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forthegothicheroine: shelleysbysshe: shelleysbysshe: For the last time: Mary Shelley and Lord Byron were friends. She didn’t hate him. His death was a very painful loss to her. She didn’t write Frankenstein because she was stuck in a house with him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
aceofwhump: Hi there! Oooh WWI aviation? I love that! Well let’s see if I can offer any help. Survival rates for pilots that were shot down in WW1 were pretty much none existent. If you got shot down you were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
digital-magus: sraithpics: solipseismic: memecucker: destroyscythe-heck: archivetel2: There’s a branch of the Medicis that moved to Ireland and now are running a successful chain of fried chicken restaurants which is a very different vinbe from when they were like buying popes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rainbow-gend3r: Sputnik 2, launched on November 3, 1957, carried the dog Laika, the first living creature to be shot into space and orbit Earth. Laika was a stray dog found on the streets of Moscow. There were no plans to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bygone-hollywood: ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT ALT Boudoir dolls Boudoir dolls were made around 1915 to the 1930s, dolls are also called bed or sofa dolls, Flapper or French dolls and were intended to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
is-the-post-reliable: intrigue-posthaste-please: I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting. The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thatlittleegyptologist: smile-2-be-happy: thatlittleegyptologist: thatlittleegyptologist: thatlittleegyptologist: *pained smile* stop saying the victorians ate all the mummies because: no they didn’t (that shit took hold on tiktok last year and oh my god why) the practice had largely died out by that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
havingrevelations: oh my god it’s laika day everyone drop what you’re doing… we honour a little dog who was sent up into space 65 years ago today. she was found as a three year old stray mongrel wandering the streets[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
alkatyn: dru-reblogs-stuff: literary-illuminati: Wildly amusing to me that we apparently literally know the name of the guy who invented imperialism. Feel like we should hate him more. Use his name for demons and monsters in fantasy novels. Have a holiday[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sudorm-rfslash: lurking-latinist: official-kircheis: As per my last clay tablet, CCing Ibbi-Ilabrat on this one just to make sure we’re all on the same page! This consultation with my viziers could have been a clay tablet
elodieunderglass: grayghostofthenorth: Borzoi White Mohair with zipper (box for pajamas), glass eyes It’s so weird that pyjama cases were a thing. They went so abruptly out of fashion, too. The idea was (I think) that it was vaguely indecent to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
melonisopod: olivia-online: somethingusefulfromflorida: sapphixxx: Whenever I see someone refer to “Victorian era-” for places outside the UK I’m tempted to start saying shit like “Han Dynasty era Rome”, “Soviet era Australia” etc “Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
allhailthegodofbugs: deadcatwithaflamethrower: star-anise: imfemalewarrior: imthegingerninja: nerdgul: gayonthemoon1239: rifa: actualbloggerwangyao: alvaroandtheworld: ultrafacts: Source THE BEGINNINGS OF KAWAII No, no, you have no idea. It actually IS the beginning of the whole so-called “kawaii culture”. And it started because girls started using[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gerardtweets: anon you have just opened pandora’s box My favorite particular bird is the Pfeilstorch! This is a piece of taxidermy from the early 1800s currently on display at the University of Rostock in Germany. In the early 1800s, natural[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
homunculus-argument: Also hey btw The term “masterpiece” originally and traditionally meant a piece of work that an apprentice or other aspiring craftsman created to show off to his master or the town’s guild. So naturally, it was intended to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ryuutchi: sharksmirk: “we have progressed beyond the tumblr sexyman” Nah babe, we’ve effectively regressed back to shaming women for openly liking something unless they write a 3 page disclaimer about how they understand that the sexy morally gray character is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ryuutchi: sharksmirk: “we have progressed beyond the tumblr sexyman” Nah babe, we’ve effectively regressed back to shaming women for openly liking something unless they write a 3 page disclaimer about how they understand that the sexy morally gray character is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s fascinating how slang and other language drifts over time, isn’t it? We grew up with our ex-hippie parents using the term “Straights” to refer to non drug users constantly.
a-greyace-aries: darksteel-relic: furbearingbrick: life-as-a-hobby: minmaneth: …and, at the time of his death, he was one of the most hated people in the USA. The FBI sent him a letter trying to convince him to commit suicide. Don’t let this revisionist[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Taking a moment to thank Nathaniel Baldwin, inventor of headphones. There is something so divine and transcendent about listening to music on headphones, with your eyes closed. Somewhere far away, just you and the music.
foone: FUN FACT: I own porn I can’t watch. So this is a copy of Adultery for Fun & Profit, a 1971 X-rated film. It won the Grand Prize at the Amsterdam Adult Film Festival, for the year 1970-1971! BUT[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
alexseanchai: inneskeeper: inneskeeper: inneskeeper: inneskeeper: inneskeeper: inneskeeper: inneskeeper: I cannot fucking believe how much I’m losing my mind right now over soy sauce history. I’ll tell all of you about it after I finish this essay because I need to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…