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angels in america the play that you are…..

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HARPER (a beat. then): In your experience of the world. How do people change?

MORMON MOTHER: Well it has something to do with God so it’s not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can’t even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It’s up to you to do the stitching.

HARPER: And then get up. And walk around.

MORMON MOTHER: Just mangled guts pretending.

HARPER: That’s how people change.

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Jun 30, 2023

stemmonade:

help a mixed Black disabled couple get thru disability pride month!

ivy, a lightskinned biracial black person wearing sunglasses and with short curly hair, smiles at the camera. Beryl, a lightskinned afrolatine tma person weering red glasses with a beaded glasses chain, kisses ivy's cheek.ALT

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its a new month and we still need help lol! i started a part time job because we simply are not able to make enough from crowdfunding to pay our bills and expenses, but i dont get paid from said job till this upcoming friday. i never even got close to raising the money i needed for rent at my other place, and i still have a mountain of expenses i need to catch up on. anything ppl can spare helps a ton, but i need $50 yo buy some of my wife and i’s medications that arent covered by insurance, and i would like to raise at least $100 to pick up things to help me get thru working without completely obliterating our body. funds can be sent directly or thru ko-fi, we also have a patreon and two wishlists with stuff we need. thanks so much!

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Jul 01, 2023

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ok i have many many meetings to get this life shit going as always, and unconventional work to do as i am wont to do. working, in essence, and i need money for the train! my goal is $35 for the weekly swipe so that i do not have to be harassed by the domestic terrorists who lurk at every station these days trying to meet a quota by harassing people who rightfully do not want to pay the fucking MTA! anyways. please donate if u can or rb if u cant :) i appreciate any and everyway in which i receive support through these very unprecedented times. feel free to reach out to me if anything, but please know this is an absolute necessity. thanks <3

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Jul 01, 2023

briarpatch-kids:

cane-you-dig-it:

happy disability pride month to those with conditions no one talks about, online or in general:

multiple sclerosis (me lol)

marfans

cerebral palsy

bells palsy

hidradenitis suppurativa

cauda equina syndrome

mixed connective tissue disorder

hyperadrenergic pots

non hypermobile eds types

stickler syndrome

mitochondrial disease

cystic fibrosis

sickle cell disease

myasthenia gravis

post-cholecystectomy syndrome

SWAN (syndromes without a name)

…just to name a few. i see you and you deserve awareness and understanding.

this list is non exhaustive, rb with other conditions you want to see represented!!

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This is the first time I’ve actually seen a positivity post mention my illness type! That’s really cool.

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Jul 01, 2023

saifess:

need $38 for phone bill and overdraft fees

please my account is on -$2.22

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cashapp: $saifess

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Jul 01, 2023

songlordsbug asked:

Hi! Hoping to appeal to your sword knowledge. The sword front and center looks too big for a people, was it really something someone used to hit people with? The little not very informative plaque called the basket hilts claymores and the little ones two handed swords. I think I remember from one of your sword posts that the claymore is like that, but are the little ones really called two handed swords? They look like I could carry one fairly easily and I'm fun sized! @sarafinadarkhart thinks the claymores were used in conjunction with the two handed, one per hand but then they wouldn't be two handed... would be delighted by any light you would be willing to shed, thanks

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petermorwood Answer:

The information plaque needs re-worded for clarity, because those little brass-hilted swords definitely aren’t two-handers!

I don’t recognise their design, but they’re part of the19th century “Neo-Classical” fad for Roman-style short swords.

Some had eagle-head pommels or curved crossguards, however the most popular design was issued by many countries.to their artillery, pioneer and engineer regiments: these four are (top to bottom) French, Russian, American and Swiss.

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The big sword in the centre of your photo is definitely meant to hit people. It, and the basket-hilts on the rack, and the three in these photos, are all “claymores”.

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The word derives from Gaelic “claidheamh mór” and just means “big sword”, because the basket-hilt and the two-handers (older than the basket-hilt by at least a century) were larger than the other swords of their respective periods.

I’ve seen occasional opinions that the basket-hilt should actually be called a “claybeg” (claidheamh-beag, small sword) because it wasn’t as big as the two-hander. However, the Gaelic-speaking clansmen who carried basket-hilts at Culloden in 1746 called them claymores, and that’s good enough for me.

If basket-hilted claymores were used in conjunction with something else, that would usually be a targe (small shield, sometimes with a spike in the centre)…

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…and perhaps also a dirk (dagger), held like this:

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The spike, if there was one, was often kept in a little sheath on the targe like the repro one shown here, and was screwed into place before battle.

Ridiculously oversized swords, though often claimed to belong to famous heroes or “giants”, were in fact just for carrying in procession, hanging on the wall and generally Looking Impressive.

In this photo found on Reddit, the left sword is a Highland claymore (a weapon), the right sword is a Lowland claymore (a weapon) and the one in the middle is a parade / bearing sword (not a weapon).

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It weighs 10kg / 22 lbs (!)

For reference, even the heaviest swords-for-use weighed less than half that.

HTH! :->

Jul 01, 2023

zmije:

Good news everyone I was able to move into a new place with my 3 month old baby away from my abusive cheating ex wooooo 🥳 incredibly thankful to everyone who helped me 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️ i was able to use donations and my maternity allowance for this month to pay the rent and bills so I’m a little more at ease now and we have somewhere safe to stay! 💌💌💌 if anyone has any spare cash at all to help me get things like food nappies formula baby clothes as he’s growing fast 😅 and things like that it would help so so so so much I really don’t have anything left for a while ! My p@ypal is here if you can help ! I think it’s gonna a really difficult few weeks now and I’m terrified and heartbroken but me and my baby are gonna be alright :) ❤️

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Jul 01, 2023

sorry for putting all this on ur dashes btw it’s totally reasonable to not give a shit abt “"gay rep”“ to begin with but im still kinda chewing all this over and would appreciate other’s thoughts on the topic!

Jul 01, 2023

i wasn’t going to say this at first bc it might be ~controversial~ and i guess you can argue the show does it “on purpose” but i think white lotus has some of the exact same issues ive been discussing in terms of, to put it bluntly, portraying two men fucking as being kind of gross. and there’s a very clear connection in the show btwn like bourgeois decadence/(so-called)moral and mental decline/recreational drug use/gay (male) sex. every sexual encounter between men in that show is in some way coercive/unhealthy …. and i sort of feel like a liberal snowflake or whatever talking about this because the show does make direct mention of AIDS and presumably is, like, trying to interact with phobia of sex esp gay sex on some thematic level and maybe im just not smart enough to “get” it but like . agh . It Just Doesn’t Feel Great To Me

thinking abt the relationship btwn portrayal of gay sex and portrayal of drug use was sort of a lightbulb moment for me i might talk about that more coherently later

Jul 01, 2023

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