#historically depicted

[maliciouscigarette]

The sack of Rome, August 24th 410 CE, colourised.

Art by Psicochurroz

#196 #196 migration #apartmentofawesome #r/196 #/r/196 #historical shitposting #art history shitposting #historyposting #HISTORY LESSON INCOMING #Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410 C.E. #Joseph-Noel Sylvestre #depicted this in a famous painting #The Sack of Rome by the Barbarians in 410 #this artist #psicochurroz #has spoofed this artwork #replacing the big beefy barbarians with cute goth girls #hope this helped! until next time

[junotter]

Legitimately can't explain what caused me to get just get really into this hetaliaAU that exists solely in my brain but I couldn't stop

At first it was just imagining like a Japanese woman in kimono in like 19th century New York and then I started thinking about how amazing fem japan is and like then ameripan came in and now I'm like losing it

#amepan #ameripan #nyo japan #hws japan #hws america #hetalia #hetalia fanart #historical hetalia #my art #no one gets nyo japan like me (i hate “canon” nyo japan and will rebuild her to be a complex character) #i did start thinking about how epic nyo japan would be when learning that like super pre history japan #like women were religious and social leaders #theres also that one chinese record of the kingdom of wei #which to be clear historical accuracy of thst is unclear but it does seem to link to modern day japan #and in the record its like “the people here saw male rulers were causing problems so now only women rule” and theres princess himiko #ANYWAY i could talk about my decisions on why i think japan depicted as a woman is best but i wont here #also its embarrassing posting hetalia on my main #it ferls like i need a secret account #suggestive cw

[hamletshoeratio]

"A strong queen is just what this country needs!"

The Irish who know the queen in question as the famine queen:

#queen charlotte #queen charlotte a bridgerton story #bridgerton spoilers #a feminist moment for the ultimate anti feminist that was queen victoria #massive yikes just thinking of her involvement in the history of my country alone #over a million people starved & the British Parliament refused to accept financial aid from abroad #if they were offering more money than Victoria because they didn't want them to outdo the queen #and what she gave was pitiful considering her wealth #indigenous people as well as literal enslaved people across the Atlantic gave more financial aid than she did #yes bridgerton is fictional but the historical figures depicted had a real world impact #so much of which is still felt today #and just because Victoria was queen and not a king it doesn't make her crowning a win for feminism #Victoria historically was very very anti feminist #i don't know enough on george iii or Charlotte to comment on them but i know plenty about Victoria #haven't cringed so hard at a line since the famine episode of victoria the things i watch for leo suter #but as much as Victoria herself was portrayed inaccurately in that ep #at least it introduced the history of the famine to people who weren't taught about it at school #bridgerton

[moon-mirage]

"Till this moment I never knew myself."

#pride and prejudice #pride & prejudice #elizabeth bennet #mr darcy #Jane Austen #I was tempted to draw them at some point #but they’re so iconic it was a bit daunting #and I’m not good at historical accurate depictions of clothing #I also know Elizabeth doesn’t have curly enough hair but I kinda like her like this #there’s a bit more structure to it than in the 2005 movie #and darcys sideburns aren’t long enough #but hey it’s fanart #I’m allowed to play around a little #I didn’t draw the background #I wasn’t able to find the source again #I know it was free to use #which is amazing because it just saved me so much time #anyway I’ll stop rambling now #but I’m kinda excited because it turned out just the way I wanted it to #which is so rare ☺️ #my fanart

[gayvecchio]

My initial impression when I watched Eclipse for the first time (and what I still believe) is that Stella knew full well that Ray didn't humilate himself on purpose in the bank when they were kids. I always read it as Stella knowing how embarrased and ashamed Ray would feel for having wet himself, and instead of trying to console him and tell him that it was okay, she let him be the hero instead. Because even though in Ray's memory he thought that he was being 'John Lennon, James Bond, Joe Namath, all rolled into one', I don't think Stella actually fell in love with an illusion at all. Like Fraser said, 'I am willing to gamble that Stella looked beyond that one incident and saw the whole person'. I think she always saw Ray for who he really was, but Ray's own insecurities about himself made him believe that she had to be with him based on a lie. I think the person who doesn't see Ray clearly is Ray himself. He has such a low sense of himself that he can't imagine her falling for anything but a con. He can't imagine that Stella simply fell in love with little Ray Kowalski, because who the hell is even is that? He's convinced himself that he's been playing the part of 'the hero' all these years that he doesn't really see that he has actually become one. The person who recieved all those citations that Fraser recounts wasn't a lie or a con, it was Ray Kowalski, a good policeman, someone who one would be proud to call a partner and a friend. In my opinion Ray's biggest con was conning himself into believing he isn't good enough just the way he is.

#due south #stella kowalski #ray kowalski #anyway this is why the depiction of stella in some fics of being historically embarrased by ray over the years has always rankled me #she wouldn't have stayed with him since she's 13 if he was a constant source of embarrassment #she truly loved ray for ray #she just sadly ended up outgrowing the relationship eventually #and i think ray tied so much of his identity to stella for so long which is why he struggled so much to let go of her #lol i just wanted to write a little thought about stella and it ran away from me a bit. this is why i don't do meta stuff. i tend to ramble #i just hope i made sense #ds30below #<- oops forgot to tag

[anarchopuppy]

I'm glad people are starting to bring attention to how the vast majority of stories we're exposed to in mass media involve heroes trying either to prevent villains from changing things or to revert the changes already made by successful villains and return to a better past, but I feel like this is an even bigger issue than we let on

Stories are how humans practice understanding the world, and the fact that from childhood we're constantly bombarded with the idea that "villains change things, heroes maintain/restore the status quo" inevitably colors our view of society. It's a means to prevent us from imagining a better world*

Like, to vastly oversimplify things for the purpose of illustration, the worldview that any change is bad and evil and must be fought is called "conservatism", and the worldview that things were better in an imagined prelapsarian past that "they" "took" from "us" and that we must return to by any means necessary, well that my friends is what we call "fascism". We need to learn how to tell more stories where bold steps are taken towards a new and better world which is meaningfully different from both the present and the past or a lot of people won't have the creativity to take those necessary steps in the real world

(*I don't mean to imply that this is an active, malicious decision made by everyone who's ever written anything like this. There is nothing new under the sun - most people are just retelling variations of the stories they've been exposed to. But over millennia of history, people who are intentionally planting these ideas, and people in positions of power who decide which stories get created and distributed, have had a consistent influence that has entrenched these concepts in our culture. This isn't some kind of conspiracy, it's just a natural result of concentrating power within a small subset of people throughout most of human civilization)

#even the stories that try to depict a struggle against entrenched systems of power #star wars wall-e lotr etc #usually end up falling for the trap of depicting a 'return' to a 'better past' #there are PRECIOUS FEW popular stories about people imagining and fighting for something actually new #and most of the ones i can think of right now are historical (like les mis)

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

#the visual depictions are lovely #but what really gets me every time are the little cultural details in the music #music that tells the story of the Nativity while placing it in a world that's familiar to the listener #fur robed moujiks on snowboard plateaus in place of middle eastern shepherds #bark lodges instead of stables and rabbit skin in place of swaddling clothes #wandering hunter and chiefs from far off places instead of shepherds and wise men (man i love the Huron Carol) #and little french girls running to gather the village to come see Jesus #it's easy for an excess of historical concern to make Jesus feel distant and far off #/I know/ that Jesus was born in the ancient near east and have had my fill of books and sermons and the like unpacking the implications #I've laughed with my friends and family at the wild inaccuracies of Nativity sets and tellings #the crazy blonde mary in the kids nativity set at Walmart #what is that alpaca doing at the living Nativity don't they know those are south American? #yada yada #and then i look at these carols and think. it's okay not to get mired in the history. good even #yes Jesus entered into time and space in a very specific manner #but he also came for all of us #as another carol says: we see him come and know him ours #i just think this practice is lovely #that the impact of the Incarnation was such that it send little french girls running to their villages #and drew algonquin hunters and russian peasants to the manger to see him #it's the great crowd of witnesses in a way #all of us together preparing him room throughout all the corners of the earth #in Bethlehem that night it was only the shepherds who got to see him #but in spirit it was all of us #because it's just like the angel said: #good news of great joy which will be to all people #to all people #starting with the shepherds and going out to all the earth #unto us a child is born #intertextuality

[brickme]

The covers of the new edition of T.P. Bon being released next month are just so, so, so cute; I love the colors and the simple design and of course I love the characters, particularly vol 2 with Ream and Buyoyon in pink. Normally I'd just pick them up along with other things I'm getting from Japan, but they're also promising ANOTHER deluxe edition release in July so I won't be able to decide which edition to pick up until then =_= I haven't even gotten my hands on the sf short stories deluxe editions yet, all ten volumes are on a ship somewhere in the South China Sea probably.

Bon is getting a Netflix anime treatment sometime this year (hence the new manga releases). It's a sci-fi series about teen time travel agents saving the lives of ordinary people throughout history. I don't normally watch anime but I'll probably check it out; if it's anything like the manga it'll be a solid series with really good historical research, fun time travel shenanigans, and a lot of moral quandaries about human lives. Maybe if this does well for Netflix they'll do Mojako next...

#t. p. bon #tp bon #fujiko f fujio #of fujiko's major shonen sf series which is to say bon + 21emon + mojako #mojako is my favorite #but bon might be the one i've read the most times #and remember the best #it has distinct historical settings in each chapter and clear story structures and it's just well-paced and well-written honestly! #also it has these awful truly awful depictions of historical atrocities like witch hunts... #and also some socially conscious stories about american slaves and whale hunting and the crusades

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

I like to think that Hetalia: World Stars and I, Claudius are two ends of the "Julio-Claudian dynasty historical fiction spectrum," as both of them are equally (in)accurate, and fucking wild, but in completely different ways.

#at least one poor hetalia fan has probably been recommended 'i claudius' and got a hell of a surprise #hetalia #i claudius #just roman memes #jlrrt speaks #fans of tiberius and claudius and nero will probably actually like hetalia's version more #the author tends to be very charitable toward most historical figures he depicts

[andreablog2]

#there’s something art historical about this like those depictions of hell… #literally like those paintings and sculptures of people in hell stacked on top of eachother

[lizbethborden]

I went into some tags for Griselda Netflix and saw somebody refer to the show as "girlbossification" which is really bizarre given that the mc explicitly lies, manipulates, harms others and sucks people down into a toxic vortex around her. In the episode I just watched she pulled a gun on her party guests and made one strip naked and bark like a dog and two others have sex with each other in front of her. I do not think she is being portrayed as a girl boss I think you are just totally unequipped to interpret a female antihero and feel the need to apologize for watching something that centers a woman who isn't perfect, relatable, or even baseline morally good. Truly like grow up

#criticize actual things worthy of criticism #please #criticize the changes made to the historical events that erased or elided important things #criticize the cultural obsession with depicting latin americans as criminals and drug dealers #criticize parts of the show for tone deafness or excess violence #but don't throw out some half ass girl boss thing

[yonpote]

also important note about baphomet (that i think den put in his post about the devil tarot)

baphomet is very often depicted with breasts and a penis, so one might conclude she is trans or intersex. i think this is important in anyones art depictions of baphy if u decide to draw her with dnp :)

#like its not unheard of historically to see baph depicted with just a 'typical' male body but its still smth to keep in mind #maybe draw him with top surgery scars and a vagina with a t-dick! that would be cool too #im crafting

[le-regrems]

So I've been thinking (which is never a good thing) and Is it just me or Dabi has weirdly similar arc to morro from ninjago, again I am willing to elaborate. Should I create a blog solely to compare ninjago characters to ones from other franchises? Let me know.

Am I delusional or am I on to something?

#ninjago #ninjago morro #dabi todoroki #bnha touya #bnha #i'm 17 why i'm into show about the lego figurines that are historically not accurate depictions of ninjas? #morro and dabi #bnha dabi #morro wu

[velynn-art]

A certain someone (@ego-meliorem-esse cough cough) nudged me towards drawing the resident Lord Father in a corset... So here he is, in all his corsetted glory.

#hetalia #hws england #Arthur Kirkland #historical hetalia #my art #Is this historical hetalia? welp time to find out i guess #I can't get out of my head their depiction of Arthur and as thus am claiming it as my canon as well because omg it's perfect #Old man with bags under his eyes from all the kids screaming #Needs 10000 bottles of whiskey maybe more #velynnart #I will finish this one day mark my words #Reference photo : Jack Lowden from the set of War and Peace

[sea-lanterns]

hello! just dropping by to say that i appreciate the way you would handle the cowgirl au, if ever it comes to that. we can have our silly little fics without any kind of racial discrimination or estrangement ! i'm from SEA myself, but we can all dream up a safe space where our sapphics can be happily queer and have it be a perfectly normal thing in-universe regardless of the time period or historical era the fic context is inspired from. 🫡

Aww thank you 💕 as another SEA person, I too like to see stories/fics where sapphics can have a safe space to just fantasize!

My fics are meant to be self-inserts and enjoyed. They aren’t a reality, they are a fantasy. And because of this, I don’t include anything discriminatory regarding race, gender, sexuality, etc. even if it’s historically accurate to the time period I am writing about.

When I read fanfics, I want to enjoy myself, not to be reminded of what reality is oftentimes like 💖

#🫧feeding the fishes #this doesn’t mean I hate historically accurate depictions in media #i just don’t include the discrimination stuff in my fics as #it can be disheartening to read

[marzipanandminutiae]

Hello! I have enjoyed your blog for years. Might I ask you to tag your N.S.F.W. things, please? Either way, I hope you have a good day.

Hi, thank you for reading! Unfortunately Tumblr auto-flags anything with that tag as "mature" (which gets your blog slapped with a mature label as a whole, which causes a lot of hassle in terms of people being able to see it freely, etc- plus, everyone's blog is auto-set to filter out Mature posts, and not everyone knows how to toggle that feature off or even that they have to)

wait let me try something-

okay! yes! it worked, I think! I didn't know you could do it with the periods in between and avoid the mature label. yes, I will happily tag it n.s.f.w. going forward

glad I now know I can do that; I was feeling a bit weird about not putting the warning on there (since some people browse in shared spaces where nudity etc. would not be appropriate), but I didn't want to deal with the "helpful new labels system" that the Hellsite so ~kindly~ bestowed upon us a few years back

#ask #anon #although most of the n.s.f.w. things I reblog are artistic nudity or drawn/painted depictions thereof I know some workplaces #are still sticklers about that #(another reason to love working in a historical field- 'looking at a medieval depiction of an aphrodisiac's effects' raises no eyebrows)