@ewanmcgreghur - Tumblr Blog

imagine if instead of kpop it was rpop and it's from russia and you had girls all over Twitter being like "stream Я какала в штаны" and posting pictures like this and being like "OMG Ivonovativich looks so CUTE"

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The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

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Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

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Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.

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When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

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Sketches by Shirley Jackson

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A man standing in the lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939.

via reddit

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August by Eugene Grasset, from The Months, an art nouveau calendar (1896)

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many of you have uncles that died tragically

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everyone’s telling me how their uncle died 😭 never change tumblr

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Cocteau Twins concert ticket 1994

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may 2026 • mirror dimension at whitstable beach

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PRIDE & PREJUDICE / faceless 2005 • dir. Joe Wright

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maybe my freak is unmatchable

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randomly getting intensely interested in some bullshit like

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English workbook of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, 1916. “English. Marie.” One of the exercises was apparently to write a letter; Maria has addressed hers to “My dear Alice” and asked about her children and their time spent in London–the Alice in question is likely Alice of Battenberg, Princess Andrew of Greece, Maria’s first cousin and the future mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.