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"Freedom cannot be given. It must be taken."

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

So a while back I won a cheap eBay auction listing for a collection of love letters from the first world war.

They arrived today, and…the listing was WAY more than I expected for the price I won it for. There’s over 100, and they’re not just from WWI, but from 1906 (earliest I’ve found so far) through to 1915.

Charlie writes to his girlfriend, Gertrude. This is the most beautiful, lovesick stuff I’ve ever read. He sends her so many letters, sometimes twice a day, and lots of poems. He seems to have been an artist, as he talks a lot about small exhibitions of his stuff, and included a flyer for one. He also talks about how her parents don’t approve of them and how he’s desperately awaiting the day they’ll be married.

I haven’t found the latest of the letters, but the fact it’s up until 1915 and then stops…doesn’t give me hope for a happy ending.

This man continuously refers to his precious beloved Gertie as his queen and goddess, and whilst most of it is sickly sweet, there’s some raunchy stuff too, with him talking about how he can’t wait until they have a little house together and can ‘please each other all day’…

There’s. So many.

I’m going to put them in order by date, read them through, and then maybe even transcribe them so we can find out a bit about Charlie and Gertie’s love story.

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

This man was absolutely lost in the sauce

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

Y'all he writes about sending her pressed poppies and postcards for her collection 😭😭😭

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

111 years after Charlie got his dick touched in 1910, I decided to tell you all about it. Sorry Charlie.

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

Some more finds:

And some CODE!!!

Also all this is poems:

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

UHHHHH…👀👀👀

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

This has a lot of notes so I need everyone to know:

They got married 😭😭😭❤ (thank you to @lovesjustachemical for finding this!!!)

[nico-nico-knee]

Kinda fucked up that you just stole somebody’s mail

[enjoloras-deactivated20220821]

Don’t know how to explain to you that acquiring, preserving, and transcribing historical ephemera that would have otherwise just been trashed from people who have been dead for over 50 years and don’t appear to have any living descendants isn’t the same as ‘stealing someone’s mail’ but Tumblr never ceases to amaze me with it’s cold takes.

[fieldexplores]

Ash (Part 4/4) - Gator Days

[spacepancakesart]

Proceed with Caution ❤️

[notahorseindisguise]

one of my least favourite things about this website. "op have you considered that [the thing op was saying]"

[notahorseindisguise]

giggling at this because this is ALSO awful and is ALSO the exact opposite example of what i was saying in my post i love this

[plasmalink]

Pronoun roles on discord servers aren't a bad idea, but there is the fun implication that you can ping an entire pronoun set.

Hey I got a problem with something, this is an all they/thems on deck situation

[plasmalink]

I love this. I make a post that causes people across the world to slightly annoy their friends. The internet is a magical place

[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

[what-even-is-thiss]

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.

[somie]

Orpheus and Eurydice and Orpheus and Eurydice (dr/krusie Comic)

[pukicho]

Been getting into ceramics lately

[trans-humanoid-automaton]

How do they taste man

[pukicho]

It hasn’t even been five minutes. Why do so many of you think I’m eating it. It hasn’t even been five minutes.

[dr-cute-pink-doctor]

Yeah yeah whatever how do they taste man

[pukicho]

Not so good.

[homunculus-argument]

Hey idk who needs this but helpful reminder that "virgin blood" in any witchcraft shit that requires that means "virgin" in the same sense as "virgin hair" means hair that hasn't been dyed or processed in any way, natural in the default sense. So no, "virgin blood" doesn't mean blood from a virgin, just blood that hasn't been used for any other kind of witchy shit earlier.

Whether nor not someone has fucked before is completely irrelevant. Any act of fucking doesn't instantly make someone contaminated or un-magic any of their shit. You're just not supposed to re-use blood for blood magic. That's just not. Just do not. Like that's just weird who does that.

[homunculus-argument]

no wait that- no that's not- no.

Unles you've like, poured out ALL OF YOUR BLOOD, used it for a spell, and then somehow SIPHONED THE WHOLE THING BACK IN, that doesn't mean the blood on the inside of you is also used. And even then, if you'd had your sacrifical blood IV'd back into your body-

actually nevermind, I need to draw a graph to illustrate:

I hope this helps.

[wardenaristraith]

The blood inside of you is used. Constantly. It's why there is blood there.

If anything, the blood on the outside is unused.

[homunculus-argument]

damn they ain't lying, it is like talking to a fucking genie with you people.

[foxes-in-love]

[jigokuhana]

banner i made for the Bad Prediction AU’s blog :3

[jigokuhana]

Stars

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[jigokuhana]

Hiding in the Open

Just a Bad Prediction AU comic about Amethyst~ Colored by @boringartist <3

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[jigokuhana]

BP AU - Resolve

((For those of you who remember this ask that @wilted3sunflowers​ got a while back…here’s part of the answer~ ^_^))

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[sabrebash]

Is That Allowed

[sabrebash]

Boy am i glad that the con has a facebook page so i can post this photo:

[spudinacup]

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST MY ART.

[NEXT PAGE ALREADY AVAILABLE ON MY PATREON: patreon.com/spudinacup]

[Chapter 4 pg 22]

Read from the beginning at @suaugonewrong

Tag warnings for the comic and linked under Readmore:

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[stealingpotatoes]

hi girls gays and gamers i'm currently posting from my new DESKTOP PC that is NOT AN EVIL LAPTOP i have seen the light and realised i should get something that doesnt require its last rites the second that one (1) component craps its pants

trying to recover my SSDs at home was a Failure so I'm gonna take it in to the tech shop and get them to tell me if i need to have a mental breakdown or not yayyy