*waves hello*

[sasha_feather]

Hello! I am doing decently well right now. Not much energy for reading, but trying to write a little bit. I am enjoying Joy Fest and finding the low-pressure prompts to be inspiring. It's a fest for celebrating characters of color. I have 2 stories going.

Joy Fest rules post is here:
https://longwhitecoats.dreamwidth.org/180511.html

Prompts are here:
https://longwhitecoats.dreamwidth.org/180918.html

Reading Old Guard fic reminded me of how ignorant I am about world history. I never learned it in school: I had one world history class in middle school, but I was afraid of the teacher (incorrectly, it turned out). You don't retain much knowledge when you're afraid of your teacher.

So anyways, I asked a friend for YouTube recs, and I'm going to watch John Greene's Crash Course series:

https://thecrashcourse.com/courses/worldhistory1?page=2

He talks super fast, but the length of each episode is short, and it's entertaining.

Comments

[sovay]

Hello! I am doing decently well right now. Not much energy for reading, but trying to write a little bit.

Nice to hear from you! Enjoy!

[sasha_feather]

Aw thanks! :D

[jesse_the_k]

He is a chatterbox!

The captions are fine, and if you watch on YouTube you can see them as a transcript. Right under the video there's a line starting with :up-thumb: -- the last item is the three-dots menu. Click there and choose "Open Transcript" to read the captions as a document.

(I just started watching the Dark Ages -- "possibly the most egregious Eurocentrism in all of history" and I'm hooked.)

[sasha_feather]

I'm going to investigate if I can slow down the videos.