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AFAICT Nasir is the archetype and thus one of the most notable modern additions to the Robin Hood legendarium.

Nasir is a legend. Love that character and he might have been inspiration for more than one of my characters, down through the years ;)...

No lie, I had the best burger and best fries of my life at a restaurant in Portugal, of all places, just this past summer. It was the...

Azeem: "And now you know how I feel." Is it just me, or are Azeem (Morgan Freeman's character in RHPoT) and various similar Saracen...

And the bit is that “Rhydderch ap Euffydd" is the spelling, but it's phonetically "Robin Hood."

“What’s your name, heroic outlaw?” “Rhydderch ap Euffydd.” “Rhy… rach… sod it, we’ll call you Robin.”

I think it’s an interesting take but it would be a different game, fighting natural obstacles and getting lost rather than monsters. And...

I don’t think she’s actually bending the bow? The string is apparently made of elastic. Worth noting that Robin using a longbow...

Obligatory reference to Once and Future again, when some English nationalists summon Arthur (who’s undead) and he kills them all because...

It kind of amazes me when I look how much more expensive eating out in the US vs Canada seems to be (at least in cities). The minimum...

Any Robin Hood does have to thread the needle between the various versions. He kind of started out as a generic criminal and robber (it...

Yeah, it’s a major issue in Japanese media - even something anti-war like Grave of the Fireflies leans into it, or at least the idea...

I had issues with Minus One for exactly these reasons. Specifically, I think it promotes the problematic ideology that the Japanese...

I’d say the following generally about eating out in the UK vs NZ in recent years: 1) It’s generally more expensive and the service is...

A note for the length discussion. A Game of Thrones is 720 pages long. The unabridged audio book is 33 hours 46 minutes. A 4-hour...