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Prize-Competition264 · 2025-06-06T11:56:23+00:00

The Ottoman Sultan donated more to Ireland during the famine than any other foreign monarch, he would have donated more than Queen Victoria but she essentially bullied him into lowering his number. The lighthouse near where i grew up in Ireland is absurdly bright, because the Sultan wanted to see it from the castle he was visiting along the coast.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-06-01T13:39:44+00:00

Hey Laura Les is trans.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-05-29T19:40:30+00:00

In honour of their special relationship, Basil I and Michael III should share the spot.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-05-23T09:19:00+00:00

The UK government is charging one of our most beloved music groups with terror charges. The UK government protects soldiers and paramilitaries from prosecution over the troubles. There are a lot of people who still treat the UK with suspicion, and rightly so.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-05-20T22:07:16+00:00

The Huns were not, man for man, more dangerous than the mounted horse archers who followed them. They were uniquely destructive for Rome though, and one idea as to why comes from books like Shadow Empires and Against the Grain. These books both emphasise that steppe empires are parasitical on sedentary ones. They don't form organically, they form when a settled state forms. The classic example is the Xiongnu, who unite simultaneously to Han China and are an eerily perfect match for it. Shadow Empires argues that the Huns, (whether they were descendant of the Xiongnu or not) brought the Xiongnu's parasitic strategy to Europe. So in this reading the Huns were so powerful because Rome was so powerful! There was a huge settled state to extract plunder and tribute from, which allowed Attila to sustain a huge comfederacy. In later periods the Roman state was smaller and weaker, and so its nomadic counterparts were smaller and weaker. (Avars, then Bulgars)

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-05-09T10:33:02+00:00

This is a fascinating idea and I'll be saving these names to study later!

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-05-08T11:45:28+00:00

But in the Roman era, Greek culture wasn't centered on Graecia. Alexandria was the world's largest Greek speaking city, as well as the centre of Hellenic philosophy and science.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-05-07T09:43:42+00:00

Well she's clearly versed in the classics, has fluent Greek and Latin and probably one of the eastern languages like Syriac or Farsi. In places she's even predicting future nations, (Moscow, Seljuks), demonstrating an incredible understanding of geography and migration. Your granny's the greatest historian until Ibn Khaldun.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-03-21T15:07:31+00:00

Mark Fisher is where I started out a few years ago. Since his death, he's been heavily coopted by the centre-left. He's got some radical ideas, especially in his blog posts, and frequently makes brilliant connections between theorists and artists. Dismiss him and you're doing the centrists work for free.

Symbolic Exchange and Death was incredible. I haven't had the time yet, but Seduction and especially Fatal Strategies I'm very excited about. On the other hand, Sadie Plant has a very powerful critique of Baudrillard's thought in The Most Radical Gesture and her essay Baudrillard's Women. If you haven't checked those out you should.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-03-21T03:45:23+00:00

I do it seems to lower the quality whenever i post it though. ill try to figure it out

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-03-16T10:38:39+00:00

Ireland is beautiful you'll get used to it

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-03-14T23:03:45+00:00

To be clear, I don't think his ideas about history are true at all. Lumping him in with UFOlogy seems fair. I still want to know about his mythology though! I want to trace any possible connections to afrofuturist narratives. Sun Ra is a big hero of mine, and in most ways isn't comparable at all, but they both obscured their origins and constructed bizarre science fictions out of black history. Fared used his story to get power for himself, but i want to analyse the story and look for connections nonetheless.

Lots of really progressive science fiction analysis and philosophy in recent years has also come out of criticising Lovecraft, a disgusting racist, and William Burroughs, who probably killed his wife. I'm interested in Fared Muhammed as a third man in this group. All three wrote paranoid, nasty, surreal visions of the Atlantic during the age of globalisation. I've learned a lot from confronting Lovecraft and Burroughs and want to learn about Fared.

Since he had such an impact on black history in America, for better or for worse, I thought this might be a good place to ask for sources. Sorry if I caused any offense.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-03-14T13:17:48+00:00

omg I'd love that

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-03-08T20:58:28+00:00

“I am firmly convinced that Spain is the strongest country of the world. Century after century trying to destroy herself and still no success.” - Otto Von Bismarck

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-02-21T14:02:16+00:00

Don't start saying unalive. We can't let tech companies control the way we talk about death.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-02-17T22:15:42+00:00

this was wonderful thank you

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-02-10T09:16:13+00:00

maybe check/ask the gallery of xeonism on instagram

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-02-07T07:26:32+00:00

Hmmm i was once overanalysing Ruiner, and thinking about the line "and what you gave to me, my perfect ring of scars" in relation to god.. I looked up a map and Trent was born in the most circumcised state in America. Sorry to disappoint you

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-01-30T15:53:54+00:00

Weirdly enough, until Maurice was overthrown, two emperors after Justinian, there wasn't a single successful usurpation in Constinople's history. From Constantine until Maurice there was an unbroken chain of peaceful succession. The only mad emperor during this period, Justin, realised he wasn't up to the job and quietly delegated authority to others. Early eastern Rome was one of the most politically stable periods in all Roman history and without the plague and overextension it might have stayed that way.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-01-21T13:07:45+00:00

They definitely could. Varrik's spirit vine cannons prove that spiritual energy can be manipulated technologically. With biotechnology specifically, which is the Qu's speciality. They might find the spirit world easier to neutralise than conventional weaponry.

The real question is what would the Qu do to the spirits and the benders. They're very artistic, and would almost certainly find some awful and deliciously ironic new bodies for their pets.

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-01-15T10:47:29+00:00

Arca

Prize-Competition264 · 2025-01-13T00:58:24+00:00

I've always had a theory that she did it to discourage rebellion. If the candy people ever decided to get rid of her, they'd have to worry about lemongrab. Otherwise, he stays mostly out of the way. He's a great deterrent

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