there are exactly 5 vibes people can give off: 1. angel 2. nature guru 3. chaotic 4. evil 5. nerd

• some massively successful marketer at wotc

nuh UH there are so many more how could you forget about color pie 2 which introduces such vibes as:

-mushroom gay
-slime gay
-vegan
-overly aggressive carnivore always talking about how much they love steak
-catholic
-narc
-cop
-nerd again
-pervert
-evil clown

Being raised by areligious jews with 0 exposure to christianity outside pop culture is so fun. One time I asked my ex-catholic friend why a picture of jesus had a bristle crown and she looked at me like I was insane. One time I heard someone mention the "lance of longinus" and responded, word for word, "Like from Evangelion?" One time during a history lesson my professor described an important monk and scholar as "Dominican" and I spent the rest of class super confused and hung up on it because I was very sure that the Dominican Republic didn't meaningfully exist as an entity back then, maybe she meant he was a native Taino or something but that's a weird way to say that and I'm pretty sure this was pre- European contact? Really fucks people up when they realize I genuinely have no idea.

This but it's my partner taking an art history class in college and the professor looking at them like they grew a second head when they answered "What came out of Jesus' wound when he was stabbed on the cross" with "...Blood?"

Additions that prove my point by mystifying me because what on earth would come out of a nail wound besides blood. Are you telling me it was something besides blood. What was jesus full of that wasn't blood. You guys are scaring me

due to the school system utterly failing me I have had a whole lot of gaping blind spots when it comes to history that I have slowly in my adult life been filling in as the mood strikes. next time I feel like doing that I should hit up napoleon. No fucking clue what that guy's whole situation was but he sure does come up a lot.

#so essentially my history education just screeched to a halt once I graduated middle school

In my experience, high school history doesn't teach you very much about Napoleon either. My high school history teachers only talked about him as a footnote to the French Revolution or the other side of the Louisiana Purchase. My US history teacher sucked, but my world history teacher was genuinely good - the curriculum just didn't talk about Napoleon!

huh, is he less important than cultural osmosis would lead me to believe? or is it just that, well, "the history of all of human civilization" is kind of a big subject

things I (think I) know:

-very successful general (in what war(s)? who knows)

-french, I guess

-maybe got exiled a few times? think I picked that up from tumblr

-short

I could recognize a caricature of the dude in a cartoon easy but I could not tell you a single specific thing he ever did

moreso the latter; the problem with teaching world history between 1400 and 2000 to a bunch of 16 year olds in just two semesters is that there is way too much stuff to talk about, so you have to pick and choose what to cover. We focused a lot on European and Chinese exploration by ship, the revolutions in the Americas and France, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and then the usual 20th-century stuff which becomes pretty global (world wars, decolonization, etc). Europe between 1800 and 1914 wasn't really discussed.

I don't know a ton about Napoleon either, but he did get exiled twice, and he participated in the aptly named Napoleonic Wars, where he tried to get control over a bunch of other parts of Europe. He was the Emperor of France then, though; I think he was a general before that? As far as cultural importance goes, it seems to me that he had a pretty big impact on Europe, but much less of an impact on other parts of the world. European history tends to be disproportionately commonly studied in English-speaking countries, for various reasons (some justified, some not), so probably that's why people like to talk about Napoleon?

oh yeah ok megalomania does ring a bell a tiny bit with cultural osmosis stuff. wait hold up was he doing his shit when boats were still wooden with sails and all? early 1800s yeah ok. I love tall ships, it’s a crime that I don’t know more about this. I think I might have a very tenuous association with him and naval warfare? unless I’m just making that up?

wait is master & commander set– omg I just looked it up, the audiobook I’m in the middle of is set during the napoleonic wars, i guess my idle musing that i should read more historical fiction to get a better vague notion of The Past is already coming true!

wow I can just make any posts I want on this thing huh

the worst people can do is unfollow me* if i annoy them but unfortunately that is the same as shooting me with a gun**

what if i just lost it. what if i just lost my shit the entirety of it

due to the school system utterly failing me I have had a whole lot of gaping blind spots when it comes to history that I have slowly in my adult life been filling in as the mood strikes. next time I feel like doing that I should hit up napoleon. No fucking clue what that guy's whole situation was but he sure does come up a lot.

#so essentially my history education just screeched to a halt once I graduated middle school

In my experience, high school history doesn't teach you very much about Napoleon either. My high school history teachers only talked about him as a footnote to the French Revolution or the other side of the Louisiana Purchase. My US history teacher sucked, but my world history teacher was genuinely good - the curriculum just didn't talk about Napoleon!

huh, is he less important than cultural osmosis would lead me to believe? or is it just that, well, “the history of all of human civilization” is kind of a big subject

things I (think I) know:

-very successful general (in what war(s)? who knows)

-french, I guess

-maybe got exiled a few times? think I picked that up from tumblr

-short

I could recognize a caricature of the dude in a cartoon easy but I could not tell you a single specific thing he ever did

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happy Zelda day y'all.
Here's the dragons I drew from BotW some years ago because I basically always loved Zelda's dragon designs.

I wish more people used Magic the Gathering's Color Pie instead of D&D's alignment all of the time.

Like, saying a character embodies the selfishness and impulsivenes of Red Black offers more depth than Chaotic Evil

It’s substantially deeper.