#The history of

[askdarkriders]

[musicandoldmovies]

Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman

From the album The History of Fleetwood Mac - Vintage Years

[cinlat]

Febhyurary: Day 12 - Past

Prompt List

Fynta and Verin were born in Ala Mhigo. Their parents fled the city with the aid of the resistance and joined the fight. When she was older, Fynta caught Thancred’s eye, who offered her the chance to disassemble the Empire from the inside. This drove a wedge between her and Verin while he chose the more direct path of staying with the resistance instead of trusting an outsider.

Fynta’s specialty was reverse interrogation, which meant she got captured....a lot. She’s probably seen the inside of every style cell in Eorzea. Her partner in crime was the former pirate, Kirin. They orchestrated a lot of infiltration, assassinations, and rescues of friendlies over the years, forming an unquestioning bond and often uniting to make Thancred’s life hell.

Through Thancred and Kirin’s long time friendship with the WoL, Fynta came to know Isashi well enough, but their styles didn’t mesh. However, they were forced to work together during the liberation of Fynta’s homeland and developed a sort of love/hate relationship. After months of pestering, Fynta finally convinced the famed au ra to teach her the way of the Dancer, which she took to naturally given her penchant for movement during a fight. For reasons unknown to her, Isashi began spending more time with Fynta, teaching her a number of techniques and skills that she’d picked up through her years as Eorzea’s hero. Isashi was a stern teacher, but Fynta enjoyed the rigorous workouts.

After Isashi’s death, it was silently decided that Fynta would step into her place through the long time planning between Isashi and Urianger...she just hasn’t figured that out year.

The beginning of that journey can be found >HERE< (Endwalker Spoilers)

[strategypillar]

Older than history itself

What if the oldest vampire was a Neanderthal girl 🤔

[a-meh]

[qsycomplainsalot]

AI people: we're just as much artists as you are, you gotta be so observant and go through so many correcting phases for the picture to look good uwu also AI people:

[victusinveritas]

All of these are by @mattxiv on Instagram.

Here's to all the shockingly single bachelor uncles or the two very close friends who just happened to be girls and are only living together until one of them finds a man (they lived together for forty two years).

[that-bluesybitch]

[nerdygaymormon]

[singinginthecar]

south africa was banned in the olympics in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 & 1992. a total of 8 times. for 28 years they didn't set foot in the olympics. you know why? apartheid. apparently the olympics disagreed with the apartheid regime in south africa. russia & belarus aren't allowed to take part in the olympics this year. you know why? because of their involvement in the war in ukraine. several countries throughout history haven't been allowed to participate in the olympics because of various reason from their involvement in war to human rights abuses. now if the olympics aren't blind to all that... why in the world are they blind to what israel has been doing to gaza for the past 10 months? why is a genocidal apartheid nation allowed to participate in the olympics when any other country in its place would've been banned?

[a-s-fischer]

If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can't know about the past, we don't know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.

[luidilovins]

1930s news about a trans woman: Well I'll be curfuffled young Corlotta Jhonson has transformed herself from a dandy into a dame and what a Bombshell she's become. And How!

1930s news about trans men: Wanted dead or alive this young lady who started wearing trousers, the tomboy terror known only as The Crust is wanted for snorting the President's personal stash of opium and has slain nearly every senate member in a pistol duel.

[musicandoldmovies]

Fleetwood Mac - Need your Love so bad

From the album The History of Fleetwood Mac - Vintage Years

[thenervebible]

CONNIE PANZARINO at a pride march in Boston circa 1990

[ID: Connie is marching along in her sip 'n' puff (SNP) wheelchair. She is wearing a patterned poncho and sporting a green felt party crown on her head. She styles a pair of wire-rimmed glasses with her slicked back hair. She is smiling. Attached to the back of her wheelchair is a large green cardboard poster that reads "Trached Dykes Eat Pussy Without Comin' Up For Air!" followed by a pink upside-down triangle with a stick figure person in a wheelchair at the centre (a symbol for disabled women)].

the cyborg & the crip by Alison Kafer

[ID: “Trached dykes eat pussy without coming up for air.” Connie Panzarino, a longtime disability activist and out lesbian, would attach this sign to her wheelchair during Pride marches in Boston in the early 1990s. Shockingly explicit, her sign refuses to cast technology as cold, distancing, or disembodied/disembodying, presenting it instead as a source and site of embodied pleasure. “Trach” is an abbreviation of tracheotomy, a medical procedure in which a breathing tube is inserted directly into the trachea, bypassing the mouth and nose. Someone with a trach, then, can, in effect, breathe through her throat, freeing her mouth for other activities (another version of this sign is “Trached dykes french kiss without coming up for air”). From a cyborgian perspective, this sign is brilliantly provocative and productive. It draws on the pervasive idea that adaptive technologies grant superior abilities,not merely replacing a lost capacity but enhancing it, yet it does so in a highly subversive way. The message here isn’t about blending in, about passing as normal or hypernormal, but about publicly announcing the viability of a queer disabled location. It’s disnormalizing, adamantly refusing compulsory heterosexuality, compulsory able bodiedness, and homonormativity. As Corbett O’Toole argues, it challenges the perceived passivity of disabled women, presenting them as actively pleasuring their partners, thereby graphically refuting stereotypes linking physical disability with nonsexuality.]

[profeminist]

"The Don't Say Gay Law has been cut down to size in more ways than this.

- LGBTQ+ students and staff may now be protected by anti-bullying and anti-discrimination measures

- Libraries are free to restock LGBTQ+ books

- LGBTQ+ topics may be discussed freely

GO CRY IN A CORNER RON

Florida teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender ID under ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill settlement

[dozydawn]