History Buff Thread

[fleacollerindustry]

before tuberculosis was discovered to be a bacteria, it was heavily romanticized prominently in the victorian era: pale skin, flushed cheeks (to emulate fever) thin bodies, languid appearance, n some would even dilate their pupils with belladonna
consumptive chic by carolyn day is also a good read

Consumptive chic walked so heroin chic could run

 

[Heidi the girl]

I get congress to carve a monument of me riding Murders with a scepter and crown on both of us.

That'll do AI, that'll do

 

[Quence]

Fine, if that's the case, we should just go all out.

I go back in time and train a T-Rex to trust me through trial and error with my "unable to kill me" ray, which stops working conveniently after I got him to let me ride him on a saddle. Also, the T-Rex is named Murders. Murders and I then go to the Alamo with a temporary blinding high power LED and stop everyone from fighting each other. One dick tries to shoot a cannon at Murders, but his sweat gets on the wick and puts it out. I have Murders eat this soldier as a warning to others.

Then, I get Murders to help me pull out the massive sound system and start playing metal, point at Santa Ann during the chorus and get him to shit his pants in front of his troops. He flees Mexico for the 25th time. We go on the march to Washington with our new followers on both sides. Occasionally, Murders has to eat one of the prisons to keep him fed.

Once we get to Washington DC, I get congress to carve a monument of me riding Murders with a scepter and crown on both of us. I say to congress "slavery is bad, don't make me fed you to him". After I gain total power and push all of my legislation through, I pull a George Washington and ride off into the sunset with Murders. Murders and I go to the future to steal a spaceship and a nuke. We go back to his time and go far enough out in space to perturb the Chicxulub meteor out of it orbit and the dinosaurs live happily ever after.

All of that is plausible EXCEPT for this part: "slavery is bad“

We both know that having negroes as slaves is the natural order of things.

 

[Heidi the girl]

Cotard's syndrome - sounds like you and your buddy suffering from the same diagnosis. In reality, you either believe you are already dead, don't exist, or are immortal, so you don't need to eat or no longer have organs.