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memes, fun facts, and shit posts galore alex | 21 | she/they

[twerklina]

[stimman4000]

[yeehawmeme]

[fleurdemeth]

Portrait of a Young Woman, Jean-Etienne Liotard 

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer 

[heartfeltdelight]

#they look like theyve been having a chat about u and u just walked in

[antimony-ore]

I’m on mobile, somebody edit them into this please

[antimony-ore]

Y'all take too long

[powerburial]

all women born after 800 AD do is tempt, blaspheme, witchcraft, eat potent herbs to aid in their foul divinations, and lie

[princesshamlet-deactivated20210]

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

[pyrlspite]

[spaghetti-botticelli]

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

Why does Catholic, the largest church, not simply eat the other churches?

[cinquespotted]

the Economist out here trying to fix the Schism of 1054

[bubonickitten]

love how sometimes i’m like “oh, i should put this somewhere safe so i don’t lose it and know exactly where to find it later!” and about a month later i’m standing in my ransacked room trying to get into past me’s mindset like some kinda amateur historian on one of those history channel treasure hunting shows trying to get into the mind of a nineteenth century pirate to figure out where they hid some possibly nonexistent apocryphal loot

[bubonickitten]

having memory problems is like being an archaeologist of your own life and it isn’t nearly as exciting as it sounds

[30-minute-memes]

Bruh

[fakehistory]

American flag at half mast after assassination of JFK (1963, colorized)

[slowspinningredemption]

i’m trembling in the presence of all these scholars

[history-and-stuff-and-things]

[historicalemily]

[spaghetti-botticelli]

[thoodleoo]

one of my favorite (read: least favorite) things about how people treat cleopatra is she’s so often called a slut or is only ever portrayed as being this incredibly sexy, often scantily-clad seductress, when in actuality 1. while some ancient sources describe her as somewhat pretty, it generally seems that what was attractive about her was her intellect, charm, and voice, and the sources that refer to her as extremely sexy/slutty are specifically out to condem her, 2. she was a brilliant politician who chose her affairs as a way of securing power for her country and not just so she could have a bunch of sex (which shouldn’t be an issue anyway), and 3. one of the men she had an affair with was mark antony, ancient roman super slut supreme, a man known for his love of sex and tendency to wear extremely short tunics for the sake of showing off his sexy legs/probably also his dick

i’m not saying there’s anything wrong with portraying cleopatra as beautiful or even sexy, because she clearly had allure. all i’m saying is that, if your cleopatra is wearing less clothing than your mark antony, there’s probably a problem in your depiction of them

[chotomy]

i’ve cracked the code,

[spaghetti-botticelli]

[brutashaswin]

“With all six Infinity Wives, I could snap my fingers, and a male heir would cease to exist.”

This is so dumb I’m sorry