The best girls' school in Singapore, better than NYGH despite the fact that it was founded by a "pirate". The people there are very funny and crazy but nice.
Person 1: You are going to Raffles Girls' School?
Person 2: Yes
Person 1: I heard they are not as good as RI
Person 2: At least we are better than NYGH and we have more fun than RI boys.
Person 2: Yes
Person 1: I heard they are not as good as RI
Person 2: At least we are better than NYGH and we have more fun than RI boys.
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Get the Rahul Nihilani mug.Term to describe irritating practice where writers of historical novels invent characters and place them at the very centre of real events....they know all the important characters, "just happen" to be in the right place at the right time so that we can see key events through their eyes....
Basically the Ranulfistic character is an indulgence on the part of the writer, allowing them to "play God" and insert a made-up individual into the heart of real events.
This partly excuses them from the real work of historical fiction i.e. breathing life into REAL historical characters and dramatising the facts of their lives by weaving said facts with "best guesses" / imaginations of what their lives must have been like, why they did the things they did etc.
In many cases historical fact is far more interesting than fiction. Ranulfism is a cop-out if you are writing about interesting characters and events.
Basically the Ranulfistic character is an indulgence on the part of the writer, allowing them to "play God" and insert a made-up individual into the heart of real events.
This partly excuses them from the real work of historical fiction i.e. breathing life into REAL historical characters and dramatising the facts of their lives by weaving said facts with "best guesses" / imaginations of what their lives must have been like, why they did the things they did etc.
In many cases historical fact is far more interesting than fiction. Ranulfism is a cop-out if you are writing about interesting characters and events.
Ranulfism is named after Sharon Penman's invented character Ranulf, an imagined illegitimate son of Henry I of England (she reasoned that Henry had so many illegitimate children, what harm would one more do? What harm indeed...)
Ranulf first appears in "When Christ and his saints slept" as a small boy, a much younger half-sibling of the Empress Matilda/Maude.
He proceeds to nose his way into nearly every major event in this book and its sequels, even to the detriment of such characters as Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine!
Ranulf's life manages to be intertwined with Penman's other obsession - Wales. Even where Wales is highly peripheral to the main action of the story, somehow Penman manages to include it - and making the invented Ranulf half-Welsh, and having him end up with a Welsh woman (his cousin...who also happens to be blind..) ensures its place at the centre of the story, though it is ostensibly meant to be about the royal family of England.
The main characters of the HBO / BBC drama "Rome" are further prime examples of Ranulfism. Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo are fictional characters, yet they manage to be involved at the highest possible level in the great events of the story and as confidantes/tutors/friends of the most central characters - including possibly the zenith of Ranulfism, where we are supposed to believe that Titus Pullo, and not Caesar, is the real father of Cleopatra's son Caesarion.
This takes Ranulfism to new heights, where the writer changes history in order to better accommodate and glorify fictional characters. There is no need in terms of plot to make Caesarion Titus Pullo's son. The writer wants to weave him into the fabric of history, elevating him to a position that a fictonal character simply cannot occupy.
Wikipedia point out that a man with Titus Pullo's background actually could not have been a legionary as he was the son of a slave.
This is an example of the desire to write romantic fiction taking precedence over the responsibilities a writer of historical fiction has to the characters, events and culture he is portraying.
Ranulf first appears in "When Christ and his saints slept" as a small boy, a much younger half-sibling of the Empress Matilda/Maude.
He proceeds to nose his way into nearly every major event in this book and its sequels, even to the detriment of such characters as Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine!
Ranulf's life manages to be intertwined with Penman's other obsession - Wales. Even where Wales is highly peripheral to the main action of the story, somehow Penman manages to include it - and making the invented Ranulf half-Welsh, and having him end up with a Welsh woman (his cousin...who also happens to be blind..) ensures its place at the centre of the story, though it is ostensibly meant to be about the royal family of England.
The main characters of the HBO / BBC drama "Rome" are further prime examples of Ranulfism. Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo are fictional characters, yet they manage to be involved at the highest possible level in the great events of the story and as confidantes/tutors/friends of the most central characters - including possibly the zenith of Ranulfism, where we are supposed to believe that Titus Pullo, and not Caesar, is the real father of Cleopatra's son Caesarion.
This takes Ranulfism to new heights, where the writer changes history in order to better accommodate and glorify fictional characters. There is no need in terms of plot to make Caesarion Titus Pullo's son. The writer wants to weave him into the fabric of history, elevating him to a position that a fictonal character simply cannot occupy.
Wikipedia point out that a man with Titus Pullo's background actually could not have been a legionary as he was the son of a slave.
This is an example of the desire to write romantic fiction taking precedence over the responsibilities a writer of historical fiction has to the characters, events and culture he is portraying.
by Michelle Murphy November 22, 2007
Get the Ranulfism mug.Raffles Institution is supposedly the best school in Singapore, but the truth is that it is no different from the other schools on the island at all, if not worse in terms of student character and maturity. Most, if not all, of the students there treat other people as if they do not exist and walk with their noses in the air. They also love vandalising public property, and abusing the school's cats. However, nothing warms their cold and undead hearts more than torturing their teachers with loud nonsensical chants, lesson disruptions and disobeying them on purpose, which is the best evidence of how high their emotional intelligence (EQ) level is.
Max: Wow, I heard that you got into RI (the abbreviation for Raffles Institution), you must be really smart!
Jack: That's not true, also you should be glad that you're not in this hellhole of a school!
Jack: That's not true, also you should be glad that you're not in this hellhole of a school!
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The zone went live but they forgot to add the loot table, all the high end loot is just placeholder drops!
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