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8 9 15!!!

Eeee thanks for the ask!!! I'm excited!!!

8. What is the last thing you have read/ listened/ spoke with historical reference?

My last lecture was about landscape painting in the 17th-century Netherlands! If you're interested, look up Jacob van Ruisdael, who does amazing cloud formations! Jan van Goyen is another famous one, and he paints lovely run-down farms among others.

I'm not a big fan of historical films because if the goal is accuracy, I'm generally not super convinced and spend the duration of the movie being an insufferable nit-pick. I'd rather watch a great book adaptation that creates a convincing and evocative atmosphere. My recent favourite is The Green Knight, which borrows from different periods for the costumes, decor, and soundtrack, yet perfectly captures the eerie atmosphere of the tales that make up the Arthurian legend. I'm open to recommendations though!

Jan van Goyen, Farm by the Sea, 1631

Carcassonne, Musée des Beaux-Arts

9. Favourite historical film?

15. Were the history classes teached in an interesting way in your school/ college/ university? What would you do to improve them if you were the teacher / lecturer?

They were, mostly! After high school, I got a lot of classes about social and cultural history, which I absolutely loved. My art history classes were super interesting too. If anything, I would make it more structured and would engage with primary sources more. I always add relevant quotes from the period I'm discussing in my lectures, because it feels much livelier, in my opinion! Yet this is also time consuming, so I understand how that cannot always be done.

Thanks again so much for the ask, I'm open to more questions :D

#history #art history #ask an art historian

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I have seen many questionnaires but none including history. What a shame..

1. Who is your favourite historical person?

2. What is your country most famous for in history?

3. What is your country most infamous for in history?

4. Favourite historical era?

5. Favourite weapon?

6. Military unit?

7. Historical dressing, uniform or costume?

8. What is the last thing you have read/ listened/ spoke with historical reference?

9. Favourite historical film?

10. Pieces of art ( paintings, sculpures, lithographies, ect.) related to history you like most ( post an image of them)

11. Have you participated in reenactment? What it was like?

12. Would you take part in reenactment? In what era and as whom?

13. Something random about some random historical person in a random era.

14. Why you are interested in history ( a silly question, eh?) ?

15. Were the history classes teached in an interesting way in your school/ college/ university? What would you do to improve them if you were the teacher / lecturer?

16. Do you own some historical item? ( coin, clothing, weapons, books, ect) If yes which one is your favourite?

17. What historical item would you like to own?

18. Look at the clock and assume the numbers are forming historical year ( 17;58 would be 1758) What was / is / will be the world that year? Any event happened then or will happen?

19. Favourite historical book?

20. History crush?

21. Historical game?

22. Random historical fact about the place you are at the moment.

23. Favourite historical song / with such reference?

24. Most underrated historical figure?

25. Most overrated historical figure in your opinion?

26. Forgotten hero we should know about and admire?

27. Favourite historical “ What if… ” ?

28. Favourite “dream team” of specific era or the entire history?

29. Great historical mystery you are interested in?

30. Ask me a question of your own.

Send me the numbers of the questions you wish to be answered in my “Ask”.

#ask #lets goooo #ask an art historian

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☕️ Kitchen Flirt 🥰

They're having one of these glorious spring mornings, where everything is golden and perfect and they get to be a bit flirty without feeling silly about it 🌟

(April's ρα🌳on print!)

Join here!

#good omens #ineffable husbands #Crowley #Aziraphale #yes yes very good

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Amazing point! Also you don't see the terrible things that Claudia has done to resurrect Viren, which likely reflects how she herself views her trajectory as a fundamentally virtuous one. This allows her to feel like she has the moral high ground, in a philosophy that is very much influenced by dark magic and the human perspective.

Rayla, on the other hand, is shown with bloodied hands, which could reflect her actively engaging with morally grey actions, something that is much closer to Moonshadow philosophy and what she did not like seeing in Runaan.

So we have two young people battling with the core values of their education and trying to find their own way despite not being aware of insidious ways in which these values influence their choices. This to me is exemplary of the excellent character building in TDP, where individual characters reflect greater cultural struggles. Very excited to see how it develops with the following seasons!

listening to HBMP's S5 Interview with Aaron and Villads and I'm at the part where they're talking about Rayla's ability to maim Claudia as character growth

it's true too

she used to not be able to harm people, but for love of Zym she tackled Viren to his death, and in S5, for love of Callum and Ezran she sliced off Claudia's leg. that's definitely growth

thing about growth: it's not all positive. you ever seen a seed get confused and grow the wrong direction?

my favorite parallel to Rayla growing through hurting people (to defend those she loves) is Claudia growing through resurrecting people (by committing dark magic sins for the spell components)

they're growing.

what a lovely garden.

anyway it's a great episode, give it a listen!

#tdp #hbmp podcast #rayla #claudia

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Of course Samwise Gamgee is a darling lad but I am always peeved when people reduce him too much to a soft boy. Sam would beat Ted Sandyman’s ass in an instant if he was allowed.

#samwise fc #lotr

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New Crow Time 🎀🏅

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still losing my shit over that AI post that was like “i don’t wanna do the work of making art because im so tired and i cannot”

Like bitch do you not think people painstakingly making their own art are not tired ???

Sorry for the eternal human condition of Being Fucking Tired but unfortunately that’s not a reason to rip off other creators with your button press plagiarism machine HUN

#anti ai #creating means spending time #making creation instantaneous to fit neoliberal expectations #not great

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Cannot stop thinking about Anne magill paintings. Maybe my new favorite painter. She just captures this ..,,,,,, dreamy feeling...,,, a certain tenderness..... a fleeting moment of contentedness..... like nothing else I’ve seen

#yesssss #this is part of the canon now

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just to hide outside your door 🐍🍎

#good omens #gorgeous

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I know, I’ve already said, but I feel like I’m not saying it enough :

I love what you do 💖💜💙

💖💖💖💖💖

This is so so sweet, and I needed this :) thanks so much!

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three years ago today, a new me was born

#more joy for trans women #you deserve the best in life

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I have this school photo of me from sixth grade that always made me so sad to look at and remember how miserable that little kid was so I decided to surround her with some of the good things to come :^)

#this is amazing 😍

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a little more bed sketches

#good omens #this is gorgeous #im adding this to the reasons why i want to watch the show

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In Full Swing: A comic about Spider-Gwen’s past inspired by Across the Spider Verse 🏳️‍⚧️ (⚠️Spoilers!⚠️)

#oh ok 🥺 #spiderman: across the spiderverse

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1998, Edward Said.

"Israel was constructed on the ruins of another society."

via conflictechoes on insta

#Edward Said #Palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

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When do you think you’ll update the runnan and the Ethari fic circles?

Hi! You know I'd honestly love to answer that, but I have been heartbroken twice in the past six months, so writing about romance is honestly really hard at the moment. I'm currently just trying to function!