Proud Infiltrator & Cat of Many Coats

Thank you @queerofthedagger for the tag! I’m afraid the last few lines I’ve written come from a historical overview of ‘cross-dressing’ in a chapter in Nobody’s Son, ie my current Prayers!Fingon WIP, though I promise the entire chapter isn’t actually in this dry factual register hahaha. Tagging @tobermoriansass @bad-writer @starspray @thescrapwitch @sallysavestheday if you’re keen to share the last lines you’ve written! rated for state homo/transphobia.

Khairati’s 1884 acquittal, however, was reliant on a lack of evidence, and did not disturb the underlying figure the trial court had been prosecuting, the "habitual sodomite" whose clothing functions as a standing confession of depravity. That figure survived the acquittal intact and entered into case law, available to the next magistrate and the next constable to utilise against the next “man in a sari”.

From an 1865 letter from the British Lieutenant General of the Northwestern provinces: “(the policy goal was) to prevent an increase in the number of Eunuchs, and thus gradually lead to their Extinction."

Please help Fatima care for her infant daughter and siblings in Gaza. Most infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed, so Fatima and her family live in a tent. The winter is cold and rainy and can become deadly fast. Food is often expensive when it is available at all.

[video description: Two children, Fatima's siblings, stand outside under a tent awning in the rain. The older sibling shivers. The camera pans to show the area around the tent and then goes inside the tent.]

Fatima is doing what she can to provide for her family, but she needs help to get them what they need. Her baby girl needs milk and diapers and her siblings need food and winter protection, among other essentials. Please donate to help her get the supplies her family needs!

Fatima is vetted by gazavetters and her campaign is #640 on the list.

You can donate to her on Chuffed:

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Alexander Calder, Seahorse, 1975

this is dedicated to @shitpostingfromthebarricade for deserving every single les mis shitposting post and being so cool

Enjolras: Ectopleura larynx

Graceful, beautiful and strong, as they tend to attach to surfaces to live. It’s topically found in colonies, not alone, like Enjolras and his lieutenants.

Jehan: Physalia Physalis

It is usually confused with a jellyfish, but no! It’s hydrozoa. It tends to be found alone and it’s sting is also horribly dangerous.

Bahorel: hydra!!! I love this animal so much

So, at fist I was thinking of assigning it to Joly, but then I researched a little bit more about it and something clicked. So hydras are animals of action. They are super rigid but can also bend and jump. Hydras are also immortal, or at least their cells don’t seem to deteriorate. Also, as a fun fact, hydras are the reason we found out that sleep developed before brains, not for brains, because hydras sleep and, well, don’t have brains.

Joly: Tubularia indivisa

okay, I associate these colors to Joly. Idk there aren’t many cool facts about this one but it looks like Joly. An eccentric fella indeed.

Combeferre: Velella velella

They have a little sail. Like the guide :) Also they are typically harmless to humans

Courfeyrac: Nanomia bijuga

Is this actually a colony of clonic animals? Yes. Every element in it has a special function and life on its own, but are dependent on each other to live. She’s elegant and minimalistic in a way Physalia Physalis can not. Look at her! She’s classy

Bossuet: Porpita Porpita

It just looks so happy. It also works kind of like a refugee for some fish. And when it doesn’t, the fish literally panics. That’s so cool.

Grantaire: Praya dubia

It lives deep down in the ocean. In darkness and solitude. It is also very unsettling.

Feuilly: Apolemia uvaria

This animal is efficient. It creates kind of like a web to catch its food and it’s also very venomous.

Edvard Munch, themes of isolation:

Woman on sea coast, 1888