Winter

✰ 20 || they/them ✰ just a silly lil guy doin silly lil things ✰ check out my other things: https://linktr.ee/decentwinter

[beebfreeb]

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

[scribe-cas]

Reblog if you're okay with people coming into your DMs with the "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters"

[noknowshame]

I know we’re all like lawless nonconformists but you really can’t be texting and driving. that’s one of the ones you’ve gotta listen to for real

[inner-muse]

Not even at stoplights!!! I know it’s so so tempting to just glance at your phone when you’re stopped, but there’s actually something called “distraction hangover” where even once you put your phone down, your brain is still processing the interaction and isn’t fully paying attention to the road for up to 30 seconds afterwards. So it’s still really dangerous even if you’re stopped when you look at your phone. If you need to check something on your phone, pull over.

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

this especially applies to people with adhd. you know that symptom you may have heard of called “difficulty transitioning between tasks”? you don’t want piloting a ton or two of potential death to be the task you can’t mentally switch back to.

[vyllaynark]

hey you

@decentwinter i keep following you, i never left your shadow

[decentwinter]

So we're lying to each other now, huh. I know you're the villain but I didn't take you for a LIAR

@ni0x get a load of this guy

[mysteryteacup]

Things Caesar did that ALL the other Roman Senators also did:

Owned slaves

Served in the Roman military industrial complex

Be born into generational wealth

Be born into an aristocratic class that literally had different laws and punishments applied to them than everyone else

Got appointed (NOT elected) to the senate

Was a coloniser and actively colonised

Thing Caesar did that made a mere 60 of the Roman Senators decide to stab him:

Introduced legislation that said the senators had to pay their employees

Expanded the senate to give representation to leaders of the places they'd colonised

Gave citizenship to the people they'd colonised

Extended voting rights to the colonised people

Promised land to veterans

Refused a crown dramatically

Decided to change his role from ELECTED Dictator for a Term to Dictator for Life.

And if you're thinking "huh, i was tagging ides of march posts about how much I wish my elected representatives would kill a certain orange turd and this doesn't sound anything like him" ...yeah.

Because the orange turd and USAer senate is NOT like Caesar and the Roman senate.

And no. It's not okay to pretend or spread misinformation pretending it's the same thing to try to encourage people to deal with your turd.

The Ides of March is fun because the situation (60 military vets only succed in stabbing 1 guy 23 times) is absurd. Not because it's a parabel for modern times. It's not.

[officialfoxsquadron]

audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore

[officialfoxsquadron]

watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort

[robin-vb]

Badges I’ll be making soon 🫡🫡

[decentwinter]

THE STYLE IS GREAT

[visenyaism]

“Why isnt there a girl version of the ww2/ancient rome/napoleonic war/cold war history boy” one teenage girls are very much interested in those topics as well they just tend to speak up less about it because those spaces are full of misogynist assholes. Two it’s because reporting back from the field the main camps of interest for teenage girls tend to be messy dynastic collapses (the Plantagenets, the Romanovs, Maria Antoinette), what I’m gonna call disaster history (the Titanic, Chernobyl, the triangle shirtwaist factory fire that one is serious business to them), gross wacky medical shit, and most popular of all what I would describe as a naescent desire to get to the heart of all human evil and understand what could motivate it (imperialism, genocide, eugenics).

[pagecommando]

There are now more female academics/faculty/students/etc in more historically 'male-identified' hist/anth subjects and it's to the fucking better because we get more and different work on topics a lot of people thought got put to bed a while ago, even just taking a whack at new sources. 2018 Appears to be a pivotal year but the shift was decades in the making for female military historians!

Yes, Women Do Study Military History

In an important article over at Eidolon, Nadejda Williams discusses the visibility of female military historians within the field of ancient

There Are More Women Military Historians Than Ever Before. Why Hasn’t the Field Noticed?

There is a lovely expression in my adoptive home of Georgia: “bless your heart.” It can be used as a genuine expression of sympathy, but…

It is no longer 1980. Women have been producing some of the most innovative scholarship in military history in the past couple of decades. Not all of them would necessarily classify themselves as military historians, but all of them are doing path-breaking work that presents a more complex and nuanced picture of Greek and Roman warfare than one might find in such standard classics of the field as Kendrick Pritchett’s monumental (pace Finley) five-volume tour-de-force The Greek State At War. Overall, I would argue that women’s work on military history, whether ancient or modern, exemplifies the best of what historians now call “New Military History” — the study of war that looks beyond battles and campaigns. Acknowledging that war was a horrific and painful process that affected real people, women’s scholarship on war is much more likely than the scholarship of men to deal with those issues related to suffering and trauma to both combatants and civilians. As a result, also, many women scholars who work on war consider gender issues as they relate to war. Others look at the impact of war on society more broadly. To give just a few examples of great women scholars who are publishing on various aspects of Greek and Roman military history, the folklorist Adrienne Mayor has won a slew of awards for The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World. One of Mayor’s earlier books, Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World, challenges the more traditional narrative of Greek warfare as driven by honor and tradition. I assign it every time I teach Greek and Roman Warfare, and every time, the students say that it is their favorite book in the class.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Can't wait for the field to be 50% women and suddenly become a "girl thing" and not all that serious or important and have men leave the field in droves. It sucks that this happens to every field that women get into (biology, real estate, etc.,) but also I hope to live to see the day when men start saying "ugh, the Roman Empire and World War II are for girls" with full sincerity.

[mjwatson]

put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer ok go

[probuccalfat]

there’s a phenomenon when it comes to enjoying a male character in a piece of media where it’s so much fun and i love my blorbo and i want to talk about my blorbo and read analysis of my blorbo but i realize very fast and very hard that the majority of fans made up a version of him that appeals to their horniness and it’s become the popular and standard interpretation and i do not care for that guy at all like i’d beat him with hammers actually

[toskarin]

oh, did I ever tell you about [thing I've told you about no fewer than four times, opening on exactly this sentence every single one of those times]

[prompts-in-a-barrel]

"You don't know me. I'm not the same person anymore."

"That's okay. I'll get to know you again."

[californiannostalgia]

[zerozerozio]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

[boimann]

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

[decentwinter]

!!!!!!!!!!

[lovepaint]

[yardsards]

when i first moved in with my roommate, she was constantly throwing up and attributed it to some unexplainable chronic issue. after a year with me here, she's learned a lot about proper food preparation and storage, as well as having me sort of on top of managing groceries, and she almost never gets sick like that anymore.

anyway i think that woman might be one of a kind but just in case she's not: if you find yourself having frequent tummy troubles with no clear explanation... maybe just. try refreshing your food safety knowledge. (also don't forget to wash your water bottle). like, chances are you've been doing everything right and there's some other reason. but there's a nonzero chance that something you assumed was common sense is actually incorrect and you've been repeatedly making yourself sick.

people think kitchen management is totally easy and intuitive (prolly something to do with it being degraded as "women's work" but i digress) but there's science to food safety. and the people who raised you may have failed to teach you properly, whether through negligence or through not knowing everything themselves. it can't hurt to double check your knowledge here, just in case.

[seananmcguire]

My mother, who raised three children to adulthood, recently reheated a serving of lasagna by...putting the whole lasagna back in the oven, and then leaving it on the counter to cool before putting it in the fridge.

Apparently, this is how she's "always done it."

Many of my school absences have now been explained.

[lokutofu]

A young mother and her baby ❤️

[decentwinter]

THEY'RE SO CUTE....THEY BOTH DESERVE TO BE HAPPY....

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

MILF (Mutuals I’d Like to Formally apologise to after not responding to an ask or dm for weeks at a time. a kiss on the forehead for U)

[nonaferatu]

This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace

[nonaferatu]

everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.