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Being a pretty small blog I pay a lot of attention to the tags people put on reblogs of my art since I'm usually only sifting through like 5-10 of them. This caught my eye and I may as well throw a bit of explanation in here for @sleeping-cliche for this post :)
I've been playing off and on with this species for a REALLY long time and the mortuary infanticide / birth defects page was from 2021 or something? I don't think mortuary infanticide is a real term lol (it sounds kind of redundant) I think I meant something more like ritualized filial cannibalism. A lot of animals consume their young especially if they are weak/runts, because the nutrients from eating the baby is actually worth more and is less of a burden than caring for that baby.
Anyways, with this species at some point I had this idea going where their reproductive organs are housed in those fatty sacs protecting their neck, and they were birthed out of the mouth in eggs??? Something like that. I don't know if that was fully scrapped at this point or not but the filial cannibalism would be done with newborns with severe birth defects or stillborns and it would be sort of a way to return the child to where they came from. Sort of.
In every sense it would appear as though they would return to the womb, but of course would actually be eaten by the birthing parent because true "unbirthing" isn't physically possible. Not a joyous occasion by any means, it would be a very quiet and secretive, perhaps almost shameful act viewed only by the other biological parents and maybe religious leaders or something like that.
Their "crest" or fat sacs would probably be scarified or tattooed after a miscarriage/stillborn/severely defective birth. I think some real world cultures have similar practices of body modifications to mark loss though I don't recall exactly which ones do that.
Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.
Feminist fantasy is funny sometimes in how much it wants to shit on femininity for no goddamned reason. Like the whole “skirts are tools of the patriarchy made to cripple women into immobility, breeches are much better” thing.
(Let’s get it straight: Most societies over history have defaulted to skirts for everyone because you don’t have to take anything off to relieve yourself, you just have to squat down or lift your skirts and go. The main advantage of bifurcated garments is they make it easier to ride horses. But Western men wear pants so women wearing pants has become ~the universal symbol of gender equality~)
The book I’m reading literally just had its medievalesque heroine declare that peasant women wear breeches to work in the field because “You can’t swing a scythe in a skirt!”
Hm yes story checks out
peasant women definitely never did farm labour in skirts
skirts definitely mean you’re weak and fragile and can’t accomplish anything
skirts are definitely bad and will keep you from truly living life
no skirts for anyone, that’s definitely the moral of the story here
My annotated Dracula has informed me that when Harker said his robber steak was “in the style of the London cat’s-meat!” he was referring to “A tradition in London was the “cat’s-meat man,” a vendor who sold little bits of meat on skewers for consumption by cats”
I am overjoyed by this knowledge that there were Victorians just randomly getting lil kebabs for their CATS
I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:
Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin.
Here is a page of medieval weapons.
Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.
Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.
Here are some gemstones.
Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on.
Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.
Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised.
Here is every religion in the world.
Here is every language in the world.
Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.
Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.
Here are poisonous plants.
Here are plants in general.
Feel free to add more to this!
I have nothing insightful to say. I just think this is deep.
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.
I have no idea what complexities there are to this, Tumblr isn't a great source of reliable news, but it is a good source of cool things to go look up better info on.
Just imagine a world full of beautiful stained glass windows which also generate electricity…
[Oxford Photovoltaics]
I was today years old when i found out that i was allowed time off to vote. Something no boss has ever told me.
I haven’t seen any posts about this! But, thanks to the Internet Archive lawsuit, half a million books have been removed from their library. They are calling for people to share their experiences to help them regain access to these books, so please considering sending something in!
Google Form || More about the effects of this lawsuit
They’ve released not just digitized works of art, but also a great many art history texts and art books in general. Just this week, they announced an expansion of access to their digital archive, in that they’ve made nearly 88,000 images free to download on their Open Content database under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). That means “you can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.”
88,000 new free images just dropped, to use however you like.
