#history through memes

[area51-narutorun]

cas keeps confessing that he loves him but dean can only reply with breaking news 😢

#this era of history is so stupid #i would like to live through slightly less interesting times #my dash is nothing but destiel meme #russia #titanic #stock market #ukraine

[nuclearanomaly]

#ffxiv #6.4 #6.4 spoilers #golbez #voidcast dais ex #just another video of me living through a tankbuster #I had fully accepted my death I even put down my controller #but my entire party said NO #and flung so much mit at me #Karo crits like crazy it's unreal #additional meme doodle needed to be done because it's the only way to describe how i reacted #I just progressively yelled louder with each hit #anyway thanks team for my LIFE #adds another one to my history books #jayne plays ffxiv #vids: mine

[emmavakarian-theirin]

hiiiiiii i've fallen back into dragon age hell (origins, specifically) if anyone wants to DISCUSS things i am here

#(twirls hair) i think i'm falling for alistair all over again (sickos meme) yes... ha ha ha... YES.... #and it's mostly through realising how there's lines that are just SO unprompted or have no build up with the context of the subject?? #but obviously not in a bad writing way it's just *alistair* like #leliana: oh how i enjoyed the quiet of the chantry so i could contemplate and be at peace 😌 what about you alistair? 😊 #alistair: i liked screaming #LIKE honestly why was the grand cleric trying to keep you #or even the dialogue when you're trying to talk to him about his history and he's like 'it's boring though :/' #so you tell him to make up interesting stuff and he suddenly says 'i have some interesting looking moles i can show you?' LIKE??? #you are a sad strange big man and you have my love #BUT ANYWAY i'm having a moral dilemma over the most minor quest and have been staring at the same screen for like 30 minutes #and i know it's hard to see but sten looks so GOOD i'm shocked and thrilled i managed to get every mod i wanted to work... work

[gardenerian]

thoughts on ian’s face in the “sorry im late” scene in 5x8 (i think it’s 5x8)

my thoughts are that i am going to start crying and never stop. my additional thoughts are:

so he's in bed, right? he's been trying mickey all day, meanwhile mickey has been going through his own process at home. but ian is thinking that he might have finally pushed mickey away for good - or scared him away. so he's in bed, eyes shut - probably not sleeping, but just laying there. shutting out the rest of the day. he hears someone behind him and his eyes kinda open. it's when he hears mickey though that his breathing picks up and we go from this:

to this:

like it's so slight, but like. the little flutters and the way his eyes start to move 😭 there's life left there. i feel like...... in moments like this, it sometimes feels like you might just lay there until you're dust. it's all over. the life you knew, the life you wanted. and yet - here he is again. and i think ian is genuinely surprised. this is where is starts being surprising to ian that he could be someone to come back for.

anyways. he turns around as fast as his medicated body will let him. we don't see his face when he first sees mickey, but we see it when he says "sorry i'm late." and it reminds me of the scene in 4x11 where mickey says "what you and i have makes me free." like it makes me insane. in both of these moments, his face just drops into something so young and so vulnerable.

like???? he's a little boy! and here is someone standing in front of him - someone he he has ALWAYS WANTED to stand in front of him - promising to be there. that he knows ian needed him. that he's here now for whatever might happen. reality is so warped these days but here he is.

and you see it land??? you see ian exhale and settle in a way he probably hasn't in a while. things are not okay. they're not okay!!! and they won't be for a while. but in this little moment together in this room where he grew up, he can breathe out the grief. he can share it.

mickey moves to get in bed and ian just makes room, like he always has. but he never blinks. doesn't dare take his eyes off of mickey. it's like he's scared mickey might change his mind, or dissolve right in front of him. is he even really there?

and there's another layer of disbelief here. another layer of grief. mickey milkovich is crawling back into his bed to hold him, and it's like this. it happened like this. everything he's done and suffered and been made to face comes down all at once. he's tired, he's scared. he's sorry. mickey has finally seen the worst of him.

he looks away, and mickey chases after him. i think it's important to mickey here that he lets ian feel him. something about that tactile, grounding comfort. and mickey won't look away either, it's too precious. ian's safe, even if nothing is the same.

and it's here, in these quivering lips and drawn eyebrows...... this is the release. his body and his mind have been through a lot in the last few days. it's as close to cathartic as ian really gets for a while. it's not long before the walls go back up and he's angry. but right now, he brings his hand to hold mickey's wrist, and he lets himself be held.

now.... this face:

this face fucking haunts me. i cannot name this face. what is he seeing here? i imagine it's so hard to see past this moment, into a future he can't name. it's like he's simultaneously feeling mickey there and also completely isolated. i can't explain this face. can anyone else explain this face???

either way, he closes his eyes against it. and you can assume that rest is coming.

with mickey keeping watch.

#i am legitimately in tears #i think...... #our focus as a fandom has shifted in a lot of ways #to our beloved himbo husbands and the silly slutty soft snarky future they share #and like! yes! yes let's! that's what they deserve! #don't mistake me i fucking love it #but the farther away we get from THIS #the harder it gets to come back to it #it becomes this abstract thing #and we end up saying things like #their history or what they overcame #or everything they've been through #it almost softens it #not saying that we need to be harping on the tragedy #it just feels so distant to the point where it's memed and convoluted #we've kind of desensitized ourselves? #i know we've probably said a lot of what we need to say #i don't think we need to constantly relive it or anything #i'm not making any sense #i don't know #this can be such a lonely way to live is all #i'm tired #ily anon #mel answers #5x08 #bipolar ian

[earlgrey24]

Przybyszewska's The Danton Case Official Drinking Game

Take a sip of a wine from Marseille* every time...

(*maybe water it down or substitute it with grape juice if you don't want to be like Danton in the play)

Someone starts humming La Marseillaise out of the blue

Danton gets called ugly (warning: maybe do it every other time, this happens quite a lot)

A character dramatically takes out their pocket watch

Robespierre's eye colour gets mentioned (yes, being called a "green-eyed monster" counts too)

A character either: a) talks about getting on their knees for someone, you know, metaphorically b) literally gets on their knees (looking at you, Eléonore)

Someone calls Camille a 'genius baby/toddler'

Lucile says or does something that proves she's smarter than 99 % of the characters

Robespierre gets called the Incorruptible

Saint-Just's being dte in the committee meetings (=down to execute)

You feel the strong urge to yell at Camille and call him a beautiful idiot (also approach with caution - this may be subjective but I personally felt like doing it in literally every scene he's in)

#french revolution #frev #feel free to add “if there's homoerotic tension” but know you're going to end up under the table before you get half-way through the play #don't take this too seriously #i really want to do a more serious analysis soon #I've already made bullet points and everything #frev shitposting #maximilien robespierre #camille desmoulins #stanisława przybyszewska #saint just #french revolution memes #history shitposting #the danton case #Przybyszewska #lucile desmoulins #georges danton #la revolution francaise #drinking game #frev tumblr #literature #french history

[g4rdensofb4bylon]

if I had a nickel for every time politicians were thrown out the window in Prague I'd have three nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened three times???

#its so stupid lmao #and so niche😭 #i was studying for a test on the thirty years war and laughed through tears when i found out there were THREE DEFENESTRATIONS??? #i mean its kind of a slay tbh— #im going insane. #chaotic academia #dark academia #academia #classic academia #academia aesthetic #books #art academia #poetry #light academia #history #history memes #?? #defenestration #age of enlightenment #enlightenment #art history #history nerd #thirty years war #darkest academia #romantic academia #idk #the secret history

[djpuppy]

absolutely unreal to hear a warplane flying overhead while seeing people post shit like "if i was p.utin i'd invade ukraine too". i'm so tired good night

#and the l.enin was based memes too. no one fucking cares about our genocide because you acknowledge famines are used as a cover up for #genocide through starvation but with the holodomor it really was a famine this time guys. it's a myth. my family history is just a myth and #my grandma's sisters who almost died fleeing from the starvation were just doing it for fun. the people being shot for daring to steal grai #that was rotting inside the tanks were just doing it because they were mean and the streets weren't filled with corpses that starved #the millions of people dead brought it upon themselves. it's just amyth. i hate imperialism so much except r.ussian imperialism that one is #based (sarcasm) #sorry for being a mean ukrainian good night good night #🕸️

[dimity-lawn]

#thought(s) from yours truly #ofmd s2 #ofmd #our flag means death #meme #created by yours truly #ofmd meme #our flag means death meme #history #18th century #history meme #old books #humor through history

[adeliasecretfiles]

would you guys believe me if i said i discovered the penguins of madagascar like... four months ago

#i feel like everyone here grew up with the show #however. i didnt have cable as a kid #i learned about tpom first through a YouTube video essay #the penguinos me la van a mascar meme also #so i was like ah! seems fun! mama lets research #then bam. hyperfixation. #the rest is history #sometimes i wish i had the capacity to be normal about stuff #roachposting #tpom

[bergoozter]

I need to know how episodes 5 and 6 get explained in-universe. Like Shane obv thought that The Holo-Professor was the real one, so I can’t imagine what goes down when Ryan explains that he was kidnapped by The Holo-Professor, fought him, and used the Genie lamp to bring back the real Professor. Also like the crew watched half of The Holo-Professor’s plan unfold, Shane saw Ryan tied up, and Steven has to make a dish for the Plague Rat now, so it’s be really funny to see them put it all together

oh to be a fly on the wall for that conversation

#ryan going off ab how shane abandoned him and manically explaining what he’d been through at the hands of he holo prof #he’s that one meme of the guy w the conspiracy thread wall explains what happened to everyone in the office lol #bergasks #puppet history

[grim-echoes]

what *is* cryptofash?

it's short for cryptofascist, it's a term used for someone who covertly supports fascist sentiments or ideas adjacent to them without explicitly signaling it. someone who's cryptofash might closely associate with people who are more openly alt-right, express sympathy for fascist talking points, and voice certain statements/ideas common in fascist circles that, while not always strictly fascist ideas in isolation, can imply alt-right thinking when in tandem with other common fascist sentiments. in essence it's that guy you've always been suspicious of but you can't say for certain if they're just under-educated, reactionary, or a genuine nazi until you discover screenshots of them asking the jewish question in a discord server

#speedrunning has a fuckton of these and there's two you may recognize #rwhitegoose and karl jobst #both have been outed through screenshot evidence from the same server spouting white supremacist shit #particularly about jewish and chinese people #karl jobst was just never found out until later because the shit rwg had said was so much more horrifying #several youtubers i'm extremely wary of because i suspect them #internethistorian is on the more visible end of crypto because of his associations with openly alt-right youtubers #his earlier videos being all about 4chan and its culture while using its lingo and associated memes #and his covid denialist/antivax tweets to name just a few reasons #manykudos i'm not certain on but it's more his associations and less what he thinks and says #he's dunked on people who are 'a little too into war history for it to just be a hobby' before which is like #not a group you'd typically make fun of if you were fash so it makes me think he's Aware #magicmush gives me huge cryptofash vibes because of the subject matter of his videos being all about #standard fare online punching bags including cwc #and anybody who talks about 'lolcows' is instantly shitlisted for me because it's fucking blatant what their politics are #wendigoon is also crypto for me because unfortunately if you talk about being a pro-gun christian #while also associating with other people who just exude right-leaning proclivities #i'm not gonna trust you #etc etc

[feluka]

“tends only to reveal it when there is no other option” is the library puzzle room nothing to you. there was no force in this world strong enough to be able to make this man shut his mouth. guy was speedrunning his “uchikoshi character infodumps” moments since he was gone for the majority of the game

#🌻 #i saw this while reading the trivia in his wiki because #i was wondering if him being confirmed gay through twitter poll was added to his wiki. it was! odfjkgdufhgldhl #i'm glad to have been there to witness history being made #snake 999 #also the photo used here looks like the meme of the guy who just woke up

[likeadevils]

well i only asked cause i dont know. i only know about that Post but that doesnt say much. whatever, it's ok

i think it really does come down to individual opinions, and since taylor hasn’t ever (and probably will never) talk about it, there’s really no way to know the truth. i also don’t think my opinion is that popular, and i don’t think i’m the most important voice in this conversation, seeing as so much of the conversation revolves around what was an appropriate response to the black lives matter protests of 2020, which feels weird for a white woman to try and police.

that being said if you want my essay

i think taylor leaving was preceded by a mindset of trying to keep her life a very manageable size at all costs. she mentions that mindset in most interviews in 2019, mostly referring to stepping away from the wider world in 2016, but i think it’s fairly clear that she was still struggling with that through the lover era— there’s taylor crying in the miss americana documentary about things getting loud and feeling like it’s about more than the music, and she also talks in the folklore long pond sessions about feeling like everytime she put out an album she was loading a canon that would shoot back at her, and not feeling released from that feeling until folklore. in her 2019 billboard interview she says she liked tumblr because it felt like the only place where she could talk to her fans without feeling like she was talking to a continent, and i don’t think it started feeling like a continent to her after only one post. as someone active on tumblr during the lover era, there were countless big and small flare ups of drama over everything under the sun. more than a single issue, i think it was the constant drama over anything she did or didn’t say, or even just us fighting amongst ourselves and not expecting her to see it, that really drove her away, not just one post.

there’s also just my opinion (which is pretty unpopular) that the post, and the outcry from the fandom it represents, wasn’t like, a heinous crime. i likely wouldn’t make the decision to edit one of her likes, and centering taylor swift in a conversation about police brutality is kind of an ass backwards way to go about things, but it’s clearly marked as an edited message, and i don’t think it was all together unfair for fans to expect more of taylor after declaring again and again that she was going to speak up about important political issues. i understand why taylor didn’t— she only speaks up about causes that she deeply understands, and as a white woman raised in pennsylvania she likely didn’t have a thorough understanding of systemic racism. there’s also something to her waiting until the fires dipped down and then using her voice then, as a way of boosting a movement with her platform rather than speaking over activists who already had the stage. but that didn’t stop a lot of fans from feeling increasingly abandoned by a women who had promised to be on their side and then seemingly disappeared.

in the same way i understand and sympathize with what taylor was going through, i can give grace to what was essentially a decentralized mob of teenagers and young adults living in the middle of a deadly pandemic, dealing with nationwide riots, and staring down a potential civil war in november. using taylor leaving as an endless well to yell at each other is just repeating the cycle that drove her and many others of the platform in 2020. one of the things i personally learned that year is that endlessly litigating a complex issue that inherently involves putting words in taylor’s mouth is just setting yourself up for drama and heartbreak, and i think why taylor left is one of those issues

#asks* #there’s certain corners of fandom history that can only be responded to with an essay or a reaction meme #sometimes i will chose reaction meme #i’m sorry that it came off as rude i didn’t mean to belittle you #it’s just a conversation that dregs up a lot of big feelings in me and it’s hard to wade through them coherently

[croc-odette]

Christian and Jesus ads getting more abundant the last few years…. Like scooby doo cartoon noises of little footsteps creeping and getting louder every time you turn around

#veep nervous laughter meme. this bodes poorly based on peak rises of cults throughout history #I got an ad on behind the bastards (through their network) for like some eerie Christian organic food company reminding me to think of gods #plentiful bounty…. like let me step out of the bubble and remember commercial evangelicism is legal

[mexashepot]

If I'm god and I have a sense of humour, I'm halting the civil war and re-scheduling it to this Thursday instead.

You know, staying true to history and all that

(And if I'm god AND I am super funny, then I'm ending it next Wednesday, to double the joke)

#apologies to my followers who are not well-versed in Jewish history #(joker meme: you would not get it) #I'm so sorry joking through the tears is the only way I can handle this #Israeli tag #Jewish tag #current events

[liebgotts-lovergirl]

Me rn, writing my lil WW2 Era story like

#I don't care what anybody says okay: sometimes history is fucking hilarious #dudes were TWEAKING & we should talk about it more #it's actually kind of terrifying too bc they were SO obviously out of control #but for real it's just wild to me that they managed to get through an entire war like that #absolutely insane tbh #FOF #OMGG #meme #history meme #history memes #ww2 #ww2era #ww2 memes #AlySpeaks