Tutor, Tudor… Anime… and Why Reading Still Matters
Examples of Tudor Mystery. Here’s a small confession. For years, I thought “Tudor mystery” meant… a mystery involving tutors. Teachers. Medieval royalty getting lessons. Murder happening somewhere between math homework and court etiquette. It made sense in my head, so I never questioned it. After all, I fantasized about doing away with my tutors all the time when I was a teen, so if someone made a bunch of mysteries involving tutors getting murdered, tutors solving murders, tutors committing murders- hey, all the more power to them :) Turns out, I was wrong. It’s Tudor mystery—as in the Tudor dynasty of England. Henry VIII. Elizabeth I. Court intrigue, spies, executions, and political backstabbing. The funny part? I didn’t misread it. I heard it. Because every single time, my screen reader calmly said “tutor mystery”, and my brain filled in the blanks. I assumed I knew what it meant… and that assumption stuck around for years. And this wasn’t the first tim...
