More fun facts about ancient Celtic marriage laws: There were no laws against interclass or interracial marriage, no laws against open homosexual relationships (although they weren’t considered ‘marriages’ since the definition of a marriage was ‘couple with child’), no requirement for women to take their husband’s names or give up their property, but comedians couldn’t get married
It’s Adam and Eve not Adam Sandler and Eve
I want to expound upon “comedians couldn’t get married” thing because it’s actually really interesting.
Satire was respected in Ancient Ireland. It was thought to have great power, enough to physically maim the subject one was making jokes about. Satirists could bring down kings with a witty enough insult. That was actually their original function. When the king didn’t do right by his people, a bard was supposed to compose a poem so scathing it would raise welts on the king’s skin to oust him (it was illegal for a “blemished” king to rule.) Unwarranted satire was considered a form of assault.
So what it boils down to is ancient Celts being like “These people are too dangerous to reproduce. DO NOT TRUST THEM WITH CHILDREN. EVER.”whats a king to a bard
Thats literally a dnd skill
funnymen were fucking assassins
vicious mockery
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IT’S OFFICIAL. There will be a national school walkout on March 14th. This walkout demands action to finally be taken on gun violence. No more students deserve to be gunned down because lawmakers don’t wanna do anything about it. We are the generation that’s being affected the most by these weak gun laws, and WE are the ones who should be protesting about it. One student dying because of a gunman is one too many. SPREAD THE WORD, this applies to ALL students!!
@weavemama What if our spring break falls on that day? How else can we pitch in?
There’s another walkout date on April 20th! For the 18th anniversary of Columbine.
OKAY!!! REALLY QUICK CAUSE YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS!!
#1: YOUR RIGHTS DO NOT END ONCE YOU WALK INTO THE SCHOOL! You need to take a good long look at your rights and civil liberties because they will be called into question. I would strongly advise contact an ACLU representative and asking them about this so you are prepared to defend yourselves from a legal stand point because the shit is going to hit the fan and it’s going to hit it hard.#2: DO NOT RISE OR RESPOND TO THREATS! There will be threats. They will threaten to put you in detention, call your parents, expel you, get rid of your extra curricular activities, et cetera. Anything they can to control the situation before the media gets involved or the school board. You must have solidarity within your participants, lock arms, form prayer circles, sit down and do not stand. Do whatever it takes to show a non-violent, passive approach to show that it is your intention to disrupt and draw attention to the problem without being physically confrontational.
#3: SELECT A SPEAKER! Sooner or later, camera crews are going to show up. This is where messages get mixed and it becomes very easy to loose track of your goals. Draft a short speech, under 30 seconds, and select a speaker for your school who will address the media with the concerns of the student body and the demands you have before you will return to school and your education.
#4: TAKE YOUR EDUCATION INTO YOUR OWN HANDS! This is not a chance to take advantage and get some time off school. The media WILL USE THIS as an excuse to discredit you. If you can, get teachers on board who will provide you with a curriculum that you can continue to work on from home. Do NOT GIVE UP YOUR EDUCATION! Refuse to participate in a government funded system of education which denies you basic safety.
#5: If you can, GET YOUR TEACHERS INVOLVED! Is there a teacher your trust as a group? Is there a teacher who would offer their support, voice and guidance during this walk out? Get them involved. I know it’s not fair, but teen voices are underrated and overlooked. Having an adult head the operation or at the very least being willing to speak out IN YOUR FAVOR ON CAMERA will go a long way to adding legitimacy to your cause! Remember, their lives are in danger too, and more than once a teacher has put themselves between the shooter and their students. Ask them to be a part of this if you can.
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Anonymous asked: Could you please draw Nepeta Vantas? (Mutant blood)
milennial culture is sending a horrible post to your friend who is sitting 10 feet away from you in the same room, and waiting 2 seconds before hearing a dismayed “….no!”
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After a hundred year’s, Lucretia is immune to pranks.
Taako brings cupcakes to the B.O.B. cafeteria one day that he had purposely made awful and tries to hand them out. No one has taken him up on the offer yet because, excuse me, all three re-claimers are giggling into their hands and saying things like “oh these are soo delicious, and definitely made using a real cupcake recipe!’’ and none of them are honestly that stupid. (Also, with the memory of the hot chocolate fiasco from a few months ago still fresh in their minds there is a general sense of fear over what evil those cupcakes could wreak if consumed.) While this is happening the Director walks by and taako starts trying to persuade her to take one; everyone is a bit surprised he would try to pull such an obvious trick on the Actual Boss until Lucretia turns around, grabs the cupcake from taako’s hand and is like “wow taako, for me? you shouldn’t have!” before taking a giant bite out of it, staring into taako’s eyes the entire time. The room is silent. Everyone is afraid. Tres horny boys are watching their lives flash before their eyes (specifically the part where Merle upended an entire bottle of Worcestershire sauce into the cake batter.) Lucretia swallows, thanks the boys, and walks back out of the cafeteria eating the rest of the cupcake. All eyes go to taako who is standing there visibly shook.
After a moments hesitation Magnus pops a cupcake into his mouth to test it and immediately has to be rushed to the emergency room.
lucretia is the master of power moves
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things that 15 year old me did sophomore year that my southern-bred god-fearing conservative christian teachers Did Not Like
- teacher refused to let me sit backwards in chairs. i made a point to sit backwards in chairs until she told me to stop, and then id manspread as much as possible. (semester one.)
- teacher got onto my friend and gave her a panic attack over her newly dyed hair. i told her my friend putting red streaks in her hair was no different than her removing the grey streaks from her hair. got sent outside. (semester one)
- teacher told me my bra strap was showing. took my bra off in class and put it in bag. was sent to principal’s office. mother was called, although she only muffled her laughter over the telephone. (semester two)
- [to homophobic teacher who disliked my mothers] “what language is gaelic from? gayland?” “that’s where my moms are from, ma’am.”
- teacher claimed i was lying about moving to uruguay and tried to force me into sitting in a personal meeting about my future classes and goals. told her to “sign me the fuck up for underwater basket weaving” and got sent outside. (semester two)
- was told by teacher that “ladies should not say they have to pee. try ‘can i use the restroom’ instead” replied with “alright. i gotta piss like a racehorse. can i use the restroom?“ (got sent outside. again. semester two)
- was told to “smile, you’ll look nicer” by a 6′0″ male coach i did not know. when he blocked my entrance out of the classroom until i smiled for him, i said “shove it straight up your ass,” before elbowing him in the ribcage, ducking under his arm, and running for it. skipped class in that building for a week. (semester two)
- hopped a fence to catch my bus and flipped off an ancient male history teacher when he shouted at me to come back. he threatened to find me again. he never found me.
An inspiration.
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Seriously, tho. You think Hollywood movies are violent?
Try watching a Takashi Miike film sometime.
That’s the funny thing. Your average Hollywood movie is actually, eh, pretty tame. At least compared with the past. Everyone is too obsessed with getting a PG-13 rating. Man, Star Wars has never even had a swear word in like 8 movies.
And the video games point is just absurd.
Japan literally has more than one manga series about a high school student violently murdering anyone who makes him pissed off because he can and yet somehow despite this, none of the Japanese high school students who read it have ever been So Warped By It that they went out and killed their classmates
Almost like the “Violent media warps people into being violent!” is a load of garbage that the “moral majority” dipshits just pulled out of their ass
They will literally reach for fucking anything that will let them keep their precious Children Killing Machienes™
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Like, let’s set aside those fake Miyazaki quotes, wasn’t he legitimately upset with the anime industry?
“You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, ‘Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life. If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!”
And that’s that.
