First of all, as the header said, I’ve got a little guest comic over at Skepchick featuring Christina and one of the other great minds of the seventeenth century, Anna Maria van Schurman, along with a little essay about the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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As you’ve gathered, we’ve hopped back to the Christina & Descartes story here for a little while during the Holidays. These events aren’t happening simultaneously (whatever that means in a time travel comic) with the events in the main numbered […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Descartes is probably right in that Christina would not have had a particularly rollicking time with a legion of Puritan thinkers in her army. Even when her Catholic conversion was full upon her, she had a hard time subduing her […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, there’s a WEE bit of dates-mongering going on here… The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 happened within Christina’s life, but not within her reign, and certainly she had killed off Descartes long before then. So, I’ll invoke the usual, “Something […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a few years since we’ve seen Gudit. As a refresher, here is one of her early moments. She is part of the Eastern Team of Zeitsgeschlaegers, charged with handling time disturbances in roughly the Turkey / Africa / […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In two days, we’ll be celebrating the seventh anniversary of our first episode! We have something kinda special planned, so mark your calendar, and in the meantime, for those who somehow missed Frederick’s time as a woman, here ya go! […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SEVEN YEARS! *Monarchical High Fivery All Around* Today, I want to talk about Geoff. Because, if Geoff weren’t Geoff, there’s no way we would have been around this long. I remember the first time I saw him. I had just […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seven years is an interesting amount of time for an anniversary. More than five, less than ten, but better than six, eight, or nine because it is prime. It is also a full ten percent of the proverbial threescore and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve always wanted to make a University RPG where you pick up levels in academic disciplines, so you could be a Level 4 German Linguist but a Level 10 Differential Equation Wizard. Anyway, if the scale is 1-10, I don’t […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s amazing how much difference a century makes. From 1650, roughly the time this Cromwell comes from, to 1750, when Frederick was just coming off the Silesian Wars, Prussia went from a running joke of the sophisticated world to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…