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[lamaenthel]

going on hiatus again even tho i just got back sorry 🥲 idk when I'll be back. eventually. hopefully by new year, we shall see yeah it's gonna be a while, I am not God's strongest soldier but He sure thinks I am so I shall return once I'm done fighting these battles and I don't have an ETA on those

[srsfunny]

Thanks, I hate it.

[despazito]

they just added sparkledogs to the kennel club registry

[despazito]

[despazito]

they carried a generation

[blanq]

tumblr glitched and now there’s just a guy in the void

[daughter-of-prospero]

Wile E. Coyote, two milliseconds before he lights a match only to reveal he's surrounded by flammable traps he himself has set and the whole website explodes

[bnuuwitch]

I need to keep making these

[horsesarecreatures]

[persephatta-crescent]

Much Ado About Nothing - Text Posts (viii)

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[titanicnerd-blog]

10000000% all of this!

[wizardarchetypes]

idk who needs to hear this but if youre riding a bike in the summer sun with a skirt on no underwear, be sure your to tuck your skirt under your butt THOROUGHLY before you get on lest you make direct & scalding pussy contact with the hot bike seat. just a random psa based on nothing…. be safe xoxo

[aalduin]

Skyrim Scenery 111/∞

[caitimia]

[we-are-knight]

You know, I don't think I'll ever get over how that one post I made about women as knights in history, made it all the way to Reddit only for a bunch of redditors to argue that women couldn't actually be knights because:

- "the term is gendered" (it's not, and feminine equivalents were sometimes created specifically for the purpose)

- "they didn't actually do things as knights" (who didn't? The Hatchet women fought the Moors. A few other Orders had women as masters of arms. Both martial and formal examples)

...and a few other reasons that come down to "I don't like imagining my manly men in steel had women in their ranks, girls have cooties".

And the reason I say this is because recently, Wikipedia updated their page on "Knight", specifically adding a section about women with the title of knighthood, and what function they performed. And I know: "Wikipedia is not an academic source"--but every academic institution will accept the sources and articles used to back up wikipages, which confirm what has been said.

Knights were sometimes women. 🤷

[we-are-knight]

I saw this and needed to answer.

The gendered versions of 'knight' come from Romance languages, and literally just change the word to fit the gender of the subject (within a binary). So it isn't like English, where a female knight has always been a 'Dame', but, using Spain as an example, the word for Knight in Spanish is 'Cabellero'. This is the default masculine.

The feminine word for Knight? 'Cabellera'.

Similarly in French: "Chevalier" becomes "Chevaliére".

In Italian, "Cavaliere" becomes "Cavaliera".

Outside of Romance languages, "knight" is just a title for a social rank, so even the English Dame is by default a knight by rank, but may not have the title (although not impossible).

So it's not a silly infantilisation, than using a word for the knightly class and gendering it in a binary, which means we can actually tell that, yes, women as knights existed, enough that the feminine form of the word pops up now and then, so we know it existed.

[jv]

ooh, where one could read that original post??

Just a note about translations and ... well, patriarchal bullshit.

When you say "Hatchet women fought the Moors" I was like "hey, that seems to be part of my local history, how have I never heard about it?", and when I googled it ... I actually have heard about it, it's the Orden del Hacha from Catalonia (Orde de l'Atxa in the original Catalan). But ... there's something odd going on. Why the fuck in English they have translated like "Order or the hatchet"? You know, in Spanish and Catalan there's no really a difference between "Axe" and "Hatchet": There's a single word for them, "Hacha/Atxa". But in English, there's a difference. A Hatchet is a hand axe, pretty much the smallest one you can think of:

So It's pretty remarkable that whoever translated the name of the order to english first decided to use "Hatchet" and not "Axe". I'm pretty sure if this was a order of men warriors the name would have been pretty different. Specially when THIS was their coat of arms:

So dear academic-who-translated-this-first: Does that look like a hatchet to you, motherfucker?!?!?

[we-are-knight]

Important inclusion I was not aware of, thank you very much friend. :)

[heroineimages]

I’m going to be chuckling over ‘Does this look like a hatchet to you, motherfucker?!?!?” for the rest of the day.

[lapisllong]

I have a Cricut, and my primary goal is to make that my delight & everyone else's problem. I was inspired by @jv

Five words on color choice: I don't give a fuck.

I love blue: it's been my color all my life.

Here's the back of the neck 💙

[allegedly-human]

nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic

[transmonk]

Historiated initials from the Corbie Psalter (IX century, France)

This type of metamorphic and grotesque letters have been called 'kaleidoscopic initials' by art historian Otto Pächt for their dynamic movement and trasformative nature. They are absolutely unique in the landscape of Carolingian illuminated manuscripts.

[r-truth]

[gischtglas]

[hybernating-bear]

That's because this is Silmarillion

[the-commonplace-book]

[pjackk]

ive got a job as tumbr junk isnpector send me wat you have

[gunsandfireandshit]

[pjackk]

i will never experience this beuty

[trigonognathus]

don't lie pjackk

[pjackk]

Im trying to be a new me i did lots of horible things back then i was blackout in the pic u attached its one of mylowest monents i was a peice of shit and it hurts so bad to think about but now i got a new man in my life to set me steaight and His name is God 🙏 amwn

[kishakishh]

[illuminoth]

my last painting post got labeled mature¿