#HIStory

[memories-of-ancients]

Terracotta vase in the form of a lobster claw, Greece, circa 460 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[charlesoberonn]

Clearly Elon doesn't know what happened the last time a British king named Charles tried to do that

[my-darling-boy]

Still overhauling my new iPad with a custom WWI theme and my search app is a Mercy Dog :)

[procrastiel]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the fourth dimension. Time.

Here (1989) by Richard mcguire (raw magazine)

[thehmn]

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

[prokopetz]

I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

[shamebats]

[maddest-scientist-ms]

That left side of the spectrum has a special secret DLC only discovered by one sheep ever - The horrific ram once owned by Thomas Jefferson and which KILLED A LITTLE BOY on WHITE HOUSE TERRITORY.

[animentality]

[a-meh]

[qsycomplainsalot]

AI people: we're just as much artists as you are, you gotta be so observant and go through so many correcting phases for the picture to look good uwu also AI people:

[mamabearcat]

I went down a rabbit hole looking for female employment in 1860’s Sydney. It’s debatable whether I would have been able to support three children as a widow - most women seem to have remarried as a matter of necessity to support their children unless they owned their own business. So largely impacted, unless I moved across the state to live with other family, which would have been expensive - ten days by coach across the Blue Mountains.

But I did find this delightful article touching on women’s occupations in 1858 on Pitt Street, Sydney. It was worth reading just for this part alone.

Just down the street, one of Mrs Roberts's tenants is the infamous Caroline Pope. Her business is not listed in any trade directory but her profession is well-known. She was recently up before the courts for assaulting one of her neighbours. Julia Stevens, the wife of a sailor, also living somewhere in Pitt Street, had either been innocently fetching her daughter from the street or had been verbally attacking Pope, calling her a 'street-walking faggot', when Pope assaulted her with a decanter and possibly also bit her.

The decade you’re given is the decade to which you’re transported. Your geographic location doesn’t change; only the time period changes. “Equivalent QOL” means a qualify of life that approximates the life you have now and anticipate being able to have in the future.

[that-bluesybitch]

[classicalcanvas]

Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

[wordcubed]

something incredibly American about an Allied trooper yelling brand names at Soviets until they recognize him as an ally.