i shan't be quote tweeting the original quote but this is untrue for many reasons, most notably that your entire life was labor from waking to bedtime. peasants weren't clocking in for 5 hour workdays in the field and then scrolling reels on insty all evening.

One of the more interesting aspects of the German Peasant's War was how the burghers co-opted the revolutionary sentiment of the Twelve Articles and channeled it into softer, self-serving reformism in cities like Heilbronn and Nördlingen (Wendel Hipler's "Heilbronn Manifesto" exemplified this).

@cdbunker.bsky.social 's sketch + the current state of the map in game

You know you’re old when the fairly recent videogame you keep meaning to play is suddenly a childhood favorite of adults.

working on terrain + water shader for Ettare project

I could probably give shitty & meandering hour-long talks on: - German Peasants' War + its various anticipatory movements - Feuds in late 1400s & early 1500s HRE - the shift from feudalism to absolutism in Europe (maybe) - Russian revolutionary movements 1870 - 1905 (maybe) - any of my projects ofc

a little drawing of konrad and franz

Trolling is the "simple commodity production" (made for direct use-value) to ragebait's "general commodity production" (production for exchange-value). Trolling is direct and personal, like the work of a feudal handicraftsman, while ragebait is governed by markets, a pure exchange relation.

tried to draw something with rendered figures and decorative background. not someting i'd do regularly, but it was fun #dragonage

posted a new entry. content warning for general unpleasantness the-waltz.neocities.org/chapter-2-1

Nolan: Our film is neither historically curious nor does it bask in the endless inventiveness of mythology. Interviewer: Culturally and aesthetically stripped down to shorthand? Nolan: Tom Holland says “my dad is coming home” while wearing hand-me-downs from a thesis production of Coriolanus, yes

feel kind of ecstatic to finally be posting my story. it's something i've been planning for a long time, and i think, if i'm able to pull it off, it'll be pretty cool

how come i only just learned that "fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights"

posted a little short story/parable thing i wrote a while back the-waltz.neocities.org/extra-prophe...

posted some new writing the-waltz.neocities.org/chapter-1-2

the new bootstrapped Berserk animation isn't very good overall but i'm actually pretty impressed with how well they emulated the 90s anime background art style

i'm going to be posting some of my fiction here: the-waltz.neocities.org/chapter-1-1

this game is really gorgeous and the demo is worth checking out.

a little atmospheric game I'm developing. it's called My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me - short mystery adventure focused on exploration, puzzles, and implicit storytelling. A short ~30 minutes demo is available on Steam. Full release planned for later this year. #gamedev #indie

i finished Piranesi last night. it was good! maybe only slightly disappointing compared to how much it had been hyped up to me

sorry i know this is old at this point (12 days) but the idea of building a triumphal arch without a triumph is so perfectly american. at least the arc de triomphe was celebrating napoleon and the narva gate was celebrating his defeat. bsky.app/profile/kris...

i feel like sometimes people forget Tolkien was a sympathizer of Franco. if Anduril, Palantir etc. were Catholic-coded instead of Protestant- or secular-coded he would probably sympathize with their mission statements.

My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me is really pretty.

neat thing about the czechoslovak socialist coat of arms. they changed the shape of the escutcheon from a typical knightly shield to an infantryman's pavise, to pay homage to the proto-communist hussites.