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[queenstravelingdarling]

My head 🤦🏽‍♀️….just watch.

[unchartedaffairs]

This is important. He’s serving facts

[queenstravelingdarling]

^^^^^

[stayingwoke]

Population control is their thing. That is why they are obsessed with abortion rights because it directly correlates to making sure more white babies are born. It has nothing to do with religion.

[beachbrotha-deactivated20181217]

This ASSTARD SAID “When my ancestors built this country.” Bitch ass yo ancestors DIDNT BUILD THIS COUNTRY MINE DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the-gt-food-traveler-deactivate]

My head just hurts

[therosethtsmokesclouds-deactiva]

This shit just gave me a headache. Smh

[0dabiah]

What’s wild is that he’s voicing fear about being a “minority” because of how egregious white people have treated “minorities”.

His major mistake in thinking is believing that the New Majority would be as violently evil as Europeans have been towards the rest of the world, historically.

Nigga, we ain’t you.

[dragonessmilk]

I don’t know how he stays so calm. I simply coulnd’t. But what a enjoyable discussion 😂 slamming so many facts in his face. Where is the whole thing?

[bodaciouskat]

My eyes have never rolled this hard before…

[oxfordsandafros]

Delusional

[tinadabrat]

TELL HIM Fam

[titan372-deactivated20240913]

Amazing video 👏👏👏👏👏. He told his ass in the most respectful way that I’ve ever seen.

[porkbunjuice]

Maaaannnn shout out to Eddy Huang. Graceful af

[maybeantonioj]

White people are so fucking fragile wtf

[sleek-siren]

So your just worried about losing power okay cool. Fuck you

[deathmetalboyfriend]

I fucking miss this show.

[badspacebabies]

Okay so, General Hux hates Kylo Ren, right? And the film is called “KYLO REN IS A F****** C***”

[systlin]

Anyway, if you read marriage certificates from church records, a full 85% of first marriages for young women were around 18-19 years old. The rest skewed higher, into the early twenties, with only a few being below that age and only one in a thousand was younger than 16. 

The age of puberty has declined over the centuries as girls get better nutrition, as well, so throughout the middle ages the age at which a girl could expect her first period was around 16, where modern girls often get it much younger. 

The idea that women in earlier ages were married and mothers in their early teens is a myth. Marriages of children were usually only between noble families, and made for political reasons, or creepy old bastards who wanted a child-wife and could get away with it because they were rich and powerful. They often would point to the fact that the Roman elite did the same thing as justification. The Romans, of course, would point to the Greeks doing the same thing as justification, the Greeks pointed at the Assyrians, and so on back through the ages. 

It was considered disgusting by normal people then and still is. 

This myth is still brought out and touted by sick fuckers. Know it for what it is; a falsehood. 

[mistresstrevelyan]

And EVEN among the nobility marriages at such a young age were a much rarer occasion than those apologists would make you believe.

Let’s look an an egregious example, Henry the bloody VIII:

First marriage:

He was 18, Katharine of Aragon was 23.

Second marriage:

He was 40/41, Anne Boleyn, depending on which theory you believe, was anywhere between 24 to 32.

Third marriage:

He was 44, Jane Seymour was 28.

Fourth marriage:

He was 48, Anne of Cleves was 25

Fifth marriage:

He was 48, Catherine Howard, depending on which source you believe, was between 17-22. And yes, people at the time actually were squicked out by this age difference. And rightly so.

Sixth marriage:

He was 51, Catherine Parr was 31. 

Even the most notorious LECHER and WIFE MURDERER in history did not marry teenagers in at least 5 if not 6 out of 6 marriages. 

And here’s another Tudor tidbit, both Henry VII and VIII knew how traumatic and damaging it is for women marrying/having children too young. Henry VII’s mother was married at 12 and gave birth to Henry VII at 13. It caused so much damage and trauma that she never had another child after him despite being married three times.

So yes CUT THAT SHIT OUT. Teenage girls are NOT adults and anyone preying on them is pure evil.

[systlin]

YOU 

I LIKE YOU

And as for the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville to King Edward IV, she was 27 at the time. He? Was 22. 

She had been married before, and did marry young…at the age of sixteen or seventeen, to Sir John Gray, who was about five years her senior. 

[ghiraheeheeheem]

@systlin This is good information, but do you have a source for the information about how most marriages back in the day were not actually usually from a younger age? I tried Googling it but I can only find things talking about modern day issues.

[systlin]

Well, if you don’t want to spend months crawling through digitized copies of marriage records preserved in church archives from the 12th through 18th centuries from England, Italy, Germany, France, ect (which you can do, and it will show you I’m right) you can go read  “ Medieval Households” by David Herlihy, Harvard University Press, 1985. He did the archive crawling for you. 

Also  Peter Laslett’s book “The World We Have Lost”, where he details over a thousand marriage certificates, and he dug through many more in the writing of the work. 

[im-defalut]

Wait. I am spanish. Do they actually think henry/enrique VII married fucking katherin/catalina de Aragón as a teenager?

You know we see films about this in school and every one is pretty much adult there, both fisically and in the story.

[systlin]

There’s this…really weird trend in a lot of pseudo-European fantasy/ ‘historical’ books to have girls marry like…really young, to vastly older dudes. Like at about 13, getting married off to like 30 year olds. And then say “Well that’s what it was like back then.” 

(Sideyes G.R.R.M)

And…no. No it wasn’t. That’s gross. England was creeped TF out when Henry VIII married Catherine Howard when she was between 17 and 22 and he was 48 as stated above, and rightly so. 

[prismatic-bell]

All of this is excellent, and there is one thing I would add:

When you DID have these super-young marriages between nobility, it was more or less the same thing we do today when we scream “DIBS!” over who gets the TV remote. You might have a 13-year-old lord marrying a 14-year-old girl, but they weren’t expected to actually act as husband and wife, not yet. He had schooling to finish, she had to learn how to run a household. The union was purely political and not to be consummated until later–you know, at a point when they were 18 or 19 and she could carry a child without dying of it and he could actually support a wife.

[botanyshitposts]

throwback to the time scientists didnt know where corn came from and the resulting argument between two primary botanists with conflicting corn opinions created massive corn drama over the course of 40 years that included lab-created frankencorn, multiple expeditions to mexico, MANY academic papers, several lecture tours, two live conference debates that witnesses recall as “intense”, feral corn, and a singular 50,000 plant experiment 

[infinitelykylo]

Continuation on my twitter of Mevin!

Here’s the first post if you haven’t already seen it. And here’s another short I wrote from the 3rd picture. 

“What are you doing?”

Kylo glanced up from the open wall, startled to suddenly see the dark haired man from a couple days before.

Kevin….from Accounting.

Hux looked down at him, an eyebrow cocked. He had happened to be walking by when he had saw Matt crouched on the floor, peering into the open fuse box. He had decided to stop and had been watching the man poke around seemingly clueless for several seconds.

Kylo didn’t know what to say with Kevin’s scrutiny now upon him. His hard gaze reminded rivaled that of a certain General. 

“Uh, I’m just trying to fix… this thing.“ 

Kylo gestured vaguely to the wires in front of him.

Hux couldn’t help as the side of his mouth quirked up in slight amusement, watching the blonde man stare forlornly into the box. Usually seeing an insufficiently trained technician would send him into furious tirade… but for some reason, he felt different today.

Kylo felt just about ready to give up and go change out of his ridiculous outfit when Kevin spoke up again. 

“It’s actually quite easy, you’re just connecting the wrong wires to the calcinator.”

A moment later, Kevin was suddenly crouched down next to him, reaching into the box.

Kylo watched in shocked silence as the suit clad man swiftly twisted and connected wires, evidently having done this before. In just a few minutes, Kevin has fixed the calcinator that Kylo had been working on for over an hour.

“And that’s about it.”

Hux finished up and tucked the wires back into the box. He hadn’t done like work that in years, but one never really forgot. 

Turning his head to the left, Hux found Matt’s gaze already on him, just a few inches away, realizing just how close they really were.

Kylo felt warmer than usual in his coveralls as him and Kevin looked at each other in silence for a few seconds. Through his glasses, Kylo saw that Kevin’s eyes were an icy shade of blue-green, giving him the distinct feeling he had seen them before.

Hux’s own eyes ran quickly over Matt’s face, taking in the artfully placed moles adorning his skin. Matt certainly wasn’t handsome in the conventional sense, Hux couldn’t deny the attraction he felt towards him, but there was something odd about Matt, he just couldn’t place it.

Kylo knew he shouldn’t have, but he couldn’t keep his gaze from dropping down to Kevin’s pink lips. It was only for a second, but the action didn’t go unnoticed by the other man. Just like that, the air between them was changed to something much heavier.

Matt was close enough Hux could feel the small huffs of breath coming from his slightly parted lips on his own. Glancing down himself, Matt’s lips sure did look plush… Hux had no idea what he was about to do next.

“Matt, I…”

The abrupt beeping of Hux’s comm cut off the rest of his sentence.

“Kriff!” Hux cursed, pulling it out of his pocket and seeing the urgent message. General Hux was need immediately on the bridge and here he was dressed as Kevin, playing technician with a lowly radar man.

Kylo blinked several times, gaining a hold of himself as Kevin shot up next to him. Kylo didn’t know what it was like to be an accountant within the Order, but being paged so insistently for your presence was not what he would have expected.

“I have to go.” Hux said quickly, already turning away. He would have to sprint back to his room to change… but then a warm hand clasped down, stopping him.

“Wait!”

Hux whipped his head back around to see Matt standing as well now, holding him in place by the hand.

Shifting awkwardly, Kylo pushed the question out of his mouth before he second guessed himself. 

“Can I see you again?”

Kevin’s eyes slightly widened. Whatever he was expecting Kylo to say, it certainly hadn’t been that.

A single beat passed before Hux responded, not even thinking about it.

“Yes.”

Hux watched as the blonde man visibly relaxed in front of him and let go of his grip on his hand.

“Okay.” He responded, a small smile gracing his lips.

All Hux could think to do was nod in return, giving out a swift final, “Goodbye,” to Matt before proceeding down the hallway. If Matt watched his retreating back until he disappeared around the corner, Hux didn’t see.

Only hours later, disaster diverted and blissfully alone in his quarters for the night, did Hux think back and realize just how much he liked Matt’s smile. For the first time in a long while, Hux found himself actually looking forward to see the radar technician again.

[gifbro]

[4gifs]

Japanese Sumo robots

[setheverman]

this is the funniest gif i’ve seen all week what the fuck is going on

[bunjywunjy]

the best part is this isn’t even HALF the relentless bullshit insanity that goes on in robot sumo wrestling, a sport where the contestants are all hyperfast robots with scoop attachments and preprogrammed moves. 

(this one wants to be a beyblade when it grows up)

the idea is to include as many unique moves as you can, to make your shrieking deathbot difficult to counter

or dodging. that works too.

also, some of the speed demons have… unorthodox attachments to fool other bot’s sensors

WIIINGS MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRR

robot sumo is also a sport where spectators may end up taking a small robot to the shins if they aren’t careful.

FLYYYYYYY

I hope you enjoyed our foray into madness!

[s-p-giffy]

IT GOT BETTER!!!

[transmortifried]

Y’all. Looking at professionally made sumo robots is great. You know what’s better though? Looking at extremely UNprofessionally made sumo robots.

Here enjoy.

[jumpingjacktrash]

oh my god please watch this video

“she gave up looking for the robot and sent us a photo of her having a beer. the crowd applauded this act of supreme crappiness.”

one robot is just a kleenex box with a bunch of dildos on it, one does nothing but shake a packet of instant soup, i love humanity so much right now

[curlicuecal]

Is the “Mental Attack With a Ferocious Face” robot just a paper cut out of Donald Trump’s head?

[peace-love-colbert]

Watch John Oliver grill Dustin Hoffman about sexual harassment allegations

[appleteeth]

I’m so proud of this stupid idiot of a comedian I’ve been in love with for ten years now.

[biolegend]

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[brantherapper]

Who keeps letting these two make videos together 😂😂😂

[impromptu-pimpin]

This was award worthy

[hotterdenwasabi-deactivated2022]

Wow

[crownthepharaohs-deactivated201]

When I say I lost it when I saw equality… 😂

[bando--grand-scamyon]

this rocking side to side shit kills me lmfao

[seducedbykyloren]

The Skywalker Men

[defydamage]

I’m Fucking dying. The music in the background is what makes it.

[anox4-deactivated20170119]

oh my fucking god

[sentry-34]

LOL

[plumber-with-a-gun-deactivated2]

Good god. Lol

[popeskull-deactivated20180225]

This is the most beautiful thing I have ever watched.

[kyloxreytfa]

Keeping Up With The Skywalkers

[vadersrespirator]

Those Space Jesus genes really do a number in you if you’ve got the X chromosomes.

[sidelinesofcode-deactivated2020]

[macden-byebitch]

[yesterdaysprint]

The St. Louis Star and Times, Missouri, November 4, 1910

[sirfrogsworth]

Perhaps we all need something uplifting after today. 

Ayrton Little is a very bright 16 year old who skipped a grade and is looking to go to college next year. Here he is in a room full of his peers, refreshing a webpage that will tell him if he will be accepted to Harvard University.

[kitwilsonsass]

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[gaiabamman]

Using the appropriate vocabulary in your novel

It is very important that the language in your novel reflects the time and place in which the story is set.

For example, my story is set in Italy. My characters would never “ride shotgun”, a term coined in US in the early 1900s referring to riding alongside the driver with a shotgun to gun bandits. 

Do your research! A free tool that I found to be very useful is Ngram Viewer. 

You can type any word and see when it started appearing in books. For example…one of my characters was going to say “gazillion” (I write YA) in 1994. Was “gazillion” used back then?

And the answer is…YES! It started trending in 1988 and was quite popular in 1994.

Enjoy ^_^

[storiesintheashes]

This is really important, especially because language can change in very unexpected ways. 

For example, did you know that before 1986 people never said “I need to”?Instead, they were far more likely to say “I ought to”, “I have to”, “I must”, or “I should”.

Don’t believe me?

Anyway, most people won’t notice subtle changes like that. But your reader will notice and be confused when characters in your medieval world use metaphors involving railroads and rockets.

One of the things you can do besides use Google Ngrams is to read books or watch movies written in the time period you want to set your story. The key here is that they can’t just be set in that time period, they have to have been made in that time period.

Also, there’s a Lexicon Valley episode on this very topic which I highly recommend. It’s called Capturing the Past. 

[starkylux]

My favorite lines of each story from the marvelous ‘verse by @hollyhark​, Children, Wake Up.

Respectively, from Life Sentence, No Cellmate,  Ceasefire, and Under the Ruins of a Walled City.

[glass-garden]

JIM HENSON USED THE KERMIT THE FROG PROTOTYPE TO MAKE ADS IN THE 1950′S-60′S?? THEY’RE ALL CURSED AND IM AFRAID TO WATCH THEM . GOD HELP ME

[glass-garden]

[mousathe14]

Uhmmmm….

@wackd

[ryanccole]

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

honestly you really need to see these things in motion because they’re buck wild

(also i’m gonna be That Guy and point out that wilkins wasn’t a prototype kermit as kermit already existed, although he was Kermit the Fucked Up Lizard Thing rather than Kermit the Frog at that point in time)

[8abbott-of-odd0]

There is absolutely no attempt at seduction in these advertisements. We are given no reason to think this coffee is actually any good. The only motivation we are given to drink this coffee is fear.

[zagreus]

THERE ARE MORE AND THEY GET WILDER

[zagreus]

THERE ARE EVEN MORE AND THEY GET SO FUCKING THREATENING I AM GENUINELY STARTING TO FEAR FOR MY LIFE

[beatle-capaldi]

@frogyell

[catbountry]

DRINK WILKINS INSTANT COFFEE… OR DIE.