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Way of the Drunken Master

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For reference: colors produced using dyes available in the Middle Ages. [source]

Ok so I went and ran these trough a palette generator for maximum ease of use! The choice is more limited because coolors defaults to 5-color palettes, but it’s a good starting point for some quick eyedropping

Textile history!! Woo! For an archaeology class I took I wrote a giant paper on all the natural dyes used in the Ancient Near East, the Levant, and Egypt since they all influenced each other, and these palettes are only a fraction of what could’ve been done. Some of it looks like kermes, def madder and maybe some safflower, and there were a tons of lichens and mosses to use especially in Scotland that I’ve only just started covering. Greys were brobably a mixture of tannins from oak galls and Ferrous sulphate/acetate/iron, since black is not a natural color produced by plants. Black walnuts get pretty close when the FE percentage is upped, but when logwood started coming out of America people jumped on it because it gave a natural purple-black (though it is not lightfast at all, and faded to a violet like the next day. People would dye their cloth with a dark indigo and then dye it with logwood for a more lightfast color, but it still faded to a purplish color relatively quickly). Woad (isatis tinctoria) was the primary blue dye used at the time because of its abundance in Europe, I’d be interested to see the trade routes at the time to see if Indigo (indigofera tinctoria) was used as well at the time since cotton and other materials were being traded with India as early as 700 BCE by the Persians and Phoenicians. Natural dyes are so beautiful and harmonic, the color varieties are endless with the multitudes of combinations and the strength of the dye.

Do y’all know where the phrase “eat the rich” comes from or do you just repeat it cause you heard it elsewhere?

It’s not a bad thing, I just saw someone say “we never said who would eat the rich” and realized a lot of y’all might not have heard the full quote

It’s from Rousseau and it’s “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich"

And, well, there’s a lot of people with nothing to eat…

The poor cried,

"We are starving. There is no more bread, and we have nothing to eat."

The rich man said,

"Not my problem you don't work for your bread,"

as if he did not snatch away the grain by his own greedy hands and create filling bread for his own overflowing mouth.

The poor cried,

"We are dying. There is no more medicine, and we're all ill."

The rich man said,

"Not my problem you don't take care of yourselves,"

as if he did not buy all the medicine and raise prices so high

the gods themselves would not

be able to reach.

The poor people

stopped crying,

and the rich man was satisfied...

Until they came knocking at his door one night;

their faces were sunken,

their flesh decaying,

their eyes sightless.

They were monsters

of the rich man's

own making.

As they devoured his flesh,

the rich man cried,

"Please, spare me!"

The ravenous zombies said,

"Not our fault

you fattened yourself

for slaughter."

I had this trio’s portrait series saved in my storage since a while and I never posted it. Enjoy.

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bonus:

“YOU JUST VIBE CHECKED TED YOU MEDIEVAL DICKWEED!!!!!”

Paintings by Ricardo Fernandez Ortega

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healthy people, do you understand that many US state governments are officially gearing up to murder disabled people on your behalf?

i wish i were exaggerating.

New York state, for example, has implemented a policy that they will take ventilators away from people who needed them BEFORE COVID if they come to the hospital.

please read that again. if you needed a ventilator to breathe before this pandemic, they will take it away from you if you seek medical care.

a committee who never meets the patient will then decide who gets the ventilators based on 'likelihood of survival' and this will be reassessed every 48 hours. if you don't meet their standards, they extubate you and you die.

there's a word for deliberately leaving people without lifesaving medical care. the word is 'murder.' no matter how bad it gets, i can't seek medical care. do you understand how that feels? my choices are: die at home, or face 'fatal extubation.'

healthy people, are you happy to survive by murdering others? if not, you must stand up and tell your state government not to do this on your behalf.

Is there a source for this?

it comes from a very long document, the New York state ventilator allocation plan.

this twitter thread summarizes some of the relevant parts.

two weeks ago: "don't worry, only vulnerable people will die!"

now: "... because we will do everything in our power to ensure they do."

Sounds a bit like euthanasia by omission, except worse cause someone is actively deciding to take away lifesaving ventilators from people who needed them before COVID19.

right, you're so close! there's actually already a word for 'involuntary euthanasia via removing medical care from someone you know will die without it': murder.

so apparently the “bad vibes” I’ve been feeling are actually “severe psychological distress”