never forget when saruman literally told gandalf "you've been smoking too much weed bro"

"You're smoking too much weed," says the guy who got addicted to manosphere podcasts on his orb and started a fascist militia with a side hobby of deliberate environmental destruction. Started cutting down trees to own the woke elves.

if everyone in the world including all systems suddenly forgot your birthday and you had to pick a new one , which month would you place it in ?

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critical component of his characterization corroborated by donal.finn? 🤷‍♂️ Link

JACOB IFAN as SGT MAJ PAT RILEY SAS: Rogue Heroes 2.1

every story should have a character that is either textually a survivor of sexual trauma or can subtextually be understood to have undergone a metaphorical sexual trauma. this is imperative. story cant be good otherwise.

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problematic bedtime gap

problematic bedtime gap

On this topic: Marc Warren can not help but play creepy and wet at the same time and I am kind of obsessed with that for him.

Having historical blorbos is fun because you get to do the pepe silvia string board about where all your blorbos are on a given date when watching any media at all

D-day in any ww2 media: happens

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take everything I say with a hint of garlic, ginger, spring onions and a dash of soy sauce

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TL;DR: A pot made by Dave The Potter, who was an enslaved artisan who was unique for signing his name and putting words and poems on the pots he made, has been returned to his descendants, even though the pot was bought and sold to begin with.

It officially belongs to the family, but will remain stewarded by the MFA for the next two years. This is a really interesting way forward for conflicted items in museums, being that the family owns it but it will remain with the museum. At least for two years.

The pot is obviously a tremendous piece of history, illustrating the class of highly skilled artisan slaves who existed but often get forgotten in the field slave/ house slave narrative that gets pushed. For real there's sooooo much to learn from this pot, I'm glad that it gets some kind of public visibility while the family gets control of it.

also, they returned another pot which the family immediately sold back to the museum, so they will get to keep one- with the important caveats that:

I think it's critical that non-museum people understand that this, too, is what repatriation can look like. sometimes the museum keeps the piece, temporarily or permanently! it's not necessarily always a case of "the proper owners take it back and keep it!"

what matters is that they are given the CHOICE. they have the final say in what happens to these objects, regardless of whether they stay in the museum or leave it

Here's an exhibition held by The Met on Dave's works as well as others from Edgefield. That link also has a video tour of the exhibition and some other content related to the pottery.

The exhibition also includes a lot of these "face jugs" that were done by enslaved potters, in their own time, for their own use, and potentially connected to West African cultural/spiritual traditions. Apparently, the clay present to this area in South Carolina (kaolin clay) was also present in West Central African and was used for spiritual purposes there.

Dave the Potter also has a Wikipedia page, which is where I learned that he was also disabled as he had a leg amputated at some point for unknown reasons. This is just really, really incredible history and I hope a lot more people learn about this.