History Major Heraldic Beast Meme Generator

The pub quiz asks which year something happened, and your team turns to you as one. You know it, and you also know the three years people confuse it with. You give the answer in four words and spend the walk home on the other forty.

Someone at dinner says Napoleon was tiny, or that medieval people never washed. You put your fork down slowly. Nobody asked, but a correction has been building in you since the starter.

A relative mentions a box of old letters in the loft, "just boring family stuff". You are already in the car. You do not remember agreeing to leave, but the box is on your lap and you are reading very carefully.

The film says "based on true events" and then puts the wrong uniform in the first scene. You can enjoy the rest of it. You just won't, and the person next to you has a long evening ahead.

Why it caught on: the picture shows a winged, black-and-silver dragon in the style of a heraldic beast, set over pieces of an old handwritten manuscript and gold ornamental panels. It was used as a background for the history student's version of the advice animal: obscure facts, delight at old documents, fury at casual errors. The stereotype was the history major who cannot let a wrong date pass, and it spread because anyone with a favourite subject has done the same.

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Best History Major Heraldic Beast posts

• a good soldier in the 18th century could load and shoot a musket 3 times a minute / there is no punchline, i just know this
• *INsert name* decides to invade russia during the winter of .... / don't do it! don't do it!
• "usA was founded on christian faith" / shit yourself
• Roman empire = holy roman empire / GET OUT OF MY SIGHT
• Uncle has diaries of ancestors living in the 18th century, thinks they're boring / gimmegimmegimme
• "you know you're not supposed to hightlight the entire book right?" / it's all relevant
• Can't use favourite year as pin / as it only has three digits
• like my friends, I once obsessed about japan / unlike my friends, I obsessed about the tokugawa shogunate
• Watch "Night At the museum" / secretly wish something like that would happen to you
• Never forget / 13/04 1204
• Holy Roman Empire / Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor really an empire. Discuss
• read history major heraldic beast / determined to research and understand references
• your favourite celebrity died? I feel your pain / i'm still pretty upset about Alexander the great
• history teacher says crusaders were christians who killed people that didn't convert / *facepalm* and walk out of class
• Girl thinks that gothic architecture has vampires in it / shoots her in face
• The only thing worse than Invading Russia in winter / is Invading AFGHANISTAN at all
• "Why were you up until 2Am?" / "My room mate asked me about the protestant reformation"
• Spend years learning MLA in high school / USELESS TO ME in college
• believe yourself to be rational, level-headed etc / have deep hatred for nations based on events 1500 years ago
• "i can't stand history classes. all you do is memorize dates." / RAGE.