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[undergroundmysteries]

New Reconstructive Photo Aims to Gather Clues to a Bronx John Doe's Identity From 1995.

An unidentified man was located in the Bronx, New York City, NY in 1995. A new reconstructive photo was created in effort to provide clues to his identity. #HuntsPointBronxJohnDoe #HuntsPointJohnDoe #unidentified

October 19, 2024 — Underground MysteriesOn August 27, 1995, a man was found deceased in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He has remained an unidentified person ever since his remains were discovered. At the time of his death, he had a recognizable face, as it is believed he passed away on the same day in which he was discovered.I reconstructed a photo of what this unidentified man looked like…

[markscherz]

Are you familiar with this frog?

Yeah pretty sure that's Larry from down the pub. 'Ullo, Larry!

But in all seriousness, I'm afraid I cannot help without location information. Orientation within Bufonidae without location is a nightmare. If this is Africa, we're talking genus Sclerophrys. If it's the USA, it's probably Anaxyrus. If it's Europe, it's probably Bufo. If it's South America we're in Rhinella territory. And so on, and so forth.

[serpentface]

What's the Wardi cultural take on Akoshos sleeping with/partnering with/marrying other Akoshos?

It's not highly regulated to a degree that there are overwhelming cultural norms about it. There's a lot of societal focus on akoshos being theoretically suitable sexual partners for both men and women due to being dual-gendered, but not to an extent that relationships with One Another are stigmatized.

They also largely get to escape from the most severe concerns about penetrator/penetrated power dynamics because they're not regarded as Men (they're regarded as dual-gendered, and they're a female social class on every practical level), there's no status of manhood to Lose by receiving sexual penetration. The only real thing you see in that department is people assuming that one acts as 'the man' and one acts as 'the woman', but this is largely due to preoccupation with a notion of sex being Penetration With A Penis (and that Penetration With A Penis means that one person is in a Man's Role and one person is in a Woman's Role). But this will not be regarded as unnatural as in same-gender male relations, akoshos will Have to take up a position in this sexual dichotomy if they want to have Real Sex (Penetration With A Penis) with each other, and this is not unnatural and doesn't involve gaining or losing status since they are simultaneously male and female, not men.

So like you might see individual culture critics finding stuff to nitpick about it as their annoyance of the week or a singular Guy here or there who thinks it's weird, but this isn't a widespread norm. The vast majority of people don't give a shit about akoshos having sex with each other. The worst thing you're likely to experience Solely by virtue of being in an akoshos-akoshos relationship is someone asking you (probably with genuine curiosity) which one does the man stuff and which one does the woman stuff.

Akoshos also don't experience Hard expectations for marriage (though there are societal pressures that make marriage an attractive safety net all the same, ESPECIALLY marriage to a man) so unofficial life-partnerships between akoshos are pretty much the Only same gender partnerships between unwed people that are going to go unquestioned. ((Sworn brotherhood is technically a same gender life partnership for men that is Functionally similar to marriage (in that it's a kin-making practice between unrelated adults), but the tradition is Built upon the assumption that both parties will be married to women and that a primary goal of this kinship is to provide security for both parties' wives and children)). Marriage obligations in general are more lax in the economically secure but not Wealthy lower mercantile classes (as obligations to support and perpetuate one's family are universal, but these obligations can be filled simply by having at least One son who can get hitched, and marriages in the lower classes have no political functions and therefore there's less reason to ensure All your children are wed (there's still incentives like dowry, but this is not desperately needed when a family is economically secure)). So akoshos in this class group tend to have a Lot more freedom in terms of their life arrangements and chosen partners (though still experience the limiting frameworks of structural misogyny in other capacities).

The only thing that is out of the picture is akoshos/akoshos marriage. Marriage in this society has a predominantly reproductive function, the concept of reproductively non-viable marriages is generally considered absurd. This is not JUST this culture's form of homophobia, as marriage is a very practical arrangement at its core - both in a reproductive capacity and as bedrock for the patriarchal blood-kinship family system that forms the core social unit. The idea of same gender marriage isn't just absurd because 'ewwww weird' it's like, that Cannot work within this system, it Cannot fill core functions of what a marriage intends to do here, the ways on which marriage and kinship are BUILT makes same gender marriage practically (rather than just socially) untenable.

The sole exception to the 'marriage = reproductively viable" rule is that akoshos can be married to men (which in practice is almost always as a remarriage after a man has secured At Least an heir). This has a Little bit of internal logic here in that they perform predominantly female social roles (thus are suited to being a wife, even if they can't bear children) (and also on practical levels of them having the same legal status as women) but it's really more of a 'this is just how it's always been' kind of thing. A lot of the older pre-Wardi identity dual-gender roles that got mashed together under the 'akoshos' name would have involved marriage to a man as a second wife/concubine, in addition to his primary wife who would bear his children. Men potentially having multiple spouses has not been retained as a cultural practice, but the notion that an akoshos Can be a wife to a man has survived into modern day legal and doctrinal practices around marriage.

So like this being said, marriage as it is legally defined is only between a man and a woman, a man and an akoshos, or a woman and an akoshos. In practice the latter two are comparatively VERY rare- a man/akoshos marriage cannot provide children (though an akoshos can practically fulfill all other obligations and duties of a wife), a woman/akoshos marriage Can provide children (and while akoshos cannot function as a male heir, these children Will take their akoshos-parent's family name (though the wife retains her father's family name)), but akoshos are legally grouped with women in terms of rights and privileges (including being permanently under legal domain of their father unless they have been legally handed off to a male husband) and Cannot provide hard power patriarchal support that this family system is built upon and therefore depends upon, which makes these marriages socio-economically insecure. They can obviously still be a good partner and parent, but this is not the same as having the Legal hard power of a patriarch.

Akoshos marrying each other would be reproductively and socially nonviable, and is treated as a similarly absurd concept to a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman. It's just not a part of the marriage and kinship framework, it's not a thing that you can Do.

[tirfpikachu]

i guess while you're studying the blade i shall protect dysphoric people in my humongous blanket full of secrets and treasures and awesome foreign snacks that i totally bought with real money

[seaofreverie]

You ever finish a drawing that you really like and then you spend the next three days randomly looking at it for minutes at a time like that could make it possible for you to absorb its alluring and magnetic essence with your eyes

[sweetest-honeybee]

It's pride month. If you can't spam your followers with discussion about the nature of non-binaryness, pronouns, and how pronouns relate to gender during pride month, then when CAN you?

That is very fair 😂

[sing-me-under]

The reason I like the idea that Bruce was a teenage idle then personally experienced some aspect of poverty in his time abroad is because if I ever found out that some privileged rich white man spontaneously decided to go out into the streets and fight criminals hand to hand, I would personally tear his neck out with my teeth. Absolutely the fuck not. If he has no frame of reference for starvation, addiction, or homelessness, he has absolutely no right to enact his so-called justice.

That motherfucker better have fucking empathy in whole ass wheelbarrows OR ELSE.

[evrytingbagel]

yes im mentally ill yes i have an IS obsession. and what about it!!

[spotsupstuff]

I like how the Barman has a headband with Nish’s Symbol on it, similar to how Sparrows has one with Caper of Euros’s later on! Did she get the idea from him or is it a common practice to wear the symbol of your Iterator/ City’s symbol?

Ha iterator mascots at big sport games with the teams in the according color.

well, the idea of an Ancient wearing an Iterator's mark first came to be with Sparru and the idea there was to signal that she belongs with him. to audience as his partner, but in-universe as his Mechanic. she's dedicating her whole life to servicing this Iterator, she might as well take on a piece of his identity upon herself at that point, yanno

so Mechanics wearing their Iterator's mark is a must

the Barman wears Nish's mark for two reasons: 1. since he's running a business that isn't local, he tries to cash in on it/advertize it. yanno, how you go to a chinese restaurant to get chinese food- you go to his place to get drinks (n maybe some food too) from No Significant Harassment's colony 2. people of Risio are Very proud of where they come from. oh they know how important Nish is as the second senior of Looks to the Moon's group. but most importantly, Nish is part of family over there. the Houses might be frowning upon it, but the citizens ultimately don't see Nish as their Iterator, but as their big brother/uncle/whatever have you

so people who wear an Iterator's mark see or understand that That Iterator is unimaginably important to their life, either in career or emotionally. the Houses also wear their respective Iterator marks since... yeah, representation, and Yes sport teams would Also absolutely have dresses and mascots in correspondance with the Iterator they come from!

normal citizens/groundbound people don't usually touch that stuff much. think of it like a country's flag or uhh... erb.... Coat Of Arms !!! coat of arms fits the best!

cuz a country's flag equivalent would be smth to represent the whole group- for example, the Aeolus Council and the Children of Eo all come together under a flag with a snake on it. this is also one of reasons why Zephyr's mark is a snake. that beast was chosen becaue (religious reasons and) there are some real nasty snakes living in the Aeolus Root's range. their venom is very potent and one of the most precious resources this group has to offer- it is used for medicine purposes, including as a main ingredient in an anti-The-Rot shot

and then Iterator marks are those Coat of Arms <3

[pastafossa]

Now that there are only 2 days to go, I can show ya'll my buttons on my lanyard so that you can play Is That Pasta??? at the con! So if you're going to be at the Philly Fan Expo - not only will I be dressed as Jessica Jones (if it's really hot I might take the jacket off outside pics but I'll still have the tank, scarf, jeans, and hair), and be carrying a Captain America messenger bag with some more buttons on it, but I will also have THIS lanyard with these buttons! If you see this little collection, that's me, come say hi!

[anti-starscream]

hi mod alice, i saw your pronouns are listed as without/alice and i was wondering if you could give an example so i can use them correctly? thank you in advance ^^

Hi mod wyrm here answering for alice because alice is a bit nervous on how to explain. So a neopronoun is something replacing let’s use “they” as an example. Instead of saying, it’s their blog you’d say it’s without’s blog. Or instead of they love themself you’d say without loves withoutself

As for the alice part, that’s just more of using the name Alice instead of any pronouns at all! I hope this makes sense ^^

[darewolfcreates]

Family fun!

[dullahandyke]

Tfw two issues in your brain click together and you're like omg I understand now. These are still issues tho

[catlokis-blog]

whenever i see mutuals being like. open about how theyre an introject and making it part of their blog i cant help but think to myself "wow you have so much more balls than me"

[aeide-thea]

Left: "Mars, the Bringer of War" (2003) by Toshiyuki Enoki, cropped to remove the artist's stamp. Right: "Head of a Lady in Medieval Costume" (1900) by Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola, antisemitic painter and pioneer of military camouflage, cropped and reversed.

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

How do i explain to someone that names aren't important to me without sounding like an inconsiderate asshole.

Like i'll learn someone's name only bc i know it's probably important to them, but if it wasn't i'd forget it instantly.