#reformation memes

[elizabethan-memes]

Elizabeth: I can't come to Mass *cough* I'm sick :(

Mary:boo you whore

[toruandmidori]

[emotboyswag]

Drama going down in the tik tok orthodox jewish swiftie community

[gay-jewish-bucky]

[hirazuki]

Thanks for the tag, @ruiniel! This is such a cute format! (Can't reblog the post due to og reblog controls, but here's mine):

LMAO called tf out, I'll take it.

Tagging (with no pressure): @melkors-defense-attorney @mirkwood-hr-department @baked-hylian @nomadicism @dear-kumari

edit: a;ldkfjldk including the links may help. I fail X_X picrew is here; personality quiz is here.

[rootytootydroppindoody]

[ibis-gt]

hey, a genuine plea from someone who used to love this space: please learn to treat artists & writers as human beings and not factories.

part of what drove me away was the absolutely constant push to be making new things. i’d post a piece of art or a comic or a fic and get tons of people asking for what was going to happen next, just more more more nonstop, and it was overwhelming and so discouraging. it didn’t matter how long the thing i’d just posted was, people just wanted more. when i went on my hiatus because i felt totally tapped out, i got asks & requests STILL asking me to make more things, telling what of my stuff they missed, keeping that pressure on, and it SUCKED. i couldn’t even rest on my break because of that and along with other huge problems in the community, it made me quit this place for good.

just, please learn some etiquette about how to engage with art and writing, please stop asking for more all the time. if you want something you need to either learn to make it yourself or put your money where your mouth is and pay for it. if artists or writers ask for requests then it’s okay to ask for things for free, but don’t assume that’s the case for every single creator out there. for the love of god don’t read someone’s fic and then say ‘what if you wrote this again, but with this different thing that i like more’, because you sound like an entitled child.

PLEASE remember we’re human beings with lives and other circumstances, we need to make money to live or we need to go to school or take care of ourselves and our families. we are more than the drawings or stories we create and if you treat us like factories, you’re just going to burn us out. we are not ‘content creators’. we are PEOPLE.

and hey! for any other creatives out there who feel this way, feel like your audience is draining you dry or a community isn’t treating you with the respect you deserve? there is nothing wrong with dropping that space and moving on to something else, something better. sometimes things can’t be fixed or reformed or shaped up. sometimes the rot is so deep that it’s not worth breaking your back trying to pull it out. If a space isn’t good for you, save your mental and physical health and leave. i’ve been in a much better place in almost every aspect of my life after getting out of this community. you don’t have to stick around if you don’t feel valued. anyone telling you otherwise is thinking more about themself than about you, so fuck ‘em.

[the-commonplace-book]

my fontaine prediction

[rolkientolkien]

Remember today's the Lord's Day. Get yourself in a solid Bible believing church, sing Psalms and Hymns, participate in worship, sit under the teaching of a sound Pastor, partake of The Lord's Supper, and have fellowship with the saints.

[elizabethan-memes]

Thomas More: my kink is saying some incredibly cornball shit and watching Thomas Cromwell speedrun the 5 stages of grief as he realises with horror that he still wants to fuck me.

[xxthesmittenkittenxx--2]

Reformation Day meme dump for all your Reformation Day meme needs!

[horrordirtbag]

unusual post for this blog but i was doing reading for history courses and this one Archbishop in Scotland tied a protestant reformer with BAGS OF GUNPOWDER to the stake before burning him which prompted me to make this

[queerism1969]

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Do you want to learn about military economics and agricultural reform in the Roman republic? Of course you do! Because history is awesome.

So. You know how the Romans had "patrons" who provided money and assistance to "clients," who in turn supported their patrons politically. One of the theories about Why The Roman Republic Fell™ is that eventually whole armies eventually became "clients" of generals like Caesar and Pompey. In this view, soldiers became more loyal to their generals than to the state, because the generals were responsible for paying them, not the Senate. Gaius Marius is usually blamed for making this possible, since he opened military recruitment to the poor, not just property owners.

However! There are Problems with this theory!

The property requirement to enlist had been dropping for decades, and was mostly ignored by Marius' time anyway.

There are only two instances of a Roman army marching on Rome in the late republic, and both times, the soldiers believed they were upholding the rightful government. Sulla was the lawfully elected consul when he marched on Rome in 88 BCE, and in 49, Caesar argued that he (and the army) were defending the people's representatives from a violent faction that was interfering in free elections.

There are no known examples of a Roman army defecting to another state during this time, but they did mutiny against specific commanders. Mutinying troops quickly accepted new commanders sent by the Senate. In other words, they felt no client-like obligation to their generals, yet remained loyal to Rome itself.

There are many examples of discharged veterans waiting years at a time for their pensions from the Senate. They were clearly not trying to overthrow the state.

The idea that soldiers from poor families would be more greedy and willing to betray their country, compared to rich soldiers, is uh. Actually pretty classist. We know the Roman aristocracy was greedy as hell.

Verdict: There were no client armies. Generals had to convince soldiers both that their cause was legitimate and that the general could lead and provide for them.

What does "providing for" the troops mean?

Wages! Roman soldiers were paid barely subsistence money in 100 BCE and got no wage increase until Caesar doubled it 50 years later.

Plunder! Every ancient army did this, but the Romans had a whole system for defeating, securing, and then thoroughly stripping an area of its valuables. And its people. They enslaved a lot of folks.

Bonuses! Generals and legates got the big bucks but they'd usually hand out extra at the end of a campaign.

Last and most explosive, land grants! Because the Roman dream was apparently to own your own farm. Not to actually work it, of course, you'd use slaves for that. But you'd take the credit of being a Real Farmer anyway.

There was no better way to start a riot in the late republic than to start talking about land grants. See, the city of Rome was Fucking Huge, and 98% of its inhabitants were Poor As Fuck. Most of the legionaries were also Poor As Fuck unless they got lucky with plunder. So there was a recurring problem of what to do with all the veterans coming home, and also all the poor people struggling to feed themselves in Rome itself.

Solution: Parcel out state land for the poor. The poor folks get farms and can now happily provide for themselves (on the backs of slave labor). They're less likely to burn the Senate house down that way, right?

Problem: The rich didn't want to redistribute land. Even if it wasn't their land, they were often squatting on it unofficially. (I told you the aristocrats were greedy.) Plus, whoever was in charge of allotting the land would have a great opportunity to enrich himself and turn the new farmers into his clients.

This led to multiple Very Necessary humanitarian bills getting shot down in the Senate. The veterans and urban poor were not happy. It's likely that the defeat of one of these bills, in 63, provided some of the impetus for the Catilinarian revolt afterward.

It also became the flashpoint for Julius Caesar's consulship in 59, when he attempted to introduce a very moderate land bill, got stonewalled in the Senate for no reason other than "We don't like you," and had the bill ratified by the public assembly instead. Which was legal, but pissed the senators off, and set a hostile tone for the rest of his consulship. (Also, the bit where Caesar's friends dumped shit on his colleague's head didn't help.)

Agricultural reform didn't cause the republic to fall apart...but it widened the divide between Caesar and his enemies, which would culminate in a fight over whether he could run for office again in 50, and the civil war breaking out in 49.

(Adapted from Erich Gruen, The Last Generation of the Roman Republic, pp. 365-404.)

[hannah-ceilidh]

[constantlymisspelled]

Literally the entire plot of the Long Sunrise, summarised. The Space Wizard, Space Witch, and Space Warlord - a union too powerful for the Empire to handle. They would be too powerful as allies, so Disney kept them enemies...

[Worlds shortest image description - Cal and Merrin beat up an old man. Boba procrastinates, and then helps.]