#historically not awesome

[territorial-utopia]

Huzzah! It's birthday time! I'm slowly accumulating more and more things I like (latest additions this vest I made and a travel typewriter! Still need to fix the latter one though)

Sure has been a year.

[mcytblrconfessions]

I'm not usually one for rpf, it just doesn't interest me. However the one cc I have consistently imagined in various scenarios is Jack Manifold. I don't mean like shipping rpf, but more like historical fiction. I like to imagine Jack in different time periods and think about what he would do in situations pertaining to those times

[zours025]

SpUk for a strawpage request :) A ship I think about a lot but never draw LOL

[fictionadventurer]

I found a book on First Ladies by President's Daughter Margaret Truman and paged through it a bit, and I'm already obsessed with this story about Herbert Hoover.

Herbert Hoover had a tender heart, and his First Lady had an even more tender one--but they were loath to reveal their private feelings to the American voter and were appalled at the thought of publicizing them for political gain. A perfect example was the story of three children from Detroit, the oldest thirteen, who showed up at the White House gates to ask the President to help get their father out of jail. The man had stolen a car to keep his family from starving. President Hoover ordered a meal for the children from the White House kitchen, sat them in chairs around his desk, and talked to them about their father. He told them he was sure he was a good man, if he had children who loved him enough to travel all the way from Detroit to Washington for his sake. After the children left, Hoover called in his secretary, who saw tears on the President's face. "Get that man out of jail," Hoover said. "I don't care how you do it." The secretary succeeded in quashing the conviction--and asked the President if he could release the story to the press. "Of course not!" Hoover said.

And also with this related story further down the page.

Both Lou and the President gave thousands of dollars of their own money to strangers who wrote to the White House begging for help. Always, the gifts were anonymous, delivered through friends who were asked to investigate the pleas to make sure the money was needed.

[uncleclaudius]

Reconstruction of a group of statues portraying the blinding of Cyclops Polyphemus by Odysseus and his men.

The destroyed statues were discovered in a collapsed coastal cave near the Italian village Sperlonga which has been identified as Spelunca, a place, where according to Suetonius, praetorian prefect Sejanus saved emperor Tiberius's life when the cave collapsed in 26 AD.

[dandydingo]

After a year of writing I'm very excited to announce that the production of Midnight Wink officially starts August 1st! If you'd like to see my awesome stick figure sketches and pages as they're made check out my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/MidnightWink Don't fret if it's not within your means though! Midnight Wink will be free to read right here on Tumblr and released in huge honking chunks as each chapter is completed :)

[ace-and-ranty]

Reading A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry's essays on making bread in ancient times and I'm like.

Once again, I am BEGGING someone to think of the impact magic would have on agriculture.

Literally so much of this damn process is moving things around. First you move the soil around to make it nice and loose and to bring deeper soil topside. Then you have to move the seeds from a bag into the ground. Then you have to move the weeds out of your field. Then you have to move the tasty eating parts of wheat to one side, and the non tasty parts to the other side.

All of it!! Is moving shit around in specific ways!!

And the way we solved these issues nowadays is, invent machines that do the moving for us. But magic?? If you could get ONE spell that says "May all the edible parts of wheat come over here", that's days, WEEKS of back-breaking work DONE in the space of ONE SPELL!!!

You could get SO MUCH mileage out of this. Textiles. Agriculture. Metallurgy. Magic could have changed society SO DRASTICALLY and it is just not discussed enough!!!

[hoppityhopster23]

Happy birthday to Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington! (May 1st, 1769)

[belleandsaintsebastian]

mutuals we should group chat. anyone want 2 group chat ...

[cuddles-with-dragons]

I have a Wild West AU.

For all of Star Wars.

It started with a piano version of Cantina Band. It sounds like something you'd hear in a saloon.

That branches out into this.

Han Solo, a smuggler who's infamous for being uncatchable. His partner is a mountain man who's known by the name "Chewbacca".

And this.

Din Djarin, known to most as "Mando", is a lone Mandalorian bounty hunter. Not much is known about the secretive tribe that calls themselves Mandalorians, and most never remove their bandana.

Finally, I drew some members of the Batch. And their horses.

Omega is just a kid, but for some reason the new tycoon is obsessed with capturing her. Bounty hunters are on the lookout. She's brave though, and fights extremely well -for a woman.

"Crosshair" never gives out his real name, and he's always tried to hide his past as a freedom fighter. This cold, snarky, bounty hunter does have a soft side, though he doesn't show it often.

Thunder belongs to a freedom fighter that goes by "Hunter". He's a rather mischievous horse, and will often try and steal snacks.

Mercury was named after her coat, by small-town librarian "Tech". She's patient and is good with children.

Dynamite loves her owner, a ex-miner who calls himself "Wrecker", and she's incredibly tolerant of loud noises and doesn't spook easily.

Blitz is fast and dangerous, just like his owner Crosshair. He isn't scared by much and will often swat people with his tail.

Rattlesnake belongs to a former soldier who goes by "Echo". This horse is incredibly grumpy and doesn't tolerate much.

Desert Rose originally belonged to Echo, but got stolen by Omega and eventually became her horse. She's quiet and calm, and absolutely loves attention.

This is all the art I have so far, hope you like it!

Horse ref base by WHIT3FANG on DeviantArt

Font is Saddlebag from DaFont.com

[loverboybrightsideghost]

listening to rqg 159 and alex describes how zolf would recognize wilde’s “eeerrghhhhh it has to do with touchy-feely emotions” face. yeh

[thebaffledcaptain]

Sharing some favorite shots of me from Fort Ti recently because I have nowhere else to share them… the first one would make a great avatar if I was a Doodle but alas. I am not.

[ibrithir-was-here]

So I really loved @sky-of-starflowers fic meetings-that-weren’t where Hob meets up with Dream in different forms in between the 100 year visits and had to draw all the different forms. It’s an incredibly well written story with a lot of depth to it, definitely give it a read!

(I know I said it would be a couple of days but I couldn't help it I stayed up and did it all in one go 😅)

[allgremlinart]

I dont like how I can see a lot of people still conflating nakedness/bare skin/their subjective assessment of what constitutes "simple" clothing with a lack of cultural worth, diversity, and complexity.....

[fictionadventurer]

"What if the South won the Civil Wa--"

BORING!!

The only Civil War alternate history worth caring about is, "What if they fixed the sewage issue that was contaminating the White House water supply and killing presidents?"

How does the country progress if William Henry Harrison gets a full term? How do we handle presidential succession with no Tyler Precedent established?

If Zachary Taylor doesn't die, is there no Compromise of 1850? If Taylor lives to push for more strident anti-slavery measures, does this delay war or start it sooner? Does he try a different compromise just to keep the Union together? Or does he push his own ideas so strongly that the South secedes? Imagine if the war starts ten years early with a firmly anti-secessionist Louisiana plantation owner (who until like two years ago was a highly successful general) in the White House. Is this a Robert E. Lee in reverse situation--a man having to choose the Union over his people? There's no way to know, and no one else cares, but for some reason I do.

[solid-six]

Speaking of replaying things...got it in my head recently about maybe playing Death Stranding for a second time. Played it through once a few years ago and didn't think I'd want to do it over again.

So last night I thought I'd watch some of a YT playthrough, see how I felt about it. And after about and hour or so, I stg I've oscillated back and forth between...

Oh hell yeah! I can remember there was a lot here I really liked that was enough for me to finish the whole thing the first time; and

Bluhhhhhhhhhhhhh I also remember why I haven't wanted to play it again until apparently now lol

...like 20 times.