ReDeMortalis

[orthogonals]

Merlin, hand outstretched, eyes glowing, audibly yelling an incantation: *knocks down bandit about to stab Arthur with a random ass branch*

Arthur: *looks at Merlin*

Arthur: you do realize that I said "fight," not "go hide behind a tree?"

Arthur: also, wow I'm so lucky haha :)

[catchymemes]

Norwegian forest cat.

[ayellowbirds]

there’s enough tail there to make a second kitty

[lesserknownhero]

Majestic Forest Baby

[a-book-of-creatures]

Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going “what the fuck… what the fuck…”

[a-book-of-creatures]

Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelers’ tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).

[downinmybeastheart]

So unicorns are real

[a-book-of-creatures]

behold… a unicorn

[gallusrostromegalus]

I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASED  to find out this is, in fact, the case.

[glamourweaver]

Questing Beast

- Neck of a snake

- body of a leopard

- haunches of a lion

- feet off a hart (deer)

So is it

Or….

[weaselle]

don’t forget that some of the legendary creatures they were describing were from other people’s mythos which were passed down in the oral tradition for gods know how long. You know what existed in Eurasia right around the time we were domesticating wolves into dogs?

these beasties. For a long time, science had them down as going extinct 200 thousand years ago, but then we found some bones from 36 thousand years ago. Which, y’know, is quite a difference. Since you can bet that any skeleton we find is not literally the last one of its kind to live, many creatures have date ranges unknowably far outside the evidence.

In South Asia there were cultures that described a man-beast/troll forrest giant  who’s knuckles dragged the ground, and everybody from the west was sure it was superstitious mumbo jumbo, but you know what used to live there?

And did you know that some of the earliest white colonizers of the Americas heard accounts that there were natives still alive who had seen and hunted and eaten a great hairy beast, shaggy like the buffalo but much bigger, with a long thin nose like a snake and two giant fangs… so, like, mammoths, you know? but they were totally discounted because europeans of the time were like, elephants live in Africa and aren’t hairy, you can’t fool us, pranksters!

Anyway, the point is between the early writing game of telephone description thing talked about by OP, and the discounting of native cultural accuracy, I’m pretty sure most legendary creatures are in fact real animals one way or another 

[avistella]

Umineko no Naku Koro ni is the kind of series that you love so much that you want to forget everything about it so that you can experience it anew all over again and I want everybody to go through the suffering of not being able to do just that because it’s so good and I honestly cannot recommend it enough please read it it’s so good I die every time it’s one of the best vns i’ve ever read please i’m

[balkanradfem]

I can’t wait until we have a generation of women raised in separatism who were never forced to interact with m*n bc imagine just seeing men without any previous grooming? There’s literally no way to make anything abt them look good! They’re gonna have the statistics, males start all wars, are responsible for almost all violent crime, sexual assault and torture, exploitation and destruction of planet, building a system of economy in which human lives have zero value, and then they would soon find out just how incredibly entitled, rude, manipulative, patronizing, selfish, invasive, aggressive and annoying they are, and to someone who didn’t have to listen to endless whining of just how precious male feelings are, and live under threat of males killing you if you call them out even a little, they would just be no redeeming them!

Can you imagine how hard would it be to brainwash and groom a full grown woman all from the start? Try to make her believe pornography is normal and okay when she was never exposed to it before? Making her believe she can’t live without m*n when she already had a whole life of seeing women do absolutely everything, and knowing she can do it too? Try to explain to her that women are the “weaker” sex when she’s already had the ability to grow to her full strength and is more powerful than m*n already? Try to make her feel bad for having a big strong body when she’s been nothing but loved, accepted and admired for all her life?

Separatism-grown women would take one look at m*n and take them out. That’s why it’s so scary for m*n to allow it to happen, girls growing up with no grooming would take over the world in a flash.

[balkanradfem]

I feel that wars are extremely disrespectful to women.. women make literally all those people and then men just destroy them, disregarding insane amount of pain, work, sacrifice, love, energy, time it took women to make just one person, and then they go and demand “you have to make more!!!” and we’re like “uh we literally saw what you did to last bunch no thanks” and then they’re offended and call us murderers?? like excuse me I would like to not contribute a human resource for your killing game? And I think you all owe women about thousand apologies? Stop unmaking everything we make and breaking our hearts in the process, and this is even without addressing the rampant violence and sexual aggression towards women in wars, every single war is a crime against women more than anyone else and nothing will change my mind.

[ms-hells-bells]

marie antoinette was a clueless teenage girl thrown into a marriage and country she had no choice in, and has been slandered for hundreds of years since her death, with made up quotes such as “let them eat cake” when her final words were actually apologising to a guard for stepping on his toes, the fact that despite the extravagance she was much less fancy and money wasting than previous royals, and the erasure of her efforts to listen to and help the people despite having no political experience and her king-husband being useless, all providing a perfect example of the sexualised demonisation of young women with any semblance of power throughout history, and in this essay i will

[crystal-tokyo-blog]

By keinagaki

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

i’m in the middle of writing my dissertation on the european witch trials and the more research i do into it the more it bothers me that the whole thing has become such a gimmick today, like the town i live in runs a nightly ‘ghost tour’ which ends on the hill where they hung 12 women for witchcraft in the mid 17th century. the reality is the witch trials were a crime against humanity, the victims were mostly children, widows and elderly women and some historians have estimated that the total number of people tortured and killed was upwards of half a million. it’s such a torrid chapter of human history but it’s viewed almost entirely as a joke outside of academic spheres and i think we all know the reason why

[ti3r-kinda-remade]

Yonic

[opabiniawillreturn-deactivated2]

it's always interesting to see how much nature mimicks itself. how much of what we consider nature's beauty looks like the female body, and yet when shown the female body, you're disgusted?

I love nature, and how even if women don't get much representation in the human world, we get plenty from mother nature.

[tedx]

Watch the whole talk here>>

This guy stopped watching porn – and he wants you to know why. Gender activist Ran Gavrieli felt that most of the images he saw in porn encouraged negative, even violent, attitudes toward women, despite a recent wave of feminist porn. So he pulled the plug, and found that his personal sex life and private fantasies became much more fulfilling. In his talk at TEDxJaffa, he advocates for physically and emotionally-safe sex, as well as erotica that shows a wider range of fulfilling sexual experiences – including the intimacy of human connection, laughter, and touch. Watch his talk here.

[katiebishop]

[texnessa]

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. ‘This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar’ she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?” ― Sandi Toksvig

[webshrine-deactivated20210222]

men.

[punch-your-buns-deactivated2021]

…………………do not understand?????

[radgoblin]

What in the absolute fuck? What is wrong with men?

[bitterbadfem-harpy]

I do not understand how is this a thing

[frenching-the-bully]

Holy shit, buddy needs his teeth knocked out

[bitterbadfem-harpy]

Like, after I orgasm i want to eat bread and sleep wtf is wrong with these defects

[appropriately-inappropriate]

Wait.

So if we don’t fuck them, we’re bitches.

If we fuck but want a condom, we’re sluts.

If we fuck, don’t use a condom and smile afterwards, we deserve to get our teeth knocked out?

Alright then. Guess I’d rather be a bitch than a statistic. Have fun fucking a sock.

[venusdryad]

what the fuck?? why????

[arminjuice-deactivated20210413]

every day i’m reminded that men are the scum of the earth

[funkyevilmisandrist-deactivated]

You know without a doubt these men are going to end up actually hurting a woman one day

[gcdk]

This is common, but not as common as immediately losing interest. I’ve heard that so many times from men, when they describe being instantly bored/repulsed by the woman they just fucked.

All sex for these men is just friction.

The violent tendency post orgasm is probably linked to the self-loathing he feels after orgasming whilst using porn. If there’s no actual intimacy or affection (even between strangers) then all the woman is, is a porn alternative. She’s just providing friction. The mental link between orgasm and disgust is strong because of porn use, hence being disgusted by her.

In return she has been used by him to masturbate into, like a sex toy. Maybe she came, unlikely though (women having casual sex report fewer orgasms), maybe she’s never had anything better.

Straight hookup culture is terrible for women.

[youareagoodperson]

radfems: Freud’s theory of penis envy is misogynistic and evil and totally fake!

also radfems: men have womb envy

[7upofficial]

yeah thats the point

[misgenderingprinny-deactivated2]

seems about right

[spencer-shayy-archive]

Freud’s theory had absolutely no basis in reality. It stemmed from phallocentric, male supremacist views. You know, OP, like yours.

Our theory about womb envy? Stems from material reality.

If you think it’s a fake concept, OP, how do you explain all the creation myths where the male gods created humanity and civilization, when in reality, women are the ones who give birth and create life? 

What is that, if not womb envy?

Please explain to me why the theory of womb envy is fake and evil.

[radmenace]

Examples of womb envy

Men ascribing creative power to themselves in religion and mythology

Men ascribing creative power to themselves in the creation of nuclear weapons

Men considering babies their property, ie wanting to have babies that are “theirs”, despite the fact they will never have babies

Men minimizing the role women play in pregnancy and childbirth

Men attempting to regulate female reproduction through legislation or force

[funkyevilmisandrist-deactivated]

The patriarchy itself, tracing lineage through the father instead of through the person who actually created the child

[badjokesbyjeff]

Men are sexy

women are sexx

[cisoid]

[lesbianshate2020]

These replies make it more funny

[arminjuice-deactivated20210413]

lmfao i’m fucking WHEEZING why are tras like this?💀

[cliteralviolence]

Lol stay mad 🤡

[notesondesign]

birds

[desaturated7-deactivated2021090]

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[lawlessgodlessflawless]

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