#and their history too obviously

[jemsbitch]

Tessa second most fluent language (right behind English) is Mandarin. Sometimes her and Will will converse in Mandarin just to feel closer to Jem. Her third most fluent is Welsh.

#you cant tell me tessa and will won’t be fluent in mandarin u cant tell me that #will has an accent when he speaks mandarin but Tessa doesn’t and almost sound like a native #sometimes Tessa read Chinese literature #jem will teach her ancient Chinese so that she can understand all those poetry and ancient Chinese texts #Tessa is an expect in Chinese and welsh culture #and their history too obviously #she will learn a few more other langauge but none will be as good as Chinese and Welsh #maybe she will learn Cantonese and Shanghainese but not as fluent as mandarin still #anyways this is canon now I don’t take criticism #shadowhunters #the shadowhunters chronicles #tsc incorrect quotes #tsc #incorrect tsc quotes #will herondale #the infernal devices #incorrect tid quotes #jem carstairs #tessa gray #tid #tid incorrect quotes #william herondale #james carstairs #herongraystairs #jem x will #ke jian ming #brother zachariah #tid gang #heronstairs #tessa x jem

[cuddlytogas]

maybe it's just the Radical Rediker talking, but there's something pointed in the way that, say, popular pirate media like Pirates of the Caribbean dilutes the pirate's freedom to "bring me that horizon" as opposed to, say, "plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power" (Bartholomew Roberts).

broadly speaking, most pirates chose the life in order to escape and revenge the hard labour, corporal punishment, overworking, and unequal pay of merchant/navy/privateer ships; or the privations of their sudden unemployment once a war was over, ignored as soon as their ability to die for the state was unneeded. yes, many were thugs, but, consciously political or not, they were responding to a particular, material reality.

the pirate's desired freedom was from the effects of exploitative modes of statehood and capital production. but popular media usually shifts this into a general desire for freedom: freedom to roam, freedom to love (usually merely a cross-class white, heterosexual union), or freedom from the personal pressures of social norms. it's a vague, ahistorical, post-Enlightenment, libertarian ideal rather than a response to a real social and economic situation.

to be clear, this only really applies to specifically the late golden age of piracy, in the first quarter of the 18th century. earlier generations of pirates/buccaneers often displayed nationalist/religious motives, and were lauded, tolerated, or even encouraged by the French and English states for aiding their fights against the Spanish and Portuguese. only the last gasp of age of sail pirates had a truly anti-national energy, and both figured themselves, and were figured by the imperial powers, as the enemies of all nations.

but if we are to valourise the late golden age pirate, at his best, his ideals were for true democracy, and the abolition of nation, hierarchy, and labour exploitation; not "the horizon". he was striking out in response to specific political, social, and economic oppressions, rather than a general individual restlessness, and that reality - and its similarities to our own - are important.

I dunno, I just... have a lot of thoughts about the defanging of piracy in modern media. obviously there were a lot of things bad about them, too, and the level of egalitarianism varied between individual people and ships. but again, if we're going to be valourising them anyway... there were idealists. and they weren't subtle about they wanted.

"I shan't own myself guilty of any murder", said William Fly in 1726. "Our captain and his mate used us barbarously. We poor men can't have justice done us. There is nothing said to our commanders, let them never so much abuse us, and use us like dogs. But the poor sailors --"

#pirates #history #pirate history #Togas does meta #Rediker is Marcus Rediker and I've only just started finally reading some of his work properly but god it's good #also if you've watched Black Sails I'd love to know how much of this energy is in there #it's a bit too ~gritty for my tastes but I get the impression it's also a bit vague about freedom over material historical politics #but i could be wrong! #obviously PotC has an ingrained anti-EIC vibe but even then it's more about ''they're enclosing the sea against us wild rovers'' than #''company captains beat us half to death just for the wealth we facilitate to be funnelled to the top while us sailors are left to rot'' #and christ knows it's not interested in historical realities XD

[cornelia-street-cardigan]

It’s what he deserves

#doing what the academy isn’t brave enough to do #everyone at watcher too obviously #watcher #shane madej #puppet history #we are watcher

[collieii]

one line in trimax that's always stuck with me is from chapter 65, right after wolfwood's death. when vash is sticking the punisher by his grave and he says "it was part of his life". that phrasing is so interesting to me. the neutrality of it is one thing that gets me, i think. it was part of his life. for better or worse, whatever it was, the punisher was wolfwood's.

It's pretty easy to think that the punisher might represent violence, the eye of michael, the role of assassin that was forced onto wolfwood, the loss of childhood. but it's not really presented that way, not overtly anyways. we never see wolfwood shun the punisher, he's not conflicted by his use of it. he never considers abandoning it for some other weapon. it's his weapon. he doesn't discard it when he eventually decides to take a more vash-like approach and actually let people live. he pretty easily accepts it as his own, a tool he can use. (to be fair, at least part of that is probably because the punisher is a very good gun.)

the punisher can still represent the harsher aspects of wolfwood's character, the violence he's committed, that he's capable of. that's an important part of his life! and the idea of it as representative of his violent adolescence, childhood that was stripped away, goes along with this - it's literally a cross to bear. but besides showing his past as a burden, i think of the punisher as being a cross of responsibility. when you have a gun you have power, agency - you have a responsibility to make a choice. that's what wolfwood tells vash in chapter 4.

the ability to take a life, the burden of it, is literally his cross to bear. that ability - and that responsibility - was given to him by the eom, literally in terms of the gun, and in terms of his skills. but the eye doesn't think twice about killing people. for them it's not really a choice, a responsibility, it's just a given. but wolfwood can't accept that. he's constantly considering the choices he makes.

so the punisher isn't only a symbol of the eye of michael, of the path that he was forced onto. it's also a way of expressing autonomy. the eye gave wolfwood the gun, but he decides how to use it and what it means. for much of the story wolfwood struggles to decide what to do, he's a very conflicted character. but eventually he resolves to use it against chapel, against knives, to help vash, and protect the orphanage. the gun gives him agency.

so the punisher was part of his life. it was the tool that he used to commit acts of violence, acts that he was forced into, but also the tool he used to break free.

it's heavy for vash, too. he's not exempt from that idea, the idea of responsibility. as wolfwood said much earlier in the story, vash has always been able to sidestep the question of "what do i choose?", because he's only ever given himself one option - everybody lives. and he's always succeeded. but as wolfwood says, "the day will come when you'll have to choose". one day, it's not going to work.

and of course the story progresses, the stakes ramp up, and vash learns more, goes through more, and is pushed to his limits. i think by this point, by wolfwood's death, and maybe because of it, vash has realized that he might have to make that difficult choice in the near future. that's one reason why he wants to "do him proud". he has a lot of reasons to say this of course - to not let wolfwood's sacrifice go to waste, for example. but if we're thinking of the cross as responsibility, then vash is saying he doesn't want to forget the lessons he learned because of wolfwood. wolfwood has always grappled with responsibility, with what the right thing to do is. and the right thing is often not easy. vash hopes that when the times comes for him to make a choice, he'll make a good one, one that does right by wolfwood's memory.

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #trigun meta #trigun analysis #i have another post in my drafts abt wolfwood and autonomy so theres some stuff im not getting into but stay tuned #i hope this makes sense...the whole it was part of his life thing...it gets me for some reason #this is just me trying to articulate why #hopefully what im saying isnt too obvious and is actually insightful #this whole post was inspired by one of my art history classes #we were talking abt some of betye saars works and my prof mentioned the idea of weapons as symbolic of power and agency #so ofc i had to apply that to trigun #at that point i was only thinking of the punisher as 'eom = bad' but that just didnt feel right #so then guns...agency...it all came together #seems obvious in hindsight but i just didnt realize #too hung up on guns as violence and violence is bad #but obviously it's more than that #.lieii #.lieii txt #nicholas d. wolfwood #i just realized how long this post is uh sorry guys #i may have repeated myself too much with this one hopefully it's still legible #take a shot everytime i use the word agency or choice in this post #trimax spoilers

[twelfth-dykector]

CROWLEY AS AN RE TEACHER!!!! CROWLEY AS AN RE TEACHER!!!! I REPEAT!!!!! CROWLEY AS AN RE TEACHER!!!!!

#re is religious education btw #like religious studies teacher #IMAGINE IT #i was thinking about what subjects they would teach and OH MY GOD #a history teacher would be cool too #because shes LIVED through it #she'd teach her class a completely different (right) version of history #but miracle it they'd all get decent marks or some shit i dont know #and azi would be an english teacher obviously #BUT CROWLEY WOULD ALSO GO ON LONG RANTS ABOUT SPACE MALARKY #everyone would be kinda scared of her but also adore her #im trying to make my thoughts about re teacher crowley coherent but im failing miserably #good omens #ineffable fandom #ineffable idiots #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #what other tags exist #ramblings

[foursaints]

what did you think of ttpd!! we gotta know

#a #ME AND THE THREE OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE OVER THE MOON THAT ITS ABOUT MATTY HEALY... oh I knew. ohhh I knew!!!!!!!!! #obviously i think he's a terrible person & don't endorse him whatsoever. BUT WITH THAT SAID #13 year old me would have burned my world down for one chance with that man too. the lore is compelling. HER TUMBLR LIKES????? #what if he's written mine on my upper thigh only in my mind etc etc #this is my favorite album of hers I think! and not just because I am mentally ill about their history. the 2014 backstage photo. #the Halsey mirror sex poem. TEN YEARS. #I want to do a bartylily ranking/writeup for this album. it's theirs #my favorite tracks were ttpd & guilty as sin & clara bow

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Hi! Marine biology is an interest of mine and finding your blog was like a goldmine to me. Unfortunately my city doesn't offer a program for it and learning myself always feels overwhelming past the basic fun facts stuff. Are there any websites, video series, or books you'd recommend? Something that introduces more technical terms/concepts would be great, but I'm really open to anything :)

Sorry if you've been asked this or if you don't really have an answer :,D

I have answered similar asks before, here is one and here is another! But things more on the web, hmm... I'm afraid I don't know exact places to go looking for technical terms, sorry to say. My recommendations will definitely have to do more with things on the funnier side. For one, I definitely recommend checking out @montereybayaquarium here on Tumblr, they have fun and educational content! And my buddy @bethanythebogwitch has a Wet Beast Wednesday -series where she goes more in depth about a specific aquatic animal each Wednesday, I always reblog them because they're so good but there's a whole collection if you haven't seen! Also shoutout to Hakai magazine that has many articles about conservation, environmentalism and other cool news related to the oceans, it was recommended by my other buddy @eros-vigilante!

That's about it, I sadly rarely remember to note down the things I'm watching ^^'' The only YouTuber whose name I can recall is Ze Frank, because his username is so different and his videos really stick with you. He has a "true facts" series! And I did also find the coastal seas episode of Our Planet on YouTube too, so that's a fun place to go to, too.

Hope this helps! I'm glad that marine biology is of great interest to you! :3

#whenever i want to find more technical terms related to things like anatomy i just go look up xyz anatomy etc. #but this obviously will not work if youre just starting out. youd need to know what youre looking for to even start looking! #i tend to do research topic-by-topic. overview and distribution and behaviour and anatomy and life history and so on #but again this works for certain groups of animals. not in general for marine biology #doerqpfergböots sadly im not too much of help when it comes to researching because i always just jump in TToTT #asks #anon #anonymous #anonymous asks #important

[diioonysus]

arethusa (my sister) and i’s list of historical figures were positive were hot as fuck

#ok my sister has questionable likes #she's obviously the guy section and im the woman section #history #dont take this too seriously #nefertiti #alexander the great #queen boudicca #cyrus the great #zheng yi sao #hammurabi #hatshepsut #sappho #ted theodore logan #mithridates of pontus

[poorlittleyaoyao]

I have hollered about this before, but what CQL does with Empathy is legit one of my favorite production choices—not just because da-ge is subjecting WWX to his horny goggles while he is trying to solve a murder, but because it’s so clear that his memory should be treated the same way you’d treat a primary source text: extremely valuable, offering insight into the author’s mindset as much as the events described, but not to be treated as indisputable objective fact. The memory versions of events are all different from the versions we see, and while sometimes this is due to receiving extra information—portions of the scene not previously shown to us—the difference is just as often due to the omission or alteration of things we did see happen. It’s fascinating!

So it is ENDLESSLY IRRITATING when people treat the Empathy versions as the “real” versions of the events. Like, bro, we saw that and it wasn’t from JGY’s perspective. Who do you think was lying to you before, the omniscient third-person narration?

#typing this out made me realize that the reason this annoys me so much #is that it’s like the time in undergrad where the prof had to bring class to a screeching halt and spend a day on primary source analysis #this was an upper-level seminar too!! cross-listed with History and its main subject but only two of us were from the History side #and everyone else did NOT know what to do when presented with sources that were contradictory or treated supernatural explanations as fact #bc obviously if it’s not a fictional text then it must be totally 100% true!!!! the prof hid his psychic damage so well

[youwillfindilluminating]

I get why critical role wanted to delete all the content that had brian w foster in it but at the same time the digital archivist in me is like... you can’t...just DO that...?

#critical role #talks machina #brian w foster #I get it but...... I wish people would stop censoring history #idk maybe it would do certain people some good to know that not all abusers are obviously abusers from the start #nobody's being forced to watch those videos so please let's not delete them from existance #there is so much cast history and friendship etc in those videos let's not let him ruin it #whatever #sometimes I get sad about all the data in the world that will never be archived #like they should have put out a statement and then left the videos up in a Let's Learn From Our Mistakes moment but they chose this instead #people are saying the Wayback Machine is working but I'm too lazy to test it

[fairweathermyth]

Black Sails (2014-2017) The Beths Expert in a Dying Field (2022)

#blacksailsedit #tvedit #silverflintedit #black sails #john silver #silverflint #the beths #made by carolyn #i must be sick in the head #still immediately going Oh! Silverflint! every time i hear a song like this #in my defense the first line is Can We Erase Our History so obviously i'm thinking about silver #anyway i made a MUCH longer version of this set and it was way too much #less is more carolyn less is more

[mexreny]

yea going outside is cool but have you considered a qsmp hamilton the musical au where cellbit is hamilton and badboyhalo is aaron burr and maria reynolds is charlie goddamn slimecicle

#and roier is eliza pq meus pais por siempre #then jefferson is quackity #then pac is Laurens #etoiles is lafayette #and no #not just bc he’s French #then Hercules Mulligan is obviously foolish #angelica is forever #because of the HISTORY #then Peggy is obviously baghera #then George Washington is philza fuckin minecraft??? RAHHHH #King George is without a doubt Cucurucho let’s not even discuss #bagi could possibly be james Madison but I feel like she’s too bold for it #so she can be moved interchangeably with others #I wish there were more characters in the show #anyway imagine all the other members as the glorious ensemble bringing the show to LIFE #the end thank you for listening #qsmp

[shojoboy]

Being Bisexual is sooo cool we can be any gender and be attracted to any gender any amount, we lovvvvve women and nonbinary people and men and even if we only ever date or fuck one of those we are still Bisexual. We aren't "half straight, half gay", because that's not how sexuality works. Sometimes it feels like we don't have our own community but tbh that's because, the Gay community? We in there. The Lesbian community? We in there. Trans community??? We in there!!!!!!!!!!!! Yippee!!!!!

#bisexual #happy pride month i figured i get to make at least one bi post #as a bi person i still feel very shunted to the side sometimes lol #like it still feels...esp for women (because patriarchy world) that sayong your bi means you're saying that you like Men the most lol #altho on the reverse i think plenty of bi men r also treated like staright dudes ''trying to be cool'' which has it;s own origins #and also like. if ur lesbian or gay that comes with a Community and a history and everything and being Bi is like. oh you're there too lol? #even tho Bi people have ALWAYS been in both the Gay and Lesbian communities! it's just more obvious nowadays because in the past... #being openly ANYTHING was hard and obviously it was easier for cis bisexuals to like. pretend to be straight. or if they couldnt... #they could pretend to be gay or lesbian! like we had to be somewhere #and not everybody has the strength and fortitude to b openly Bi when both straights and queers will give you shit for it #anyway. #everything Gay or Lesbian is also Bi you are not missing out by being Bisexual. you can call yourself butch and femme you #can be a bear or a twink you can worship femininity worship masculinity do drag go to lesbian bars ETC #and to the youngsters who feel like they have to call themselves Pansexual because they r nonbinary or date trans people: you do not #Bi people are ALSO in the trans community! WE'RE EVERYWHERE #BI WORLD NO ESCAPE #YIPPEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! #-_- #pol

[rapidhighway]

Hmm I think Silver cant know about the clones. He would obviously tell Sonic they fucking cloned him like 50 times in the future. Probably more hmmm but also Silver and Razor meeting in the future..... AUGGRHHH

#i would actually love that!!! #like #i think Silver would hate that someone did this to his friend you know #and I think that would be cool! #BUT idk how that could fit into the world because obviously he would tell Sonic and then it would change history i guess but! #the future makes no sense anyway and it's always changi and silver seems to be a constant in it so idk how it would work like #maybe in the ONE newest future he came back to that shit is happening #IDK MANNN #i COULD just have this happen farther in the future #i think it could happen #and like #if razor ever got pulled into the past (???🤔🤔🤔🤔???) Silver would probably be there too cause that's got to be some kind of disturbance #in the timeline #so they could still meet #but if they met on their own just like that they could have like a little established dynamic even if just a little #urghf I'm gonna doodle many things today and think about it #oc razor #idk i enjoy the thought of silver and razor knowing each other but ughhhhhh

[historyartthings]

#1 #2

#for me I’d go with 1 #tbh I think popular and academic thought has definitely swung that way these days #ive seen it suggested that the first one resembles the 'most happy' medal too #as an aside #(people can be nasty about her looks here. same as they are w Jane Seymour in a big way. you might not find them attractive or whatever and #obviously it’s fine if you don’t think they’re beautiful - people say so about these portraits #but just leave it at that. no need to be a wanker in how you go about it #even worse when people try and frame it as if they 'objectively' werent attractive) #anne boleyn #polls #history polls #Holbein

[leroibobo]

during its apartheid years, south africa had one of the strictest media controls in the world. this extended into homes when television was introduced in the country in 1977 (which the government had delayed until that year due to fears of "undue influence"), and when home video came along with it. each videotape that was legally distributed during these years was required to have a notice in the official languages of english and afrikaans that it complied with media censorship laws codified years prior.

(the model for the certificate was likely influenced by the british board of film classification's. by the beginning of the 20th century, the british had brought the template with them to south africa and other former colonies such as india. south africa was probably the only country to use it on home releases.)

this meant that south africans who watched "legal" videotaped movies not only had to sit through commercials and a standard-issue anti-piracy warning, but a federal confirmation that the film didn't feature an interracial couple, among many other things. the total time for the two warnings could reach up to two minutes long - for comparison, the chorus of "oops i did it again" by britney spears is twenty seconds long - but some were rushed through.

this example was taken from a tape of disney's snow white and the seven dwarfs published in 1994, the year apartheid ended. the media censorship laws which required the certificate would be overhauled two years later, though video openings remained similar for a while after.

#south africa #info #obviously there were ''illegal'' tapes smuggled in like in every other country w/ similar laws #i also added the model thing bc many people (particularly mericans like myself) aren't used to seeing whole ass Certificates at the #beginning of movies. that being said it was a theatres thing and not a home releases thing in the uk india etc #the mpaa ratings bumpers were always a lot more sparse and less official-looking #absolutely nothing to do with architecture but it fit more here than on my main. vhs history etc #and yeah. break. uh. idk #btw the /sraeli government did the exact same thing w/ television and ended up caving in '67 #(not /as/ late but still pretty damn late) #the year being significant had nothing to do w/ it #it was because the general population were getting televisions so they could tune into broadcasts in neighboring countries #(palestine is small so not too hard) #and they c-couldn't have people watching ARAB TELEVISION!!!! THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!