prokopetz:

retroactivebakeries:

narcissusbutterfly:

I can’t really understand people who complain about the possibility in “TEO: Skyrim” to marry a same-sex NPC ‘cause “it doesn’t fit with the whole medieval setting of the series”.
Yeah, you’re right, how could Bethesda dare to do something so anachronistic? I mean, the wonderful Middle Ages, such a beautiful period. Remember those old good times when we could marry hot lizards?

Yeah
Me neither

Ah yes, the Elder Scrolls, the medieval setting complete with orbital space stations, time-traveling cyborg demigods, and magic email.

Plus, institutions very like same-gender marriage did exist in medieval Europe. Up until around the 13th Century, “spiritual brotherhood” ceremonies that were identical to marriages all but in name – including joining hands and reciting prayers at an altar and a ceremonial kiss at the end – were commonly performed between two men. Though prohibitions against the practice began to arise in the early 1300s (prohibitions which in themselves constitute evidence for the prevalence of such ceremonies – you don’t specifically ban something that never happens!), it’s believed that in some regions it persisted well into the 16th Century.

(And that’s without even touching on the matter of pirates…)