#Biographics

[weatherman667]

Joseph Stalin: The Red Terror

So, it turns out he’s more of a psychopath than you thought he was.

Went to college, became a socialist, abandoned his family, got a new family and abandoned that one.

Was Georgian, and one of the things he fought for was an autonomous Georgia.  It briefly happened, Lenin reneged.  Georgia protested.  Lenin sent in Stalin to get it solved peacefully.  Stalin butchered the leaders.

The Romanov’s actually abdicated power, (under extreme force), Lenin had them murdered.

Democratic council was in charge, Lenin murdered them.

What was left was a group of soviets, supposedly democratic councils.  Stalin played game of thrones, killing off the other democratic councils.

Murdered Lenin while proclaiming himself his true successor.

Murdered Trotski as his greatest rival.

Literally created quotas for his purges.  Purges all his generals.  Purged his farmers.  Purged his purgers.

Literally “I have no son by that name.” when the Germans were holding his son hostage.

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#youtube #biographics

[fabricdragondesigns]

It's All My Fault (Announcement) TL;DR  Three channels most of us thought were simon’s were not- he was a host on someone else’s channels. Top Tenz, Biographics, geographics Simon left to pursue his own channels, after the owner died and his daughter had to take over and  was coping poorly

#youtube #biographics #geographics #top tenz

[autiebiographical]

I grew up in the 90s where I constantly was told to "Be Weird!" Apparently I was supposed to be neurotypical weird, not autistic weird.

#autism acceptance month #autism acceptance #autiebiographical #autie-biographical #actually autistic #autism #autistic #web comic #comic strip #comic

[satelliteduster]

oh my god i forgot to post my absolute favorite strip from gay comix (issue #2, 1981)

#this collection is full of so many hilarious vignettes #between the fictional and biographical they range from hilarious to saddening but theyre all candid looks at #lgbt life in the 60s 70s and 80s #id recommend it if you're interested in older underground work #edit: for ppl who notice the opening blurb i will say this: #1. Many artists in the underground comix scene (yes the lgbt ones too) delighted in being overly provocative for the sake of it #hence the cringeworthy 'political unity is not the goal' line #2. i worried abt this too when i started going thru the issues but there are quite a few strips and comics focusing on the trans experience #that said. there are unfortunately not a lot of transgender artists involved in this collection #3. given the preceding two points i think its fair to say that a good chunk of the strips in gay comix just. Suck #but like they actually said it's important that we're capable of recognizing that a full 40 years down the line #so we can actually learn something from the life experiences the mistakes and even the lack of perspective tht sm of these artists displayed #nocturnal writings

[antebellumite]

I like how the james buchanan video just ends up descending into talking about everyone around buchanan rather than just buchanan honestly.

#james buchanan #biographics

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Lisa Marie as Vampira - Ed Wood (1994)

#lisa marie gif #ed wood gif #vampira #maila nurmi #tim burton #90s movies #biographical movies #1990s #1994 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[knightsickness]

girl help asoiaf tiktok just found out rhaenyra was fat in the books. discourse falling somewhere between ‘well as a big girl there’s nothing wrong with that! and daemon didn’t have any complaints ;)’ ‘it’s green propaganda and classic hypocrisy! aegon was also fat’ and ‘in medieval times people would have found fat rhaenyra more beautiful than thin alicent! ahistorical fatphobia’. do you think during a war that caused famine and horrific levels of suffering among the peasantry both the royal figureheads being fat is apolitical. do you think it was still admirable when the people were starving. ‘i can’t believe the french revolution fatshamed aristocrats’ level of thinking

#grrm uses the body as a political entity quite a lot it’s interesting #related alicent being thin as relates to the anemic self-denying the real life is in the afterlife catholic martyr #luther railed against. many such cases coldness unrelatability inhumanity of faith etc #anyway go read martin luther’s body: the stout doctor and his biographers 🫵 #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #rhaenyra targaryen #aegon ii #house of the dragon #hotd

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Fantastic Arctic Foxes Defy the Odds in Iceland

A host of adaptations have allowed these cunning creatures to thrive, despite the challenges.

©. Erlend Haarberg via bioGraphic

#erlend haarberg #photographer #biographic #arctic fox #fox #animal #mammal #wildlife #iceland #nature

[brookbee]

I think if Star Trek ever made spirk canon they should just mention it super offhand as if it’s common knowledge instead of making a big deal about it. Something said incredibly matter-of-fact like: “Captain Kirk and Spock were such a great command team that they got married, not everyone could be so lucky” and just move on

Like yeah, obviously they were together, what you never looked up their biographical information in the ship’s computer?

#like we saw their relationship develop over tos and the movies #I don’t think adding in a scene in SNW and possibly disrupting that would be the best choice #Just adding a detail of their personal lives as if it’s normal biographical info however #would just put that relationship development into perspective #like I know more fans convinced they’re together than those that don’t see it at all #It’s not super necessary at that point to put in a scene about it between them (though I would not be opposed to more spirk content) #star trek tos #star trek the original series #tos #spirk #Spock #Jim Kirk #james t kirk #s’chn t’gai spock #st tos #Star Trek #trekposting

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Auditory processing disorder and Hyperacusis is a pain

Autie-biographical Comics

#hyperacusis #noise sensitivity #some sounds can be really nerve racking #especially the fridge or air conditioner #auditory processing issues #auditory processing disorder #I’m sure some of you can relate #feel free to reblog/share #Autie-biographical Comics (Facebook)

[writeouswriter]

*banging fists on table* more mentally ill characters in stories that aren't just about them being mentally ill! More mentally ill characters in sci-fi, in fantasy, in romance and fun and high stakes situations and everything in between, as the heroes, as complex individuals, multifaceted and treated with respect, not having their needs and differences ignored or skirted around but, again, not having them be their only trait or plot point/entire premise! Please, I'm begging, on my hands and knees, there's a place for these topics and characters in realistic, reflective and literary fiction, yeah, but there's also a place in those magical, mystical, action packed, mysterious and alien worlds, give them to ME

#books #mental illness #mentally ill characters #writing #writeblr #not so much a problem with writers here but in books and such in general it's an impossible search #because you try and look up books with mentally ill protags and it's giving you either 1. the worst horror rep you've seen in your life #2. secondhand inspiration or pity p*rn #3. just irl biographical or realistic literary fiction which is not what i'm looking for at the present #4. either complete hollow cardboard tokenism or just barely true hc or etc. #&god forbid you try to find a character with psych*sis w/o it giving you killers or big plot twists where it was in their head all along 😑 #like i just i want a funky scientist studying aliens who happens to be b*polar #i want a fantasy adventurer or ghost hunter or etc who happens to be sch*zospec is that so much to ask 😔 #bizarrely hard to find male protags in this category as well? if you do have recs for scientists in fiction like this hmu 👀 #anyway and yeah yeah yeah write what you want to read I'M TRYING #i have all these guys i have this funky scientist but i have the illnesses™️ as well such is the world #so i want something to read or see like... now

[weatherman667]

Ulysses S. Grant: Victor of the American Civil War

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Called Useless Grant as a kid.

Completely failed at everything he did.

Ulysses S. Grant, the name, is a product of a clerical error he never corrected.  His name was actually Hiram Ulysses Grant.

Got an easy post in the army, drank his way out of it.  Failed at farming.

But!?, you might asked, He beat Robert E. Lee?  No, he didn’t.  In pretty much every battle, he took FAR more casualties than the South.  His reputation in the North was that of a butcher.  He only won because the North could afford a LOT more casualties.

When first promoted to General, he earned the nickname “Unconditional Surrender Grant,” because of surrendering, unconditionally, twice.

Nearly quit being a general, and remained because of General Warcrimes Sherman.

Tried the Zapp Brannigan strategy a few times before he learned to conduct a basic siege.

When given command of all theatres, once again readopted the Zapp Brannigan strategy again.

Only reason they succeeded at all was Sherman’s Warcrimes to the Sea.

It should be noted that the North had a much higher population, stronger economy, and the North was blockading the South.  The fact that North could not win this was ridiculous.

Nearly lost the war as a product of time, as the POTUS election was coming up.  Lincoln was INCREDIBLY unpopular, and his likely replacement promised to negotiate a peace treaty with the South.

Was in charge of Reconstruction, which is nothing like described.  The Reconstruction comes from the fact Sherman burned down everything on his March to the Sea.  These weren’t battle wounds, but warcrimes.  Now, the point of Reconstruction was NOT to reconstruct the South, but to tear apart it’s political strength and subordinate it to the North.  Anyone phrasing Reconstruction as the North helping the South was lying.  Now, the South was quite intent on oppressing the Blacks after they were freed, and you could argue it was justified to stamp down on the South, but saying Reconstruction was about reconstruction is lying.

The only good thing he did was apparently tax evasion.

This video does a good job of neutrally describing Reconstruction.

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This lead into an incredibly interesting read into the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.  All 9 articles were about him ignoring unconstitutional laws, 8 or which were about a single incident.  At the time, 10 of the Confederate States had not been readmitted to the Union, but it still failed to reach a Senate Supermajority needed for impeachment.

The South was also broken up into Reconstruction Military Districts that put the entire South under military occupation by whom they believed to be a hostile foreign military power.

#youtube #biographics #Jorge Aguilar

[teatitty]

You can tell when Watson is mad at Holmes about something because he’ll describe Holmes in very passive-aggressive ways in his work. “He had the habit of playing his violin at UNGODLY HOURS and waking us at night and his organisational skills left much to be desired, as more than once I had found myself SLIPPING ON HIS PAPERS that he had left all over our floor”

#acd holmes #watsholmes #holmes: have I...done something to upset you? #watson: you're the detective :) deduce it :) #holmes: ah #holmes learning that dating a writer who is Your Biographer #is indeed a very dangerous game

[autiebiographical]

Autism has long been synonymous with "struggle". If you don't struggle, if you're successful or you're just happy with life people are less likely to recognize you as autistic, except for other autistic people.

I swear, we have an autism radar. Autie-radar? Autie-dar?

#autism acceptance #autism acceptance month #autiebiographical #autie-biographical #actually autistic #autism #autistic #web comic #comic strip #comic

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

OKAY SO, I AM A BIG FAN AND SIMP OF BAGRATION, and I will tell some curious facts about him that I like a lot for his propaganda! (It's a bit long, but it's worth it).

1.- He was a skilled painter! In a historical novel of his it is said that he learned to draw by himself and his education was mostly based on books and neighbours (he was of noble lineage but his family was exiled and his economic situation was very poor). He showed his paintings to the imperial family (including Ekaterina) and made a sketch of the wife of Paul I!Unfortunately, his works have been lost in time.

2.- In 1803... Do you know what he did? He took care of 47 children of his soldiers! Something very tender on his part, he was like a father figure yippieee.

3.- Speaking of a father figure, he had a father and son relationship with his soldiers, he cared a lot about them and made sure they were well fed and clothed! There is an anecdote that Bagration had a doctor arrested for a month because the doctor was not treating his soldiers properly.

Of course, he also imposed discipline on them and they were very obedient to him, they were ready to die under Bagration's command and at Borodin, when the rumour of his death spread, it increased the fervour of the soldiers and they decided to fight back harder. They also captured 335 French soldiers,

4.-he was too good to exist! He always tried to be on good terms with others and it didn't matter if you borrowed money from him and didn't pay him back, he was fine with that (he was also very unattached to money lmao).

5.- He had a good sense of humour, before meeting his future aide-de-camp, Denis Davydov, he had heard that Denis had written a poem making fun of his aquiline nose.

When they finally met, Denis was a little nervous about being in front of Bagration because of his joke, and Pyotr points at the hussar with "this is the one who made fun of my nose" but Denis quickly responds by saying that it is a compliment and that he would like to have a nose like Pyotr's (?

I don't really remember Denis' response, but it was something like that and that was the beginning of a nice friendship. Denis continued with his jokes and on one occasion he told Bag "That the enemy was very close to their noses", to which Pyotr replies that "if it's in mine, we have time for breakfast, if it's in yours, we have to hurry!"

6.- unfortunately he spent a lot on dinners to maintain his status, on his table there were always treats for others but he didn't even have a fixed place to live. He was very modest and his motto was "Everything for others, nothing for yourself", he often ate in the same cauldron as his soldiers and I like to think that when his soldiers were feeding, Bag appears with a cup of food and decides to walk around the place to check that everyone is eating but finds one soldier bothering another soldier to eat together, so Bag proceeds to hand his cup of food to that soldier hehehe.

7.- outgoing, he had his own lounge and many people came there. He was a hospitable and generous host, he was quite an interesting and entertaining interlocutor, he liked to talk about his experiences in the, if I remember correctly, Italian wiwiwi campaigns.

And here is Yermolov's description of him on the subject:

"Prince Bagration had envious enemies, but, with a subtle and flexible mind, he made strong connections at court. Charming and affable, he maintained good relations with his peers. Attentive: he rewarded his subordinates and idolised them, delighted in their manners, it was not difficult to take advantage of his credulity, but only in matters little known to him.

8. He met Murat and Lannes in person for a false armistice. Pyotr was able to cajole Murat so well with compliments that Murat, cajoled by the Russian general, willingly accepted the armistice while Lannes wanted to fight lmao, and then they were invited to a dinner.

Jean and Pyotr chatted for a while over a glass of mulled wine, all that is known of the talk is that Jean told him that "if the command had been in my hands, we would already be fighting".

9.- he is described as an ugly man and many biographers have done so, which is wrong. Why, look at his portrait by George Dawe! Are you going to deny me that he looks beautiful there? It reminds me that Louis Alexandre had called him ugly and black because of his marriage to Catherine, but he is the real ugly one! Just look up Louis' portrait and you will see the truth!

And here is a description of Pyotr's physique yippieee:

10.- He was like an inexperienced and innocent adolescent in matters of love, he was shy and did not know how to insinuate himself or deal with female affection because he was not used to it, that's why he was always reserved with his feelings about Catherine (who pursued him only with the malice of conquering and abandoning him, everything ended badly) until Paul I arrived and made a disaster that marked Bag for life.

11.- their Marriage was an absolute failure. Bag satisfied the whims of his wife Catherine in order to win her affection, but it was in vain and some time later she left Russia and began to be disloyal to Bag. Pyotr always defended her because he said it was a husband's duty, and he always sent Catherine money when she asked for it, even though it would mean running out of money and carrying a debt until his death :(

That aside, he was quite faithful and respectful, anyone in his place would have told Catherine to go fuck herself and do what she did, be unfaithful, but still he never did, except for Alexander I's sister Ekaterina.

They kept up a correspondence and romantic walks, she even flirted with him, but this was not to the royal family's liking and they were quickly driven away.

In another universe they end up together, I know they do.

Besides the fact that Bag is the kind of loving and lovable man in a romantic relationship who would spoil and protect his partner without a thought, I would have loved to be his wife 😔.

12.- in Borodin he was severely wounded and with time his wound was getting worse, but still he was active and cared more for others. He looked calm about his future death and intense pains, never complained and was not afraid of dying. His last days he drank wine for thirst and to cope with the pain, until the agony came and took him away from this world....

Well, there's more but I've forgotten some parts! I'm also still researching but please vote for Bagration! He deserves it, he's my pookie bear, I love him so much!

Art made by @galakteon meow meow

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#napoleonic sexyman tournament #what im getting here is that it takes taste to appreciate a georgian prince with a big nose #and some biographers dont have taste

[atomic-chronoscaph]

G. D. Spradlin and Bill Murray - Ed Wood (1994)

#ed wood gif #bill murray gif #g. d. spradlin #tim burton #bunny breckinridge #reverend lemon #90s movies #biographical movies #1990s #1994 #gif #chronoscaph gif