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I really envy White historians on social media who could talk about historical events that were insidiously racist with this aggravatingly chipper voice in their American/British accents. Like, I get being excited about learning about history, but it's as if they don't seem to realize that what they had just described was racist? For example:
I just cannot fathom how this lady could describe the Knightsbridge Japanese Village as an "amazing" place when it's nothing more than a glorified human zoo that existed in London. You should be glad it doesn't exist anymore?! And you had people in the comments going on about how this sounded like a nice idea?? No???
Here's more information about this Village and British media reception towards it at the time:
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was I supposed to know Nobuko Sasaki was the name of Kunikida Doppo's first wife or was I supposed to find that out while looking up Kunikida Doppo's wikipedia article to try to figure out who the "Takekoshi" he mentions at the start of Entrance Exam is
#according to japanese wikipedia takekoshi would be a japanese historian and politician from the meiji period (died in 1950 at 84)#or his wife who was japan's first female reporter and a women's rights activist#the husband had contact with fukuzawa yukichi so that might be him#apparently i talk sometimes
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Hijikata...
#this has been sitting in my files since before the remake was announced#which is to say a while#which yknow#been doing my horrid thesis#BUT SPEAKING OF WHICH IM A HISTORY FIEND AND ISHIN CATERS RIGHT TO ME#and on that note i cannot for the life of me figure out what hijikata is wearing in the irl photo#it looks like a cravat but its not quite the right time period for that i don't think#but again im a Western historian I don't actually know how Western fashion manifested in Japan during this time#long story short i drew THAT ONE SINGLE PIC of Hijikata with the boy#mine yoshitaka#rgg#hijikata toshizo#yakuza ishin#yakuza#like a dragon ishin#rgg ishin#u know this was before kiwami was announced bc his hair is still brown l m a o
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Sukuna Curse Thoughts
UGH THIS GUY! Dusted off my history degree to go digging on jstor with all the delicious illusions Gege is giving us, and the awesome translation notes from this Twitter user
The food allusions in particular where really nagging at me. I’m not an expert on Japanese history, so it was really interesting to me that Sukuna, a man from a medieval period would cook, at all, especially when he had a chef in uraume already. In many cultures food is specifically a feminine domain (ha), so to have not just a man, but a viscous bloodthirsty man be a chef was really weird to me, so much so that his domain expansion, Malevolent Shrine, was also an allusion to ancient kitchen/cook houses.
UNTIL! I found some great articles about the aristocratic pastime of fish cutting, which honestly explained everything. In Japan, the capital in the Heian period was so far inland that transporting fresh fish was very difficult, so it was a very expensive food that only the very wealthy could afford.
So some noblemen made it their art to cut fish, sometimes for an audience sometimes just for themselves but the art was in the specific way they cut and prepared the fish. And as a practice it was a comparable hobby/pursuit to painting, poetry, etc. a similar word was closer “carving” the fish, very elegant.
Which ALSO RELATES to heian period thoughts around food at the time. That Food was different from the source. All sources of food, fish, rice, boar, everything was kind of vulgar or even disgusting. Impure! But to make it into proper food the process of cooking, the boiling, cutting, salting, whatever was needed for the meal would elevate the source into proper and purified food. It’s unclear how intentional this culture was at the time, did average people thing they were conducting a ritual for dinner every night? Unclear! But for nobles that made a whole art out of it? Developed methods of precise and beautiful fish carving that were beautiful in itself? That screams ritual to me, even if the man in question saw it more as an aesthetic hobby.
Which brings me back to Ryomen Sukuna. He only actually appears in one line of a chronicle (that I could find anyway), and it mentions he had a habit of terrorizing townsfolk and often disobeyed the Emperor. To me, this indicates a noble who had a responsibility to the emperor, possibly a warlord, but I think a man of noble origin.
And to me it also brings a tasty implication to his curse technique. I think his form of battle is a ritual in itself, but specifically cooking. In the most recent chapters he directly calls Gojo a mere fish, implying that he thinks of most of his enemies as fish, disgusting natural forms that he can transform with his techniques into proper food, using cleave and cut. It makes every battle a ritual performance, art! And it sort of implies uraume isn’t just his chef, but perhaps more of a sou chef, handling any cooking sukuna does not want to do, anything that isn’t part of his art.
Honestly gives a lot of The Menu vibes, and I love it
#sukuna#ryomen sukuna#jjk spoilers#jjk#jujutsu sukuna#jujutsu kaisen#sukuna theories#character thoughts#history! actually research!#though real posibility I’m totally off#all depends on how intentional Gege is being haha#and if my sources are even reputable#like I said#I’m a FORMER historian and Japan wasnt even my speciality
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Whenever discourse about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are brought up one piece of detail that I don't see get brought up is Japan was doing their own research on atomic weaponry during the war. Now this doesn't excuse all the suffering that happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki but, it is a detail that I do find interesting.
#i think some historians talk about it but i never see people on tumblr mention this whenever the subject comes up#atomic bomb#hiroshima#nagasaki#ww2#japan
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the princess is fighting to stay awake… good morning besties.
#it’s me i’m the princess#i am the sleepiest girl in the world#do you think if imperial japan didn’t ruin everything i would be living in a castle today#or at least a nice fancy big house#like if the kingdom hadn’t dissolved bc of imperialism#and if okinawans weren’t forced to assimilate#i think it’s cool how one of my mom’s brothers is like#he’s kind of an archaeologist/historian#and he gets to try to further excavate and preserve the castles from the kings we’re descended from#he’s worked on other sites too but#it’s neat!!!#anyways please send prayers im so eepy#ooc.#ic.
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Long blond hair and looking miserable Punk is doing the rounds again and I wish I'd written down what match it was from because I want to watch it again! I did all the obsessive googling to find that video, because I absolutely needed to know what match it was where he was wrestling with a stomach flu (I'm normal, thanks), but of course I didn't write this down anywhere, I just took a screenshot of him looking miserable!!
#they call me the scatological historian#it was in japan by the way#and he got strong styled which didn't make things easier!
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I've said it before but it's very funny that youmu has fan depictions where she is very quiet and meek and such and in the games one of the first and only things she does is threaten to slice you up
#fan interpretations truly do whatever the hell they want#though given how early this was in the franchise this was probably more of japan's fault to be fair#bats speaks#I am admittedly not a touhou historian
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the fact that this manga is not fully scanned online and hasn't been published ever in the west despite being from a group 24's mangaka and having won prizes and being 40 years old is gonna drive me insane. i enjoyed the first 4ish volumes (of 11) that are the only existing trace online and not being able to get my hands on the rest is driving me insane i feel like im gonna do smth crazy
#not even an italian or french publication. italy actually hasnt published Anything by yamagishi. thats crazy to me#especially with this latest manga pop explosion and the other recent releases of moto hagio and takemiya#its so..ARGH cause starting it and being like ah this is good..and not being able to finish it is torture#anyway a friend is going to japan in the coming months. i will get this manga one way or the other#the powerful drive of a fujoshi historian...#i love saying cringe things#a
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its 2 am i ahve a blood test tomorrow so i have to get up but i had a coffee at noon so OBVIOUSLY im going to be stupid over east asian history 14 hours later (i hate stimulants so much.) just when i think ive calmed down ive see a tumblr posr withthe word "commodore" in it
#shitboxposting#commodore perry japan semicolonial status treaty of kanagawa 1854.#my grandpa is a historian i have to start asking him shit.i am not fucking sleeping man#im so hungry
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“‘Moorish Empire’ is a slur. Please, ‘Greater West Mediterranean Coprosperity Sphere’.”
#not an exaggeration#if anything this is an insult to imperial japan#which did not have twice-annual massacre campaigns just for the hell of it#salty amateur historian
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Good morning Kit 🥰💖
I have some questions for you 👀
15: Favorite movie
16: I’ll love you if
19: A fact about your personality
39: My favorite ice cream flavor
44: A random fact about anything
I hope you're having a wonderful morning so far 🥰
good morning kay! (or, well, nearly afternoon, i suppose)
oooh! i love questions!
15: favourite movie
oooooh! give me a hard one, why don't you! it changes depending on the mood, tbh. can't go wrong with the 2 addams family movies, and clue is a close contender too.
16: i’ll love you if
if you feed my craft addiction and don't mind me plying you with the results (expect lots of friendship bracelets).
19: a fact about your personality
the more tired i am, the sillier i get. so you can expect me making little sense and getting random fits of the giggles for no reason at all... 🤷♀️
39: my favourite ice cream flavour
moka! (i.e. coffee, for those that are wondering what i'm on about) it's a super common flavour back in belgium and france, you literally can find it in every corner shop and ice cream truck. but to my ever growing frustration, it is super difficult to find here! boo! 💀
44: a random fact about anything
before westernisation, wheat was rarely used in japan, but once the usa decided to meddle in the 30s, during ww2 and esp after it, it became a staple, and it is not found in everything, even soy sauce (which used to be made wheat free).
as someone who loves japanese food, and is also coeliac, let me tell you that this annoys me to no end (in addition to the annoyance of the politics behind the usa pushing their wheat-y agenda on japan).
i could go on and on, but imma stop there to avoid boring you all, if you aren't already.
thank you for the ask, key! hope you enjoy the rest of your day! 💜
send me questions!
#i'm a historian#and i'm studying history with a focus on japan#so i could go on and on#still wondering if my masters and phd will be with the history or asian studies dpt#also i was broad and said craft addiction#instead of yarn addiction#cause i have a lot of fingers in a lot of different pies#crafts are fun and i always enjoy learning new ones#kit's#answers#sleepyscot
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#arthur rankin jr. at m.o.m. studios#arthur rankin jr.#m.o.m. studios#studio m.o.m.#arthur rankin jr#rick goldschmidt#rankin/bass historian#arthur rankin jr. in japan#stop motion anime#animagic#rankin bass
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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Kit Heyam
Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people's lives. Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.
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#queer history#queer#lgbt#lgbt history#transgender history#transgender#making queer history#queer books#transgender books#lgbt books
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Interested to hear how these two concepts are related.
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Hi, I’m A.D., I’m a historian, and let’s talk about the nuclear bomb and why the one that exploded at the end of QSMP’s Purgatory Event probably didn’t kill all that many people upon initially exploding.
The nuclear bomb, as everybody knows, has only ever been used in a war twice. Both explosions were caused by the United States in their war against Japan at the tail end of World War Two in one final terrible last ditch attempt at ending the war through any means necessary.
Pictured above are the atomic explosions at Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right.)
These are big huge clouds, which makes sense! Nuclear weapons, on average, have the strength of somewhere between 10 and 50 megatons of TNT. Hydrogen bombs, meanwhile, are WAY worse, with the first test coming in at a whopping 10 MILLION tons of TNT.
To put it in Minecraft terms for all you nerds out there, imagine Doomsday from the Dream SMP and how it razed an entire nation to bedrock level by using somewhere in the range of 20 stacks of TnT (if I’m remembering correctly.) A nuclear bomb, in these terms, would have blown L’Manberg up something like eight times over and then some.
So that’s. Bad. Right?
Well, here’s the QSMP’s bomb as was constructed by our favorite depressed detective, q!Maximus:
This bomb, notably, is underground. It was never dug up, it was just moved somewhere else. It isn’t above ground, and it never left this room. Watch the cutscene back (linked here), the bomb never left the room.
So this is where underground nuclear testing comes in.
Underground testing began in 1951, and it remains the only form of scientific nuclear testing not banned by the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963.
No big surprise, a lot of early underground tests were conducted by the US out in Nevada, where they kinda tested nukes legit fucking EVERYWHERE in the desert for a long time. Below are some photos, just for funsies:
What’s important about underground nuclear explosions is that they actually end up releasing less radiation into the atmosphere than regular nukes do. What happens beyond that depends on whether or not the radiation remains contained.
A contained explosion’s aftermath:
And an uncontained explosion’s aftermath:
There hasn’t really been many negative biological effects reported from these underground tests, which is really saying something considering how close to nuclear blasts the US had its guys at most of the time (see below)
The worst you got out of the underground tests was some radioactivity in cows’ milk, which is NOTHING compared to the effects of the above-ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Site:
So… what does this mean for the QSMP?
Well, if we’re going off of historical and scientific precedent, legitimately nothing substantial happened to the islands of Purgatory. There’s more of a risk of dying from the pre-established radioactive rain disaster effects as well as the earthquake and meteor disasters.
Fun fact! Underground nuclear explosions usually registered as weaker than actual fault line activity, aka actual earthquakes.
If Maxo’s nuke was dropped from above, the devastation would be greater. Nuclear fallout is no joke; even today, cancer rates in the American West are still pretty high from the above-ground testing conducted at the Nevada Site. The Bikini Atoll will never be the same after all the testing the US did there, either.
But, because this nuke seemed to have gone off underground, I can safely assume that the damage done to the islands above was minimal at worst. Maybe there’s a radioactivity leak, but everybody staying on the islands had already experienced radiation up to that point.
It’s important to remember this because several characters did stay behind on the islands, and the fandom is assuming them dead because, well. A nuke went off. But those characters aren’t dead yet (outside of q!Maxo, who was possibly directly above the nuke when it went off and thus would’ve been hit full-force by the explosion.) Many were on the beach, far from the the nuke. They’re fine, and you can prove it with history!
TLDR; the nuke from the end of Purgatory was assumedly set off underground, which would have negated a lot of its potential damage, so everybody’s fine except for the unfortunately deceased q!Maxo
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