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galaxysummoner

amazing

s-leary

An important clarification.

larmalot

This is the sickest most severe burn i have EVER SEEN

theocseason4

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boyworstie

SCOOBYNATURAL 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO team free will runs into a few familiar faces while on their long-awaited beach vacation, but spooky island gets a whole lot spookier when jack and scooby doo suddenly disappear….

⋙ for @avaarts, happy birthday ava! ❤️

dollywoodpretzel-archive

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casgirlsam

i cant tell what theory i like best. it being a prank that went too far too long or something the likes of the plot from The Producers

politijohn

Shoutout to the all queer family heroes

witchbithebooks-deactivated2019

wow this actually makes me feel really happy cause that person is me…

rowark

It me

madgastronomer

I have to tell this story.

I thought I was the first person to come out on either side of my family, but like three years after I came out, my mom was like, “By the way, my Aunt Mildred was a lesbian.”

“What? Really?”

“Yeah. My mom just told me this story the other day about her. She also had really bad depression, so bad that she was hospitalized. Her father flew out to San Diego to see her there. The nurses caught him on the way in and told him the no matter what she said, he was not allowed to get upset.” (This is the Catholic side of the family. Like, serious Irish Catholic with eleven kids and multiple priests in the family. Also super-duper Southern. And this was the 1940s and it was illegal.) “And he got real scared, but he went in. And she said, ‘Daddy, I’m a lesbian.’ He threw his hands in the air and hollered, ‘OH THANK GOD! I was worried it was gonna be something bad.’”

So. Shoutout to my Great Aunt Mildred, because she got there before I did.

Further shoutout to my second cousin Jared, who thought he was the first in even the extended family until he turned up for Granny’s 90th birthday, saw me for the first time in probably fifteen years, and heard me utter the words, “My wife…”

General shoutout to anybody who even thought they were the first in their family when they came out, even if they found out differently later on.

madgastronomer

Y'know what, I love this story so fucking much that I’m going to schedule it to reblog when people will see it.

cumaeansibyl

shoutout to those nurses who were ready to throw the fuck down for their young depressed lesbian patient like… when we talk about allies that is actually the kind of ally that has helped us to survive. in the most literal sense.

tonyalmeida

julierthanyou

the seriousness they brought to this, the editing, the graphics, i

captain-flint

they’re the same picture

list of mundane things that feel like ancient human rituals

cleaning or wipe your bare feet

breaking off a piece of bread and handing it to someone

putting the weight of a basket on your hip or head

eating nuts or berries while hunched over close to the ground

seeing something startling just out of your line of sight and very quickly stepping or leaping on to a larger object to get a better view

cupping your hands into running water to wash your face

the unanimous protection of a baby or child in a public space where women are present

when an elderly woman laughs and grips your forearm tightly

icarus-suraki

May I add?

Touching someone’s face with the back of your hand to see if they have a fever

Stopping to watch animals moving in groups (geese, fish, horses, butterflies, bees)

Helping an elderly person to walk or sit

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telling stories around a fire

huddling together for warmth when it’s cold

marveling at sunlight through leaves

wonderment at the brightness of a full moon

bringing food to sick or grieving families

what-even-is-thiss

Alison was such a popular name in medieval England that authors would name women characters Alison to indicate that she was supposed to be a very normal kind of person

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People in northern England in medieval times used to refer to themselves as I while people from the south referred to themselves as ich so you can tell when a northern character is imitating a southern accent when they start saying “ich will” instead of “I will” or vice versa

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Friars/traveling priests these days are remembered as very holy figures. Not necessarily so in medieval times! They had a reputation for going from town to town and boinking random unmarried women.

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Yes beer was given to children but the beer that was given to children or consumed at most meals was really low in alcohol content. Think modern day kombucha. High alcohol stuff was for adults.

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Medieval peasants grew a lot of stuff in personal gardens like onions, garlic, and rosemary so even though they were limited in what they were allowed to hunt or grow legally they probably had some very tasty meals.

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In the very early middle ages even the nobility were illiterate. Pretty much only monks knew how to read and write. William the conqueror? Was most likely illiterate.

antique-scarecrow

I’m losing my mind, please tell us more

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After the Normans conquered England and nobility started to learn how to read, there’s a period between about 1066 and 1200-ish where all “English” literature in the sense that it was from England, was written in French. When things were written in English again it had already merged with French somewhat so what happened in between Old English and Middle English? idk.

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These days the stereotype is that men are very horny and women are reserved and aren’t as concerned with sex. For most of European history that stereotype was actually reversed! It was still the same amount of sexist though.

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People in the British isles have been continuously making some version of oat cakes since at least the time of the Roman conquest. The definition of an oat cake though, varies from region to region even today. In some regions they are similar to oatmeal cookies while in other regions they are more like pancakes.

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Medieval historians weren’t terribly concerned with accuracy. More likely they were concerned with entertainment. So in order to rid themselves of criticism when they were found out for making stuff up they often cite other people or books that may or may not exist or say that they heard it from this other guy so it’s not them making stuff up oh no it was that other guy. So that’s why we often have to depend on archeology to understand what actually happened and medieval “historical” texts are more often the study of literary experts rather than historians.

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More facts please

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Bloodletting was so popular as a medical treatment in medieval times that they sometimes treated wounds with bloodletting. Also, bloodletting and most cutting of humans for medical purposes in general including surgery was not performed by doctors. It was performed by barbers.

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Medieval English literature from about Beowulf onward often includes a lot of long passages about putting on armor. This was actually quite fun and entertaining for the intended audience of these stories, who were usually warriors and knights who wanted to know what kind of cool armor their favorite legendary hero was wearing.

nova-nadir

i love these can we have more?

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In medieval literature, a person having a gap in their teeth is shorthand for “this person has a lot of sex”

dxitydoo

I love these lil factoids. Idk how you know this but I feel educated and I’ve lived in the U.K. my entire life. History would’ve been way more interesting if we learnt this.

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I took an English Medieval Literature class to cap off my English degree and the class itself was full of weird facts because literary history is odd but that also sent me down a massive medieval Britain related rabbithole in my freetime because uh it was weird, y'all.