music Dolores • 4 weeks ago • 95%

and you should provide me with a good one to read! I've always thought it was weird a conductor was viewed as in 'charge' of people who are all using sheet music but I also know that a central coordinator that tells everyone to start and shit is probably important how much influence does a conductor have? how do they interact with the other artists artistically *and economically*? i would love to peer into this a little bit

askchapo Dolores • 1 month ago • 100%

be prepared to defend your answers with citations. this is a Serious Question and i want Serious Answers as is the custom of Hexbear Serious Academic Roundtable

memes Dolores • 3 months ago • 98%

true archvillainy requires the wisdom of volcel juche

worldbuilding Dolores • 5 months ago • 100%

so i had a dream where a group and i were magically summoning like, liquid stone and by-hand forming it into walls--this is clearly half-baked and inefficient--so how would YOU make or enhance construction processes using magic, sci-fi technology, or fictional materials?

askchapo Dolores • 5 months ago • 100%

videos, short books, etc. im looking for it as supplementary resources for other reading im doing, i don't need intricate histories of scholars just what the schools are, why they're different, how that manifested in politics

askchapo Dolores • 6 months ago • 100%

hoping for some basic, short answers from the socialist perspective before i have to look at big books like literally called "The National Question in Yugoslavia" for context i understand basically nothing about post-ottoman developments in the balkans, so feel free to start with what the fuck a 'Yugoslavia' was supposed to be before socialism too.  thanks in advance you wise Hexbeariens

history Dolores • 9 months ago • 100%

Pantjikent is in the Zeravshan valley, and served as a capital for sogdiana at a few points. notice the elements of buddhist, iranian, and turkic/chinese influence

videos Dolores • 10 months ago • 100%

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you shouldnt let poets lie to you

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2 of you that click on this do not realise that 2020 was 3 years ago. almost 4

askchapo Dolores • 10 months ago • 100%

specifically right now/recently. what are the recruitment paths, who do they draw? has it changed much? how different is the officers' disposition from the enlisted? im reading about the Grande Armeé rn so naturally im curious about existing systems

movies Dolores • 10 months ago • 100%

i really hoped it was exaggerated but damn, comrades. this a british movie with british sympathies and *unforgivably* british casting these fuckers didn't even try! yankee accents standing in for the french, i could accept, so long as they were different from the motherfucking english. but HALF of the french characters are fucking british?!?!?! under spoilers for space, there is not anything to be 'spoiled' from this: ::: spoiler spoiler comically miscast historical personages who we've got dozens of portraits of: Alexander of Russia, unaccountably not bald Francis of Austria, unaccountably fat Robespierre played by a man who was made to look **exactly** like Danton??? and the salt in the wound is of course, The Duellists. a film of infinitely superior historical calibre and consistency from the SAME fucking director. character assassination of the Comité de Salut Public (typical of a fucking englishman) caricature of both Thermidor and Brumaire, which you wouldn't think is possible as they were of utterly separate political persuasions, but of course they did that a calculated removal of the Revolutionary Calendar no effort whatsoever, in fact intentional mystification around the nature and sympathies of the imperial nobility, trying to play it like it was a return of the Ancien Regime i did like that Talleyrand was shown to be a devil on the shoulder, but it was not treated with that he was a traitorous sleaze ::: finally, things i liked: 1792 issue french uniforms appeared in limited edition at Toulon 1798 issue austrian did as well, though apparently only for voltiguers/jaegers at austerlitz? Thomas-Alexandre Dumas appeared in multiple scenes, *but was not named* which is super fucking awful Josephine had a prominent role. and yes, we could do a whole additional post about how anachronistic the women's costumes were, but she generally looked very cute and i'm grasping at straws for things to appreciate here

history Dolores • 11 months ago • 100%

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i mean they're probably just a demsoc but damn, it's some nice agitprop putting things into perspective

history Dolores • 12 months ago • 100%

[There's many more mosaics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Romana_del_Casale) this is just one i found while researching romans and their exotic animal keeping.

this is compelling in a lot of ways. this is Childeric III, the last puppet merovingian. the mark of merovingian kingship was--quite uncommonly in history--the longest hair. he is being shorn and involuntarily entered into monastery, a treatment common to defeated claimants to the merovingian kingship. he was the last, though, so there's a finality to it

history Dolores • 1 year ago • 100%

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we stan a volcel queen so dedicated to her oath she physically beat up every potential suitor   

videos Dolores • 1 year ago • 100%

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Mr Video Games is the Meme King of 2019

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i dont think they are

games Dolores • 1 year ago • 100%

[LIVE THE 15th CENTURY in 1448 THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE](https://www.moddb.com/mods/tsardoms-total-war/downloads/tsardoms-1448-campaign-fall-of-constantinople) BECOME Mehmet, CONQUER Konstantinoupolis. MORE factions. MORE HISTORICAL SCRIPTS. a historical experience unparalleled in the M2TW modscene they also have a 14th century release, it's very good and fun too

games Dolores • 1 year ago • 0%

you got fucking kings, Torygg, Helseth, living gods of the Tribunal.... under an "Emperor"? who puts some garrisons around but does.... what exactly? theres an "East Empire Trading Company"? whats that do? it kinda seems like a holy roman empire, kinda seems like a regular roman empire. they've got knights, dukes, but a Legion... yes i know the answer is technically "these jackoffs just made it up as they went" and don't care a lick about political theory but this is exactly the kind of excercise that makes fun speculative historiography

history Dolores • 2 years ago • 0%

i know a good number of us have been listening to Hell on Earth and while it's been a decent primer for the sequence of events---the takes are quite spicy for historiography heads here are the questions for the class: What is Feudalism? When did Feudalism End?

fitness Dolores • 2 years ago • 0%

Are they good, bad, ugly? Paleo, Keto, Atkins etc. what's the deal? my instinct is they're all scams but i ain't no expert

history Dolores • 2 years ago • 100%

i think a lot about just how many people fascism and the right are alienating and trying to oppress and i really wonder if everyone else in history didn't have the same kind of sense. i dont think they did, but is that our 'enlightened' bias? did thomas mueztner expect peasant women to be an integral part of his peasant rebellion??? but anyway intersectionality and firearms are what really give me hope so dont ruin that for me

history Dolores • 2 years ago • 0%

What are the skills and knowledge you could actually bring & fully realize at some point in the past? And we're taking this in the strictest, nerdiest, materialist lense. I don't care how smart you are you ain't making a steam engine the in bronze age, for instance. So what could you create, with just your knowledge & period tools? What kind of institutional, technological, philosophical innovations could you realistically recreate? How would you interface with the social fabric of society to not be some crazed pariah who never positively influences the place they went?