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there's something kind of nice about getting rid of something, putting it where other people can't find it, throwing it out entirely, that kind of thing

#basket speaks #yes this is technically about some fics of mine but also its nice to get rid of trash isnt it #or at least stuff that puts you at too much risk #once i found an old diary of mine and i threw it out when i realized what was in it cause i couldnt risk anyone else finding it #and knowing too much about me #only tangentially related but still

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creatingblackcharacters

I can't remember where I read it last week, but the person discussed how when we think of chattel slavery in the US, we tend to think of massive plantations of cotton or tobacco, with one very rich white master or mistress with lots of land and lots of enslaved people. But we very rarely think of the many families that had just one or two slaves, in smaller homes.

Because it's not like you had to pay them, so once your family owned someone, they owned them and their descendants indefinitely. Could you pay and eventually free em- sure! You could also send them anywhere you want for any labor you want, could have an enslaved woman bred for more children, or maybe save up and buy new slaves and sell the old. Like cattle (thus, chattel slavery).

So it's interesting that many people go "oh well it's not like my family owned slaves!" Because like, one, how do you know that? Have you ever actually asked your grandmas about their grandmas? How many of your family members grew up with mammies? Have you ever asked? I wonder how many people have actually done the digging for the truth (or was it easier to just benefit). Because I've talked to my grandma, who picked cotton in the sea islands. She had to have been doing that for someone in the 1930s and 40s!

And two, it's easy to think that because your family (or someone else's) didn't own sprawling stolen land and generational blood money like a plantation owner, that it wasn't as important. But... It was. That was still someone's entire life. That was a person, whose labor benefitted and saved a family money that could be used in other ventures. How often do we think of them?

dykepuffs

The UK version of this is "We didn't own slaves! There were no slaves in Great Britain and anyone setting foot on our sainted shores was immediately freed! We never had a slave society!!!!" BUT they forget that it was ludicrously common for middle class families to own shares in slaves. You'd notionally "own" a couple of slaves (or, you'd own some fraction of a slave) that were working on a plantation somewhere else in the world, and in return for that you'd get a dividend from the company that owned the whole plantation.

It was a normal kind of investment, the same kind of thing as putting your money in the Premium Bonds or in a savings account. But it was harder to "see" so people tend to forget it.

randomramblesofaraven

#also in the uk people definitely owned slaves#like literally on english soil#and it wasnt a hush hush under the table thing#there were ads with reward money for escaped slaves in newspapers in the uk#slavery was illegal in the uk the way police brutality is illegal in the us#aka technically but no one enforced those laws <- prev tags (@nerdvanauniverse)

mossy-cobble

crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell

mossy-cobble

i'll always be here

all-the-wastedwords

ID: a painting of a girl sitting at the top of stairs, looking down with her back to the viewer. A doll is on the floor next to her. Down the stairs, in a much brighter atmosphere, is a bustling crowd of people all talking and smiling together. End ID.

blindbeta

Hiiiiii! I’ve been following your blog for a while, your work is much appreciated! I hope your day is well and you’re staying hydrated!!

I am wondering if you have any tips for researching blindness in ancient times (1st century, BC). Everything I have looked at so far is saying that there are limited records of them, they didn’t have much significance, etc… Am I just bad at internet-searching?

(I’m looking into Sumeria specifically, and diseases that cause eye-dysfunction, if that is good to know)

Any history people out here who can help?

blueblurbbaskets

I would recommend Disability History and the Ancient World, particularly their bibliography page with a list of 600+ studies as a starting point. I can't say that all the articles listed are open access unfortunately, but the site linked above focuses on the history of disability and links to several other similarly themed sites. I can't say how much good it'll do because a lot of the links seem to be broken? But hopefully it helps as a jumping off point at least

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blueblurbbaskets

very funny to me how there's now not one but two official art pieces of jeremy larkin working in the dark with his main/only light source being his computer and the rest of the room cast in heavy shadow, which i'm sure is totally healthy for him and exacerbates none of his issues.

blueblurbbaskets

sir do you think maybe turning on the overhead would cause less despair.

#basket speaks #the holmwood foundation #thf jeremy larkin

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very funny to me how there's now not one but two official art pieces of jeremy larkin working in the dark with his main/only light source being his computer and the rest of the room cast in heavy shadow, which i'm sure is totally healthy for him and exacerbates none of his issues.

#basket speaks #the holmwood foundation #thf jeremy larkin #it creates a sense that he hasn't touched grass in years and now (by canon) is touching altogether too much grass #maybe he's just an Overhead Lights Are Evil kind of person or maybe he's contributing to his own misery who can say

integrityflower

ship wars are dumb. Polyamory and aromanticism are easy, simple, and effective solutions

nerdragons-hoard

I don't see how polyamory or aromanticism could patch up the holes in my hull but if you say so

tendermiasma

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cozywisteria

reading project hail mary, the martian, and artemis back to back really drives home how aroace ryland is compared to the other protagonists and i actually love it so much

mark watney: if i met an alien queen i’d fuck her. lol i’ll be in schiaparelli’s favorite hole

jazz bashara: i’m into casual sex. damn this guy sucks but lowkey i’d be down

ryland grace: please stop telling me you’re banging. holy moly i am NOT sleeping with stratt.

#sex mention #other andy weir protags express an interest/desire in sex but ryland literally never does lol

tragicwaif

gender-affirming method of suicide

tragicwaif

Buying a gun to kill myself with because I’m a boy but you can tell I’m not really comfortable with it and my hearts not in it and I’d would really rather be overdosing on pills :/. But I’m A Boy…..

#suicide mention

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BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS!

We're one of the suggested titles for the British Fantasy Awards in the audio work (fiction) category!

It would be an honour if you considered voting for us.

the problem with making a vent blog that i also sorta ended up using for random media thoughts is that people started following me and now i once again have no place i can comfortably talk about what i'm going through. which i guess i should have expected lol

#basket speaks #mental stuff #there's too many people here and now i'm tempted to start blocking or delete the blog entirely

one of these days i need to catch up on dracula 2004 but the problem is i typically listen to podcasts while driving and given that Calling All Angels was actively making me tear up on the highway I feel like the new episodes are going to be substantially worse for my ability to drive safely

#basket speaks #dracula 2004

kim-jong-chill

i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a goddamn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

mattheuphonium-blog

fabulous

tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

counterpunches

#HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY

mirror pronouns are so funny conceptually when you think about it. "this is a robbery hand over your pronouns and nobody gets hurt" type situation

#basket speaks #pronouns #to be clear i see this as a good and interesting facet of mirror pronouns #i think they're fun conceptually they just lost out to the esoteric nature of using emojis

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transbutchsupreme

Hi. I'm Dj, a black transfem writer on tumblr, currently working on re editing my portfolio to get published. My latest offering then, is a return to my oldest, the first collection of six, now in a shape and order I'm very very proud of.

I'm currently 350 dollars behind on rent and can use all the help I can get to make the deadline in a week.

It's damn good and emotional poetry. In fact, my starting concept for the series was my sharpest.

Please enjoy the art for free if you can only boost and please please help and share these links where you can so I can stay off the street.

Thank you. This is DJ Walker's To Slip Away in Real Time, a 3 part poetry collection about the metaphor of the Wave, a flood of delusion and dread that washes over us in peaceful periods after extreme trauma. Thank you for helping me survive.

Explore DJ Walker's metaphor of "The Wave," a post traumatic flash of delusion and dread, transforming the narrator into more of an accessib

Here's a link to my full site on gumroad as well.

Currently, the middle three books, The Third Wave, Love is the Sweetest Blasphemy and Manyloves are the remaining works in their original form. Stay tuned for more!!

Black agender poet from the Chicagoland area Individual poems on the posts section!

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180/350

I just need 170 more, really. 🥹

Check original post tho

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