#Historical Documentation

[kindahoping4forever]

Tonight's installment of feeling normal about Luke Hemmings

[charrednewt]

Hey textile history side of Tumblr, I am tossing this message in hope to reach you with a question.

How come we never see pockets in historical clothing like pants? External pockets (like those in cargo pants) are not difficult to sew and do not require particularly modern or fine fabric. I know that many gowns had inner pockets or waist pockets.

Is it because most examples of historical costumes that reached us are the fancy kind?

[howdoesone]

How does one properly display antique firearms and weapons in a collection?

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[andhumanslovedstories]

I've been getting really into the idea of purposeful primary documents. Sometimes when I'm writing a journal entry, I'll stop to explain in excruciating detail something that I take for granted as common knowledge, like exactly what the process of getting groceries looks like for me. I have two main motivations. One, so many practical every day details of life get forgotten as time goes on, and losing that texture affects our understanding our history. Judith Flanders' book The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London focuses on a glorious level of minutiae--jobs, railways, rivers, sewers, entertainment, sounds, smells--that fundamentally altered how I view this period in history. You don't need to understand how the implementation of gas lights on the streets affected London life to get the gist of major political movements at the time, but god does that information make everything so much more real.

My second purpose is someone someday is going to write a period piece about the time when I grew up, and I like to imagine that one hundred years from now, someone might read a scanned version of my journal and go, "oh thank god, THAT'S how doordash worked." And then they still write it wrong so their blorbos can fuck.

[ew-selfish-art]

DPxDC Au: Normally when Danny vandalizes ancient cave walls and historic places on his 'favor' missions for Clockwork, he gets sent back to erase them. But no, apparently this time, when Danny added his actual phone number into some painting, he's not allowed to go back and fix it. Ugh.

...

Tim has had the painting of Bruce professionally reviewed a few times since the old Bat was retrieved from the time stream. He's not entirely sure how the painting still exists, he's not even sure that it matters any more... But one day Tim catches something new in the painting.

It was small, and it could've just been the light at first but... Is that a phone number in the background?? It looks like black marker on the black curtains and it makes him feel feral. The family is kinder this time about how they think he's gone crazy- but each one of them admit that they can't remember a phone number ever being present.

The lab reports that the number was added over the paint- and that it's an ink based marking akin to a sharpie but like, hundreds of years old. So... It's been added recently but not at all recently enough for Tim to have an explanation.

Tim doesn't want to hear any more of his family members opinions on the matter and he certainly isn't going to just, stop investigating or something stupid like that. So, he takes the painting to the tower, gathers his team (Cassie, Kon and Bart), and they call the number in the middle of the night after a lot of planning/back-and-forth/catastrophizing.

It doesn't answer until the final ring, and the static that comes through the phone is bone chilling. A deep, monstrous groan which echoed with agony fills the room.

"I have a math test in like, three hours, who the fuck are you and why the fuck are you calling in the middle of the night?" The voice now complains, still sounding vaguely inhuman despite it's very human word choices.

"Your number is in a historical painting, we had a few questions but uh, you can call us back later?" Tim cringes as he says it but he hadn't planned on having to reply to someone trying to go back to bed. Or someone who was apparently also a teenager. (He had so, so many contingency plans for like, every kind of villain, alien or demon. lame.)

"...Ugh. might as well." The voice calls out, agreeing with a sigh that echos so deeply the team can feel it in their bones.

"Cool. Good luck on your test?" Tim offers.

"Mph." And the line hangs up.

...

Danny is at lunch with Sam and Tucker when he remembers the late night call. He'd spent the morning bitching about never getting a full night of sleep and it finally occurred to him what had happened. Of course his friends think it's hilarious that CW wouldn't let him erase his number. Of course they do.

They stop laughing when Danny calls the number back.

"Hello, this is Red Robin of Gotham. I have Superboy, Wonder girl and Impulse present with me. How did your math test go?"

[takemeinyrarmy]

Read animal farm

[worfsbarmitzvah]

there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

[cheesenchalk]

thinking about that time somewhere in the early 70's George found an old letter of his from like '61 or something and pattie told him he should save it so he 'recreated' it and just for funsies threw in a line or two that wasn't in the original about how paul sucked at bass and john wanted to kick him out of the band. unparalleled haterism. you have to respect it

[fredricwertham]

I really like when characters are modeled on the real-world circumstances that have shaped them. Dick has developed into Bruce's guiding light because he was created to brighten the Batman title itself, he's his savior because who knows how long the series would have endured without his levity. Following his resurrection, Jason is doomed to try and fail to imitate Dick because he's a sub-in who was killed off by fans for taking Dick's place. I think that in most media this kind of direct and transparent substitution of writers' room conversation for characterization that properly conceals its narrative motivation would be hack-y, but in serial comics it really works.

[czerwonykasztelanic]

Le 9 Thermidor, l'an II de la République une & indivisible / Age of Excuse VI, Mgła

[maxwelljacobfriedman]

[wire-player]

Had an archiving exam today so naturally I thought about Orion Pax and interfacing in the archives. Idk if the people who this post reaches are familiar with how archives look, but I have been to multiple and let me say.

While there's an opportunity to interface, because they're huge, and largely empty, Orion Pax would never. The transfluid could ruin the precious documents!

Megatron would try to initiate and he'd be like nope not in the archives, think of the DOCUMENTS. Or do you want to potentially explain to the restoration group how TRANSFLUIDS got on the documents?!?!

[howdoesone]

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[dronescapesvideos]

Clarence Lawrence "Kelly" Johnson, leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works in one of his babies, the Lockheed A-12 "Titanium Goose" trainer. 🎥 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/jkJ3dwAHnhQ

[inkylizard]

Last year, in my dad's paperwork, I found this photocopy of a letter to my maternal grandmother, from a friend in Romania. She had presumably given a copy to my dad because of its historical significance: the letter is dated "22 Dec '89 - 22 Jan '90 - one month from the revolution!" It describes her life under the Ceaucescu regime, the things she had never been able to tell; and details its fall.

When I found it, I thought it was an interesting thing, and that I should share it. But I balked, I guess, at publicizing someone else's private letter; it's not so historical that the writer might not still be alive.

Now, It feels not just historically notable, but painfully, critically relevant. It's long, and it's not all politically pertinent - there's a bit about me and my cousins being adorable - but it's an all or nothing kind of read.

"Very few people fought to stop the wrong activity of that criminal Ceaucescu. If every important person in state didn't agree to report only lies concerning the economy (industry and agriculture) Romania would have been the same rich country, worthy of her brave past. Instead of truth it was easier to die thousands of people in order to regain our dignity, to have a better and a new life? For this reason we shall never be forgiven by the next generations. Will this revolution wash the shame?"

I hope you will read it. Thank you, Ela.

[baudouinette]

my masterlist (under construction)

Reading sources of interest (Baldwin IV)

Letter from Baudouin and Sibylle

Letter from Baldwin to Constance of France (1177)

(more letters)

Letter of condolences from Saladin to Baldwin IV after his father, King Amaury’s passing. (1174)

A History of deeds done beyond the sea by William of Tyre

The Leper King and his heirs

I also recommend taking a look at his genealogy/family tree!

You can find it and other pertinent trees in the Leper King and his heirs as well.

ONE OF THE FIRST OR THE FIRST FIC OF BALDWIN

I saw in comments and messages, both here and on TikTok, that there’s been some new people joining the community, so I wanted to offer a few of my fav starting places for reading real documents of the time. And others to gain a little perspective of the real side of things.

Add your own sources and resources! I would add more myself, but I don’t have time to look through my 400+ open tabs and remember it all lmaooo but I will update this into a masterlist along the way if u wish :3 (and if you know of better quality alternatives to the ones I’ve linked lmk)

Edit: give me some time and I will sporadically update with my resources. They’re just super scattered and some I just forget about because they’re from ages ago. So I might have to dig.

Seguramente traduciré al español algunos de estos documentos, si están interesados 🤍

In [ ] are some of the things that still need to be linked or redacted (many others are still not even mentioned)

Crusades/Kingdom of Jerusalem resources

•The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem C. R. Conder

•The feudal nobility and the kingdom of Jerusalem, 1174-1277

•Feudal monarchy in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, 1100 to 1291

•Frankish rural settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

Crusader Bible

1st, 2nd, 3rd crusades (YT)

Crusader orders (YT)

Order of Saint Lazarus (would like to add my own. Give me time lol)

Templar ≠ Crusader (YT)

Templar armor and weapons (YT)

General medieval resources (gear + clothing, weaponry, etc)

[one-handed knightly swords (later called arming swords)]

Ewart Oakeshott: Western Sword Typology info: links [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

The sword in the age of chivalry

A knight and his weapons

A knight and his armor

A Knight and his horse

[Scimitar typology]

Modern History TV (YT)

Scholagladiatoria

Shadiversity (YT)

Helmets (give Baldwin a helmet, for the Lord’s sake)

Chainmail & gambesons (YT)

Common garments (YT)

12th century women's fashion (YT)

Medieval clothing terms

Medieval medicine (YT)

Hygene (YT) (can't find the video rn)

Old French language resources

Dictionnaire de l’ancien français

Petite syntaxe de l’ancien français

A breakdown of Yvain le chevalier

La chanson de Roland (YT)

The sound of Old French (YT)

Old French playlist

To make my phrases and translations quickly, I use wiktionary :)

Facts to take into consideration:

Castles: Typically, get used to forgetting that bare stone look. This could be true for new/hastily constructed castles and fortifications. But established infrastructure would be lime-washed/plastered. Many times painted. Many times colorful. On the inside, too—n they would be decorated, and full of tapestries. The more important a lordship (and where more often the King would pass through (royal castles)) and the more wealthy an area, the more true this would be. Churches would be colorful too. Painted with many motifs and icons. Mosaics can be included in your descriptions in many places too. Some Roman—or Greek, some Byzantine, some local.

"Catapults" & trebuchets

[Water supply/distribution/availability] / diseases associated

[General supply of goods to the Kingdom] —ports like Jaffa, Akka, Ascalon, Beirut.

[The city of Jerusalem in contrast to the movie]

Royal Court:

Officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem:

Constable: (second) in command of the army, judged military legal cases, paid mercenaries. On coronations, he held the King’s horse.

(1152-1179) Onfroi II de Toron

(1179-1194) Aimery de Lusignan

Marshal: next-in-command to constable. In charge of the military horses and mercenaries. He assisted the constable in coronations.

(c. 1179) “John”

(c. 1179) Gérard de Ridefort

Seneschal: managed the finances and royal castles, presided the haute cour in king’s absence. He administered the coronation ceremony.

(c. 1176) “Ralph”

(1176-1190) Josselin III d’Edesse

Chamberlain: in charge of the royal household and chambers, and servants. Had many other honorary or unofficial duties. Had to be of the utmost discretion. He would robe the king on coronation day.

(1175-1178) Amaury de Lusignan

(c. 1179) “John”

(c. 1184) “Raymond”

(1183-1185) Balian d’Ibelin

Butler: In charge of the royal table and vineyards.

(1185-1196) “Miles”

Chancellor: drew up deeds and charters and managed the diplomatic service. Usually clergymen.

(1174-1183) Guillaume de Tyr

(c. 1177) “Lambert”

Bailiff: regent in case of absence or minority of the legitimate ruler.

(1173-1177) Raymond III de Tripoli

(1177) Renaud de Châtillon

(1183-1185) Guy de Lusignan

Viscount and Castellan: Keeping criminality in check and administering justice. Not of high importance. Sometimes both offices were occupied by one person.

Castellan:

Rohard de Jaffa (1165-1177)

Balian de Jaffa (1178)

Peter of Creseto (1178)

Royal physician(s)

My stories:

Heaven Can’t Wait (Baldwin x OC)

Vide Cor Meum (Baldwin x time traveler OC) (assassin’s creed inspired)

REPEL (Baldwin x leper OC) (Greek tragedy style)

Sidi Mansour (Saladin x OC)

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