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Writrblr. ISTJ. History central. DNI Fascists/Sanghis/Zionists.

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guys im planning to make an insta account with writing prompts and so on, what would you all like to see?

Choose what interests you

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Voting ended onMar 16

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I would love to see a fantasy novel where the lore that the reader / protagonist learns at first is not true

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e.g. they're told that this kind of creature has some kind of psychic or pheromone-based "mate bond" that cannot be broken; but it turns out that's a popular myth that has never been scientifically substantiated, and is basically used to keep people in bad relationships (basically the equivalent of "human women are biologically submissive")

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"lore" is imo too often treated like information that the author is giving the reader, and it just happens to be using the medium of diagetic (that is, 'in-story') exposition.

it's so much more interesting and dynamic to treat "lore" as information that is generated and disseminated in-story. who is telling the protagonist this information? under what historical and social circumstances was this idea formed? what political motives are there for trying to get people to believe this information? which characters would disagree with it? would the protagonist believe it, or be sceptical? does the plot bear it out, or cast doubt on it?

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Interesting

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i do this in all my stories about every thing i write--- about people, places, events, everything. I mean, when you know how historiography works, every bit of information becomes a subjective observation rather some objective fact and that's where the fun of the narrative is! Twist it, supplant it! Let characters make a mountain out of a molehill! Pit them against each other! Conflict their interests and beliefs! Play God in your stories and let your character be Mortals with their own little tales!

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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not married but already divorced has got to be one of my favourite tropes

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to write is to err, that's why we call us writerrs.

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Reblog and share a trivia or any fact you like about any European language or culture, I am curious.

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I sketched this for reddit, a little istj doodle

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the worst part of being obsessed with obscure historical characters is, there is no fanfic of my favourites (who were also in a implicit relationship) with immaculate dynamics

the best part is, to know about them, I've to do niche research

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I knew that I had seen the guy somewhere before

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sir how am i supposed to write an article on european history i know nothing. if anyone is interested in any part of European history from french revolution to pre-WWI please do tell me what you find most interesting

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hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

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As someone studying history for my major, I'm so tired of people talking shit like, "mughals are colonisers"

People can be clueless about a dynasty from 16th century, but before commenting value-laden terms like colonisation please read up. And not just random articles floating on the internet, real books, real articles, real work by academicians. Coincidently, most people who talk shit like this are fascists, right-wingers hindu nationalists whose thinly veiled Islamophobia is more telling than not. They perceive all Muslims as "the other", and if you ask them they'd say they'd learn it from "primary sources". They never cite any primary sources by the way, although I suppose they would be referring to "Maasir i alamgiri" or the imperialist Eliot and Dowson series (the later is ironically in fact not a primary source but translated, many times incorrectly, excerpts of primary sources) all without understanding the rhetoric or historical consciousness or literally anything. They have never read Akbarnama or Ain i Akbari, they don't know about any primary sources in language other than Persian. They don't know or care about non-official contemporary sources, they don't know about inscriptions, they don't know how to extract information from the primary sources itself. But if you try to tell them they would automatically pull up random internet article with obvious propaganda and least historical consciousness. They have no idea what rhetoric is, what historiography is, what historical distance is. And how can they? They belittle actual historians, students, researchers, people who have spent years studying this niche of academia.

Speaking to them is like talking to the walls, but for those who wish to learn more on the Mughals I'll leave a few readings:

The Mughal State (1526-1750) : Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Formation of the Mughal Empire: Douglas Streusand

The Mughals of India: Harbans Mukhia

I've picked out the easiest readings, considering that people are of course living in a fast-moving world, for a quick read, the Introduction of The Mughal State and Formation of the Mughal Empire are great, and the 1st chapter of The Mughals of India. All three are available in lib.gen. If someone wishes to dive deeper, to read the official court chronicles, some like Ain i Akbari, Akbarnama, Jahangirnama etc are all available in archive.org.

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One thing I hate absolutely about internet spaces is that, particularly YouTube Shorts, and also in real life, especially high school systems, is that studying is vilified.

If you are dedicated to studies, if you finish your homework, if you complete your assignment on time, if you prepare for your test, if you are serious about your career, congrats! You're now an absolutely vile human being who deserves to be excluded, called names behind their back. The 'topper' is suddenly a derogatory term. You are nothing but a teacher's pet (derogatory). You don't have a life outside studies, you are boring, you can't have fun.

And I thing this really needs to stop. Studying is hard, but surviving without a sustainance is harder. People who are trying to create their means of sustainance are trying hard too. They are trying, they are sacrificing their time and efforts too. They do have hobbies they indulge in, some people have to get their work in the school hours because they have other responsibilities at home. They deserve to be treated with kindness, everyone does.

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Not so gentle reminder, there is no place for radical far-right extremists in this blog. If you are a fascist or hindutva-badi please fuck off from this blog. I'm utterly disgusted with you and want to do nothing with your bullshit. DNI if you lack basic critical thinking, historical consciousness, decency or humanity.

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I just saw some posts by sanghis/ fascists and Israel supporters and hence another not so gentle reminder, if you believe Mughals are colonisers kindly fuck off from this blog, read actual books and not some random internet article and get educated before spewing nonsense. I don't want your ethno-state theories, thinly veiled Islamophobia and attack on academicians anywhere near my blog.

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y did men pick roman empire when there were so many better special interests...

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happy father's day to parvez and parvez only <3 in a medieval dynasty full of family rivalry he was willing to sacrifice his life for his father's health whose favourite son was parvez's rebel brother

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Not so gentle reminder, there is no place for radical far-right extremists in this blog. If you are a fascist or hindutva-badi please fuck off from this blog. I'm utterly disgusted with you and want to do nothing with your bullshit. DNI if you lack basic critical thinking, historical consciousness, decency or humanity.

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I just saw some posts by sanghis/ fascists and Israel supporters and hence another not so gentle reminder, if you believe Mughals are colonisers kindly fuck off from this blog, read actual books and not some random internet article and get educated before spewing nonsense. I don't want your ethno-state theories, thinly veiled Islamophobia and attack on academicians anywhere near my blog.