#runaway slaves

[15-lizards]

Any toughts or ideas for Pentosi, Braavosi and Lysene Architecture?

sorry this is late I'm intimidated by the sheer numbers of architectural styles that exist in Western Europe alone

For Pentos, I've always imagined the Iberian Peninsula. Romanesque Portuguese and Spanish influences, with maybe a hint of Romanesque Italy as well. Very open spaces: Large arches, wide courtyards, big windows. High vaults and ceilings, usually painted with frescos along with the walls. Basically 10th-13th century Iberian Peninsula.

This might be sacrilegious of me, but Croatia for Braavos even though I know they shot most of the Kings Landing Scenes there for the show. I know Braavos is fairly grey and muggy, while Croatia is a very warm climate...but the look of crumbling buildings leaning on each other, a city layout that clearly grew organically, and just the overall vibe of a fading yet still vibrant city...idk it just works for me

Classical Greek inspired architecture is my go-to idea for Lys. In a place where the climate is purportedly perfect, there would be a lot of open spaces and easy access to the outdoors, where most activities would take place. Tall columns and winding staircases made of marble, designs and figures etched and carved into them with painstaking detail.

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Showbiz & AG released their debut album Runaway Slave September 22, 1992

[theevenprivaterblog]

reading the remarried empress and i’m about to start making rashta my fave out of spite because what is this

[zevranunderstander]

just went into reading dragon age 2 trivia again and i know they only had like 16 months to make the game, but im still sooo mad that fenris and anders just. never get over their biases against each other. especially anders? the guy thats all about justice can not in 10 years of friendship learn that slavery is bad and that fenris is a victim of abuse? anders???? are we talking about the same character?? like fenris' aversion to magic and towards mages is at least loosely comprehendable. but. anders? youre telling me anders would spend 10 years being cruel to fenris and merrill about things he can ENTIRELY relate to? you're telling me fenris can not - in a friend group with like 3 mages - learn that mages are literally actively going through the same systems of abuse as he did for most of his life? you are telling me that neither fenris nor anders would see themself in merrill??? not blaming merrill for anything though, she didn't do anything wrong lol

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

[cws: psychiatric abuse, torture, homophobia, ableism, sanism, racism, pictures of taxidermy. boy this show is a lot sometimes lmfao]

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so something @thecottageinthedark noticed recently that i'm still fucked up about is that pericles' cage in the asylum isn't actually a bird cage.

it's a bell jar.

for those who don't know what a bell jar is, it's a type of taxidermy display for preserving delicate specimens, most often birds. it's easy for their feathers to get dusty or disintegrate over time if they're left out in the open; a bell jar not only keeps off dirt and keeps people from touching them, but it's made to create a vacuum inside to keep everything where it is.

another layer to this reference is that the book The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, is a retelling of her own experiences with mental illness and the attempts made to treat it at the time. notably, one of the major themes of the book is psychiatric abuse.

pericles is also not only a gay man forcefully committed to an asylum in what is most likely intended to be the 70s, but a very obvious and already horribly handled fantasy metaphor for both physically disabled people and POC. (in particular the talking animals' role in the worldbuilding heavily mirrors Black americans irl, which holy shit there is so much to unpack there all by itself. there is So Much)

(fun little bonus on the side: he's kept in a cell with extremely bright blue/white light 24/7, at an angle where it'd be even more difficult to block it out than if it were overhead. this would make it impossible to get any decent fucking sleep, which is widely recognized as one of the worst forms of torture to exist. they did this to him for 20 years straight.)

so, to recap: gay man and analogue for disabled people/POC, who is also portrayed as an ~evil crazy malicious psychopath,~ is kept in not only a display case for scientific specimens, but one specifically made--in-universe and out--to recreate something that is done to his demographic as a metaphorical disabled person/POC.

and not only that, and not only do people talk about him--in front of him, like he's not even there--as a specimen while gawking at him in this position, but he is being displayed like the stuffed and mounted corpse of a disabled person/POC.

he is said to belong on that display for 'the rest of his miserable [disabled/POC] life.' no one disagrees with this. he's painted as smugly bullying the violent abusive guard. in general he's portrayed as Scary and Evil Now for having been in this situation. and when he escapes, it kicks off what end up being the most heavy-duty problems for the protagonists, which result in the Bad Ending for the nibiru timeline; if he had stayed there, continued to be objectified and tortured with homophobic/racist/ableist violence for the rest of his life, the timeline almost certainly wouldn't have been doomed.

and they used a real person's autobiography about their experiences with psychiatric abuse for this. and to position them in the role of someone it should have not only happened to, but been even more horrifically dehumanizing and cruel.

yeah. i..... yeah.

the creators of this show are genuinely really good at putting together layered references like this, some more obscure than others, which are rewarding to discover and add depth when you do, and it is a crying fucking shame that they like to use it for shit like this. god damn lmao

[ikpwecanfly]

I can't stop thinking about the train scene. None of it makes any sense. It tries to portray Lestat at first as this control freak who can't let things go and he is in some cases but not this one. When Claudia first left his reaction was 'eh she's entitled to her own decisions. Stop chasing after her, Louis, let's have empty-nesters sex' He never particularly enjoyed her company and he did so less after she got the ability to set boundaries in the house

THEN we learn that much like the timing of Louis's turning, Lestat stops Claudia because he knew Louis was planning to kill himself. Which begs the question, mind, WHY DIDN'T HE TELL HER THAT????

No like fr why didn't he tell Claudia 'hey you gotta get back until we find a way for your father not to want to walk into the sun'

It would've made them bond over protecting Louis. It would've made Claudia feel trapped by Louis not Lestat and soured their relationship. For all intents and purposes this would've better aligned with what we know his goals and motives are. Why tf did he threaten to kill her instead??

Like do y'all know something I don't? Am I missing something?

[jaegerisim]

titan!eren falling in love with a little, runaway slave mikasa 🥹

[i-ate-soap]

I do think one of the things that amuses me most about tos is that whenever they go somewhere that requires them to be ‘undercover’ or ‘wear local clothes’ they just conveniently have a hat for Spock. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if part of the prep for the landing crew is “oh, shit have we got a beanie for Spock” 

[reasoningdaily]

Runaway Slave Wrote This Piercing Letter to His Former Enslavers.

[potatopersonal]

spontaneously remembered the existence of a discord fic I wrote to friend like a year ago with xie lian and shen jiu meeting at a temple and I think I’m gonna spruce it up tomorrow and post it

[the-inevitable-minor-fires]

Overpriced Shithole, a series

[moonybadger]

Forgot how absolutely annoying Scarum was in Triss and how he almost ruined hare comic relief side characters for me in the series

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Showbiz & AG released their debut album Runaway Slave September 22, 1992

[oleworm]

Can people stop inventing personality disorders for types of people they don't like?

[historyineverything]

Speech of a Runaway Slave at an Abolition meeting by Frederick Douglass ...

Side Note: Beginning: FLAMING ABOLITION SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE RUNAWAY SLAVE, FREDERICK DOUGLASS, At the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, IN THE TABERNACLE, NEW YORK, MAY 11, 1847.

The following Report will show to Marylanders, how a runaway slave talks, when he reaches the Abolition regions of the country. This presumptive negro was even present at the London World's Temperance Convention, last year; and in spite of all the efforts of the American Delegates to prevent it, he palmed off his Abolition bombast upon an audience of 7000 persons! Of this high-handed measure he now makes his boast in New-York, one of the hot-beds of Abolitionism. The Report is given exactly as published in the New-York Tribune. The reader will make his own comments.

Mr. Douglass was introduced to the audience by Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Esq., President of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and, upon taking the platform, was greeted with enthusiastic and long-continued applause by the vast concourse which filled the spacious Tabernacle to overflowing. As soon as the audience became silent, Mr. D. with, at first, a slight degree of embarrassment, addressed them as follows: (The Speech)

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[mejomonster]

So many of the controls mentioned that slave owners did in the colonies to prevent revolt and encourage division and intensify racism are what republican politicians still do today.