wintersoldierfell:

brokje:

divinedorothy:

do you ever think about how fucked you’d be in medieval times with your weak eyesight, asthma and homosexual tendencies

#not to mention the witchcraft

you’d be COMPLETELY FINE. 

1. medieval Europeans were ALL ABOUT OPTICS. They studied it, wrote about it extensively, and used magnifying lenses to read. 

2. the asthma is a little bit more of an issue, because they didn’t have inhalers, but on the other hand (a) one major hypothesis for the cause of asthma is that modern-day humans aren’t exposed to enough early childhood infections, and (b) even if you don’t buy that theory, what IS true is that we have good evidence that people with disabilities were a normal part of medieval society (and this evidence comes largely from the peasant class, not the upper classes). 

3. medieval Europeans were GAY AS HELL they just didn’t talk about it the same way we do. research on this is still hotly debated but basically there was a ton of hot nun-on-nun and knight-on-knight action. we didn’t invent the gays ok

4. you were more likely to be killed for being the wrong type of Christian or for being Jewish than you were for witchcraft, and even that was mostly in the post-medieval period. The Spanish Inquisition (of Monty Python fame) is early modern, not medieval. And by the way guess whether it was more dangerous to be Jewish in the 12th century or in the 20th century. Go on, guess

5. like i’m not saying it was super awesome to live without penicillin or sewer systems but basically history is not one long line of progress pointing up. a lot of things sucked in the past that don’t suck now, but other things suck way more now than they did in the past, and some things are just different as heckpants. in conclusion, what did the middle ages ever do to you, they just wanna illuminate manuscripts and drink a lot of beer ok