>>9451219she's dumb, that's a sweet gig
noble houses with retinues were a great idea, some autistic shut-in scholar got housing and food to be attached to a lord for various duties, sometimes musicians too
bach's entire livelihood was being a court musician and getting a stipend from churning out songs regularly. mozart too until he got cocky and thought he could do without it
it was a great way for a noble to be a center of cultural power without having to be the expert in everything, and it also allowed people like artists to find good livelihood without throwing themselves to the invisible hand of the mob market
>>9451229she wasn't big breasted even at full power, and she hardly ever appears that way
also can you fucking believe i somehow had all of nisemonogatari EXCEPT for episode 11 which had the image i was looking for, had to wait for it to redownload