I saw your rant about bows in LOTR and I’m in love with ancient weaponry and thus with you now??? Please tell us all about swords!
Hi, I noticed interest had picked back up again! I guess somebody popular reblogged it. For the convenience of all parties (and preservation against tumblr shenanigans), all my mini-essays about medieval weaponry, including the swords one, can now be found on my Ao3 account at https://archiveofourown.org/series/1207902. Reblogs of useful weaponry info can be found under the tag “medieval weaponry” on my tumblr.
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Even in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist world, you still need to produce goods, as a result of this, you need factories because it is more effective to have a few people making a lot of clothes in a factory than every woman being forced to sit down and spin wool all day.
The issue with factories is poor wages, unsafe working conditions and environmental impact, all of which can be fixed through things like regulatory bodies and unions, the issue is not the fact that goods are no longer all made at home
you can have a guild-owned, guild-run, sustainable and ethical small- to mid-size clothing factory. or laundromat. or kitchen. all of these once-domestic tasks can become industrialized without the capitalism and greed.
the factory isn't evil. it's a building full of machines and materials.
The fans thrum almost as loud as the enthusiastically amateur guitarist onstage, and the heat (summer, bodies, movement) still makes Anyra sluggish enough that she fails to dodge the big gal with the tail as she turns away from the bar. Cold splashes down her neck.
"Ack! Fuck!"
"Whoops! Shit, my beer!" She's a walrus, one tusk broken off just under her lip. "Sorry," she adds, patting ineffectually at Anyra's tank with a tiny napkin.
"It's-" She shudders. "Okay, it's pretty gross and I can taste it, ew, but it's not a big deal. Unless you were trying to dump a drink on me, in which case…"
"I swear it was an accident," she says, looking up at Anyra bashfully. She's big, belly and tail draping over her shorts, chest straining her top, thick arms, cute mottled shoulders. Anyra's tall enough to still have a couple inches on her, though, lanky frog legs for the win. "I could buy you a drink to make up for it. And get a replacement for this," she adds ruefully, shaking off a few stray drops. She swallows the remaining beer in a couple long gulps, then flattens the can absently between her hands.
Anyra watches, the corner of her mouth ticking up involuntarily. "…All right. Cider if they have something that's not Strongbow."
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“What power the ADA has retained is only due to the constant vigilance and activism of disabled people and their allies—activism that the disability rights movement has made possible.”
It’s the year of the horse and I’ve always been a horse girl at heart, so I’m finally taking advantage of the excuse to fill the world with fat little horses! These felted friends are about the size (and shape!) of an apple, and if you happen to have any apples to share I’m sure they’d help you out! Blanket appaloosas were one of my first horse fascinations as a kid, so I had no choice but to make one.
This piece and a whole herd of others will be available at my table at Anthrocon July 3-5!
Jokes about prison sexual assault have long been prevalent in popular culture; not only are they flippant, but they also hide the bigger pic
Don’t drop the soap.” We’ve all heard it. It’s been said in so many movies, TV shows, and comedy skits that mention prison. Before I was incarcerated, everything I knew about prison was from movies like The Shawshank Redemption and Half Baked, which sent a clear message: that prison is filled with sexually deviant “predators” and, if you’re not careful, you’re guaranteed to be sexually harassed and assaulted.
I arrived tense and prepared for violence at the slightest provocation. I saw fights, heard about occasional stabbings and other forms of violence, but, unlike what the movies depicted, sexual violence was not the norm in prison. After spending almost two decades in the Illinois prison system, across seven penitentiaries, I’ve seen these jokes’ harmful inaccuracy. “Don’t drop the soap” has taken on an entirely different meaning: I ended up being more concerned about my bar soap falling on the grimy bathroom floors since each one costs between $1.50 and $3—a lot when you can only make cents on the hour.
Media and dialogue surrounding the prison environment continue to force the misconception that individuals in custody are wantonly depraved compared to the rest of society. These normalized depictions don’t just make light of the real impacts of sexual violence—they minimize the role prison staff play in both perpetrating and encouraging the violence that does take place. Staff are often relegated to the margins of conversations surrounding prison culture when they are in fact central to the story: Their positions of power allow them to commit or instigate harm while shielding them from scrutiny, redirecting attention to the criminalized population.
After a few weeks of living with a cellmate at Hill Correctional Center in 2015, he and I started to butt heads over trivial things like cleanliness and conflicting personalities. Spending nearly 20 hours together each day, we didn’t want it to get worse, so we informed a corrections officer of our growing tension and our need to be separated. “Hey, y’all are grown,” the officer responded. “If you can’t get along, I’m not getting involved. Learn to fight or fuck.”
My blood began to boil, heat rising to my face until I began swearing at the officer. He laughed as he walked away, yelling over his shoulder, “Fight or fuck, makes no difference to me!” My cellmate and I ended up fighting for days before coming to terms. We eventually realized fighting was exactly what the officer wanted us to do. Prison isn’t the safest place in the world, but staff comments like this play a role in encouraging our victimization.
And it goes beyond provocation: Corrections officers themselves are often the perpetrators of this sexual harassment and violence. Data shows that sexual violence in men’s prisons isn’t a regular occurrence. And when it does happen, the staff are far from innocent actors. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Prison Rape Statistics Program, from 2023 to 2024, in state and federal prisons across the country, just over 2 percent of adult inmates reported sexual victimization by another prisoner, and roughly the same percent reported sexual victimization by facility staff.
Even one incident of sexual violence, whether by an inmate or staff member, is one too many. I know from experience that the trauma and harm associated with abuse are long-standing and incalculable. I entered the Illinois Youth Center St. Charles when I was 16. Early in the first summer I was there, we would all shower after our softball games—and a staff member would watch us and make sexually explicit comments while making gestures toward his groin. He never touched me, but he made me feel powerless. I ended up reporting him after two months of this, and I never saw him again. I’m not sure exactly what happened to him, if he was fired or moved facilities, but that experience has stuck with me.
Abuse can show itself in many forms that may feel confusing at the time. When I was still 16, a woman corrections officer would come through on the midnight shifts. She would joke and “flirt” with the kids there, bringing us cigarettes. Eventually, she made sexual advances at me, touching and kissing me. At the time, it felt cool to get attention from an older woman, and I felt so conflicted about whether or not I should report it, so I never did. I know now that it was abuse: Both her and the other corrections officer took advantage of someone at their mercy, and the trauma of both experiences is deeply rooted. To date, more than 900 survivors have come forward alleging they too suffered child sexual abuse at juvenile detention centers in Illinois between 1995 and 2022.
It is fair to assume that the actual numbers are higher and would continue to show staff as key figures in carceral victimization, as many children and adults suffer in silence, afraid to speak out. All the while, the conception abounds that we are more often victimizing each other.
Minimizing the role that those in positions of power play in condoning, ignoring, or committing acts of harm reduces accountability and creates more space for such acts to occur. And, as we see time and again, victims of abuse can sometimes be too afraid or embarrassed to speak up or really understand the dynamics at play.
There are so many things wrong with the adages of “don’t drop the soap” and “fight or fuck,” but just because someone has committed a crime doesn’t mean they’ve forfeited all their morals and values, and just because someone has been labelled a criminal doesn’t mean they can’t also be a victim. The power dynamics are so often completely misrepresented or hidden in the information disseminated outside about our vulnerable population. With each story, we hold those in power accountable so society can see the whole picture rather than being distracted by the proverbial bar of soap.
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“Most abuse of children is at the hands of their parents, this being the result of the proximity and power differential between adults and children, and, pertaining to the latter, the idea that children are the property of their parents” yes, I agree with you, this is just factually correct
“The propensity and desire to harm children is a spiritual curse that manifests itself when adults produce (or adopt) children, the capacity to do harm to children is a metaphysical state that only happens if you are responsible for their birth. Other adults can only be neutral or Safe, and we therefore don’t actually have to think about ageism or power differentials or any other kind of abuse or power structure ever”
There are a lot of people who are convinced that their empathy for youth and support for their liberation makes them simply larger, older kids and on the same footing in terms of power! Unlike the evil Parents from planet Parent, who were never children themselves obvs
There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.
As in almost all cases, this isn't a case of a computer DELIBERATELY being made to discriminate, it's a case of a computer RECKLESSLY being made to discriminate. Which isn't even a tiny bit better, but is an important distinction for when we talk about the dangers of this kind of thing.
AI is trained off of available data. Available data is about the real world, where racism and sexism and all that shit exists. Unless you carefully put effort into making sure that bigotry is EXCLUDED from the training, it will by default be included.
We've known this forever. There is no excuse. They don't bother, or they do a shitty job at it, because they want to make more money and carefully curating your own custom dataset without racism in it is not only extremely difficult, but very expensive.
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in which murderbot is a very normal terracotta soldier and ART the dragon spirit of a chinese junk who dwells in the ship's keel. they meet in the ming dynasty perhaps, when ppl are sailing places extra willy-nilly.
*Nüwa is the mother goddess in chinese mythology, known for creating humanity from yellow clay and repairing the sky.
thank you @mutualrapport for hosting the event! original prompt below.
[drawn for the prompt: an AU of ART and MB's first meeting and conversation - e.g. another look at their first meeting from a fantasy, historical, or (non-canon) sci-fi lens! Any perspective is fine. The only constraint is that it cannot be set in the canon universe. Any visibly non-canon AU- fantasy, human, historical, etc. - anything goes!]
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