You'd think the history of medieval clowning is the one area fantasy authors would be interested in exploring, given how many of them are clowns themselves, but nope – just a solid wall of this guy:

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One of my favourite recurring examples of "generically medieval" fantasy's tendency to jump directly from Antiquity to the Early Modern era and skip the actual medieval period entirely is the ubiquity of a VERY SPECIFICALLY 16th C image of the court jester. Jingling fucks as far as the eye can see.

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I wish they'd do this for real because I just know they'd either try to kill each other for real or whoever lost would straight up take out a hit on the other guy

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It's important to stay active in old age!

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Play some shuffleboard, do some crafts, watch Grandma uppercut Uncle Steve's dentures into the fruit salad bar to the uproarious approval of a crowd of hooting septuagenarians.

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