I haven’t seen the Priscilla film yet but the lengths people will go to defend Elvis and demonize Priscilla is insane. She was 14 when they met and began a relationship, and he was an adult.
A worrying amount of people claim that it was “normal back then”. We are talking about the 1950s/1960s, not the Medieval period (in which, by the way, most people still married as adults, with the occasional exception of royalty). It was not normal back then. This is a fact. Most women got married early to mid 20s, and men mid to late 20s, with the average age gap of around 3 years.
A lot of people use anecdotal evidence to “prove” this claim - yet actual statistics from marriage records don’t lie. I could refute their stance based on my own evidence, if we were going the anecdotal evidence route - one set of grandparents married in their mid 20s (same age) and one married at the age of 27 and 32, respectively.
The average age of first marriage was younger in the south - but even this typically had a minimal age gap: teenage newlyweds were typically both in their teens, with a small age gap, not 14 year old girls marrying 30 yr old men. Did it happen? Sure. Was it considered messed up even “back then” to most of the country? Yeah.
“My grandma married at 15 when my grandpa was 30!” ok then your grandpa was a creep. I guarantee you your grandma wasn’t as happy as you think she was. “They’ve been married for 50 years!” they lived in a time when divorce was frowned upon and women did not have many rights. Women could not get their own bank account until the 1970s. Marital rape was not considered a crime until the 90s. Your grandma did not turn out ok: at the very least she had a grandchild with worms for brains who can’t admit that their family member was a creep and relationships between teenagers and adults are always wrong.
It was just as fucked up and traumatic back then as it is now. People need to stop justifying it. I’m not saying you can’t like Elvis’ music, but to claim he wasn’t a predator is gross.
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Fellow arcana-swapper here (you can find A Righteous Rebellion on AO3, actually)!
Who are everyone's Personas?
Ok personas. I’m not good with these so if you think another one fits I don’t mind if you tell me so
I don’t have many picked rn but I do know this
Goro keeps Robin Hood but it is his main persona as well as his personas from being a wildcard
Yusuke gets to steal Zorro from Morgana. Apparently Zorro actually means fox and he fought on behalf of the people. Zorro actually looks like a fox here too.
Akira also keeps Arsene but he’s actually strong (curse with a magic focus and only weakness is light)
Futaba, Haru, Ann and Morgana’s haven’t been chosen
Makoto gets Prometheus but less ball and more Bird with ball and she’s in the ball
Sumire gets I think Eshu for the ‘main persona’ and Eris for her true one
I think I’ll go check out ur fic later too!
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for the new year, i have decided to make a couple edits and additions to the almighty Calendar. happy 2024.
IT JUST HAPPENS
DAY 15 GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15
Thursday the 20th
The Fifth of Wednesday
Second Week of May: Eurovision
Sometime in June: That One Halloween Post Starts Circulating
Sometime in July: Dancing Pumpkin Man Video/Gif
WEEKLY EVENTS
(at least the ones i celebrate)
Every Monday: Garfield Hates Mondays
Every Tuesday: Tom Servo Tuesday
Every Wednesday: It Is Wednesday My Dudes
Every Thursday: Out of Touch Thursday
Every Friday: Flat Fuck Friday
Every Saturday: Sea Slug Saturday
Every Sunday: Energy Sword Sunday
YEARLY EVENTS
January 1: Copyright Expiration Day
January 8: Spiders Georg Day
January 16: Appreciate a Dragon Day
January 18: Bug Race
January 29: Threshold Day
All of February: Funguary
ALSO All of February: Femslash February
February 3: WOE, VANILLA EXTRACT BE UPON YE
February 13: Galentines Day
February 14: Aromantic/Asexual Day
March 9: Miku Day
March 10: Mario Day
March 14: Pi Day
March 15: Ides of March
March 23: Ever Given Got Stuck Today
April 1: Mishapocalypse
April 2: Dashcon Announcement Anniversary
April 3: Dannypocalypse
April 8: Rex Manning Day
ALSO April 8: MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD
April 13: Neil Banging Out The Tunes
ALSO April 13: Homestuck Day
April 20: haha 420 blaze it
April 25: The Perfect Date
April 28: Ed Balls Day
April 30: It's Gonna Be May
All of May: Mermay
May 3: Beginning of Dracula Daily
May 4: May the 4th Be With You
May 5: Revenge of the Fifth
May 25: The Glorious 25th of May
All of June: Pride Month
ALSO All of June: IT'S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY
June 5: Barricade Day
ALSO June 5: RONALD REAGAN IS DEAD
June 12: Another Homestuck Day
June 16: Let Papyrus Say Fuck
June 22: Summerween
All of July: Disability Pride Month
July 13-15: Dashcon Anniversary
July 20: Moon Landing
September 8: The Queen Is Dead and Sans Undertale Killed Her
September 11: Mole Interest Monday
September 19: Talk Like A Pirate Day
September 21: DO YOU REMEMBER-
All of October: SKELETON WAR
ALSO All of October: People Draw A Lot Month? (so many names)
October 3: Mean Girls Day
ALSO October 3: Fullmetal Alchemist Day
October 13: Treat Yo' Self
October 20: Unnecessary Feelings Day
October 31: HALLOWEEN
November 5: honestly what didn't happen that day
November 19: Goncharov
November 29: HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD
All of December: Will the Gävle Goat Get Destroyed Again?
December 10: Please, It's Christmas
December 12: Hawaii Part 2
December 23: Christmas Adam
December 24: ALMOST CHRISTMAS MEANS IT WASN'T CHRISTMAS
ALSO December 24: Cabinet Man Day
December 27: Porn Ban Effective Today
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