#crucial for history

[shmaroace]

sex as part of pride and asexuality as part of pride can coexist. the inclusion of one does not have to mean the exclusion of the other

#tw: sex mention #both are crucial to the history of the community and are important parts of queer identity to most people. #they are not inherently opposite to each other and both can exist comfortably within their own spaces #i'm sex-positive but not sex-favorable do you understand. okay #ace #asexual #acespec #aroace #aspec #pride 2023 #1k

[samijey]

You have a funny way of showing it

#roman reigns #jey uso #the usos #wwe #wweedit #wanna know what the worst part is? #in roman's fucked up brain he DOES love jey #or what he currently believes love to be anyways #and he's also terrified because he's seen it here #just like he saw it in sami at wargames #he knows jey is a hair away from leaving him #so now does he pull the trigger first #or does he risk being vulnerable at a crucial time aka wrestlemania #if he turns on jey before jey turns on him IMAGINE how tragic that'll be for jey #knowing he had multiple chances to leave roman but never took them #also this version of roman is the greatest villain in wrestling history don't @me #vince mcmahon is often referred to as the best heel in wrestling but does it even count when you're a villain irl too??? #ooooh i feel woozy now #p sure i just made myself sick making this set #stuff i made

[wizzard890]

so I got gay married recently and this is what I looked like.

#feel free to reblog! #(and yes I am keeping this dress to wear to every event for the rest of my life) #additional moments in femme history #perhaps the most crucial use of that tag ever #anyway witness me and pay me attention

[clove-pinks]

I love the military art of the late Bryan Fosten, who passed away a few years ago at the age of 92. He worked extensively with Osprey Publishing, particularly with Napoleonic era uniforms.

This illustration is from The American War 1812–14, from left to right: Lieutenant, Baltimore United Volunteers, 1814; Private, Rifle Co., Michigan Legionary Corps, 1812; Major-General, US Army, 1813. Fosten painted a convincing tableau with these diverse soldiers, giving them unique appearances and facial expressions.

#war of 1812 #military history #bryan fosten #us army #militia #dressed to kill #1810s #uniforms #i love the major-general's expression #also fosten made the soldiers look handsome which (let's be honest) is crucial #napoleonic

[filmgirlu]

hey guys, wasn’t it crazy that tumblr has in the past managed to fully fund some random users’ ideas for projects? isn’t it crazy the way some posts go viral even tho they make fuck all sense? yeah?

so bring the same energy to people in gaza who are trying to evacuate. the way this campaign has been ignored is actually so ridiculous. do u even comprehend how much they need your help rn??? ONE user @lieahsblog has been trying to amplify this campaign. WE ALL HAVE ACCOUNTS. USE THEM. let’s share razan’s campaign so she can get HER MOTHER treatment and leave gaza with her family. how many different ways does it need to be said‼️WE NEED A CO-ORDINATED EFFORT TO AMPLFY AND DONATE TO THIS CAMPAIGN. SHARE. DONATE. SHARE. DONATE. SHARE. DONATE. SHARE. DONATE. SHARE. DONATE. SHARE. DONATE.

#tumblr logic #tumblr history #gaza #palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free palestine #U RLLY GONNA RB UR POST ABOUT UR FANDOM BUT NOT SOMEONE THAT NEEDS UR HELP?! #come on now. #SHAREEEEEEE #please donate #donate to gaza #donate to palestine #do better #indiegogo #crucial #get to it #you know what to do #UNDERSTAND

[brujahinaskirt]

historical fiction language & diction choices (especially deliberate anachronism) and their relationship to character voice is so funny. like one can write 300k words of vicious 19th c american outlaws with barely a misplaced "fuck" uttered, but here one (1) medieval lord walks onstage and cannot get through 3 sentences without bleating WELL FUCK ME, I DON'T FUCKING KNOW????

#sometimes the spirit of a word transcends its actual history in a way more important than adherence to historical accuracy #it's about translating the tone and tenor of a character into a nondisruptive but understandable parlance #preserving their style as much as the speech #honoring the setting as well as your audience #it's about the seasoning of a little guy #crucial absolutely CRUCIAL that hans capon is allowed to say fuck off

[yugiohz]

I think everyone should read grimmelshausen’s simplicissimus

#The older I get and the more I read the more I understand our undergrad syllabus we rlly shouldn’t have hated on it #reading grimmelshausen and Cervantes is kind of crucial to understand the novel #Knowing medieval literary history too like it contextualizes the novel so well like the novel is such a young form of storytelling

[sleepnoises]

my main (ungenerous) takeaway from tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow is that the plot hinges on making a beautiful and popular video game in the 90s and the prose is so enthusiastic about it but we know that thing looked wretched

#maybe ill reread You by austin grossman to compare and contrast #or close to the machine (ellen ullman) #this was a thing that was so close to being history that it actually makes me want to read straight memoir instead #crucially: NOT history 🙅 #or you know what? i read a visit from the goon squad when i was like 15 and not sentien #t. also an association also worth rereading #📚

[lindahall]

Isaac Newton – Scientist of the Day

Since Dec. 28 has only a few good anniversaries, and we have already written about all of those, we thought we would go back a few days and celebrate someone born on Christmas Day.

Learn more

#Isaac Newton #Optics #crucial experiment #histsci #histSTM #17th century #18th century #history of science #Ashworth #Scientist of the Day

[langernameohnebedeutung]

This exchange is actually really interesting to me because of what it implies:

one thing we learn in retrospect is that Al Bronson knows much more about Blaine's crimes than this, considering that she's Stacey Boss' niece. But obviously she cannot bring up any of those things because it would blow her cover and bring her into some serious danger. Which means she can only name offences she learnt from other sources.

Which still leaves plenty of sources, considering how many people Blaine probably conned and screwed over in his lifetime. But the drug-dealing angle leads me to believe that she's (at least implying) that her source is his criminal record because we know that Blaine has a record there because he had an outstanding warrant in season 2:

the thing is, we know Stacey Boss knew that the cops knew about this because he knew that Blaine was Peyton's informant in season 2 so this is a safe thing for Al to bring up. But - This leaves the Theft.

The thing is, since she's saying this (and considering that Blaine isn't the least bit worried about her knowing this) we also know she has to have this from some safe source. And because we follow the show, we know that it cannot simply be a sentencing that happened after season 2. It must have happened at any point before the Boat Party.

There is also the fact that she mentions "theft" as if it should be clear to Blaine what she is talking about and Blaine seems to know what she is talking about - which means he must assume she is talking about some very specific instance(s?) of theft considering that Blaine really steals a lot of stuff all the time and has presumably done so far quite some time. Guy got some serious sticky fingers. But he seems to think he knows what she's talking about and be unconcerned about it and not see the need to explain more - so he even seems to be fine with her knowing whatever details she knows. He doesn't see a threat.

Now, the likeliest explanation for her being able to safely mention the theft and Blaine seemingly knowing immediately to which theft she is referring is: The source here is also the legal system. This means that whatever theft Blaine accused of/perpetuated/was involved in would also have been documented by law enforcement or the legal system in some shape or form.

Now, in season 2 we learn that Blaine has exactly 1 outstanding warrant - for the drug-dealing. And this means that whatever capacity Blaine was involved in this theft in - is not an open warrant. Which means:

EITHER Blaine was sentenced for this which would means he either actually did jail time before OR he's paid a fine (depending on the degree of theft and if he had even more priors*)

OR Blaine was at least put on trial for this but wasn't sentenced (if there was some form of court hearing, this would make it even safer for Al to know about this)

OR he's cut a deal before and got away the same way

*there is another thing. Because like any normal person, I obviously went back and checked the data sheet that Dale shows Clive in season 2 with Blaine's criminal record. Now, it's actually very carefully arranged to tell us literally as few details as possible but we learn this:

Which means that Blaine was already dealing (and was using the name "DeBeers") at the age of 18. Which is also interesting considering that we know he already had contacts to drug-addicts when he was as young as 11.

#I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT THEFT HE GOT CAUGHT FOR. This is crucial information hewwo???? #izombie #fandom history #blaine debeers

[ravencromwell]

For the character ask game, Athos Dane: 7, 10, and 20.

7. A quote of them you remember: "No one suffers as beautifully as you." And before everyone starts laughing at my terrible cliche—it is terribly cliched, I would pair it with "My plaything is dead". The no one suffers as beautifully as you comes just after Athos's interlude with Beloc where Beloc tried, and did real damn good for a teenager, to be defiant, but eventually answered Athos's questions about his name etc. without yet having the Soul Seal on. Contrast this to Athos's "Sing for me, Holland" in ACOL, which Holland refuses to do.

Yes, Beloc is undoubtedly fun, but fundamentally, he knows how this game is going to go. The fact that Holland still has defiance, after seven years, seems to just fucking enthrall Athos. He makes Holland fill the blood goblets partially just to fuck with Kell, but also for that flicker of rage and humiliation Kell notices as being so out of character. Fundamentally, he doesn't know when Holland will give him the last scrap of power, and that's what keeps him coming back.

But any love or fascination or what have you is utterly gone once Holland is no longer a spectacle: my plaything, he says, in his own pov while talking to his sister. He feels "annoyance at his servant's incompetence" The one time he mentions Holland by name, it's to tell Kell how he and Holland are fundamentally flawed when compared to Athos.

Everything this man did for seven fucking years around Holland was either about furthering his goals or getting some kind of reaction, be it in his choice of conversation topics or experiment subjects.

Holland has a line that is so fucking sad to me in that context in ACOL where he says he never screamed if he could help it, out of the quixotic hope if Athos didn't get a reaction, he'd just kill him already. There's something so fucking tragic I don't have words for the fact that Holland's refusal to stop being a person, at least in small ways, and even the ways he tried to provoke Athos, were so much of what made him interesting enough to never let fade into the background as a particularly useful pair of hands. Because as we see with essentially sending Beloc out as canon fodder, and again with the dismissive "my plaything" comment after Holland's dead, once there's no longer potential for interesting power dynamics, he's bored moving on. 

10. Describe the character in one sentence.: "Intelligence has never tempered my desire. It merely ensures I take what I wish without consequence."—Athos Dane, to his hypothetical biographer, poor bastard.

20. A weird headcanon:

He may have learned to read on the coast primarily to sniff out magic, but when he arrives at the castle, he finds he quite enjoys books outside of magic. Vortalis was a military histories fan, which Athos "journey of the battle" absolutely fucking devours for the play by play.

Astrid likes the White London version of Caesar: careful, methodical, only moving when the field was to his advantage.

Athos, though, it's the underdogs. The White London Hannibal bringing his elephants in what everyone called folly; the Lord Caradoc/Caratacus resisting a much larger force. Just _immensely his jam.

And once he got started, he wanted more of anything Holland thought might rouse his interest. I don't think the Danes had any _reason to go to Grey London, but I suspect that by God, if the Mareshes Antari could go, they sent Holland there on the semiregular (I will play with the toys, too!) One of the things Grey had neither Red nor White did was a thriving fiction culture. And if you're one Holland Vosijk, who wants to be able to bring back some escapism for yourself, you'd better be prepared to bring back gifts.

Which leads me to: Athos Dane, sometime Shakespeare fan and more often critic.

1. Huge, huge fucking fan of Iago. Iago knows how to properly manipulate some people. (Except of course, as is the problem with so many people, he got squeamish in the end. If he had killed the messengers from Venice when they found him in the alley, he would never have needed to kill his wife and certainly never have been tortured and executed. But Iago pre–Othello Act Five: _spectacular.

2. Huge Richard III fan—likes all the histories, honestly. But that "winter of our discontent" monologue: gets him _every time. Richard, now there's a man who knows how to embrace being hated. (Though that he cares at all about fool's opinion of him just demonstrates he lacked an Astrid. Without that one person for unconditional affection and non-judgment, he could only embrace it so far.

3. Hamlet completely cracks him up in an awful way. Or rather, the ways in which Holland and Hamlet's desire for revenge mirror one another. "You thought you were Hamlet, coming down that hall and did not understand we were not his foolish uncle!"

4. The rest of it: Romeo and Juliet, the comedies, most of the other tragedies, just _trash. Characters too weak to dominate the way they should or unrealistic ("blood never denies blood what they want" he says of the Capulets etc. smiling beatifically at Astrid.

5. Astrid has the copy of Titus Andronicus. Major Queen Tamora fangirl "We shall serve the Arnesians their royals in pie," Athos says, when Astrid sighs over missing their opportunity with Holland.

Athos is very theatrical, has a multitude of ideas for how to stage the Shakespeare sets with magic when they take Arnes, and is very keen to read other plays.

#am slowly using these as treats for myself as my semester barrels towards finals #my mantra all day yesterday was: “You get to talk Athos's fucked-up Shakespeare thoughts” if you just finish the final history paper #Florence Parpart. Jean Bartik. and Grace Hopper. for anyone interested. talking about how women have been crucial to the luxuries of our #century. all of which is to say: yes am absolutely still doing these and hope you enjoy this even half as much as I did writing it #Athos Dane #Shades of Magic

[allyphase]

she wanders onward, never to arrive (or, why mark isn't in fe6)

Hello TOA,

I anticipate this getting long so I’m just going to put it on the dash instead of clogging the headcanons channel. This is the Red official headcanon for why Mark isn’t in FE6, besides the fact that avatars are an FE7 invention. Spoilers for FE7 follow. 

I’ll save the cliffhanger - I believe by the time FE6 begins, Mark is dead, or at the very least uncontactable. She’s not present in the story because she can’t be there, not because she doesn’t want to be. The how she gets there is the interesting part to me, not the end goal.

One of Mark’s few canon traits is that she’s a wanderer. She never settles in one place for long, and her time with Lyn, Eliwood, and Hector is the longest she’s ever devoted herself to anything when she had the choice to leave. She doesn’t run away, but she can’t stay idle. To her, there’s always more to learn, more to see, and in the back of her mind she’s afraid that Bern is still somehow looking for her. It’s said she goes to wander after Lyn’s adventure, and only crosses paths with Eliwood and Hector by chance. So, I think it makes sense after the events of FE7, she’d pack her things and leave Pherae. It’s said in the game that Eliwood ascends roughly a year after the final map ends, and I do think Mark would stay nearby while Eliwood prepares to take on this new role, but she leaves just after his ascension. I don’t think she ever stays in one place that long again. 

Mark’s path can best be described as a spiral - at first, she comes back to visit her friends every few months. She brings tales of far off adventure and research, endless new knowledge of tactics, wildlife, the very basics of anima magic. Then, the stretch of time is a year with no word. She says she was in Etruria, holed up in a library for far too long. She’s gone in the night, because she’s never gotten better at saying goodbye. Three years, with no word. She only stops to see Eliwood and Hector because she happened to be walking through their territories. Eventually, she just... stops showing up. It’s not out of resentment, or a want to isolate herself - it’s just that she cannot stay grounded, ever. Even when she spends a month with her friends, recovering after a particularly hard journey, her eyes are always on the horizon, her map is always wet with new ink.

And one day, word ends. Rumors of her appearance fade. Suddenly, it’s been longer than it’s ever been with no sign of her coming back. New rumors begin - bandits, magic gone wrong, another realm she fell into. Whatever happened, she’s not returning. By the time the epilogue scene happens 15 years after Eliwood’s ascension, Mark hasn’t been seen for years. By then, I think the rumors have resolved down to “Mark is gone.” 

It’s up to her castmates whether they searched for her at all, especially since she all but vanished after Eliwood’s ascension. Actually, please talk to me about how your muses felt about Mark’s disappearance. I’d love to talk about how she’s awful at this. 

I think something that complicates this is that Mark isn’t one to ride on her reputation. After leaving Pherae, she wants to lay low as a simple traveler, and that makes it a lot harder for anyone to track her down. It also, unfortunately, contributes to why she isn’t talked about at all in FE6. Her reputation after the war fell into legend, and when she stopped showing up, that’s all she was. A story, something to embellish the legends of Lyndis, Eliwood, and Hector. The shadow behind them, eyes turned skyward. Eventually, Mark’s name falls from the story, and her reputation gets even more stretched away from her. By the time the epilogue scene happens, Mark’s been all but dropped from the story, and if she’s spoken about at all, it’s either by people who knew her or as a separate legend of an unbeatable tactician. 

As for what specifically happened to her, I think she was ambushed by bandits and killed on the road. She never is a fighter herself, and I think she really has a bad time with anima magic. She’s able to learn basics by that time, but placing one low level mage with a fire tome in a ring of brigands is going to give you a reset. In TOAverse, she will eventually begin to learn reason magic, but I am not going to make it easy for her. For now, she’s on the authority grind! 

As always, I’d love to talk about this more with other Elibe muns. Also if there’s some amount of canon I missed, please ping me to yell at me and I’ll thank you forever. If you made it here, thanks for reading! 

Final wordcount - 828 words

#she wanders onward never to arrive #(meta) #within sadness (ooc) #YIPPEE #i feel so ill #mark appeals to me for so many reasons but one of them is that she does so so much for the rgb lords and somehow #she's still forgotten by history because she didn't really stick around #even her name gets lost and confused #and i think that just #augh #this wounds the red #please no one be a smartass and be like well actually mark isnt in fe7 because fe6 came first I KNOW THAT #im trying to take the meta and turn it into something in universe #because they didn't have to make mark #they really didnt #and she can be skipped entirely! #so she's not like. crucial #and thats so important to me #red muse types - people who believe they're only valuable for one thing #and people forgotten by history #sorry to write a novel in the tags im so normal #the fe6 post

[maxellminidisc]

Y'all dont like hearing it but lol the intra community and heteronormative condemnation of bisexuality really is a crucial part of what has y'all being stupid and gross to lesbians and it makes me sooooo mad and angry. Because it's the same people who are like "LESBIANS LOVE MEN, LESBIANS CAN FUCK MEN*" that are constantly trying to misdefine bisexuality as binary and trans exclusionary and harass openly proud bisexuals when we try to correct that damage. That's why its me 🤝 my lesbian mutuals = wanting to hit yall over the head with clubs

*men as in cis men AND trans men. Trying to include trans men as part of your attraction to women when they are NOT women, and make the assumption of exclusion of trans women in lesbianism by assuming that ALL lesbians see them as men (and HELLO trans women who are lesbians exist) is uhh guess what? Transphobic and lesbophobic!

#like so much of gender fluid attraction and gender identity discourse could truly be eradicated #if yall ACTUALLY understood bisexuality as a label and its history with relationship to gender liberation #the other crucial part can only be reduced to 'damn cant let women have nothing including only other women' aksmdkdkd

[busaikuknee]

talk to me about Katsuhiko Nakajima!

“average person has 3 deeply fraught interpersonal relationships” factoid actually just statistical error. katsuhiko nakajima, who has 10,000 deeply fraught interpersonal relationships, is an outlier and should not have been counted

i've tried drafting a more thorough response because i had a lot i initially wanted to talk about, but it's late and i've been in a very brainfog-heavy state lately. i'm just going to leave it at: i think part of the reason i like him so much is that i tend to be drawn to wrestlers who don't manage to really pull everything together—in-ring work, character work, that wrestling-specific genre of charisma—until later in their careers. obviously he's always been very good at Wrestling, but it hasn't been until the past few years that he's become a…holistic performer, i guess? and found what works for him character-wise. i don't know, i guess seeing people go through that growth makes me a little hopeful; may we all find our weird violent wolfman gimmick equivalents

#i always feel a little nervous talking about wrestlers with long histories because i worry that i'm missing something crucial #but then i remind myself that It's Hobbies you know #additions i couldn't elaborate on in a way i liked: #- the the aggression and now broader kensuke office drama has been really compelling to me. i <3 tragedy i <3 long-term deep-seated hatred #- whenever he kicks people so hard it sounds like a shotgun going off i clap like a seal #- the repeated thing of like. “you don't need me and i don't need you” as a justification for leaving people. rotating it in my brain #something something the tension between the whole lone wolf shtick and wolves being pack animals #anyway! thank you for writing in syb :] #asks

[currentlyonstandbi]

#OKAY there were 2 versions of this post and i spent so long trying to decide which one to go with #and im STILL undecided on it but i went with this one primarily because of the comparison in the train scenes my beloved <3 #i'm not great at cinematic or literary analysis but i am great at going completely off the shits about things so hold on to your hats #because the train scenes in this movie drive me insane okay the way that everytime we're shown them on screen #they're accompanied by some important shifts in character dynamic or crucial introductory set ups #it's the fact that we have that first scene with alex (and josh) and nigel #and the way that both alex and the audience are being introduced to who nigel really is as a person for the first time #before then it was surface level understanding . glimpses into the character as maybe a little strange and off-putting but nothing drastic #but that scene where nigel chooses to let josh fall??? that's the first genuine insight both audience and alex get into his character #and how it will go on to shape the story #and then we have the 2nd train ride with them! and the way it's almost like the dynamic flipped from the first time #now alex is subdued and disengaged while nigel has become animated #and i know there's completely rational explanations as to why ofc alex doesn't want anything to do with nigel after josh #whereas nigel is excited to introduce alex to his 'world' and their shared history #but the little overly-obsessive voice in my head likes to think it's an allusion to the fact that these two have begun to blur #and the delineation between their personalities becomes harder and harder to define when so often they're capable of mirroring the other #and then we have the final train scene!!! which has me chewing on the walls! my gohd the reveal of it all #the realisation that alex isn't as much of an innocent victim to it all as he'd painted himself to be in his retelling #the fact that his introduction to us was on that train and so to is the conclusion to his story #that first scene of him on the train lays out the basics of his character - the rule breaker and thrill seeker #and then the end of the movie with that final scene? when you compare it to the alex we started with? that's nigel #that is nigel's ghost wearing the face of alex and you cannot change my mind #maybe i'm just thinking into it too much like am i really gonna give greg read all this credit by saying he deliberately intended #to have the train be such an important point in the film. to serve as an environmental symbol of their character progression????? for real?? #he was probably like haha trains go brrrrrh #anyway . #song rec? uhuhhhhh 'tear you apart' by she wants revenge ? #like minds #murderous intent #like minds (2006)

[gravedirtt]

as stupid and flawed as management is, tumblr is now the only online platform I can use consistently bc it’s the only one that doesn’t instantly pull me into an insane addiction serotonin loop. Like regardless of the fact that people have to use social media to make money (which sucks bc late capitalism sucks) the apps implement every single element of gambling, addiction, etc and keep you in it forever to sell you more adds and to monopolize your attention. we’re in the crumbling Vegas strip of online and you can feel your brain rotting if you stay there forever

#I’m not here to fight with people about how we have to be online to make money bc I’m one of those people #but as someone with a history both personal and familial of addictive behaviors #putting training wheels on my access to apps is crucial to me being normal #and that shouldn’t be how it is #I just hate it everywhere online now