#political statement

[sewgeekmama]

My Face Mask is Not a Political Statement

When I donned my face mask before entering the UPS store yesterday, I didn’t think I was making a political statement. I just didn’t want anyone’s “droplets” to get near me. Then later while checking the news, it seems to be all over the place – that the decision to wear a mask is somehow “visual shorthand” for a debate on whether we should follow health official guidelines, or think the threat…

[annapolisrose]

Genocide Monument

[scotianostra]

On February 23rd 1310 the Declaration of the Clergy and People in favour of King Robert I, was issued from the Church of the Friary Minor in Dundee.

Another where the dates differ, 24th February and  March 17th 1309, take your pick!  

Now the 1309 one I can explain away, It’s an almost identical to the one almost a year later and it was drawn up at The Bruce’s first Parliament, a sort of letter of intent, both declarations were significant factors in legitimising Robert the Bruce’s claim to the Scottish crown and the First War of Independence, against the ‘Inglis’ (English). The 1309 Parliamentary Declaration, made by the lay magnates, pronounced that Robert de Bruce, Lord of Annandale, the ‘Competitor’, had had the superior title to the throne of Scotland, and ought, by the laws and customs of the realm and the wishes of the people, to have become King. Bruce was declared to be the true and nearest heir of King Alexander last deceased.

Basically it was saying that The Bruce’s Grandfather who was known as the Competitor, should have been named as King over John Balliol, I see this paving the way to legitimise King Robert’s reign.

The second was a proclamation that the church, and the people of Scotland supported King Robert I. Let’s not get any ideas that this included the ordinary people of our land, history shows it wasn’t until modern times that the ordinary man got the vote, the ordinary women coming even later! The people of Scotland that were in the declaration were the Lords and other nobles, a large section of which were second and third generation Anglo-Norman stock, married into the mormars and earldoms of the Scots.

These documents are for all intents and purposes propaganda tools, they declared their support for the king and his claim to the throne while praising his military skills in defending the kingdom. They were however also showing that the Scottish Church were behind the Bruce and swearing fealty to him. Without going into the full text here is an extract of what it said

“… with the concurrence and consent of the said people he was chosen to be King, that he might reform the deformities of the kingdom, correct what required correction and direct what needed direction; and having been by their authority set over the kingdom he was solemnly made King of Scots, and with him the faithful people of the kingdom will live and die as with one who, possessing the right of blood, and endowed with the other cardinal virtues, is fitted to rule, and worthy of the name of King and the honour of the kingdom, since… by repelling injustice, he has by the sword restored the realm thus deformed and ruined.

… We therefore, the Bishops, Abbots, Priors and the rest of the clergy, aforesaid… have made due fealty to our said Lord Robert, the illustrious King of Scotland,… and we acknowledge … that the same ought to be rendered to him and his heirs by our successors for ever…”

Many see the documents as precursors to the more well known Declaration of Arbroath, although at the time Robert still had a large number of Scottish nobles who were against him, mainly those loyal to the Comyns, and some still with a forlorn hope that The Balliols would return, this they did, but were coerced by Edward III of England, this was all after The Bruce died.

At the time the of the Declaration The Bruce controlled Scotland north of the Tay, the south of Scotland was still largely in the hands of the English, or those who were vassals to them, the first War of Scottish Independence was far from over and in August 1310 King Edward II invaded Scotland for the first time in his own right.

Read the wording on the declaration here https://www.rps.ac.uk/search.php?a=fcf&fn=roberti_trans&id=284&t=trans

[play-g-irl]

What, the land of the free?

Whoever told you that is your enemy

[erikajeankruger]

Self explanatory.

#womensrights #righttochoose #prochoice #political #politicalart #politicalartwork #abortion #abortionrights #abortionrightsarehumanrights #politicalstatement #support #humanrights #art #artwork

[gfsolar]

I am the lighter feline. The current status quo positions worldwide on war and climate change are the darker cat:

[tenth-sentence]

'It's also a political statement,' days American cyber-security expert John Bambenek, who built a tool that tracks neo-Nazi bitcoin transactions.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[usavinyls]

Etsy listing available in my shop

Check out this item in my Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/listing/1322959832/express-yourself-on-a-vehicle-auto

[cpntredbeard]

[annapolisrose]

Genocide Monument

"Forging strong relationships with people from all walks of life is the antidote to the corrosive disease of prejudice."

"Search diligently for the truth and make all men your friends."

[seeminglyseph]

people are pissed at Critical Role for not committing to cutting ties with WOTC like they aren’t sitting there like “That’s a really great public image we helped you gain. would be a shame if we had to begin negotiations severing our brand, I mean we both benefit so well from this partnership. Look at how much you accomplished because you worked together with the fans, that’s a lot to throw away. Why don’t you give that license another look-over and see if it would have the results you really want. Because no one wants to do anything they might regret here.“

Guys, it’s a “pretty nice shop you got here.” what do you think is scarier to WOTC? Critical Role impulse cutting ties, or Critical Role very patiently going “well, it would be really unfortunate if you did that, we’d have to really rework everything we do here. I mean in order to save money ourselves, you know how companies work, we’d have to cut down on the Dungeons and Dragons content we use. With the Amazon show we’ve already been working on shifting to a more original fantasy universe, and if you wanted to claim a lot of this you’re going to end up in a fight with the Tolkien estate again...“

The long term game would be more devastating by far and way way more of a deterrent for a business minded argument rather than artist-minded one. 

[brother-emperors]

TRY AGAIN LATER

it's like. well. its several things.

(Plutarch's Crassus, trans. Warner)

and also this

(ibid.)

that compliment sounds like an insult, baby.

anyway, there's a fun kind of eroticism in being given everything, in taking things that aren't yours without any real consequence, in climbing towards becoming a Roman Alexander, only for one man to deny you, over and over and over again, at every turn. Sulla tried, Crassus did it better. who would put a butcher in their place? who else knows you well enough to do it? who else can match you step for step like this? doesn't it feel like a kind of intimacy, a kind of—

it's also about the 'even sulla kissed my sword/so you want me on my knees too?' innuendo was too good to pass up. that was actually the first line I wrote, I figured out the rest of this to justify making a comic with it

and finally! the sword line is referencing/playing off of Lucan's Pharsalia a little bit because it fucks hard

(Lucan's Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)

EDIT: oh, and that's a public domain anatomical illustration of a heart. you know how it is with love and hate.

[toskarin]

btw they robbed you of renly's kingsguard (the rainbow guard) literally wearing colour coded armour like a sentai team because HBO thought it looked gay

[scltbvrns]

homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.

[tastesoftamriel]

Friendly reminder that this page is not involved in sharing real world politics and social events. There are literally thousands of blogs on this hellsite that specialise in that sort of thing (including my personal).

Tastes of Tamriel is a refuge from the real world. Simple as that. I'm not "showing my privilege" by keeping this space a haven for those of us who need to escape from all that for just one hot second. This. Is. Not. The. Place. For. Politics.

And if you're concerned about my views? Let me put it in context. I am a POC woman social anthropologist trained in the past ten years. Do you THINK that is the right sort of person to be calling secretly a LGBTQ+ hating, genocide supporting, colonialism glorifying atrocity to humankind? Do you even know what an anthropologist is?

Come onnnnn please develop critical thinking skills. Not everything has to be about pain and suffering. It is not illegal for those of us looking for a reprieve from it to do so. Food and fantasy bring us as a fanbase closer together regardless of our differences and social background.

Take your politics and get off my blog. It's mine to curate. I for one scoff at the accusation that I am somehow problematic for wanting to keep this place free of problems. No sweetie, that's all you. ~Tal