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I had a dream a while back that I planted tomatoes, and when I woke up and realised it wasn't real, I got sad TTvTT

I mentioned it at some point to my mother in law, and today she surprised me with two tomato plants 😭🧡

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Just got me a new pair of glasses because I get blinder by the minute, and these bitches came with a certificate of authenticity

I went into the store, chose some frames I really liked, did my little eye check with the optician, and now two weeks later I'm at home with a fancy box that says "Burberry" in bold font, and an even fancier, leather glasses case

I mean, it's not like I was wearing glasses when trying on the different frames, someone could have warned me when the employee brought me to the Burberry section TTvTT

The worst part is that she found truly the *perfect* frames for me!! They just had to be so fancy that they require a certificate of authenticity !! 😭

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Social media keeps trying to push me down a TERF rabbithole, jokes on them I have actual human empathy and critical thinking skills so HA

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I want to update this post and make a few things clear.

1. Several things can be true at the same time. Yes, the global witch hunts were largely anti-intellectual and pro-christianity. Yes, men also died, and in some places men were the majority of the victims (Estonia: more than half were men, and Iceland: 90% were men). These are all facts, and I'm not denying them.

Another fact, however, is that approximately 75-80% of the total victims were women. With around 50,000 total victims, an estimated 40,000 were women. That is not just a coincidence.

The church has historically and consistently stigmatized women. One example is the belief that our periods and the process of childbirth, specifically the pain they cause, is our punishment for Eve eating the forbidden fruit while still in the garden of Eden.

Here is a quote taken from my main source:

“(…) the overall evidence makes plain that the growth — the panic — in the witch craze was inseparable from the stigmatization of women. (…) Historically, the most salient manifestation of the unreserved belief in female power and female evil is evidenced in the tight, recurrent, by-now nearly instinctive association of women and witchcraft. Though there were male witches, when the witch craze accelerated and became a mass phenomenon after 1500 its main targets, its main victims, were female witches. Indeed, one strongly suspects that the development of witch-hunting into a mass hysteria only became possible when directed primarily at women.” (Source: Katz, “The Holocaust in Historical Context”, Vol. I, pp. 433 and 436)

Yes, the witch trials were a method the christian church used in order to stay in power and eliminate threats, but the fact that the christian church historically has been fueled by misogyny is indisputable. They did not only target women, but women were the large majority of their victims, believed to be able to corrupt good men through sinful and seductive methods (a.k.a just by existing in their own bodies, let's be real.).

Society has historically been male-dominated. This is also indisputable. Men have always done everything in their power to ensure that women stay out of power, and don't threaten their carefully constructed, oppressive system. This is a system created and enforced by men to keep women in check and men in power, disguised as "natural order". This is especially evident within the church, where men are taught to worship God as their creator, and women are taught to worship their husbands as they worship God.

The witch trials were primarily enforced by the christian church in countries where it's societal position had weakened, and the christian church has always oppressed women. Of course women are the vast majority of the total accused and punished, women were the main threat to the christian church. A system built upon patriarchal power and misogynistic oppression will always demonise it's women. It will always try it's very best to keep it's women out of power, and uneducated, because an educated woman is significantly harder to oppress. An educated woman knows that she is more than a resource to be utilized by men, and that very concept was, and still is, a threat to the christian church.

Of course they largely went after women.

Here is yet another quote, pulled from the same source:

“The medieval conception of women shares much with the corresponding medieval conception of Jews. In both cases, a perennial attribution of secret, bountiful, malicious “power,” is made. Women are anathematized and cast as witches because of the enduring grotesque fears they generate in respect of their putative abilities to control men and thereby coerce, for their own ends, male-dominated Christian society. Whatever the social and psychological determinants operative in this abiding obsession, there can be no denying the consequential reality of such anxiety in medieval Christendom. Linked to theological traditions of Eve and Lilith, women are perceived as embodiments of inexhaustible negativity. Though not quite quasi-literal incarnations of the Devil as were Jews, women are, rather, their ontological “first cousins” who, like the Jews, emerge from the “left” or sinister side of being.” (Source: Katz, The Holocaust in Historical Context, Vol. I, p. 435.)

And two other ones, which talk about older, childless women being at increased risk of being accused of witchcraft:

“The reason for this strong correlation seems clear (…) these women, particularly older women who had never given birth and now were beyond giving birth, comprised the female group most difficult to assimilate, to comprehend, within the regulative late medieval social matrix, organized, as it was, around the family unit.” (Source: Katz, “The Holocaust in Historical Context”, Vol. I, pp. 468-69.)

“The woman who was labeled a witch wanted things for herself or her household from her neighbors, but she had little to offer in return to those who were not much better off than she. Increasingly resented as an economic burden, she was also perceived by her neighbors to be the locus of a dangerous envy and verbal violence.” (Source: Deborah Willis, “Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England”, p. 65.)

The article also brings up the book Malleus maleficarum, which became popular among European royals during the Renaissance.

Here is a quote taken from that book:

“All wickedness,” (…) “is but little to the wickedness of a woman. (…) What else is woman but a foe to friendship, an unescapable punishment, a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, domestic danger, a delectable detriment, an evil nature, painted with fair colours. (…) Women are by nature instruments of Satan — they are by nature carnal, a structural defect rooted in the original creation.” (Source: Malleus maleficarum quoted in Steven Katz, “The Holocaust in Historical Context”, Vol. I, pp. 438-39.).

Source: "Witch-hunts in early modern Europe (circa 1450-1750)" (gendercide.org)

No, women were not the only victims, but that does not, in any way, mean that they weren't targeted.

Important reminder that they never burned witches.

They burned women.

I feel like this gets lost on a lot of people.

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Hey friends,

I'm in a tight spot at the moment, I'm going to be moving soon and meeting rent will be tough. Medicine for my ADHD adds on a significant cost, and I've just ordered a new pair of glasses as well since my vision has gotten worse, which has set me and my partner back more than we can afford at the moment.

My question is: would anyone be interested in commissioning me? I'm most confortable with character art, but I'm willing to try anything.

I want to note that if I take on a commission that I'm unsure about, and it doesn't turn out good, I won't charge for it. I'll just consider it practice.

This is just me checking if there is even a little bit of interest. I don't have a price list ready, but if anyone is interested, I will get one sorted.

Thank you for reading this, please consider sharing if you aren't interested yourself! I really need the financial boost while I complete my education and look for work

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day,

Yours truly, Stickbug 🪲🧡

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Important reminder that they never burned witches.

They burned women.

I feel like this gets lost on a lot of people.

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One trend I've noticed on tiktok recently is men livestreaming themselves "rating" peoples profile pictures, and I don't know about you guys, but it's so obvious to me what this really is.

Who's most likely to engage with such content? People who are insecure about themselves. What group of people is currently being socially conditioned like never before to be insecure about themselves and their appearance? Women. If you look in the comments, it's all women.

What do these livestreamers gain by doing this? Money and engagement, they prioritize people who send them gifts.

In other words: men will always find a way to exploit insecure women for money. They make you insecure about everything that makes you you, and then expect you to pay them for validation.

It's nauseating.

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Hi hello, here's a reminder that virginity isn't real, friends!

It's a ✨social construct✨ created by men as yet another way to judge a woman's worth and control her 🧡

And no, you're not supposed to bleed. No, it's not supposed to hurt. Those are myths created to uphold rape culture.

And men who seek out "virgins" are doing so because they're a hell of a lot easier to manipulate and abuse, since they don't have experience. If a man puts importance behind your virginity, run for the fucking hills. He is going to hurt you, and he is going to do so on purpose.

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And I wouldst do it again, wench

@stickbug-made-entirely-of-spite was talking in old english so I immediately doodled this w/Immoral King <3

This is not a commission, no one has any permission to repost (create their own post) of this art with or without credit.

Reblogs > Likes

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The universal Tumblr experience:

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New follower!! I wonder which one of my posts they came across!

That's weird, they haven't interacted with a single one of my posts, I wonder why-

Wait..

*checks account*

It's a porn bot, of course

*blocks*

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I have to read 109 pages in the course book,

which is made easier by the fact that I can listen to the pages instead,

which is in turn made harder by the fact that I have to manually select each page before it can be read. It doesn't go to the next page automatically

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Yet again, more proof that capitalism was never about "freedom" or "small government".

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"But men are the ones who protect women!!!"

Yeah sure, by all means, you're allowed to protect us. I encourage you to, even! After all, a man who is a danger to women will only listen to another man.

But have you considered:

Women shouldn't need protection in the first place??

Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, you should be telling other men not to endanger us??? And don't give me that "he just doesn't know any better" or "that's just how he is" shit, you know damn well that he knows better. He's not going around grabbing at his male friends, is he? He's picking his targets with the intent to humiliate, he knows exactly what he's doing.

So, once again, you can protect us if you want to! But what are you protecting us from? Don't call yourself a protector or feminist if you refuse to check other men's misogynistic behaviour. They don't listen to us, and we shouldn't have to beg for our own humanity.

Men set the godforsaken system up, and it's not up to the victims to fix it.

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I HAVE FINISHED THE LITTERATURE ANALYSIS

My script is a little under 1600 words, now I need a powerpoint TTvTT

And then I have to record myself actually performing the speech :'] (yes this was a speech, an informative one)

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Okay this post is an exception from the "no funsies for Stickbug"-rule, I just discovered that I can change my laptop's screen layout from landscape to standing.

What kind of eldritch abomination is a standing computer monitor supposed to be?????? When would I ever need my screen and keyboard to be rotated 90° 😭

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Anyone who sees me online today gets a free pass to violently poke me with a stick, or spray me with water. This moderately delayed litterature analysis isn't gonna write itself

Don't let me procrastinate!! This bug needs to learn to face its fears damnit

Bug out ✌🪲

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