I'm not good at taking pics but I can't wait to dig into the Veneziad tomorrow.
Saw the Epic of Gilgamesh video Red did a few years back and got to the very end.
She mentioned not giving much a thought to the Fate Franchise (completely fair), though I am a bit surprised she never saw Fate/Zero (the show that debuted Alexander the Great and pretty highly acclamined amongst anime fans).
Is there any reason she has given to her apathy / disgust?
Finally finished this, wanted to display these all together so I painted a canvas and put the pins in order
I had a stupid crossover idea while considering how many times Sherlock Holmes has faced off with Cthulhu, and that made me think about how many tropes show up specifically in official crossover stories. Some are allowed to be canon, some are retconned as soon as they happen and impact nothing. Didn't know if this counted as a meme or a suggestion, so no clue how this works.
I think it makes him really unique among history nerds, that he got into it (academically) primarily through art history. So his speciality is mostly in culture and personalities.
But his Poland video where he completely omits the winged hussars, or ottoman video where he omits the Janissaries were, in my opinion, massive gaping holes.
It’s like talking about British imperial history without mentioning the navy. I get their memed to death but the Winged Hussars MADE the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth the dominant power in Eastern Europe, so much so that they occupied Moscow itself during the Time of Troubles. And Ottoman imperial history is dominated by Janissaries both on and off the battlefield, how they became a major controlling force in Ottoman politics that they essentially controlled multiple Sultans before their dissolution.
Most history nerds do focus too much on the military stuff because we’re little kids who got into history for the cool battles, but they still play an important role in how history developed.
