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theowlburrow

Video games 🎮

cheaphalloweencostume

what are any of you ever fucking talking about

cheaphalloweencostume

lizzienoodles

guy who's having gauzy idealized wife flashbacks for the whole adventure but it turns out she isn't dead or anything he just really misses her and wants to get home

flork-of-cows-official

soup

gogeyama

officialprincefroggy

attention concert goers: please put on your dick sucking lips immediately. someone in the front row is recording the performance with, get this, a nintendo 3ds

vague-humanoid

shacklesburst

Under Virginia law, a month had to elapse before the death sentence could be carried out. Governor Wise resisted pressures to move up the execution date because, he said, he wanted everyone to see that Brown's rights had been thoroughly respected.

Brown made it clear repeatedly in his letters and conversations that these were the happiest days of his life. He would be publicly murdered, as he put it, but he was an old man and, he said, near death anyway. Brown was politically shrewd and realized his execution would strike a massive blow against Slave Power, a greater blow than he had made so far or had prospects of making otherwise. His death now had a purpose. In the meantime, the death sentence allowed him to publicize his anti-slavery views through the reporters constantly present in Charles Town, and through his voluminous correspondence.

Before his conviction, reporters were not allowed access to Brown, as the judge and Andrew Hunter feared that his statements, if quickly published, would exacerbate tensions, especially among the enslaved. This was much to Brown's frustration, as he stated that he wanted to make a full statement of his motives and intentions through the press.[54]: 212 Once he had been convicted, the restriction was lifted, and, glad for the publicity, he talked with reporters and anyone else who wanted to see him, except pro-slavery clergy.[46]

Brown received more letters than he ever had in his life. He wrote replies constantly, hundreds of eloquent letters, often published in newspapers,[133]: 43 and expressed regret that he could not answer every one of the hundreds more he received. His words exuded spirituality and conviction. Letters picked up by the Northern press won him more supporters in the North while infuriating many white people in the South.

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heyzeus123

Just a couple of the quotes about him that I like:

“His zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun. Mine was bounded by time. His stretched away to the silent shores of eternity. I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave. I could live for the slave. John Brown could die for the slave.”

-Frederick Douglass

"That new saint, than whom nothing purer or more brave was ever led by into conflict and death, — the new saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

arctic-hands

[Image Description: initial tweet by Haymarket Books, at HaymarketBooks. It is dated May 9, Twenty twenty-three. It says "Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, Eighteen hundred." Beneath the tweet is a grayscale portrait of John Brown, an elderly white man with a long, bushy beard. In reply, Edward Ongweso Jr, @ BigBlackJacobin, tweets "Happy birthday to this crazy ass white boy. One day we are gonna go back in time and give him power armor." End I.D.]

darnitjack

I like this man and I'm always surprised more people don't know about him.

I also notice there's a quite a few popular artists doing political songs, but no one doing a cover of "John Brown's Body"

theragamuffininitiative

I mean. He did also, with a gang of men including his sons, drag a bunch of pro-slavery people from their homes in the middle of the night, question them, and then murder 5 of them, including by hacking them to pieces with swords. The Pottawatomie Massacre, acted in rash retaliation, sparked what is now called Bleeding Kansas and was one of the inciting preludes to the Civil War - Brown's actions that night were denounced by many abolitionists, though people have tried to distance him from the murders since then. Frederick Douglass called it "a terrible remedy for a terrible tragedy."

I'm not gonna open a debate here on when violence against unarmed men is considered acceptable for a cause, but I do think it's important to know more than just the heroic acts and not ignore the questionable or denouncable ones.

eruhamster

>He did ... drag a bunch of pro-slavery people from their homes in the middle of the night, question them, and then murder 5 of them, including by hacking them to pieces with swords.

milfyspamton

anyone remember what these things are called like little cartoony expressive doohickies i think they have a real name but i can’t remember

milfyspamton

im not fucking crazy.

milfyspamton

if i have one more person say sparkles on this post im gonna blow i swear to god

evengirlierballs

They're squeans I'm pretty sure! If they pop like that anyway. But the term for this kind of "symbol to refer to the general vibe of something in art" is called "Emanata" because it emanates from a person or object.

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orcboxer

and a foul memory springs forth unbidden

redstonedust

i think its fine to have limited tastes in media if you understand your limitations. like i wont shame someone if they only watch cartoons because thats their choice but i also dont think you can go making hot takes about the horror genre if the scariest thing youve watched this decade was the owl house finale. that seems ill advised.

sistersorrow

Like, I don't wanna sound elitist since I also watch a lot of animation, but so many bizarre takes on Tumblr make a lot more sense when you realise how many people here have cartoons made for children and fanfiction of cartoons made for children as their sole points of reference for what media is like

thememedaddy

couriernewvegas

trust that garlic and i are well acquainted

oblivionloading

You draw Microplastics from the well.

haughtyraban

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

ohlivish

hey did ya'll know that ed sheeran is working on a series of 6 albums named after media player buttons and the first one released last year and the last one is to be released posthumously on the day that he dies