needsmoarlizards:

swedishjazz:

If you want to read somethign delightful tonight:

here’s a link to scans of a collection of England’s first advice column magazine, started in 1690.

It covers such timeless questions as :

“Who do I choose – boring, fuckboy, or money?”

“Is it ok to wear makeup?” (the answer was: “everybody wears perukes, because it’s xviith century England, and that’s also altering one’s appearance, so it’s fair to say that yeah.”)

That one anon that just NEEDS to hear your opinion on a character.

Hard-hitting question.

“I have a psychic dog, is that sick or what? Also my entire family is dead because this is xviith century England.”

And then, of course, there’s questions that are at the same time very set in their time period, and also somethign you might as well see on the front page of reddit: “help, I discovered my wife is my daughter, should I tell her if I know it might kill her?”; “help, I married a woman who’s now taking all my money and abusing the shit out of me, all I want is a nap”; “is it chill to throw witches in ponds or nah?”.

What an amazing history lesson. What a fine collection of politely-presented earlie shytpostes. Juicy, juicy 300-years old drama.

@cakesandfail @trumpetsandbookmarks @lana-del-creys