we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme

Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:

The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->

Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.

I was complaining earlier about costuming in both “historical” settings and in fantasy/scifi. This is exactly what I mean when I say a knowledge of actual history would enrich the conceptual creative palette for things like “hardcore mercenary outfits.”

Respectfully...

Oh myyyyy.

someone just literally interrupted me mid conversation to tell me “what wonderful big dark eyes i’ve got” and on the one hand extremely flattering that she couldn’t even wait until the end of my sentence to comment on this, on the other hand did she have to say it like im the big bad wolf

"The better to see you with, my dear."

Twice in my life I've been told mid-conversation "Your eyes are GREEN!" Which isn't a lot, but odd that it happened twice.

(Uh...for the record, I have heterochromic eyes to such an extent that my fiancé can't determine what color they are, except that the outer ring around my eyes is indeed a vivid green.)

If you see the incredibly brave people of Iran fighting for their survival and their freedom from almost 5 decades of brutal theocratic, fascist rule and think “this is clearly a ‘Zionist’ plot to destabilise the regime,” then you are surely a lot of things, but don’t you dare ever call yourself a human rights activist ever, ever again.

Solidarity with the Iranian people. May Iran soon be free ✊❤️

Solidarity! And yes to all of the above. Iranians don't need so-called puppet masters to desire freedom after so long living under a tyrant's heel.

"You're a terrible person for not believing hard enough in leftist pipe dreams" well maybe you're a terrible person for believing in leftist pipe dreams over tangible harm reduction, ever think of that

The worst part is, the leftist pipe dreams are only achievable through the accumulated harm reduction of incremental change.

The belief in a rapture-like revolution is all fine and dandy, but historically widespread violent revolution only works when either

If you think the time for violence is now, but you're NOT working with the people advocating for incremental harm reduction, you are shooting yourself in the foot because you're just holding out for possibility 2.

Hope I'm not sniping your post op, might be an overnarrowed response.

Yes to all of the above, and would someone please plaster this on a wall in letters six inches high? That would be an excellent public service from where I sit. I find the rapture-like revolution idea annoying at best, productive of more harm at worst. (Also it shows that some of you never fully unpacked your culturally Christian influences--yes, even those of you in the back who claim non-Christian identities. Kindly take a moment to deconstruct that aspect.)

If your credo is "violence, violence shall ye pursue" or "vengeance is mine and not the Lord's, actually" you're getting some serious side-eye from me. Full stop. Work more on your actual policies, please and thank you.

Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something.

So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books.

So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale.

This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member.

Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”

...Think I almost cracked a rib from trying to hold in my laugh. This image. This image right here.

Blackbeard be givin' me temptin' offers as the clock struck 12.

Lads, this is the life for me. Yarrgh!

When they're not celebrating the mass rapes and brutal murders that Hamas committed on October 7th, many Strasserites like to deny that the entire thing even happened. Or, if it did, it did so in such a wildly different manner as to be functionally a different event, with different perpetrators, victims, timetables, and - presumably - different accounts uploading the livestreams.

Considering just how ridiculously well documented October 7th was, I would genuinely, truly, be interested in a comparison between the evidence for the Simchat Torah pogrom vs, like, the existence of Alexander of Macedon. Or the entire Umayyad Caliphate. Or Lichtenstein. How does the evidence in favor of Lichtensten's existence match up here? If there is more evidence in favor of the existence of Lichtenstein, then by how much?

We know more about any singular 24 hour period during WWII than we know about the entire Roman empire. Using the standard of evidence that (at least according to these people) the Simchat Torah pogrom is insufficiently evidenced, can we prove that Karl Marx was a real person who ever actually existed, and not some kind of mythological figure without historical basis?

These aren't rhetorical questions; I do not know the answers.

*taps the sign*

(deep pained sigh, nod of agreement)

do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it

I also enjoy writing an entire paragraph, thinking "you know, I don't actually need to be involved in this conversation," and deleting it

Ah, one of my favorite indoor sports: Not showing up to an argument to which I've been invited. It's so satisfying.

goyim who fetishize jews because of the stereotype that we have large racks are disgusting.

I promise you my h cups are the least interesting thing about me

Tig ol' bitties, freaks in bed, vocally appreciative...

Did I cover the bingo card or am I missing another g-dforsaken fetish being projected onto us?

There is not enough coffee for this conversation. (My double D-cups will thank you to leave them out of this.)

every Friday afternoon I spend the (at least) hour before I leave for services frantically tailoring my clothes and then on I show up to Friday night services in a cute services-appropriate outfit.

every Saturday morning I look at my shabbos clothes, and consider how I might combine them in such a way that I am dressed for services but also can be extremely comfy and then I roll up late to Saturday morning services twenty minutes late and only by the most technical margin am I not wearing pajamas

Mm. There is much to be said for sensory comfort, esp. on Shabbat.

WHAT.

Even without context, I can tell this is bad. And yes. Men under patriarchy are supposed to be ballin', swingin', rapacious sons of bitches who keep their nearest and dearest--children included!--in a tolerable level of misery. But happy? Happy is for women, children, and manufactured fairytales. (Source: My fiancé's upbringing. It took him years to unlearn half of that shit.)

Something that’s got me thinking about Pro-Palestinian activists (and this is not being dismissive of the situation in Gaza. I’m talking about activists in the rest of the world)

There have been global, mass demonstrations for pro-Palestine/anti-Israel. So much time, energy, resources, attention put into this. However I don’t see people putting in a fraction of that effort for the genocides in places like Sudan, Nigeria, and Republic of Congo. Where children are kidnapped by the hundreds and massacres so horrific happen that the blood can be seen from space. Or for the slavery still being practiced in places like Saudi Arabia. Hundreds of thousands of people enslaved in that country alone. Or the horrific abuse of LGBT+ people in places like South East Asia. People savagely beaten for holding hands in public. Not many people talk about Ukraine anymore. They’ve been left to their own devices. There’s a full scale rebellion happening in Iran, and again nothing from the human rights activists. A few years ago people were talking about the crimes against humanity committed against women, when there was a tiktok dance to go with it. Then a new tiktok trend started and the women in Iran were forgotten, and continued to be abused. I just find it curious that in the face of so many atrocities, wars with far higher body counts, and human rights violations that have been going unheard for so long, the majority of activists focus their attention on the only situation that involves…the only jewish majority country on planet earth. This is not to say that all activists have bad intentions or bigotry. Nor to suggest that civilians in Gaza are any less deserving of support. But ask yourself, why does the genocide of people in Sudan, the kidnapping of hundreds of children in Nigeria, and child slave labour in Lithium mines, not garner the same rage and activism?

What's really telling is that they don't even support Palestinians, unless it's against Israel. There have been massive protests against Hamas in Gaza, and the westerners who cared so very much about the innocent people of Gaza had nothing to say. Nor did they speak up when Hamas ramped up the repression and murdering of Gazan civilians in response. (Well. Except for the ones who were defending Hamas.)

Don't make me tap the fucking sign.

You'd think (not Israel) attacking (also not Israel) for reasons unrelated to Israel would give the goys something to talk about other than Israel, but alas

If only. And the two conflicts that I, an undereducated yokel, can name off the top of my head after reading this? Well. Goyische leftist commentators (so-called) will find a way to make it about Israel. Venezuela? Something something Israel. The invasion of Ukraine and the continued forced Russification of Ukrainian children? A distraction from The Problem That Is Israel. What do you mean Putin is that bad, he's one of my Russian blorbos, UwU. Besides, Ukrainians are Nazis. Israelis are also Nazis (I almost gagged writing this one).

Anyway...

Praying that $1500 randomly comes to you when you need it the most this year.

Okay inflation is crazy.

We bumping up the price to $15,000 for 2026.

Huh. You know what...I'll take it.

Adding this to my list of reasons to watch Wake Up Dead Man. Also since my toddler daughter and I frequently get rick-rolled thanks to her YouTube-assisted Sesame Street habit, three cheers, says I.