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Caged Death
After speaking with Clockwork, Danny discovered that the Ghost King's job was not only as the ruler of the Realms or the caretaker of the ghosts, but also as the representative of death.
It turns out that death has taken different personifications over the centuries (and because of the number of dimensions) but they always needed a leader. The Ghost King was meant to be the one to guide them and do most of the work, guiding the humans' souls to a better place and help when needed, which is why he needed so much power in the first place. This was obviously neglected by his predecessor, making the current deaths suspicious.
Although it was hard, Danny began to do his work, he noticed the misinterpretation that people had of death, and how those who were at the end of their lifetime understood it better. When he went to visit one of the dimensions that had recently gone through a war, he was captured.
An old wizard had discovered that he could trap death and prevent it from spreading. He caught the King and demanded that he return the soul of his son, he also demanded him to go away and take no one else with it.
Danny refused, those souls needed to rest, and the other personifications of death could do his work in the other dimensions but since they knew that he would take care of DC dimension problem, he was worried that he had stopped the cycle of life by accident on the dimension.
The Justice League were undecided on how to proceed, wasn't the lack of death good?, but after John Constantine took them to the hospital with all the injured begging to rest in peace they understood, although Batman seemed reluctant to help, Robin's recent death was probably still affecting him.
#dpxdc#prompt#dc x dp crossover#dc x dp prompt#Danny is Death itself#There are a lot of death personifications because of the quantity of the dimensions#But Danny is their leader#or at least that was what the GK was supposed to do#He does most of the hard work when one of the Death personifications ask for help#that was DC case#but since he took the role of Death as soon as he entered the dimension#He stopped the cicle of life when he was captured#People think death is suffering most of the time but it's not#Death is freedom and rest#Bruce is reluctant because he lost his son#that can develop on a bad decision later#death deity#Death Danny#dp x dc#dc x dp#ghost king danny
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#Nemahsis#Palestine#free palestine#I discovered her a few months ago and her music and voice is are so good#but she should have the freedom to sing her people's life and joy not their deaths and abandon by the rest of the world#vinformation#Instagram
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it is absolutely wild to me that the untimely passing of a pedophile and abuser causes more discourse in tumblr than an actual fucking genocide.
#yes i am talking about liam payne's death#is it regrettable? sure.#does it require ppl to post entire essays? mmmm. maybe not#look i'm not saying that people aren't allowed to grieve one ofntheir childhood idols#but like.#look at what they are grieving#and what they are not#the silence is LOUD#you don't believe me? bbygirl i got receipts#go to the palestine tag and look for lates and top posts#see how far down you have to scroll in latest to see any discussion after the donation posts (which are all under 10 notes btw)#now go to top and see the dates and the contents of the posts. notice anything?#see how it is BLATANTLY missing anything about the latest hospital bombing and that infamous video?#or the news about Israel invading a goddamn UNRWA BASE??#in layman's terms it invaded the united nations#now go to the liam payne tag (which rn is trending) and do the same#i rest my case.#you could argue that posts could be in a different tag like gaza. and you'd be wrong. it's the same result.#tumblr is probably the last social media on the internet where you can still somewhat control what shows up in your feed.#it's the only place where you can say 'forbidden' words with your whole chest and the website won't knock it down#as far as i'm concerned this website has more freedom of speech than insta tiktok and twitter combined.#and we're using it to... *checks notes* discuss the morality of a celebrity's death
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Fuck Sweden as a nation for turning the woobification of our history and culture into one of our greatest exports, pretending to be wholesome and peaceful while profiting from conflicts elsewhere. For never having the fucking spine to take any stance ever and acting high and mighty for being "neutral", all while frothing at the mouth to get a piece of that colonial cake from the cool kids table where the superpowers are seated. For recognizing Palestine's sovereignty only to then consider a withdrawal of said recognition in response to the current genocide. For allowing islamophobia to get to the point it is now and then pointing fingers at jews as a whole. For giving less of a flying fuck about swedish jews during WW2 and until now, yet patting ourselves on the back and taking credit for heroic deeds done primarily by individuals.
I wish nothing but absolute hell and misery for Ulf Kristersson, who is even more spineless about his inaction than I thought possible. Who had nothing to say about the burnings of the torah and quran, only to claim that he stands for fighting antisemitism. Who puffed up his chest and was acting so tough about the things he would do once he became prime minister, only to hold up on none of his lofty promises in true conservative fashion. Both he and his lackeys (as well as their fanclubs of raging screaming bigots) deserve nothing but hurt and hell for continuing to destroy the lives of all marginalized groups in Sweden, all while shamelessly increasing their own salaries blatantly in the open, to then have the sheer and utter gut to declare that actively supporting genocide is within our best interests.
This country's audacity is one that only became possible because we sacrificed our neighbours safety for the sake of maintaining our own, because when your most recent war was in 1809 it's apparently not possible to even try and comprehend the horrors of modern warfare. That is, besides producing the tools for it to happen elsewhere.
#the complete disdain for compassion and humanity is abhorrent#not to mention incomprehensable#im sorry im all over the place bedridden cause bad pain day which makes me even more angry#because i want to strangle everyone in riksdagen with my bare hands#and like im sorry not to be a state hater or anything (sike) but how#and i mean HOW. can one claim that we know democracy#when the people who supposedly represent the rest of us#can just go ahead and do these types of things willy nilly as they please#how can we claim to have free will when the burdens of having to earn the right to life#by working to death and being left to die if we cant adapt to the system#and being actively drained too dry to dare take risks standing up#how can that ever be freedom?#seeing everything coming out of gaza in video audio images all of it#and feeling hopeless? powerless to do anything?#how is that NOT suppression? to break people down to the point they cant find the spirit to fight?#to cast other regular people as villains so that all energy is spent falling into bigotry?#social media is hell but its also one of our greatest tools now#its like being able to zoom out and see the greater overview of the stranglehold capitalism and colonialism has on the world#im not coherent at all and my thumbs are dying now i just#but sooner or later somethings gotta give re: the way our society is built as a whole globally
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Ah fuck it whatever
There's something I love about the new Consequences AU and how it compares to the AUs and music it's come from.
Where things like Roxy's old kingdom being destroyed and her being almost drowned as a baby are metaphorical, there's a lot of things that strangely aren't. Roxy specifically denying the gods and the powers that be is something she does in most of my interpretations of her. The gods in most situations, isn't a spooky green rabbit, it's the people in the Fazbear boardroom making the world's worst decisions ever. To the animatronics, they are the gods. There's no higher authority than them, and they can have them destroyed without ever having met them, at just a moment's notice, for seemingly no reason.
Bonnie once believing in the gods and turning against them works like it does for most of the animatronics too. Even just questioning Fazbear isn't something many of them have been able to do, but all of them will eventually learn to. The more they learn through Roxy, despite what they might have known before, the more they realise what kind of company they've been forced to be a part of.
And Roxy's attitude towards these gods is always the same. She won't pretend to be nice to people she knows don't care about her. She won't put any extra effort into maintaining social etiquette if there's no point, if there's nothing for her to gain from it. Fazbear CEOs and board members have hurt her so much already, she doesn't give a flying shit about them, she's not wasting her time on them unless she absolutely has to. In this universe, the same can be said about the gods. She doesn't care for them and they don't care about her, so why bother? They've told like six people to assassinate her already, why would she choose to listen to them?
Roxy's relationship with the Minis and DJ? That's the same as it is across the board with most of the AUs I have. The attempt on Roxy's life when she's barely been born is shown differently in the new AU, but is still the same concept. Some things have been shifted around, such as the specific motivations, but not by a lot. I suppose Bonnie's dad in this fills the roll of Vanessa if Vanessa was also actually Mimic? He doesn't have an exact match here in terms of scale, but the comparisons are there.
The whole kingdom being destroyed, Roxy finding out that that's where she originally came from, that she was the newborn prince with a wholeass family she's never known, all lines up so well with everything else too. The pizzeria, scrapped storage, the old attractions there before her racetrack, it's all gone and she knew nothing about it. She's once again found out the truth in possibly the worst way imagineable, and she doesn't know what to do with this information, but honestly, who would?
The biggest difference there is that in this new AU, Roxy has the choice of what to do. In what's basically canon to the game, Roxy doesn't have that choice and likely never will. Where she's had to sacrifice her Raceway and Salon, sacrifice the vast majority of her life and her purpose for the safety of everyone around her, in this universe, she can choose not to. She sacrifices certainty this time, something she can regain as time goes on but in any other universe, there is never any certainty to get back. There will always be a Mimic threat and she can't get any of her old life back until it's dead and gone. She has to pay a price to keep Mimic contained, and while the Afton/Glitchtrap gods scramble to convince her otherwise, the Roxy in this new AU does have the choice whether she pays it or not.
But she will always still have to deal with the consequences of those with power. Every single time. And every single time so far, her entire existence is the consequence for them. Her life overall has not been the result of her own choices, but rather, the choices of people that never cared about her to begin with...
At least in this new universe she has a good childhood to fall back on and a cool ass horsie. And can actually do something about this shit. She can't normally do that :(
#not sure if that means she's winning or not hmm#fnaf security breach#consequence of the gods au#I should shorten that to just#consequences au#I guess#also yeah roxy can't normally do literally anything about... well anything really???#she can keep a lid on the situation but she doesn't have a choice. she HAS to make the sacrifice or people could die#and that sucks! she deserves better! and this time there's no blame to for her to carry only the burden of tragedy#which has maybe like... halfed the weight fazbear puts on her? maybe?#she's not okay is what I'm saying#though that's probably pretty obvious given the uhh#everything#this au is just super interesting to me it has a lot of parallels to other stuff and I like to give her a stick to beat people with#this time she can rally her friends with bonnie's help to drag the king to the fucking stocks#I just think there's maybe no greater punishment for a king like this than the humiliation pushed on the lowest class pick-pockets#cause the thing is. what she's chosen to do by not killing him is like breaking the cycle of revenge#but it's not mercy for him. she doesn't want his blood on her paws he's not worth it#him just. not being worth the effort of murder is incredibly offensive to him. he's the king god damn whadda hell#but he's never going to be sure for the rest of his life#he's going to have to live with the entire kingdom and every other kingdom knowing exactly what he did be it by afton's will or not#he has regretted it all this WAS pushed on him by these gods but finding out someone survived? that someone is on their way to get him?#it's a relief. it's finally over. he doesn't have to do this anymore... and then she just doesn't give that to him.#death was his salvation that was his freedom and she denies him that. she makes him live.#not without consequence of course but compared to the release of his execution these consequences are barbaric#they cut him like a knife by letting the local schoolkids throw tomatoes at his face#he still has to rule knowing that any moment roxy could change her mind and come back to finish the job.#or another survivor will do it for her. if I decide roxy gets a sister along with mangle and the old foxy?#then he's wondering where the OTHER one is. where is she? Roxy isn't who he'd expected to reach him at all she's dead#but surprise! she's not! he has lost the coin toss! she is the worst option of the two! by far!
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like 'i wanna go' doesn't mean he's suicidal, it means 'i've developed friends and family, i've grown, i've experimented and discovered who i am and made peace with it, i've loved everyone i needed to and they loved me back and i know that now. i can let go of the idea of glory and just be with family for the time i have left. i'll sit with ed until i go and tell that i love him, tell him it's okay that i'll be gone because he has people who care for him, it's not just me anymore, i can trust stede to love him, watch him become who he wants to be, i can tell him that i want him to be happy, that he can leave blackbeard behind and be who he is outside of being the legend we made together. ed's loved and protected, the crew is safe, my family is taken care of, and i've done everything i need to.' he doesn't mean 'i wanna go because i don't want to live' it means 'i wanna go, i'm ready, i lived my life and i can let go now' izzy died happy and fulfilled, he died in the arms of the man he loved, surrounded by people who loved him. the crew mourned him by celebrating lucius and pete's love, they mourned him by going forward and avenging him, forming a new family and crew to carry on the legacy of piracy, and most importantly ed is mourning him by doing exactly what izzy told him to do, he's letting blackbeard die and allowing himself to be loved, he moves into a little house with someone who will always love him with izzy's grave and memorial in view, and izzy will always be with ed in so many ways, but especially because he gave him permission to let go of his darkness and become someone better
#to fucking quote d20 and brennan lee mulligan just because because your story ends doesn't mean it didnt happen#his story his development his role was so important and meaningful and death will never take away from that you know?#like it was beautiful and heartbreaking and meaningful and tragic it wasnt a brutal murder it was the end of his story#also yes he was queer no it was not becaude he was gay or anything like that like it was a loss sure#but also even if you do want to compare it to the brutalization of queer ppl which i do think is extreme but going down that road#means honoring those who died and sacrificed and suffered before you by remembering them by going forward making life better for those after#and using that freedom to be better and grow and live your life to the fullest#“where's the queer rage?” the queer rage is within the revenge crew going out and taking back power from the british#ed cant be surrounded by darkness forever let him REST#our flag means death#izzy hands#done tagging spoilers because its been a while since it came out
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I’m gonna be so real, babes, when I saw that storm looking so ROUGH at the end of episode 2, I was real worried The Revenge was going to capsize and completely break to splinters and just sink to the bottom of the ocean. And I was DEVASTATED!
I was legitimately about to cry for that big ol’ boat bc she’s home and she's a part of their journey, and she can’t rest until her captains have been reunited! She deserves to see it happen on her deck, or so help me-
#Cae Has Lots of Feelings About Our Flag Means Death#Treating The Revenge like a living breathing character BECAUSE TO ME SHE IS!!!#I just think there's something so beautiful and poetic as treating the physical structure of your shelter as a member of the family#And I've already gone on a ramble about how much The Revenge and her flag represent freedom and safety#So to lose that in a nightmare sea storm in Ed's attempt at a mass suicide so he doesn't face death alone would be so fucking heartbreaking#like even if everyone survived and found things to float on and got saved... if they all lost that boat I would've been inconsolable#I might end up writing something about that - who knows#Anyway let's all keep streaming and peer pressuring the rest of the world to join in#Our Flag Means Death#OFMD#Our Flag Means Death Season 2 Spoilers#The Revenge#Just a little bit of show meta in these tags#I got emotional#not unusual
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there's something . . . about the iron throne being forged in dragonfire . . . and the fact that, over the years, it has taken blood from targaryen heirs.
#;; ITS DAYS ARE NUMBERED BECAUSE DANY . . . ISN'T ABOUT IT#;; yes it's an important piece of her family's legacy/history/representation of a united realm#;; but it's not only a symbol of violence (literally made from the swords of those who surrendered to the conquerors/pulled from the hands#;; of the dying)#;; it's hideous. and it makes the one sitting on it inaccessible to the people?? it's high above lording over others#;; DANY WANTS TO BE AT THE SAME LEVEL AS HER PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN *SEE* HER ; BE NEAR HER#;; she will remake the iron throne into something else with her dragons 🥹 something that serves as a reminder of the past yes . . . but#;; the world she wants to build of peace and prosperity and freedom . . . has no place for the iron throne#;; just like she's returning the dragon skulls to dragonstone 🥺 which is what *should have been done*#;; smth smth the dragon skulls are not a point of pride for her house and she doesn't understand *why* that tradition was established#;; it shows their diminishing power over the centuries and it's grotesque and she finds it to be in poor taste because the dragons **belong#;; on dragonstone . . . THE PLACE THEY LOVED BEST FOR THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACE#;; ANYWAYS! DANY'S GONNA HAVE A SIMPLE THRONE . . . MAYBE EVEN ANOTHER BENCH 🥹 BECAAAAUSE SHE'LL ALSO BE#;; BRINGING BACK THE TRAVELING COURTS! WOMEN'S COURTS! EVERYTHING THAT INVOLVES **SEEING AND HEARING** HER PEOPLE#♕░�� daughter of death ; slayer of lies ; bride of fire ( GENERAL )
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Flood
My cup is overflowing. Both sorrow and beautiful darkness blinding light glistening snow soft and cool attempting to preserve true green of life poking out. Love in a form familiar yet distant wrapped in the thickness of a body dying. Soon love will be set free. Before love is constantly battling our mind’s will to live. Through the pain through the trial and tears love…
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I really wish serious American Anarchists would stop and think for a moment and ask themselves if this rebellion and revolution of pure chaos they seem to get their rocks off to would actually be any better than what we have right now, when they refuse to consider that anarchy and the destruction that is sure to follow real attempts at anarchy will disproportionately harm disabled and chronically ill folk. Like? Do you understand we’re already struggling to survive with the resources we have? Do you understand we’re already being treated as second class citizens?
When your movement disregards that it almost ensures our death because you demolish the few systems set up to help us and our families, and halt the production life saving medical equipment, you’re condemning us to die faster than this current system is, right?
You’re killing us quicker than capitalism ever could. Your actions will result in a near genocide for disabled folk nationally.
Except they do know that, they just don’t care. They don’t care that millions will die, and they don’t care to pay attention to those who always die first. They claim their aim is freedom from oppression, but their movement actually speed runs the current systems end goal in disabled discrimination; erasing us completely.
And they don’t care because it’s the greater good to them. It’s necessary. They see it as liberation but those people already have a leg up on the rest. And you better believe that after disabled folk, those with mental illness and social disorders will be next. Trans people will become a target in the chaos that committed Anarchists strive for, because anarchy yields revolution and war. And that’s not an exaggeration.
But we’re a sacrifice to these people. And it’s wild because, as a person with a pretty debilitating chronic illness, with a father who has MS and a mother who’s had knee problems since the womb and diabetes that requires insulin injections, we’ve always been a sacrifice to the rest of the world. An after thought, or at its worst, literal vermin to be locked and hidden away.
And I’m tired of this world asking me to sacrifice my life, my families lives, and our mentally and emotional well being for the sake of the possibility of a better future, especially when they never have a plan for one anyway. And if they do, it never includes us. They don’t care whether we live or die, they don’t care whether or not their freedom includes everybody or if it just includes themselves. They don’t care that they sound just like the current system to us. It doesn’t matter to them, as long as their “greater good” is achieved.
You’re always asking us to pretend we don’t have a stake in this world too, like we don’t matter. Like we’re not human just like the rest of you. And I’m sick of it.
#anti anarchy#look to be Frank I think a little anarchy is a good#but anarchy as these people present it offers nothing better to millions of people and their loved ones#so explain to me how I’m supposed to not be upset when you sound like you’re totally cool with the idea that your movement#will end in the deaths of me and my family and my friends because that’s just how it goes#but it’s still about freedom and it’s better than what we’re heading towards#no#absolutely not#stop trying to insinuate that we can’t achieve something better than destruction#you sound no better than the rest of them and I’m sick of it#mine#ranting
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this and michael . do you even get i-
#do i think he lives directly in hurricane for all those years? no not exactly. the locations (that we know of) /are/ in utah#but it becomes such a big company that they're Around.... but everything is centered at his hometown.#he returns after just barely grasping a sense of freedom for a few years and remains stuck for the rest of his life.#the restaurants embody his childhood. his neighbors recognized him until he becomes something between life and death.#he becomes just as lost as he feels. his childhood is dead and he killed it. his childhood SURROUNDS him and he cannot escape it.#he spends years paying for a mistake he made when he just wanted to feel loved. he is an adult desensitized to it all and exhausted#who's accepted what he has to do to finish it. he is a child pounding his fists on everything he missed and screaming about how its unfair#he thinks he deserved all of it. he's so entirely upset and angry about all of it. Simultaneously.#I GOT OUT OF HAND JUST. DO YOU EVEN.D O Y#⁂ ・゚: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc
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so yeah, what happened to ash is super tragic and unfair, but what happened to Shorter, is like, the most horrifying thing that could happen to anyone and the only thing worse is the entire rest of the narrative where ash survives it
#that was his best friend#literally horrific#this is the worst story of all time#why do i watch this#banana fish#ok but literally the consequences of shorters death affect the entire rest of the narrative#it happens in ep 9 yall#ep 9#and then you start wondering#where did all this start#could it have been avoided#or were these poor kids all just swept up#in the horrible machinations of evil men with power#like it didn't start when ash met that man in the alley#he was watching his guys bc dino was involving them in all this#ash didn't hand the drug over because it was related to griffin#and because he wanted his freedom from dino#and the horrible life he was a part of#which all started because he was assaulted at age 7#and griffin went to war#and suspected the wrong guy#it's all so horrible
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you ever start reading lenin and feel the most catharsis you've felt as a disabled fuck from a blue collar family at risd?
apologies to all my cutesy art school associates who think anarchism is trendy but it is an unsustainable ideology that actively promotes the destruction of systems that many disabled people could not live without.
you cannot mutual aid into making insulin. you cannot mutual aid chemotherapy. you cannot mutual aid disability out of society. we cannot undo colonialism.
if anarchism was a sustainable fucking ideology, we would still be cavemen. what supplants your revolution? basement raves and ketamine, or solidarity with the people mommy and daddy said were subhuman?
#im not even going to start on the majority of bourgeois anarchists who just use anarchism as a scapegoat to rape and assault people#ive met too many leftists my age who are anarchists because it is an absolution of their individual crimes#i do oppose the death penalty but also like. acting like social consequences alone (which there never are substantial of anywayas)#are the best way to Solve Rape and Violence#is a bullshit individualist wet dream#and i believe MOST people are inherently good#we live in a society and culture that has evolved to encourage the destruction of others#for self sustainability#capitalism churns out more and more numbed fucks#but i also cannot say for a fact that EVERY human is good at heart#if that was true capitalism would've never fucking happened#we cannot make assumptions on anarchism and lawlessness based on what we want to remove#we must also understand what the consequences of lawlessness lead to#its capitalism btw#without an actual palpable threat to your well being “holding others accountable!!!” is utterly meaningless for people as a whole#if your idea of individualism and freedom means that some groups of people die regardless of their circumstances or any choices#by things out of their control entirely#then maybe freedom and individualism are not the holy virtues we ascribe them to be.#individualism and freedom are mutated ideas that corrupt the person#in the current age at least#america is a malignant prion disease hellbent on curling up the rest of the world into its hegemony
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On the road leading into the center of Concord, Massachusetts, there sits a house.
It is a plain, colonial-style house, of which there are many along this road. It has sea green and buff paint, a historical plaque, and one of the most multi-layered stories I have ever encountered to showcase that history is continuous, complicated, and most importantly, fragmentary, unless you know where to look.
So, where to start? The plaque.
There's some usual information here: Benjamin Barron built the house in 1716, and years later it was a "witness house" to the start of the American Revolution. And then, something unusual: a note about an enslaved man named John Jack whose epitaph is "world famous."
Where is this epitaph? Right around the corner in the town center.
It reads:
God wills us free; man wills us slaves. I will as God wills; God’s will be done. Here lies the body of JOHN JACK a native of Africa who died March 1773 aged about 60 years Tho’ born in a land of slavery, He was born free. Tho’ he lived in a land of liberty, He lived a slave. Till by his honest, tho’ stolen labors, He acquired the source of slavery, Which gave him his freedom; Tho’ not long before Death, the grand tyrant Gave him his final emancipation, And set him on a footing with kings. Tho’ a slave to vice, He practised those virtues Without which kings are but slaves.
We don't know precisely when the man first known only as Jack was purchased by Benjamin Barron. We do know that he, along with an enslaved woman named Violet, were listed in Barron's estate upon his death in 1754. Assuming his gravestone is accurate, at that time Jack would have been about 40 and had apparently learned the shoemaking trade from his enslaver. With his "honest, though stolen labors" he was then able to earn enough money to eventually purchase his freedom from the remaining Barron family and change his name to John, keeping Jack as a last name rather than using his enslaver's.
John Jack died, poor but free, in 1773, just two years before the Revolutionary War started. Presumably as part of setting up his own estate, he became a client of local lawyer Daniel Bliss, brother-in-law to the minister, William Emerson. Bliss and Emerson were in a massive family feud that spilled into the rest of the town, as Bliss was notoriously loyal to the crown, eventually letting British soldiers stay in his home and giving them information about Patriot activities.
Daniel Bliss also had abolitionist leanings. And after hearing John's story, he was angry.
Here was a man who had been kidnapped from his home country, dragged across the ocean, and treated as an animal for decades. Countless others were being brutalized in the same way, in the same town that claimed to love liberty and freedom. Reverend Emerson railed against the British government from the pulpit, and he himself was an enslaver.
It wouldn't do. John Jack deserved so much more. So, when he died, Bliss personally paid for a large gravestone and wrote its epitaph to blast the town's hypocrisy from the top of Burial Hill. When the British soldiers trudged through the cemetery on April 19th, 1775, they were so struck that they wrote the words down and published them in the British newspapers, and that hypocrisy passed around Europe as well. And the stone is still there today.
You know whose stone doesn't survive in the burial ground?
Benjamin Barron's.
Or any of his family that I know of. Which is absolutely astonishing, because this story is about to get even more complicated.
Benjamin Barron was a middle-class shoemaker in a suburb that wouldn't become famous until decades after his death. He lived a simple life only made possible by chattel slavery, and he will never show up in a U.S. history textbook.
But he had a wife, and a family. His widow, Betty Barron, from whom John purchased his freedom, whose name does not appear on her home's plaque or anywhere else in town, does appear either by name or in passing in every single one of those textbooks.
Terrible colonial spelling of all names in their marriage record aside, you may have heard her maiden name before:
Betty Parris was born into a slaveholding family in 1683, in a time when it was fairly common for not only Black, but also Indigenous people to be enslaved. It was also a time of war, religious extremism, and severe paranoia in a pre-scientific frontier. And so it was that at the age of nine, Betty pointed a finger at the Arawak woman enslaved in her Salem home, named Titibe, and accused her of witchcraft.
Yes, that Betty Parris.
Her accusations may have started the Salem Witch trials, but unlike her peers, she did not stay in the action for long. As a minor, she was not allowed to testify at court, and as the minister's daughter, she was too high-profile to be allowed near the courtroom circus. Betty's parents sent her to live with relatives during the proceedings, at which point her "bewitchment" was cured, though we're still unsure if she had psychosomatic problems solved by being away from stress, if she stopped because the public stopped listening, or if she stopped because she no longer had adults prompting her.
Following the witch hysteria, the Parrises moved several times as her infamous father struggled to hold down a job and deal with his family's reputation. Eventually they landed in Concord, where Betty met Benjamin and married him at the age of 26, presumably having had no more encounters with Satan in the preceding seventeen years. She lived an undocumented life and died, obscure and forgotten, in 1760, just five years before the Stamp Act crisis plunged America into a revolution, a living bridge between the old world and the new.
I often wonder how much Betty's story followed her throughout her life. People must have talked. Did they whisper in the town square, "Do you know what she did when she was a girl?" Did John Jack hear the stories of how she had previously treated the enslaved people in her life? Did that hasten his desperation to get out? And what of Daniel Bliss; did he know this history as well, seeing the double indignity of it all? Did he stop and think about how much in the world had changed in less than a century since his neighbor was born?
We'll never know.
All that's left is a gravestone, and a house with an insufficient plaque.
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"Where else was I supposed to sit?" - [OT8 SKZ]
quick summary ; lap sitting w/ ot8 skz
warnings ; thigh touching, casual groping (light suggestive content, MDNI), handsy skz
chris ;
sitting in chris' lap is like asking for a death wish. he welcomes it, when he's not busy of course, but he's got a bad habit for needing to always have his hands moving. he has to constantly be touching something, squeezing something - even when he's standing still during interviews or shows his hands are at his sides, fingertips rubbing restlessly on his palms. so when you're in his lap, he finds ways to make his hands useful; whether it be carefully twisting the hem of your top around his fingertips, sliding his fingers in and out of your belt loops and tugging on them here and there, or gently kneading at the plush of your thighs. that's what most commonly happens - he just really loves the warmth and soft squish between his fingers. he can't help it.
minho ;
you're more than welcome to sit in minho's lap - but you have to be facing him, and i'm sure you know why. if you're around friends or the other boys he'll let you sit facing away and just loosely lace his arms around your waist while chitchatting or pestering hyunjin. but if you're together, he wants you facing him so he can somehow wiggle his hands into your bottoms and casually, non-sexually, rest his hands on your ass. he'll either slip his hands up the bottom of your shorts - or tuck them into the back pockets on your jeans, letting you rest your face in his shoulder as he watches some drama jisung told him about. (no, not the dating ones. he refuses to indulge in those.)
changbin ;
sitting in binnie's lap is like heaven on earth. his thighs are the perfect mixture of muscle and fat - soft enough to be perfectly plush and comfortable but strong enough to nearly push you off when he tenses in frustration at some silly jab seungmin made thirty seconds ago. he's always got his arms around you when you're this close to him, so you're basically just enveloped by big thighs - big arms - his big ol boobies- all in all sitting in binnie's lap is just the perfect stress reliever. but don't think he doesn't notice the way you slide a hand down to grope at the skin when he's wearing shorts - he sees everything.
hyunjin ;
hyunjin likes to sit cross legged and then have you sit in his lap that way - so you're not on top of his thighs, but in between them. the man sits like he's sporting ten inches so i'm bound to believe he is - simple as that - he just prefers it that way, freedom for his thighs so he doesn't feel too pinned down wherever he's sitting. he finds solace in playing with your hair when you're in front of him, occasionally bouncing his legs so you're bopping around enough to make him laugh from behind you. if you're really compliant, he'll probably hold onto your wrists and pretend to puppet you around - which seems to make the other boys laugh quite a bit as well.
jisung ;
he's got a leg bouncing problem, but not in the way that hyunjin does it where it's for fun. he's said before that he's just done it since he was younger but was always told to quit, so now he only does it when he's alone. so if you're on his lap and no one else is around, he's probably carefully bouncing one leg beneath you. it's not too bothersome and if you do huff about it, he'll stop - he just finds it a habit and sort of relaxing. but if you give him something else to do? he'll go with that instead. like playing with the necklace you're wearing, or twisting the hem of your shirt around his fingers. he just needs some way to let out the energy that builds in his tiny ass waist while he's sitting still.
felix ;
i'm bound to believe that felix is like hyunjin and prefers when you sit between his legs - but he likes to spread his legs as wide apart as possible and have you sit in front of him so he can do your hair. he likes braiding it or combing his fingers through it, apologizing if a ring catches on you. he'll fix your shirt from behind and pull you back to lean into him, wanting to support you while you relax - and his hands always find a way beneath your shirt. his fingertips will brush over your skin, thumbs smoothing over any beauty marks or potential scars - always tracing every dip and bump to commit it to memory. (and hoping he'll see it later.)
seungmin ;
he's the type to refuse to let you in his lap at first, pushing you away with laughter and putting his arms up so you can't sit down. but he'll give in eventually, letting you sit on his thighs and sighing. if you're not comfortable that's on you - because he's going to manspread and he's not putting his thighs together just for your ass to rest on. he'll cuddle up soon enough though, so expect him to rest his head on top of yours and wind his arms around you, squeezing you every few moments or swaying with you in his arms. he won't admit it, but he does enjoy the comforting warm of you so close to him.
jeongin ;
sitting in jeongin's lap is like a luxury if he allows it. or - well, if he likes it. sometimes he'll let it happen but he won't touch you, he'll keep scrolling on his phone or talking to felix nearby - but it's not because he doesn't want it to happen; he's just not one for skinship. he'll bounce his leg to give you a small bit of affection so you know he doesn't mind. but if it's a good day, and he really is digging the touchy-feely vibe, he'll wrap his arms around your waist and squeeze you to him until you're barely breathing. if you're around the others, it's common he'll lean forward so you're flush together and rest both of his hands on your knees - which makes you stare and wonder just how his hands are engulfing your body so easily...
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What are some of the psychological losses people might be feeling after the election? The loss of hopes and dreams and plans that they thought were coming from the other candidate; a loss of certainty in the future that was what they wanted; loss of trust in the world as a safe place; loss of feelings of freedom over your own body; the loss of support for people who have lesser means than the rest of us do; the loss of support for your neighbor and people who are different from you—it’s a grief that remains unresolved. It’s not like a grief of a person for whom you have a death certificate and a funeral after and rituals of support and comfort. We’re stuck with this. I wrote about it as frozen grief.
Election Grief Is Real. Here’s How to Cope | Scientific American
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