Gay wrongs for gay wrongs

the header is Gregor, my godchild, if you talk shit about him I'll kill you/anonymously gifted hedgehog: 🦔 /25/They used to call me Irina or Igel/hedgehog/your languages equivalent but then I fell prey to a name pyramid scheme so now I am called Arthur. If you too want to be an Arthur join now! Arthur is the perfect name for people of all genders and ages! Once we've accrued enough Arthurs we will venture out to find a sword stuck in a stone and with our newfound power turn England into an anarcho syndicalist collective/they/them/kleptomaniac in training/icon by @teathattast

[teathattast]

[fa3ryb0t]

goodbye straight people

[animusrox]

No one: Tumblr gif makers: *downloads a 70GB video file just to make one gifset of some blorbo that’ll only get 120 notes*

[theprimememeister]

[inbabylontheywept]

People are so much more sad, and desparate, and lonely than you think. I have had three incidents in the last four months were a technician I was working with was being either dangerously unfocused (we work with high voltage), or just flat out angry with their coworkers, and every time when I just pulled them aside to say hey, this isn't you, you're nice, and you're competent, so something must be up - what can I do to help - they have responded by bursting into tears. One guy was struggling to get his wife moved into a care home, one guy just got served divorce papers, and the other hadn't slept a wink the night before because his daughter had the pukes.

I haven't spent my whole life responding to people being rude, or stupid, or dangerous with knee jerk compassion. It's a new habit. The first time I did that as the lead for my lab, it was because the guy genuinely was so good natured that I knew something had to be off. But the other two times were just me going, alright, lets see if it always goes this well, and so far, it has. I'm almost 30, and I just figured out that the #1 reason people are shitty are because they are going through shit.

I don't think you have, like, a moral obligation to respond to people being jerks with knee jerk compassion. But it has made my life so much easier the last four months that I would recommend trying. For your own sake. Please.

(I'll step off my soapbox now. Enjoy your Sunday.)

[pissvortex]

[smoke-in-the-winds]

“Wow, yeah, I’ve never heard of that, it sounds really fucked up. Bet those perverts south of here would do it though”

[sailatina3]

To a certain extent I get that sexual orientation is socially constructed but I need you all to understand that lesbians still exist and no we will not fuck men or be attracted to men. Im sorry but its the exact same shit as "well gender isnt real so trans people are actually regressive"

And I do notice how this line of logic is used to devalue the existence of lesbians and not nearly as much for other sexualities.

[tooies]

the clock app always picks the numbers for you but in calculator the numbers can be anything you want

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[siryyeet]

Happy pride month <3

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

[digitalmyyth]

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[ladillados]

[kontrollsysteme]

we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:

[petermorwood]

The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->

[brightwanderer]

Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.

[tuulikki]

I was complaining earlier about costuming in both “historical” settings and in fantasy/scifi. This is exactly what I mean when I say a knowledge of actual history would enrich the conceptual creative palette for things like “hardcore mercenary outfits.”

[ukulelegodparent]

the slashing is also actually functional, since weapons would get caught in it. This is armour. And then absolutely everyone thought it was THE shit and adopted the style (and they were so right about that). Man? Woman? High nobility? Regular guy? Doesn’t fucking matter, you’re wearing an outrageous feathery hat and slashed garments.

Also I do want to add: “Pretty hardcore” in this case means “Responsible for a list of war crimes so long it would make the US army blush”. Like do not get me wrong. I reenact this era. I reenact these people. Their clothing fucking slapped. But my god they brought unspeakable violence basically everywhere they went, through the nature of being large mercenary armies. There is a reason we generally do not do wars like that anymore any haven’t for a long time. It’s just a pretty good way to get a lot of innocent people killed.

Also also: sumptuary laws were generally speaking quite a bit less strict and less ubiquitous than we like to think today. They were at this point in time mostly part of a long list of laws that cities had in order to ensure peace within them. Peace was extremely important to cities specifically because they were trade centres. And if your city was unsafe and had unrests it meant people didn’t want to go to trade their stuff there any more. So sumptuary laws were mainly there to ensure that jealousy within cities didn’t rise to the point where it starts to lead to behaviour that is offputting to outsiders. Outside of these cities, it was generally a non-issue, bc society just works differently in those closer-knit communities. Also there it was mostly a question of being able to afford these things and people just couldn’t. You don’t have to ban someone who can barely feed and clothe themselves from wearing brocades. They weren’t going to. The special thing about the Landsknechte is more that they not only were exempt from sumptuary laws, most people at this point in time were not subject to sumptuary laws, but they actually had enough money to afford nice fabrics (and they also ransacked them. That too.). That is why their clothing was so outrageous.

[76ello]

I’m remembering an article about why late medieval large standing armies were Not A Thing. In general, soldiers were paid but not supplied - they were responsible for buying their own food. This meant armies stripped land like a swarm of locust, leading to a great many atrocities against civilians. So Landsknecht were acting in a fine old tradition, though they may have taken it up a notch or two.

One result of this was that armies had to keep moving along to greener pastures. Holding a long siege became a logistical nightmare. One strategic maneuver was to sweep your army along one of your opponent’s possible routes, leaving it denuded and unusable. Which worked unless you found yourself needing that route later.

[ukulelegodparent]

Yup and that part is also why the introduction of the potato was so important. Before the primary staple calorie sources were mostly grains and you have to harvest grains within a pretty specific timeframe and then you have to store them somewhere. And that makes them really easy to ransack. You go to the grain silo, take out all the grain, done. Now the village has no food.

But potatoes, well, potatoes, on top of having an excellent calorie per square metre of land required for planting ratio, are also not as picky as grains when it comes to harvesting them. Sure, you do want to stay within a certain timeframe, but you can push it a little and it won't be too bad. So if you're in a village and you know there's armies around you that may have an interest in your food you can just not harvest your potatoes or only harvest the amount you need on a day-to-day basis. And if that army wants to steal your food then tough luck, they'll just have to go digging.

It turned famines from a fairly direct side effect of war into something you had to be doing pretty actively to a population. It's not like there were no more famines in Europe after the introduction of the potato, but the amount of deaths through famine that it prevented is unfathomable.

[beardedmrbean]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

also we have GOT to collectively come to terms with the fact that me or any other stranger online disliking or even making fun of something you like is not saying “no fun allowed” “no one can ever enjoy this” you have simply got to grow a spine and be able to like the shit you like. you don’t even have to defend it! like 90% of the media i really enjoy is divisive and half my friends actively hate it. i really don’t give a fuck though because i like it. you can write whatever you want! you’re allowed! even if it’s MY least favorite genre or style of writing and i have active distaste for it!

[dailycatsblog]

[cilceon]

Google’s removal of its search function is going great btw