#also for some historical context

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

my grandma gave me this document where the whole family of my grandad (on his father's side) appears sort of as a primitive 'libro de familia' and now i know the names and birth dates of my great great grandparents and my great grandfather i need a moment

#my great grandparents were pedro justo nemesio born on december 19 1875 #and ana maría del carmen bruna born on october 6 1874 #and my great grandfather was pedro félix born on july 10 1901 #i even have the name of his godparents 🥲 #also this makes me 💖💖💖 because my grandparents are called pedro and ana maría #so this cycle has always been like this huh #i would love to know the place they were born but this is a lot honestly #it's enough #it's all handwritten so i'm trying to descipher everything lol #also for some historical context #when my great great grandparents were born the first republic had just failed #the third carlist war was going on because it was the 19th century after all #alfonso xii was proclaimed king like 2 months after my great great grandmother was born #she literally was born when there was a political limbo in the country #oh and cuba puerto rico and the philipines were still part of spain #meanwhile when my great grandfather was born #roosevelt was proclaimed president of the usa #and alfonso xiii was king of spain #just lol

[official-crab-posts]

hey everyone, i know this is a silly gimmick blog but i feel i need to clarify that zionists aren't welcome here. people who think the violence in gaza right now is in any way justified or proportional to october 7 and support the genocide being committed against palestinians need to get off my blog. leave.

people who use this situation as an excuse to be antisemitic also need to get the fuck out of here. it is never okay to be antisemitic and trying to use your support for palestine as a shield is pathetic. i dont want you around and i do not like you. when i find you i will block you. save us both some time and just unfollow me right now.

i just wanted to make my position clear. free palestine. 🇵🇸

#not a crab #the crab speaks #free palestine #from the river to the sea #i just wanted to make this clear after i saw a couple people followed me that i do not want following me. thanks. #also to be clear obviously this didn’t start on october 7. it’s been happening for over 70 years now #but i specifically wanted to address the claim that this is somehow a proportional response to that day #i didn’t get into the historical context in this post because it was meant to just be a quick response after i had to block some zionists #but it has gotten way more notes than i thought it would and also has led to a couple zionists bothering me so i just wanted to add this #also like dw about the zionists who show up sometimes. i just block them now. it’s not worth it to take the bait

[probablybadrpgideas]

An actual idea: Making "Animate Dead" Evil Again

Zombies and skeletons in D&D, for all they play to spooky images, aren't really horrific. They're a mismash of two different lores that can't really work together (like a lot of zombie fiction but that's a discussion for another day)- the mindless ravenous predators of modern zombie apocalypse and the tragic undead slaves of the original stories. But they lack either sides symbolic resonance. They're no apocalypse- they're disposable cannon fodder even a starting party can take down- but nor is there any indication that "animate dead" is an actual evil act beyond being kinda gross. This seems very harmless for both a nominal horror monster, and something intended to be a genuinely (indeed, mechanically) evil act.

It doesn't seem possible to make them a real threat without major changes, so the obvious solution to this is a simple fluff change. They're not mindless. They're compelled, they can't act of their own volition. But they're still in there.

They don't shamble. They visibly struggle against the motions their limbs make, as if they were puppets trying to resist their strings. They don't moan. They sob, and when they see the players they force out desperate apologies and pleas for help. They're not stupid. They're intentionally twisting orders and trying to destroy themselves to the best of their ability because they hate the necromancer and are taking what vengeance they can.

Maybe they can genuinely help, if the players will accept it. The "disposable minions" see a lot, and might mutter the necromancer's weaknesses or warnings about an upcoming ambush or whatever useful information they've seen while attacking. Failing that, they fight to lose. They're easy to beat not because they're weak, but because they're on your side. They intentionally move to hinder the necromancer and help the party as much as they're able to, they interpret all the villain's orders as unhelpfully as they can, they hiss encouragements and laugh hollowly when the players succeed.

The undead hordes are victims, not monsters. They're the people the players are trying to help, or at least avenge. And they're trying, as best as they can, to make it happen.

-Pencil.

#horror #D&D #actual idea #CW enslavement #Cw helplessness #CW suicide #cw zombie #cw mind control #I think the fact undead are people is often ignored #Every shadow and wright and wraith and ghoul is a person and should have a personality #Also I feel that if you are doing this it is best to give the zombies some agency #Both due to historical context and also just general victimhood narratives #They hate the necromancer as much as you do #And while they're limited in their ability to do so they're working against him too

[saints-who-never-existed]

I'm desperate now, absolutely desperate to find more information specifically on the conservation of the Peglar Papers but thus far, there seems to be next to nothing out there...

Who the fuck conserved them and how? I demand to know!

#It's infuriating! #I can tell some things visually and from historic context #The type of paper and ink most likely used for example #Although even that isn't 100% certain #I've found several sources so far mentioning a facsimilist named Netherclift who not only created the first copies of the Victory Point Not #But also handled the Peglar Papers and used a so-far mysterious reagent to try to darken the ink for better transcription #I need to know who conserved them and how! #I've thought of naught else for days! #The Terror #Franklin Expedition #History #Historic Context #Historic Artefact #Peglar Papers #Research

[kithj]

begging all the people doing queer reimaginings to stop for like 5 seconds and think: is this adding anything to the original story? or am i taking something away? do i understand the original intent behind this story? what am i saying by reimagining it in this way?

please. i'm tired of all the queer stories being bland reimaginings that don't even understand the source material

#sorry im being a hater for a moment #i DO think it's possible to do interesting reimaginings. there are stories that would be compelling to view through a gay/feminist/etc lens #however. not at the expense of the social & historical context #anyways i recently i saw a frollo/esmerelda sapphic retelling and it pissed me off so bad #at a certain point it's fine to just. publish an original story #you're allowed to take inspiration from something without calling it a retelling or whatever #you're just misrepresenting the original work and yourself. in fact actively harming your own work by presenting it in this way #also that frollo/esmerelda shit just sucked ass. if you wanted to do some weird sapphic nun shit you could have just #made your own characters instead. why even choose that story when all you did was reduce quasimodo to a child #that only existed to make frollo seem more likeable for adopting him. why even make frollo likeable.... #again you do not understand the source material #anyways ive made and deleted this post like a dozen times at this point butim finally posting it. lmfao

[quatregats]

This is probably Bush and also Pullings's native dialect (though I have many MANY doubts about what exactly the methodology being used here was)

#they have texts and they have informants and they have the informants read the text but i'm not really sure how that's supposed to work #anyways this is definitely the dialect pullings grew up speaking since afaik he's the son of hampshire farmers #apparently chichester is in area 5 as well so also falls under this categorization #this is very unrigorous research btw. please take everything i am saying with a grain of salt i'm just fiddling around with an old book #i'll look for a good basic primer on history/dialectology of english at the library at some point perhaps #i do not have the historical context/cross-references to verify any of this guy's claims #i just really like dialect and english-language ones are so much fun what with all the crazy vowel combos #and apparently lots of rhoticity??? he's claiming this accent was also rhotic which is a little insane #would love to read a history of rhoticity in english tbh #perce rambles #adventures in historical sociolinguistics #percy yells at cecil scott #The Creative Endeavor and other aubreyad nonsense #if you go to the source there's a lot of texts in this section i just picked one

[rooftopdaigos]

I saw too many borderline ridiculous insanely insensitive takes about real wars from western people. You know, it's about real humans. Maybe stop comparing one conflict to another. It's not a contest

#downplaying people's suffering is simply wrong #It's not just ignorant it's cruel #also historical context exists #if you want to talk about something maybe you should get at least some knowledge about given topic you know #just not to spread blatant lies #especially if it's about such a heavy subjest #just a random ukrainian who's been living near the frontline for almost two years blabbering about things I guess lmao

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 27

"Long Time Gone" by The Chicks

#song of the day #I'm still thinking about the Country Songs About Country Songs #this is actually a cover too though I never hear the original around anywhere #(it's by Darrell Scott who is also the originator for 'You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive' #turns out he's got a bunch of songs that got picked up and made somewhat more popular in the hands of other folks. an interesting legacy) #the best lines of this song to sing are also the bits About Country Music--well the whole song's about chasing the love of it #but this bit is bemoaning the kids these days you know. country music isn't what it used to be. why back in my day etc etc #it's so so so much fun to sing too because you get to exaggerate your 'I think's until they rhyme with 'Hank'. excellent work #'we listen to the radio to hear what's cookin / but the music ain't got no soul #now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard / they got money but they don't have Cash #they got Junior but they don't have Hank / I think I think I think / the rest is a long time gone' #it's fascinating to me to think about these songs in (saying 'historical' here is giving me psychic damage but) historical context #because the Darrell Scott original for Long Time Gone came out in 2000 and The Chicks released their version in 2002 #so they were talking about the trend towards American jingoism in country music of the time #versus like Waylon Jennings in 1975 'Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way' #(I typed that and /then/ went back and looked up the release date and I'm so proud I got it right) #already bemoaning the state of country music in the 70s versus good old classic country like Hank Williams Senior sang #(Hank Jr covered Waylon's song in 1981. like yes it's a tribute to his father but also Hank Jr was a big push towards outlaw country #and has a few pretty famous songs himself about not singing like his daddy did. it just seems a strange choice to me) #and then Eric Church put out 'Lotta Boot Left to Fill' in 2009 calling out the shallowness of the country music scene of the time #(talking some only-thinly-veiled shit about a few of his peers in the process) #and then he released 'Stick That In Your Country Song' in 2021 and that /definitely/ put some backs up #that one's a less directed but more direct call-out if that makes any sense #no lines that are direct references to other artists' songs but stronger sentiments overall #not just general 'y'all are getting shallow prioritizing good times and high sales over genuine heart and integrity of craft' #but some straight up 'you have forgotten the face of your father' shit towards country artists and fans alike. the whole industry #a very good righteous-anger song

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

If Glenn wins, I will devour the earth. Y'all, Night Vale built the house you live in!! Queer podcast would not be where they are without Carlos, they were gonna have Cecil's instant crush be a one off joke (you'll notice Josie also falls in love instantly) but Carlos was SO hot they made it canon and it redefined the entire medium!!

Okay but this tournament is not about finding the most important, historic, influential, best, or even favourite fictional podcast character. It's about who the voters think is sexiest. And for some people, a messy disaster of a rockstar who sings Christmas music in an overthrown Hell and hit a child-abuser with a deez-nuts joke before dying to a deez-nuts joke and now has nothing (including neither wife nor son) does more more for them than someone with perfect hair and teeth like a military cemetery who has a labcoat for every occasion and is touch-averse* and hid from everyone who loves him that he spent a decade in the Desert Other World. Such is life, we all have our own tastes.

*EDIT: Mod forgot þeir own rules for no book-sourced propaganda for a moment there. Ignore that bit.

#Also like they were going to have Cecil gay from the beginning. Like always. I don't think it was supposed to be a joke. #The fandom blew up only after season one. I don't think Cecil/Carlos was made canon *for* the shippers. #Anyways my brother has been aware of this tournament since Glenn vs. Taako but it was only today or yesterday when he found out it was #about which character was *sexier*. I explained to him that a) there is a historical context that I *could* explain but I imagine he isn't #interested in and b) I have to give you fuckers (affectionate) *some* criteria to base your vote on. #Imagine the chaos if this was a ''Best Fictional Podcast Character'' tournament. #Not A Poll #Ask #Anonymous

[jinxed-sinner]

Alright here's my full (possibly hot) take on redesigning Hazbin Hotel characters and making a video showcasing those redesigns while you criticize the official designs.

First and foremost, you are redesigning someone else's OCs. Hazbin Hotel is, in essence, a passion project for Viv. How she talks about it makes that incredibly clear to me. The only difference between Hazbin Hotel and, for example, the story I'm developing surrounding some of my D&D OCs is that Hazbin Hotel got picked up by a streaming service and is significantly more popular than most passsion projects get.

Personally if someone wanted to redesign my D&D OCs, I wouldn't mind it, in fact I'd probably think it was really cool that someone would want to redesign one of my OCs to be closer to their tastes in terms of what they like to draw. I would, however, be made incredibly uncomfortable if someone made a video redesigning them where they also pointed out everything they thought was wrong with the designs. I didn't design these specific D&D characters to be 1-to-1 accurate to their classes in D&D or to look professionally designed. I designed them how I wanted them to look for the story I'm telling because I don't plan to ever play them in a campaign. The main character Avlan is a paladin, and I can acknowledge that his design might not look exactly like a paladin. One of the tabaxi in the story (Ice) is a bard and the other (Spark) is a ranger, and I acknowledge that their classes might not come across well in their designs. The single tiefling I've designed for this story (Tragedy) is a cleric but might not come off as one in their design. But I specifically designed them to be easy for me to draw because I want to be able to tell this story through my art. Having someone say "oh, Avlan's armor isn't paladin enough!" or "Avlan's fur colors and patterns should be closer to a wild rabbit's because harengon shouldn't be based on domestic rabbit colors!" would fucking hurt (especially because I'm so attached to Avlan, but it would hurt just as much if similar comments were made about Ice, Spark, or Tragedy). I am so passionate about these characters and being told their designs are bad or wrong in some way would be like a stab in the heart, and it would still feel like a stab in the heart if this story ever got a massive fandom behind it. Giving Avlan more complex armor because you think it'd look cool or just want to see what it'd look like? Sure, if I could draw more complex armor I'd give him more complex armor too. Giving him more complex armor but also shitting on the armor I decide to draw him with? My motivation to draw him in his armor, potentially draw him period, would be dead for WEEKS.

Why is it suddenly okay just because someone's passion project was picked up by Amazon Prime? Why is it suddenly okay to be "fixing" someone's character designs just because the project has a much bigger budget than most artists get and is on a popular streaming service? It's not. I don't care if you're a professional character designer, or think a specific character would look better with certain traits, or just don't like the character designs.

Hazbin Hotel is still Vivienne Medrano's passion project, and redesigning her characters and making videos talking about everything you think is "wrong" with them is, honestly, disgusting. You can make videos explaining your choices in your redesigns without putting down the designs that already exist, whether you like them or not. Me thinking Lucifer looks better with his tail not restricted to his full demon form doesn't suddenly mean I don't like his official design, because I fucking love it. If you wouldn't do it to an artist whose passion project is just a webcomic here on Tumblr, don't fucking do it to an artist whose passion project got picked up for a cartoon by a big streaming service (or any company for that matter).

#hazbin hotel #vent #kinda #i just think it's a weird double standard #'yeah don't fix people's art! unless theyre working on a project that was picked up by a big company then it's fine to fix their art' #like??? #why is that a mentality that exists?? they're still viv's characters #and you can still redesign them without shitting on the official designs #pretty much all of my redesign notes for hazbin hotel are 'how can i make this character easier and more fun for me to draw' #because i specialize in furry art. i don't usually draw humanoids lol #so giving vox some shark traits for example or making adam more birdlike would make them more fun for me to draw #why can't we redesign them based on that without saying 'i think it's weird that this decision was made for this character's design' #they're still viv's characters. they're still her designs. stop pointing out everything you think is wrong with them for fucks sake #we don't need to talk about hazbin's character designs. we don't need to 'fix' them #just say they aren't for you and move on. there's literally nothing inherently wrong with them #i also feel like not enough people actually do research into the historical contexts of some characters #and i think it'd be really fuckin cool to see people redesign characters more based on headcanons based on that than anything #look into how the mafia operated in new york in the early/mid 1900s for angel. look into radio hosts in the 1920s for alastor. #look into las vegas culture during husk's lifetime for husk. look into the culture surrounding tv hosts in the 1950s for vox. #LOOK INTO THE CULTURE OF THE ELIZABETHAN ERA FOR ZESTIAL. #(i just presented zestial ideas to anyone who wants them on a silver platter. you're welcome) #(also new headcanon that zestial was friends with shakespeare in life because why the fuck not) #(when the tags get wildly out of hand)

[wonder-worker]

It is difficult to argue that [Edward IV] was wrong in what he did. His advancement of [Richard of Gloucester] can be criticized only by those who believe that the only good nobleman is an impotent nobleman. Medieval kings did not think in these terms. Gloucester’s power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country. Nor can Edward be blamed for not foreseeing the ends to which Gloucester might put his power. The duke had been a loyal upholder of the house of York, a central figure in Edward’s polity*; there was no obvious reason why he should not occupy the same role under Edward V. In this respect, precedent was on Edward’s side. Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power, but no young king had ever been deposed. Even royal uncles traditionally drew a line at that, something which explains why Gloucester’s actions seemed so shocking to contemporaries and, perhaps, the reason why he got away with it so easily in the short term.

In the immediate sense, Gloucester must take final responsibility for what happened in 1483. However one explains the motives behind his actions, things happened because he chose that they should: there is nothing in the previous reign which compelled him to act as he did.

-Rosemary Horrox, "Richard III: A Study of Service"

*Richard was also, yk, Edward's own brother who had been entirely loyal during his life. The problem wasn’t that Edward trusted Richard, the problem is that Richard broke that trust in a horrible and unprecedented way to usurp a 12-year-old. Please understand the difference.

#wars of the roses #edward iv #richard iii #edward v #my post #The arguments of Ross and Pollard (et al) are so profoundly unserious and ahistorical #casting an unforeseeable turn of events as a predictable ('structural') one as David Horspool rightly puts it #Ross specifically is entirely dependent on his own horrible view of Elizabeth Woodville and her family as the basis of his analysis #but anyway. as Horrox points out later in the book: #''although earlier events [during Edward's reign] cannot be said to have caused the crisis they did have some bearing in how it developed' #namely Edward's legacy of forfeitures in the 1460s; manipulation of property descents; and fluctuating royal favour. #the most prominent and politically important of all of these were the manipulation of the Mowbray and Howard family fortunes #This is often used to enhance the unserious and ahistorical arguments of historians like Ross and Pollard that Edward doomed his son #But as Horrox points out: Edward's reign did not exist in a vacuum and needs to be analyzed by actual historical context. #from a broader perspective his actions were not especially transgressive as far as English kings were concerned #NO MONARCH (Edward III; Henry VII; etc) died with every single one of their nobles 100% content and supportive #they weren't living in Disney movies and there's no point holding Edward IV to fairytale standards that did not exist. #More importantly Horrox points out that Edward's actions (eg: the Mowbray and Howard cases) need to be put into actual perspective #They were not perceived as problems and did not cause problems during his own reign. #They did not cause problems after he died before Edward V arrived in London. #They only became problems after Richard decided to seize power and deliberately exploited them as bribes for political support #Had Richard decided to support his nephew or work with the Woodvilles - Edward's actions (@ the Mowbrays and Howards) would be irrelevant #(It's also worth pointing out that we don't know WHEN Richard decided to usurp. It if it was a more gradual desire then his depowering #of the Woodvilles by exploiting Mowbray & Howard discontent would not have not affected *Edward V's* ascension or prospects) #ie: the problem isn't that discontent existed with a few specific nobles (that was normal) the problem was how Richard took advantage of it #In theory this sort of thing would have been a potential threat for ANY heir to the throne whether they were a minor or an adult #In itself it's not really unique to Edward and it's silly when historians criticize him and him alone for it. It was more or less standard. #(if anything the fact that he was able to do them so successfully is an indication of his authority) #We come back to Horspool's point: 'Without one overriding factor' - Richard's initiative and actions - 'none of this could have happened.' #which is where this analysis of Horrox's comes in :)

[vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo]

I want to make some informational posts for Les Mis Letters

But first I need to figure out how to hold myself back so I don't just straight up infodump everything on people all at once lol

#les mis letters #i have some annotations i could translate #from my physical book #also explaining references and stuff #and historical context #and of course locations #idk if any of that would actually be helpful but yknow #i would have found it helpful my first time reading it? #i think

[thedevotionaltour]

people will hate to heart it but i love 60s matt like so sincerely he's so so so funny. infinitely charming. i like him.

#sorry i think he's SO fun honestly. but it might also be bc i can not just tolerate but actively enjoy 60s comics writing #which is not an easy task. it is certainly not for everyone. but i think there is a lot to find within there for these characters #as they start to really shape themselves up. there is a lot that is just the style of the time writing. #but i think there's more in there than some people might think! #again... i think early vol 1 stuff like this does take a particular taste to enjoy if ur not dead set on trying to read as much as possible #which no one ever has to. who knows if i ever actually will catch up on all of dd. #but if ur up to it i think you can have a good time when you just understand what to expect of 60s style writing + keeping in mind a LOT of #the cultural attitudes/historical context in mind. it makes things some things definitely easier to accept and give grace to #not saying it's good or right and i def find some stuff that even for the time just feels soooo excessive #but sometimes writing even within its time is just bad lol. like everything on earth. bad writing exists everywhere always #anyways. you guys get my point on all this. as a whole im highly charmed by early vol 1 #but truly delighted as it starts to shape itself into something a little more #static.soundz

[quatregats]

Okay now that I'm not in weird all-nighter hyperfixation trance state I've actually got enough braincells to see that the dialect posts can probably be cleaned up and assembled into something slightly more useful so I'll try to do that once I have some more sleep in me

#and also once i (1) have read more sources to fill in the gaps/get a slightly better picture #and (2) have actually worked on the gotdam research proposal for one of my real classes which is a week and a half late at this point :// #percy can maybe have historical english sociolinguistics as a treat if he does his homework :///// #i've found some stuff on historical context which will maybe be useful and also i'll go through and make stuff more accessible #instead of just randomly throwing up passages from single dubious 1889 dialects of england source #ALSO maybe at some point i'll go back through the books and do a proper linguistic survey of them #although not really sure when that's going to happen. probably should wait until after finals grrrr #anyways i've loved reading everyone's comments and seeing what people found interesting and what they didn't get! #your feedback is appreciated and i will attempt a more scholarly methodology once i have Sleept #perce rambles #adventures in historical sociolinguistics

[dinkydiamond]

This is incredibly niche to my own experience, but as a New Hampshirite, a classic Dr Who nerd, and someone who was raised on PBS, finding this (frankly boring) clip of a Dr Who pledge drive from NHPTV from the early 90s has made me happy today.

I grew up knowing of Dr Who but I don't think I ever really watched it -- even though this channel showed it until I was 12. It was broadcast on Saturday nights and I know me and my family were watching something else on one of the other 3 channels we could get instead. The most I must've seen was only in channel-surfing passing. Nevertheless, it must have been enough that when I finally did watch the show in highschool, I was struck with a weird sense of familiarity that I couldn't shake.

Finding this clip is weird and nostalgic for me; it's probably a bit too early for me to have ever seen, I was at the oldest a toddler when it aired. I found Dr. Who on the internet, but watching this is like a peek into an alternate reality where I might've watched the show as a kid on the family 13" tv, coming in fuzzily as that channel always did, in between PBS pledge drives.

#seeing Dr Who in the context of the PBS of my childhood is so weird #also its making me realize why i wouldn't have stayed to watch #(pledge season notwithstanding - i never could bother with that even for my favorite shows) #i probably saw a snippet and thought it was just another boring british historical drama like 90% of the rest of PBS's schedule #i definitely would have loved some of the more spacey episodes though #my memories of dr who before properly watching it was the classic diamond logo #and just a general sense that the show was kind of scary but intriguing in a mysterious way #so not much to go on but hey ho #I got there in the end #doctor who #pbs #classic who #tom baker

[tototavros]

However you feel about Chevron (the judicial doctrine), the argument in Relentless v. Dept of Commerce has been a good & interesting dispute on American political theory. Much better, in my view, than almost all 'opinion pieces' on the subject.

#granted listening to the Advisory Opinions podcast on it beforehand helped open my eyes to the fact that flipflopping #of agencies every presidential election was not foreordained but confirmed only recently -- in the Brand X case #permitting new agency interpretations to trump stare decisis in the circuits #also i haven't heard people talking about how Chevron importantly took power away from the *DC* circuit. #but maybe litigation against agencies has developed so they can now sue in their most favored circuit given modern forum shopping practices #but on the gripping hand i'm vaguely aware that the DC circuit has a privileged place in agency litigation in at least some contexts #but that awareness; vague as it is; might have been merely historical.