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I've shown him enough of my work that the "Wait why" is a permanent appendage on every conversation like this that we have

"Osip Brik: publisher and critic" I can tell Osip Brik is a catty little bitch and I want to play them

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Excerpt from "The War of the Pyre" a fictional history from Hotblood: King Maeron commanded Lysena to wear her crown and her wedding dress to the site of her own execution. During the first reign of kings, it was still commonplace to sentence those convicted by the crown to burn at the stake, rather than reserving such a fate for heretics. And even in those wanton days of antiquity, when the world brushed so close to the Pits of Hell that the shadows of the damned cast themselves upon the living, custom nonetheless dictated the gathering of green timber whose heartwood was still heavy with water for a pyre. The smoke from such greenwood caused people to faint after scant minutes, expiring from breathing it in long before the first flame licked up through the boughs under their feet. But Queen Lysena was shown no such mercies. Her pyre was assembled from hard-cured oak beams that would burn clean as the winter air, all laid out on the field where, during less ignoble occasions, House Damasce’s guests feasted and raised their tents for summer tourneys. Here the accounts, hostile and friendly alike, agree in unusual accord, and with an unusual degree of disgust. Beside Lysena’s pyre were set newly forged spits and hooks, and large iron frames from the king’s kitchens, of the sort used to cook large game. Great sides of venison, freshly butchered from a stag recently killed in Grenehall’s kingswood, were set on the frames and thus presented alongside the queen, to roast over the coals and ashes of her body once it was fully spent. While there is no record in Maeron’s hand to tell us what his exact intentions were, this chronicler is willing to risk the indulgence of speculating that it was meant as merely another degradation to be heaped upon both his queen and Lord Hældebryn: a heavyhanded, symbolic vanquishing of the vermillion stag on House Rougemont’s banners, to blacken and drip into the same fire that consumed the woman accused of taking that stag into her bed.

Me: You did a whole lamb roast for your friend J.'s bachelor party right?
My partner: Yep, why?
Me: Do you know what kind of wood you used for the pit?
Partner: Cured oak. It had to be really dense and dry so the coals stayed hot for a while.
Me: Thanks!
Partner: You're welcome!
Partner: Wait why

I've been meaning to read Fukuyama for years, this feels like the kick in the pants I needed!

As with many things I think the coat pattern's shifted but the animal is still basically the same lol

– but there is a sense of cultural credulity around general knowledge that I don't remember from that time, either. Idk where the slide happened, but even as on the lookout for it as I try to be, I often catch myself taking shortform video or headlines at face value before my reflexes kick in

It's really interesting, because I feel like you and I often talk about the lack of historical education among Americans pretty often while we're watching stuff together or talking about art, but when I think about, say, what the 2000s were like, I don't think it's an appreciably lower baseline –

But I know that impression isn't a rigorously formed one, and I was curious if asking it at a wider level might shift my perspective, and seeing if subject matter experts might have insights!

Like, *are* many Americans looking for something more real, as Eco puts it here? Because to me, in my (very subjective and biased firsthand) observation, I feel like we are living in a more credulous zeitgeist than at any other period of my adulthood, to a somewhat alarming degree

This passage is what made me ask the question here, bc I don't think this is that true of Americans, who in my experience are fairly historically incurious. Maybe it was a different climate in the 70s, idk! But in a book that otherwise remains really prescient in many ways, this stuck out to me

In Travels in Hyperreality, which was written in the '70s, Umberto Eco talks about how Americans are particularly interested in the middle ages while also being particularly uneducated about the period (which I feel like you can really see in the influence of Barbara Tuchman)

E.g. this is a specific example influenced by my current project research, but how aware are Americans today that the books and shows in the ASoIaF franchise are not meaningful representations of the Middle Ages, and how strong is their understanding of the history it's cherry picking from?

It doesn't have to be about American history or tied to American nationalism, and I was honestly surprised tha that's how it was interpreted; I asked Americans specifically because of the shared educational and cultural trends that might affect the answer

Oh hell yeah you're in sociology? How did I not know this about you?? Anyway I left the q general on purpose but in a word I'm curious about where the baseline of general historical knowledge is, and how actively people nurture their sense of curiosity and exploration of history in their day to day

I once made an A/S/L joke with a friend in their 20s and they thought I was punctuating the acronym for American Sign Language oddly, don't let the fire on the altar of memory burn out my friends

this is how i learned what pokopia is

One of the interesting things about asking this question is that the baseline assumption has been that I'm talking about history as related to current American political news, rather than like, the discipline and study of history as a whole

Also I guarantee lots of people know sex workers in their social circles who just 100% are not gonna disclose that part of their life around them lmao. Ppl should be kind to swers bc it's basic decency but also bc otherwise they're absolutely disrespecting someone they know without even realizing it

Question for Americans specifically, do you think of this current period of time as notably more ahistorical compared to past decades? (Also, while I'm looking for gut intuition answers, if sociologists or other academics have recommendations for reading about this, I'd love to see it!)

I saw the proshot of that Corionalus production at the Donmar at a movie theater and it is fucking unreal how good it is. I loved it so much I drew fanart lmao

In efforts to disrupt ICE, the whistle has become an instrument of choice On the streets, the whistle has become a means to alert neighbors and warn immigrants.

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We learn, gradually and then all at once, that few of the extraordinary exertions we make on behalf of our employers are ever appropriately valued. It is suspect to even the make the effort.

You guys ever read the letters of Abelard and Heloise and then for totally unrelated reasons have to lay face down in bed for twenty minutes to temper your emotions

One time it came up on one of my partner's playlists and I hit the skip track button so fast he was like "are you good" and I said "yeah I just would like to be happy today" lmao

"Do you want to play someone whose entire value as a person is wrapped up in their bond with a dragon? Or do you want to play someone whose chivalry and honor while it hinges on meting out brutal violence?"

New HOTBLOOD post is up on the blog!

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The River (Springsteen), In California (Joanna Newsom), Higher (Rihanna), Shadow Song (The Mountain Goats), Between the Bars (Elliott Smith), Ol' 55 (Tom Waits), When the Party's Over (Billie Eilish), and I Bet on Losing Dogs, I Guess, Come Into the Water, and Class of 2013 (Mitski)

I don't cry but there are some songs that make me feel so emotional sometimes I have to turn them off haha

Casmir Pulaski Day jfc

Incredibly happy for you, that's the good shit