Your DA love interest probably never brushed their teeth in their life.

Let that sink in.

Oh my god

I can’t believe it

All that obsessive research into medieval dental hygiene actually paid off

I was spending all this time thinking “Literally no one cares about Thedosian dental hygiene, Amy, why are you wasting your time on this” but HERE IT IS

So yeah, this isn’t actually true! While the toothbrush itself is a fairly modern invention, there’s a well recorded history of people in medieval Europe using a combination of various sweet-smelling mouth rinses and scrubbing their teeth clean with a cloth and a mild abrasive herb paste of some sort. Some common rinses included mint and wine or mint and vinegar, and pastes included things like marjoram and mint, rosemary and charcoal, and vinegar, pickling alum, white salt and honey.

Someone even tested a bunch of historical remedies out and found out that they were mostly pretty effective.

So rest assured, your DA makeouts are probably reasonably minty fresh!

Aries: uggghhh
Taurus: ffgggggUhh
Gemini: ssrrRRGHHH
Cancer: FFH!!
Leo: grrr
Virgo: Ugh.
Libra: MMHEEEH
Scorpio: grrAAAGRRRGRGR
Sagittarius: hnngGG
Capricorn: MGggBBB
Aquarius: psshhhh
Pisces: fuckin shit

It can be difficult for birdwatching amateurs to really get a handle on all the different types of birds, so I thought before jumping into the facts we’d cover Bird Identification 101, with the help of a 13th century French bestiary.

Crow

Hawk

Nightingale

Raven

Quail

Partridge

Hoopoe

Phoenix

It can be tricky at first, but hopefully this illustrates some of the key differences.

[Masterful array of perfectly generic birds from Bibliothèque nationale de France here]