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On July 9, 1640, John Punch became the first black person to be “legally” enslaved for life within the then American colonies.

We know his name. We know his name and we know the date and the judge that did it. We also know that two white dudes got a 1 year sentence for the same “crime.” (running away from someone who had bought a claim on their labor for a specific period of time).

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Logging off

I’m logging off now and may not be logging on again.

Aside from everything else, tumblr has hidden all my posts with fic links and notes, which were the reason I came into tumblr in the first place.

I can be found on AO3 as iesika always and forever. If you want to keep reading fic by me, I suggest subscribing there. My profile there will also be updated with where I’m active and how to find me.

I can sort of be found on Twitter as jessie.iesika and Dreamwidth as iesika but I haven’t made the switch to actually activity. I’m always on Telegram @iesika. You can find me on gmail at jessie.iesika.

I’ve paid for a fistful of pillowfort codes but haven’t received any. When I do I’ll be iesika there too if they can get it functional.

The best place to find me for fic is AO3 and for talking is Telegram. I’m going to recreate some meta posts on AO3 as well and may put all that on Dreamwidth as well.

If we’re friendly and you want my skype or phone # shoot me a message or an email.

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as a nonbinary person I shall only be posting my left titty which is my boy titty, and not the right one which is the horrid unclean girl titty, this is as tumblr has decreed

none binary with left titty

You fucking genius

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pragnificent

We never get a more forceful reminder that Will used to be a cop than when he tries to force Ingram to pick up that hammer.

I’m sure Will himself never tried to exploit this tactic before - he left the police because he was TOO HESSIANT to use deadly force - but he was clearly there long enough to learn a really straightforward way to get away with murder.

Which is, of course, manipulate the situation so it will appear that your life was in immediate danger, therefore justifying deadly force.

(Probably it would have helped with Will’s guilt problem if he was able to tell himself that Ingram was coming right for him, too).

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Austrian School, Saint Agatha, 18th century

Giovanni Cariani, Portrait of a young woman as Saint Agatha, 1516-17

Lorenzo Lippi, Saint Agatha, 1638-44

Francisco de Zubarán, Santa Agueda (detail), 1630-33

Saint Agatha is the patron saint of breast cancer patients, wet nurses, bakers, and quite recently also of the Tumblr-community.

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iesika
“Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,” said Fred Colon. This sounded a bit weak even to him, so he added: “Or a plinth. Both is best, o’course. It’s a secret sign, see, that they put in to say that it’s Art and okay to look at.”

— Terry Pratchett, Thud!

so this is what staff are using to decide what’s porn

I think they’ve put Auditors in charge. That’s the only explanation.

Is it a porn?

Take it apart. examine all the pixels for pornishness.

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iesika
“Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,” said Fred Colon. This sounded a bit weak even to him, so he added: “Or a plinth. Both is best, o’course. It’s a secret sign, see, that they put in to say that it’s Art and okay to look at.”

— Terry Pratchett, Thud!

so this is what staff are using to decide what’s porn

I think they’ve put Auditors in charge. That’s the only explanation.

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tishtasharoo

One of the down sides of being vegetarian is that you will never be fed human flesh buy a overly dramatic cannibal.

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tiggymalvern

Bold of you to assume he wouldn’t just lie about what was in your food. Okay, maybe he couldn’t get away with chunks of flesh as such, but be careful what’s in the sauces, or in your drink.

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h4nnibalism

the tofu is people!! 🤣

Even the cake is people!!

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iesika

Confirmed by Bryan! There was apparently human suet fat in the bread pudding XD

Aside from the Sweet William in his salads I assume he’s using human shmaltz in his dressings.

Then again, I’ve posited before that Hannibal has a whole house charcoal filter and even the water is people.

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glixbitch

I JUST CHECKED THIS IS REAL IM SCREAMING

When you’ve spent 92 years on this earth with the name “Dick Van Dyke” and you’re only just now hearing the dumbest possible joke about it.

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bettyfrancis

Me articulating all the flaws in a piece of media & enjoying it anyway

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iesika

Me sneaking back on tumblr to reblog this while I’m waiting for the backup downloader and setting up pillowfort in the other window

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systlin

“Deep breath”

I SWEAR TO THE FUCKIN GODS…..

(cue 25 minutes of unintelligible yelling)

….and that is why being separated from our food’s origins and not knowing anything about botany is what is wrong with the world today goddamnit. 

I bet some people would eat castor beans too. Or yew. Or just fuckin’ snack on some hemlock because it’s natural, man. 

Fucking incredible. 

LIKE IT TAKES SOME FUCKING EFFORT TO GET A CHERRY PIT OPEN FUCKING W H Y

Question: Is it the same with plums? I used to do that occasionally when I ate dried and seasoned Asian plums as a kid.

Yes. 

Plum pits do not contain as much as cherry, but they do. 

Do not eat stone fruit pits, people. Or bitter almonds. 

They all have cyanide in them. 

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chesand

Oh boy, apricot kernels. The amount of people I see lauding those as a “cure for cancer” is… demoralizing. I can’t find it right now but I believe there was a mother in the past few years who was taken to court for child endangerment/neglect for feeding those to her very young child as a cancer treatment.

I saw this horror last year, and yelled for an entire hour. 

To be fair, I bet if you die of cyanide poisoning the cancer won’t kill you. 

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dracota

I have been wanting to use these photos for months.

The recommendation is to only eat 3 in one hour. because that is just the most filling snack and of course they will stop at three.

But then they say DON’T EAT MORE THEN 10 A DAY.

It’s not even FDA approved. “may be toxic”.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.

Just because it’s food for another creature doesn’t mean it’s fine for you.

Best case scenario it’s like grass which is basically neutral- it’s generally not going to kill you but there’s no nutrition for humans in it, and enough will probably make you sick.

Worst case scenario it’s something like belladonna berries which taste sweet but will kill you stone cold dead.

Same for the wrong kind of mushrooms, other berries, leaves and barks. Before consuming, CHECK. If you can’t check, don’t put it in your mouth.

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eeveedream

Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.

Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.

Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.

I’ve been saying this for so long, oh my gosh.

^^As a toxicologist, I approve this message.

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golbatgender

Friendly reminder that the laws on supplement labeling in the US are super lax and haven’t been updated since 1994. That’s nearly 25 years ago!

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iesika

There’s absolutely no guarantee that what a supplement package says is inside is actually inside. Tests of products on drug store shelves in New York ordered by the attorney general showed that a huge percentage of the supplements tested did not contain what they advertised.

Similar surveys and testing have shown similar results. Herbs turned out to be grass clippings, pills were nothing but filler, and nearly everything was adulterated with something that wasn’t on the label.

Worse, there were also amphetamine-like-compounds in a lot of the weight-loss, exercise and energy supplements, and toxic heavy metals all over the place. 

(no links to sources since Tumblr will hide this if I add them, but search “Science Based Medicine” and “supplements” and you’ll find them)

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Archive your fandom stuff

As we sit on the cusp of changes to the Internet, after your other activities to support Internet freedom, archive your fandom stuff.

Save the electronic files of your favorite online fandom works. Consider print-outs of your favorite online material. And save paper ephemera from fandom events.

Why save? Because you put the effort into a fanwork. Because you may be surprised when a fandom stays alive for years, or gets revived, or when an academic asks to cite your work. Because it’s stupidly hard to find items on Tumblr. Because, lo, in ages past, many fandom archives have risen and fallen, taking favorite fics off the ‘Net. Because it made you happy, makes you remember. Because you never know.

What can you save?

  • Fanart
  • Stories you wrote
  • Epic comments on stories you wrote
  • Stories you love that other people wrote
  • Meta and meta-related discussions
  • Translations others did of your works
  • Physical items: paper ephemera, clothing, accessories, art prints and drawings.

Behind the cut…saving from Tumblr and AO3, delving into lost web sites, how to save computer files for the long term, and why I’m glad I saved physical fandom items from 10+ years ago.

I made this post a year and a half ago. Please read the many comments in the reblogs from archivists and long-term fans!

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bethagain

Signal boost.

Time for this post again!

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byk23

As some of you already noticed, the Cannimals are getting flagged. Actually they have been flagged nsfw way back but i never bothered to contest it. It must be all the naked animals cavorting, for shame (there was never a nipple, female presenting or otherwise).  

I’m setting up a backup and i do have all the comics saved. The best part of the comics are the interactions so i’m going to try and save those. 

I will hang around and see where the Fandom goes next, if it is to another site i will let you all know. 

❤️❤️😘❤️😘❤️😘❤️❤️😘😘❤️😘❤️

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