autisticexpression:

Hollywood has no concept of what 5th century Romans looked like. If I’m watching a movie about the final days of the Western Roman Empire, I should be seeing zero togas. It’s like if you made a movie about the Trump administration, you wouldn’t have people dressed like the founding fathers. That’s how wrong it is.

This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

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I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the “barbarians” didn’t dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

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More of this:

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(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

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There really is an exception to everything, and it’s usually the French.

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sunshine-tattoo:

arsonsara:

deoidesign:

cumpriest:

so funny to me when white american christians are like “ooh i incorporate my religious trauma into my art and thats why i draw these stained glass gothic church gold multi eyed reneissance sculpture angels agnus dei” like i know your protestant southern california ass didnt have any of that. go make some art about this

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Damn way to read the assignment and go above and beyond.

the bleakness and sanitized feel of most American protestant churches really is an underused medium.

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theidesofmaarch asked:

i know that "does darth vader get paid" is a high-value intellectual debate for scholars only, but honestly, a much more interesting question: if he indeed DOES get paid, what does he spend the money on. does he buy himself blue boba tea after a long day at work. as a treat.

husborth Answer:

“does darth vader get paid” is my favorite debate of all time. all answers are incredibly funny. see:

  • not paid. area loser isn’t in a unionized position
  • palpatine pays him in stocks but vader doesn’t know what those are and is frankly too embarrassed to ask
  • palpatine pays vader but vader doesn’t know how bank accounts or direct deposit works and is frankly too embarrassed to ask
  • vader gets paid in sith artifacts so if he does well on a mission he is rewarded with a bully stick (bones of long dead sith master that vader can stare at in evil reverie or whatever)
  • vader gets paid but it’s minimum wage
  • vader gets paid but it’s minimum wage and he has to pay all of his own medical bills so he’s an enormous amount of debt
  • vader doesn’t get paid but palpatine always says “you’re working on the spirit of getting paid”

all answers can be incredibly funny. but as for what vader would buy if he cared enough about other people to pay them for things instead of just, like, taking whatever caught his eye, i think it’s probably broken machines that are specifically deemed unfixable. scrap metal. he has an uncomfortable fixation on broken robots for a man who is on many levels a broken robot. he just likes having rooms of his emo castle floor-to-ceiling stacked with scrap metal and busted transmissions and rusted droids so he can just stand there and stare at it as a frustrating metaphor for his own life. it’s important to me that he never purchases anything that might even be remotely useful to him or bring him any kind of pleasure. he just has to wander in his self-made dimension of the complete absence of any kind of joy forever. the most pathetic dude ever made.

personally i err on the side of believing that he’s not paid, but because he’s kind of insane, he acquires a lot of really weird trinkets like busted pocket watches or mud-stained bracelets or someone’s wallet and it’s all very ???? until you realize he’s just robbing the corpses of people he killed. they’re not even trophies, so to speak, he just collects them because the only time he’s actually close to anyone is when he’s killing them, and that’s kind of his only social life. he doesn’t get out much

husborth:

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star wars fans excitedly inventing The Darth Vader Company Town

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mist-the-wannabe-linguist:

mist-the-wannabe-linguist:

mist-the-wannabe-linguist:

If you grew up in Ostrava or another town narrowly on the Moravian side of the Moravia/Silesia border you either identify as:

• Moravian because that’s where you live

• Silesian because your teen emo ass thought the Silesian Eagle is cooler than the Moravian one and you never accepted that your coat of arms would be the checkered flannel chicken

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Pravda vítězí and all that

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In order

Not enough neon yellow fields

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spockvarietyhour:

I’m curious, who here works a traditional Monday to Friday 9am-5pm job?

Monday to Friday 9am-5pm (including 8-4, 10-6, +/= 1/2hr for lunch.

Monday to Friday regular shift thru 12am

Monday to Friday, overnight

Monday to Friday, split-shift, compressed hours, part time

1 or 2 Weekend Day Shift, 9-5, 8-4, 10-6

1 or 2 Weekend Day Shift thru 12am

1 or 2 Weekend Day Shift overnight

1 or 2 Weekend Day, split-shift, compressed hours, part time

I make my own hours/retired/unemployed

results.

Place in the tags too whether the hours you’re working are the ones you wanted

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i make my own hours which sounds great in theory unfortunately i'm terrible at time management and planning shit is a living nightmare to me


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