#primary source documents

[documentcloud]

Luz Toledo on █████, █████ and how he uses DocumentCloud's redaction tools.

[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

[jowithavianwings]

People acting like x historical source is the only real canon version of a myth/ancient deity and all are other interpretations are invalid is hilarious to me because it’s like someone trying to study renaissance christianity through a blurry, pirated copy of fucking Veggie Tales on a scratched disc.

[holychopshopgalaxy]

broke: flint is achilles and silver is odysseus

woke: flint is don quixote and silver is sancho

bespoke: flint is don quixote and silver is miguel de cervantes

[tainebot01]

Hi there! Sorry if this is a little strange, but I've seen your post about needing someone to do an analysis of Verity and how she treats Eustace being tied to her being a mother to a child actor a few times now and I really like it. I like making videos talking about characters and media I like, so I was wondering if I could make a video based on that post?

Also, I'm very uneducated on the subject haha, so if you have any resources to research or other points you'd like to add, I'd really appreciate it!

Omigosh yes!!!

I had the idea of doing such an analysis after I finished playing the Investigations Collection (before lectures started again and I unfortunately ran out of steam), so I’d love to see it!

While I don’t have any direct sources or points, I do have the general (very wordy) train of thought that led to this idea:

I began noticing a theme of performance or staged media across the cases in AAI2 - the televised report turned fake assassination in I2-1, the circus show and trained animals in I2-2, the Bake-N-Bop TV show and replica gallery in I2-3, the character masks and costumed auctioneer’s role in I2-4, the Taurasaurus filming and… well, honestly everything in the latter half of I2-5. These are just off the top of my head but I was surprised at how prominent it was throughout the entire game, the idea of scripted events versus unknowing participants and their spectators.

From this, I realized how similar Eustace is to a child actor, someone who is forced into a role at an age where they don’t have the full context behind what’s going on, and often times aren’t even acting - while the scenarios may be fabricated, the emotions behind them are very real. And from a very twisted point of view, Excelsius did make Eustace into a method actor…

I mentally combined this idea with the existing, definitely intentional theming of parent-child relationships, as well as how Verity and Shaun (an child actor in-universe) tie into it all, and I started thinking of how Verity’s role towards Eustace is remarkably similar to that of a Child Guardian or Chaperone - someone who is supposed to teach, provide for, and ensure a safer environment for the child or children under their care… yet often they cannot directly influence the acting production which results in such a hostile environment in the first place.

And from there, I just wondered how one could analyze Verity’s character and relationships to others, especially Eustace, with the added context of her being a foster mother towards a child actor. Hopefully there’s something in that mess of text that can help towards research, I’ll add anything else if I remember it.

Good luck!

[brown-little-robin]

oh I just realized that my interest in anime and my interest in clowns are linked by the concept of "exaggerated silliness". hmm!!!

[ramenwithgyoza]

I like the previous reblog bc its good to know that it was actually normal

[hesbuckcompton-baby]

need none of my STEM flatmates to ever complain to me ever again about the research they have to do for their essays until they've scraped through records from 1622 to try and prove the people they're writing about even existed <3

[birthbystarburn]

how long is too long for a timelines document haha .

[anghraine]

I've spent pages of my dissertation explaining my gripes with historicist literary criticism and then it's like "I'm a historicist btw"

(...my brain is very tired)

[originalleftist]

Ann Bonny and Mary Read.

Below is a screenshot of a portion of the actual trial record for Ann* Bonny and Mary Read, the two most famous female pirates in history. This is the most detailed eyewitness description of them known to survive to the present day.

Image: Screenshot of an excerpt from the trial record of pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read.

Here is the text with some edits on my part to update anachronistic spelling and grammar, for those who don't want to try to parse early 18th century court documents:

"Dorothy Thomas deposed, that she, being in a canoa at sea, with some stock and provisions, at the North-side of Jamaica, was taken by a sloop, commanded by one Captain Rackam (as she afterwards heard;) who took out of the canoe, most of the things that were in her: and further said, that the two women, prisoners at the bar, were then on board the said sloop, and wore mens jackets, and long trousers, and handkerchiefs tied about their heads; and that each of them had a machet and pistol in their hands, and cursed and swore at the men, to murder the deponent; and that they should kill her, to prevent her coming against them; and the deponent further said, that the reason of her knowing and believing them to be women then was, by the largeness of their breasts."

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/the-tryals-of-captain-john-rackam-and-other-pirates/pdf_68970990-ded9-11e8-be44-1b1f2868c03d.html

*And yes, its often spelled "Ann" with no e in contemporary documents- the e appears to have been an error in the trial record which stuck. Ann also seems to have used aliases, and is sometimes referred to in contemporary sources by the last name Bonn or Fulford, or the first name Sarah, leaving some ambiguity as to her real name.

[anotherpapercut]

I try to fact check shit before reblogging it especially if there's like a specific statistic or smth bc I'm inherently suspicious of statistics but sometimes i spend so long fact checking something that by the time I get to the actual answer my Tumblr has refreshed and I never see the post again

[noir-renard]

Oooooh mind if I ask what you researched?

I don't mind at all! I'm assuming this ask is in reference to my tags on this post ^w^

I researched the Women of the French Revolution of 1789, specifically how their efforts during various periods of the revolution lead to the creation of "private" and "public" spaces; women working collectively vs individually vs women as symbols of revolution or the bourgeoisie (ie la Marianne vs Marie Antoinette); and the historiography of revolutionary French women and how it reflected/reflects modern views of women and politics.

If I'd had more time and had been allowed to write more, I would have touched on women's fashion and politics, specifically pockets, but alas I only had 15 weeks to research and 25 pages doubled-spaced to write. Most of the resources I needed were kept in a special archive in France, which I did not have access to 🥲

[chaotic-archaeologist]

I'm an exhausted academic in the 2020s, give me a couple of decades and I can make everything else about this happen.

i love dropping my pen putting my glasses on my desk and rubbing my face like an exhausted divorced academic in the 1980s who is greying and sexily tousled and has been up for hours digging through the yellowed pages of old obscure treatises about etruscan pots

[historyartthings]

'Psychologists today make clear links between loss and depression, and Henry VIII was to suffer from a depressive episode in 1541 following a serious bout of malaria, when he mourned Cromwell and remained confined at Hampton Court for a long period'

Lipscombe, '1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII'

[23sanguinity]

adding john quincy adams to my list of colonizers who were shit at writing. not because this is actually poorly written in any way im just feeling hatred