#confederation of valor

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[dabblingreturns]

I have a profound weakness for competent side charecters who deeply belive that they are actually the main character and consider the hero of the story to be an annoying side charecters who is getting in thier way.

Especially intrepid reporter charecters.....please never write an intrepid reporter who thinks they are a side charecters.

[dillpicklepup]

Transconfederate / Transfederate

Transconfederate (or transfederate) is a label for those who identify as Confederate and have a strong connection to the history and culture of the Confederate States of America.

What do the colors on the flag represent? Red represents courage and valor Blue symbolizes justice and determination ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

They often wish to have been able to face the struggle of living in the Old South. While the Confederacy ended in 1865, transfederates feel a sense of cultural alienation from the mainstream transgender community, which they perceive as being too focused on issues of gender identity and gender expression and not enough on preserving Southern heritage. They may feel a strong connection to Confederate symbols, traditions, and values, even while acknowledging the complex and often problematic history of the Confederacy. It is important to note that transconfederates are controversial and the term is often used in a derogatory manner. Many people find it offensive and see it as an attempt to reclaim or romanticize a history of slavery and oppression. However, it is also important to recognize the lived experiences of individuals who identify as transfederates. Their feelings of cultural belonging and historical connection are real, even if they are not universally accepted or understood.

[bubunami]

Lore bump - ///English///

In my universe, mascots are divided in two large guilds: Olympians and Claners.

Olympians are individuals who embody the Olympic values, striving to safeguard life and promote the use of sporting competitions as an alternative to traditional forms of conflict. Upon attaining the status of Olympian, they receive a ring, also known as a stigma, which symbolizes their most exemplary value; such as perseverance, integrity, sportsmanship, excellence, or brotherhood. This is done through a ceremonial process, or in some exceptional casses, by being blessed by the archons.

The Claners are members of the FIFA CLAN, an organization that controls the mascots of FIFA events and associated confederations, promoting soccer as an alternative to the evils of the world, and also highlighting the vices of the Olympians. They gain power through amulets and spells, and have ranks marked by stars (gold, silver and bronze), assigned according to the role and rank of their members.

///Español///

En mi universo, las mascotas estan divididas en don grandes gremios: Los Olímpicos y Los Claners.

Los olímpicos son individuos que encarnan los valores olímpicos, esforzándose por salvaguardar la vida y promover el uso de las competiciones deportivas como alternativa a las formas tradicionales de conflicto. Al alcanzar el estatus de olímpico, reciben un anillo, también conocido como estigma, que simboliza su valor más ejemplar; como la perseverancia, la integridad, la deportividad, la excelencia o la hermandad. Esto se hace a través de un proceso ceremonial, o en casos excepcionales, siendo bendecido por los arcontes.

Los Claners son miembros del Clan de la FIFA, una organización que controla a las mascotas de eventos de la FIFA y confederaciones asociadas, promoviendo el fútbol como alternativa a los males del mundo, y de vez en cuando resaltando los vicios de los Olimpicos. Obtienen poder mediante amuletos y hechizos, y tienen rangos marcados por estrellas (oro, plata y bronce), asignados según el rol y rango de sus miembros.

This mascot, for example. It is a special case because it is in the middle of the Olympian/Clanner factions. There are times when a mascot can straddle these groups, but very few get away with it; their presence usually creates conflicts of interest. /// Esta mascota, por ejemplo. Es un caso excepcional, ya que se encuentra en medio de las faccciones Olimpico/Clanner. Hay veces en las que una mascota puede entrar entre estos grupos, pero muy pocos pueden llegar a salir bien parados de ello, su precencia por lo regular genera conflictos de intereses.

[princesscolumbia]

Pride Month 2024 - Day 18

And now we come to the first fic that someone put in a request for, specifically.

Marines are trained to handle anything...but the training never accounted for being stranded, alone, on a world without even the rudiments of post-Industrial era tech, and no way home. Join a human soldier as he encounters a species unlike any the human race as encountered before. Wow, there's no good way to write a synopsis for this without spoiler soup being served up. Requested by ontheline

I do have the entire outline of this one plotted out and approved by the original requester and I'm intending to get back to it one of these days. It was my first attempt at writing a "Human in Equestria" fic and my first real "Humans are Space Orcs" work. I started writing it right as I came off of reading book 6 of The Confederation of Valor series, and you can tell from some of the plot devices and set dressing I've used just in this one chapter.

At the moment, my hyperfixation on a trans MC in a 90% original fanfic given the green-light by the original creator of its franchise with the understanding the book will probably never be canon is occupying, like, 99% of my attention, but presuming my plans to shift to being a full-time author supported by my fans via Patreon pans out, I should be able to quit my day job and just focus on projects like this one.

[mechwarrior-rose]

Shelter: Pirate's Eclipse

KENNEDY BEACH OBERON VI OBERON CONFEDERATION 28 SEPTEMBER 3049

Shelter's assessment earlier had been correct. An even dozen lasers, six on each arm. Mediums, by the look of it. No other weapons. Magnetic resonance was convinced the 'Mech was 50 tons. What kind of engine could supply that much power for weapons and still move a 50-ton machine around that quickly? And who the hell designed a 'Mech whose shoulder and hip actuators ran in a straight line right through the torsos?

He and the enemy pilot were circling each other, sizing one another up. The other 'Mechs of the enemy lance stood eerily still. So did the crumpled form of Rieck's Marauder. Why hadn't he punched out yet? He was conscious, had to be, because he'd opened the private channel to receive Shelter's message.

No more time. The enemy tightened their circle in to run directly at Shelter. He slammed down his pedals and ignited the Griffin's jump jets. Light burst from the enemy 'Mech's left arm and gouged nearly all the armor from his left side in a single salvo. Barely anything left on his torso and leg, and the internal structure of his arm was fully laid bare. Burning gods above and below, how powerful were those lasers?! Shelter fired all three of his own in turn. The large and one of the mediums scored deep into the armor of the enemy's right torso; the other medium piddled across their right arm.

Shelter landed harder than he'd intended. Sure, he was certified on a Griffin, but he was still a tech, not a MechWarrior. He'd only ever used jump jets under controlled conditions at the proving grounds. Twice. Six years ago. Automatic systems kept him from stumbling, but he could hear the gyro straining from the effort.

Where was all the heat going in that 'Mech? Twelve lasers, half a dozen at a time in volley fire, in a medium machine. Firing that spread once would put a load on any Griffin, and that was assuming that those over-tuned lasers didn't produce more heat than a standard medium. Yet the enemy didn't seem to feel the heat at all. Shelter scrambled to calculate the minimum heat transfer coefficient to make it work.

Turn off your engineering brain, dumbass! The enemy had executed a neat turn on their own jump jets and brought their left side around to protect their damaged flank. Another six-laser volley and the Griffin's left arm was entirely gone. Hip actuator damaged on the right side. Desperately low armor in both torsos. The neural feedback wasn't in the danger zone, but the loss of the arm was playing havoc with the interplay between the Griffin's gyro and Shelter's own inner ear.

These weren't pirates. Whatever the fuck they were, they were bad news, and they weren't going to stop with the Oberon Confederation.

One more punch of the jets, and the Griffin arced over the enemy machine. Shelter fired the moment his reticle passed over metal, but his eyes were on the beach beyond the cockpit glass. The Marauder's cockpit was still intact. What was Rieck doing?

No, there he was, running along the beach. He'd popped his cockpit hatch and clambered down on his own. The SERE kit pouch was slapping against his thigh as he hauled ass. Good. He could meet up with Razor Two and take refuge in the trees. Shelter prayed to absent gods that he could give them enough time.

Shelter landed more gracefully this time. Still, the impact jarred sweat into his eyes. He blinked desperately. Had to find the enemy.

But the strange 'Mech had collapsed. Shelter's almost literally aimless shots had damaged the enemy's engine and forced a failsafe shutdown.

The remaining enemy 'Mechs were still and silent, as if they were as shocked at the outcome as Shelter was. But soon enough the Catamarauder--Shelter decided it had to be named something--stepped forward. Once again, the woman's voice came over broadband.

"Warrior, you have bested two of Clan Wolf's elite warriors, one in single combat. The outcome of this battle is foregone, but know that your valor is recognized."

"Big talk for someone about to get acquainted with the dirt," Shelter snapped into his mic, then pushed his 'Mech into a run.

The Catamarauder's missile pods roared like lions. Explosions covered the Griffin. Not a single location escaped unscathed, including the head. Two missiles hit high--above the glass, but still close and loud enough to turn the inside of the cockpit into a front seat at the world's worst noise metal concert. Neural feedback, the real shit this time, seared through Shelter's brain.

The Griffin hit the ground. Engine power was gone. Hell, the Griffin itself was probably an unrecognizable slag heap. There was booming and rattling and clanging for what felt like forever. A monitor panel dislodged from the console and bounced off Shelter's neurohelmet. Then, finally, silence, punctuated only by the cartoonish ping-ping-ping of a washer falling into the rear compartment of the cockpit.

Shelter took a moment to catch his breath and assess himself. Probably had a concussion. Always assume a concussion. Gash on his shoulder that he hoped wasn't deep. His muscles and bones were still ringing from the fall. One of his boots had come off.

The radio was on backup power, but there had been a cut somewhere in the feed to the neurohelmet. Shelter popped the buckle on his five-point harness and dragged the bulky helmet off his shoulders. The air against his scalp reminded him that--

He turned up the speaker built into the radio and grabbed the hand unit. "This is Razor Four. Three enemy units in grid gamma six. Razor Lance is down. Request..." He paused. Request what? Reinforcements? Extraction? A blanket and a bedtime story? His head was swimming.

"Warrior Shelter, last of her family," Star Captain Mila spoke on the radio. "Your 'Mech is disabled and your world has fallen. I claim you as isorla for the benefit of Clan Wolf. Stand down and await medical assistance."

"His," Shelter said automatically. "Last of his family."

He let himself fall back against the command couch's back. There was more chatter on the radio, but he didn't bother trying to parse it. He'd failed. He'd been supposed to die in combat, and somehow that was supposed to fix things for Oberon VI and the War Griffins. He was hazy on the details. But here he was, alive and a captive. Failure.

"Fucking pirates," he mumbled. He reached for the SERE kit, but the effort made him dizzy. He didn't remember anything after that.

[summeryewberry]

Queer Book List

I've just updated my complete list of LGBT+ novels ever read (as far as I can remember). Not including short story collections, comics, non-fiction, or things I've completely forgotten.

I'm not including books where a main character's sexuality was only implied (it's got to be clear on the page), and this list contains queer main and secondary characters only, not background characters that play little part in the story.

I don't read a lot of Young Adult, so assume these are all adult-oriented unless otherwise stated.

I'm not judging nor rating nor recommending any of these; it's purely a list of books I've finished.

True Colors #1: Conventionally Yours, by Annabeth Albert gay male main characters, romance, happy ending

The Geek Who Saved Christmas, by Annabeth Albert gay male main characters, romance, happy ending

Perfect Harmony #2: Love Me Tenor, by Annabeth Albert gay male main character, gay male side characters, romance, happy ending

Knit, Purl, a Baby and a Girl, by Hettie Bell bisexual female main character, lesbian main character, romance, happy ending

Master of One, by Dani Bennett and Jaida Jones gay male main characters, trans woman side character, high fantasy, unfinished series

Cesare Aldo #1: City of Vengeance, by D. V. Bishop Cesare Aldo #2: The Darkest Sin, by D. V. Bishop gay male main character, gay male side characters, mystery, historical, unfinished series

The Crow: The Lazarus Heart, by Poppy Z. Brite gay male main character, trans woman main character, horror, unhappy ending - it's The Crow

Exquisite Corpse, by Poppy Z. Brite gay male main characters, horror, unhappy ending

Lost Souls, by Poppy Z. Brite gay male main characters, horror, I don't remember the ending

The Black Magician #2: The Novice, by Trudi Canavan The Black Magician #3: The High Lord, by Trudi Canavan gay male side characters, high fantasy, happy ending for the gay characters

The Hours, by Michael Cunningham lesbian main characters, bisexual female main characters, general fiction, I don't remember the ending

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, by Samuel R. Delany gay male main characters, science fiction, unfinished series

The High King's Golden Tongue, by Megan Derr gay male main characters, romance, high fantasy, happy ending

Nightrunner Books #1: Luck in the Shadows, by Lynn Flewelling Nightrunner Books #2: Stalking Darkness, by Lynn Flewelling Nightrunner Books #3: Traitor's Moon, by Lynn Flewelling gay male main characters, high fantasy, everyone is alive and well as of book 3, I haven't read the rest of the series

Reforged, by Seth Haddon gay male main characters, high fantasy, happy ending

The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall lesbian main character, historical classic, unhappy ending

Princesses #1: The Stepsister Scheme, by Jim C. Hines Princesses #2: The Mermaid's Madness, by Jim C. Hines Princesses #3: Red Hood's Revenge, by Jim C. Hines lesbian main character, fantasy, fairy tale, everyone is alive and well as of book 3, I haven't read book 4 yet

Blood & Smoke #1 - Blood Books #1: Blood Price, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #2 - Blood Books #2: Blood Trail, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #3 - Blood Books #3: Blood Lines, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #4 - Blood Books #4: Blood Pact, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #5 - Blood Books #5: Blood Debt, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #6 - Smoke Series #1: Smoke and Shadows, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #7 - Smoke Series #2: Smoke and Mirrors, by Tanya Huff Blood & Smoke #8 - Smoke Series #3: Smoke and Ashes, by Tanya Huff bisexual male main character, gay male side character (main in the Smoke Books), low fantasy, humour, mostly happy ending

Torin Kerr #1: Confederation #1: Valor's Choice, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #2: Confederation #2: The Better Part of Valor, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #3: Confederation #3: The Heart of Valor, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #4: Confederation #4: Valor's Trial, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #5: Confederation #5: The Truth of Valor, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #6: Peacekeeper #1: An Ancient Peace, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #7: Peacekeeper #2: A Peace Divided, by Tanya Huff Torin Kerr #8: Peacekeeper #3: The Privilege of Peace, by Tanya Huff bisexual main characters, bisexual side characters, military space opera, humour, some queer characters survive, others do not - it's set during a war

Gale Girls #1: The Enchantment Emporium, by Tanya Huff Gale Girls #2: The Wild Ways, by Tanya Huff Gale Girls #3: The Future Falls, by Tanya Huff bisexual main characters, bisexual side characters, low fantasy, humour, happy ending

Keeper's Chronicles #1: Summon the Keeper, by Tanya Huff Keeper's Chronicles #2: The Second Summoning, by Tanya Huff Keeper's Chronicles #3: Long Hot Summoning, by Tanya Huff lesbian background character in books 1 & 2 becomes main in book 3, low fantasy, humour, happy ending

Quarters #1: Sing The Four Quarters, by Tanya Huff Quarters #2: Fifth Quarter, by Tanya Huff Quarters #3: No Quarter, by Tanya Huff Quarters #4: The Quartered Sea, by Tanya Huff bisexual main characters, bisexual side characters, high fantasy, humour, happy endings

The Fire's Stone, by Tanya Huff gay male main character, bisexual male main character, asexual female main character, poly relationship, high fantasy, happy ending

The Silvered, by Tanya Huff I don't remember, but considering it's Tanya Huff, probably everyone's bisexual, high fantasy, happy ending

Into the Broken Lands, by Tanya Huff gay male main character, bisexual side characters, high fantasy, horror elements, mostly happy ending

The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T. J. Klune gay male main characters, fairy tale, fantasy, happy ending

Angels in America, by Tony Kushner (play) gay male main characters, play, drama, happy ending

The Last Herald-Mage #1: Magic's Pawn, by Mercedes Lackey The Last Herald-Mage #2: Magic's Promise, by Mercedes Lackey The Last Herald-Mage #3: Magic's Price, by Mercedes Lackey gay male main characters, high fantasy, unhappy ending?

Bergman Brothers #5: Everything For You, by Chloe Liese gay male main characters, sports romance, happy ending

Ash, by Malinda Lo lesbian main character, fairy tale, young adult, I don't remember the ending

So This is Ever After, by F.T. Lukens gay male main characters, young adult, romance, high fantasy, happy ending

Winter's Orbit, by Everina Maxwell gay male main characters, science fiction, unfinished series

Lindsay Gordon Crime Series #6: Hostage to Murder, by V. L. McDermid (Val McDermid) lesbian main character, mystery, happy ending, I haven't read the rest of the series

Trick of the Dark, by Val McDermid lesbian main characters, lesbian side characters, mystery, I don't remember the ending

Iron Council, by China Miéville gay male side character, dystopian fantasy, I don't remember the ending

Hero, by Perry Moore gay male main characters, superheroes, young adult, happy ending

A Land Fit for Heroes #1: The Steel Remains, Richard K. Morgan gay male main character, lesbian main character, high fantasy, I don't remember the ending and I haven't read the sequel

Love & Luck #5: Two Men and a Baby, by Isla Olsen gay male main characters, gale male side characters, romance, happy ending

Captive Prince Series #1: Captive Prince, by C. S. Pacat Captive Prince Series #2: Prince's Gambit, by C. S. Pacat Captive Prince Series #3: Kings Rising, by C. S. Pacat bisexual male main character, gay male main character, bisexual side characters, high fantasy/romance, happy ending

The Monkey's Mask, by Dorothy Porter lesbian main character, bisexual female side character, poetry, mystery, complicated but satisfying ending

Wild Surmise, by Dorothy Porter bisexual female main character, poetry, general fiction, I don't remember the ending

She Drives Me Crazy, by Kelly Quindlen lesbian main characters, lesbian side characters, romance, young adult, happy ending

Cry to Heaven, by Anne Rice bisexual male main character, historical, revenge story, happy ending

The Wolf Gift, by Anne Rice gay male side character, low fantasy, happy ending

The Love Study #2: The Hate Project, by Kris Ripper gay male main characters, gay male side character, genderqueer side character, romance, happy ending

Carry On Series #1: Carry On, by Rainbow Rowell Carry On Series #2: Wayward Son, by Rainbow Rowell bisexual male main character, gay male main character, low fantasy, young adult, everyone is alive and well as of book 2, I haven't read book 3 yet

Get Over It!, by Phillip Scott gay male main characters, mystery, humour, I don't remember the ending

Christopher Marlowe Spy Thriller #1: The Queen's Gold, by Steven Veerapen gay male main character, mystery, spy thriller, historical, unfinished series

Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters lesbian main characters, historical, heist story, happy ending

Tipping the Velvet, by Sarah Waters lesbian main characters, historical, happy ending

Running With Lions, by Julian Winters gay male main characters, gay male side characters, young adult, sports romance, happy ending

The Stone Gods, by Jeanette Winterson lesbian main characters, gay male main characters, ostensibly general fiction but actually more like speculative fiction, implied happy ending

Orlando, by Virginia Woolf bisexual genderqueer main character, historical, I don't remember the ending

[mordredsheart]

i went to gettysburg today and i was prepared to feel a lot of things - reverent, sorrowful, et cetera. but, in fact, the majority of my time there, what i felt was angry.

all that bloodshed, and why? because the confederate states chose to become traitors to the union rather than accept that their “way of life” was an affront to humanity.

our tour quoted grant, in the same breath as he praised the valor of the confederate army in battle, calling their motive “the worst cause for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.” (insert “states’ rights to do what, motherfucker?!” comic here.) thousands of southern men dead, who might have put all that nobility and valor showcased on the battlefield to better use if they allowed themselves to, rather than sacrificing it to perpetuate the cruelty of chattel slavery. thousands of northern men dead, and who knows what they might have accomplished in their lives, if they weren’t cut short because of the rebs.

i cannot bring myself to feel reverent over the horrors of the civil war, and i certainly have no room in me for regard for the men who died in gray. i am angry that their inexcusable cause brought my country to the brink of destruction. i am angry that their descendants and their wannabes fly that goddamn traitor’s flag and bitch and moan about preserving their heritage and refuse to acknowledge that every drop of blood shed in the civil war is on the hands of the confederacy.

[azspot]

Removing the flag from this state’s capitol would not be an act of political correctness; it would not be an insult to the valor of Confederate soldiers. It would simply be an acknowledgment that the cause for which they fought -- the cause of slavery -- was wrong -- (applause) -- the imposition of Jim Crow after the Civil War, the resistance to civil rights for all people was wrong. (Applause.) It would be one step in an honest accounting of America’s history; a modest but meaningful balm for so many unhealed wounds. It would be an expression of the amazing changes that have transformed this state and this country for the better, because of the work of so many people of goodwill, people of all races striving to form a more perfect union. By taking down that flag, we express God’s grace.

President Obama

[nellasbookplanet]

Hey! The other day you posted about wanting to find a book series with Mass Effect vibes? The closest I've ever found is the Confederation of Valor series, by Tanya Huff. I read them 10ish years back so I can't promise they hold up, but they scratched that itch for me at the time :)

This is so funny because I literally went and dug this entire series up just a few days ago. I read the first two books a couple of years back but must’ve been in the wrong headspace to take them in at the time because I remember barely anything other than some vague vibes, but those vibes reminded me enough of mass effect that I decided I should give them another go because I too need that itch scratched. This message feels like confirmation from the universe that I made the right choice, thank you!

[roosterarts]

The Battle of Gettysburg's 160th Anniversay - Day 3

July 3

"What happens here this day

The fate of this nation

In the balance it will hang

Consumed with the pain

The courage of the blue

The valor of the grey

So very sad but true

Consumed with the pain"

- High Water Mark, Iced Earth

On This Day:

The Largest Artillery Bombardment in the American Continent

The Confederate Attack Advances to Cemetery Ridge

The High-Water Mark of the Confederacy

[dabblingreturns]

Non human characters who talk in strange syntaxes for no reason are tiered and annoying......

Except for Tanya Huff's kitrean who talk in strange syntaxes because. "Fuck everyone we need to hold on to our culture identity and this is the one thing we hold onto while still assimilating into main stream culture.....and also to fuck with every non katrean that we encounter" like they wake up every morning and chose violence by way of grammer....

[scotianostra]

April 27th 1650 saw The Battle of Carbisdale. where The Great Montrose fought his last fight.

Montrose was surprised on level ground, near a pass called Invercharron (Invercharron Hill ), on Saturday, 27th April 1650. With his men they tried to reach a wooded, craggy hill in his rear but was overtaken and defeated by Lt-Col. Strachan. "The ground where the battle was fought … took its present name, Craigcaoineadhan, which may be translated the Rock of Lamentation. This site has now been added to the Inventory of Historic Battlefields but there is no memorial on the site.

A wee bit background; Between 1639 and 1653, Scotland was involved in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of wars starting with the Bishops Wars (between Scotland and England), the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the English Civil War (and its extension in Scotland), the Irish Confederate Wars, and finally the subjugation of Ireland and Scotland by the English Roundhead New Model Army.

In 1650 he, to all intents sacrificed Montrose , one of the best generals in the royalist cause, sending him on a doomed mission to Scotland. Charles risked little other than minor damage to his reputation, as he was talking with the Covenanter government of Scotland. The force under Montrose was around 500 Danish mercenaries and 40 or so loyal if now desperate royalist gentlemen soldiers.

Had Graham miraculously won through and got a foothold or even sparked an uprising and taken Scotland Charles gained enormously; otherwise the cavalier cause was down a few brave men and one great general.

Montrose sailed from Bergen to Orkney , where he gathered a further 750 to 1,000 mercenaries to his colours, landing his augmented force at John O’Groats via Orkney on April 12th.

The Marquis, after initial progress south had to edge back to the Kyle of Sutherland, where a small Scottish government force under Colonel Archibald Strachan tracked him down. Strachan lulled Montrose into inaction, tricking him into believing the chasing force was insignificant. Then Strachan attacked.

Archibald in fact had fewer than 250 cavalry, and only 36 musketeers; plus around 400 Highlanders on whom little reliance could be placed. Caught unawares though, Montrose’s troops were panicked, the Danes proving less than valorous. A rout followed the first charge, and just 100 of Montrose’s men survived the slaughter. The Marquess himself though badly wounded escaped.

After wandering in the hills with the hue and cry out against him, so hungry that he was reduced to eating his gloves, he took refuge at Ardvreck Castle with Neil MacLeod of Assynt, but there was a substantial reward to be earned for him and Macleod surrendered him to the authorities. Macleod got his money and his name has stunk in Scottish nostrils ever since.

He was paraded from northern Scotland to Edinburgh with his crimes advertised and his name degraded.  Graham  was outlawed, excommunicated, and attained for the crime of treason in 1644. Thus, the process of his legal death began years before he was finally captured and publically executed in Edinburgh in 1650, this basically meant he got no trial, he merely appeared before the court and the formal sentence of death was handed down on May 20th

His humiliation didn’t stop at his death, the punishment for treason extended beyond the extinction of life as the corpses of traitors were used to send out stark and richly symbolic messages. In Montrose’s case, his head was spiked on top of Edinburgh’s Old Tolbooth and his limbs were displayed in four of Scotland’s main towns.

I shall cover this in more depth on May 21st.

[sfc-paulchambers]

UNIT PROFILE – 54TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT The Emancipation Proclamation’s promulgation in 1863 opened the Union Army’s ranks to Black soldiers for the first time, allowing Black Americans to fight for the Union’s preservation and the end of slavery. The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was among the first all-Black units to be stood up. Led by COL Robert Gould Shaw (scion of a prominent abolitionist family) and promoted by prominent figures like Frederick Douglass, the 54th was flooded with recruits. Despite Confederate promises to punish captured Black soldiers and their white officers with summary execution for promoting “servile insurrection,” the 54th marched to war in high spirits, leaving Boston on 28 MAY. From 18 – 19 JUL the Union began operations to capture Fort Wagner (a critical part of the harbor defenses of Charleston, South Carolina) following an early unsuccessful attack from 10 – 11 JUL. Deploying a force of 5,000 infantry in a frontal assault, the Union placed the 54th in the vanguard of the attack force, sending them charging across an open field towards Ft. Wagner under withering rifle and artillery fire rained on them by the 1,800 Confederate defenders. COL Shaw led the 54th up the fortifications, rallying his men with a cry of “Forward Fifty-Fourth!” from atop the ramparts before being killed. Despite their commander’s death the 54th pushed on, engaging the rebels in bitter hand-to-hand fighting. Despite 54th’s best efforts, the Union was unable to break through the fort’s defenses; the 54th paid an exorbitant price for its extraordinary valor, suffering a staggering 42% casualty rate (280 of the 600 of its men who fought in the Second Battle of Ft. Wagner). The stories of the 54th’s heroism quickly spread across the Union, motivating Black Americans to enlist in the U.S. Army. Between 1863 and 1865 nearly 200,000 Black soldiers served the cause of liberty, contributing roughly 10% of the U.S. Army’s Civil War manpower. #Armyhistory #USArmy #TRADOC #CivilWar #CivilWarHistory #ArmyHeritage #MilitaryHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #54thmassachusetts Posted @withregram • @armyhistory (at Army Recruiting Columbia, TN) https://www.instagram.com/p/CocK6HVutK2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[everbright-mourning]

Or heterosexuality written by and for queer women, see Tanya Huff's Confederation of Valor series and the follow up, the Peacekeepers series.

What's a space marine

A type of homosexuality marketed at straight men

[ulisesbarreiro]

La Cardano Confederation sigue creciendo

Les presentamos esta noble organización que funciona dentro del ecosistema de blockchain de CARDANO

Quienes trabajamos en empresas o proyectos dentro del ecosistema de Cardano, ya sabemos de la existencia de la Cardano Confederation, pero quienes no, se van dando cuenta día a día, de esta tan noble organización. 

Les contamos por lo pronto que esta organización "Cardano Confederation" nace porque los miembros fundadores, que a su vez eran representantes de varios proyectos que trabajaban y vienen trabajando dentro de CARDANO. Estaban buscando un espacio que los represente, y siguiendo normas éticas y principios de valores que estos proyectos profesan como lo noble de esta organización. Al punto que actualmente hay dentro más de 50 proyectos/empresas/fundaciones y además individuos reconocidos dentro de la comunidad de Cardano como embajadores u operadores de Pools. Es una organización que viene creciendo a pasos agigantados a tal punto que llamó la atención de otras comunidades de blockchain. Los invito a que la conozcan en su sitio web o redes sociales como Xpace, Linkedin, o Telegram. Cardano gracias a estas asociaciones se proyecta como la gran blockchain en años venideros. 

Observamos una de las reuniones que semanalmente mantienen los representantes de diferentes comunidades, empresas, proyectos y fundaciones; que funcionan dentro de esta organización que reúne a amantes de la blockchain de CARDANO