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'oh it must be so fun and cool knowing how to knit-'

it is. but I also experience the Madness

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any time someone asks me my research area I have an identity crisis

#i just like too many things #historian #history #theater history #irish history #public history #grad student #grad school #graduate student #graduate school

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yes, you can do math

but can you read the handwriting of a primary source

need none of my STEM flatmates to ever complain to me ever again about the research they have to do for their essays until they've scraped through records from 1622 to try and prove the people they're writing about even existed <3

#yeah yeah stem's hard. idc tho #spent 3 hours today in the kitchen rifling through primary source documents like the voices #historian #history #grad school #grad student

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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why are you straightedge

i wanted to be perceived as generally uncool by almost all age demographics

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someday I’ll read you book pile

me looking at the massive pile of history books I've managed to collate over the past year that I'll finally have the energy to read once uni's finished and i don't have to do seminar prep/essay research every day

#historian #history #history major #historystudent

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Boop Breakdown

Well, you did it. You booped. You booped all over your dashboard with reckless abandon, your finger gnashing away at the boop button, much like a lovely raccoon discovering a glorious half-eaten baked potato. A treasure was presented, and you knew you deserved it. You deserved to boop. Collectively, you booped 142,566,897 times. To repeat: one hundred forty-two million five hundred sixty-six thousand eight hundred ninety-seven boops were had on tumblr dot com the website and the app.

Specifically: 

Normal boops: 119,204,929

Self boops: 12,645,652

Cat boops: 7,925,241

Super boops: 2,095,231

Mischievous, aka evil boops: 695,844

One particularly boopable Tumblr was booped a total of 874,212 times. To be so rich in boops is a blessing. The Tumblr that gave the most boops found it in their heart to bestow 127,073 boops upon those they found worthy. 

Over 500,000 Tumblrs were booped and booped back in return. And for what? What would drive so many to boop? Does Tumblr yearn for the boop mines? Well, yes. And also the guts, the glory, the prestige, and, of course, the badges. Oh, how you worked for those badges:

Booper participants: 229,881

Booper enthusiasts:  85,548

Booper supers:  67,571

Hold your heads high, Tumblr. You booped until you couldn’t boop anymore. You created incredible fanart, invented a whole new genre of -sonas, and even created your own premium, high-end awards. It was noble, it was boop. We hope you boop yourself, and boop for boop. Boop, boop boop? Boop, boop. Boop boop boop, boop boop; Boop! Boop! 

Boop,

Tumblr

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write things down! keep your name alive! keep your story visible!

pls pls pls write dates and identify people on the backs of your photos!! it doesn't have to be much!!! but it will mean so much 70 years later when the photo is in a museum archive and the information is there

#history #historian #time #archive #archives

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I am watching as this piece of the past is changed as people visit and as we continue to adapt to the present

Being in the history field, and especially living history, is a roller coaster of existential crisis meeting the sublime. I am walking in the steps of the ancestors to honor their memory. I am creating a farcical piece of theater with the thinnest of ties to reality. I am sharing the transcendence of human experience in a tangible way. I am shaking my fist at God for creating people with the inability to learn from the past.

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If you’re wondering, it’s a good day to watch Pride and Prejudice 2005.

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I AM MEOWING

THERE IS NO SIGN OF BANS

YOU ARE BOOPING DOWN WITH ME

PAW IN UNLOVEABLE PAW

I HOPE WE BOOP

I HOPE WE BOTH BOOP

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i love when this site becomes unusable because we're all, at our cores, so full of stupid whimsy <3

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10/10 analysis

forever fascinated by the version of johnny cash who exists in the minds of tumblr users who don't listen to johnny cash

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this was quite literally the topic of discussion in my seminar class this week, it’s not about accuracy just vibes

just be the vaguely historical vibe you want to see at the renne faire and the rest will work itself out

Favorite thing about renaissance faires is that they have fuck all to to with the renaissance. This thang is not about historical anything this is about dressing up like a fairy and watching a joust

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why is jstor

No clue

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jstor is my boyfriend i love you jstorrrrrrrr