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favorite podcast characters as tarot - pt 1

Art so old it has my old handle– but I still like these! Shots for an Alice isn’t Dead animatic I was planning, to Ain’t No Sunshine by Coeur de Pirate.

#you posted the old Alice isn't dead fanart nice!!!!#alice isn't dead

valtsv

parents love giving you job hunting advice that's like Have you tried destroying and betraying yourself for nothing

joe-myosotis

Find them all!

#the hotel

what-even-is-thiss

The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

what-even-is-thiss

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

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Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.

what-even-is-thiss

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

what-even-is-thiss

Chattel slavery is an incredibly cruel and dehumanizing system.

So is every other kind of slavery.

This doesn’t diminish the awfulness of what people were forced to endure under chattel slavery.

I just think it’s useful to remember that cruelty is complicated and diverse and just because a cruel system is different doesn’t make it right by any means.

Roman slavery operated differently from slavery in the antebellum American south which operated differently from slavery in the Ottoman Empire which operated differently from modern prisoner chain gangs.

All of these are still slavery. They’re all cruel and unacceptable. Their diversity does not matter. Their willing participants have still committed the crime of taking away the self ownership and personhood of another human being.

#slavery

viralfrog

lemingtons

yeah this one can go on main who even cares

#atwq

startstatic

shoulder dislocation? no prablem

#bl 2 #bl2

martyfive

no deeper madness than your own making

#control 2019

en501

Biomance this, van Calox!

#rogue trader #wh

emocheremuha

These walls are made of brick, plated in gold But I'm still here, growing so old

#coe33

danll3

Jaadugar style is so pretty,,,,

#fe3h

aokozaki

Some dialogue choices in Persona 4 give you some points towards your social stats. One of the earliest of these is insisting that the TV World is too dangerous for Chie (a girl who has taught herself kung-fu), which makes you slightly more Understanding.

aokozaki

The sexism inherent in "it just wouldn't make sense for a girl moving from the city to the countryside to drive the plot" is baked into every facet of Persona 4's writing.

aokozaki

This shadow world is just too dangerous for a girl who can perform a standing backflip, it has to be up to us: Two guys with a golf club and a pair of monkey wrenches.

#p4