Conquer From Within

Tobias | 19 | trans male (he/xe) | idk, kinda gay? demi-ace | ♐️| Gryffindor 🦁| ENFP-T | feminist AF | multi fandom nerd | 🚫don't interact if you are a fascist, terf, homophobe, aphobe, transphobe, truscum, any LGBTQ+-phobe, racist, ableist, anti Semitic, islamaphobic, ddlg/map🚫

[badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista]

Queer, gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual Muslims exist too. They battle homophobia, transphobia AND Islamophobia everyday. Please don’t erase them. (Photos not mine)

[fuckyouforever-deactivated20230]

The UN has stated an estimated 18.4 million yemeni’s could die from famine within the next year. 18.4 mil. Let that sink in. That’s three times the number of Jews who died in the holocaust. And guess what? Yet again no one, literally nobody, not a soul is talking about it or doing anything about it.

[girlofthunder]

https://act.unfoundation.org/onlineactions/8OWBf5tPG02WcTsyv86ENA2?ms=ConvioRedirect

This way you can help. Spread this link.

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‎ShareTheMeal

‎TOGETHER WE CAN END HUNGER! ShareTheMeal is the charity app from the United Nations World Food Programme that allows you to feed a hungry

You can also use this share the meal app to donate for a day or a month and it’s as little as 35p

[fuckyouforever-deactivated20230]

Here’s a few of many links you can go to for information on the situation of the Yemeni population and to make a donation:

Yemen Emergency Appeal - uwt

Yemen Emergency Appeal | Human Appeal

Yemen Emergency Appeal

Years of intense conflict have brought Yemen to the brink of collapse, with over 80% of the population in need of humanitarian assistance.

Yemen crisis: Donate now - Unicef UK

You can help us reach more children affected by the crisis in Yemen. Please donate today and help keep children safe in Yemen.

Yemen is facing the world's worlds chorela outbreak in recent years. To help fight against the current lack of resources and the current arm

Yemen Emergency Appeal | Islamic Relief UK

Islamic Relief is currently working in 18 of the 22 governorates Yemen, reaching many of the areas worst affected by the conflict. With your

Emergency Yemen Appeal. The Worst Cholera Epidemic In History - Hunger, Famine, Disease & War. A Humanitarian Catastrophe Is Unfolding. Dona

[proxypunch]

@takashi0 hey could you spread this please?

[dennsokagi-deactivated20221213]

Yatak çok güzel ;)

[dandalf-thegay-deactivated20190]

[mightyinvincible]

When you’re a cat, and you can’t get up because a cat is sleeping on you. (Inception noises)

[cillianmurphy]

I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

[looksalotlikeatragedy]

'Queer Eye''s Jonathan Van Ness: “I’m Nonbinary”

“I didn’t think I was allowed to be nonconforming or genderqueer or nonbinary — I was just always like 'a gay man' because that’s just the l

WE DECIDED TO STAN FOREVER

[truestoriesaboutme]

There’s nothing more representative of Doctor Who than the following two facts: 

every single dalek story plays the fact that the daleks are involved as a reveal

every single dalek story has the word “dalek” in the title

[medievalswords]

[relinquishmysky]

James acaster is a fucking gift

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Absolutely disgusting.

Call them and complain if you agree: [phone]

[gaybaggins]

sam and frodo really are the kind of couple where both of them think it’s unrequited pining for years and everyone is so tired of them

[gaybaggins]

aragorn: don’t you think it’s time to tell sam how you feel?

frodo: i would but he doesn’t like me that way :(

aragorn: i’m- frodo, he literally wrote a poem about you

merry, not even paying attention: they’ve always been like that, don’t bother

[comedypolice]

to the boy who needs to hear it right now: you are not inherently evil or bad or abusive or wrong for being a boy.

[injuries-in-dust]

Forgotten By History

Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor (1941).

Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975.

Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy.

Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.

Kate Warne - Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy.

Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam.

The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.

Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.

One of the most feared of all London street gangs from the late 1880’s was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They woulde later inspire Anthony burgess’ most notorious novel. Their main Rivals were the All-female “the Forty Elephants” gang.

Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Pioneering female pilot who flew Spitfires during Second World War. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1942 and became one of a small group of female pilots who were trained to fly 38 types of aircraft.

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.

[imfemalewarrior]

Women have always participated in fighting; whether that is in war or in breaking down barriers that have been set in front of us by society. 

Take inspiration from our foremothers and continue breaking down barriers, wherever you are. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

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gay pride cat

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Archaeologists: “Uhhhh, there’s still a lot of debate about how effective leather armor really could have been on a battlefield. Alas, we shall never know.”

Punks: “Hey, fresh cut, the boneheads carry knives sometimes so make sure and lift a good leather jacket. It’ll save your life.”

[equality-is-anarchy]

Layers layers layers! Slashes won’t do shit even to most t shirts but a stab will ignore the shit outa your leathers. Layers will keep the blade from getting as deep as it otherwise would and gives more for it to snag on if it serrated.

Armour has always been about layers.

Example 1200s minor noble: linen shirt, gambeson (layered and quilted linen with wool insulation), chain mail, surcoat, arming cap, helmet, coif, bigger helmet.

Another example Alexander era Macedonian hoplite: linen tunic, greaves, 1" of tightly pressed and laminated linen, helmet (probably with some sort of arming cap/padding inside), big ass shield.

Layers save lives.

[jackironsides]

Yes! Cloth is hard work to cut with a knife. When they were trying to ban (sword) duelling in Europe, they banned people from carrying around shields/bucklers, so your defensive tool was a cloak wrapped around your non-sword fist, with plenty of loose fabric to catch your opponent’s blade. You might get your cloak torn, but you’re less likely to get your skin sliced up, and that’s the important thing.

[jenniferrpovey]

You know what is a surprisingly amazing material for armor?

Silk.

Silk.

The Mongolians used silk vests because silk isn’t broken by an arrow, and you can use the silk to gently pull the arrow back out, even if it’s barbed. They also often used silk as the backing for leather armor.

The first bulletproof vests were made in Japan and Korea. Out of, yup, silk. Silk could stop black powder bullets, but was rendered obsolete by higher powered modern firearms. A combination of silk and metal was experimented with, but dropped because of the expense of silk.

Franz Ferdinand was wearing one such vest when he was assassinated, but it didn’t help because of where he was hit.

The US military is now looking into something called Dragon Silk, which is spider silk made by GMO silkworms, to make body armor that might be more comfortable than the current kevlar vests.

Silk, people.

[o98]

So what is being said here is that the ultimate cold weather armor woukd have the bottom layer silk and the top one wool(water resistant, temp regulating, comfortable and quite cheap)

[jenniferrpovey]

No, it would still probably be silk and leather, with a wool cloak worn over. Leather + silk will stop most things other than modern firearms.

[lunafallen]

That’s…… rough buddy.

[draumboosky]

It’s only a matter of time until someone uses a drone to kidnap a child

[draumboosky]

High quality addition to this post

[thoughts-in-shower]

No matter how old you are, an empty wrapping paper tube is still fun to bonk someone over the head with.

[aspirational-catboy]

#seeing a cardboard tube activates the cain instinct

[bustnuttington-deactivated20151]

no one ever wants to mention that marsha p johnson was also a sex worker no one ever wants to acknowledge that sex workers have always been on the frontline of most radical historical movements

[rohgoreihgiorefdhgirehgreihg-de]

miss major and sylvia rivera were also sex workers and all of them used money from their sex work to keep lgbt kids from homelessness

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

Brenda Howard, the mother of Pride, was also a sex worker. Sex workers (particularly trans and bi sex workers) were instrumental to forming the modern queer and LGBTQ+ liberation front. If your praxis and activism doesn’t include and uplift sex workers and sex worker rights, then it’s nothing more than a sham.