Widowed Shepherd

An unsavoury character from twelfth century Wales.

[spoekelse]

Value Pack

[medievalreligiousfanatic]

[ursus-arctos-horribilis-chadder]

Foul beast ate that adventurer whole, RIP

[lady-isabella-farnham]

I have made a pilgrimage to Hereford to watch a number of the knights train, and my dear friends, I regret to inform you all that it is cold as balls

[lady-isabella-farnham]

They used one of the knights as a battering ram

[lady-isabella-farnham]

They put four helmets on one man

[mxactivist]

[URGENT] UK NHS consultation on puberty blockers

VERY SHORT DEADLINE! (Tuesday 1st November 2023)

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) are about to ban puberty blockers for all trans adolescents, except for a small group who are eligible and willing to be research subjects.

"As part of this NHS England-led process, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) was commissioned to review the published evidence. Overall, there was no statistically significant difference in gender incongruence, mental health, body image and psychosocial functioning in children and adolescents treated with PSH." -- 6-page introductory PDF to consultation

That's because puberty blockers don't change gender characteristics by definition, you absolute donuts.

They're carrying out a consultation on this because they have to, and there's only two days left. If you are in the UK and you are a young trans person or know any young trans people, please check out this consultation.

Here's the first question, to help you work out if you're in the target group:

In "other", you could put anything like "friend of a trans adolescent", "family member of a trans child", etc. If you're a trans adult who was on blockers or who would have been on blockers if waiting lists had been shorter or family/doctors had been more supportive etc, choose "patient".

Click here to participate.

Deadline: Tuesday 1st November 2023.

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

Nobody talks about how hobbies like crochet and knitting have suspense, anxiety, and gambling involved and it’s all thanks to a self inflicted game called yarn chicken

[modernbaseball]

I'm going to frame this in my house

[pointnclick]

"No one wants to work anymore." Damn right brother. If I could sit in a beautiful field for 40 hours every week of my singular precious life I would

[skaldish]

Berserkers, or—as we say, per the traditions of the Old Ways—"tactical furries."

[verdantry]

& btw fruit Flies literally spawn spontaneously

[fortooate]

you look at a fruit fly and tell me it's ever been anywhere else

[cronennerd]

13th century posts

[beewaggle]

Op taking too many notes from Aristotle.

[ritasv]

“Armour” at Arundel Castle courtesy of  ARW Photography

[morggo]

Another piece of my pride series, dedicated to a very wonderful and influential friend who I'll always see as a modern day shield maiden.

Protect all sisters. Protect all our siblings.

[princessbethacup]

Me: I'm so stressed I could cry. I'm basically working 12 hours a day, every day, for the next week. I need to find time to clean my house and pack before I go to look after my nephews for a few of days.

Friend: omg that sounds so hard, let's get lunch.

[breelandwalker]

The Unknown Librarian Who Saved Queer History

You probably don’t know the name Paul Fasana. But the librarian was instrumental in preserving hundreds of thousands of artifacts of queer h

The Unknown Librarian Who Saved Queer History

By Hugh Ryan for Harper's Bazaar Published: Jun 28, 2023

You probably don’t know the name Paul Fasana, but read enough LGBTQ history and he pops up in book after book over the last three decades—not in the text itself, but in the acknowledgments: Pink Triangle Legacies (2022); Language Before Stonewall (2019); Greetings From the Gayborhood (2008), Becoming Visible (1998). From 1995 until literally the week he died in April 2021, Fasana volunteered as chief archivist for the Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, one of the oldest and largest independent queer archives in the United States.

Read the full article on Harper's Bazaar.

[cybiluncivilised]

I was supposed to be hosting craft today but I was too unwell. Dyed my hair some kinda inconvenieng hair colour for historical reenactment. Good if you want to be some kind of ancient bog witch though.

This is such a vibe.

[darkwood-sleddog]

Because @staff is too cowardly…

What type of dashboard experience do you prefer?

An algorithm based feed where I get “the best of tumblr”.

Chronological feed that only features blogs I follow.

This doesn’t affect me personally.

Voting ended onJul 11, 2023

[jmtorres]

reblog. bigger sample size asap

[end-orfino]

@staff hey watch this

WOULD YOU LEAVE TUMBLR IF IT REPLACED A CHRONOLOGICAL FEED WITH AN ALGORHITHM?

YES

NO

Voting ended onJul 17, 2023

PLEASE REBLOG THIS TO GET MORE VOTES.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 24 June 1763, a British trader in Philadelphia named William Trent recorded an attempt to use biological warfare against Native Americans. In his journal, he wrote that two Delaware chiefs had visited Fort Pitt during Pontiac’s uprising to urge British forces to abandon the fight. The British refused, and Trent wrote that as the men, Turtle’s Heart and Mamaltee, were about to leave: “Out of our regard for them, we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect.” A direct causal link cannot be established but a smallpox epidemic did later break out in the Ohio Valley which devastated the local Indigenous population. Learn more about 500 years of genocide and resistance in the Americas in this book by Gord Hill of the Kwakwaka'wakw nation: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-gord-hill Pictured: an engraving of Native Americans amidst a smallpox epidemic, 1853 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2018938024958004/?type=3