#and History: Past

[laddersofsweetmisery]

I don't see enough people mourning over the slow death of physical media. And I don't just mean TV shows, video games, or movies--which don't even get me started about how we don't really 'own' anything anymore. It includes notes, journals, and letters to one another...so much of our history is lost when we lose a password, a website goes down, a file/hardware is corrupted, or a platform disappears. History that doesn't seem important until you no longer have access to it. Physical media does a lot for memory recall. How many memories will we lose because we don't have something tangible to tie it back to? Something to hold in our hands and stir up those memories we thought were once lost? Sometimes I wonder what the difference between burning a book and losing access to physical media is when someone can pull the plug and remove your access so easily.

[pemberlaey]

nobody does chapter titles like charles dickens

[suntails]

true love

[maskedteatime]

'you're a good man, 7n7'

everyone hates you, everyone except one

[reality-detective]

When general motors built refrigerators 🤔

[earlgraytay]

I really wish that people had a better grasp on what The Average Person's Life was like pre-industrialization. If you're living in the global North the odds are good that your life is, in fact, better than a medieval king- yes, even with the political stuff- and would make your ancestors cry wild tears of envy.

The things that suck about your life are things that suck about the baseline human condition (at least since the invention of agriculture, but that's 10,000 years of humanity). Yes, including all the political stuff.

The baseline human condition is "being terrified of losing the harvest and starving", compared to that, losing a job is no big deal. (It's bad, it can be life-upendingly bad, but it's still not "you are guaranteed to die if you screw this up" bad for most people.)

The baseline human condition is "getting kicked around by a tin pot dictator", whether that be a king, a baron, a warlord, or a chief; it's taken centuries of social technology to get the world to a point where that's Not Normal.

The baseline human condition is "losing multiple siblings and/or children at a young age to diseases that are entirely preventable". That's a shocking tragedy now. The baseline human condition is "being in the pathway of said tinpot dictator's wars of conquest" and having to deal with soldiers' pillage, looting, and worse (even if they're nominally on your side). That is, again, a shocking tragedy-- it still happens, and happens in way too much of the world, but no one is going to tell you that it's normal.

I'm not saying that we can sit back and rest on our laurels. We can't. I've been calling the pre-industrial world the "baseline human condition" for a reason- unless you're very, very careful, that's what your society eventually reverts to. It takes a lot of people working very hard to make sure you don't have to live at the baseline human condition, and if you start slacking on that, you start backsliding into it.

How we treat each other- and how we use the technology, material and social, that we've developed to make things easier- matters. We can make the world even better than it is now. We can also make it significantly worse. The choice is ours.

...But if you know that you can reliably have food regardless of the season, you don't live in fear of a random attack killing you tomorrow, and you can listen to music on command whenever you want? You do actually live a better life than a medieval king. Because even kings and emperors were much closer to the baseline human condition than a random farm worker in Bumfuck, Iowa is today.

[bowandbrush]

where have I seen this before…

[gingerswagfreckles]

Like sorry I'm not finished but the reason the left is so obsessed with historical revisionism and "proving" that Jews are faking the thousands of years of archeological, historical, cultural, and genetic evidence that overwhelmingly proves the Jews are indigenous to Israel. Is because they ascribe to an absolutely batshit crazy worldview in which indigenous people are very literally allowed to indiscriminately murder civilians and even commit genocide against any population that has been labeled as "colonizers." And while the insane hypocrisy and denial of obvious facts of history is crazy frustrating, the main issue here is not that they won't acknowledge Jews are indigenous to Israel. It's that they think you can determine which people one can acceptably murder based on their DNA.

[lightfin]

More from my Dragons return concept. Full colours this time.

I feel like Steve would have a very Snotlout, Hookfang type relationship with his dragon. ( the dragon being very nonchalant about the whole experience and tolerating Steve’s enthusiasm and general Steve antics.)

Jim’s Dragon friend has a big heart, just like him. And is the first dragon in my story concept to find Arcadia. (And may or may not also become Jim’s therapy dragon. Boy does he need one.)

Blinkys not so sure about the whole wild dragon thing, he’s more of the ‘I’ll stay where my feet reach the ground thank you very much!’ Kind of troll.

Unfortunately the same can’t be said for the Deady Gailslash that’s become particularly fond of him. Heaven’s knows why? 🙃

Claire befriends a dragon with a particularly unique ability that orientates around fear and light within shadow, which greatly reflects a lot of herself.

Aaarrrgghhs just ecstatic to have made a new friend.

Toby, he’s loving every minute of it. And may have named the twin dragons after a hot pepper.

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I definitely ment to mirror the original dragon riders in this from Httyd. If you couldn’t tell, as technically this is history repeating itself. ( I’m not counting the nine realms show, that is not cannon, but TOA and Httyd same universe are.)

I’ve been developing this concept for a long time, as of now it’s just art, but once everything is finalised I will be doing a fanfic on this, so keep an eye out if your interested.😁

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm not going back to Gusu with you.

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[oooooooo-those-are-ghost-sounds]

Edwin bullies people for being bad at history part one

[priceofreedom]

The yellow flowers symbolize reunion ♡ New Zack x Aerith wallpaper (Ever Crisis)

[thesilicontribesman]

'Vikingar!' Viking Experience, Largs, Scotland

[emipon]

“…the people and the friends that we have lost, or the dreams that have faded... Never forget them.”

[rakiloveslewis]

lost the bro and now losing the cedes