The Full Body Project is a book of photography by Leonard Nimoy that features a group of women involved in fat liberation. They were the Fat-Bottom Revue—women who worked in film, theatre, and art and who formed the first all-fat burlesque performance group. The founder of the Fat-Bottom Revue, Heather MacAllister, was an advocate in the LGBT rights movement, the fat acceptance movement, and in particular was a champion for fat lesbians.
I know I don’t always remember to do it, but it’s getting more and more important to check the notes on a post to see if
the story or claim has been proven false
the “hot tip” has been debunked
the video or photo has been found to be AI/manipulated
there is more context to the story
If the post is too young yet to have notes, you can also consider either doing more research outside of Tumblr to maybe be the person who adds an important bit of info, or not reblogging it so as not to spread misinformation.
Hi everyone. I hope you’re ready because this is the
ROUND UP POST
. But a secret I haven’t told you yet is that I’ll do another version of this post at the end of the year. This is diabolical of me I know. Anyway, here’s your 1st and September version of the round up post.
The problem with ancient history is that ancient historians were not all that great from separating rumors from facts.
Like, you learn that China’s first dynasty was the Xia Dynasty, and at first that seems pretty solid.
But then you realize that all the knowledge we have about the Xia Dynasty’s existence can be traced to like twoish books from multiple dynasties later, which talk about how the Xia Dynasty was founded by Yu the Great, who had a pet dragon and defeated nine-headed monsters, because this is all knowledge that has been handed down in a giant game of Telephone and no one knows which part is even real.
And a lot of knowledge we have about ancient history is like this. Did Sun Tzu (creator of Sun Tzu’s Art of War) really exist? Or was The Art of War just a collection of common knowledge from the Warring States Period? Did Lao Tse (founder of Taoism) really exist? Or was the Tao Te Ching just a collection of Taoist thought?
Anyway, whenever we tell stories about things that happened in Whatever BC, remember to mentally add “according to this one guy from like 500-1500 years later, who learned it from bedtime stories”.
One of my very favourite ancient texts is ’On Marvelous Things Heard’, by some unknown person who is almost certainly not Aristotle. It’s part of what gets called the ‘Aristotelian Corpus’ - the texts that people used to think were all written by Aristotle but now people think were probably just texts written by people around Aristotle that got included in the set of Aristotle’s works by mistake. There’s no way of knowing who actually wrote it - it could even be the real Aristotle - but it’s fair to say that it’s not written in Aristotle’s typical style.
As for the text itself, it’s just a list of… stuff the author has heard. Some of it is probably true:
And some of it probably isn’t:
And no effort is made to distinguish the two. Antiquity is like that! When most of what you know about the world is just ‘a guy told you that he heard a thing’ you can’t be choosy.
We do in fact have some histories written by people 5-10 years later about things they personally actually experienced…
But in order to survive to the present all of those writings had to have been copied and retranscribed multiple times by lots of different people, some of whom didn’t speak the same language, and everyone involved including the original author had an agenda about what got written down and what got ignored.
Chapters:
1/1
Fandom:
Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Rating:
General Audiences
Warnings:
No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships:
Carmilla | Mircalla Countess Karnstein/Laura
Characters:
Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, Laura (Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu), Carmilla | Mircalla Countess Karnstein, Laura’s Father (Carmilla), Madame Perrodon, Madame la Comtesse
Additional Tags:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Anticlimax, Libido-killing Pollen, Paternalism, Unhappy Ending, Happier Than the Original Though, Keep Fandom Weird
Summary:
Mademoiselle De Lafontaine saves the day.
Written for the prompt Libido-killing Pollen for Keep Fandom Weird bingo. It occurred to me that this would be an excellent weapon against certain kinds of (sexy) vampires. And very in-character for the Victorian period.
The Library (1905). First published in “The Mistress of the House” in Harper’s Monthly, August 1905. The original watercolour illustration is now owned by the Delaware Art Museum. Elizabeth Shippen Green (American, 1871-1954).
“The Library” shows the mistress of the house relaxing in a wicker armchair as she browses her collection of art periodicals and leather bound books.
Green illustrated children’s books and worked for many years for Harper’s. Green had mastered her technique of sparkling watercolor glazes over solid charcoal drawings and, then later, she began painting in opaque colors.
This applies to so many things! Your first two inches of knitting/crocheting look like fuck-all. Your pile of fabric pieces look like fuck-all. Your first two paragraphs look like fuck-all. Your first nursing class looks like-fuck all. Keep doing the thing until you finish the thing!
Again, shortly before our own times, it happened in the district called Kemmeis, in the province of Demetia in Wales, that a certain wealthy man, whose house stood on the north side of the mountains of Prescelly, had dreams for three successive nights, in which he was advised that if he went to a fountain in the neighbourhood called St Bernac’s Well and put his hand down to the stone which lay over the spring, he would draw out a collar of gold. On the third day, the man did as he was advised in the dreams, but when he put his hand into the hole it was bitten by a viper, and he died as a consequence. From these and other examples, whatever others may think of dreams, my opinion is that, like rumours, they may sometimes be believed and sometimes treated as idle tales…
– Giraldus Cambrensis, in Medieval Ghost Stories, ed. Andrew Joynes. Adapted from The Conquest of Ireland in The Historical Works of Giraldus Cambrensis, ed. and trans. T. Wright, London 1863.
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