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xoshepard · 1 year

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in an ideal world i could just spend all my time studying languages

#i’ve been trying to pick another language to study but man….#so much to consider #will this language be useful to me?#do i want to go to a country where this language is spoken?#considering finances will i be able to find people locally to practice this language with?#should i wait until i’m back in school and start my studies formally? will i have time?#since korean is grammatically close to japanese and i already passively ingest a lot of korean pop culture i figure it’s a good option #and it would be interesting to be able to study the linguistics of both japanese and korean #and compare and study the history #especially if i do end up looking towards getting a phd #i doubt it tho #and realistically am i gonna go to korea??? i can barely decide whether i want to go back to japan dhskdhdj #tirah talks

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speromelior · 9 months

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Recently I have been reading into Biopower and Biopolitics which finds its origins in Foucault. Agamben's "Homo Sacer" has been extremely interesting, especially because I wish to do some more research in Disability Studies. I am looking forward to reading Lennard J Davis.

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dalandan-oranges · 6 months

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OUR HISTORY IS ONE DRENCHED IN BLOOD

[…] his brother, Paciano Mercado, was a disciple of Burgos, '72 meant for Rizal the childhood trauma of a change of name — from Mercado to Rizal — and the wound was obviously still festering when, years later, he defiantly dedicated his second novel to the martyred priests.

-Nick Joaquin

A Question of Heroes, Nick Joaquin / the trailer for GomBurZa

#comparatives tag #colonial era ph #literally studying the history of the philippines is just. christ. the blood is still wet. the martyred priests. the murder of bonifacio #by his own countrymen. this desire to beatify them and make it something beautiful when it wasn't. jesus wept

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wisdom-and-such · 2 months

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“Let one mold himself in accordance with the precepts he teaches…”.

Section 12: verse 3

Dhammapada (oldest surviving sayings attributed directly to the Shakyamuni Buddha).

(This version translated from the Pali Cannon by Ananda Maitreya).

#buddhism #spirituality #philosophy #poetry #writing #books #quotes #art #literature #art history #eastern historical studies #Buddhist philosophical studies #comparative religion #great authors #analysis of religion on contemporary culture #beautiful quotes #inspiring quotes #meditation

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wonder-worker · 24 days

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people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

#yes Elizabeth was without a doubt considered too low-born to be queen #no she was not a commoner and nobody actually called her that during her life (so I'm not sure why people are claiming that they did?)#Elizabeth's social status was not a problem in itself; it was a problem in the context of queenship and marrying into royalty #Context is important in this and for literally everything else when it comes to analyzing history. Any discussion is worthless without it.#obviously pop culture-esque articles claiming that she was 'a commoner who captured the king's heart' are wrong; she wasn't #But emphasizing that ACTUALLY she was part of the gentry with a well-born mother and just leaving it at that as some sort of “GOTCHA!”#is equally if not more irresponsible and entirely irrelevant to discussions of the actual time period we're studying.#Elizabeth *was* considered unworthy and unacceptable as queen precisely because of her lower social status #her father and brother had literally been derided as social-climbers by Salisbury Warwick and Edward himself just a few years earlier #the Woodvilles' marriage prospects clearly reflected their status (and 'place') in society: EW herself had first married a knight and all #siblings married within the gentry to people of a similar status. compare that to the prestigious marriages arranged after EW became queen #Elizabeth having a lower social status was not 'created' by propaganda against her; it fueled and shaped propaganda against her #that's a huge huge difference; it's irresponsible and silly to conflate the two as I've seen a recent tumblr post cavalierly do #like I said she was considered too low-born to be queen long before any of the propaganda Warwick Clarence or Richard put out against her #and the fact that Elizabeth was targeted on the basis of her social status was in itself novel and unprecedented #no queen before her was ever targeted in such a manner; Clearly Elizabeth was considered notably 'different' in that regard #(and was quite literally framed as the enemy and destroyer of 'the old royal blood of this realm' and all its actual 'inheritors' like..)#ngl this sort of discussion always leaves a bad taste in my mouth #because it's not like England and France (et all) are at war or consider each other mortal enemies in the 21st century #both are in fact western european imperialistic nations who've been nothing but a blight to the rest of the world including my own country #yet academic historians clearly have no problem contextualizing the xenophobia that medieval foreign queens faced as products of their time #and sympathizing with them accordingly (Eleanor of Provence; Joan of Navarre; Margaret of Anjou; etc)(at least by their own historians)#Nor were foreign queens the “worst” targets of xenophobia: that was their attendants or in times of war commoners or soldiers #who actually had to bear the brunt of English aggression #queens were ultimately protected and guaranteed at least a veneer of dignity and respect because of their royal status #yet once again historians and people have no problem contextualizing and understanding their difficulties regardless of all this #so what is the problem with contextualizing the classism *Elizabeth* faced and understanding *her* difficulties?#why is the prejudice against her constantly diminished & downplayed? (Ive never even seen any historian directly refer to it as 'classism')#after all it was *Elizabeth* who was more vulnerable than any queen before her due to her lack of powerful foreign or national support #and Elizabeth who faced a form of propaganda distinctly unprecedented for queens. it SHOULD be emphasized more.

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une-sanz-pluis · 1 month

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Hello! I have a question.

Do you know what did Margaret of Anjou spent her time doing during her last years in France? Was she helping her family run estates, did she go hunting, or devoted her time to any hobby?

There's not much about her life after the downfall of House Lancaster...

Thanks!

Hi! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like a lot is known about Margaret's last years in France. I don't know whether that's because there's a lack of evidence or because historians haven't been looking because it's not a terribly important to English or French history, plus the associated barriers (travel, expense, language) for non-French historians. The best coverage I've found is B. M. Cron's Margaret of Anjou and the men around her and Margaret L. Kekewich's The Good King: René of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe

We know that Louis XII required Margaret to sign over all claims she might have to her parents' lands in exchange for 6,000 livres tournois a year. Her father, René, allowed her to live at his manor of Reculée near Angers but that she later lived at the castle Dampierre, near Saumur, along with a small household and her damsel, Katherine Vaux. We might imagine that she was acting as head of the household during that time and carrying the duties that a gentlewoman would have been expected to perform, which probably did include visiting family members (though possibly not her sister Yolande, who Kekewich notes was said to be hostile to her). We don't know if Margaret attended René's funeral Angers after his death in 1480. We know that Louis XII required her to vest in him anything she received from her father's will. At the time of her death, the only thing of value (or of interest to Louis) she possessed were hunting dogs. This indicates that she probably did hunt - I find it tempting to imagine Margaret also taking up dog breeding as a hobby in these years too. She was buried near her parents' tombs at St. Maurice

Susan Higginbotham's novel about Margaret (Queen of Lost Hopes) depicts her visited by Jasper Tudor shortly before her death to foreshadow Yorkist defeat in 1485 as a kind of vindication for Margaret. I don't know enough about Jasper Tudor at this time to say whether that's plausible and frankly, given the way Tudor-era writers continued the Yorkist denigration of Margaret, I don't find it a satisfying or vindicating end for Margaret.

Hopefully that helps! I'm sorry there's truly not much known about Margaret's last eleven years of life.

#margaret of anjou #ask #bstag #i don't know whether the lack of information is because there just isn't any that survived #or that anglo historians aren't interested because it's not important to the english/wotr history #can't research due to the barriers of travel - expense - language - different system of accessing records etc.#and french historians aren't interested because margaret isn't very important to french history #for comparison's sake margaret only attracted proper scholarly attention in the 1990s i think #(i think that's when diana dunn helen maurer and b m cron were publishing their work on her)#and it's only been comparatively very recently that edward the black prince's tenure as prince of aquitaine has attracted study #(he's less famous than margaret but this is very relevant to histories of england and the hundred years war)

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fridayiminlcve · 1 year

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if i dont move to nyc or london or paris by age 27 what is the point of anything

#i looooove my city so much you guys like if i wasnt who i am (queer) rn i would be so fucking glad that i am in my current city but #i loooove art and history and fashion and stuff and this citymight be about second best for all that but its still soo crowded #people WILL judge no matter what you wear something cutesy and people dont shut up especially when ur 16 and tagging along with your mom to #the mall or something and everyone just stares and even among your classmates ive been complimented so many times #for my unique style or whatever (aka i have beaded shoelaces and wear lots of jewelery and absurd ass eyeliner) and theyre like oh #n******** is so fancy itni stylish bandi hai woh and its so attention grabbing but i dont want it to be a big deal !!!#i want to like 20 badges and wear insane makeup and dye my hair without calling much attention to myself!!!#of course i know that will change slowly as you go in to uni and meet ppl of your type instead of a bazaar market and youll pick ur own #friends who r like minded but considering this is india how many people can you truly find.#also my next two years are going to be spent in a college for jee and neet kids #you can wear what you want theres no dress code but you have to appear serious studious and simple if you want to be taken seriously #elle woods at harvard law type #i asked my mom to get an industrial & second lobe piercing and actual dyed hair and shes like turn twenty get into a good college then do #not bc she minds she allowed me to get my hair dyed at age 13 but to go in th college im going to there is SO SO much rigour #and if you dont show yourself as professional and shit they will keep you in lower effort self study classes instead of best of the best #i KNOW how difficult moving abroad is bc my family does not have that money i need to do it myself its so so expensive bc the money #itself has such a high value compared to here (you see americans cribbing abt 30$ hourly wage but here that is 2500inr)#2500 inr is as much as an expensive pair of jeans here. expensive clothes here r 30$ and in usa its 300$ . see the diffence #im changing topics so much but sometimes i do feel this place is suffocating #its a priviledge i have that i can even think about going abroad comapred to other indians but still #dp you get what i mean #and ik movies and all are very romanticised so it might not even be this way in western cities and just an idealisation but still #if things change around here then the entire question of going anywhere is out the window anyway #smalltown boy will byers moment #dni if you read all this and plan on replying unless ur a close mutual (close mutuals u know who u are)#also if someone says why would you want to go to usa uk paris when they colonised your country shut up <3 shut up very much <3

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rollercoasterwords · 7 months

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hi rae if you could choose any other major to study what would it be

well that is kind of what i'm trying 2 figure out now actually lol ! currently thinking perhaps like...communications/media studies/something along those lines...but also honestly maybe just. english...versatile + usually every university has a pretty big english dept. so possibly easier 2 get funding etc...

#easier compared to. gender studies. which is not getting any funding lmao #i did enjoy the history part of my undergrad & would maybe go back to that if i found a way 2 make it work w what i wanna study...#ask

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regulusrules · 2 days

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I saw your post about orientalism and I was glad to see that I am not the only one who wanted to know more. I am eager to dive into your list, but I was wondering if there's a major/ course that focuses on orientalism? Maybe something online? Thanks!

Hi nonnie! Orientalism is actually quite common these days as a module if you're studying in majors like: Literatures in English, Arab and Islamic Studies, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Race Studies, Area Studies, and definitely History. Some universities even have Orientalism as a separate major on its own, which is pretty freaking dope if you ask me.

I tried looking up online courses for you, but honestly since that is not how I studied, I don't want to recommend a course and it turns out shitty or eurocentric lol

If you or anyone wants to shoot me a message asking for specific references, my DMs are open!

The list of videos/references to understand more about orientalism mentioned by nonnie

#orientalism #literature #arab and islamic studies #comparative literature #cultural studies #queer #queer studies #gender studies #race studies #area studies #history #reference #regulusrules answers

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nintendont2502 · 1 year

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Just remembered bushrangers were like. A Thing not even 200 years ago

Why the fuck does no one talk about that?? Why is that not like a Thing in our pop culture??

#seriously ned kelly only died like 143 years ago thats still pretty damn recent compared to other countries #but NO when we learn aussie history its always just 'The First Fleet :) The First Fleet again! gold rush! youll neber guess what its the #fuckign First Fleet again!'#and then we never touch aussie history again (unless you get really unlucky in modern history atar #tbf like. i get why #there really isnt much so you wouldnt be able to do a full highschool curriculum for it #and its. pretty damn boring so i wouldnt want to make a bunch of primary school kids sit through the history of federation or whatever1 #but stiill #we had god damn BUSHRANGERS and no one talks abt them??#there isnt any media about them??#these could be our cowboy equivalents get on this shit abc #we talk a big game abt promoting aussie stories and supporting the aussie media industry and then just. completely ignore this fascinating #shit and instead make the 59th show set in Melbourne #australia really needs to get a more distinct pop culture i stg were so americanised #like. its there but its mostly because we have a far lower budget i feel like #cleverman is probably conceptually the most interesting aussje show i can think of but studying iit in class ruined me #me.txt

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speromelior · 9 months

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The last few days I have shifted over to a study of language and deconstruction, I have finally finished my readings of Derrida as well. From there I moved to postcolonial theory, which is one of my huge special interests.

If anyone would be interested in talking about literary theory, feel free to contact me!

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wellenklavier · 1 year

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auughh i want to do too many things theres not enough hours in the day or dollars in my bank account

#heres my list of things i want to do in no particular order #get a personal trainer/steady gym routine - archery - horseback - horseback archery - play the flute - learn german - play with synths #learn to drum - learn to sew - customize all my clothes - get into every conceivable music genre - build endurance for marathons?#reads lots of poetry and literature - study philosophy and comparative lit - learn to brew my own beer (sorry lol)#i want to get back into russian impressionist art movements and composers - space technology history - honestly early american history is #rly interesting #i also want to maybe take a drawing class or teach myself the basics bc i can attempt things but dont actually know what doing - also paint #TO BE HONEST ALSO TAI CHI.. oh and i want to grow my own garden/herbs/make tea blends #not to mention. socializing ever.. like going to coffee shops and indoor rock walls and concerts #AND IM A TRAINED HERBARIUM CURATOR i could press my own specimens and mount them professionally. have a collection #my vinyl collection will continue to grow and i should try CDs too - and i want to learn tape manipulation te #ch. because why not #but i also need time in the day to wallow in solitude and darkness #Do You See My Problem

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fedoranon · 7 months

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*drake and josh voice* Reagan

#I forgot that full metal panic was an alt history #in between the words word processor and Soviet Union I think it's a period piece?#or the translator studied at OSU who hasnt updated their textbook since the Cold war #anyway compare this with the opening scene of hetalia and you have a stunningly consistent view of Americans by the Japanese

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solemntitty · 5 months

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i need y'all to know i listened to this on repeat in sophomore year of high school while my anxiety ridden ass was studying my butt off for my ap european exam while also drinking a shitton of irish breakfast tea (super caffeinated for again, my anxious ass). i got a 5 on the exam but at what fucking cost

#jamie has made a statement #now whenever i hear it i'm like ok time to memorize history facts and understand their relevancy #i did not work as har din college as i did in fucking high school god #high school was fucking hell on earth #not me putting this on repeat whenver i nee dto finish something #i will also have y'all know history is my worst fucking subject i'd probably do better in ap chemistry than ap european history #god i also did the ap us history exam and two other ap social studies exams about government how the hell did i finish #i think i failed us history which is. kinda funny to me but also was mostly bc uh. christian private hs #have never felt as much stress as i did in hs tbh like college seemed to be a breeze compared to that bullshit #personal

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dullahandyke · 11 months

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-_-

#11 days to the leaving and only now am i drawing up what all i need to study #chronologically it makes sense to leave latin n music to the last bcos i have like a whole week after history to study for just them #and before that all of my exams are basically in the same week with allowance for the weekend #so i should focus on eng n maths particularly #n then bio and irish and history #but like. my history latin n music teachers r the only ones assigning work. for the exams i have the most time for. lol #like i can ignore the history n music teachers for the most part but like my classes w my latin teacher r one on one i CANNOT brush that of #so im here studying me fucking virgil ig instead of figuring out what im doing w the comparative #sigh. ok priorities ill make up that list of shit i gotta do for each subject #gotta suss out which movie im watching for eng and what poems n stories im studying for irish n what modules im doing for history! lol!#can u tell ive not been paying attention for like. 4 months.#remember kids: cramming is a cool and fun thing to do <- is in a pit #when the leaving cert ends i am going into my room never to be seen again for like a week.#and im getting me mam to buy me something for it. maybe a binder if i come out to her by then #oh well thats future talk. for now. figure out what to study. as ive already said twice #im playinh kh bgm to indulge in the hyperfocus while still getting study done n its kinda working #but mostly i just wanna play kh again...#i havent wrapped up the hades cup n i wanna restart com bcos i think i might know how it works better now #watched a one card deck challenge for recom and its the remake so some shits different but like. i get it now maybe #if nothing else gba com looks rlly rlly cute. the pixel art <£

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demi-shoggoth · 2 years

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2022 Reading Log, pt. 22

Two of the five books I read in this block are my nominees for best books I’ve read this year.

106. Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species by Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L Williamson. I love this gimmick. Printing a book of wildlife photography where the animals are life sized is not something that can be done for a lot of taxa, although there are some others out there (like The Book of Frogs). Hummingbirds are a small enough group that such a book can be comprehensive, but not so small that the book isn’t publishable as a book. The photography is, as you would imagine, excellent, and there’s info about their life histories and possible classification changes for the birds as appropriate. Not all species are depicted life size, but about 90% are—the back of the book has shorter entries on birds that they couldn’t get photographs of (in some cases, because they’re extinct or only known from museum specimens).

107. 100 Animals that can F*cking End You by Mamadou Ndiaye. I’ve read books based on blogs, and books based on podcasts. But this is the first book based on TikTok that I’ve read. I’ve seen a few of Ndiaye’s wildlife videos, and they were fun enough that I wanted to check this out. This is also fun, but fairly slight, as is appropriate for a book based on a short video format. One of the things I found especially charming is that the TikTok algorithm’s ban on the words “die” or “kill” is maintained throughout, so there’s lots of baroque euphemisms and metaphors for how lethal these animals are. Animals are rated on a 1-10 Merk scale, with 10 being the most deadly (except not, because humans get a 99, appropriately). Wanna know what animals rate a solid 10? African elephant, Bengal tiger, chimpanzee, crocodile (covered in total, but most of the text is on Nile crocodiles), hippopotamus, mosquito, orca, polar bear. A pretty respectable list.

108. Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin. A nomination for Book of the Year; I loved this. It’s a challenging read, but a very good one, and it made me think. The book is about humans who were seen as divine by other humans in the last 500 years, and how our thoughts on that shaped the philosophy of religion. The theses are twofold: 1) that Western civilization, being built on Greco-Roman philosophy and Christianity, shouldn’t be surprised that humans are seen to have assumed divinity, and 2) these instances were predominately those of the victims of capitalism, white supremacy and colonialism trying to cope with these injustices. We start with Haile Selassie and the Rastafarian movement and several other 20th century instances, move on to how India and its enormity of gods, and how porous the lines seemed to be between gods and men, baffled and angered the British Raj, and then how European colonizers claimed that they were seen as gods by native Americans, and invented the concept of whiteness in the process of enforcing these hierarchies. I learned a lot and highly recommend it.

109. Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost Word by Michael J. Benton, illustrated by Bob Nicholls. The book is written for a YA level audience—late middle school or early high school, and covers fifteen Mesozoic animals (not all of them are dinosaurs; that shouldn’t surprise anyone since it’s a pterosaur on the cover) and what their life appearances were, and how we know. Benton was on one of the teams that first discovered the preservation of melanosomes in dinosaur fossils, so there’s a lot of discussion of feather color and the technique. The highlight of the book is in its pictures—both detailed photographic reproductions of the fossils in question, and Nicholls’ life reconstructions of the animals. There is some weirdness in the text, but I think I’m just the most likely to pick up on it; at one point, Benton implies that descriptions of new species and other taxonomic work is less important than life reconstructions, which: rude.

110. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle. Another nominee for book of the year, this is a breezier read than Accidental Gods but still contains sensitive issues. Namely, patriarchy, misogyny and rape culture. The book is split into three overarching themes, each of which is related to how it scares men and has been reflected and distorted in horror: daughters, wives and mothers. Some of the stuff in here brought things I have often thought about, or at least occasionally wondered about, into sharp relief; one of the author’s theses is that slasher movies and true crime are popular with young women as ritual catharsis. In a world where women’s bodies and lives are vulnerable to male predation, media that recognizes that danger is important and valued. I also have an uncommon recommendation to go along with this book: read the Resources. There’s commentary on the movies, TV shows and books discussed, which adds some good context and is occasionally very funny.

#reading log #media studies #horror #misogyny #patriarchy #dinosaurs #paleontology #paleobiology #comparative religion #world history #capitalism #colonialism #animals #when animals attack #hummingbird #birds #wildlife photography

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