@tinyeldritchmonster – The way I read that commentary, at least, it sounded like they were talking about the girl being so desperate to get out of the terrible situation her parents put her in. (And sent her back to, when she tried to leave :/)
this is the karpati mutation! there’s not a lot known about it, but we do know that it’s a dominant trait and most likely temperature sensitive. kittens are born white and get darker as they get older, and they can have this pattern show up on any coat colouration! so you can have tabby or tortie or red karpatis. it’s pretty cool.
1600s: most witch-hunts ended in this century. no witches were burned in North America; they were hanged or in one case pressed to death
1700s: the American Revolution. Marie Antoinette. the French Revolution. the crazy King George. most pirate movies
1800-1830: Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice! those dresses where the waist is right under one’s boobs and men have a crapton of facial hair inside high collars
1830-1900: Victorian. Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end
1900-1920: Edwardian. Titanic, World War I, the Samantha books from American Girl, Art Nouveau
1920s: Great Gatsby. Jazz Age. Flappers and all that. most people get this right but IT IS NOT VICTORIAN. STUFF FROM THIS ERA IS NOT VICTORIAN. DO NOT CALL IT VICTORIAN OR LIST IT ON EBAY AS VICTORIAN. THAT HAPPENS SURPRISINGLY OFTEN GIVEN HOW STAGGERING THE VISUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ERAS IS. also not 100 years ago yet, glamour.com “100 years of X” videos. you’re lazy, glamour.com. you’re lazy and I demand my late Edwardian styles
I just saw people referencing witch burning and Marie Antoinette on a post about something happening in 1878. 1878. when there were like trains and flush toilets and early plastic and stuff. if you guys learn nothing else about history, you should at least have vague mental images for each era
“Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end” sounds like the longest weirdest worst movie I’d pay to see in theatres five times.
“Victorian: Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end”
Agreed! I would pay good money to see this! XD
But it also brings up an important point, that’s kind of bugging me right now.
Which is that different things happen in different places during the same set of years. Which means “eras” are different in different places! I think people are usually pretty good at this when talking over large distances (say, China, Zimbabwe, and Western Europe), but it also happens in smaller grain sizes too. What we think of as “Victorian” is heavily, heavily influenced by what was going on culturally and historically in England ah the time.
So TL;DR – while
“Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end” is a pretty awesome way to remember how the dates fit together, France, the USA, and even to a certain extent Ireland (where Bram Stoker – author of Dracula was from) had their own shit going on that might not look a whole lot like the “Victoriana” you’re familiar with either.
(For instance, while the Victorian era was going on in England, France was in the middle of the “Long 19th century” aka a protracted “Revolution 2: Electric Boogaloo” because the first one really didn’t stick as well as hoped.)
You don’t have to talk like you’re writing 20th century propaganda all the time.
Comrades! Every day we must face and oppose the revisionist swine who would discredit us! Forward!
how awkward for western whites to constantly show themselves to have absolutely no perspective of women of color, or third world women, but how embarrassing to betray your total ignorance (and how shameful that we keep giving these infantile bozos any attention kinder than scorn):
but yeah, do go on, no one would want to miss out on whatever clever joke you’ve got to share.
maybe im missing context but i think op is talking about random tankies on leftbook and twitter. how is this person related? i dont understand
you’re drowning in a two inch puddle here, it’s really not that deep.
dumb white westerners think that on the basis of their own perspectives, a style of writing relevant still to living people is mocked as anachronistic as if the middle of the 20th century isn’t fifty years ago.
Kinda reading into it a little, huh?
Comrades!What the fuck?
How do you extrapolate racism, a hatred of women, and western centrism from a silly pussy and have the nerve to tell someone it’s not that deep lmaoooo
It’s not so much about the anachronism as it is about the jargon and reinforced in-group/out-group dynamics created by a dialectical format that alienates those outside the speaker’s existing group.
In other words, if you sound too much like a walking, talking copy of The Communist Manifesto, people are going to give you weird looks and probably brand you a loony.
Besides that, if you live in America you’re likely gonna
have to deal with people who think that anything to do with communism is
Bad and Wrong, mostly due to decades of mutually assured slapfighting
with Russia and her allies.
It’s critical that we develop the ability to talk to people in their own words. If that means using “y’all” instead of “comrades” or appealing to someone’s religious and moral sensibilities, then so be it.
And the “dumb white Westerner” shit just makes people think you believe the President is a reptile.
(He’s clearly some form of swine.)
Comrades! Everybody in this thread, for the sake of the global workers’ revolution, must push onward and smoke weed.
Guys there is actually a german ripoff of Aladdin by this terrifying “animation company” (I use that term loosely) Dingo Pictures and I wanted to share Aladdin’s song b/c it is funky fresh
My new morning JAM.
[Refrain:] Carpet-flying, it’s logical Ecological to a high percentage Doesn’t make noise or smell Doesn’t need a motor or a tank Nor a radio set and tower People who fly by carpet are just smarter
My carpet can easily do a hundred things Can curve and do loop-the-loops Doesn’t need a horn, doesn’t need a light It doesn’t even need brakes
[Refrain]
Huzza, whooshing through the clouds I wouldn’t swap for any aeroplane Bring me to my Soraya Then, see ya – I’m already there
people who complain about dinosaurs “not being scary anymore” because its been discovered they have feathers and are closely related to/ancestors of birds are so bizarre like
its not about how scary they are, they are/were real life animals and what matters is learning more about them, not how well they fit into your science fiction horror film lol
can you imagine a 13 foot chicken running at you with full intent to eat you??? thats fucking terrifying holy shit
peacocks are synonymous with vain, frivolous beauty and they will attack cars. they will attack you while you try to get to your car. they’re like six feet of useless feathers and they will destroy you. imagine if they were carnivorous and had functional spurs.
a t-rex could look like a gay disco ball and i guarantee that you would fucking book it if it had a problem with you
listen
listen
have you ever met a swan
if anything the birdier they get the scarier they are
Australia literally fought a war against giant birds AND FUCKING LOST
“Oh man, I can’t deal with birds ‘cause they’re dinosaurs and sometimes it’s like they get this glint in their eyes and they remember.”
“Have you ever interacted with a goose? ‘Cause those things are dicks.”
If chickens were still the size of a T-Rex we’d all be dead. No question.
Feathered creatures that give some serious lie to the idea that feathered dinosaurs ain’t scary:
This is a bearded vulture, or lammergeier. It’s four feet long and has a nine foot wingspan and it eats bones.
This is a shoebill stork. It dropped the duck without biting down shortly after the picture was taken, but if it had decided not to-
… it could have been the end of the road for that duck.
This is the last thing a fish sees before a macaroni penguin eats it.
This is a secretary bird in the act of demonstrating to Lord Voldemort that he came to the wrong neighborhood, ese.
This is a goose.
This is a vulture.
This is a cassowary on the attack.
Be glad I couldn’t find the actual gif of a pelican swallowing a fish, because it’s freakin’ Lovecraftian in its HEADS SHOULD NOT BEND THAT WAY factor. You’ll have to settle for the idea of a feathered dinosaur suddenly going GLORP and devouring its victims whole just like this lady here.
Steven Spielberg didn’t create these. These are the feet of an emu.
And this is what happens when a swan (this one is named Asboy; his father was Mr. Asbo, the first swan in the UK to get named after an anti-social behavior order in ‘honor’ of his tendency to attack boaters) decides it doesn’t like you. I should probably note that this one attacked a cow.
Respect the feathered dinosaur, yo.
Terrifying. The last two illustrate why you did not fuck around with the Children of Lir.
I suspected that a dinosaur could have been feathered after I heard that a T-Rex is the chickens’ ancestor.
For those who think dinos aren’t cool because they’re feathered…whatever, mutherfuckers. Evolution doesn’t give two shits what you think is cool or not.
You showed a cassowary on the attack, but forgot to show what exactly it’s attacking with. Their feet are nearly identical to the Emu’s, except for one minor, teeny tiny detail: A five-inch claw for killing motherfuckers, raptor-style.
This is like the “fuck birds master post” and I love it because Honestly, Fuck. Birds.
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