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Reading about an arsenic murder case in which probably a daughter killed her mom with poisoned clam chowder but she was acquitted because the defense were like “can you prove that ANYONE wouldn’t die after eating takeout clam chowder delivered by children in August? In 1896?” and the jury were like no yeah fair point I too have had clam chowder stomach
the amount of lawsuits these exploited children are going to be filing 20 years from now is going to be crazy and im all for it
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oh fuckkkk man not the SERIAL UNALIVER
Horny people legally cannot consent. Horniness is a clouded state like inebriation. If you are partway through sex and you realize you might've become horny, it is illegal to continue. If you have ever made someone horny, you are a bad person.
I keep seeing the little algae sludge holes full of trash in Fallout Vegas and thinking "there would probably still be shrimp in there". They would probably not notice nuclear war very much.
Shallow full sun slime water, at least one loose tire / shopping cart for enrichment, empty sideways bottles to lay eggs in and hide under, and no fish. Just replace the killer geckos with someone's annoying dog and I've been in there a hundred times.
Some shrimp are ABSURDLY specialized and fussy, and will die over vibes, but some of them are laying eggs in an empty bottle of fireball right now.
people have a very difficult time grasping that Ireland a) was, in fact, violently colonized by the British (six of the counties are literally still a settler colony!) and b) exists in the twenty-first century. the people in those ~beautiful timeless villages~ you’re imagining as home to “ancient” “Celtic” magic and supernatural entities go to school, they go to work, they have smartphones and use TikTok, and they’re are dealing with an ever-worsening housing crisis and the impact of a century of simultaneous neglect and fetishization by the postcolonial state.
what, so we should be christian or something? kinda sounding very coloniser there... think about what you're saying for a second. this is people's real religion that they actually practice, it's not just "ooh aesthetic ~" some of us actually want to reconnect with what our culture could've been WITHOUT those 800 years of colonisation... and celts were all over europe not just here. can we like... not do this? if you're not gonna actually bring up a criticism of neopaganism and just say "ewwwww, minority religions!" maybe don't say anything? also I guarantee any criticism you could make has already been made by someone within the community.
Hey, if you’re going to call out someone for bigotry in their tags (as it is good to do), can you do it in a way that clarifies the tags didn’t come from OP or the person you reblogged from when they’re not from OP or the person you reblogged from? This genuinely scared me for a solid couple of minutes because I thought I’d either supported something from someone who hates pagans or that tumblr glitched in a way to put someone else’s tags on my reblog in a way that misrepresents my beliefs.
sorry just kinda snapped and did it, you're right. really sick of the way people think they can dunk on us because the religion is new or we're just doing it to be edgy. these are not OP's tags or who I reblogged from!
hello! just to check in: the religion is new. this is not a matter of being anti-minority religions (believe in whatever god(s) you want, or don’t) but simply a matter of historical accuracy.
for starters, Ireland had already been Christian for centuries before the Anglo-Norman invasion in the 12th century — the earliest Irish bishop was ordained in the early 5th century, the high kings stopped practicing pagan rituals in the mid-6th, and the Irish were enthusiastic missionaries throughout Europe by the 7th. the idea that the colonization of Ireland is in any way connected to the decline of pre-Christian Irish religion is entirely ahistorical nonsense. the Irish have been Christian for longer than the English (and the Welsh even longer than that). god knows (lol) I hate Christianity, but this is not a case of colonial imposition but rather of more or less enthusiastic proactive local adoption. (and in b4: the concept of “Celtic Christianity” as meaningfully distinct from Roman Catholicism is also essentially a modern invention; the actual disputes between the church in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and the church in Rome were over things like the calculation of the date of Easter and monastic tonsure.)
we know very little about the pre-Christian religions (plural! if there was ever a single unified “Celtic” religion, we have no evidence of it) of Celtic-language cultures, and what we do know is largely filtered through heavily biased sources: Greek and Roman writers with an ideological investment in justifying imperial conquest and Gaelic- and Welsh-speaking Christian writers, mostly monks, writing anywhere from several centuries to a millennium or more after the arrival of Christianity. as such, it is very difficult — or, rather, impossible — to know to what extent the portrayal of (for example) the Tuatha Dé Danann in Cath Maige Tuired is actually representative of pre-Christian beliefs. it is likely that there is some pre-Christian basis to at least some medieval texts (though others may be entirely literary compositions), but at the end of the day all of the texts we have are Christian texts.
even notionally “reconstructionist” neopaganisms as a rule rely heavily on practices of selective interpretation, historical bracketing (e.g., of source texts’ Christian authorship), and romanticism, with a healthy dose of outdated and often colonial 19th-century philological and anthropological scholarship to round things out (Frazer…). the modern neopagan conception of druids, for example, owes an enormous amount to early modern Protestant writers who developed a revisionist conception of druids as prefigurations of the reformation (as practitioners of an entirely imagined “pure” proto-Christianity), and then of course to Iolo Morganwg’s 18th-century forgeries which invented an elaborate system of “druidic” beliefs partly based on these earlier writers and partly from whole cloth. (meanwhile, to my knowledge there are no references to druids in real medieval Welsh literature.)
the person in the tags is rightly criticizing the influence of the romantic nationalism of the 19th-century Celtic revival — of which Yeats, who was connected with early syncretistic occultist groups like the Hermetic Order of tbe Golden Dawn, is probably the most prominent example — on modern “Celtic” neopaganisms for contributing directly to the kind of romanticized conception of Ireland (and other “Celtic” regions) that I criticized in the first post.
all of which is to say, believe what you want, but don’t present these beliefs as unquestionably historical or especially as representative of “pre-colonial” religion, because they simply are not either.
flashback to when I got a little too gnc in my new profile pic, and my mom caught on that I had The Gender (which she was super supportive about, tbc), but didn't want to ask about it outright. so she started making up never-before-seen euphemisms
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this is such a source of anger for me in particular because so many restrictive policies are justified as being about "protecting children". oh we'll ban them from social media but we won't ban them from the fucking military. absolutely not they can't be trusted to consent to transition healthcare but yes let's have them in the goddamn army!!
i'm like. i will not believe a SINGLE WORD YOU SAY about protecting children until you listen to what human rights and children's rights campaigners have been saying for decades and stop recruiting children into the fucking army. why do you listen to the people trying to ban them from instagram and not the ones wanting you to raise the military recruitment age to 18, huh?? worried about running out of naive cannon fodder?
it's also just weirdly invisible as a problem! so normal to us that we don't realise it's weird and completely hidden to non-brits! when i lived in ireland i remember talking to irish quakers about it and i was astonished at how many of them, who were active in peace movements and demilitarisation movements, did not even know that their next-door neighbours were recruiting that young. like ???? it makes me feel insane that this is just so hidden away
Fifteen years and seven months, for the non-Brits. That's how old you have to be to start the application process, which is just so timed so that you can then go to Assessment at 15 years and 9 months, so that you can start Army Foundation College bang on your sixteenth birthday. My brother-in-law went that route and now in his 40s it feels really obvious that his whole adult self has been defined by what the military made him into, he's never had a chance to be anything that wasn't first and foremost someone's dog.
taking this out of the replies bc it feels important that people know it:
the standard contract you sign when you join up is 12 years. 12 years' dedicated service in the Armed Forces. if you join up at not-quite-16, you will be legally tied to serve in the Armed Forces until you are twenty-eight years old.
you can get out of that service contract, with difficulty, from four years. you have to have been in active service for at least three years. you may owe them money in lieu of service. this still cannot happen until you are already in your 20s.
a child who is 15 years and 7 months old cannot legally have sex, vote, drink, drive (they can get a provisional licence at 15 years and 9 months but can't sit the driving test until they turn 17), smoke, or buy paracetamol. they will not be able to use social media after spring next year (thanks, kier). they cannot open a bank account or sign any other legal paperwork without a responsible adult cosignatory. they cannot leave school, because they are not viewed as capable of deciding their future responsibly at 15.
except, apparently, if that future is a binding legal contract to serve in the armed forces for nearly as long as they've been alive.
I don't think enough people realise just how insidious the child recruitment in this country is. and while we're making all this handwringing fuss about how we can't let the youth have mobile phones or Twitter or access to adult content in case they're traumatised by it, there's a hell of a loud silence around sending them into a system designed to traumatise the conscience and individuality out of you.
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the sheer number of comments and tags just going SIXTEEN??? like yeah this is what I mean. invisible. and it's not a tiny minority it's 25% of recruits (20% in the military as a whole but 25% in the army)
Got in a bicycle accident this morning and the thing that really galls me about it is that drivers will slow down to confirm you're still alive but then if you show any sign of life they will speed away without asking if you are okay. Diminishes my faith in humanity a little bit tbqh.
And for the record I was not especially okay, but the other thing that's bothering me is that getting injured does stupid things to my brain. I don't even mean concussion-wise (doc thinks I probably don't have a concussion). It just feels really embarrassing to want someone to give me first aid and be niceys to me. But also during the time that nobody was giving me first aid or being niceys to me felt pretty bad, too. Make up your mind!!
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okay i can accept a lot but i'm supposed to believe adult toph shaves her armpit hair?
fuck off
hey gang this post was not about how i have an armpit hair kink (i don't) and i don't really care to hear about the reasons you made up to justify its absence i just feel it makes more sense for toph's character for her to have armpit hair and i feel its exclusion is probably motivated by systemic misogyny and i frankly don't think this is that wild of a take like i think it's pretty basic feminism 101 here okay bye
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