#historical accounts

[mike-wachowski]

reblog and tag ur answer so I can see please :)

[froody]

child mortality rates were so high in the 1840s and 1850s that when I see record of someone who’s (documented) children all survived into adulthood I’m like “wow. how the fuck did you do that.”

also there is this idea that parents just cared less about their children back then because they died so often but the many many many accounts of mothers and fathers holding their gravely ill children all night not sure if their next breath would be their last. that loss was the greatest fear then just as it is now and just as it seemed to be in Paleolithic times. they compartmentalized their grief to survive but that didn’t mean they felt it any less keenly.

[hedgehog-moss]

I was talking with a friend the other day about how I was fascinated with American school life when I was a teen because it seemed so different from how things are in my country (I knew about US high schools thanks to Hollywood, an accurate and trustworthy source) and we talked about which aspects of US schools felt foreign or strange to us and one thing I brought up was, how American teens only seemed to have like 15min for lunch (I had 1h30 here in France), as evidenced by the cafeteria scenes (no one seemed to eat a proper four-course meal? I definitely never saw a separate cheese course), and I was like, I envied a lot of stuff about US schools but not this

... and I went looking in my old diaries to see if I ever wrote about this, and you know what? I was wrong. I did envy their school lunches which, like almost everything about US schools, felt intriguing and different and cool. The reason middle school-me thought American school lunches were superior to French ones is because, since American teens in TV shows only seemed to get like 4 chicken nuggets and a milk carton for lunch, their lunch tray was very light and they could hold it with one hand under it, the other hand in their pocket or holding their bag strap on their shoulder all casual-like. Sometimes there was no tray, even!

I envied these American teenagers for their lunchtime nonchalance. I would have liked to handle lunch in this cool-cat way but my French lunch tray being loaded with 4 different heavy and breakable plates, I had to hold it carefully with both hands. In my view this was unfair as the hindrance of governmental nutrition guidelines made French students look like uptight nerds, unable to strut around the cafeteria with one hand in our pocket like we didn’t care. Same for the absence of lockers in our schools, we had to carry all our books on our back all day like studious turtles whilst the beautiful 25 year old American teens on my television casually leant against their lockers chatting with friends then strolled around school with just a couple of books tucked under their arm like they were in Dead Poets Society. Thank god there was an ocean between us, imagine a French kid entering a US school cafeteria carrying 3 binders and 5 textbooks in their big rucksack and holding their tray with two hands like a complete loser

Note that these comparisons are quite worthless since I don't know what US school life / food is like in the real world (I imagine it varies a lot!)—I just find it funny to re-read old diaries and discover what was important to kid-me. Discussing these little cultural differences gleaned from US TV series, adult!me is like "yeah I remember being intrigued & envious about a lot of things! Not their school lunches though, they didn't look balanced and nutritious"—meanwhile middle school-me, focused on what mattered, was like, imagine what we could be... imagine being able to hold your lunch tray with 1 hand instead of 2 thus accessing a realm of coolness unfathomable to us in our backward country

[alwaysbewoke]

wow. "chiquita" and "death squads" are not things i expected to see in the same sentence.

[ghostshipglamour]

The best thing about the terror amc season one is that you will never run out of guys.

You’d think with it being two ships not moving and everyone dying we’d run out but nooo every rewatch means an exponentially growing number of sad men to care about

[junotter]

Legitimately can't explain what caused me to get just get really into this hetaliaAU that exists solely in my brain but I couldn't stop

At first it was just imagining like a Japanese woman in kimono in like 19th century New York and then I started thinking about how amazing fem japan is and like then ameripan came in and now I'm like losing it

[chiropteracupola]

an assortment of my temeraireverse fic-dragons!

[cygnet and honoré are from fifteenth-century britain and france, aquilillus, flavia magna, and bán are from second-century britain, and cipachcoatzin is from sixteenth-century mesoamerica]

[fipindustries]

its so weird to just see asterix walk up to caesar and simply talk to the guy.

also, the figure of caesar in asterix is fascinating because he is undoubdetly the villain here, he is the final boos, the big bad dicator. and yet the gauls seems to hold no animosity towards the guy because they know he is at worst an occasiona inconvenience. but also when on his own he is shown to be not a super evil man, he is shown to be a rather complex figure, reasonable, honorable, sober, too proud of himself certainly, enmeshed in dramas of the senate and other plots at rome. but definetly a dictator and a colonizer who has megalomaniac ambitions to conquer the world. i dont know, its a surprisingly nuanced depiction for such a silly comic

[sadish-radish]

With farm work winding down for the season, I finally had time to update my shop: mini and full-sized felted mushrooms, greeting cards, stickers, and pendants!

>>Shop Link Here!!<<

[ladyofsnark]

Varric: A giant hole in the sky.

Warden: A cult who thought Andraste was reincarnated as a dragon and guarded the temple containing her ashes.

Varric: Blighted lyrium that turns people to stone and makes shit float around.

Warden: A dragon made of lightning

Varric: ... That breathed lightning?

Warden: That too.

Varric: ... A Qunari invasion. Two of them.

Warden: A forest of sentient trees inhabited by a tribe of werewolves that are the product of a curse laid down by a Dalish Keeper

Varric: You're just making this up now.

[daguerreotyping]

Daguerreotype of a rather stiff young man wearing smart spectacles and a sharp frown, c. 1850s

[alwaysbewoke]

the lies white people tell themselves to escape accountability and a real adult conversation on race, racism and history is just so sad smfh

[averagecontentenjoyer121]

I love spartan humor

[reneedenoailles]

langley is so clever i feel obsessed

[ferideart]

Regina astris

[tyrianludaship]

is it fair to call people like this "hack writers" if the only way they find a relationship interesting is when it involves pedophilia, incest, cannibalism or necrophilia?