thoodleoo:

say what you will about the ancient romans and all of the terrible things they did in the name of empire, but they understood how much jewelry shaped like snakes slaps and you really have to give them credit for that

Like everything allegedly good about the Roman Empire, awesome snake jewelry is something they “acquired” from other cultures and claimed as their own.

So no, you don’t have to give them credit for that.

Sometimes World War 1 reenacting can be really fun.

insomniac-arrest:

you know, I’ve always loved history, but living through unbearable hell times really makes you feel even more deeply compassionate towards people of the past. When I was younger there was this sense we had evolved, events lived firmly in the “before” when they didn’t know any better, and we had a general pity towards the times of cholera and violence.

And yet, I find myself more than ever imagining the same feelings we feel now. That solider in Saint Petersburg in 1917 as the church bells toll through the streets, and looking towards the glittery forbidden ceilings and thinking to yourself, things will be different now. You look up and think, we can be better. We can build a better system where the strong can’t take advantage of the poor and the mechanisms of power don’t feed off blood.

Can you imagine the sheer overwhelming promise of it?

God, hope is such a horrible thing and we feel it over and over again without being able to stop ourselves.

yourlocaldudebro:

Compilation of Shakespearean Insults

• “Villain, I️ have done thy mother”
• “Away you three inch fool”
• “I’ll beat thee, but I️ would infect my hands”
• “I️ am sick when I️ do look on thee”
• “More of your conversation would infect my brain”
• “Thine face is not worth sunburning”
• “Thou art unfit for any place but hell”
• “Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat”
• “You are as a candle, the better burnt out”
• “Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage”
• “Drunkenness is his best virtue”
• “Thou crusty batch of nature!”
• “The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes”
• “Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes”
• “Thou hast no more brain than I️ have in mine elbows”

Compilation of Shakespearean Insults

• “Villain, I️ have done thy mother”
• “Away you three inch fool”
• “I’ll beat thee, but I️ would infect my hands”
• “I️ am sick when I️ do look on thee”
• “More of your conversation would infect my brain”
• “Thine face is not worth sunburning”
• “Thou art unfit for any place but hell”
• “Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat”
• “You are as a candle, the better burnt out”
• “Your brain is as dry as the remainder biscuit after voyage”
• “Drunkenness is his best virtue”
• “Thou crusty batch of nature!”
• “The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes”
• “Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes”
• “Thou hast no more brain than I️ have in mine elbows”

The reason I’ve hated Pride and Prejudice (2005) since it came out and have a personal prejudice against it (ha!) is that they cast rail thin actresses in the roles.

I had absolutely no idea about fat liberation when it came out, but I have always been a history nerd, and the changing beauty standards of history is so much a part of my love of historical romance. It’s one of the reasons I adore the mini-series with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. She’s exactly the kind of beauty that fits modern standards enough to not fit in with the Regency era’s, and fits Regency era enough to just escape being cookie cutter Hollywood. In Sense and Sensibility, Kate was full-figured and tremulously lovely in a way that was absolutely perfect for Marianne Dashwood, and Emma Thompson’s slender figure fit the fact that Eleanor wasn’t considered very attractive by Regency standards.

It’s the same when it comes to Bollywood biopics. Kangana Renaut looks fierce as hell as Manikarnika but the Jhansi queen was full-figured and probably well-muscled because she was a queen and a warrior, and there are portraits of her. Only an ill-fed peasant would have been as slight as Kangana. Even Bollywood beauty standards skewed to wide-hipped, full-throated and large-breasted bodies until around the 1970s.

(Rekha could still eat the role of Manikarnika, but that has nothing to do with her figure. I have no idea whether she’s ever been fat or thin, because my god her eyes. Deepika gets the same reprieve, more or less, because her face fills the screen, but Priyanka Chopra was the one who looked like a believable Rajput queen. Not historically accurate one of course, because royal beauties of the time were a lot more well-fed, but also not someone who’d be laughed out of court.)

Now as a disabled person whose very life hinges on fat liberation, I have even less patience with the entertainment industry’s casting choices. I don’t even need most of them to be actually fat. Just at least find women with natural curves, like Jennifer Ehle, Kate Winslet in her younger years, or literally any brown actress. Or, you know, make the thin ones eat enough for their roles.

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Eltham Palace

Photograph of a Japanese man, 19th century, identified as Oda Nobuyoshi and said to be a dentist.

Mugshot of Aimé Léonard, forge heater/miner and anarchist.

30 years old, 1m58.2 (5'2), light-brown hair.

Born in 1864, in Chalonnes-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire, France). Died in 1918, in Nanterre.

Married in 1898 then in 1901.

Taken on February 27th, 1894 by Alphonse Bertillon.

Cabinet cards of George Karlavagn, often advertised as the only stage performer tattooed by electricity, c. 1885, New York City.

Three first ones from the Charles Eisenmann.

Last one from Obermüller and Kern studio.

Daguerreotype of an unidentified man, c. 1850’s.

Unknown man, c. 1890’s, Miller Studio, Rochester NY.

(Source : Bowlers and High Collars)

Cowboy, 1912 postcard, USA.

(Source : Flickr)

friday the thirteenth psa: on friday the thirteenth of october, thirteen ot seven common era, the king of france got greedy, the pope gave in to peer pressure and that’s the whole big templar secret. that’s the whole reason friday the thirteenth is said to be unlucky. no fancy societies, just some chill dudes who happened to have stuff a dude in charge wanted (cited)

ja-rouse:

elidyce:

balaclava-trismegistus:

Sun Tzu is so fucking funny to me because for his time he was legitimately a brilliant tactician but a bunch of his insight is shit like “if you think you might lose, avoid doing that”, “being outnumbered is bad generally”, and “consider lying.”

My personal favourite is his lengthy lecture on the subject of Supplies Being Very Important I Cannot Stress Enough The Importance Of Protecting Your Supply Lines But Also Supply Lines Are Expensive As Shit So Steal The Enemy’s Supplies At Every Opportunity. 

via-@elidyce

jewishtardis:

in judaism, dance means freedom

jojo rabbit (2019), dir. taika watiti //hey alma articles by emily burack and molly tolsky //two rabbis, becca walker and her wife ariella rosen, dance the hora at their wedding // vintage tshirt with quote attributed to jewish anarchist emma goldman//still dancing: an interview with illya kaminsky