#20th cent

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[jaggedpeak]

happy birthday kittycat

#warrior cats #wc #firestar #my art #obligatory 20th post lol #these books are soooooo silly i havent really cared about them for a good little while now but. yknow #im definitely not the only one who was set into art and animation by these silly little kittycats #like in a couple weeks ill be starting an animation degree i Never would have been set on if it werent for warriors #so yknow. dumb as it is itll always have a place in my heart #2 cents

[allhailthe70shousewife]

#dirty old men of the 20th cent.

[sudaca-swag]

this bitch writes the disney villains monologues

#a totally not worrying statement from the middle easts only democracy :D #israel youre even kidnapping your own citizens and putting them in prison for treason if they dare protest shame on you #a good old 20th cent fascist state through and through #free palestine #palestine

[strugglingclassicist]

Helen: And who did you say you were? Pen: Penthesilea, Amazon Queen, who went once/ to war to save Queen Helen (that was you)./ "Able to make men mourn" my name signifies, / supreme Amazon speeding to the neediness of Troy,/ leader of twelve good warrior maidens,/ battle-scarred/ and with fierce reputation. We were the last/ hope that queenly Troy could keep intact/ and reachable, the greatest beauty in the world. Helen: I remember that day./ The sky was a sheet of crystal/ and the wind was still. I ran to see your arrival/ from my windowsill./ You were like Artemis to us, you arrow-carrying bear-dykes./ I could tell Hector/ and the other men had learnt/ some of their skill from you,/ and then too, what can confuse/ a man more than a naked female/ breast with a bloody ax behind it? Pen: You and I met before the fight./ I rode into the hall/ on the great long-legged stride/ my mother prized me for./ You turned almost at once/ to look me up and down./ My cheeks burned with pride/ though inside/ I felt more like a clown. Helen: The Amazon were coming!/ To fight on our side!/ We women were electrified./ You looked strange to us/ but exhilarating./ I was especially electrified/ by you. Pen: I knew it too, that moment/ at least, when our eyes met across the room./ I was your last battle ax/ and you threw it.

Judy Grahn, the Queen of Swords

#very interesting play #about the story of inanna and her descent to ereshkigal in the underworld but also connecting the figure of inanna with amongst other Helen #but set in modern times (well #mid 20th cent.) #Judy Grahn #tagamemnon #classical reception #quotes

[loving-n0t-heyting]

Often I look back at my life and in particular my debased, pusillanimous fear of catching myself enjoying cringey neckbeard geek shit and I am overcome with shame and guilt and self-revulsion, but I can at least console myself that I was an unabashed homestuck. That has to shave off a few years of inauthenticity-purgatory

#faildaughters of the world unite #idk if I can live down not being a Weeb when it was mega uncool #tbf I think I just did not know about anime in hs and filled this hole in my heart with wikimedia shunga instead #and early 20th cent bushido fetishism #which is probably about as cringe? #I was SUCH a disgusting coward in college tho #a permanent indictment of my underlying character

[winepresswrath]

is your url a reference to revelation 14:19?? sorry this is so random i was reading the bible for a class and suddenly something clicked

In a roundabout way, but also it's so much sillier than that. It's a grapes of wrath reference, because in the depths of my early CQL obsession I was idly poking around on tumblr and concluded that I should make an account, so as to spare my friends and family. I didn't think very hard about what my name should be- I just went oh, angry grape, the grapes of wrath, winepress of wrath, fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword dada dada dada haha purple. Naturally since all roads lead back to Wei Wuxian this bit

The baby has a cold. Here, take this blanket. It's wool. It was my mother's blanket—take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we."

popped into my head and made me think about Wei Wuxian and the people he makes his families with & particularly about a-yuan, for values of my mother's blanket that amount to "my necromancy" and "my sister's soup" and eventually "my life!" I know! I promise I know. Even at the time I was aware it was a deeply silly and thematically inconsistent through-line. I picked the first things I could think of because I needed a place to vomit out my thoughts and feelings and was rapidly approaching the end of my bff's patience for the topic and years later here i am.

#me in late 2019 looking at a random object: is this about wei wuxian??? #it's not that it was impossible to have a conversation with me that was not about cql. however the possibility that i was thinking about it #lurked in the hearts of my nearest and dearest and not without cause #anyway i apologize to steinbeck but not to mxtx or the cql team because they made me like this #i don't even like steinbeck!!! i am broadly allergic to early 20th cent american literature with maybe two exceptions #however. however i can still acknowledge that i did him dirty there. #sorry to him!!! also ok sorry to mxtx and the cql team even if they did poison my brain #i could have looked at an onion thought of radishes and done great violence against dostoevsky #i do still wish we'd gone with grape of wrath for the bad steinbeck allusions tho #kill the man that's starving you!!!

[mishkakagehishka]

I love whenever time princess gives me a note ab the french revolution and i can flex my normal education system. I know who Voltaire is, come on.

#but see again it's useful #i played games like this since middle school and sure french rev is studied in like. 6th? 7th grade? #5th is ancient history 6th is until america's discovery? yeah it was in 7th then bc 8th grade is 20th cent #what i'm saying is hats off to all the 13yo girlies learning ab history and art and culture and etc bc of this game

[onefootin1941]

#tyrone power #us postage #44 cent stamp #the king of 20th century fox #nightmare alley

[alliluyevas]

☕️ american girl historicals hehe

trying to format an opinion that i haven't already shared on here. okay I'm going to talk a little bit about Claudie who I think is the most intriguing of the recently released historicals to me.

First off: I think Claudie's doll is adorable, I love her curls and I think her new face mold looks very sweet and friendly. I know the new dolls with painted-on eyelashes are controversial and I have mixed feelings overall but I think it looks cute on Claudie. I also think her meet outfit is cute, especially the dress, and it's not as Aggressively Modern as some of the Beforever and current meet outfits on the other girls.

I'm also a big fan of Claudie's PJ set (love the bunny slippers) and her jazz dress. I think they're very cute and fun and while I'm not an expert on 1920s fashion or the Harlem Renaissance they don't feel like...glaringly obviously not period like, for instance, all of Sam's Beforever collection. At this point, I am quite pleased with Claudie's outfits.

(Although, one thing I'd like to point out that is sort of a semi-critique. These feel quite flattering and glamorous to me, not quite enough to stretch credulity for a nine-year-old character, and the meet dress is def simpler, and since Claudie is interested in performing it makes sense for her to be drawn towards glitzy stuff, but I would like to see her have maybe like a simpler and more childish set available, like a play dress or something.)

My final critique is reserved for the Harlem's Fashion Row outfits. Positives: these are very beautiful and I like that AG did a collab with modern African-American high fashion designers. That being said, as a historical doll purist, these are DEFINITELY not what a nine year old girl in 1922 Harlem would have been wearing. Claudie is a fourth grader, not a showgirl, and while these are beautiful I do wish that there were more options for dressed-down or believably everyday choices.

I also wish Claudie had more lower price point accessories, she has the bakery set but it's huge and more than 200 dollars. I wish they started making the lunchboxes that used to go with the girls' school sets again, I love miniature food but again the bakery set is so wildly expensive.

I also would have to examine the clothing more closely in person to determine construction quality, which I feel like has been more of an issue in more recent AG collections, and I'm not a huge fan of switching to largely synthetic fabrics, so I think I'd like to take a look at these sets in person. However, aside from my previously mentioned complaint that Claudie's collection is very glam and not as historical/everyday, I overall really like her/her collection. If I was to purchase one of the historical dolls they currently produce, it would probably be her (though I also quite like Rebecca).

I also think they undermarketed Claudie--they didn't even release an AG catalogue with her on the cover, which I think is pretty standard for new released historicals, and I worry about her getting overshadowed by the 90s twin dolls. I hope they keep marketing her and release some more accessories and more everyday clothing!

#i like claudie but given my issues with the current AG trends i'm kind of like do i really want to spend the money on a new doll or would i #rather save my money for possibly getting secondhand clothes for my existing dolls and a fuller collection for them #or a vintage josefina i love josefina and she's my fave doll that i dont already have #but also claudie is so cute and i do want to support her so ag will stop cranking out interchangeable blonde white late 20th cent dolls

[gokkyfanboy]

“imagine playing this to a victorian child” I personally think my great grandma wouldve LOVED breakcore. sorry that your ancestors are such losers

#okay she was born like at the very end of the victorian era. but she sure was around for the roaring 20s. roared so much that she died #<- okay I combined both paternal great grandmas. one died in the 30s and the other was born early 20th cent #lee talks

[astrid-goes-for-a-spin]

ASM readthrough blog

been meaning to do a big readthrough of all ASM and potentially the other solos too, but Across the Spider-Verse really bumped it up my list so. Here is the Spider-Man thread 

#locg says I have read 859 Spider-Man appearances so #let's see what number I can get that to once I've actually read his 20th cent solos lol #asm #asm readthrough #spider-man #spider-man readthrough #peter parker

[lemonhemlock]

So I know you love History, and I have a question. Did nobles have to pay rent to stay in a king’s castle. I know some Royal courts had thousands of people, so I can’t think of how the King would feed all of them.

Reina, you're killing me with this question. 😭 I'm afraid that nothing in my field of study has included something like the minutiae aspects of medieval social life, so this requires some serious rolling up the sleeves and getting some proper research done.

So, when it comes to the Middle Ages, I'm not the best informed dilettante out there. I have to say, though, I imagine that nobles would generally live at their own estates most of the time, since they were directly interested and invested in its administration, their lands being their only source of income. Exceptions would be people who'd serve the King in some kind of official capacity - like a proper job (eg. chancellor, councilors, financial officers etc), for which they would have been compensated with some form of salary.

As far as visitors and hangers-on, I'm not really sure.

I did manage to find this related thread over at r/Ask Historians. As always, when pondering a question, it's important to delineate the time interval and the region, because feudalism was not exactly a uniform system. V interesting how some kings would keep an itinerary court of sorts and basically travel from place to place.

This thread (+this) explains a little how Louis XIV revolutionized the court system, essentially forcing his nobles to live with him at Versailles (at least for part of the year) and transforming them into courtiers, making them fight with each other for "better" positions. Of course, we're not talking about the Middle Ages anymore here, but it's useful to conceptualize this as a tool for the king to control and curtail the power of his nobles, increase his own political power instead and hurry along the process of bureaucratic centralization.

I imagine most of the people living at court would be servants though. Housing and food would be provided to them, of course, as well as payment. Households would also vary in size, depending on how much money there was available for wages.

#within IR we fast track everything from 1648 until we get to the 20th century i'm afraid #then we get down to more elaborate case studies #medieval historians feel free to drop ur 2 cents #like if anyone has any proper bibliography for this i'd be v interested #social life during the middle ages #ask #lareina219

[womens-vintage]

Dr. Jaeger's Health Shoe was a brand of footwear that was marketed as a health product in the early 1900s. The shoes were designed to be comfortable and supportive, and were said to improve circulation and promote overall health. The company that produced these shoes was based in Rochester, NY, and was run by John Kelly, Inc.

Chas. A. Eaton Co. was another manufacturer of women's shoes during the same time period. The company was based in Brockton, Massachusetts, and was known for producing high-quality, stylish footwear for women. While it's unclear whether the shoes made by Chas. A. Eaton Co. had any specific health benefits, the company was widely regarded for its craftsmanship and attention to detail.

Both John Kelly, Inc. and Chas. A. Eaton Co. were successful shoe makers during their time, and their products were popular among women in the early 20th century. While these companies may no longer be in operation, their legacy lives on through the shoes they produced and the impact they had on the fashion industry.

#dr jaeger's health shoe #early 1900s #shoes #rochester ny #john kelly inc #chas a eaton co #brockton mass #footwear #women #fashion #style #early 20th cent #turn of the century #gilded age #belle epoque #victorian #edwardian

[benchowmein]

Theatre Magazine, November 1922

Corselet of Tutankhamun, excavated November 1922

#The illustration was obviously most likely made ahead of time but I find it very interesting how fast specific artefacts retrieved were #imitated within only a couple of months #this issue of Theatre is FULL of references to Ancient Egypt too #'do you see the woman with the dark eyes like an Egyptian princess' and things of that Orientalist ilk #the poster refers to a play set in India (I think - the article is unclear) #I included these 2 in an essay on the Western theatre's use of often imagined race and caste systems in late19th-early 20th cent #the Mikado - also reviewed in this issue of Theatre magazine - deserves every mention it can get for that

[the-replacemints]

Playlist title: Paul westerberg birthday party

tracklist:

happy birthday - steppenwolf

ooh la la - faces

forever young fast version - bob dylan

20th century boy - t rex

another girl another planet - the only ones

#i ... had such a hard time with this ahdjthehfjghg #i was trying to come up with songs by his favorite artists but like what even are his faves ahehdhkgk #i also added happy birthday by steppenwolf cuz its what i would sing to him <3 #westerberg #i remember paul mentioning faces a lot in the book #and i knew he drew lots of inspo from dylan #and he covered both 20th cent boy and agap