Kudos to fanfiction writers for writing about all the trauma and emotional and mental turmoil that the original content creators dont acknowledge when putting characters through hell
This has evolved to one of fanfiction’s major assets in my eyes. To every author that cares enough about the characters in their stories to examine trauma, but also the slow, tedious processes of healing and recovery: your stories mean so much to me and other persons with mental health problems. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Part of this is likely due to the limitations of commercialized literature; publishers wouldn’t greenlight Harry Potter and the Pain of Living with Survivor’s Guilt but fanwriters are free to spend 250000 words digging into the nitty gritty of character emotional development
oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built
I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar
Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time.
Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine.
Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s.
When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming.
Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.
Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed
This is the book you want: The Timetables of History – going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.) Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.
looking at Wikipedia’s pages for years, decades, or centuries can also be fun for this reason
‘childhood is when you idolize Batman adulthood is when you realize that the Joker makes more sense’ – this is the most Reddit thing I’ve read all day.
Childhood is idolizing Batman, adolescence is thinking the Joker is right, adulthood is realizing that Gordon absolutely doesn’t get paid enough for this shit
Asbestos still causes 40,000 deaths a year because it is just that carcinogenic but the man who stumbled into the United States presidency is a man who puts business profits over human life across the board, has ranted TWICE on twitter that he thinks asbestos cancer was some kind of “mob lie” and filled the EPA with his own people as soon as he could so what the fuck did anybody think would happen
As verified by snopes these are actual palettes of asbestos about to go out into the world, stamped with trump’s face and posted to the company facebook in celebration.
it’s a russian mining company but russia is just liberal fake news or something right 🙂
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