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Which means my grandfather's father was a sharecropper, which is within my family's oral history for why the [surname] family property and farm is the way it is and has been in the family for so long.

My grandfather died at 96 years old at the turn of the century.

Sharecropping as we know it today ended sometime in the 1930s-1950s depending on the state. Not only was my grandfather a sharecropper's son- my grandfather was a sharecropper himself during his early adulthood before he left home to join the military and later became a preacher.

My grandfather marched with Martin Luther Kin Jr and educated my father on black politics and activism. My father just turned 71, the same age as Ruby Bridges, the little girl who sparked the mass desegregation of education. She was born in 1954. There exists a photo somewhere of a little boy on a man's shoulders in the crowd at one of MLK's public events. That's my dad.

That's how close this is to the current era.

I said that once as a teenager on a forum. I was mocked and told that I am either way older than I claimed to be or that I am way off in my estimations because slavery was long ago. Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the Civil Rights movement itself, that is in recent enough memory to be evident in the lives of those who are alive today. My grandfather's grandfather- I'm just 5 generations removed from slavery.

Dangers of working on a set.

he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks

refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel

basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible

often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended

repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off

had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming

the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained

carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington

an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot

infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot

Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

One thing you could do is promote antipatriotic education?

Contribute to an anarchist library, whether by uploading something you have access to or translating into a different language

Support or offer your voice to Audible Anarchist to provide audiobooks of anarchist texts

If your area has an infoshop, anarchist bookstore, or anarchist bookfair, volunteer and donate! There’s no comprehensive list of these things so you’ll have to do your own duckduckgoing

Support anarchist news media like CrimethInc, It’s Going Down, Unicorn Riot, and Indigenous Action

Put up stickers or posters around your area

Print off or order some zines, books, or other reading material and stick them in local little free libraries

Slave Narratives (x) (x) Linked to one I own, and the search results since there’s seriously a LOT

Preaching with Sacred Fire:  An Anthology of African-American Sermons, 1750 to the Present

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr

Our Non-Christian Nation (because these chuds have a hard-on for theocracies)

The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.  (Because you can’t deny what he says in his own words)

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About…American History

Did a little experiment with tatting and chainmail that I had a lot of fun with!!!

I used size 10 black crochet thread (aunt lydia's) tatted in the same simple edging from Frivole on YouTube that I did to learn the tatting stitches attached to a very open half Persian 3-in-1 to make it puff out like a cuff(for a bracelet version) or a ruff (for a necklace version that I didn't want to model for). I would still need to figure out what I would use for a closure and how I would wear it, but it was incredibly fun to try!