people’s dismissal of history as a worthwhile subject of attention really begins to make sense when you see these utterly baffling takes like ‘today we all have to work to earn money and pay rent, I wish it were [Roman antiquity / the Middle Ages / the Renaissance] and I could just lounge in an orchard somewhere playing the lute’ etc. … even when they fall short of transparent fantasies of aristocratic luxury, this idea that people [general] worked less and had access to fresh food and could afford wine, is divorced from reality. even short of ‘oh, and who is gathering the harvest in this scenario?’ - which is an extremely valid question - I also just feel: aren’t you bored? of this image you’ve invented, of whole centuries, completely without detail? and I wouldn’t understand why people study history either if I thought it were all one big monotonous swathe of Nice.

someone said we had more fun in childhood because we didnt have any past memories to linger on and it has stuck with me ever since

My favourite genre of social justice post is when it's literally just some old racist/misogynist stereotype except they've turned it around to actually be good and unique and proof of being wiser and more down to earth

Fw 190 that crashed during the Siege of Leningrad in 1943, discovered by Soviet military personnel in 1989.

not now mom i’m wasting my life on a website the entire internet believes to be dead

2000s Anime girls

“The world taught woman nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and then said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public, and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men, and when to gain it she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.”

-Carrie Chapman Catt, 1902

It’s our duty to pass down our culture. Sing it from the rooftops. Bishounen……

Gonna try my luck at getting tickets for Florence and the machines orchestral gig for lungs.

I deserve this more than anyone I feel