#there were historians talking

[wutheringmights]

Legend of the Galatic Heroes framed it's lore dump episode as a character watching an in-universe documentary, and I cannot emphasize enough how hard they not only committed to the bit but how funny that bit actually is

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Flower Empowered.

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[marzipanandminutiae]

I know this is very Minor Inter-Community Issue but I'm hearing it more and more

"18th century stays weren't primarily for tightlacing! Medieval people had flavorful food!"

"yeah!"

"it's those GROSS ICKY HORRIBLE VICTORIANS who did the bad things!!!! they all ate gruel and suffocated women with corsets!!!"

"...w h y"

[ale-arro]

a picture of ppl in a qpr captioned "historians will say they were lovers"

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[ganondoodle]

kind of expected that the ability breakdown wouldnt get that much traction (especially on twitter bc if it doesnt do well in the first few hours it might as well be dead) but what i didnt need to wake up to was looking at my twitter notifications and thinking there was a long comment on it at first but then i read it and it turned out to be some guy having dug up one of my old totk tweets where i talked about how zelda was treated-

and if a quote retweet with a thread attached already starts with "this entitled brat didnt understand that zelda was being a history nerd by being in the past and getting to experience it herself" with two screenshots attached of the end of totk with zelda staring at the cam all uwu (which has ??? to do with their point??) i dont even want to know what else was in that thread

if thats how the majority of the fandom is then im even less surprised that nintendy doesnt even have to try to write anything good :I

ah yes, i am a game nerd, and by putting me in a game where i stand around doing puppy dog eyes while being shoved around by NPCs is me being a game nerd OBVIOSULY

[sentientsky]

the brainrot is all-consuming. i'm reading about le grand dérangement, and at this point the only thing my brain is absorbing is the name of local gremlin and babygirl armand iwtv. help

[bookshelfdreams]

americans learn what the middle ages are challenge

[aesthetic-uni]

I know I’m late to the party but Oh My God™️

[happyk44]

AU where the second Titan war didn't happen with camp Jupiter because of how Saturn is much more significant in ancient Rome, so even as Kronos he couldn't be effed to fuck with the Romans

So when Percy mentions that he defeated Kronos, Jason is v much "bro what" because, uh, grandpa is much more cool on the Roman end, so how dare you fight the guy who brought peace and agriculture to Latium

[boneskullravenriver]

So on continuation of "researching about a time period for a story no one but me will ever see" I got this book from the library that's about daily life in the Victorian era and it's really cool? Like... Interesting. I doubt I'll use half of this info (I doubt that the story needs a 5 page description of my character getting ready in the morning tbh) but still. And I usually don't read non fiction all that much.

[jewishbarbies]

there were so many things leftists could’ve boycott businesses over on this large of a scale but they waited until innocent Israelis were massacred horrifically and they needed to prove that it didn’t matter

[elegyofthemoon]

I'm getting the feeling that I'll be seeing a lot of Zionists' comments on my posts unfortunately, but I'll inform everyone about them if you want to block and move on

This was off my strike posts earlier

If you missed the last one I had posted

Let's not forget that Israel refused HAMAS's deal to release hostages, by the way.

And just the other day, I found out that Israel's always had a plan for ethnic cleansing and recommend everyone to look into what's known as Plan Dalet created back in 1948.

Peace was never in Israel's plans -- genocide was.

Reminder: Bisan has called for marches for Ceasefire between today to the 20th, and there is an ongoing strike that started today extending to the 25th.

[onepiece-polls]

I love your polls and it’s great you try to be on both sides to give fair chance to everyone, but the way you talked about shanks/buggy is crazy They’re fine together but in canon they’re brothers and your shipping googles got so tight you actually sounded like you could believe they’re anywhere close to canon which is u know stupid af

lmao, okay, this came out of nowhere 😂 Like... I talked about that months ago. But okay.

Anyway, Shuggy is canon. They're making out behind you right now.

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville] was the only member of [Crown Prince Edward of Westminster's] original 1471 council not already on the king’s council and her name headed the list of those appointed as administrators in Wales during Edward’s minority. [She remained on the council after it was expanded in 1473 and granted significant new governing and judicial powers]."

"In 1478 Prince Richard [of Shrewsbury] married the Mowbray heiress. Like his elder brother he had a chancellor, seal, household and council to manage his estates. His council, like that of Prince Edward, comprised the queen [Elizabeth Woodville] and a group of magnates and bishops, few of whom were Woodville supporters [...] It was Elizabeth who mattered, for Richard resided with her and Rivers treated his affairs as their own."

-J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 / Michael Hicks, Richard III and his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the Wars of the Roses

[edwardseymour]

new jane seymour fanfic just dropped!

where are the history books that call her a ‘sweet, docile angel’? name them.