finrod who????

 But if you ask people who think about things, the answer is vague. Killing a hibernating bear would just feel… impolite? You can’t fucking shoot a man when he’s sleeping, that’s just fucking rude. It’s just not the right thing to do.

 Long before hunting laws were established in Finland, you couldn’t kill a sleeping bear, and what commands you is something older than law: tradition. Even at a time when hunting was a matter of life and death, and a bear fighting for its life is mainly a matter of death, you just didn’t kill a hibernating bear, you have to wake it up first. Hunters risked their lives, the lives of their brothers and everyone in the hunting party, who were friends, family and men that they loved, to give the bear a fighting chance.

 In the modern time, the hunting season of bears is in the summer, for the warmest summer months. There are many reasons for why they are allowed to tread safely in autumn and to sleep in peace through the cold months, almost all of which are rational and scientific, and do not touch the old traditions.

 Old faith says a living thing has many souls - henki, luonto, itse. Plants only have one - the one that wills them to grow. Animals have two, both the spark of life and nature that enables them to act. A human being also has the third, one that makes them a person, personality, itse, literally “self”. But the soul that travels in your dreams is not the soul that defines a human - animals have that one as well. When your dog runs in her sleep, her soul is elsewhere, where a dog is needed.

A chronology of major expeditions of the 1830s in Fergus Fleming’s Barrow’s Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude and Outright Lunacy:

1829-33 John Ross takes a small steam ship into Prince Regent Inlet and is beset for four winters. His nephew James discovers the North Magnetic Pole in 1831.

1830-31 Richard Lander and his brother John successfully trace the Niger to its mouth.

1833-5 George Back travels down the Great Fish River in an abortive attempt to rescue John Ross.

1836-7 Back sails disastrously to Wager Bay.

1837-9 Hudson’s Bay Company overlanders Peter Dease and Thomas Simpson successfully map large stretches of Canada’s Arctic coast.

1839-43 James Ross journeys to Antarctica with the Erebus and Terror. He charts large areas of undiscovered coastline and discovers the live volcano, Mt. Erebus.

For popular depictions of these polar peregrinations, I look to the Linda Hall Library’s online Ice exhibit, which contains illustrations from many contemporary expedition narratives, such as the delightfully trashy The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross (1835), by Robert Huish.

Ross’ steam ship Victory as it left Woolwich in an illustration, dressed with some very fanciful flags. And over there in the lower left corner…

It’s the Eighteen-Thirties all right!

Here is a scene from Narrative of an Expedition in H.M.S. Terror, by George Back (1838):

The Terror is beset in ice, but the three men in the foreground wear winter clothing that recalls an 1833 fashion plate with the full coat skirts, defined waists, and even the caps.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

hi sorry uh. incredible miscommunication on my part lmfao.