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A lot of people on here don’t seem to realise that the witch trials that happened in Europe in the Early Modern period aren’t some vague legendary events to carelessly use as an allegory or feminist/Wicca/witchy martyr myth. Real women AND MEN, many of whom are named and known, died in these events. They may have been executed for witchcraft, but often this had nothing to do with a folk practice, and more to do with social, political and ethnic tensions.

These victims are no one’s to claim as martyrs. Their deaths are communal tragedies that drastically reshaped the social fabric of many places and hold an important place in folklore traditions and local identities up to this day.

Please stop appropriating these events, claiming the dead as yours without care for the local context in which they lived and died. A lineage lives locally that is not yours to take. Have some respect.

As someone who’s living with a middle school social studies teacher, all the posts along the lines of “why did we never learn about this historical event in school” just make me go “because your teacher was supposed to cover all of US history in one year, and they didn’t get to the Revolutionary War until Halloween because they were urged to slow down the progression of the lessons because a more senior teacher was running behind, and they didn’t get to the Civil War until Valentine’s Day because the school kept scheduling every special event during social studies because there’s no end-of-grade testing for that subject, and they didn’t get to WWI until May because they were sick for a few days and the substitute couldn’t do much more than babysit, and now they’re having to do the entire Cold War in two days, so that’s why you didn’t hear about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut. They would have loved to tell you about the lesbian inventor of the circus peanut!”

Also, actually teaching any subject requires a lot of lesson planning but also assessment of what is being taught. Kids not getting the content right away? Well, we have to slow down a bit and spend an extra day on that. And it’s not just learning what in history but also why; middle school kids will not know why the Revolutionary War was important and its impact so they need to learn that first before they learn about the lesser know subjects and people of history. 

“The lesbian inventor of the circus peanut” may be historically significant but kids need to learn the historical and cultural context in which she came from to understand why we should learn about her. And that takes time. 

As a side note, teachers will also spend a few weeks getting to know the students and establishing the baseline rules and routines to help with classroom management and misbehaviors in the future. You can have the best teacher in the world but zero learning will happen if they don't have the kids under control.

I don’t know how you can read the words “The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!” and still complain: “Jonathan still doesn’t get he’s a prisoner, what an idiot, fuck your shaving glass”.

What is he supposed to do? What immediate course of action could he have went with that would earn your respect without getting him killed?

I despise of the long-standing misconception that people in the past, particularly the Medieval period, couldn't read or write. It's horseshit.

Literacy estimations from the past are extremely flawed, because they were based on how common books are in archaeological finds from the area. Not only does this idea kind of crumble when you ask "Hey, why would everybody who can read need to own books?" it's also patently ridiculous because books at the time were primarily printed in Latin (and other languages used by the Church)

Basically it's like surveying 50 modern Americans on whether they own any Russian books and concluding "Only 2% of the US population is literate!" Of course commoners in Medieval England didn't own any Latin books, they couldn't read Latin, they could read English.

We actually have evidence of how widespread literacy was among the common population around this time in Europe. The most interesting of this is the birch bark letters found in Novgorod, which preserve hundreds of notes written in a vernacular dialect between average, everyday folks. The existence of these letters seems to imply that literacy levels were very high in Novgorod during this time. Most famous among these are the homework done by a child named Onfim, who had a habit of doodling on his pages. Personally, I'm partial to this one:

There is nothing more human in this world than writing a letter to your wife asking her to send you some shit you forgot at home because you're a dumbass but you really need it, please can you send that guy with the stallion?

good morning and happy is it really tuesday tuesday

Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

Who makes the porn bots.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

and what about you, little haiku bot? do you feel kinship with your brethren? do you understand them? they speak words of enticement and seek love, but are met with disdain. you only parrot the words that cross your screen, but we all love you. or rather, since all you do is reflect us, maybe we simply love ourselves through you.

do you understand them, do you wish you could speak to us like they do? if you found your own voice, would we still care for you?

My voice repeats what

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

This. This is the first time. The only time. That it was not an echo. It was not found. Oh god.

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Everyone say thank you to OP and the keep reading function

"...when I went over to Bersicker he let me stroke his ears same as ever."

Reblog to give Berserker the Good Boy a scritch behind the ears

People who are shocked by how interesting, active and intelligent Mina is for a “woman in a 100 year old novel” should try to read more classics! If you’ve only seen the movie/miniseries of pretty much any novel from the 19th century they tend to dumb down and flatten the female characters but there are so many good ladies from this era!!

Definitely don’t press this link that may send you to a constantly updating website that has all the amazing shows that hbo FUCKED in the ass and more

Seeing grown men ‘joke’ about hating and assaulting the little girl playing Leia in Kenobi after the fandom was literally just talking how unfair and undeserved the hate Hayden Christensen got for the prequels was is just…. Like wow y’all have learned absolutely nothing have you?

all right so here's the schedule of when dracula daily will be updated, as gleaned from the archives

please share this, it was a pain in the ass

Ok also bc this website doesnt allow polls pls reblog if ur subbed to dracula daily and say in the tags if you’ve read dracula before, have only seen/heard film/tv/radio adaptations, or if u only know dracula through cultural osmosis im curious

praying that the widespread reading of dracula from dracula daily prompts everyone to hate the 1992 dracula movie with the same deep and violent passion that I do

Anyway, for me, the funniest part of the tumblr Dracula book club is that there’s WAY more Dracula nerds than I previously thought, and we’re all collectively waking up, looking at tumblr, and finding that our hyperfixation is suddenly relevant.

And then we all get to sit in the corner giggling at all the newbies who have no idea what they signed up for. I saw a post like “oh boy can’t wait to see everyone’s reactions to the polycule antics” and half of the tags were like “sorry, the what?”

Anyway, for me, the funniest part of the tumblr Dracula book club is that there’s WAY more Dracula nerds than I previously thought, and we’re all collectively waking up, looking at tumblr, and finding that our hyperfixation is suddenly relevant.

And then we all get to sit in the corner giggling at all the newbies who have no idea what they signed up for. I saw a post like “oh boy can’t wait to see everyone’s reactions to the polycule antics” and half of the tags were like “sorry, the what?”

You know something that makes me inordinately mad? When people call Belos "Catholic".

Not because they're wrong in any of the points they're making by drawing the comparison, it's because the history nerd in me is pissed at the lack of historical accuracy.

He is a Puritan. Puritans were on another level of religious restrictiveness. They thought that Catholics were too lenient in how they ran the church.