<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=294097.msg14440800#msg14440800">Quote from: Giantmutantcrab on 08-10-2018, 16:35:01</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">*fiddles with thumbs a little bit... Barely finished high school, is in a room full of smart, educated people*<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I assure you that we put our pants on the same way you do.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=294097.msg14440800#msg14440800">Quote from: Giantmutantcrab on 08-10-2018, 16:35:01</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Must've been a thesis about... French medieval poetry, centered around the story and character of Chante-Clair?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Started with Aesop, actually, then Flemish medieval poetry in Latin, which very slightly predates the French, then traced the archetypes found in the Reynard epics through European and finally U.S. culture, tracing their diverse cultural shifts all the way forward to Robin Hood and the Book of the Dun Cow. Less exciting reading than it sounds, as it is mostly a collection of "X traces this development to Y through the following manuscript which diverges from the previous in Z elements" accompanied by a shit-ton of ATUs and tables of narremes.<br/><br/>The two characters that best maintain their characteristics across over a millenium and through diverse national and cultural upheavals are the fox and the rooster (with Renard and Chaunticleer (various spellings of each, heh)) having the strongest and most lasting identities.<br/><br/>As for my choice of nom de plume, taken as a whole over time Renard is a bit too much of a dick while Chanticleer is a bit pompous and vain (LOOK AT MY WRIITNG) but generally a good-hearted and community focused sort.<br/><br/>Funny E-specific story: when I first started logging in here I gave myself fits because I kept forgetting which way I'd spelled Chanticleer.