#enslavment

[skeleton-bat]

There’s a really cool youtube series about black slavery and enslavement in america and I just finished the first episode and it’s really good. I recommend people go watch it and ill post a link but BRUH! Why are white people so tiring to deal with. So many of them will just say dumb shit that doesn’t even matter to whats being talked about. I’m not even black and they’re goading me like this.

“the first slaves were white” is that what were talking about rn? no were talking about the black slavery in america. “slavery isnt a race issue” In america it sure fucking is you dumb piece of twat

anyways heres the video dont look at the comments

[sentientsky]

just a friendly reminder that, just because slavery was formally "abolished" in the so-called united states* in 1865, enslavement itself is still ongoing in the form of incarceration, which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people

(*i say "so-called" because the US is a settler-colonial construction founded on greed, extraction, and white supremacy) recommended readings/resources:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

"How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended" by Daniele Selby

"So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist" by Mariame Kaba

"The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration" from Democracy Now! [VIDEO]

[devotion-disorder]

me when beautiful elf men want to gaslight gatekeep and girlboss me: 🚶🏾🧎🏾🐕

be careful what you wish for...the village Killian's from is having a bit of a population crisis right now, and having a nice little human come by could be just what they need...

[kodasea]

Great Kings of Men

[oneiropole]

Last Bus Ride

[radiance1]

The ghost king was a cat.

No one, not even Constantine, knew of this fact. Until the day the eldritch ghost of the infinite was summoned by a wayward cult who wished for the destruction of the world.

He was a large cat, actually. About, roughly, bigger than a car with green fur, an eyepatch over one of his eyes, large horns-thought one was broken-, and a flaming green crown floating above his head.

The ghost king laid on his side and the summoning seemingly interrupted him from... grooming? A smaller cat that laid next to the king that, while smaller than the king (or perhaps his father?) was larger than the average dog.

Meanwhile, Pariah Dark is not exactly pleased he was summoned, with obvious intent to destroy/enslave a world. How rude of them. Don't they know he's on, what was it?

Danny: Your redemption arc, dad.

Yes, his redemption arc!

[somepinkthing]

"Hector was a good man" "diomedes was an honorable man" BZZZT WRONG. Diomedes was there to steal, burn, and wage war same as the next person. In fact, he was pretty adamant about it. Hector had no issue with the greek's actions, merely that they were directed at him—I mean look at what he wanted to do with patroclus's body, only to then cite respect for funeral rites when it was his own turn to die. Hector also owned slaves within his own city walls—people that he likely took from their homes during troy's own conquests. All that seperated him and the greek warriors was which side they were on.

The Iliad isn't a story about morally upstanding men. Sure, it has men who have honor and perform honorable acts, but these are not good samaritans. It's is a story about war and grief and the real victims of fights between so-called-honorable men and gods. The urge to find a "good guy" in this story is wasted. Hector doesn't have to be morally good just because achilles isn't. Troy didn't lose because they were more or less evil than the greeks. It all just. Is. Because of fate? Because the gods said so? Because people will always make disastrous mistakes and it will always end up biting not only them, but everyone else around them? Who knows? In the end though, doesn't it all feel so pointless in the face of the endless amounts of grief and destruction that war leaves behind? Maybe that's the whole point

[baldwinheights]

In 1865, enslaved people in Texas were notified by Union Civil War soldiers about the abolition of slavery. This was 2.5 years after the final Emancipation Proclamation which freed all enslaved Black Americans. But Slavery Continued… In 1866, a year after the amendment was ratified, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor. This made the business of arresting black people very lucrative, thus hundreds of white men were hired by these states as police officers. Their primary responsibility being to search out and arrest black peoples who were in violation of ‘Black Codes’ Basically, black codes were a series of laws criminalizing legal activity for black people. Through the enforcement of these laws, they could be imprisoned. Once arrested, these men, women & children would be leased to plantations or they would be leased to work at coal mines, or railroad companies. The owners of these businesses would pay the state for every prisoner who worked for them; prison labor. It’s believed that after the passing of the 13th Amendment, more than 800,000 Black people were part of that system of re-enslavement through the prison system. The 13th Amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Lawmakers used this phrase to make petty offenses crimes. When Blacks were found guilty of committing these crimes, they were imprisoned and then leased out to the same businesses that lost slaves after the passing of the 13th Amendment. The majority of White Southern farmers and business owners hated the 13th Amendment because it took away slave labor. As a way to appease them, the federal government turned a blind eye when southern states used this clause in the 13th Amendment to establish the Black Codes.

[oltammefru]

Hi chat look at this deeply deeply insane Miya from the new IS5 expansion:

[reality-detective]

The economy is rigged, intended to financially enslave you for the rest of your life while it endlessly funnels the world's wealth to the very top of the pyramid.

That saying: "Money is the root of all evil" 🤔

[xuune]

abandoned sketches from last year

[lainalit]

[oneiropole]

Collegiate Slave Sale

[theevilqueen69]

“Wait. When I was here yesterday…”

“Yes. It will stay just like this most of the time.”

“Day and night?”

“24/7”

[pretend-i-don-t-exist]

Shen Yuan transmigrating but he doesn't know where he is— all he knows is that he has a bookshop in the middle of nowhere, and gets visits from magical creatures that gift him curious things in exchange for knowledge.

Cue a visit from a tall, powerful, and handsome cultivator who goes by the name Yue Qi, begging for any kind of knowledge to cure his precious person's grave illness. Shen Yuan, being a bleeding heart, accepts a contract that ensures that he will do his best to cure this person's affliction and he will not harm them intentionally by any means and that Yue Qi will not turn against him should he fail. There is also something about payment.

Shen Yuan realizes too late that they're going to Cang Qiong, and Yue Qi is in fact Yue Qingyuan, and his precious person is... Shen Qingqiu.

Shen Yuan does manage to heal Shen Qingqiu— what kind of illness is that, there's so much pain and agony and hurt everywhere— and tries to leave before he can get involved with the plot. Except. Except Shen Qingqiu is horribly guarded against him, but he is reaching out, not from genuine trust but because there is a contract explicitly disallowing Shen Yuan to hurt Shen Qingqiu, and Shen Qingqiu knows that he is far too vulnerable to be left without a guard.

Shen Yuan, feeling like he's being nudged by the universe to adopt a feral cat that is a lot more closer to a dangerous, lurking earth-beast than an actual cat, crumbles.

He is now stuck in a QiJiuYuan sandwich. He can't get out, with Yue Qingyuan begging him to stay because Shen Qingqiu isn't well yet and he's apparently only allowing Shen Yuan close, and with Shen Qingqiu metaphorically digging his claws into Shen Yuan, snarling aggressively, but Shen Yuan is a bit too in tune with emotions and thoughts to know that Shen Qingqiu is quietly begging him not to leave like everyone does.

Also, why does everyone keep calling him a fae? He's not.