Tag: maharanis

alicehoffmans:

I really cannot overstate …. how much I hate like…when a blogger and/or Tudor fiction author will say smth along the lines of ‘you should trust me because I’m not a historian’.

Implication being, I suppose, that historians go out of their way to lie to their readers or audience or w/e and I don’t really feel like that’s the case?

It’s more like they’re communicating their interpretation of events. And of course, you can take or leave that, and there’s nothing wrong with a healthy dose of skepticism and I think you should always check the primary source they reference to see quotes in context when you can ….

At the same time; being so blasély dismissive of experts (and the sort of…my interpretation is the only valid one; I’m the only person devoid of bias and sentiment, tone that tends to go along with that) kind of feels like the history-circle version of extreme conspiracy theorists’ ‘Fake News’ and tbh?? I don’t care for it.

@maharanis tbh, it’s…especially frustrating when author in question has a tumblr, is like Here Is My Controversial Take With 0 Evidence, and 0 Historians that Endorse It and the response is like. 72k notes shshhs

here’s a story!: so when my family traveled to Spain some years ago, I was very much into art/art history (still am!). At the Museo del Prado, we didn’t do a tour as I sort of acted as my fam’s guide throughout the museum. I guess I did a good job, because multiple small groups of other tourists came up to me wanting to join my tour thinking I was an official guide!! (I seriously should’ve said yes and started charging 💸)

Ah, that is also so cool! You should have for sure~ 💸

3 assumptions: you like tea, are more of a cat person, & can read/understand more than one language (watch me be completely wrong lol)

First two are totally true, third is kind of true? I can read maybe…idk…1st grade level Spanish shshsh and I understand maybe a bit more if I hear it spoken. Due to a combination of things, most of which I can’t really take credit for: one high school class, living in Southern California for a few years, taking a weekly group class (like…twas hosted at a cafe), watching a lot of telenovelas etc.