one in the wild #something something the king's two bodies #one day i might write up that post on portrayals of masculinity in koh that i've been wanting to do for ages

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im sorry i had to

#jerusalem's fail king #mr forehead #guy de lusignan #kingdom of heaven shitposting

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Tiberias: Whatever you ask, I will serve

#and serve he did #grrr bark bark #this is your scheduled tiberias thirst post #so fine so fab #kingdom of heaven 2005 #raymond iii of tripoli #tiberias #jeremy irons #kingdom of heaven shitposting

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#true #poor balian #he did the best he could with the terrible script #baldwin iv #balian of ibelin

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appears to be his now.

#beautiful kitty #is he hunting for braincells in there? #baldwin iv

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if you like a piece of media that is good eventually youll more or less run out of things to say about how good it is but if you like a piece of media that is objectively pretty mediocre but also somehow deeply compelling thats how the demons get you

#that's how i ended up here

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It's so atypical too. Like, from what I've seen across fandoms, canon character x OC pairing fics were much more popular in the early 2000s and are generally kind of derided now. Yet in the KoH fandom, we see a completely opposite development that went from shipping various male canon characters to basically just Baldwin x OC fics. Which is a tragedy in its own right as far as my tastes are concerned, but I digress.

All in all, I can't really explain it either. The only thing one might observe is that the Baldwin x OC shipping seems to have started when the fandom moved from livejournal to ff.net, and then later the same trend continued on AO3. ff.net seems to be a bit anti-slash and also famously anti-smut, which is what most of the livejournal stories contained, while most of the KoH fics on both ff.net and AO3 tend to lean towards 'clean romance' with very little (if any) sexual content. So perhaps the websites' differing content policies may partly account for the fandom's shift in focus around that time - along with an audience on ff.net that, in the mid 2000s, probably skewed a fair bit younger than the folks on livejournal.

I was looking at some fanfics and like, has anyone else ever wondered what caused the gradual change from Baldwin x Balian slash with Balian being the most popular character to Baldwin x female OC with Baldwin being literally the only character the fandom crushes on over the course of the past 19 years lol (Also for those who don't know there used to be a livejournal blog solely dedicated to Balian slash)

#kingdom of heaven 2005 #baldwin iv #kingdom of heaven fanfic #fandom discourse #my fandom rants #the demographic of this fandom is something i find fascinating #our chosen piece of media is an almost 20 year old critically panned film #yet most people in the fandom seem to be in their late teens or early 20s and apparently lots of new people are discovering koh via tiktok #its so wild to me #i'm 23 but sometimes i feel like the cranky fandom grandma standing on her lawn muttering about the kids these days #and the baldwin cult is something i will never comprehend

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Nahhh Hannibal Barca going undercover to give Phoenicians back their tyre 😭😭😭😭😭 it’s so over for Baldwin iv 😭😭😭😭😭 we are NOT doing the 4th punic war 😭😭😭😭

#who gave him the right #why does the eyepatch make him even hotter #how am i supposed to cope #koh really brings out the worst in me #alexander siddig #imad #too many handsome bois i don't even know where to look

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Not to snap at you like a cranky terrier, but:

Actually he does have plenty of history because he's based on Raymond III of Tripoli, Count of Tiberias (hence the rather unfortunate name they gave him in the film). The whole "Marshal of Jerusalem" thing is nonsense, granted - Raymond never held that office; he was Baldwin's regent during his minority and one of the foremost noblemen of the Latin kingdoms - but in everything else he's no more or less "fake" than any of the other characters. Hell, Balian is "more fake" than Tiberias by that standard, since he's had both his backstory changed and was de-aged by twenty years for the film.

poor Tiberias, at least your history couldn’t be changed to fit into this story because you don’t have any <3

#i have been summoned #i don't mean to be a jerk but people please do your research #even the ao3 tag for tiberias could have enlightened you in this case #raymond iii of tripoli #tiberias #kingdom of heaven discourse

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"[Raymond III of Tripoli] never recovered from the day of Hattin. His life dragged on for a few more months in which he was literally consumed by remorse and regret and too discouraged even to join in some movement toward armed resistance. This time the bridges between him and what still remained or the kingdom were well and truly down. He survived the fall of all the Frankish cities in the kingdom and the fall of Jerusalem, and it is not difficult to imagine the nature of the 'fearful dreams' which al-Imad says troubled him. He succumbed to an attack of pleurisy at the end of 1187, at the age of forty-eight. Raymond had never had any children. He was succeeded by the second son of Prince Bohemond III of Antioch, young Bohemond [...].

With the death of Raymond III the direct line of Raymond of Saint-Gilles died out in the East. This unhappy prince who, in the almost unanimous opinion or Franks and Moslems alike, had been the obvious master of all Frankish Syria, a man 'intelligent and perceptive above all', 'worthy of the throne for which he seemed to have been born', ended his life disgraced and dishonored by the accusation of treachery, disappointed in his hopes - which were undoubtedly sincere - of possible Franco-Moslem friendship, utterly defeated in everything for which he had striven."

- Zoé Oldenbourg, The Crusades (1966)

#kingdom of heaven 2005 #raymond iii of tripoli #yes more quotes from that weird old book #at least zoe oldenbourg isn’t mean to the old man for once #though she is very dramatic about him #do i approve? yes #he had the saddest death of all #and the novelists especially always do him so dirty