Builder of dreams

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momsopposed2theoccult
momsopposed2theoccult

Do you ever think about that part in the final Kanej scene where Inej lays eyes on her parents for the first time in three years, all because Kaz tracked them down and brought them back to her? Do you ever think about how she’s so shocked and moved by it that she literally starts to fall over? Inej Ghafa, the Wraith, the girl who walked on air, the girl who was always ten steps ahead of her opponent, the girl who could pass for a shadow, the girl who was grace, stumbled. And do you ever think about how Kaz was right there to catch her? Kaz Brekker - No, Kaz Rietveld,  the boy who hasn’t been able to bare the touch of human skin since he was nine, the boy who gets paralyzing panic attacks at the brush of a finger, the boy who wears gloves every day, the boy who withdraws himself from other people both physically and emotionally, caught Inej’s fall without even thinking about it. His gloves are gone, his armour is gone, but still he holds on to her. 

nixie-deangel
one-and-five-nines

Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is… not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were “lowly” weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.

ardatli

YES. This is such an important point. Those ‘girly’ girls doing their embroidery and quilting bees and grass braiding were vital parts of every domestic economy that has ever existed.

This is precisely what chaps my hide so badly about the misuse of the quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” because this is precisely what the author was actually trying to say.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a domestic historian who developed new methodologies to study well-behaved women because they were

1) so vital, and

2) their lives were rarely recorded in the usual old sources.

“Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. And they haven’t been. Well-behaved women seldom make history; against Antinomians and witches, these pious matrons have had little chance at all. Most historians, considering the domestic by definition irrelevant, have simply assumed the pervasiveness of similar attitudes in the seventeenth century.”

Original article: “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial
Literature, 1668-1735” (pdf download from Harvard)

prismatic-bell

If you didn’t know: Abagail Adams (John Adams’ wife) led a very successful effort to fund the American Revolution. How did she and her tiny army of women do it?

They made lace, and sold it to the aristocrats. Real lace (the stuff you see on old outfits in museums, not the machine-made stuff you might be familiar with from today) is stupidly difficult to make, takes a lot of time and skill, and, well:

If you watch this through, you’ll hear her say this is DOMESTIC lace. This is not fancy, this is for household objects. You can imagine what it would take to make some of the elaborate pieces you see on old aristocratic clothing, and see why it was so expensive and valuable. (Incidentally, if you’ve ever heard the music from the musical 1776, in the song where Abagail and John are trading letters and he’s like “ma’am we need saltpeter” and she’s like “dude we need pins,” THIS IS WHAT THEY NEEDED THE PINS FOR. That song was based on real letters between the two.)

And this is all those revolutionary Revolutionary women did, every free moment of every day. They pulled out their pins and their bobbins and they made lace until they couldn’t see straight, and they sold it to revolutionaries and royalists alike, anyone who would pay. Yard upon yard upon yard of lace to earn cash to translate into rations and bullets.

The war was won by a women’s craft. Not even a “vital” women’s craft like cooking or cleaning. It was won by making a luxury item whose entire purpose was to say “look how wealthy I am, I can afford all this lace.”

Lace was not the only source of income for the Revolution. But it was a major one, and it is extremely fair to say it turned the tide.

And until this post, I bet you didn’t know.

superbeans89

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mrs-bingley

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“to all women who silently made history”

spicyvampire
griancraft

“Girls gays and theys” <- uninclusive while trying to be inclusive. Bad. Makes me uncomfortable.

“Ladies, gentlemen, and other distinguished guests” <- inclusive but far, far too formal

“Alrighty gamers” <- Incisive of everyone, informal, and fun to say.

bird-cannibalism

“Everypony” <== pisses everyone off.  flawless

rougey

"Friends, enemies, and those still under review"

findingfeather

“OI! THE LOT OF YOU.” <—succinct, to the point, effective. 

1863-project

"Attention K-Mart Shoppers" <- qualifies as vintage

heartsnbruises

"Fuckers and those who prefer not to fuck."

mephemera

"Comrades!" <- excludes burgeoning leftists who haven't read Marx yet, includes problematic elements like the RevComs, soon to become completely irony-poisoned and lose all meaning anyway, cringe

"Fellow victims of capitalism" ← inclusive, straightforward