Down The Rabbit Hole

i spend so much of my time on Wikipedia that I started a google doc of the things I’ve learned. Then the list got too long so I had to organize it into categories. then i had too many categories so i said fine i’ll make a blog damn

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What’s going on here??

my list of interesting and compelling wikipedia articles got too long :( so I made a blog to keep track of what i learned :)

What kinds of stuff are you posting here

Anything I find particularly compelling, fascinating, surprising, poignant, important, or under-discussed. always open to suggestions! Current categories are:

#plants

#animals

#earth sciences

#history and culture (general)

#history and culture (north america)

#history and culture (south america)

#history and culture (africa)

#history and culture (europe)

#history and culture (australia and island pacific)

#history and culture (asia)

#food

#language

#legendary creatures and unexplained phenomena

Why are you doing this

I like list :)

You do know people go on Wikipedia and tell lies, right?

Yes I was part of the “wikipedia is not a source” generation. following up with the primary sources is part of the fun

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on wikipedia straight up "learning it". and by "learning it" i mean, lets just say.. information

[maybeallieart]

An embroidery of the Wikipedia page for embroidery.

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[targent]

cant fucking sleep bc wikipedia has separate lists for vampires and for fictional vampires

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starting a collection

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I showed this to my partner to gently tease them and they said so sadly "the thing is when you came in I was eating peanuts and reading the Wikipedia page for peanuts"

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FOR THE LAST TIME,

an inhabited initial begins a paragraph in an illuminated manuscript with embellishments including non-narrative human and/or animal figures,

AND

a historiated initial begins a paragraph in an illuminated manuscript with embellishments including identifiable characters or historical figures in some sort of situation;

reblog to save a scribe

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get in loser we’re bringing back “cropen”

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[standing on the edge of a cliff in a storm yelling into the wind at the top of my lungs] WHEN WILL IT BE MY TURN TO REDISCOVER A CACHE OF VOTIVE OFFERINGS ONLY TO REALIZE THAT WHAT I HAVE ACTUALLY REDISCOVERED IS THE GODDESS HERSELF

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BUT WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS A

[consulships]

youre in her dms im on wikipedia looking at bronze age tombs

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