okay the biggest upside of my office job, currently, is that i lowkey forgot it was 9/11 all day because all the news i read now is Extremely Niche Mortgage Finance News and it’s all aflutter right now because it’s been 10 years since the housing meltdown and so no one had time for islamophobia or jingoism today because SHOULD FANNIE AND FREDDIE BE TAKEN OUT OF CONSERVANCY????? IS THE HOUSING MARKET OVERHEATING???? and while it’s not exactly riveting it also doesn’t fill me with rage so like that’s nice
Some of the new items from my fave D&D NPC’s refurbished Slightly-Cursed Items Shop, in which she sells my players items ranging from effectively useless to legitimately deadly – but always entertaining. Feel free to use these tragedies!
UH SCUSE an first of these things sound EXTREMLY ROOD
all of henry viii’s wives deserved better. their husband was a piece of shit and most of them have been made to look like whores or bitches when in reality most of them were in pressured into marry him and suffered abuse at the hands of a monster who was willing to murder and destroy the lives of women he supposedly loved simply to get what he wanted
nothing gives me more pleasure than the fact that the only thing henry viii is known for is the women in his life. his wives, his mother, mary, elizabeth. eat a dick, henry, the women in your life are what made you memorable.
One of my favourite historical phenomena is technology that’s based on a totally off-the-wall theory about how the world works, but ends up being sort of effective because it’s close enough. Like those old-timey plague doctor masks, whose enormous beaks are an enclosed breathing apparatus stuffed full of dried aromatic herbs on the theory that disease is communicated by the odour of decay – which is completely wrong, of course, but the masks ended up being reasonable effective at their purpose anyway because it turns out that sticking a big wad of dried plant matter in front of your airway is a pretty effective way to avoid inhaling aerosolised bodily fluids.
My favorite is the fact that scurvy was cured, and then un-cured because a bunch of perfectly sensible and intelligent people didn’t know what a vitamin was.
what i do is not up to you 