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Understanding is not agreeing. Pacific Northwest, LG (Lawful Gay), he/him/bro

[captain-price-returns]

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't understand how this is even a defence in the age of drone warfare.

[graham-folger]

Or even like... Cannon warfare.

[quasi-normalcy]

Yeah, the Ottomans could have taken this in the fourteenth century.

[footlongdingledong]

idk man not to sound like a cartoon hippie but if your entirrrrre blog and dash is about how the world sucks and everyones bigoted i think you are going to give yorself brain worms

[footlongdingledong]

"ah but all of this is important and true and if i dont reblog all of this important stuff waga baga THE WORMS! THATS WORMS! THE BRAIN WORMS!

[footlongdingledong]

i do not think you are doing activism chief i think what you are doing is sitting in your room flagellating yourself expecting something to happen

[prokopetz]

Speaking of medieval history, it's fun how the popular accounts are all "the peasantry disliked nobles, but typically loved the King and attributed any harmful decisions to bad advisors", and then the rare examples of surviving testimony from actual peasants are like "I hope the King literally explodes".

[prokopetz]

Popular histories: Medieval peasants understood themselves as inhabiting a cosmic order in which the King was their divinely appointed superior.

Actual medieval peasant: God, please set the King and everyone who looks like him on fire, Amen.

[waywardworldhopper]

Out of curiosity do you recall offhand any of the latter sources? I want to read medieval peasants hating on their rulers :)

[musicals-n-cartoons]

This Tumblr thread has a fun anecdote about Guillaume le Jupponnier, and links to an blog post with some more. There is also a promising source in the form of Popular protest in late-medieval Europe. Italy, France and Flanders by Samuel Cohn.

I must say that it may be more accurate to say that the medieval peasantry is not a monolith. They can hold every possible opinion. But yeah, hating the king is a time honored pastime.

[cloudabserk]

“fujoshis are harmful to gay men” not this gay man.

[cloudabserk]

on twitter this got a bunch of responses like “wow even the evil fujoshis? the homophobic yet hypocritically fetishistic ones? what if the fujoshi is racist?” and like well no obviously not in that case.

[cloudabserk]

“shoutout to everybody from new jersey!” “even the new jersey serial killers…?”

[aq2003]

i can't get over this. this is fucking killing me

[beggars-opera]

Hey, do you guys remember my 18th Century Life Coach, Gary?

He has finally accepted what people have been telling him for years ("Hey, dude, you kinda look like Ben Franklin. You should capitalize on that")

Gary IMMEDIATELY gets out there and takes the most Ben Franklin photo I've ever seen

I just

Behold

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[orthodoxadventure]

[spiribia]

when enkidu dies Gilgamesh covers his face, veiling it “like a bride”. Haha (sudden low voice through gritted teeth) the ancient Mesopotamians are running circles around us. I need you to get your ass on the field and give me your best yaoi or we can kiss these quarter finals goodbye

[laskulls-deactivated20250318]

More male characters who are interested in their mother's legacy. As a trope there's a lot of sons and daughters who follow in the father's footsteps and there's yes, girls who honor their mother, ect. But let's have more dudes who are like. Stumbling on their mom's secret fairy cottage or some shit. And they're like aight gotta make the tea

[romanceyourdemons]

whenever i look into a historical monarch who doesn’t get talked about much and is just kind of a blank spot in my understanding of the historical narrative, 95% of the time what i find is pure white hot blistering capability. a pencil pusher for the ages. a 39 year reign with no more than three hours of sleep a night. there aren’t any good stories from his reign because he systematically caught and stopped all catastrophic good stories before they could start. you shrimply must respect it

[sesamie]

simple asks to help bolster ask culture again

What's your blog title from?

What movie have you watched most recently? What did you think of it?

what are you looking forward to right now?

if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?

What's your drink of choice? (Coffee/tea order, alcohol of choice, pop, etc)

What's your hair routine like? Anything special?

what's your favorite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?

favorite month of the year and why?

favorite time of day and why?

do you play or follow any sports? & elaborate on that?

what kind of music is stuck in your head a lot lately?

dishes or laundry?

what's something you learned recently?

if you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?

What's a piece of advice you find yourself giving a lot?

what's a piece of advice you would give to yourself five years ago?

do you believe in luck and superstition? Do you carry any lucky items or follow any lucky rules?

Are you musical? Play any instruments or sing? Would you ever perform for an audience?

Write, type, or speak?

what do you wish someone would ask you?

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[totally-a-wizard]

Christopher Nolan has made a giant laser cannon labeled "The Odyssey (2026)" and aimed it directly at the manly men who love war, because The Odyssey (2026) is a modified laser cannon that teaches you that War Is Bad Even For The Victors.

And the average Tumble user gets extremely indigent, "Why isn't the laser cannon aimed at me??" because you already understand that war is bad and destroys civilizations.

"This cannon isn't like the original design!" The original cannon has been modified for centuries, how is it you're just now realizing this 2,700 year old epic has been adapted before and certain parts weren't used in new designs.

"They didn't use my favorite parts of the cannon to lure me into its sights!" Again, the manly men who believe that it's possible to win a war are the target, not you.

"Well why doesn't the laser cannon use more actual Greeks? This is just settler colonialism validating itself by claiming a succession from Ancient Greece" We're delving straight into the belief that settler-colonists is a distinct type of person and not a thing that you can do, down this path is our own destruction. Also it's a few centuries late in the game to complain about a lack of Hellenes in Homer's laser cannon.

"I do not like the laser cannon." That's valid.

"The laser cannon is clunky and inelegant and a little too on the nose." That's also valid but, again, I cannot stress enough that you are not the target.

"The laser cannon polluted this one ocean." That's also valid, who in government can you contact to do something about it?

"The laser cannon is fascist." Babes, the laser cannon is being aimed at the fascists. It's leaving little fascist treats to lure them into its sight. This really is not about you.

[dahlia-molinas]

if christopher nolan was really the visionary and ground-breaking director everyone claims he is he would have cast ben affleck as penelope

[mommydgaf]

you’re so fucking spoiled you get to pick out which radiator you get chained to

[idiosyncatsy]

really underrated part of the LotR films is when gollum gets exposition lines. like can you imagine? you're travelling with the most fucked-up evil little murder greyhound creature imaginable and he lives in a cave and doesn't know about potatoes but from time to time you have to ask him about local geopolitics. and he answers you

[totally-a-wizard]

I use tumblr daily, yes I can imagine.