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Film!AU dsmp but the dsmp events actually happened, it's just that as the centuries passed, more and more fiction began to become incorporated into the history books, so Wilbur and Dream got the idea to write a film portraying the events accurately
#I like to think that it's been 127 years since dsmp#age works differently in Minecraft#everyone's living their own lives#they've healed and moved on already#it's 127 years what else are you gonna do#Dream gets a little curious one day and decides he's gonna see what the world thinks about the dsmp#picks up a history book about it#the history book is wrong about literally everything#picks up another history book and it's extra-wrong about literally everything#he gets a little upset about it#calls Wilbur up (they keep in touch every August) and asks him if he's seen any of the history books#Wilbur goes into this whole rant about how every single book he's picked up about the dsmp writes him as the middle child#HE IS THE BIG BROTHER HE'S ALWAYS THE BIG BROTHER HE WANTS TO BE THE BIG BROTHER PHILZA SAID HE WAS THE BIG BROTHER PHILZA SAID SO#they sit down and toy around with the idea of writing their own history books#but Wil doesn't want to associate himself with history book authors#because those idiots wrote him as the middle child he isn't going to give them popularity#so they decide to make a film about it instead#the old gang gets together and they have fun making the film#they all contribute a little. some people can even recall what happened word for word#other times they have to improvise a little#fun stuff
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Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?
I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?
In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".
Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.
This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.
Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.
The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.
[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]
There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.
This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.
[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]
As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.
But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?
Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.
#transgender#trans history#transsexual#transphobia#Magnus Hirschfeld#holocaust#holocaust denial#book burning#j.k. rowling#jk rowling#just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :)#trans people have always existed#and we will always exist#if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit#queer history#queer#lgbt+#lgbta+#lgbt#lgbt history#edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month#also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it#it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs#and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had#also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2#Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices#considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived
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analysing mclennon feels like being an academic and pouring over historical texts and connecting the dots between passages because you basically are doing exactly that
#if old white guys can come up with their own beatles theories and write books and be taken seriously in an academic space…#then so should we#i trust beatles tumblr users opinions infinitely more than the opinions of 87% of music journalists out there#ppl will complain about beatles rpf fans cherry-picking evidence as if music journalists aren’t 100x worse abt doing just that#anyway i just really love mclennon lore and finding sources to support our theories#feels like putting my half-finished history degree to good (questionable) use#also enjoy that mclennon genuinely just feels very different to basically any other rpf ship#the beatles#paul mccartney#john lennon#mclennon#beatles rpf
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I’ve been seeing stuff that implies Luke is better in the PJO series because the gods abandon their kids and he’s sick of it.
That’s in the books too! That was his motive! Luke’s point as a character is to draw attention to the fact that the Greek gods are actually pretty awful. Riordan is commenting on myth through Luke. The series rests on themes of myth and one is that the gods are jealous, vengeful, and a hazard to people in dozens of stories. He’s a villain because of his methods, but he brings up both the PJO in-universe wrongs of the gods and the classical ones (when he explains the bear twins). I get the show provided a better example with Athena being painted so poorly. But Luke’s point is exactly the same and is heavily backed in mythology itself. He’s a really good villain concept. And I like that he’s bad not because he’s wrong but because he’s willing to stomp on his friends and innocents.
#I haven’t seen the show yet#I liked him so much as a kid because he was a villain who instantly made the story pick up when he showed up#His history with Annabeth and Thalia was fun to read about#there are some slight inconsistencies with his character in TSOM#but otherwise the reason ppl hate him is because of a stupid singular line Rick Riordan put in the literal minute Luke was dying#guys I hate the line too#but it’s truly not indicative of Luke’s character for most of the series#musing#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#luke castellan#percy jackson books#percy jackson spoilers
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tired of early 20-somethings acting like harry potter was never good or had no value in its day like shut the fuck up half of you weren't even there when it peaked
#sit with the cognitive dissonance like the rest of us or shut up honestly#was it a product of its time yes#was it's author a very basic neoliberal white lady from a country with a long and unchecked imperialist history yes#was the story influenced by said neoliberal worldviews and unexamined biases obviously#does any of that make it a bad story or an unimaginative world no#you can pick apart any fantasy world if you try hard enough#harry potter was a good telling of the hero's journey written in the format of seven mystery novels set against a fantasy backdrop#we can certainly talk about its flaws or how the author's biases leaked onto the page#but stop acting like it was never good and there was never a reason those books resonated with people#it's condescending for one thing and again- if you're younger than like...24-25 you didn't actually experience the heyday of the books#if you're 25 now you'd have been like 8 or 9 when the last book came out and probably weren't reading them yet#you might remember the latter half of the movie era but you have no idea how much it was the BOOKS that drove its popularity#never before and never since has any book series had the fanfare that harry potter did and that didn't happen for no reason#so find a way to make peace with that instead of acting intellectually superior because you grew up with percy jackson instead#this 'well MY generation's preferred childhood book series is morally superior to YOURS so I'm better than you' shit drives me up a wall#like get over yourself honestly#...sorry had to get that off my chest there was this youtube video and it was irritating me
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The more i learn about Seppuku the more it makes sense that Sakumo’s village and friends didn’t respect him afterwards.
Because it’s a samurai ideal. Ninja’s are meant to live and fight and move on, but Sakumo didn’t do that. He chose to die an honorable SAMURAI death
A village full of Ninja isn’t going to understand that. They aren’t going to see it as Sakumo maybe did. As an act of trying to preserve his honour and loyalty to Konoha
And it’s really friggen sad because i just know Sakumo was trying so hard to hold onto even a little bit of honour after his disgrace, and instead of preserving that honour he’s insulted and hated even more. So much so that his son has to listen to his teammates, the people he risked everything to save, insult him at his funeral
I hate it. I hate that he tried so hard to do what he thought was right for himself and Kakashi, and it only made things worse
#can you tell i hit the oart if the book about seppuku?#cuz i did#and it hurts#do you think Sakumo picked up this kdeal from Yua#or was it ingrained in the Hatake clan after a long history of being samurai and turning to being shinobi#tw: suicide mention
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honestly crazy how much trial by fire we had to go through for bioethics to find a place in biomedical research. 23 nazi doctors were accused of crimes against humanity during the nuremberg war crime trials. from 1932 all the way through 1972, black american men were (unbeknownst to them) subjects in the phs study of untreated syphilis, and weren't even offered treatment when it became available. the revolting willowbrook trials, where mentally disabiled children were deliberately infected w hepatitis. the jewish chronic disease hospital study, where cancer cells were. on purpose. injected into cognitively impaired patients. fucking wild and crazy and insane. this is why the national act and the belmont report and 38736 other regulations exist. i cannot imagine being a doctor or clinical researcher during that time and just 1000% doing this w no conscience.
#this is why as a pre-med student i try to keep books on bioethics in my rotation all the time#and i'm rly enjoying the history modules i was assigned before i start my neuro hospital internship.#i want to know all this stuff. i want to constantly be questioning review committees.#bc i rly truly care about becoming an ethical physician one day. and currently an ethical clinical research scholar#i don't want to blindly accept what my superiors say like i actually want to know how this stuff works#it's also all super fascinating#the healthcare system is still hella broken these days but it's just in more insidious ways lol#major tangent but i wanted to document all these studies so i could pick up books/articles on them#text
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this and also she ends every fact with the phrase “verified” or “real science fact” so everyone is like oh shes DEFINATELY full of shit and then its all true LMFAOOOO
#coco turning from the most punk ass lazy student to the only one who went to college#everyone is extremely supportive#[going on a magic adventure] (okay but we have to be back before tuesday because cocos final is due at midnight)#marshal broke her laptop once and they went OFF on him#(ALL HER ESSAYS ARE ON THERE!!!)#i think she would be a business major#lime: ofc you go to college and pick the most basic bitch major there is#coco: at least its actually gonna let me HELP mochi instead of taking up space being moody all the time (lime)#(says a random fact) and everyone: (thats not true)#coco: it is a took a class on it once. real science fact#the only side effect is that coco and mochi now occasionally fight about historical facts#because what they teach in the central kingdoms educational ciriculum is different from whats written in mochis spell history books#(who are you gonna believe--the kingdom that charges you 100000000 dollars per class or your best friend who can literally make things poof#out of thin air??)#coco: where is your source
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Photo credit to Roberto Canessa on Instagram (26/02/2024)
In honour of his fathers (Juan Carlos Canessa) birthday, Roberto uploaded the above images to his Instagram.
He wrote the following caption.
Loose English translation (Alt ID in Spanish):
Today my dad Juan Carlos Canessa would be 96 years old, great father and an excellent cardiologist who dedicated his life to family and medicine. From him I learned the importance of family, and a lot about the profession of Cardiologist. I was lucky enough to start as a doctor by his side and work with him for many years.
My father, was another of the "crazy people" who kept looking for us, he's the one who found out we were alive listening to the radio in a taxi. On December 22, 1972 he was already embarking on the return to Montevideo without good news to spend Christmas, and it is in the taxi that took him to the airport where he hears my name. 🤍
Happy birthday Dad, wherever you are 🙌🏻
--- Tangent about the caption under the cut ---
Roberto talks of the "taxi that took him to the airport where he hears my name", this is discussed in his book, I Had to Survive.
Please note I only own the English version of the book, so I am unable to give a Spanish version, my apologies.
His father writes -
I wanted to put this conversation to rest.
"Im the father of one of the boys whose plane crashed into the Andes. But the incident they're talking about yesterday happened to me, not to the boys. We're the ones who were the survivors. I'm one of them."
"You really don't know, do you?" the driver said, now animated as he looked at me through the rearview mirror. "They found two of the boys who were on the plane with the rugby players!"
"What are you talking about?" I found my voice was rising.
"It's all over the news!" the driver said as he flipped on the radio, "They're even naming the survivors!"
The first word I heard when he turned on the radio was his name.
"Roberto Canessa and Fernando Parrado are the two survivors who reached Los Maitenes," the announcer said.
The driver swerved and slammed the breaks as I broke down and lunged toward the front seat to hug and kiss him, yelling, "That's my son! That's my son!"
The driver and I jumped out of the car and hugged each other.
I began to cry as he hugged me tighter, then began to cry just as hard, right there in the middle of the road. I don't remember anything we talked about from that moment until we reached my cousin Gregorini's place; I was floating off somewhere else, crying along with the taxi driver who could barely drive he was crying so hard.
He continues on, but this passage in particular stood out to me -
I've thought a lot about that taxi driver, whose name I never learned, the man who gave me back my life just as I had given up.
Juan Carlos Canessa relayed this story on December 27, 2008, six months before his death. (Note given in: I Had to Survive)
#Book Credit: Roberto Canessa and Pablo Vierci. Translation credit: Carlos Frías#flight 571#roberto canessa#i really need to pick up the spanish versions. anyway#uruguayan flight 571#uruguayan history#uruguay flight 571#he posted this earlier this morning and i havent stopped thinking about it#one of the most moving parts of the book was that line from his father - “the man who gave me back my life just as i had given up”#i mean there's a LOT of moving parts in his book. obviously. but that always stood out to me
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whenever i read nineteenth century US history, i'm always struck by how fuckin' moribund oratory is, as an artform & as a means of communication, compared to its peak
but man i was not expecting to get that same feeling reading about nixon's goddamn 1968 presidential campaign. it wasn't even that long ago we expected a bitch to be able to Give A Good Goddamn Speech...!
#kinda boring opinion i've said on here before but like#it took the US a while to figure out novels as an artform but#goddamn do we have such a rich history of oratory.#just straight bangers for a century and a half#anyway i have once again made the mistake of Trying To Learn About A Guy and picked the exact wrong book lol#(i picked up Reaganland expecting it to be about Reagan. it is not#and now i have picked up Nixon Agonistes expecting it to be about Nixon. and it is... pre-1969 lmao whups MISSING THE BEST PARTS)
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I do not advocate rebellion or civil war, but when the federal government actively blocks a state from protecting its citizenry from invasion, that is exactly what you flirt with
#- HK#I can’t believe how stupid they are being about this#like#pick up a history book#they want civilians at the border taking matters into their own hands that’s what they want#so they can pull another January 6 and justify jailing political dissenters#mobile#x#respublica#immigration
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nothing I love more in a secondhand book than a note written to someone in the cover
#just opened a copy of decline and fall by evelyn waugh that i got at a secondhand place over christmas#and inside is a note in black ink that says#''merry reading mom -shaun '92''#like i hope she enjoyed it#i hope it's what she wanted for christmas#i wonder if shauns still around#i wonder if his mom is#best writing i ever found in a book was in the back of one#where some kid wrote his name 3 times in different coloured metallic sharpie#like you just know that kid had to read the book for school and opened a fresh pack of sharpies#and wanted to see what they looked like and didn't give a shit about the book lol#wish i could remember which book it was#i have books from my great grandmother's collection#she had a stamp with her name that she put in every one#i wonder if someone will pick these books up at a secondhand store after i'm gone#and wonder who harley was#ooh i forgot i also have that copy of dr jekyll my dad stole from his high school library#that has his name written in it in pencil along with the names of like 3 other students with the year written next to each one#and on the opposite page the name of the high school that gave it to his high school#it's my favourite kind of history sorry i'm getting really into this
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Coverage of the wedding of the then Duke of York (later KING GEORGE V) to Princess Mary of Teck (later QUEEN MARY) by the The Illustrated London News, July 1893. (1) Cover on 10 July 1893. (2) The wedding breakfast at Buckingham Palace: the royal table. (3) The congratulations after the wedding ceremony. (4) The royal party at the opera, Tuesday, July 4. Left to Right: Duke of York, Princess May, Grand Duke of Hesse (ERNEST LOUIS), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (PRINCESS AUGUSTA OF CAMBRIDGE), The Czarevitch (later NICHOLAS II OF RUSSIA), Queen of Denmark (LOUISE OF HESSE-KASSEL), Princess of Wales (later QUEEN ALEXANDRA), King of Denmark (CHRISTIAN IX). (5) The presents on view at the Imperial Institute. (6) Departure of the Duke of York and his bride from Buckingham Palace. (7) The marriage of HRH the Duke of York, K.G., and HSH the Princess Victoria Mary of Teck: the wedding ceremony in St. James’s Chapel. (8) The Duke of York receiving an Address from the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House. (9) The Bridegroom’s procession to the Chapel. (10) The marriage ceremony in the Chapel Royal, St. James’s.
#casual curiosity about british royalty in the 1930s somehowww led me to a couple of memoirs by queen elizabeth's contemporaries#now all of a sudden i'm brushing with the late victorian era???#maybe i'll pick up a couple of books about george v???#(maybe skipping edward vii bec he sounds like a sack of ham but IDK MAN IDK)#didn't even interest me when i was reading up on nicholas ii but the crown shows me george v with his pet parrot on his gd shoulder#and a dramatization of the ~angst the ~turmoil the ~self-preservation of the house of windsor when they'd ultimately consigned the romanovs#to their deaths#and ALL OF A SUDDEN ??? interest: piqued#slippery slope idefk#history#house of windsor#late victorian era#anw these illustrations are stunning
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Adult graphic memoir/social history
Weaves together the author's personal history of coming-of-age as a lesbian and finding her community with a broader overview of British LGBTQ+ history from the 1950s to the present day
Funny, informative, and dense with information on British LGBTQ+ history and activism
#picked this up on a whim from the library and it was very good!#because it's partially a memoir it is centered around her experiences as a cis white lesbian#but it does include stuff on the history of trans rights and queer communities of color in britain#this is quite dense and took me a while to read (lots of full-page spreads and collages) but very worth it#the stuff about section 28 was so sobering to read now…#it's so similar to a lot of the don't say gay stuff happening in the us right now that i was just like. ah fuck history repeats#the art is also quite good!#kate charlesworth#sensible footwear#2023 reads#lulu reads sensible footwear#lulu reads#lulu speaks#books
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#I've spent the past week organizing in the play's wake - sorting and laundering huge numbers of costumes#some to return to those they belong to and some to come home to my costume storage room which had become chaotic over the last few#months#so a complete spring cleaning for the storage room became part of my task list too. Now the play's been over for a week#and the emails are starting to come in from admin about next year. As some of you know I did a lot of discernment this semester#about what next year should look like and I have decided a mix of continuity is best. I won't be working for my 'main' schoolboard anymore#but I will continue to teach and direct for the one program in the city (the one I did the play for) and possibly with a new home school#enrichment program that may go ahead this year if there are sufficient numbers. Otherwise I am going to spend a semester#tutoring and running workshops f I can get it off the ground. Then we'll see.#Anyway - admin wants me to get new syllabi in to them within a month's time so my thoughts are all in that direction!#I get to teach 19th/20th century Canadian history to the middle schoolers and Late Antique/Medieval Church History to the high schoolers!#Also direct another play and do a humanities course centred around an epic in the spring (the last couple of years we've done Iliad and#Odyssey - they want Aeneid this year but I am trying to talk them into another option. The Aeneid is valuable but I am not sure it's the#time or place with this group of students. The result of all this is that I am spending far too much time doing Internet research for ideas#and then taking breaks on tumblr - which isn't good for my eyes or mental health. What with the play and end of term#I fear I've been out of the reading habit. I'm still hyperfixating on the Book of Romans so there's that at least#but I lost the novel I was in the middle of and am not feeling so motivating with out books. It's a proper reading slump! I need a kickstar#of sorts. Feel free to yell at me that I should pick up a book!
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Nightstand books! (yes it looks ridiculous already I need to pick one and stick with it)
#im not even reading all of them lol#like one at bottom is history book and its just huge so i want to read others in meantime#the secnd is also history book but its shorter i just picked it up literally today#the one about jesus i also just picked up#and i started reading illiad just few days ago#i tried cropping the picture so my room isn't visible thats why the photo is like that lol#reading#literature#2023#mine
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