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Would you say that the nature of evil in looming Gaia is a lot like that in Bojack Horseman? In that everything bad that happens in life isn’t always the result of some conspiracy or shadowy cabal of villians? But is more often the indirect end result of peoples own selfish decisions? People making extremely selfish and short sighted decisions that produce disastrous consequences they either didn’t know or simply didn’t care enough to consider?
I've actually never seen Bojack Horseman, but what you describe here sounds accurate! Just like the real world, "evil" in Looming Gaia isn't always the result of intentional maliciousness.
Sometimes it's just the unintended consequences of something else. Even good intentions can result in evil actions (see Sovereign of Aquaria, or Mr. Ocean, or Karenza...)
Many Great Rulers in Looming Gaia's history took the throne with the best intentions. But oftentimes the money and power gets to their heads and they start acting selfishly, thinking "what's the harm?"
They are so far from the common people in their ivory towers, they don't always see the harm they're really doing to others.
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Good question! This is one of those "no one really knows for sure" things, but historians at the World Athenaeum have found enough evidence to suspect the following:
-Each race (for example, Ela elves or Grenil ogres) was split up into multiple tribes, and these tribes magically manifested into their respective regions. How many people were in each tribe isn't known and probably differs wildly; could be a dozen people strong or even a few hundred strong in some cases.
-The exact ages of these first peoples isn't known, but evidence suggests the groups were diverse and ranged from infants to young adults.
-They probably spawned naked and without tools or resources. They seemed to have some basic instincts. However, ancient nymphs have claimed that they helped these first people survive by giving them food, warmth, education etc. until they reached a state of independence. This was the nymphs' first great task assigned by Gaia.
The next great task was to protect Gaia from these peoples they just nurtured...
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@loominggaia, I have a question I must have answered (please)
Mostly:
HOW WERE THEM PEOPLES DROPPED
What I mean is:
How were all of the species we know and love today put onto Gaia?
On Earth, as everyone except Fundamentalist Christian Evangelical Young Earth Creationists Americans Who Vote Trump knows, humans evolved over a long time and got our basic survival skills from our ancestors.
On Gaia, meanwhile, Gaia just made them and them dropped them.
My questions are:
Were these people clothed in furs, fig leaves, or whatever when they were plopped down, or just fucking naked as shit?
Were they given instincts to not die from whatever until they made stuff themselves and to not eat fucking poison?
Or was Gaia just replacing everyone until the populations learned to NOT die from a banana on the ground?
Also, were they adults or babies tended to and given basic survival skills from the nymphs?
Knowing how nymphs spawn I see they had no issues, but what about the other peoples?
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It's interesting how redditbros look at people who call themselves history buffs or history nerds or even people who say they enjoy history and decide there are parameters beyond "I like looking at the past" that classify someone as a real history enjoyer. Chinese history (outside of warfare) or Indigenous history or any history that isn't the white Western world isn't relevant or important enough, history after WW2 (apart from maybe the Cold War) is too recent so the history of cinema and television or rock and pop music is just an interest im popular culture not actual history, queer history or labour rights history or the civil rights movement is too political and you must have a bias.
And then you talk to people who actually study history and their area of interest might be completely different from yours but there's an understanding that "history" is a very broad umbrella. You can talk to a bloke who's studied medieval weaponry on an academic level and say "I like archiving old gossip magazines" and he'll understand that what you both do are ultimately similar things and that they both count as history that's important to catalogue and understand.
Look at the vibe of r/AskHistory and r/AskHistorians respectively and you'll understand that the average white chud named Kyle who knows the name of every WW2 tank doesn't have same respect for historical research that someone who studies WW2 tanks for a living does, but also not the same respect as someone who, as a hobby, catalogues the release date and public reception of every Barbie doll ever made.
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Not that I think women in the 18th century had freakishly long hair the way some of the Victorians did, but "shoulder-length hair" seems a little short for Peggy Shippen. (Also this book is dismally written, but I realize it's my own fault for buying self-published e-books. Let me tell you about The King's Fuzilier sometime. It has to take some kind of talent to write every single character with so little personality. Also for some inexplicable reason that author decided John André was from Liverpool.)
Also I realize calling the Mischianza dresses "of the Polonaise kind" or "of the Polonaise sort" is pretty much a direct quote from either the thing André wrote for Peggy Chew or the thing that got published in London that was written by someone who everyone fairly reasonably assumes was André but I don't think it's actually confirmed (I forget which), but that is exactly why I wish people would stop doing it.
And my brief attempt to consult Professor Google about this is getting me a post from r/AskHistory with some spectacular hot takes, including one guy who is convinced that men aren't physically capable of growing their hair as long as women. (In the freakishly long hair online communities, the general consensus was that pretty much everyone can grow their hair down to about hip-length if they take care of it properly. Longer depends on genetics.)
And now I'm trying to remember enough context to try to dig up the source for a quote from someone saying that André wore his hair longer than average (and that he was incredibly good-looking but no one is surprised about that). I'm pretty sure it was someone who knew him when he was staying on Long Island in 1779 or 1780, so probably it's about a paragraph in one of the many books that got published in the 19th or early 20th centuries that are basically compilations of local historical gossip. Good luck me with finding it. I think it will require being smiled upon by the gods of internet searches.
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Modern historians generally view Josephus as a valuable but imperfect historical source. Here's how they evaluate his reliability compared to other ancient historians:
Strengths:
1. Unique perspective: As a Jewish historian writing for a Roman audience, Josephus provides rare insights into first-century Judaism and early Christianity.
2. Eyewitness accounts: For events like the Jewish War, Josephus offers firsthand observations.
3. Preservation of sources: He incorporates information from now-lost sources, especially for the Second Temple period.
Limitations:
1. Bias: Like many ancient historians, Josephus had clear political and personal motives that colored his writing.
2. Inconsistencies: There are contradictions between his works and sometimes within the same work.
3. Exaggeration: He tends to embellish facts, particularly when describing himself.
4. Methodology: His historical methods are less rigorous by modern standards.
Compared to other ancient historians:
1. Josephus is generally considered more reliable than some, like Geoffrey of Monmouth, who created more fictional accounts.
2. He's viewed as comparable to other Hellenistic historians in terms of methodology and biases.
3. Archaeologists have often found Josephus's descriptions of places and structures to be fairly accurate.
Overall, historians approach Josephus critically, recognizing his value while being aware of his limitations. They use his works in conjunction with other sources and archaeological evidence to reconstruct ancient history.
Sources
[1] Is Josephus a reliable historian? : r/AskHistory - Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/10hwtz2/is_josephus_a_reliable_historian/
[2] How Reliable Is Josephus? - The BAS Library https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/sidebar/how-reliable-is-josephus/
[3] [PDF] Life and Reliability of Josephus: An Introduction https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/448697
[4] Josephus the Ancient Historian Gets a Little Touchy https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/josephus-the-ancient-historian-gets-a-little-touchy
[5] The Reliability of Josephus: Can He Be Trusted? - jstor https://www.jstor.org/stable/43044141
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Hmm... Well...https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/wsfg5g/were_ancient_greeks_and_ancient_egyptians_aware/
History buffs, do you think Egyptian royalty and Greek royalty would have married each other?
I mean, Cleopatra was actually Greek or Roman.
Egypt and Greece were neighbours, so yeah...
I am writing a fanfic, and in fanfiction, anything can happen unless if you pull it off and write it properly and all that.
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I do have a general idea from Reddit’s r/AskHistory booklist, that including Pierre Souyri’s “The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society” for my introduction to Japanese history, and Bernard Bailyn’s “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, but frankly there wasn’t a great many titles in their American Revolution section that caught my fancy
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what i was trying to complain about was this phenomenon i find annoying which is "highly specialized expert attempts to answer general question but gets too academic, talks themselves in circles, and never actually answers the meat of the question". it actually pops up in a lot in the social sciences too when looking at pop academia.
(my annoyance specifically comes from browsing r/askhistory, and seeing well researched and sourced answers which stumble right past the original question to get into whatever minutia the academic in question was obsessed with at the time).
its not malicious at all, nor is it a failure of accuracy, but it does show that science communication can be a skill on its own. the internet has given a lot of very smart people the ability to talk to a large audience and some of them are really shitty at explaining themselves.
is it just me or has so much of science media become "taking this commonly held belief and painstakingly explaining tiny missacuracys that literally bother no one"
like im all for fighting misinformation but sometimes the "misinformation" is literally just that the scientific definition of a term means something different than the commonly used meaning! fucking obviously!! if someone tells me tomatoes are actually a fruit one more time im gonna go postal
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LOOMING GAIA MUSINGS: SOVEREIGN + ZAREENITE POLLUTION
The Zareenites liberated their red elf slaves around the year 4300. The slaves were replaced with robots, which dramatically increased the empire's energy usage and pollution output.
600 years later, Sovereign and Mr. Ocean were born off the eastern coast of Noalen. By then, Zareen's pollution was really getting out of control and starting to affect foreign waters.
200 years after that, Sovereign was an accomplished curative mage. He healed sick Aquarians for free, simply to better his community. But the number of patients was increasing every year, they were coming from lands further away, and their ailments were getting stranger and more severe. Based on their similar symptoms, Sovereign began to suspect that these Aquarians were being poisoned by something.
Sovereign traced the cases on a map and noticed they followed specific ocean currents. These currents all passed by Zareen's shores, which by that time were notoriously dirty with pollution. Could the currents really carry this pollution so far from its source? According to all these Aquarians with strange cancers and chemical poisonings, apparently so.
Anyway, the Red Elf Liberation Movement was the major catalyst to the Aquarian Alliance's uprising. These events are directly connected, even though they happened centuries apart. The RELM actually gave birth to two Great Kingdoms: The Empire of Damijana and the Aquarian Alliance, which today are ironically at war with eachother over the pollution...Pollution that stemmed from the RELM in the first place, because Zareenite corporations would rather pollute Gaia with millions of fuel-guzzling robots than even think about paying real flesh-and-blood workers.
I just thought it was too interesting not to mention!
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How do we know what day of the week it is? via /r/AskHistory http://bit.ly/2vnhT21
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Some good history books here.
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/u/sunagainstgold has a fantastic moderation response when users complain that AskHistory is part of a conspiracy
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Hmm... Well...https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/wsfg5g/were_ancient_greeks_and_ancient_egyptians_aware/
History buffs, do you think Egyptian royalty and Greek royalty would have married each other?
I mean, Cleopatra was actually Greek or Roman.
Egypt and Greece were neighbours, so yeah...
I am writing a fanfic, and in fanfiction, anything can happen unless if you pull it off and write it properly and all that.
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The short answer is no, though it's hard to pinpoint precisely when the World War I and World War II or First World War and Second World War - monikers arose. During World War I, of course, nobody knew that a second global conflict would follow ...
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