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[personal profile] gridlore
Yeah, you know the other day when I posted about the cool mod I found for Civ VI that changed the name of the Ottoman capital from Istanbul to the more correct Ḳosṭanṭīnīye? With a title promising death to anyone who mentioned THAT song? Well, guess what?

One idiot not only mentioned that fucking song, but HE also POSTED A VIDEO OF THE ORIGINAL VERSION.

Wanna know what's fucked up about PTSD? The weirdest things become triggers. This has been a trigger for me since we were planning the trip back in 2015 and every single post I made in the find raiser telling about the sights we hoped to see, etc., had at least one numbskull mentions that song.

This is why it sets me off. That city on the Bosphorus has been there for 2,600 years. It's been part of four empires, and the capital of two of them. There are wonders there from across history. I fell in love with the city as a teenager when I started seriously reading history looking for something different for my AD&D games.

So when I wrote about the Aqueduct of Valens, constructed in 368 CE and still in use in 1911 when a more modern water system was installed, seeing six replies quoting that song tells me that something I love and am trying to share with people means nothing more than a minor pop hit.

It fucking triggers my PTSD. Got it?

Now, this asshole had a long history of posting off-topic replies to my posts, often veering off into deep left field. Since I had made a clear warning, I deleted his post and blocked him.

He then came back on his LiveJournal account to whine about how unfair I was being. Fuck him.

Seriously, if I'm talking about the Queen of Cities under any of its names, never even reference that song.

Date: 28 Aug 2020 21:51 (UTC)
filkerdave: (oh good god)
From: [personal profile] filkerdave
What a dick (not you, him)

Date: 28 Aug 2020 22:03 (UTC)
dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)
From: [personal profile] dewline
There's always got to be one damn fool who takes offense at such warnings, not even thinking to ask why the warning was given. Just "how DARE they" and off they go.

Date: 28 Aug 2020 23:07 (UTC)
kevin_standlee: (ConOps)
From: [personal profile] kevin_standlee
He was warned. You've written about this before. He deserved it.

Date: 2 Sep 2020 13:49 (UTC)
melchar: (zombies)
From: [personal profile] melchar
This! A truckload of this!

Aqueduct

Date: 28 Aug 2020 23:48 (UTC)
elderwitty: (Judith and her maidservant  - artemesia)
From: [personal profile] elderwitty
Was the aqueduct completely disused, or did they still use it for agricultural stuff? It would seem a waste to totally shut it down.

Re: Aqueduct

Date: 29 Aug 2020 11:29 (UTC)
elderwitty: a square silver fruit basket with ivory handle. the sides are vertical slots over a grid of 3 rows of small squares (Josef Hoffman - silver & ivory fruit bas)
From: [personal profile] elderwitty
Aha. Thanks for the info.

I was picturing it being replaced by modernizers who wanted 'new for new's sake'. I should've considered it being a necessary infrastructure update.

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