#excuse me its gunder not gunter

[purpleplunderbunny]

also today in “Global Economies and Nationalism,” which has a g r e a t professor but a theme that makes me want to die, i had to define gunpowder empires on the spot

i came up with something like “blah blah blah black powder, blah  the ottomans, the Chinese,* and the third one I can’t remember-”

“the mughuls”

“Right, the mughuls. And they’re all in Asia-ish-”

“Asia-ish! That sounds like something the post-structuralists would say!”

internet, he was delighted, and god help me i knew what he meant