#history is biased

[dearearlyarchaeologists]

Dear early archaeologists,

The East exists.

Don’t complain or ignore it. It just does. No one is sorry.

Please do not subjugate it to Western ideals and philosophies. The empires of Asia were some of the most developed and impressive that the world has ever seen. Their political and material culture, especially ceramics and vessels, were internationally renowned and very influential over what you are currently studying.

Please use them as reference in your interpretations of your culture but ESPECIALLY theirs.

[noodles-and-tea]

Back at it with my enchanted merthur shenanigans

[cemeterything]

tumblr only lets you have up to 12 options in a poll so this is just going to have to be a normal "reblog and share in the tags" post, but anyway which entity's statements in the magnus archives are your favourites? mine are the slaughter statements, even though my favourite entities are actually the desolation and the end

[ciderbird]

watching a youtube video about the Congress of Vienna and laughing so hard at this image

“describe the russian tsar in 4 words or less”

[uncanny-tranny]

I'm still so amazed at how far medicine has come for trans people... being able to take hormones and get surgeries that are life-saving and life-affirming are genuinely such amazing feats and I wish more people understood that. Like, even if those aspects of transition do not appeal to every trans person, it is still so important to recognize just how important it is that trans people have options.

If love were a language, it would be science.

[spacecravat]

for good omens s3 i hope we get to see crowley with REALLY long hair, waist length or longer. just luxurious long locks pooling around him

[neversetyoufree]

I cannot believe that Vanitas is a "I'm not a bigot because I hate everyone equally" guy and Noé is a "I see people not categories" guy, but they're both being 100% correct and sincere about it

[aro-culture-is]

Aro-culture is trying to understand why society created the most ridiculous rituals and signs for romance and not finding a single answer/or that makes sense.

(No seriously, all the explanations I find are dumb. Send help)

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[the-worms-in-your-bones]

please answer this is for research

[amphibious-thing]

tbh I hate how tumblr discourse treats the topic of queer erasure as an either/or thing like its either

All historians are homophobic & transphobic and are all actively and intentionally erasing queer history.

or

No historians are homophobic and/or transphobic and anyone who is talking about the issue of queer erasure is actually just an anti-intellectual who doesn't understand social constructionism and the medicalisation of homosexuality (bonus the person saying this has such a simplistic understanding of social constructionism and the medicalisation of homosexuality that they inadvertently participate in the erasure of queer history due to ignorance).

[branwendaughterofllyr]

I read the interview that George did about F&B and HoTD, and all I have to say is that him wanting a framing device of Gyldayn writing the history would have been so cool. Reshooting scenes with slight differences as the maesters argue over what *really* happened, the fact that the Targaryen dynasty is already doomed to fall in background, leaning into the dark comedy of it like Succession or the Serpent Queen, people arguing over what really happened (the fandom discourse would be insane). And this would have actually been a refreshing new take on the fantasy genre that could make HoTD stand out from GoT right off the bat. But noooooo.

Both me and George are disappointed.

[knightsickness]

obviously the actual reason criston has ‘pale green eyes’ + isn’t dornish in f&b is that grrm changed his mind and made him dornish in the show/book and show are separate stories but am obsessed with the two possible watsonian explanations. one is that dornish/half-dornish people can just have green eyes one of the sand snakes has blue eyes but the far more interesting idea is that he was actively whitewashed in in-universe accounts of the dance. the 2021 the green knight white hero dev patel portrait of it all …

[dougielombax]

“hiSTORy iS WRitteN bY THe vicTORs¡”

Oh do fuck off with that Churchillian, pompous, small-minded, imperialist, triumphalist Great Man Theory bullshit!

That stopped being true after 1945 and you know it!

Get in the bin with that shite!

Besides I’m pretty sure that quote was actually about biased narratives.

Mind you, I’m not using it to justify revisionism or “lost cause” narratives! That shit can also get in the fucking bin! Starting yesterday.

[phatcatphergus]

I understand why fit viewers are upset that what fit meant as a joke is being taken seriously, but like Tubbo didn’t know that. This is miscommunication the musical!!!! What the hell is Tubbo supposed to think when fit pulls foolish aside and asks if he really wants to work with tubbo? Like that seems really serious and genuine, especially bc he had to evesdrop to hear it! Like it’s really not that deep but to qtubbo it is.

I genuinely don’t think anyone is wanting fit dead or upset with him as a character (aside from not reaching out but that’s on qtubbo too), we just take things how qtubbo takes them and qtubbo overhearing someone asking if they actually want to be his friend while he’s already insecure is hurtful.

Not everything is negative about another character, we can be angsty and say how much we wish fit would reach out and be upset over what he’s saying while still liking him and understanding that the comment was meant to be jokier then how people took it. People view characters how the characters view characters, qtubbo was hurt so we’re hurt. Fit was joking so the huevos don’t see a problem. We all gotta understand that we come from different understandings and that’s okay!!!

[siilvan]

i am once again disappointed but not surprised at the COD fandom only caring about “sensitivity” when it’s convenient for them

[fromtheseventhhell]

The weird moral outrage surrounding the Targaryens gets even more ridiculous when you know that the majority of it only exists as an extension of the hatred for Daenerys. The more they're related to Dany, the more they're going to get demonized and hated. People have just decided that an entire house is evil and unworthy, going against the actual story, in order to justify their hatred of a single character. And what gets me is that they're so hypocritical about it. Targaryens are always held to a higher standard than everybody else. A character or house could be guilty of the exact same action, or worse, but outrage is always going to be much worse towards whatever Targaryen is involved.