I SWEAR TO GOD I just saw an interview on here where Tobias talks about how sexy “Cats” is but I couldn’t find it again so I drew this with Phil in case I’m actually insane and I made the whole thing up
Anyway once that connection was made I couldn’t unsee it. The similarities between Copia running around in his sparkly jacket and Mister Mistofeles are so strong. Every time I see one of the Papas acting freaky onstage I’m gonna think of the fucking Rum Tum Tugger and now hopefully you will too.
genuinely can’t stop laughing at nintendo rereleasing the virtual boy and fixing NONE of the many problems that make it terrible, but instead they added MORE problems and made it even worse. 10/10 masterful gambit
Nothing more frustrating than talking about history with people on the internet who don’t understand how averages work.
You’ll be like “it’s so tragic that this happened to this historical figure, she was so young”, and some dipshit will be like “um actually the average life expectancy was only like 35 in those days so she really wasn’t that young for the time at all 😌”, and you have to explain that that “average life expectancy” is heavily skewed by the incredibly high infant and child mortality rate of the time, and that people who lived to adulthood and lived normal lives did in fact usually live to their 60s or older. Elderly people did in fact exist in the old days.
Then of course you also have to explain that no, child marriages were not “normal” in those days, they were purely political moves carried out by royalty, something the vast majority of the population did not happen to be.
Yes, the Empress Matilda was married off at 8 years old. She also then became Holy Roman Empress at 14 and led an army at 15, she’s hardly a case study into what the average young girl was up to in medieval Europe, is she.
