#descendency

[that1geek06]

"English isn't my-"

Hush now my friend, and let me read the absolute beauty of a fic that you have bestowed this world and humiliated the first English speakers with

[pappikapon]

such impossible bliss

[0x1000]

When I was trying to write my tags on the last post, I attempted to copy-paste my special tag-friendly comma (‚) and it. It pasted an image of a spiral staircase? This wasn't on my clipboard. I've never seen this staircase before. What the fuck?

[egophiliac]

(this one's been getting stolen a lot, so please be aware that if you see this anywhere else (even with credit), it's been reposted against my wishes! please do not use my art in your videos/reupload to pinterest/etc., thanks!)

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gargoyle Mal is everything I've ever dreamed of and more. his little raincoat! his umbrella! I hope he really does have big ol' stompy rainboots to splash around in puddles in. I hope they have little faces on them.

(Twst please give me Malleus having a rainy day adventure, this is everything I need right now)

[sonofswift]

Biography of Thomas Garvin

Thomas is my 4G Grandfather on my paternal grandfather's side. His granddaughter would marry my great great grandfather John Francis Shovlin I. For most of my time doing family research, I have tried to find out more about him but was stymied. For the past few weeks, I was bewildered by the "hint" of a Biography attached as a story on another family tree on Ancestry. Today I finally found that biography, and I will share it in full:

Thomas Garvin was born in Ireland around 1821-1824.  In a letter written by his grandson-in-law, John Gallagher, of Salem, Ohio, we are told that Thomas and two brothers were orphaned in Ireland.  Neighbors took the children into their families.  Thomas was taken to England where he grew to manhood.  He married Bridget Sloan, either in England or Ireland.  Bridget gave birth to their first child, John Girvin, in Ireland in 1844.  (Irish potato famine was 1845-51) The family returned to England and settled in Egremont, in the Whitehaven District of Cumbria.  Four more children were born: Mary, Thomas, Jr., Edward, and Margaret.  Thomas began work as an agricultural laborer and eventually joined other men in the ore mines nearby.  He continued this work for over thirty years. Thomas and Bridget raised their five children in the Whitehaven District of Cumbria.  They moved from Egremont to nearby Cleator into a cottage down a path which led to Low Wath Mill and Weir.  Here they lived out their lives.  Their lives were church oriented and work centered.  Their children's births and baptisms are all recorded at St. Mary's Priory in Cleator.  Their children went to work at an early age which was typical for the time. John, their eldest son, married Mary Foy at St. Mary's in 1863 (at that time called St. Bega's).  They lived in one of the cottages of Low Wath as a neighbor to his parents.  John and Mary had made plans to emigrate to America.  At the time of their departure in 1872, they had six children.  The youngest were twins and Mary was expecting their seventh.   Because one of the twins was frail they left this baby, Mary Elizabeth, with John's parents, Thomas and Bridget, who raised her to age thirteen.  Thomas and Bridget also helped raise another grand-daughter, Eliza, the child of their daughter, Mary. It appears that Bridget may have had failing health at the same time Mary Elizabeth was reaching the age when she would be old enough to make the trip to join her family in America.  Mary Elizabeth left her Girvin grandparents in 1884 for that reunion, and Bridget died three years later. John was the only child of this family to emigrate.  His brothers remained in the area of Egremont.  Edward married, raised his family, died, and is buried at St. Mary's in Cleator.  Thomas, Jr. died in an accident at a mine at age 26 just a few months before his first child was born.  He, too, is buried at St. Mary's.  Margaret married and lived in Low Wath, where she and her husband, John Higgins, made a home for her father, Thomas, after he was widowed and until his death in 1893.  It is not known what became of their daughter, Mary, the mother of Mary Eliza. It is fascinating to learn that this family was one which was well-rooted in the same community for over forty years.  One can imagine the support that they were to one another.  Church records indicate the witnesses to Sacramental events, and these witnesses were relatives of friends.  We know that Thomas and Bridget must have been caring and loving grandparents to have raised two granddaughers.  It is my regret to realize that there are blood lines that remain unknown and disconnected by the distance and years.  Yet to my astonishment, the possibility that further research may uncover living persons descended from our Thomas and Bridget Girvin (aka Garvin) remains the impetus to continue this endeavor. Written by Margie Brubeck, posted to Ancestry by Jean Fox, Dec 25, 2012

[gael-garcia]

Foragers (2022, Jumana Manna 🇵🇸)

Palestine is the home for several wild, edible plants. Za’atar and akkoub are popular herbs in Palestinian culture and cuisine. In 1977, however, Ariel Sharon declared za’atar a ‘protected plant’, rendering its foraging, possession or trade a criminal offense. Akkoub suffered a similar fate when it was labelled protected in 2005. Those who pick za’atar and akkoub subsequently became lawbreakers and in many cases were indicted and convicted. Despite this, several Palestinians, especially the elderly, are willing to defy these laws.

[cyber-corp]

🥳🏠

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[babykittenteach]

No but fr having an indigenous family broken up for its own good by the state and one of them leave her homeland to go get a Real Education is not just counter to the original story's characterization, it's not just erasing the colonialism commentary for the sake of failed feminism presumably based on the girlboss objection to portraying women as caretakers and the classist objection to blue collar jobs, it is an act of colonialism.

It is in fact so ridiculously an act of colonialism that it should come off as such to anybody able to think about media critically for a few moments, but to anybody familiar with what the US did to many indigenous peoples via the faux benevolence of boarding schools, including to native hawaiians, it's fucking revolting.

Like, shoutout to removing Pleakley's gender exploration, to removing the cop villain in lieu of just having the mad scientist remain one, to removing some of Cobra Bubbles's nuance, to removing commentary on race and colonialism, etc etc, but mainly: this did a colonialism.

[sangthael]

due to popular demand

[mossymage]

“Oh no, Gege caught me again?”

[egophiliac]

the whole school is rallying together to give these boys the full princess experience, and I think that's beautiful! they would all rather die than work together on one single group project, but hell if they won't pull through when sparkly princess outfits are on the line. (I am sad that Grim doesn't get a little ribbon of his own, though. 😔)

also, the return of my favorite literal running joke, Vargas Meets an Immovable Object Face-First at 20 MPH

[grymm-gardens]

the language nerd in me is fucking screaming and crying about the fact that Cassandra Pentaghast has what i believe may be the most accurate impression of the extinct gothic germanic accent we have, and the fact that they didn't even try to give anyone else from Nevarra the same accent is fucking criminal

yes i know it is an entirely made up accent that miranda developed herself, she unintentionally hit the nail on the fucking head with the accent of a dead language that would even be lore accurate with the placement of Nevarra relative to orlais and the other neighboring countries

also im sorry using Gothic as the language inspiration for nevarran??? is that not like too fucking perfect??

like yeh i get it accent training people for a fake accent is ridiculously hard

i do not care

give me gothic nevarrans in the truest sense of the word

i might post the notes find the notes here i have on the actual linguistic comparisons if anyone cares because i studied her pronunciation to compare to historical texts when i made the connection

[lilybug-02]

Go save your friend!

Bug Fact: Fig Wasps have a mutualistic relationship with certain fig trees. They pollinate the fruit by laying their eggs in the unpollinated fruit bud. Pictures Below.

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Look at these weird little guys. This one is Pleistodontes froggatti, a fig wasp native to Australia and adapted to Moreton Bay Figs.

[valtsv]

Whats the history of executioners as a societal class? Im ready

this article provides a pretty good quick but in-depth summary on the subject. it's a really interesting case study in social exclusion and class/caste system dynamics!