I don’t wanna like Kill The Joke but this brings up a really cool fact about swords in ~14th-16th century Germany! The only people who were allowed to own Real Swords were the royalty and nobility BUT! Everyone else was allowed to own knives. The definition of a knife, however, was based on not length but handle construction, and to some extent how it was sharpened. The handle had to be constructed Like So with 2 pieces of wood sandwiching the metal tang.
Only one edge was allowed to be sharpened, but oftentimes a small part (a couple inches) of the short edge (e.g. the edge that wasn’t sharp) would be sharpened, and weapon design often allowed for this
In this way, something that looked like This, a messer of just over a meter in length…
…would be legally considered a knife, and therefore allowable for non-nobility to possess. (you can also see the bit on the back of the tip that would be sharpened)
So @swordmutual, there’s a not definitive but certainly interesting historical perspective on your question
- if you cannot handle and accept having a child who will reject your religious beliefs, do not have a child.
- if you cannot handle and accept having a gay child, do not have a child.
- if you cannot handle and accept having a transgender child, do not have a child.
- if you cannot handle and accept having a child with physical or intellectual disabilities, do not have a child.
- if you cannot handle and accept having a child who is fat, do not have a child.
- if you cannot handle and accept having a child who is neuroatypical, do not have a child.
- if you cannot handle and accept having a child whose appearance is not what you expected (recessive genes and parental secrets are real), do not have a child.
Altogether too many people seem to be laboring under the staggeringly false belief that children are not autonomous human beings of complete intrinsic value regardless of whether they match parental life fantasies. Nothing is promised to you. Nothing is owed to you. If you can’t commit yourself to understanding and accepting that before you even begin to think about children, don’t have children. Get a pet. Collect dolls. Find a hobby. You aren’t prepared for the extreme challenge and extraordinary blessing of parenting.
I made this post two weeks ago, on April first, as a joke that wasn’t even close to true, but so many people fucking accepted this at face value without checking the source and I think that’s fucking hilarious, that this is just that believable without even needing to factcheck. “Oh, Vriska ate her own arm you say? Sounds about right to me” And honestly its within the realm of plausibility for Homestuck so i cant even blame you, it’d be far from the most fucked up thing to happen.
