#games #balkan #ruritania #orientalism #zelda #comics #comicbooks
#Mustread in @lemondediplomatique.cl.web.brid.gy by Jean Arnaud Dérens about an middle European essentialist fantasies about Balkan imaginary countries in Tin tin & 'The Prisoner of Zenda'
www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2026/03/DERE...
Yes: he's a first-cousin of Anthony Hope Hawkins, creator of #Ruritania. Also seems to be related to 'Don Roberto' on the Cunninghame-Graham side.
@nickdaly.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social @romgothsam.bsky.social
My last read of 2025 - David Stuart Davies’ 2007 pastiche of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda, in which #Holmes must track down the missing Rudolph Rassendyll to help Colonel Sapt save #Ruritania (again) from Rupert of Hentzau. #BookSky
How many royal correspondents does the BBC have on the go at any one time?
Perhaps they are distributed across the nation, able to stand outside any building remotely connected to The Firm, at a moments notice.
#Ruritania
#r4today
@nickdaly.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social @romgothsam.bsky.social Looks v Antoinette de Mauban to me… #Ruritania
@baileygrocer @EsserHelena @RomGothSam Sounds familiar… #Ruritania
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