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oh my god, they are making a queen charlotte bridgerton show. and like... why? why can't we just have actual biopic. why can't we have a biopic that shows that this was a woman who didn't take sugar in her tea to support abolition, but was part of an institution that fundamentally profited from slavery? why can't we talk about the joyful young woman who was forced to obey her rigid husband's rules, have 15 children, and could be both kind and cruel. just make a fantasy show. just. make. a. fantasy. show. i am tired.
#netflix queen charlotte#anti-bridgerton#i hate it#history is not simple#history is a hot mess#this is literally the era of william wilberforce#ottobah cugoano#and olaudah equiano#the sons of africa society#but we're not going to talk about abolition#we're just going to pretend that a girl in a pretty dress changed things overnight because magic#thanks netflix#as if persuasion wasn't bad enough
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My brother (currently in college shooting for a PhD in maths) sent me this at 2 am and informed me that I should “put it on the tumbler”
Jobius Strip
#jobius strip#mobius strip#mathematics#mathblr#all questions will be forwarded to him because I am but a simple english major slash history buff
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Hi I was wondering if you know of any good resources to get good vintage names that aren’t typical and boring (Fred, Edward, Alfred etc)?
Some of the names in the Santa letters are certainly peculiar and it made me wonder what kind of names those “vintage baby names” lists are leaving out 😜
Thanks! And happy new year 🎊
One place to get a good general overview of what names were like in a certain era is the Social Security Administration's lists of popular names that go back to the 1880s. The further down the lists you go the less common they get. However these are still all names that had at least a few hundred occurrences, so you're not going to have any Gloyds etc..
I personally always try to find names from primary sources (newspapers, census, vital records, etc.) as you're more likely to come across unusual names that don't make the top 200 lists.
Also keep in mind that name popularity varied greatly by location. Just because there were a bunch of Juanitas in Tulsa in 1930 doesn't mean there were that many in Boston.
Honestly if anyone is working on a specific project and needs names from a certain location/era (i.e. you're writing a novel that takes place in London in 1627) feel free to message me and I'd be happy to work with you to compile a list from primary sources. I love this stuff and will use any valid excuse to spend an evening digging through 17th century baptismal records.
#if you buy me a coffee I might even make you a simple custom name generator#I do this for myself all the time because I'm a party person who really likes spreadsheets#names#history#historical fiction#writing resources#asks#@sir-sleepalot#writing reference#character names
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I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.
#personal#delete later#no patrick. “black washing” is not as harmful as white washing.#come on guys get it together#seeing people in my reblogs talk about “reverse racism” and double standards is genuinely hypocrisy#say it with me: white washing is intrinsically tied to a historical and systematic erasure of poc figures literature and history.#it is an inherently destructive act that deplatforms underrepresented faces and voices#in favor of a light-skinned aesthetic hegemony#redesigning characters as poc is an act of dismantling symbols of whiteness in fiction in favor of diversification and reclamation#(note that i am talking about individual acts by individual artists as was the topic of this discourse. not on an industry-scale)#redesigning characters as poc is not tied to hundreds of years of systemic racism and abuse and power dynamics. that is a fact.#you are not replacing an underrepresented person with an oft-represented person. it is the opposite#if you feel threatened or upset or uncomfortable about this then sorry but you are not aware of how much more worse it is for poc#if representation is unequal then these acts cannot be equivalent. you can't point to an imbalanced scale and say they weigh the same#if you recognize that bipoc people are minorities then you should recognize that these two things are not the same#while i agree that “black washing” can lead to color-blind casting and writing the behavior here is on an individual level#a black artist drawing their favorite anime character as black because they feel a shared solidarity is not a threat to you#i mean. most anime characters are east asian and i as an east asian person certainly don't feel threatened or erased. neither should you.#there's much to be said about the politics of blackwashing (i don't even know if that's the right word for it)#but point standing. whitewashing is an inherently more destructive act. both through its history of maintaining power dynamics#and the simple fact that it's taking away from groups of people who have less to begin with#if you feel upset or uncomfortable about a fictional white character being redesigned as poc by an artist on twitter#i sincerely hope you're able to explore these feelings and find avenues to empathizing with poc who have had their figures#(both real and fictional) erased; buried; and replaced by white figures for hundreds of years#i sincerely hope you can understand the difference in motivations and connotations behind whitewashing and blackwashing#classic bixels “i'm not talking about this chat. i'm not” (puts my media studies major to use in the tags and talks the fuck outta it)
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as it’s disability pride month, i decided that i would share some of the knowledge i gained about disability history (in the US) through writing my dissertation & share it on medium.
i wrote about the importance of diversity & intersectionality in the US disability rights movement, focusing on the 504 sit-ins in San Francisco & the Deaf President Now! protests at Gallaudet University in D.C. i also wrote about how our history is recorded, and how it has been overlooked.
there are two separate posts. the first is an easier to read version. this is for anyone who needs a more simple language version. it has more of a focus on the events rather than analysis, but does talk some about diversity. the sections are separate, so you can read about the 504 sit-in without reading any other section. it is about 1,500 words.
the second post is written in my regular writing style, and includes some bits copied from my dissertation directly. it is roughly 3,500 words long & includes a source list at the end.
please share this! reblogging helps spread the post to other people & means more people can learn about key moments in disability history.
#mine#long tag list coming#disability#disability history#disability pride month#history#deaf president now#504 sit in#crip camp#medium#blog post#american studies#US history#Deaf history#judy heumann#gallaudet university#corbett o’toole#dissertation#simple english#please reblog#ok to reblog
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Fashion of the Great Houses of Westeros: House Greyjoy of Pyke
#asoiafedit#valyrianscrolls#asoiaf#house greyjoy#greyjoyedit#housegreyjoyedit#costumeedit#im finding it hard to actually articulate the vibe i was going for/why i chose these outfits but like... y'all get it right?#thick fabrics bc it's rainy and cold#leathers and simple shapes for practicality#ornamentation is actually very common especially as a way to showoff what one's paid the iron price for#(or prized heirlooms from a great ancestor's exploits)#also it’s a shame the greyjoys don’t have a cunty evil ruling lady in their history who lived and died by the old way#ghf*#mine*
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Does anyone know this tumblr prompt?
It's a danny phantom x batman prompt De-aged danny. And all I remember was jason panicking as he was holding an injured danny and calling bruce.
Bruce was in the middle of being held hostage by the joker with other co workers only to get a call from jason, who panicking asking for help causing bruce to snap due to PTSD, punch the joker and beat him with a iron chair, rush out, got into his car and broke idk how many speeding tickets and stop light laws to reach Jason.
I'd been searching for 4 days and no luck whatsoever.
#dpxdc#dc x dp#danny phantom#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dc x dp prompt#dcxdp#i can't find the fucking tumblr prompt#i search my own history for days and went as far back as a year ago now#tumblr make it so difficult to find one simple post fr
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something about glass onion that makes me go insane is first the movie starts with Bach’s ‘little’ fugue in G minor, then the box miles sends to each of the ‘shitheads’ has it as one of the clues. Don’t exactly remember who says it but someone says that fugues are a complicated layer of music. While they are layered they are not fundamentally complicated, it’s just layers of the same figure played over and over again. The fundamental core melody is all the same. Which is a perfect melody for Miles thinking his plan and puzzles was this complicated system of music, when it’s really just the same story told over and over again, and also a metaphor for the glass onion itself. I dunno I just love when classical music is used in movies that itself tells the story in a deeper way
#glass onion#miles bron#benoit blanc#knives out#glass onion spoilers#this is a really simple analysis but look#i’m a big nerd for music history and reusing old pieces in new and interesting ways#ITS JUST COOL OK#can you tell i’m brainrotting over this
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I have come to the annoying conclusion that many search engines are becoming super useless in trying to track down historical research without bending over backwards for answers. The amount of garbage that shows up in the results is so incredibly aggravating and has nothing to do with my search terms or questions. I cannot in fact "just use X search engines" apparently.
#history#culture#search engines#it's the most SIMPLE questions and yet I get nothing but sales sites and ai nonsense or real articles for something completely irrelevant#silly me trying to look up neat historical facts for world building purposes in things I wanna make#personal#personal ramblings
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Sharing is Caring!
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#jiang cheng#While listening to the Lotus Seed extra I was like 'aw this art is so cute.'#Post The Fanfic Fiasco (re: last comic's tags) I am haunted by the green orbs. WWX has a bag of edible green orbs and I am in hell.#First draft of this comic's script has JC saying 'dude you wouldn't even share with me!' and I love his little sibling indignation.#Middle child power is knowing that you don't have to share with your siblings. The little wet eyes and weak hand slaps do NOTHING.#JC probably already ate all of his lotus seeds. That's on you dude!#Part of me wants to get deeper with the metaphor of the lotus seeds here. It is a gesture of a certain kind of affection.#JYL gives something to WWX she does not quite share with JC. And WWX in turn gives something to LWJ he does not share with JC.#Really puts JC's line 'You're always eating...eating eating' into a very different light.#There are other kinds of starving besides hunger. There are other ways to be a glutton than just food and drink.#WWX's character pre-burial mounds is heavily focused on 'Indulgence'. Be it wine or flirting or hunting or eating-#-or receiving admiration; He is always indulging in ways we never see JC do.#I think the intentional contrast was with the Lan's 'Live simple and without indulgence' lifestyle. LWJ is the abstainer to wwx's gluttony.#But it does expand to JC as well! Both are locked into the role model position to have friction against WWX's apparent freedom.#I think LWJ and JC (at this point) see WWX as something they both want (in different capacities) and someone they want to be.#Yet despite the history between them it is not JC who WWX reaches out to. It's LWJ.#The boy already has an inferiority complex! Stop making it accidently worse!
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A Story About A Ukrainian Book
Once upon a time, there was a Ukrainian writer of children's stories and poems Volodymyr Vakulenko.
When Russians occupied Izyum - the town he lived in - he hid his manuscripts under a cherry tree in his garden.
One day, Russians came in, took him, and killed him.
Once upon a time, there was a Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina. She came to Izyum after Ukrainian army liberated it and found Vakulenko's manuscripts and sent them to be published.
One day, when Victoria was showing foreign journalists around in a beautiful city of Kramatorsk, Russian missile flew in the café they were dining in and killed her.
Once upon a time, there was a Ukrainian book publishing agency Vivat. It was one of the biggest in the whole country. Vivat took Volodymyr's manuscripts from Victoria, worked diligently to compile them and published them.
One day, Russian missiles flew in the building, where Vivat publishing agency was, and destroyed it completely.
The End.
#and there you have it#after reading this short simple story you basically know the history of ukrainian literature of.... the last 300 years#ukraine#україна#ukrainian literature#russia#ruscism#russian fascism#imperialism#colonialism#genocide#russian culture#war crimes#russian invasion of ukraine#war in ukraine#укртумба#укртамблер#укртумбочка#history#literature#art
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Appreciate the little things.
Not to ignorantly deny all of the big bad things in the world, but to survive them.
#magpie ramblings#there's so much shit going on that it gets overwhelming#and it's sad that we've made ourselves feel guilty for looking away when it's too painful to watch#but we literally CAN'T survive if we keep dwelling on the unfairness of the world#and the more you ask why can't this happen or why is that happening#the quicker it is to just ask 'why do anything at all?' ... the answer is simple#'just because'#so fuck it#i'm going to appreciate a short video of someone drawing a cat; just because#i'm going to read a book about a long lost culture and history; just because#i'm going to post personal book reviews of books hardly anyone has heard of; just because#i'm going to be thankful that my indoor plants have been doing well; just because#i'm going to let someone make a decision i don't agree with and not confront them; just because#i'm going to spend the little of my own money helping maybe just one other person in the world; just because#i'm going to be kind to those who haven't treated me kindly; just because#i'm going to smile regardless of the unjust in this world; just because
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The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'.
-- Catherine Marshall
(Zellenberg, France)
#life#today#use your time#catherine marshall#travel photography#zellenberg#france#old house#simple life#enjoy the moment#quote#photography#street photography#hundred years#history
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anthy himemya, circa 1909
[id: A digital painting of a medium dark-skinned girl, anthy, with violet hair in a rolled updo. She has green eyes and circular glasses, and wears a pair of gold jhumka earrings. She wears an edwardian era jumper dress in a soft green, with a ruffled lacy blouse beneath and a thin, s-bend magenta sash belt. Her expression is neutral and she rests one gloved hand on a table, behind her is a background of green bushes. End id]
#rgu#rgu fanart#revolutionary girl utena#anthy himemiya#himemiya anthy#shoujo kakumei utena#my art#clip studio#disabled artist#edwardian dress#edwardian#historical fashion#fashion history#revolutionary girl utena fanart#rgu anthy#extremely unoriginal pose and composition but i just wanted something simple
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You know what really sucks about art history and AI?
These days, I can't go on Google and look up "Renaissance" or "Rococo" or "Baroque" art without the results being absolutely littered with shitty, modernized AI pictures. If I'm studying 18th-century portraiture, I'm looking for themes and motifs specific to the period (composition, shape, emotionality, emphasis, etc), so I can better understand the cultural values of an era, and then deconstruct and experiment with them in my own art. I don't want to see some generic hot girl in an inaccurate Marie Antoinette dress, or a Chad Napoleon that's even more ridiculous than the Jacques-Louis David propaganda. Jesus Christ. This garbage isn't even comparable in how awful it is, and it's infecting everything.
For reference, on the left is the work of Artemisia Gentileschi, an actual Baroque artist (click for full size), up against "Baroque Style" from a website selling AI prints. Ew. I won't even explain how Not Baroque the image on the right is, it's so bad it's actually criminal.
Examining historical art periods in modern works is one thing, but this shit isn't even trying. This is another reason why AI isn't art. You can click a button and make something aesthetically pleasing, but you learn nothing. You evoke nothing. You say nothing. There is not a single ounce of value to be had here, other than demonstrating our culture's most superficial ideals, your complete lack of personality, and absolutely no foundational knowledge or intuition. It's a joke is what it is. Artists are trying to do actual work over here, you're just a waste of air.
#//personal#vent#art history#shaming ai users is morally correct#ai is for the shallow and simple-minded#even growing artists have more to offer than this contrived shit
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Making history, it turned out, was quite easy. It was what got written down. It was as simple as that.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#sam vimes#samuel vimes#stoneface vimes#jingo#discworld#terry pratchett#history#power#written record#narrative#easy#simple as that#write it down#making history
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