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Rewatching the original "The Little Mermaid" animated movie while working on something else... I can't quite recall at the moment (early into it atm) if this movie ever establishes Eric as the heir of the throne of his kingdom.
I think it'd be really funny if Eric was actually a younger brother. So, like, maybe he's a duke, actually, but he still gets the title of Prince. Travels the sea a lot, unlike a more landlocked heir. Hanging out at this summer seaside palace while the rest of the family is elsewhere for some reason.
Like, imagine Eric's parents and older brother and maybe sister-in-law and niblings getting that letter at the end of this movie. Nearly drowned. Miraculously washed ashore. Fell in love with a mysterious voice and then a mute girl. Got enchanted by a shape-shifting sea witch and nearly married her. Killed the sea witch after she turned into a giant. Married the aforementioned girl who turned out to be the beloved youngest daughter of the mythical King Triton instead and have now established a strong alliance with the merpeople. Wild summer! Wish you were here!
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Historical inaccuracies in major published novels and period dramas bother me so much because I can't write a fan fiction that I know I'll post for free without being fairly certain I have the major facts right.
I'm writing a story right now that I probably won't post at all and I still spent a good hour and downloaded a research paper to figure out if women in feudal China were allowed to have baths during their periods. The answer is no, as I suspected, but I checked! I also learned about their version of pads which sound much better than European historical period solutions and kept reading long after I'd found my answer. It was all fascinating to learn about because history is interesting.
So I guess what I'm saying is, why write historical fiction or make a period drama if you aren't even interested in or in love with history? When I read Bernard Cornwell, for example, it feels like he's fascinated by the period he's writing about. No one seems strangely modern, but they all feel deeply human. I don't need a female character to point out sexism or patriarchy to me, it's obvious. I'm trusted to think about it for myself. The author trusts that I care as much as he does about the past.
I don't understand why you would produce historical fiction if you don't care about the past. Maybe I'm the wrong audience, maybe most people don't care, but I don't get it. And I don't expect everything to be perfect, we don't even know everything about even an era as recent as the Regency, but it doesn't even feel like some of these people care at all.
Publishing houses don’t provide fact checking. Their main concern is that the book will sell. That’s it. And I believe they’re still cutting staff whenever possible. This is a criticism of corporate guidance, not publishing professionals.
Further, a lot of readers actively resent books which expect the reader to be an active partner in the learning process.
I used to be a book blogger who mostly read historical fiction and since I'm also a historian I had this naive idea that surely people would be really interested in me politely pointing out historical inaccuracies in historical fiction to provide learning opportunities. They were not. A lot of people, readers and authors alike, got really, really mad. One author doxxed me over this, I'm not even kidding.
It's not just that a lot of people don't care enough about history to actually do the research or that a lot of publishers just want to make a quick buck, though both these things are 100% true of course. But I've come to find that very often the "mistakes" are by design. Give the readers a version of the past they're already used to, do not challenge their conceptions of history, go for the cliche because a lot of readers want the cliche and they get really mad when you challenge it.
But it's so ugly, especially because a lot of those cliches just so happen to be the most sexist, racist, queermisic etc. ideas about the past and that's no mistake either. I've been looking into this for the past five years or so and it all comes down to making the past comfortable and familiar and safe for "mainstream readers". When you take that away in favour of offering a more nuanced, diverse perspective, a lot of people don't like that at all because it doesn't feel safe to them. That's exactly why we need more of it though. Reading, especially reading about history, really should offer us food for critical thought about the past and present, not just feed us old, easily digestable cliches that just so happen to validate conservative values as well.
Obviously it's not always quite that deep - but also it kind of is, especially considering that historical fiction was a favourite medium for fascist propaganda in the 20th century for that very reason. That context is always at the back of my mind when this topic comes up.
I’ve been thinking about this reblog a lot, and it spawned something between a response and a stream of consciousness.
In some ways historical fiction is a lot like fanfiction in that the setting, the set pieces, the characters, their biographical info, their context and backstory already exist. With fanfic, some use the medium to fix/expand part of the story, like when I was 18 and wrote a novel length fanfic about Andromeda Tonks (Boy Wizard Books, Jessica Mitford Expy) because I was obsessed with the non-fascist sister. I didn’t write that fic to “fix” said characters presence in the books, but to do a deep intimate dive into her character.
With historical fiction (which I will call HiFi) we see similar patterns. I grew up reading HiFi about Elizabeth I, and this distorted my ability to really engage seriously with her bit of history because in the back of my mind she’s just my favorite character, not a real, complex, often-cruel, brilliant late-Renaissance queen. Some HiFi writers never progress past the fanfic approach. Like an AU HiFi novel where Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley are endgame and Mary Queen of Scots is Elizabeth’s quirky sidekick. I’d read the crap out of that, but I wouldn’t take it seriously.
A complex psychological yet fictional exploration of Elizabeth I in all her complexity, though, would be so cool. It would also be a very different type of work. I’m not sure if I’d want to read it. I imagine that that’s the difference between hard and soft HiFi.
A separate but related issue is that…readers don’t like it when books provoke/expect them to think, or be partners in the reading/learning process. Hard HiFi does that.
As for the authors…look it’s really shit author behavior to attack/engage with reviewers. It’s shit author behavior to lurk on your Goodreads page. Which I do because I am a badly behaved author. But engaging and doxxing? Jesus.
But on the other hand, that book might be their biggest accomplishment in life. In fact, it probably is. Getting a book traditionally published to the point where blogs are talking about it? That’s the dream. And after you jump through all those hoops for some random book reviewer to (from their perspective) attack the entire book? Oof. That’s their baby. And that may be their only source of livelihood. Take it from a NYT Bestselling author: large readership doesn’t mean endless money. Or any money.
I think some clarity would help, or maybe better media literacy? Should a HiFi author have to say “yo this is soft HiFi don’t @ me about the Armada”? Or should I have to say “this is a serious work of history written for intellectually curious individuals who lack patience for academic prose it’s not a fun girlboss beach read”?
I’d argue that authors shouldn’t have to say that, but on the other hand, having someone take your biggest accomplishment and say “it needs to be more like this other book written by someone who has no formal training as a historian,” or “this beach read set in Elizabethan times got information about menstruation wrong” can be a real gut punch and experienced as a personal attack.
I have another post on me about the ethics of historical fiction and what we lose when we flatten events to fit a narrative, but I reckon I’ve rambled enough for now
Honestly the "fandomification" of history like this is something we're seeing real time with the way people have fandomized real-world events, people, and especially politicians. I don't need my political employees to be my blorbos, I need them to be good at their jobs and actually know how the government works. I don't see a problem with soft historical fantasy, as you've put it. I think pop-fiction is pop-fiction and to me, that's what that is. I mean, wasn't Shakespeare kind of doing similar with his histories? They were perhaps less fluffy? than it seems modern historical fiction is, but they were not purely accurate histories either. It's something we do, we retell our stories and we mythologize our past. The issue isn't in the existence of this genre, but of the way people just don't know the history outside of it, it seems. And more concerningly, buck up against and feel attacked by the mere idea that they don't know this and could stand to learn more, especially if they seem to have an interest in the particular time period their favourite historical fantasies are about. And of course, there is the value in examining and interrogating the mythologized past that perpetuates in these types of stories. Who is valorized, who is demonized, what is the main message that is being conveyed here that a modern reader is internalizing and then engaging with the real world with those ideals?
in the Egyptian wing of the museum and my boyfriend is like "what are all the time periods of ancient Egypt" and I'm like predynastic, early dynastic, old kingdom which is when the pyramids were built, first intermediate, middle kingdom, second intermediate, new kingdom which includes amarna period and yugioh, third intermediate, and then all the late period stuff and macedonian and roman eras. and he's like run that by me one more time

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A medieval manuscript containing part of Gaude Mater Polonia, one of Poland’s oldest hymns, has been returned to Poland after being displaced during the Second World War.
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Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.
Think about how much of your time is spent looking at ads. "Download ublock" yeah I know, I have. But that doesn't change that the world is covered with endless advertising. Imagine never seeing that again. How much better our lives would be.
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idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little
Alternatively: it's not killing the mood at all but it's totally making both of them giggle like they're twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.
The more that I think of it the more I'm seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.
Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can't see and hiding all your weapons under the sink
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second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.
awkward
It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”
Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is. Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.
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Why Are the Middle Ages Called the Dark Ages?
The “Dark Ages” is one of the best-known labels applied to medieval Europe, yet most historians avoid using it today. So why did the term become so popular, and what did it originally mean?
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