i just love old things so much. i love standing in a ruin knowing that it was once a city or a building real people lived and walked in, or seeing a weapon someone used to wield to fight for a nation that no longer exists, or a statue of someone who’s been dead for thousands of years. i love hearing songs that have been sung for centuries, or eating foods with ancient recipes. i love the idea that even when people have passed and civilisations have fallen there are still little pieces of the past we can feel today.
Why did we ever stop wearing 18th century clothing
to wear 19th century clothing you Georgian rake
These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine, “The Crisis,” 1776 (via beggars-opera)
sometimes im really glad i was born at the time i was, because i watch a lot of videos of people doing “old world” artisan shit and in the age of me being able to see virtually anything ever on the internet and being just short of able to DO anything ever, that is still the coolest shit on earth to me, and im worried that if i was born in the 1500s or something and i made a day trip to pick up a new barrel to salt cure my meats in or whatever, i would just like, see the cooper doing his shit and just lose it
the local smithy in 1581: *beating some red hot metal shit with a BIG ass hammer*
Allllllright so here we are, as promised, a masterpost of some of the crazy stuff that has happened in the One Direction fandom since the beginning of time. This list definitely isn’t exhaustive because I’m pretty sure it’s virtually impossible for someone to remember absolutely everything so feel free to message me/reblog with additions, but with that said lets get going:
This is the greatest progression of events I have ever read, where’s my historical gay romance novel about this
KING JAMES, CAN YOU CHILL?
Local King Cannot Stop Promoting His Boyfriend
where’s the lush period drama about this series of events?
fun thing about king James, this guy was fairly public about his bf (more public than what was acceptable). He threw lots of extravagant parties with his man on his arm. It pissed off the church obviously so to get them off his back, he’s the one that ordered the third translation of the Bible from Hebrew to English (the King James Version aka the Authorized Version) so the Bible every hot blooded all American Christian reads today was literally just written so a very gay king could fuck his boyfriend in peace.
what makes you beautiful or drag me down? one thing or little things? best song ever or where do broken hearts go? story of my life or infinity? you & i or 18? happily or stockholm syndrome? summer love or fool’s gold? rock me or temporary fix? over again or love you goodbye? through the dark or fireproof? no control or never enough? stole my heart or c’mon c’mon?
history or stand up?
326 Miles 