Tag: history
Historically Accurate Animated Characters
Wickfield illustrated this awesome fan art series of animated characters if they were historically accurate! Here’s what she had to say about it: “As a…
Luisa Capetillo – The Activist Arrested For Wearing Pants
Rejected Princesses is a series of illustrations of badass women from history whose stories wouldn’t make the cut for animated kids movies. They are illustrated in a contemporary…
The History of Anxiety
This is a neat little thread about the ancient history of human anxiety. If you think about it the reason so many of us have…
Ancient Roman Bathrooms Meme
LOL! This meme about ancient Roman bathrooms is hilarious. What an experience: (via: r/tumblr)
How Old Is Capitalism?
In this post people are debating how old capitalism truly is. Some people argue that it is thousands of years old, and others argue that…
Boob Language
This is an amusing and informative post about the linguistic history of words for breasts. Calling boobs “melons” is literally ancient language, lol. Here’s the…
When King Taejong Fell Off His Horse
This is another amusing history post! King Taejong of Joseon, also known as Yi Bang-won, was the third king of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea…
Common Language in Fantasy
thequantumwritings came up with this neat concept for Common as a language in fantasy settings. Usually we think of common as simply a convenient narrative…
Women Authors
The responses to this stupid tweet claiming that before J. K. Rowling was published, women authors were unheard of are amazing. This is actually a…
Fan Fic Archives
This is a long post about fan fic archives, but it’s worth the read! Gather around, children. This is a story of ye olde fandom: Source