#history

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Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

[beggars-opera]

Boston 1721

[a-meh]

[thehmn]

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

[prokopetz]

I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.

Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.

It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.

[deathtokillian]

As a kid learning about the holocaust, I never understood how people could let Nazis rise to power. But now I’m watching it happen in real time.

[frostedmagnolias]

“Mary Wallace was the first woman bus driver with the Chicago Transit Authority in 1974. Her job applications were rejected for three years, but her persistence paid off. She was eventually hired under an affirmative action program. Wallace became one of the city’s most popular drivers over her thirty-three year career.”

Happy Black History Month!

[classicalcanvas]

Vase with Red Gladiolas (1886) by Vincent van Gogh

[beggars-opera]

Trump: STOP BEING MEAN TO MY FRIEND'S BUSINESS! BOYCOTTING IS ILLEGAL! I WILL MAKE YOU BUY HIS STUFF!

Me, gazing into Boston Harbor with a tear in my eye: that's what they said about the British East India Company my dude

[victusinveritas]

All of this is correct. No notes.

[lgbtlaughs]

ACT UP, 1990

[timeless-brushstrokes]

The Yerres, Rain (1875) by Gustave Caillebotte

[classicalcanvas]

Fairy With Iris Bleeding by Alphonse Mucha

[cryotrash]

A true story from 1928 with a few artistic embellishments.

(And starring my disaster boys Jack and Al, of course)

[blumineck]

Huge thanks to Richard of the Order of the Blade for throwing me around!

(If you’re in the UK, consider checking them out! The order are a combat school with a really fun and welcoming ethos)

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