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Fuck Yeah, History Major Heraldic Beast

Those who forget the past are doomed to fail the midterm.

The History Major Heraldic Beast will post anything pertaining to any field of history. The beast is aware that right now this blog is mostly western European/American history, but those have been the submissions popping up in the inbox. Don't be afraid to submit your wry observations about the Mali empire, or the Ming dynasty, or Clovis culture, or the effects of Soviet collectivization on the indigenous people of northeastern Siberia. They will be posted.

If it's tagged "submission", I neither made it nor wrote the commentary beneath it, unless the words "The Beast Says" are involved.

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  • Whoadamn

    Have received quite a few messages about the comment on that last meme, accusing it/Beast of kink-shaming. 

    The joke in the comment is not that BDSM is wrong or inherently non-consensual. ‘Cause it’s not.

    The joke in the comment is that Christian Grey does not practice risk aware consensual kink and that is a very, very bad and unhealthy thing

    If you feel the need to sexually humiliate people because it feels good reenacting a revenge fantasy on a manipulated woman standing in for your absent mother then wow that is creepy and wrong and borderline serial killer behavior

    also creepy and wrong and borderline serial killer behavior: poisoning prostitutes and writing 120 Days and Juliet and excusing your crimes against humanity with “but I’m a  PHILOSOPHER and a LIBERTINE!”

    no you are creepy and wrong and actually a sex offender and the Beast is more than passing glad that Napoleon put a bounty on your bewiggèd head. Even if your characters are more original than Bizarro Edward. Even if you can make your prose about nubile young virgins pooping on themselves and rolling around in it sound, if not erotic, then at least vaguely poetic. 

    Both de Sade and Snowqueens Icedragon James are generally authors to put on the Avoid list, unless you take a historical interest in one aristocrat’s philosophy of libertinage in post-Revolutionary France/that time the publishing industry pooped on itself and rolled around in it and called it erotic.

    I guess the bottom line is if you like either or both of them that’s fine but hojeez please don’t take them for actual real life guidebooks

    Tagged: forgive rambling the beast is halfway through a white russian he's quite crunchy

    Posted on July 14, 2012 with 98 notes

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