this is too awesome not to share

Woman of Steel: Female knight making her mark in competitive jousting. Look how happy she looks! (Click on the picture -- there are several of them you can scroll through.)

(Via Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor, and them via Fuck Yeah Women in Armor, which is another tumblr I didn't know about which now seems likely to make me happy all day, though the armor is less reasonable.)

Narnia fic: "Written in the Dust"

Title: Written in the Dust
Author: bedlamsbard
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia bookverse/movieverse
Rating: PG
Content Advisory: none
Summary: …, that We should constitute and Found a University within our Nation of Narnia for the advancement and diffusion of Knowledge, Wisdom, Science, and Learning. History is written and over-written by the victors.
Disclaimer: The Chronicles of Narnia and its characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to C.S. Lewis. Certain characters, situations, settings, etc., belong to Walden Media. Title from Washington Irving.
Author's Notes: Originally written and posted here for rthstewart at narniaexchange. University charter brutally pilfered from all the royal university charters I could find. Thanks to my betas aella_irene and westingturtle! "Written in the Dust" uses Warsverse backstory. See end for original prompt.

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
- Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey

( Written in the Dust )