Canonically Gay Knight

And by and large US officers seem to have ignored it. We literally have the records of every flogging (the most extreme form of punishment allowed during these specific years) onboard a naval vessel for the years of 1846-1848 and almost all of the cases that involved homosexual activity "unambiguously refer to male/male homosexual activity involving attempted assaults on children, not consensual couplings between adults."* There are also multiple recorded instances throughout the Victorian Era of an American sailor coming forward with a charge of sexual assault and pulling in other sailors or even officers as witnesses who tell their captain yeah i totally saw them and didn't say anything until this sailor told me it was nonconsensual. There are even records recorded by naval recruitment officers of men with extremely explicit gay tattoos being allowed to join the navy. Why did the US navy not care enough to even include it in the regulations while the British navy literally hanged men for it??? Were we so hard up for sailors that John Adams was like bitch we need every gay sailor we can get????

And weirdly enough this was true on American Whaling ships too! In the recorded cases where homosexual activity led to sailors being disciplined (in some cases punishment so mild as just being dropped off their ship at the next port) it was usually in situations where rape was involved and/or there was a high degree of ship disruption related to it (guys getting into a public knife fight for example). Idk I just think thats so interesting especially when America and England were so similar to be so different in this particular area is fascinating

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Growing pumpkins and amaranth. The pumpkins here are Winter Luxury, which is supposed to be very good for pies. I timed the planting so that they should be producing ripe pumpkins starting in early October, and should keep well for a while. I’m looking forward to trying some baking with my own homegrown pumpkins.

Amaranth I was just curious to try, and will have to research more, but I think will be interesting. The plants are beautiful, and the seeds are supposed to be very nutritious and versatile. I have two varieties, Golden Giant and UCSC Popping Amaranth.

A couple days ago I planted another patch of a faster-growing pumpkin variety called Montana Jack. They should also be ready in early to mid October, and are good for carving.

Both patches are bordered with a variety of nasturtiums, marigolds, and calendula. They should all help keep pests off the main crops. Some they repel, some they will attract so that the pests eat them instead of the pumpkins and amaranth. The nasturtiums are also edible, so I can also use whatever ones aren’t eaten by pests myself. And calendula can be used for some home remedies, although again I’ll have to do more research.

This has been a common method for a long time in some states

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

It's adapted Calcifer the fire demon saying this classic line:

I don't eat meat, so I needed something more devastating 😈