A personal blog for my photos and interests. From Bulgaria. Studying linguistics in the Netherlands rn. fannish side blog highfalutining
*tumblr has messed up theme&fonts, disregard them plsanyway remember how act 1 of hamlet is set “in that season wherein our saviour’s birth is celebrated”? we have textual proof that the first act takes place around christmas time and still no modern-day production will give me the meeting of the danish court reimagined as an awkward family christmas dinner. imagine claudius making his speech while carving a turkey and wearing an embarrassing paper crown. imagine hamlet glaring at everyone from across a plate of sprouts. imagine hamlet doing o that this too too solid flesh would melt (yeah hamlet i know that post-christmas lunch feel) in a black snowman jumper. in scene 4 when hamlet’s saying the king keeps wassail and the swaggering upspring reels claudius is dad-dancing to shakin’ stevens in the background.
richard scarry sweets love these! his books were some of my favorites as a kid
Weihnachtsmarkt in Kleve, Deutschland
Glühwein, Reibekuchen und Currywurst. Krass!
Hey guys? Maybe its bad that all social interactions online are owned and controlled by private american companies….
Something that really grinds my gears: stereotyping ‘cavemen’ as talking ‘primitively’ like they didn’t have the capacity for complex language. Since homo sapiens speciated we have had the FOXP2 gene which is a big part of our capacity for complex language. So yes, ‘primitive cavemen’ COULD speak to each other in complex ways. You know what other species could as well? Our cousin species, homo neanderthalensis because they ALSO had the gene, and the Denisovans another human cousin species also most likely had it. Hell, there’s a chance that the ancestor species of us and our cousin species may have had it too ~400,000 years ago.
Stop it with this stupid caveman shit, they were definitely not unintelligent because of their ‘primitive’ technology. They were hunter gatherers that used their environments efficiently. Equating technological capacity with intelligence ignores so much context that gave rise to new forms of tech, and sees societies through a Western lens in which there is the belief that all human societies value exactly the same things (like technology and a ‘march towards progress’). There are Hunter-Gatherer societies in the world today, are they stupid? The correct answer to that is no.
