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Is there a name for an "I absolutely do not want you to actually get together for a myriad of reasons, but I do want you to guiltily stare at each other when the other person isn't looking and share exactly one (1) desperately passionate kiss preferably when one or both of you think you're about to die that you will never mention again" kind of ship?

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I feel bad for people who’ve never experienced a corn maze bc it’s not even fun but you just have to do it

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Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is… not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were “lowly” weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.

#Yeah the misuse of that quote ticks me off too #History

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Yes, I too like to go to the stablss and do archsrps

#how hard is it #how hard is it Disney to Google the Greek alphabet???? #you think Annabeth Chase would stand to have think improperly transliterated on her watch??? #no sirree #get a Classicist on staff for the love of all that is good #Percy Jackson show

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#words

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“Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.”

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS FIRST LOOK TEASER [x]

#his voice threw me a little since I've listened to the audiobook so much #but I'm excited #Percy Jackson show

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Me, reading my scraps of fics in my notes app: oh, that’s good, I really like that. Someone should finish that.

#someone reblogged my Venom Peter snippet #so i reread it and this is exactly how I felt

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“The desire to be ‘accurate’ suddenly disappears when sex isn’t involved and it is actual interesting day to day minutiae,” says Eleanor Janega, a medieval historian who teaches at the London School of Economics. “If the (‘Game of Thrones’) world was historically accurate, why isn’t every single noble house or castle absolutely covered by huge gaudy, colourful murals? Why is it that this form of historical accuracy isn’t important, but showing rape as endemic is?”

Other historians point out that, as prurient and gasp-worthy as something like a crude C-section death is, such butchery wasn’t as prevalent as storytellers would have you believe.

“They were very keen on protecting mothers from harm,” medieval history scholar Sara McDougall told Slate.

Texts from the time indicate that such extreme measures would usually be performed on women who had already died – not, as in “House of the Dragon,” a fully awake and alert woman with no clue what was about to happen to her.

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Janega points out that, while medieval times were certainly not overkind to women or anyone else who wasn’t rich, powerful and male, they weren’t the burlesque of suffering we’re so used to seeing on screen.

“'Accuracy’ is always focusing on the distasteful aspects of a society, but never the pleasurable ones,” she says. “(It) somehow always encompasses sexual violence and never things like, for example, the three field system, or fishing weirs. They don’t really show how women other than the nobility are a dynamic part of the medieval workforce. Women are found in pretty much every facet of medieval work: as blacksmiths, running shops, brewing beer, in cloth production, running bath houses or in trading delegations addressing the court.”

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you ever read a fanfic and realize that what youre reading isnt just a fic its someone’s magnum opus. i love you people’s dedication to things they love i love you endless creativity

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something about the constant prophesying in arthurian legend makes me fully insane. you're destined to shine brighter than any kingdom you're going to be holy and worthy but you are also doomed, you will fade away but you will be remembered forever... you might know why and how and where you will die, and by whose hand, and yet you also don't because who would ever see it coming... good lord. anyway. tragedy

#mmm yeah

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They really should teach people how to cook in school.

#someone put a lot of effort into this #video #I need a humor tag

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hakoda borrowed it and forgot to give it back <3

#avatar: the last airbender #fanart

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you ever get a comment that makes you want to reread your fic ?? it’s like ‘dang u liked it that much?? lemme go look’

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Worst thing ever in the whole world is when a thunderstorm is forecasted and then it doesn’t storm. literally so rude I was excited for this all day.

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“I’m afraid it’s over, doctor. We’ve seen through your sinister plot.”

“It’s not a plot, you uneducated fool – it’s a scheme.”

“I beg your pardon?”

“A plot is defined by political intrigue as a central feature, whereas a scheme is defined by its complexity. You can have a straightforward plot or an apolitical scheme, but not vice versa. This is a scheme.“

“I thought if it was complex it’s a machination.”

“No, it’s a machination if it’s artful. I’ve never much cared for artfulness; for example, this conversation isn’t artful at all, yet it’s kept you occupied long enough for the next phase of my scheme to come into play – just as I’d planned!”

“Your scheme depended on me not knowing what a scheme is?”

“Wheels within wheels, old friend.”

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In 2002, a flood in Prague caused some streets to collapse into a series of unknown underground tunnels. And just like that, a legit 16th cent. alchemist laboratory was discovered.

10 years of discovery, repair, and restoration later, it’s now open for tours.

On the outside, only a house was visible and it was used as a pharmacy in its time. Alchemists were notoriously secretive, so none but those on the inside knew about the tunnel system below where potions were made.

A room dedicated to herb storage. Many of the herbs in the potions came from China and India. The house was conveniently located by major trade routes.

Notice an alligator (or croc/caiman) above the left side. There were lots of stuffed animals, bottles, and books. Since few people in Europe had ever seen alligators/crocodiles, they were said to be the bodies of dragons, and were thought to guard the alchemists.

The alchemists were so secretive, they did everything themselves, down to making the glassware for their elixirs.

A stone in the wall that covered a hidden vault in the underground tunnels. Historians uncovered that it held a single bottle of ‘The Elixir of Life’ and the recipes for it, and the elixirs of love and memory.

This bookcase is an exact replica of the original, which was too damaged to restore. A statue on the right side (in the dark area on the third shelf from the top) is the door knob/switch to a secret sliding door.

Monks now recreate the elixirs exactly as detailed in the instructions and each of the elixirs (and blends!) are for sale in their shop. The only change is that the Elixir of Life does not contain opium as is instructed, since it’s now illegal.

http://asthecroweflies.co/

#that is so cool #definitely on my list to visit #history

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“In 1404, King Taejong fell from his horse during a hunting expedition. Embarrassed, looking to his left and right, he commanded, “Do not let the historian find out about this.” To his disappointment, the historian accompanying the hunting party included these words in the annals, in addition to a description of the king’s fall.“

LMFAOOOOOO rip to that guy

#since I've been watching Rookie Historian Gu Hae Ryung #this came up at a good time #loving that show by the way #I do recommend it #it's fun #history