#*muffled crying*

[merukins]

Stop telling me about the top bun aaaa hsksknrndjs

[bogleech]

Allegedly the weapon that most rendered knight armor obsolete was the cannon and I don't know if that's true but if it is then there had to have first been a few battles in which some meaningful percentage of knights were getting obliterated by cannonballs and I just wish I'd been there to hear what it sounded like

[infiniteglitterfall]

I guess this might be why the UK seemed to go so antisemitic so quickly

I'm researching the 1947 pogroms in the UK. (Actually, I'm researching all the pogroms and massacres of Jews in the past 200 years. Which today led me to discover that there were pogroms in the UK in 1947.)

From an article on "The Postwar Revival of British Fascism," all emphasis mine:

Given the rising antisemitism and widespread ignorance about Zionism [in the UK in 1947], fascists were easily able to conflate Zionist paramilitary attacks with Judaism in their speeches, meaning British Jews came to be seen as complicit in violence in Palestine.

Bertrand Duke Pile, a key member of Hamm’s League, informed a cheering crowd that “the Jews have no right to Palestine and the Jews have no right to the power which they hold in this country of ours.” Denouncing Zionism as a way to introduce a wider domestic antisemitic stance was common to many speakers at fascist events and rallies. Fascists hid their ideology and ideological antisemitism behind the rhetorical facade of preaching against paramilitary violence in Palestine.

One of the league’s speakers called for retribution against “the Jews” for the death of British soldiers in Palestine. This was, he told his audience, hardly an antisemitic expression. “Is it antisemitism to denounce the murderers of your own flesh and blood in Palestine?” he asked his audience. Many audience members, fascist or not, may well have felt the speaker had a point. ...[The photo of two British sergeants hanged by the Irgun in retaliation for the Brits hanging three of their members] promptly made numerous appearances at fascist meetings, often attached to the speaker’s platform. In at least one meeting, several British soldiers on leave from serving in Palestine attended Hamm’s speech, giving further legitimacy to his remarks. And with soldiers and policemen in Palestine showing increasing signs of overt antisemitism as a result of their experiences, the director of public prosecutions warned that the fascists might receive a steady stream of new recruits.

MI5, the U.K. domestic security service, noted with some alarm that “as a general rule, the crowd is now sympathetic and even spontaneously enthusiastic.” Opposition, it was noted in the same Home Office Bulletin of 1947, “is only met when there is an organized group of Jews or Communists in the audience.”

The major opposition came from the 43 Group, formed by the British-Jewish ex-paratrooper Gerry Flamberg and his friends in September 1946 to fight the fascists using the only language they felt fascists understood — violence. The group disrupted fascist meetings for two purposes: to get them shut down by the police for disorder, and to discourage attendance in the future by doling out beatings with fists and blunt instruments. By the summer of 1947, the group had around 500 active members who took part in such activities. Among these was a young hairdresser by the name of Vidal Sassoon, who would often turn up armed with his hairdressing scissors.

The 43 Group had considerable success with these actions, but public anger was spreading faster than they could counter the hate that accompanied it. The deaths of Martin and Paice had touched a nerve with the populace. On Aug. 1, 1947, the beginning of the bank holiday weekend and two days after the deaths of the sergeants, anti-Jewish rioting began in Liverpool. The violence lasted for five days. Across the country, the scene was repeated: London, Manchester, Hull, Brighton and Glasgow all saw widespread violence. Isolated instances were also recorded in Plymouth, Birmingham, Cardiff, Swansea, Newcastle and Davenport. Elsewhere, antisemitic graffiti and threatening phone calls to Jewish places of worship stood in for physical violence. Jewish-owned shops had their windows smashed, Jewish homes were targeted, an attempt was made to burn down Liverpool Crown Street Synagogue while a wooden synagogue in Glasgow was set alight. In a handful of cases, individuals were personally intimidated or assaulted. A Jewish man was threatened with a pistol in Northampton and an empty mine was placed in a Jewish-owned tailor shop in Davenport.

And an important addendum:

I've read a whole bunch of articles about the pogroms in Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, Eccles, Glasgow, etc.

Not one of them has mentioned that the Irgun, though clearly a terrorist group, was formed in response to 18 years of openly antisemitic terrorism, including multiple incredibly violent massacres. Or that it consistently acted in response to the murders of Jewish civilians, not on the offensive. Or that at this point, militant Arab Nationalist groups with volunteers and arms from the Arab League countries had been attacking Jewish and mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhoods for months.

I just think the "Jewish militants had been attacking the British occupiers" angle is incredibly Anglocentric.

Yeah, they were attacking the British occupiers. But also, that's barely the tip of the iceberg.

Everyone involved hated the Brits at this point. If only al-Husseini and his ilk had hated the Brits more than they hated the Jews, Britain could at least have united them by giving them a common enemy.

[dykedvonte]

Jimmy only commits his worse moments when he’s alone with each individual character.

It’s implied he corners Anya in her room. He brutalizes Curly when everyone else is busy under the guise of medicine. He convinces Daisuke to go into the vent when Swansea can’t stop him. He kills Swansea after everyone is dead. It really highlights the type of violence he commits. He is a coward, he won’t take his chance if there is a possibility of active conflict, yet, he jumps on the opportunity to do so when there’s no risk. Not just when there’s no one to stop him but when he knows there’s no one to witness it. To judge and directly call out his faults.

No one outside himself to really see him as the monster he would never admit he is.

[southfarthing]

good talk!!

MERLIN 2x4: LANCELOT AND GUINEVERE

[ir-dr]

Day 3416 - 11 December 2022

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A commission for Leolee!

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[kathiel0l]

I literally just woke up and got surprised by Auron's soft expression and LORD-

HAVE YALL SEEN HIS FACE?? HIS CUTE ADORABLE PRECIOUS PERFECT FACE???!??

ONE DAY HES GONNA MAKE ME CRY I SWEAR (though I wouldn’t be surprised at myself if I eventually ended up crying while listening to that audio)

[nicetomeetmew]

This was the most important part of the update. I don't make the rules

[wouldntyoulichentoknow]

They slip out of the refectory, accompanied by a bobbing light and a few incurious looks from the adepts’ table. Their footsteps echo in the corridor like cracking ice. Mirabelle, in her scratchy new College robes that smell of mothballs and musty spells, resists an unthinkable urge to dance up and down the hall until it resounds with noise. It would be unscholarly, she thinks. She hugs herself hard instead. “If you think this is cold,” says Phinis sagely, misunderstanding her, “wait until end-of-term. Falion says we’ll have to crack the ice in our basins every morning.” The giddiness, despite her best efforts to restrain it, wriggles up from her toes to her face. “What else does Falion say?” Phinis gives her a wounded look. “You’re making fun.”

-Students of Mystery, @jiubilant :')

[hyunpic]

not hyunjin going “ow.. eww” when they had a staring contest 🤣

[stupidlittlespirit]

seeing people unironically genuinely dislike/hate on Ford physically hurts me. It feels like i’m being shot in the gut and Ford haters are sticking their fingers in the wound for fun and wiggling them around

[lover-of-mine]

Me about to block someone because they used the word queerbaiting in my tags: *spray bottle* go away. Wanna know what queerbaiting was? Whatever teen wolf did every con with both Tyler's and Dylan. Whatever marvel had going on. 911 has lgbt characters. It has a complex lesbian relationship involving a main character. They don't even put Oliver and Ryan together in interviews anymore so they won't give the wrong idea. Y'all would've never survived the early days of the mcu. I did not experience the supernatural thing myself but that was queerbaiting. A story not going the way or speed you want does not make it queerbaiting. Queerbaiting is about marketing not storytelling.

[blueflyingturtleontheway]

Maybe I am a bit emotional about Talia being the one to say "she's not herself" about Auriana and pulling the "you're not yourself right now" during the fight and showing her their shared happy memories (which cause her to cry even when she's literally cursed with egotism). Maybe I am. So what.

[daughterthethird]

Guess who just finished watching Soul Eater!!!

[mecharose]

a writer I follow deleted their blog before I could finish reading their fic one million dead one billion injured