charlesoberonn:

multinyan:

kenji6:

charlesoberonn:

inthearmsofathief:

babbles-about-cartoons:

charlesoberonn:

The fact that it’s possible Socrates was made up fucks me up.

He’s not a real person. People just started attributing different ideas and stories to him and came up with a living meme that had a deeper effect on the history of humanity than the vast majority of real people.

Plato: Hey this is my OC Socrates and he is a huge nerd

Other philosophers: Hello, Do You Accept Constructive Criticism

Plato: Okay go ahead

Other philosophers: I love him. Here’s my fanfic

Society, millenia later: This was a real person. These works are canon sorry I don’t make the rules

quick, what OC can we convince future historians was a real person

I nominate Spiders Georg.

I nominate Mary Sue

YES lets use mary sue

“Mary Sue was a heroic figure from the late 20th and early 21st century.

She was born in 1973 and although there’re no official records of her heroic exploits, she was referenced many times in the critiques and literature of the time. Often she was treated as a standard for heroism which all literary characters are judged against.”