#cool kids of history

[stinkbrat]

The most horrifying aspect of parents saying "my kid could do that" about art is that they never ever ever mean "wow my kid is good enough to be in a museum" and they always always always mean "I want to disrespect you so much I'll do it by implying that this thing is just as worthless as the things my child makes with their hands" and right in front of them too. Your kids can hear you u know, and the things they make with their hands are the least worthless and most precious aspects of human life I'll kill u

#i may have a degree in art history but i also am the pottery painter man #kids make things that are so so so so cool #have u ever considered the experience of accomplishing a task

[ace-with--a-mace]

they banned ap psych in florida cuz the class ap discusses sexuailty and gender which violates ron desantis' piece of shit dont say gay law so fuck you ron for that

in the college board statement they say it was banned because "teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law" which is bullshit because these gov leaders believe anything lgbtq is a brain disease so you'd think theyd keep the brain learning class

they banned ap african american studies because "it lacks educational value and historical accuracy" which is making it easier for them to erase black history that is so intertwined with the history of this country that most everything here is so deeply antiblack

this mf has his head so far up his ass that hes ruining our education system even more than it already was

#fuck you ron desantis i hate you so much I hate you i hate you i hate yoy #and cuz me nd my friends are tryna reach our counselors to see whats up or if theyre rearranging schedules and keep mentioning him #i keep getting ron desantis ads ab if i want to elect him president of the united fucking states of America #and then it was an ap class i was interested in taking cuz i thought itd be cool to learn about so fuck you ron for that too #and THEN it was the only class i knew ppl in. ljke half the class was ppl ive seen before or talked too #im ranting ab missing out on the class nd not seeing my friends but its really a bigger issue than that #like its scary hes using his power to attack lgbtq communities and kids and then he has enough support that hes rallying for head seat #its not safe here at all i cannot fucking wait to leave #ron desantis #us politics #ap psychology #college board #lgbtq #so mad im shaking im so sorry if this doesnt make any sense but school starts in a week exactly nd im tryna figure out the little issue #l speaks #keep talking l #ranting in the tags because i can #black history #racism

[egberts]

I'm just gonna start blocking people who send me essay length asks trying to argue about stupid shit because their personal experience was different

#the person who said american schools dont brainwash kids and proceeded to go on a 700 word rant about all the cool stuff their school did #like dude im sorry your lived experience isnt universal #and learning about the history of countries like mexico and france =/= learning about modern cities in 'third world countries' #so many places dont even offer world history until high school as an elective #like no fucking shit we learned about other countries in school but teaching us the the history of egypt does nothing to help us understand #parts of it are just as modern and lively as like. new york #they literally make us pledge allegiance to the American flag but you're gonna argue kids are taught american idealism because your friend #in texas had mexico DAY in school. like let that sink in. mexico day is your argument against mine #*arent taught

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

I unironically NEED a three hours long musical that is just like Hamilton but with Napoleon

#cmon #how cool would it be #and it HAS to be wrote by lin #i would die #does napoleon fandom still exits #lin manuel miranda #hamilton musical #alexander hamilton #Hamilton #musical kid #musical theatre #hamilton the musical #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #napoleon fandom #history fandom

[samd1o1]

The New ""Afton" Children"" Are Gender Bends Of The Old Ones

As we know when Vanessa is corrupted by Glitchtrap she thinks a guy named Bill is her dad (most likely William). This was probably the inspiration for making her an Afton in the movie, basically confirming the nature of her relationship with Glitchtrap in the games.

We also know Gregory was under Glitchtrap's control at one point in GGY. It is also hinted that Cassie may now be under the Mimic's control.

A cool detail I noticed is that it's an older girl, a young girl, and a young boy. 2 children of the same gender, one older one younger and a younger sibling of a different gender.

Which is the exact opposite of the original Afton children. Which is; an older boy, a young boy, and a young girl. Same pattern but gender swapped; 2 children of the same gender, one older one younger and a younger sibling of a different gender.

I don't know if it means anything or is just a huge coincidence but I find it very cool. And damn this family tree keeps growing and gets more and more fucked up.

#Glitchtrap is William's metaphorical son and these are the grandchildren #Mainly kidding on that one but it's also cool how history keeps repeating #Vanessa FNaF #Cassie FNaF #Gregory FNaF #Michael Afton #Evan Afton #Elizabeth Afton #Vanny #GGY #Patient 46 #Dr. Rabbit #Gregory has too many cool names #Baby FNaF #FNaF #Security Breach #Help Wanted #Help Wanted 2 #Tales From The Pizzaplex #FNaF Vanessa #FNaF Cassie #FNaF Gregory

[raviniaraven]

Just binged all of Puppet History and my first takeaway is that it's a shame the world never got the SaxoCannon

#the creator of the saxophone was insane and i love it #also the first time i heard someone say 'why did so many people hate this guy' i immediately just went 'oh they're not band kids' #the phrase 'saxophone player' means either someone very cool or someone who isnt but thinks theyre very cool #as a trumpet player i def relate to the Obnoxious Instrument Group #puppet history

[thewuzzy]

Jack kissing Rose and 9 on prime time family telly did more for bisexual culture in Britain than the last fifteen years of corporate sponsored pride events

#more than 1 in 10 british people watched that moment on telly. more than 10% of our ENTIRE POPULATION experienced that moment together #and 3 million parents were forced to explain that this loveable #brilliant hero #is bisexual and could NOT frame it to their children as a bad thing #watershed moment #tv moments that changed history #uk shit posting #jack harkness #torchwood #dw #9th doctor #9 my beloved #john barrowman #bisexuality #5 million kids went oh so he likes boys too. cool whatever. and then went to bed not knowing that our lives had been changed for the better #rtd era

[maledepravityarchive]

bro you know whats fucked up... their epic gnc lesbian swag is literally being erased rn. and its just another man doing all of the cool shit again. like thats fucked up. theyre literally erasing women.

#like... do you know how badly i would have wanted to hear about a WOMAN who did those things as a kid #how badly i would have wanted to hear that women were never ok with their assigned roles #and broke out of them and did what they wanted all throughout history #and that women werent inherently meek and mild and feminine. and that they could have lives on their own terms #and i would have known that if women in the past did it then i could do it too #like fuck this shit. everytime a woman does cool shit it is always erased #terf safe #terfs do interact #gender critical #radblr #terfblr #i know this doesnt really qualify as part of a 'male depravity archive' but i wanted to put this SOMEWHERE. #i feel like im not putting this into words very well but i feel very strongly about this #bc my whole life ive always wanted to hear about women with that kind of swag and that kind of life #and its so fucking unfair #non-MDA posts

[chihirolovebot]

nothing makes me less proud to be british than when people from here make jokes over the horrific things that happen in america when they make a joke abt our food being bland or having bad teeth

#like yes food is bland etc and thats okay because its part of the history of the country . like . its cool #yes we know our teeth arent actually that bad idek what that sterotype came from but #in what part of ur brain do u decide 'oh a harmless joke. let me retaliate by making light of the deaths of kids . #like ur sick #veetxt

[queerbting]

rewatching nuwho and i'm rlly.... why is human nature / family of blood just racist hit after racist hit after racist hit against martha . followed by a heavy dose of classist (+ misogynistic!!!!) behavior directed against her afterwards where the humans of 1913 england treat her like a weird alien from another world (the doctor in human form included!!!).

also, why do they have the doctor a) be actively bigoted and b) fall in love with a racist nurse who specifically speaks down to martha (someone who the doctor cares for). they create this "unassuming" white woman character and then have her be awful to martha but we're supposed to believe that she is kind and sympathetic worthy of being the human doctor's love interest, more than martha being treated as a human being. (and then that we should cry over her lost love/future in the end)

like why. genuinely why. what is the point .

also objectively what function does the nurse serve that martha jones could not have. she's even a medical student like !!!!!! going undercover as a nurse would not be that far off!! and plus, i'm not even a tenmartha shipper but it would fit more for the emotional arc of martha's character to get what she wanted all season in human nature / family of blood (the doctor falling in love with her!!! wish fulfillment !!!!!! ) only to realize the cruelty of what this would be like in reality if she were never to open the watch (despite her finally having what she "wants"), and finally understanding and having to give john smith up. it could've been a really tragic, but human moment (like a lot of other things in dw!).

then 10 and martha's relationship could actually be on some sort of equal footing. bc martha had a taste of what it would be liked to be loved by him (or someone similar to him, at least), and chose in the end to let it go. it would give her emotional closure, etc. and would show her choosing the /actual/ doctor (not human) and the friendship she has with him, rather than a lifetime with a human that she fell in love with who happens to look like him.

could've been a really cool moment of both character development and then bonding between the doctor and martha afterwards in their newfound partnership, so half of martha's character is no longer swallowed up by her pining for him.

but no. instead they go and hide in racistville and martha is a servant who experiences racism/misogyny/classism and microaggressions from white people + aliens over two episodes for nearly no reason .

#like it's crazy #i think a lot of this went over my head as a kid because i did not know much about british history or nuwho's environmental contexts #so i didn't understand a lot of the unspoken dialogue and class-race implications coming from MULTIPLE CHARACTERS in these episodes....... #but coming back to martha's arc and hn / fob especially as an adult is just..... genuinely so awful #there's no narrative reason it's just racist #so so weird and uncomfortable to watch #it can't be too much to ask to treat her like a human being #martha jones #dw s3 #dw criticism #doctor who #dewpost #also her being written half the time this season as a love sick puppy who doesn't get it depends on the doctor for almost everything #instead of a resourceful and emotionally intelligent young black woman who is studying to be a medical professional !!!! drives me insane #sometimes they write her well but it feels few and fare between sometimes bc they want martha to be in love with 10 sooooo badly #rather than them being a kickass medical student (a doctor) plus The Doctor duo !!!! could've been so much fun #and instead we are left with this #human racist john smith with no narrative repercussions for viewing/treating a companion of his in a derogatory fashion #super cool bbc thank you very much #human nature #family of blood

[chaotic-history]

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30054265?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Stepson of the Enlightenment (🥺🥺) aside, I can't believe I'm just learning about this. Apparently Émilie's son, the Duc du Châtelet, was colonel of the Gardes Françaises during the beginning of the Revolution, and as part of his implementation of stricter military discipline brought over from Prussia, arrested several of his soldiers who had refused to fire on the crowd on June 23 like he had ordered. The soldiers were broken out and brought to the Palais-Royal by a citizen mob, and a petition was made to the National Assembly (of which du Châtelet was a member) to pardon them. The Assembly didn't decide, but voted to pass the petition along to the king, who did sign it, effectively destroying much of the control du Châtelet had over the Gardes, and affirming their new belief that they were the protectors of the people, rather than solely of the state.

This incident is, perhaps, one of the largest reasons so many of the Gardes Françaises defected during the storming of the Bastille a month later, and the five cannon they provided helped ensure a revolutionary victory. Writing about this, the royalist journalist Montejoye said that "there is no doubt that the defection of the Gardes Françaises must be attributed to principally to their colonel, who must be said to have, more than anyone else in France, caused the revolution."

#french revolution #history #émilie du châtelet #duc du châtelet #louis marie florent du châtelet #sucks that Émilie's kid kinda sucked #cool he has that place in history though

[trollprincess]

So I posted this photo of my living room and my queer art wall to a maximalist FB community I follow:

… and unsurprisingly some jackass showed up in the otherwise kind comments to say, “Because knowing how someone has sex is so important.”

I am restraining myself from commenting back as the mods are usually good at nipping this sort of thing in the bud but … oh, honey, if you think my mom’s wall of bland family photos of her mostly-straight relatives doesn’t tell me and everyone else how they fuck to make all those kids, you’re in for an unpleasant surprise.

(Also, considering the number of real people in these photos and art pieces who died at the hands of bigots, Nazis, and homophobic government handling of an epidemic, then yes, their sexuality and gender is sort of important.)

#queer history #queer art #homophobes being asshats #oh I feel like I should add that if you think I’m being crass about my mom’s family #please keep in mind that these are the same people who used to get a kick out of us telling dirty jokes when we were kids #my mom’s one cousin has been absolutely filthy for as long as I can remember #if I said the same thing in front of them she’d be the first to start trying to guess everyone’s favorite sex position #no it’s cool we all turned out fine #including the queer ones

[truthseeker-blogger]

"For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass."

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[hellogoodbyegirl]

Supertramp in Melody Maker

#right after Crime Of The Century came out! they all looked so young #Rick being described as the jokester of the group kind of surprised me because he is just so quiet although you can see how much fun he has #on stage and stuff like that... #the story of the groups 'sponsor' finding Rick and thinking this kid's got something and the rest is history is kind of funny to me #Rick's manner of speaking with his choice of vocabulary has effected me subconsciously since I use very strong vocabulary sometimes now lol #I love how they got interviews from everyone in the group!!! I love hearing from all of them!!!!! #nothing can break John's stride i love that for him #John is really the most musically knowledgable member it is entertaining seeing him going from instrument to instrument during concerts #they said Dougie looks hungry someone get this man a sandwichhhhhhhhhhh #Bob selling his car to go to the UK is crazy #getting drums sounds like an awesome christmas present #Bob is such an amazing drummer #like the drums are such a cool instrument as someone who played just cymbals its a lot of fun! #Roger defeats The Beach Boys sounding allegations #Roger is so right everyone in the band is so talented in what they do #it is so amazing seeing all of them just meld together and create such beautiful music that I personally love so much <3 #R I C H A R D Davies #Rick Davies #Bob Siebenberg #Roger Hodgson #John Helliwell #Dougie Thomson #all looking so handsome in their portraits <3 #Supertramp

[doctorscoobywho]

Blue Beetle (2023) reminded me why I love DC and the superhero genre

#it was honestly refreshing #don't get me wrong #there have been plenty of good superhero movies #mixed in with all the other stuff #but this one reminded me why i love and show up for those other superhero movies in the first place #it's cheesy while still being heartfelt #it had humor while still allowing you to feel things #it was camp and retro #it had fun and cool easter eggs and throw backs #that didn't need the knowledge of the entire comic history to understand #it was relatable #it just reminded me why i fell in love with superheros and the superhero genre when i was a kid #i loved it #blue beetle #dc

[lesamis]

mary shelley is really so extraordinary. "little england" & "little englandism" became an entire political discourse in the late 1800s (best as i can tell from c. 1870 onwards) & denoted those - often, not always, anti-imperial - thinkers who advocated for economic isolationism and wanted to limit the british empire's expansion, administration, and aggression, maintaining that england was best when contained to its own borders. the term is still in use - nowadays in brexit contexts - and was throughout the entire twentieth century.

it is also, in much the same sense in which it'd come to be used fifty years after the novel's publication, somehow in The Last Man - which shelley finished writing in 1826.

The plague was in London! Fools that we were not long ago to have foreseen this. We wept over the ruin of the boundless continents of the east, and the desolation of the western world; while we fancied that the little channel between our island and the rest of the earth was to preserve us alive among the dead. It were no mighty leap methinks from Calais to Dover. The eye easily discerns the sister land; they were united once; and the little path that runs between looks in a map but as a trodden footway through high grass. Yet this small interval was to save us: the sea was to rise a wall of adamant—without, disease and misery—within, a shelter from evil, a nook of the garden of paradise—a particle of celestial soil, which no evil could invade—truly we were wise in our generation, to imagine all these things! But we are awake now. The plague is in London; the air of England is tainted, and her sons and daughters strew the unwholesome earth. And now, the sea, late our defence, seems our prison bound; hemmed in by its gulphs, we shall die like the famished inhabitants of a besieged town. Other nations have a fellowship in death; but we, shut out from all neighbourhood, must bury our own dead, and little England become a wide, wide tomb.

#i'm obsessed with this. it's like one of those shakespeare ''not sure if this is in the text bc it was in colloquial discourse'' situations #i've not been able to confirm when people started using it in this political context? it isn't in literally any of the other texts i use #and it Definitely isn't mentioned in any pre-1840s contexts at least in any secondary literature #anyway she is genuinely exceptional & no romantic writer is on the money wrt The Dangers Of These Times as often as she is. like #whenever you read her you get the feeling that she had her ear to the wall of the machinery of history and just tapped out its rhythm #ms shelley thank you for saving my thesis and for telling william cobbett off and for being so cool and incredible and unmatched #as the kids say MWAH #romanticism chats