#a brew of history

[f3mme-f4tale]

a brew of history

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pairing: barista!ellie x artsy!reader

✎ summary: in which a dedicated assistant collections manager at the local history museum finds her routine pleasantly disrupted when she crosses paths with ellie, a barista at the coffee shop just opposite her workplace. their daily encounters over cups of coffee gradually evolve into deeper conversations about history, art, and life. as they bond over their shared interests and develop a mutual admiration, ellie begins to see the museum—and her own life—in a new light. however, when unforeseen challenges threaten both their professional and personal lives, amidst the whispers of history and the gentle hum of the universe, ellie discovers that love is the truest artifact of all—one that transcends time and echoes through the ages.

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⭒ dreams by the cranberries ⭒ i’d have to think about it by leith ross ⭒ north by clairo ⭒ steeeam by shelly ⭒ the universe by gregory alan isakov ⭒ warm glow by hippocampus ⭒ stubborn love by the lumineers ⭒ (you) on my arm by leith ross ⭒ true blue by boy genius ⭒ green is the colour by pink floyd ⭒ little willow by paul mccartney ⭒ too sweet by hozier

[lyss-sketchbox]

Iudex wrio from the swap au doodles

[jellogram]

I want to talk about the Rosetta Stone for a second:

This chunk of rock is the reason that anyone today can read Egyptian hieroglyphics. It's an incredible artifact (which is unfortunately in the British Museum, but I'm getting to that) because it allowed us, for the first time, to go back in time and actually hear from the people we had studied so much about. It allows us to look at pictures inscribed thousands of years ago and know what the carver meant by them. There's a reason it became an iconic piece of rock.

But my main point here is how much we love this rock. In one of the most impressive archaeological collections in the world, assembled through centuries of violence and thievery and racism, the crowning jewel of the museum is this rock. It's the banner image on their collection page of their website.

Isn't that interesting? This rock is special because of the way it connected cultures and allowed us to gain new understanding for people from another time and place. It's incredibly human, in the best possible way, that one of the world's most prized possessions is a tool that reached through millennia and brought us someone else's thoughts and words. It's wonderful that we are a species who places so much value in that.

But it's in the British Museum. An institution which offers a thorough summary of one country's attempt at world domination, at exercising their culture's own superiority over every other. At their disinterest in treating others like people.

It's not entirely known how the stone even came into British hands. The French discovered it. How it ended up in England's pocket was something that happened in hushed voices, between two world powers that hated each other but were united in their shared disrespect for Egypt's rights as a country.

But the museum today doesn't seem to see the hypocrisy in any of this. They marvel, and expect us to marvel, at this artifact for its ability to connect us with ancient Egyptians. Meanwhile, the perfectly functional and safe museums in Egypt today don't get to display this stone. The tool that opened up study of their own history was stolen from them. The exhibit might as well be a neon sign, declaring that Britain cares more for ancient Egyptians than modern ones.

So there it remains, at the British Museum. A testament to both human connection and human violence. I think if I wanted aliens to understand human history, the Rosetta Stone might be a good place to start.

[haggishlyhagging]

Women were also regularly employed in brewing, at least as much as men. Medieval peasants drank rather a lot of small (or low-alcohol) beer and ale. In the tenth-century Alfric's Colloguy, which records theoretical dialogues between a teacher and his students, one young man states, "I drink ale, usually, if I drink at all, and water if I have no ale. . . . I am not rich enough to be able to buy myself wine: Wine is not a drink for boys or fools but for old men and wise men." By the late medieval period, in brewing centers such as České Budejovice, from whence the name Budweiser comes, beer was being made on a large enough scale that it was being exported to Bavaria.

Medieval people desired to drink beer and ale not because water was unsafe, but because farmwork is extremely hard. Small beer and ale added additional calories to their daily uptake in an enjoyable way. Although the wealthy were probably able to procure professionally made and imported beers, most people, especially in the earlier medieval period, made their own ale or bought it from nearby producers. Ale was brewed primarily from barley and did not include the hops of beer, which meant it could not be stored for long before going off. As such, those who wanted ale had to be constantly brewing it to ensure a steady supply, making brewing a very common cottage industry. Women who brewed for their families would often brew excess for sale, allowing them to bring in a bit of money. Because brewing was a craft that could be learned at home, women could be employed as brewers in larger commercial breweries.

We find women in the brewing trade consistently: records show them paying taxes on their gains from brewing, and registering with the authorities who oversaw standards. When someone performed below these standards, they were frequently written up, so we can find the women who were not meeting them. The Durham Court Rolls from 1365 record that Agnes Postell and Alice de Belasis were fined twelve denarii for selling bad ale, about the equivalent of two days' work for a skilled craftsman. Similarly Alice de Belasis was separately fined two shillings, or the equivalent of five days wages, for poor-quality ale, which a court proved had no strength at all. Punishments for brewing bad ale could range from fines to ritualized humiliation. In England, the Domesday Book first recorded the use of the cucking stool (which would become the ducking stool in the early modern period) in Chester to punish those who sold bad ale or ale in incorrect measures. They would be forced to sit in a chair out side their home and be jeered at by locals. Fourteenth-century Scottish laws noted that any alewife who made "evil ale" was either fined "eight shillings" or placed in the cucking stool, a nod to women as the primary brewers in the region who could face the largely gendered humiliation as a result.

We also learn of women in the brewing profession through records of accidents. For example, one coroner's roll indicates that at around noon on October 2, 1270, Amice Belamy was carrying a tub full of gruit, an agent for flavoring ale, with Sibyl Bonchevaler at her work in Lady Juliana de Beauchamp's brewhouse in Staple, Eaton Socon. As they went to dump the gruit into the boiling vat of beer, Amice slipped and fell into it and was trapped by the tub that fell on top of her. "Sibyl immediately jumped towards her, dragged her from the vat and shouted; the household came and found her scalded almost to death. She was given the last rites of the church and died on the day following. This harrowing story reminds us what a physically tasking and dangerous job brewing, especially in large quantities, could be.

This episode is also interesting because the two women were working for another woman, and a lady at that, Juliana de Beauchamp. Brewing was commonly associated with women across class lines, since the brewhouse is listed as belonging to the Lady Juliana. All in all, during these years a woman was just as likely to be brewing ale as a man, if not more likely in some instances.

-Eleanor Janega, The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society

[roamingbadger]

Uh, Hello.

Unsure if this is appropriate tumblr etiquette, but i found your tags under a quote from an old book about women and reading. They said:

"i am showing great restraint in these tags by not talking about how women were once stewardesses of beer#just wanted you all to know#hyperfixation tag rant AVOIDED"

And honestly, I really would love to hear this rant, if you have time and motivation.

OMG, I think this is my favorite ask I've ever received, and Anon, you have completely made my evening. My week. My month, even!! Thank you!

I decided to put my rant under the cut for the sake of the dash:

So, this hyperfixation began for me when I was doing research for a short story. In the course of my research, I read this book called Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 by Judith Bennett. Most of my knowledge on the subject comes from this book, so it's important to start with a gigantic disclaimer that it's only one book, it's only about England, and I'm probably misremembering stuff, and if so, I apologize!

But the summary of the book does a good job of telling you about the basic premise:

Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women's work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) gradually left the trade. She also offers a compelling account of the endurance of patriarchy during this time of dramatic change.

So basically ale and beer were considered such household necessities that they fell under the purview of the women of the house, along with things like meat, butter, bread, etc. Some women were held in high renown for their ale such that they could sell it to other households, or to single men who didn't know how to brew their own, and make a profit from it. Some of *those* women might have even been good enough at it to set it up as a larger business. And there was a word for them--"brewsters" means female brewers.

The book covers a lot of ground, everything from brewers' guild membership (which could include women, but often turned into "guys' clubs"), to control over property and therefore water supply (which was the single biggest factor to creating good ale and beer at the time, and which also meant that a lot of single women or widows who no longer owned their property could no longer brew their beer). Even the fictional depiction of Brewsters as being drunken, immoral women (think the busty barmaid stereotype that persists today) was used to push them out of the trade. And especially as ale and beer became more popular, and therefore profitable--men started to perpetuate the misbelief that it was "men's work." But for centuries, it had been perfected by women first!

So, now whenever guys act like women don't know shit about beer, it's interesting to me to imagine the expert brewster in her medieval kitchen, grinding her grain by hand, mixing it with boiling water, and letting it fill with the wild yeast that was already in the air because of all the bread baking and other activities around the hearth. Voila! Delicious ale.

All this being said, I know that monks in Continental Europe are also given credit for being early brewers, and I don't know as much about that particular tradition, so like I said before, this is just looking at the history of England. However, it's not a stretch to imagine that this trend might have mirrored similar changes throughout other parts of Europe at the time. I would love to learn more about brewing in other parts of the world, too, but I haven't had the time to go down that path yet.

I hope this has scratched the itch a little bit, and again, thank you SO much for giving me the chance to talk about this. I literally had so much fun. If anyone else is interested in such things, PLEASE do interact! :D

[archinform]

Former Schoenhofen Brewing Administration Building, 1886, Architect Adolph Cudell, Schmidt & Garden. 18th Street and Canalport Avenue, Chicago

[jazzdailyblog]

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[fictionadventurer]

Interesting thing about Lincoln.

As a person and a politician, he was defined by his way with words. He was a lawyer, which involves speaking in courtrooms and appealing to audiences. He rose to national prominence because of how well he did in a series of public debates. He wrote speeches that have lasted through the ages because of their concise yet vivid phrasing.

He understood the world through the lens of storytelling. He had anecdotes for every situation, and constantly used them to provide metaphors explaining his stances or his strategy or his view of an issue.

As president during a Civil War, a huge part of his job was crafting the narrative explaining what they were fighting for. The Gettysburg Address reframed the national narrative so the founding moment of the country wasn't the ratification of the Constitution--as the South claimed--but the Declaration of Independence that listed the ideals that all the states should be held to. Of course, the South was doing the same thing, so that the conflict was not only a battle of muskets and cannons--it was a war of stories.

And he was killed by an actor.

In a theater.

He was struck down by an opposing storyteller in a palace of artifice. An actress made a point of cradling his dying head in her lap so she could have a part in the drama. He lived by stories and died as the center of one, in a place made for telling such stories.

It's poetic and tragic and so shockingly fitting that the war of stories claimed him as its central victim.

[nerice]

miquella's needle of unalloyed gold item/staggered lore reveals is so insane 2 me i am chewing on it forever. we saw malenia's prosthesis get shattered by radahn in the story trailer. we see her unleash the scarlet rot on him (and all of caelid) right after. then you (me) actually play the game. you find a girl decimated by scarlet rot in the plague church. so you go on a little quest for gowry to save millicent, get him the needle from the aeonia swamp, a needle of unalloyed gold. a broken needle of unalloyed gold......

wonder why that is :)

enter all of the millicent quest. get her the prosthesis that allows her to follow the path malenia took, rot kept at bay by the needle, all the way to the haligtree. bonus lore from gowry that very much confirms millicent is a daughter of malenia, born from the scarlet swamp left in her wake by the caelid disaster. that she is fated to become a valkyrie of unprecedented power once malenia ascends to godhood. alas, millicent has other plans,

and if you don't betray her, she entrusts the needle to you, so you can finish what she started.

WHICH IS WHY IT'S SO. that you don't get a choice but to fight malenia. interacting with the flower left after she is subsumed into godhood and subsequently defeated by you changes the item to "miquella's needle" with the full lore confirmation,

with its only in-game application being that it allows u to avert the frenzied flame ending as that's the only path that has you yourself affinied with an outer god directly. BUT THE FACT IS. miquella made this needle for his sister. he built the entire order of unalloyed gold and the haligtree itself to save malenia from the rot (as confirmed by other items) did everything he could to sever her connection to the outer god of rot (she herself too, hc it may be, severing the arm that wld have held the empyrean ring to ensure she could never become herald of this new world order) a tiny fragile needle!!! shattered in the fight versus radahn. allowing millicent a breath of life, for a while. returned to malenia too late to make a difference. (it should though!! there should be a non-conflict alternate ending but that's not how a superboss works) it worms me so!!!!!!! her fight being completely optional. the upcoming dlc. the possibility is slim but it would be wildly interesting if it opened up an alternate resolution, or if meeting miquella does come with consequences depending on your choices. whether you carry his needle, whether you killed his sister. PLEASE

[ivehadanapophany]

I can't believe book of hours finally made me learn to cultivate influences. You got me this time alexis kennedy...

[detroitlib]

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[pinnedangel]

i can feel myself shifting the way i approach inhumanity. i no longer want to be a passive party, i do not want to be the dog waiting at your door. i do not want to be a doll that is pristine and pre-packaged, docile and beautiful in its victimhood. i want to be the thing that is uncannily outside of human. i want you to not be sure what you're looking at when you see me. something that stares too sharply, walks with the confidence that it knows it is supposed to be there, but you should consider whether you are too. i do not want to show off, but to tempt. i do not want to beg you to use me, i want you to feel challenged to try. i love, of course, something else that will transform me and reduce me, warp my mind, reach into me and pull my devotion to the surface. but i would like to make it do so, to prove it deserves my reverence before i choose to offer myself up to the fear it instills in me. i want to submit to you, but i want to step closer to you when the knife's in your hand, rather than run and hope you catch me.

[puckpocketed]

just saw your post about filip zadina?? where you talking about him being very failwife and traded and not traded? and the tags interested me, so im invested now

is it alright if i get some background lore?

hello . hi. i am SO sorry i couldn't get to this sooner i didnt know how to tell you that @oensible and @neonfretra and I are about to drop a textbook length primer on the 23-24 sharks (most of whom are gone) including zadina. um. if it won't Kill you to wait i think i wailed about him a lot on those slides LMAO its gets quite sincere and poetic even!!

IF you cant wait tl;dr he was hyped up in his draft year as a very good goal scorer but he ended up dropping a few places and going to the red wing.s at 6th overall. he said some stuff about making people regret not choosing him sooner and proceeded to. <3 not do that. he landed in san jose last szn hoping to make a splash and break out. it's never been a question of hard work, he does work hard. it's just. useless <3 which is SO pathetic and tragic and real (and of course, the most interesting thing is how very determined he is to not fall into a checking/energy line role. he is so attached to that goal scoring identity it seems...? <3 many prolific goal scorers at the college/junior level become championship caliber bottom-6 players and its like... zadina....bestie.....) if u look at his numbers its p obvious he didn't impress sharks management enough to keep, and we couldn't sell him at the deadline, so in the end he was let go in free agency.

we have been on Employment Watch since, and he recently was signed to HC Davos, so we are very happy !! <3 he has the energy of a wounded creature in the woods to me... hes thrashing around u see and the wounds just get worse.... something to that effect!

[junkissed]

the urge to abandon my every wip and write a fantasy au hao fic is so strong rn i cannot give in

[araiz-zaria]

DUEL ME AT DENNY'S IHOP! 😤🔥🌊

❌ FIGHT DUEL ME AT DENNY'S PARKING LOT!!!

✅ DUEL ME AT IHOP!!!1!!1!

James Barron totally said this y'all 🤪💀

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I just found out recently that not much of the Bladensburg's Duelling Fields was preserved, so today the site where Stephen Decatur duelled James Barron was bordered by a cemetery and...an IHOP.

😅😅🥴🙃🥴

(so yeah, I reckon why not draw this 🤪🤪)

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Meanwhile this was what their seconds were doing:

(Decatur's second William Bainbridge to the left, Barron's second Jesse Elliott on the right)

[indigogirled]

wearing a headband bc its fall (september, 87 degrees) and its supposed to be cute but i can feel my peers thinking hmm headband girl ... she thinks she's headband girl