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21 | history/classics | victim of the war movie dad to history major pipeline

[phantomofthehoepera]

I want the record to state I have never been this hard in my entire life

[nedlittle]

1920s guy driving a model t with a "i bought this before ford went crazy" bumper sticker

[vetchtibbles]

dead serious WHAT did they put into claire de lune to make it do all that

[caralarm-bicycles]

his whole debussy

[fuckyeahfightlock]

. . .I think OP was asking about BBC Sherlock (2010 - 2017)

[vetchtibbles]

I don’t think OP was doing that actually

[necrophilologist]

So There's This Open Wound At The Heart Of The Text

[necrophilologist]

good evening to nobody except the people who tagged this post, which is about a 2000+ years old epistolary exchange, with moto gp and formula 1 rpf

[schofielded]

Sorry for the things I said before the pain meds kicked in. I was evil. I’m still evil but I have a filter now

[daciancatamite]

me: does this fantasy setting have no misogyny or does it just have women in the warrior class

they: i dont understand

me: *explains in detail the difference between a fantasy setting w no misogyny n a fantasy setting where the creator just added women to the warrior class n put no further thought into it whatsoever*

they: *laugh* its a good fantasy setting, sir

me: *looks inside* *they just added women to the warrior class*

[eminentwren]

Explaining cause someone in the tags wanted to know:

A lot of fantasy worlds carry structural misogyny that mirrors our own world, that many readers take for granted, because we are not necessarily used to using the fictional space to imagine radically different worlds and consider what “no misogyny” looks like.

So for instance, even in worlds that an author might textually tell us “treat women equally”, and they prove it by having a woman be a warrior (“see? Women can do any job a man can do!”). But, if there’s no particularly different structure to society to handle domestic labour and childcare, then much like our modern world, it places a high burden on women to occupy dual roles in society. They must often be both carer and breadwinner (and also Hot, let’s not forget these settings always want all women to be Hot, and all “ugly” women are evil), while male protagonists are simply “themselves”. They are not truly equal with women because actually, they can look however they want, and also care work is not expected of them. It is rarely a constant passive part of their lives (when it is present, it is a very active part of their narrative, distinguishing them from the “norm” of the world). Women continue to occupy invisible roles in these narratives as the stay-at-home parents, the cooks in the kitchens, the hags, whose stories are unimportant to the narrative because they aren’t considered full and real people with rich interiority. The work of caring itself dehumanises them. The closest we typically get to valuing “carer roles” in fantasy is to create archetypes for the Healer, which are invariably very femme-coded and often tied to damsel-in-distress stories. (The Healer must often then distinguish herself from the devalued image of association with care work and femininity by becoming a warrior as well.)

And then, of course, there’s the uncritical reproduction of systems of violence and war that typically impacts women and other marginalised groups more than anyone else… because “fantasy”…

but the point isn’t to create an ever-moving bar here, because we could talk about all the ways in which this stuff shows up til the cows come home, but to talk about what it means to exercise the attempt to imagine what “no misogyny” looks like. Exploring the possibilities that open up when you ask, “what if childcare was structured communally instead of by individual families and how would that shape our heroes?” and “what if this society assigned gender roles differently/at a different age?” And “would a history in a different world full of female leaders conceive of territoriality differently compared to the Westphalian notion of the nation state as demarcated by men?”

If it starts and stops at warrior women, that’s no different from thinking feminism ended when women got the vote, or the right to die in the army. Fantasy is where our imaginations should explore possibilities, not be trapped by the limits and chains of our current political reality.

[thepurpleglass]

[mythosphere]

I’m crying

[irate-iguana]

Currently attending a show in [REDACTED LOCATION], watching a family friend’s band. Family friend is also an actor, currently in [REDACTED TV SHOW], and a bunch of his costars are sitting right behind me and WON’T SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[mythosphere]

ILL SAY IT star trek starfleet academy

[thethebaid]

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

the cap of a mushroom is called the PILEUS!!! as in odysseus' shitty hat!!! this brings me joy!!!!

[blended-ice]

he has connections with many great and powerful figures -> calls it mycelium networking

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

Achilles hiding on Scyros like

[thoodleoo]

this fanfic shit easy as hell

[contagiousgrace]

me logging on to say something on any given day

[mamoru]

haters do not want you to know this but if you pick up something heavy every day it will eventually stop being quite as heavy. this is because the heavy thing, having witnessed your dedication, begins to yield its essence to you. and you, in turn, begin to absorb that essence into your own being. this is what makes people strong. the more essence you absorb, the stronger you become, and the more respect you command from the world around you.

[violsva]

#follow for more workout tips from Pliny the Elder (via @elucubrare)

[goodysaurus]

mutuals what perfume or cologne do you use? 👀

[boundwithpurple]

The skeleton of a young girl, about 14 years old, was found in a room [in Pompeii] holding an eleven-month-old baby in her arms. The infant was adorned with bronze ornaments, which shows it belonged to the higher classes. The girl cannot be the mother, since she was still in her prepubertal phase. Moreover she clearly did not belong to the upper class. An analysis of her teeth reveals that she had been severely ill or undernourished in the first year of her life. Various molars displayed abscesses and shortly before her death a few teeth had been extracted. Her shoulder muscles bore traces of unremitting physical effort caused by lifting heavy weights. Most probably, Bisel concludes, she was a slave girl who was given the care of the baby by her master, unfit for other tasks, as she was worn down by hard labor.

another one for the ‘incredibly haunting archeological find descriptions’ files ["child slaves at work in roman antiquity," christian laes]

[handweavers]

first assigned reading in my textile history class is about orientalism and the political appropriation of the paisley print and kashmir shawl by the british written by a south asian researcher

[handweavers]

"in this essay i would like to offer a way of reading pattern and textile history as political and ideological" sickos yes ha ha ha yes . jpeg

[handweavers]

dropbox link to the PDF of the reading i just uploaded bc it's institution paywalled otherwise <3 let me know if you have any issues downloading it