#great man theory

[dougielombax]

“hiSTORy iS WRitteN bY THe vicTORs¡”

Oh do fuck off with that Churchillian, pompous, small-minded, imperialist, triumphalist Great Man Theory bullshit!

That stopped being true after 1945 and you know it!

Get in the bin with that shite!

Besides I’m pretty sure that quote was actually about biased narratives.

Mind you, I’m not using it to justify revisionism or “lost cause” narratives! That shit can also get in the fucking bin! Starting yesterday.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #vent post #history #great man theory #bullshit #historians #historiography #political crap #more or less #academics #social history #bias #biased #narratives #quotes #kind of #refutation

[mrcowboyreturns]

Ah yes, the prime examples of The Great Man Theory of History.

Greek narcissistic military dictator

Roman narcissistic military dictator

French narcissistic military dictator

And lastly

German Austrians narcissistic military dictator

Truly, the principal of human achievement.

#Great man theory #history #vent post

[wack-ashimself]

I fucking KNEW there HAD to be a term/concept for this:

The term for when people in power are evil, kill and harm millions but history glorifies them for the little good they did is called the Great Man Theory. This theory holds that history is mainly shaped by a select group of individual "great men" who are seen as superior to the average person. This has often led to the perpetuation of myths and the glorification of people who were responsible for great atrocities, while ignoring the suffering of their victims.

The Great Man Theory has been widely criticized for its shallow and ahistorical approach to history. It also ignores the fact that most major events in history have been the product of collective action, rather than the work of a single individual. As such, it is important to recognize the role of marginalized individuals, communities, and social movements in creating change, rather than only celebrating those with the most power and privilege.

#the great man theory #great man theory #bullshit is what it is

[thefandomentals]

This week on #HouseOfFIreAndBlood @gnjoneswriter and Caroline are joined by Nick to discuss Great Man Theory in history and #ASOIAF.

#asoiaf #house of fire and blood #house of the dragon #hotd #a song of ice and fire #great man theory #podcasts #got

[slymanner]

The tumblr homies gotta hear the news.

Bentley jones the creator of silver the hedgehog's dreams of an absolution, so much more from sonic & sega all stars racing, and other piece's from the franchise returns to the series for new projects!!! and returning with him a remix of diamond in the sky from sonic R as well!!!

could be for games, movies, remixing songs for the sonic youtube channel, ethier way welcome back bentley jones!!!

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #silver the hedgehog #im not usually the type to kinda come in with A sorta announcement post but people on tumblr MUST KNOW. #LIKE THIS IS SO GREAT IM SO HAPPY #SONIC FANS ARE EATING MAN WE ARE EATINGGGGG SO MUCHHHH #my theory is he MAY do new remixes for the sonic generations x shadow game that's my theory maybe a dreams of a absolution remix??? #that'd be awesome :]

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Friendly reminder that Putin is one of the least insane/evil people in the RF with any amount of political power and if you didn't want that to be the case you shouldn't have cheered on the USSR collapsing and being replaced by a deliberately buffed-to-shit executive office handcrafted by the US State Dept. to own the commies

#i know that can be hard to comprehend when you've drank nothing but lib evil great man theory over the last 10 years #but you could do SO much worse than him trust me

[dnalt-d2]

Alright so Tallulah is apparently planning a party for Phil on his birthday, which is this coming Friday

Does anyone else feel like there's gonna be some Enderking shenanigans afoot that day, just for the added angst potential?

Like this whole week, we're gonna see Phil get more and more corrupted by this super not-at-all suspicious purple diamond backpack, to the point that other people are probably gonna notice it, and then it'll just all come to a head on that day

That sometime during or after the party, the shoe's just gonna drop and we're gonna be smacked in the face with either some sort of angst or the full-on possession

Either way I'm absolutely looking forward to it

#Oh god I just realized #It's gonna be the Slimesicle Birthday stream all over again #Fuck man #This is gonna be great lmao #I can't wait #qsmp #qsmp theory #q!phil #q!philza

[ghost-in-the-corner]

Okay. Okay I'll admit it:

I cried at Barbie.

And I have no shame.

#a man in a blockbuster shirt sat next to me in the theater #he made a really passove aggressive comment about how i was only there cause it was barbie #it felt great to flex my degree in film theory #anyway #more to come #barbie #barbie movie #margot robbie #ken #kenough #ryan gosling #greta gerwig #film #filmmaking #kate mackinnon #michael cera #america ferrera #simu liu #corner conversations

[grffftrfffonthesurfff]

so, you’re telling me being a scientist is just being in a very big fandom putting out theories trying to guess what the canon actually is?

#And then fighting with each other when you don’t like the other theory #And also using other theories to furthermore strengthen your own perspective and then put out theories combining them? #Man this is a great #I mean I’m not a scientist I just listened to some Brian cox alr #science #science side of tumblr

[satancopilotsmytardis]

Shigaraki desperately trying to figure out his cat's backstory from all of his weird reactions to things

#tanco speaks #'so he hates fish and he has burn scars and he didnt like it when /I/ pet him at first but he likes other people' #'and he has Strong Opinions about food and heroes and knows how to pick things up from low shelves since i cant bend over while im healing' #'my working theory is that he was a service animal to a disabled chef who had a drinking problem and hit him' #'and then one day the chef started a fire that got out of control and Onigiri couldnt get out' #'and heroes took out his shitty owner but not him. he survived and has been on the streets ever since' #[REDACTED] 'That's great man. can i go now? i was in the middle of something?'

[dougielombax]

The study of history cannot and MUST NOT be reduced to a self-congratulatory collection of revisionists, liars, despots and other corrupt, wealthy old men furiously yanking eachother off in a boardroom over the achievements of their antecedents or wherever.

…

Okay that sounds more like the prelude to a porno.

But still.

My point stands!

I’m condemning self-congratulatory crap like revisionism and the Great Man Theory (which I refuted as part of a thesis I did for my masters degree). And other such stupid shit like that.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #vent post #political crap #rants #academics #history #anti revisionism #great man theory #bullshit #lies #myths #distortion #fawning idolatry #hagiography

[aspiringnexu]

Okay, so, Alastor theory. As far as I know nobody's discussed why Alastor ever made such an apparently disadvantageous deal.

I mean, his power is apparently leashed. He cannot access his true strength. He essentially handicapped himself in Hell. Alastor detests not being in control, he craves power because it nets him control and therefore nets him safety and security, a very rare commodity for a demon. Even an Overlord.

So why the hell would Alastor make such a shitty deal? He's a dealmaker, he knows how this works, it can't just be the result of tricky wording, there must have been something else at play.

Additionally, I'm in the camp that its Eve that has something to do with it. Lilith makes sense of a sort but why would she leash Alastor and then have him help Charlie with a project that would piss off Heaven? She's Lilith, she knows that trying to bypass the initial judgement and redeeming yourself would upset the bigwigs in Heaven. She knows they don't like having their rules bent and twisted. She gains nothing from pissing off the Heavenly Host by indirectly helping her daughter. She made a mysterious deal with Adam to get into Heaven, why would she knowingly jeopardise that?

But why would Eve care? Simple. She feels like Lucifer and Lilith betrayed her by gifting her the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. They betrayed her and she was forced into a life of pain and suffering with a husband who she realised didn't truly love her and children who started to turn on each other the moment they could. And then that same husband (or ex-husband by that point) turns around millennia later and gets Lilith into Heaven.

What the fuck?

So Eve decides that the best way to sort this out is to do what Lilith supposedly did. Betrayal disguised as assistance. Charlie is a well-known bleeding heart by now, all Eve need do is find a way to stoke that altruism until it becomes a Problem that Heaven needs to solve. Poke the altruistic bear enough and that Problem will blossom into a Shitstorm that'll drag Lilith off of her cosy perch in Heaven to sort out her wayward daughter and try to avoid Heaven deciding to exterminate every demon in Hell. Plus it'll give Adam a headache which is only a plus in Eve's eyes. And what better way to help the Princess than gift-wrapping Hell's most powerful Overlord and depositing him on her doorstep?

Her ultimate goal might be provoking an all-out war or simply petty-revenge that'll eventually get out of hand but I digress.

How does she persuade Alastor to accept such a shitty, hampering, restricting joke of a deal?

Again, simple. She's in Heaven and as such has access to angelic steel and a plethora of souls. Including Alastor's mother. The only person he ever truly loved in his life.

I'm willing to bet Alastor would do anything to safeguard his mother. Even selling his own soul.

Of course there's still the seven-year gap to tackle but who says Alastor didn't spend those seven years in Heaven? Maybe Eve managed to smuggle him up there and disguise him, let him enjoy seven years of bliss by his mother's side before blindsiding him with her ultimatum. Makes the clipped wings comment more literal.

Just my thoughts, of course, but I really can't see why else Alastor would sign his own soul away if not to protect the one person he lets himself love. He hardly made the deal for power if the deal restricted his powers and he was certainly in no danger from the other Overlords. So he made the deal, he saved his mother, but that doesn't mean he's not gonna try to find a way out of it.

#hazbin hotel #alastor #hazbin theory #the radio demon #I really just want Alastor's devotion to his mother to be a major plotpoint #The man is a cannibalistic serial killer but he loves his mother and that is too tempting a weakness not to exploit for angst #it'd also be the first time we know of where a deal is made to protect someone else instead of saving oneself or to try and get something #Great Alastor Altruist sold his soul to protect his maman and now he's paying the price #it's why he's so touchy about it #nothing else riles Alastor more than reminders of his own weakness #he's definitely being used to further someone's agenda but I don't think it's for Charlie's benefit #Those pesky feelings of friendship and family are gonna come and bite Alastor in the behind when it comes time to be forced to betray them

[onlyallytothesun]

YA protagonist will be like "I know your trying to dismantle an oppressive system but you're being mean about it, so im going to stop you! And patch it out later... maybe..."

#shadow and bone #alina starvok #shadow and bone mal #the darkling #shadow and bone darkling #malina #darklina #ya #ya authors #somebody called Alina an insert for a teen girls to live out their rebel phase #and yeah #it also why Darkling is so boring #any form of oppression he faces is not the center of his narrative its his obsession with Alina #which makes everything he fights for feel so hollow #but that is by design #if you treat revolution as salad dressing then you dont have to adress or do any radical changes to the status quo #just as Lindsay Ellis pointed out in Les mis #not the hunger games tho #that shit should have been the blueprint #an anti the great one man theory that showcases that movements are made of community not ONE great person who leads it all #katniss is a manufactured savior and i absolutely love it #cant believe i wrote this series off as mindless dystopia blame Divergent for that #six of crows #anti alina starkov

[pollencoveredwoman]

Let’s just * say * for arguments sake that they are bangin — I’m fine if we don’t find out until the very last scene of S18, especially if their dynamic continues to be playful and light (much like their signature drink Caribbean Paradise)

…because I think we all assumed (Dennis included) that if they ever did get together Mac would not be capable of keeping his shit together. He was always gonna be needy and desperate and non-consensually kissing Dennis.

Buuuuuut if it IS revealed later on that they’ve been banging this whole time (or at least since Frank v Russia), I’m fine if we never actually see a kiss or embrace, because watching seasons 16-18 all over again with that knowledge will feel the same as re-watching seasons 1-11 knowing that Mac’s canonically gay. Or 1-15 knowing Dennis is canonically bi. It just ✨ hits different ✨

#the show does a great job of leaving the ingredients there and letting us concoct these elaborate theories #and then sometimes the theories end up being accurate #like - remember when we were all like NO DENNIS TOTALLY BISEXUAL #and then it turned out to be true? #this show will never be the romantic anti sitcom we sometimes hope for #but like I think there’s some excellent potential here for some late series retrofitting #either way Megan ganz is my hero #macdennis #iasip #dennis reynolds #always sunny #bastard man and pussy hands #its always sunny in philadelphia #mac mcdonald #iasip s16 #iasip spoilers #sunny sweet 16 #sunnys super sweet 16 #mac and dennis #the gang goes bowling #ps this episode was so effing funny #GUTTERBALL

[whoviandoodler]

one of the things that makes mdzs SUCH a great story is the fact that it's a tragedy with queer protagonists, but their queerness isn't the cause or the center of the tragedy. it's not even related, really. it's a story about love and loss and wrong and right, about what we owe each other and what we owe ourselves, about how you can find joy even amidst chaos and grief; its complexity and tragedy is what makes it so profound and touching. sure, there's 'casual' queerphobia in the story, but with everything else going on, it's not really relevant- wwx's mostly like, 'oh, i like guys? i like lwj? i love lwj? fuck, what if he doesn't love me back? am i being presumptuous to think he returns my feelings? what do I do now?' followed by 'wait, he loves me back??? we're getting married IMMEDIATELY', and that whole attitude is very refreshing because sometimes you just want to read a queer story that isn't about queer suffering but that's still incredibly miserable, and i think we as a queer community deserve it

#mdzs #lwj #wwx #lan wangji #wei wuxian #mdzs thoughts #dan talks #wangxian #obviously the story has its issues but. FFUCK i just want something to break my heart w/o having to read thru queer trauma #ik danmei in theory isnt aimed at queer audiences but compared to like. some of 'made for cisshet women' queer man content ive read in #the past mdzss iss a breath of fresh air. imo most issues lie w the sex scenes and the INSANE lack of lube but. #ill forgive it this once #their dynamic and love story is otherwise great. just dont take it ass sex ed lol ud fucking die #the sex scenes are funny tho. im always cackling and going YOURE GOING TO KILL EACH OTHER GOD SLOW DOWN #also in gen we need to uh. do better w tws bcs theres a LOT of noncon rp in there and i didnt see it mentioned anywhere in the fandom after #hours of being around it. books do tws plssss someones going to run headfirst into there and not have a good time

[andthebeanstalk]

One of the things I love about Glass Onion is the way that the camera and music work together to tell nonverbal jokes.

Like when Benoit basically has to hold Miles' hand to get him to the conclusion that someone reset the puzzle box Benoit lies about receiving:

Benoit asks if it's possible that someone reset the box, and Miles then declares that someone must have reset the box like it is this huge reveal - and the camera zooms out while the music subtly swells as though he really has figured out something smart, when actually he literally restated what Benoit just said.

#original #I love the reveal that he's not even a smart con artist he's just a piece of shit #he's just a shameless copycat that people keep enabling to do bad things bc they assume he knows what he's talking about bc he's rich #like that line in Fiddler on the Roof - 'it won't matter if I'm wrong or if I'm right cuz you're rich they think you really know!' #glass onion #knives out glass onion #benoit blanc #Daniel Craig #ed norton #I hope the YouTuber sideways does a video about this because he does incredible music theory videos about movie scores #and I bet there are a bunch of hidden meanings within the music that I have no idea how to pick out #that man is like a wizard to me I don't understand how someone can understand music that much! #So cool! #I started this movie like 2 hours ago and I'm barely half an hour in cuz I keep stopping to write film theory essays on Tumblr #oh Adderall you cad! #I have no regrets I feel like this is helping me understand film better. i care a lot about the language of Storytelling #and I must say my favorite medium is film. I am writing a graphic novel right now but if I knew I could just skip that part and make it #into a show. I would do that. I don't wanna draw that much! I like drawing! but I want to see it as a show!! #this is too many drawings!!!!! #but for various reasons the film industry is not really a great place for me - or even possible as a physically disabled person #hard to work yourself up to the director's chair when all the entry positions involve standing for 14 hours at a time #I hope that if I ever do manage to make my graphic novel into a TV show that I will maintain enough control over the project to ensure #accessible hiring practices and workplaces #but in the meantime I guess I have to make waaaay too many drawings #no I can't shorten the story I don't have that kind of control it is an epic saga and the world's longest Slow Burn and that is that