"You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? That's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind."
stopping at an understaffed, overcrowded fast food restaurant while on a road trip and crouching over your phone with your chicken sandwich at a corner table like a weary adventurer eating a bowl of unidentifiable stew at a nameless inn, the only one for miles of moor and wood, taking in the chatter around you but speaking to none before pulling your cloak back up over your head and taking t’ the road once more
just like a beleaguered spacefarer finding the only station for lightyears around and hearing a billions languages you’ve never dreamt of as you idly munch a protein slab with beans on it
Bro: “Oh me too! I can’t believe a girl is into history like I am. Who’s your favorite Roman emperor?”
Me, automatically, transforming into an NPC with idle dialogue: “The Funnelbeaker Culture grew wheat, millet, and barley using ard ploughs to dig shallow scratches into the topsoil, and ard ploughs and other simple scratch ploughs or spike ploughs would remain standard in northern Europe until the invention of the mouldboard in the early Middle Ages; most of the stones used in the construction of Scandinavian megaliths, including the stone ship cemeteries from the Viking Age, bear ard scratches, indicating that they were picked out of field middens. And that’s all very interesting, but the domestication of bees dates all the way back to the Neolithic, and–”
Bro dude: No, no. I mean real history. Y'know, they important stuff
Me, with a Very Intense look in my eyes; “Oh, important stuff! Well, the oldest spun fibers ever found are in Georgia in the Causcaus region. This means that humans knew how to process flax into fiber as early at 28,000 BCE, and while we have not found woven textiles dating back that far we have evidence of woven cloth being pressed against clay to make textured pottery dating back to 25,000 bce, and that means that woven linen significantly pre-dates settled populations. Now, humans didn’t domesticate sheep until around 11,000 years ago, but I suspect that they gathered shed wool to spin and weave textiles from before that, and that the warmth of woolen garments was a significant factor in humans eventually domesticating sheep, in order to obtain a reliable supply of both fiber and meat, and….”
Reblog to piss off war fanboys
War fanboys: “I’m really into world war two history, General Patt-”
Me: “The quilted celebration skirt made in the Netherlands in 1945 had five distinct layers of meaning. First, the different fabrics quilted together represented the dedication to recycling and reusing that had been essential to the world war two household. Second, the use of fabrics taken from the clothing of lost relatives allowed the skirt to serve as a token of mourning for the wearer. Third, the harmonious patterns produced from these distinct fabrics represented the wish for a society that found harmony in difference and celebrated diversity of religions and opinions without leading to pillarization. Fourth, the quilted skirt was explicitly an feminist garment because …”
Several people asked me to finish those sentences so breaking the format:
… because in a time of ‘liberation parades’ where soldiers marched in uniforms, the quilted skirt (each unique but harmonious in how they appeared together) formed a kind of ‘uniform’ that groups of women could wear in liberation parades, identifying the role of the woman as the hidden hero of the war. Fifth, the skirts expressed a positive view of the future, the reusing of materials expressing the conviction that the war torn country could be rebuild from it’s broken materials. ‘We are not there, but we’ll get there’ was the most common slogan embroidered on the skirt. Recycling, appreciating women’s labor and finding unity in diversity were seen as the key ingredients for this future.
Here’s what the quilted skirts looked like by the way:
very proud of this pettiness and applaud this kind of research into whats important
anyone who thinks textiles and barley arent important does not understand history
cant fucking believe both of these girls slept with adam friedland from fucking cum town and are now publicly feuding over twitter about it this is the perfect end to 2019
They found out because they both posted selfies in the same room of his house
for anyone wondering what’s going on:
adam, who has a podcast called cumtown, was engaged to the sailor girl (dasha, who also has a podcast called red scare). they’re both socialists, and problematic as hell (her more than him, she put an SS flag up). he may or may not have cheated on dasha with witten girl (who voted for trump), based on the photos but he definitely was involved with both of them. witten girl was actually a fan of dasha’s + was pretty open abt most of her life stuff (pregnancy, ex bf’s kinks) on her reddit including her interest in dashas podcast. hope this helps.
