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Y’know, back in my day, if a pestilence swept through the land during a time of famine and flood, it meant that the reigning kings had displeased the gods and that we risked the gods’ further ire by obeying them
Then you took the king out, chopped his head off, and threw him into a bog to appease the angry gods.
- wearing robes with ridiculous sleeves
- wearing two fancy hats at once
- communal bread ovens
- just more land being communal in general
- making all of our books beautiful
- writing songs for the lute
- putting wild men into our architecture
- gothic buildings
- Defenestration of politicians who fail the people
In case you aren’t familiar, Michael Scott Moore and David Rohde are both journalists. Moore was held by Somali pirates for 977 days. Rohde was held captive by the Taliban for 7 months after being abducted in Afghanistan.
so there’s a bit of a shit show going on in Germany. They are trying to reform the laws that regulate how and if trans* people are allowed to transition & change their names/gender markers. The problem is that the new version will be almost as bad as the old one. We’ve been waiting a long time for this reform and if they get these new laws through we won’t get another, actual reform for quite some time. So if you have a minute to spare please sign & share the petition, even if you’re not living in Germany.
Urging UK followers to sign this petition - it’s already gone viral and made the news, lets keep the momentum going so we maybe don’t let our government completely fuck up our futures.
Me in history class: Wow, humanity has been through some fascinating times! I wonder if I’ll ever live through major historical events!
Me now: NO NO NO NO NO I WANT TO GET OFF THIS RIDE
it was supposed to be space travel. it was supposed to be space travel. it was supposed to be space travel. it was supposed to be space travel. it was supposed to be space tr
Reblog if you can’t march today for whatever circumstances, but you stand with March for our Lives 100%
you know, when i said i wanted the real world to be more like harry potter i just meant the teleportation and the butterbeer, not the entire plot of book 5 where the government refuses to do anything about a deadly threat so the teenagers have to rise up and fight back
Four more years of Merkel and a bunch of rightwing extremists to keep her conservative party company. If things in the UK weren’t almost just as twisted right now I might just as well stay here...
The German election this autumn is going to be such a cluster fuck. Judging by the recent local elections, the conservatives and populists are going to be stronger then ever.
I’ve watched When We Rise recently and what really struck me was that I’d never realised that people went to the streets and demonstrated for marriage equality. From what the German news showed us I’d always asumed it just kinda... happened. The thing is, as you may or may not know, we don’t have marriage equality in Germany. Politicians talk about it now and then but the ruling party is still strictly against it. These last few days it’s been on the media again (elections are coming up and the Social-Democrats try to use the topic for their campaign) and the government basically said that there’s no way they’ll allow marriage equality--- and the weird thing is that no one is surprised or angry, just mildly annoyed in a “we know you don’t support us no need to rub it in” kinda way and I’m honestly wondering why we aren’t out in the streets right now
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i wish….
if that’s true y’all are fucked cause here in germany, a far-right nationalist party is currently on the rise and gets more and more influence each day
Mort, Terry Pratchett (via sherlocks-freebitch)
