#callidaiunctura

[breitzbachbea]

13 for the ask game!

Finally getting around to clearing out my inbox! Thank you SO much for asking!

History Ask Game

13. [share some random historical trivia!]

OOOOUUUHHH, where to START!

I have to learn more about Frederick II. of the HRE, he is my second favourite swabian (first is my friend Jani, third is Felix Fabri). Because what I do know FUCKS SO HARD, aside from the fact that he was a rip-roaring BANG to end one periodization phase of the German Medieval ages. You basically killed your entire dynasty, but by GOD did you do it while serving CUNT.

My favourite story is the crusade one, the abridged version. So, my boy Fritz had sworn to the Pope that he'd go on crusade some time, but you know, always something better to do when you're the emperor and also King of Sicily. By the time Fritz can finally go, he gets violently sick on the boat that just left Brindisi and goes back home. That's not a good enough excuse for the Pope, who excommunicates him anyways, so Fritz says oh FUCK YOU, I'm going anyways. Goes to the Holy Land, brokers a temporary peace with the local muslim elite and gets to ACTUALLY go to Jerusalem. Absolute king shit, all while excommunicated. I know it's medieval Europe, he probably did some horrendous shit I haven't read up on yet, but he is my favourite. The balls on this man and his love for South Italy which I share. I visited his grave when I was in Palermo, it was ALL I saw of the Cathedral that time around (I will return. And probably look at Fritz again as well as the rest.)

Time Jump! During the Napoleonic occupation, Kassel (the capital of the Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel) became the capital of the newly formed Kingdom of Westphalia and was ruled over by Napoleon's brother Jerome. Or how the Kasseläner_innen called him - König Lustik. Because the only sentence in German he, according to the local tradition, was "Morgen wird wieder lustig" - "Tomorrow, we'll have fun again" (Or to make merry ... It's hard to translate). Also, after Napoleon was defeated and the Landgraf, now Kurfürst Wilhelm I. (Vienna Congress shenanigans, don't worry about it), returned ... they weren't so keen on his absolutistic leanings? So, in 1830, when riots broke out, citizens successfully pressed Wilhelm II to call together the Landtag (not parliament, but a representation of all the people with power in the principality's realm. The estates of a principality, you get it). He did call it together, something that hadn't been done in a long time because absolutism, and they got a constituition, to enshrine rights for citizens and curb the monarchical power! There's a big cutout reproduction in the Kasseler Stadtmuseum of an engraved illustration by Ludwig Emil Grimm! Here's the entire engraving!

Grimm you may now think ... Grimm like the Brother Grimm? Indeed! He was their youngest brother, with Wilhelm and Jakob being the eldest of six children! He was a famous illustrator and also illustrated copies of his brother's Kinder- und Hausmärchen. The city of Kassel was home to the family for many, many years, with Jakob and Wilhelm studying in nearby Marburg as well. One of the reasons that a lot of 'their' fairytales have French origins is the fact that Kassel took in huge swaths of Huguenots over the course of the 17th and 18th century. They let them settle around the Landgraviate (name for a principality ruled over by the Landgraf, in German Landgrafschaft), in existing places as well as newly founded settlements. That's why there is a small village in East Hesse named Gethsemane, called Getzemich in the local dialect. Of course, named after the garden in Jerusalem in the bible. And because those Huguenots were very industrial and Jakob & Wilhelm weren't really gonna leave their cushy study, lots of middle class Huguenots came to tell them their tales - hence things they had carried with them from France.

I am so sorry, this was so much and I could talk on and on and on about Hessian history, I could dig up funfacts about Sicily or other South Italian places, I could wreck my brain for some ancient Roman or Mesopotamian funfacts, I could even unearth some about Ireland and Great Britain if I dug deep enough. I just ... I love history. It's fascinating. It's all there ever was in human history! It's entirely different cultures from our own and yet many times the answer why things are the way they are today! It's the past, it's the present and we look to it because we ask about the future. Wonderful, isn't it?

[girlcatullus]

tumblr user callidaiunctura is going to bed. bye bye

[catilinas]

happy birthday!!! (don't know if i'm late but still!) i hope you have a nice day!! ⭐⭐

you are not late here in Greenwich Meme Time and thank you i Did!

[studylatin]

Rose (@keats-apologist​) was kind enough to tag me in a nine-favourite-films question. Here is my line-up!

A Room with a View (1985).

The Double (2013).

Romeo and Juliet (1985).

Black Sea (2014).

Fargo (1996).

It Follows (2014).

Night Moves (2013).

Green Room (2015).

Dog Day Afternoon (1975).

If you would like to, I tag: @callidaiunctura, @flores-et-dracones, @cithaerons, and @seizethehistory.

[cithaerons]

tagged by the wonderful @luthienne to list 7 comfort films then tag 7 people, thank you!! <3

- lord of the rings trilogy  - legally blonde - pride and prejudice (2005) - wild - big fish - secret of roan inish - jane eyre (2011...... they are all good tho)

tagging @catullan @femchef @tributary @paintingpoliticsandpoland @callidaiunctura @the-venereal-bede @ajax-daughter-of-telamon + anyone else who wants to!

[girlcatullus]

callidaiunctura -> girlcatullus

okay i've done it :) let the unhinginess begin!

[breitzbachbea]

BEA HI RE: ZOO ROME HAS A ZOO WITH PENGUINS and this zoo is one of the best-signalled attractions in the city like. oh so you're in your car? we have a run-down street sign for the direction you need and A BRAND NEW ONE FOR THE ZOO

Honestly, now that you say that, and it could just be my brain getting tricked ... but I do think I remember advertisements of the zoo during one of my last visits to the city. I'll buy that immediately, yeah.

[breitzbachbea]

"lives in the city with atac. cringe" it's sad because it's true

God truly gives their hardest battles to their strongest soldiers, my heart goes out to you.

[girlcatullus]

"As the only two non-cis-white-male students in their year,"

sentences in a reylo fanfics that make you taste colours

[girlcatullus]

"He stepped a little closer, and really, he was not gross. How someone this sweaty, someone who’d just pushed a truck, still managed to smell good was a topic worthy of a Ph.D. dissertation, for sure. Earth’s finest scientists should have been hard at work on this."

this is such a fanfic it hurts and it's not even a good one

[girlcatullus]

he's... pushing a truck. better yet, several tonnes of truck. twilight renaissance

[girlcatullus]

oh my god of COURSE it's a fake dating au. of course.

[girlcatullus]

the premise for the rey to be dating kylo (because fuck it. it's a reylo fanfic even if the author changed the names) is so weak. her friend wanted to go on a date but apparently... needed rey's blessing and to also know she was dating someone? or she wouldn't have done it? like what the fuck and obviously our trusty mc decides to kiss the first person walking by in her place of work and call it sufficient proof...? jesus

[girlcatullus]

kissing a random guy and it turning out that is the Frosty Yet Gold-Hearted Hearthrob male protagonist? so quirky girl ya female protagonist of me rawr

[girlcatullus]

she's a phd but also a bumbling fool like clumsy girl circa ya 2013 archetype.

[girlcatullus]

yes we get it. hannibal is gay and evil