[shitkid-moved]

So guys, I’ve made an important decision to remove this blog. There has been a lot of pain and drama attached to it and I’m honestly just so tired of dealing with it.

You can find me here

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loki stans need to be grateful that taiki waititi made loki into a gold-digging, opportunistic lil’ sugar baby instead of the genocidal weirdo he was before ... appreciate the gifts you’re given ... appreciate that loki canonically fucked his way to the top of a trash heap

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[kamikazesoundsociety]

We have always been here. 

Vintage MLM love photography post

Vintage WLW love photography post

Please add more if you have them <3 

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❤️

[bigyoikes]

Pictures from back in the gay

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

GAYMAZING :D

[michael2618-blog]

I know this is a long post - but omg it gave me feels. Can you imagine how intense their love had to be to survive how homophobic it was back then. 😭😭😭

[gender-has-failed-us]

these are beautiful photos, but if you’re interested in learning more about pre-stonewall gay history i’d recommend Before Stonewall. it was made in 1984, shortly before the AIDS epidemic became the focus of the community. it may seem a little dated, but i’ve watched it a few times over and it’s definitely worth your time.

it features dozens of amazing interviews with gay men and lesbians who grew up in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, sharing their experiences. it’s hard at times, but it’s amazing seeing the joy we’ve always managed to share among ourselves.

[archathiums]

Professor: make a slide show explaining what career field you want to go into.

Me:

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

“The witch-burnings did not take place during the “Dark Ages,” as we commonly suppose. They occurred between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries– precisely during and following the Renaissance, that glorious period when, as we are taught, “men’s” minds were being freed from bleakness and superstition. While Michelangelo was sculpting and Shakespeare writing, the witches were burning. The whole secular “Enlightenment,” in fact, the male professions of doctor, lawyer, judge, artist, all rose from the ashes of the destroyed women’s culture. Renaissance men were celebrating naked female beauty in their art, while women’s bodies were being tortured and burned by the hundreds of thousands all around them.”

— Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor in The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (via lunamtenebris)

[whatagrump]

drunk history’s take on baron von steuben is pretty spot on

[thoodleoo]

achilles and patroclus:

scholars:

[quietlyrebelling]

Bless my Classics professor who just said “so Achilles and his boyfriend…” and left the homophones scrambling to catch up as he barreled on

[unexplained-events]

Not a recent find, but the archaeological site Gobekli Tepe in Turkey has founded many new discoveries in the world of archaeology. Discovered (for what it was) by Klaus Schmidt, the site contains huge, sophisticated carved stones that predate Stonehenge by about 6,000 years. There is also evidence of tool use, namely stone hammers and knives. Gobekli Tepe is widely believed to be a temple or other such holy place, and has since changed archaeologists understanding how prehistoric societies functioned. 

For further reading, here is an article about the site and why it’s important.

[afro-elf]

y’know…. conversations about world war ii would be a lot more bearable and constructive if white men found that period rightly horrific rather than pornographic 

[werewolfofsector2814]

We glorify war because it’s the only time we’re allowed to release the beast and not go to jail for it.

You want to see who a man truly is, put him in a battle.

Man is never more himself, than when he has nothing to lose.

[afro-elf]

you’re not fucking odysseus, go to therapy

[the-man-who-sold-za-warudo]

A tempered breastplate resisting a musketball. The term bulletproof originates from armourers shooting their armour to prove its strength. Knights and guns co-existed for over 200 years.

Full Documentary here

[queenotrera]

History wants so badly for Cleopatra to be beautiful. Like they can’t conceive of Rome being intimidated by anything less

[terpsikeraunos]

because being a linguist, fleet commander, and powerful ruler doesn’t matter, only her looks

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Her Arab contemporaries raved about her being very interested and knowledgeable in the sciences.

She completely reformed the system in Alexandria, and Egypt at large; making it much more of a functional powerhouse. 

She did what 300 years of her ancestors couldn’t: Managed to get the support of both the Greek AND Egyptian subjects she ruled.

There is a sculpture that has been identified as her, through comparisons to coins minted under her rule, that proves beyond a doubt that she wasn’t particularly beautiful.

It isn’t that people just happen to believe it by mistake. Rome was fucking terrified of her and painted her as a vapid, scheming, beautiful, sex obsessed queen to discredit her to their people. She was a threat, and that was how they handled it. The unfortunate thing is that that is the most surviving record of her. A smear campaign against one of the smartest, most powerful women in human history. 

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This is a woman who became her father’s co-ruler at nearly 14 years old in order to train for her actual ascension to the throne, who was forced to marry her own siblings in order to keep her power, and it’s widely believed that she poisoned them so she could rule alone. She’s a Pharaoh who led Egypt into a new era of wealth, who went fearlessly into war to protect her rule and Egypt’s independence from the Roman empire, a woman who took her own life rather than face being raped and tortured by her conquerors, knowing full well that she was leaving her surviving children in their uncertain mercy. Cleopatra is one of the most interesting, morally ambiguous, complexing historical figures we have and the media has turned her into a tantalizing sex object for the male gaze.

Even after Cleopatra died her influence on those around her lived on: her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, was the only child of Cleopatra’s to live to adulthood, and she became queen of Mauretania along with her husband Juba and it’s believed they married for love, which was extremely rare for that time period, especially among nobles/the upper class. Not only did she grow up in the house of her mother’s worst enemy and technical murderer, but she still went on to become a queen who possessed an equal amount of political power as her husband, even having her face minted on coins on the opposite side of his likeness, showing they were equal rulers.

Cleopatra and her influence on history, and her daughter’s legacy, have both been brushed aside in favour of the sexy Cleopatra visage. It’s bullshit. Egyptian mythology is interesting and vivid, and full of powerful women and it’s bullshit that we take some of the most powerful women in Africa’s history and try to turn them into fashion icons or sluts who only ruled through toying with men. 

[luthienmuse]

I LIVE FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THIS, people still refuse to believe that a woman can/could have achieved anything without beauty or fucking magical powers  

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Always reblog

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Fun Fact: Apparently Oscar Wilde was 6’3”, which in the 1870s would have been the equivalent of like 6’7”-6’9” tall. He was so ridiculously huge and awkward that one of his friends described him as looking like a “great white caterpillar.” That is all.

[theflowofink]

When his lover’s father ( one of the founding father’s of boxing as a sport) showed up to kick his ass, Oscar stood up, pulled a gun and said something like  “I don’t know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight.” 

[out-there-on-the-maroon]

The more I find out about Oscar Wilde the more delighted I am.

[archathiums]

That feeling when your Anthropology professor holds his hand up to stop you from raising your hand during a lecture because he’s tired of calling on you for answers, but there are literally five people who read the chapter including you.

[archathiums]

I should be more active here.

Feel free to send me things y’all wanna know about.

[archathiums]

“It’s a joke in the history fandom to want to kill historical figures.”

Me with a history blog- getting their bachelors in history.

Can’t relate

[femme-enby]

Not in the history fandom but while I may joke about killing like, hitler or some shit, all I can hope is that good things come from the bad. Of course, here we are, 2018, and America is damn near creating camps for Hispanic immigrants so maybe we don’t fucking learn and hitler should have been shot way sooner 😂

[archathiums]

Do you know how many nonsensical ways Hilter survived is uncanny- he literally had his life spared as a solider in WW1

The man cheated death over 5 times

It’s insane

But this in direct reference to some wishing to kill Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

[archathiums]

“It’s a joke in the history fandom to want to kill historical figures.”

Me with a history blog- getting their bachelors in history.

Can’t relate

[archathiums]

Norse mythology please :) (Especially if you have anything on Høder - the blind one)

Lmao, naturally I read Høder and went ‘whom’st’ve the fuck??’ But with a quick google search I learned I knew him by his angelicized name Hod.

So the important thing to know is like all good mythos twins are always opposing. Like good-evil, black-white, sun-moon, right? It’s all metaphors and shit. This is no different with Hod and Baldr.

Baldr is literally the epitome of sunshine child. He’s the god of truth and light. He’s so Fucking beloved, he’s the prettiest god and his mother made him literally fucking indestructible.

And so one day, the Norse gods being the drunk dumbasses they are literally are like:

“Y O DUDE. Let’s all get together and like try and injure Baldr.” and Baldr being the good guy he is like- “mkkay I’m indestructible anyways. H IT ME I NEED TO FEEL ALIVE.” So they make this whole Fucking festival where they take turns stabbing him, chucking spears and watching them bounce of Baldrs glistening, sweet, sweet abs.

Enter the shit fest.

Hod first and foremost is blind. This is a metaphor obviously since Baldr is the god of truth and he literally can’t see the truth. (Get it. ITS METAPHORS AAAAAA) and Hod is also naturally a god of darkness. Low and behold, Parallel to his brother.

So everyone is at this party, honoring Baldr for literally just being the hottest man alive. This is the first time we see a truly malicious Loki. Most of the time he’s just kind of constantly being an asshole- but he’s not like, 100% dick.

Until now- so Loki disguises himself as a hag and hobbles up to Freya/Frigga (I cannot remember which- sue me.) like “how is he so perfect.” And Freya/Frigga shrugs. And Loki is like

“But why tho.”

“I dunno, he just is.”

“But why tho.”

“I don’t know.”

“But why tho.”

“Oh my god is mistletoe.”

So this is how Loki learns that Baldrs one weakness is mistletoe. So he goes and fashions a spear out of mistletoe and makes his way to Hod who is just in the corner with a raincloud over his head- sulking. And Loki just pats Hod’s shoulder.

“Hey my good dude, I see you’re not having fun chucking random shit at that shiney freak.”

And Hod is like “duh I’m blind.”

And Loki is like “no fear my guileless pal- I will help you aim the spear.” And Hod who has no idea Loki has just crafted a spear from the one type of wood that can actually kill his brother- just beams excitedly, because FINALLY someone is helping him join in the festivities. So Loki stands behind him, helps him hold the spear and chucks it at Baldr.

Naturally the spear impales Baldr in the fucking gut, and everyone is just really quiet. Hod is beaming he’s so excited to have participated because he literally does not know any better.

Everyone starts screaming as Baldr falls over dead. Loki looks around and is like “I’m fuckin outtie.” And just evaporates like- peace nerds.

And Odin who is like all knowing realizes that Baldrs death triggers Ragnarok, the end of the world. Just Fucking kills Hod on the spot.

DESPITE THE FACT HE LITERALLY DIDNT DO ANYTHING WRONG. HE LITERALLY DID NOT KNOW.

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