The contraceptive pill is literally estrogen and progesterone. Just at a different dose to HRT.
In the middle to late 20th century Trans women would have cis friends get it for that purpose from their doctors and give it to them.
Or if they were stealth enough get it it from multiple doctors.
Twisting a lock of my hair coquettishly
“…and you say you want to kill him, that’s so interesting”
I’m enlisting in the war on trans women on the side of trans women.
Also fighting and war through history has ranged from serious trying to kill each other and doing a little show to impress the fellas. Depending on material circumstances of the time.
For every silly weapon made to be shown off there’s also something like the Iklwa (Zulu short stabbing spear) for killing.
Honestly improvised peasant weapons go hard AF, a while ago I had this cool idea for a hammer/sickle symbol for the Hussites that’s a crossed threshing flail and a straightened scythe (how peasants would rotate the blade 90 degrees to make a glaive). Maybe making the sign of the cross because of the Hussite’s “heretical” Christian beliefs.
A quick dive back into the research says it’s still debated but generally the rough consensus is peasants having flails would have been super common, as they were a threshing tools. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia they were somewhat present as weapons, in Western and Central Europe they would have been pretty rare (and high to late medieval period) but not unheard of. They would have been the Nunchaku of their era. Like a French knight might think it an odd choice if a peer wielded one.
This article is interesting https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/4/1/9
I tend to think AFAB and AMAB should only be used in the first person past tense “when I was AFAB” etc. People using it as an adjective for other people is basically misgendering as you say.
Xia updates:
I’m a trans woman. Not non binary. Not a fruity guy. I told my partner who has been checking in weekly re: pronouns and she were basically like “really took your time there”. Told some old friends and it went well. I assume everything is going fine for trans women? I’ve been out of the loop.
I had a haircut, the shortest in years, but now to my shoulders, looks great, and it’s easier to wear down, I still can put it into a neat bun/undercut combo.
Last night I had a dream I was several years into a zombie apocalypse and I met an old work colleague who was at a fortified hospital looking for a cure, she was like “hey by the way, I heard you are woman, congrats” and we hugged as zombies battered on the boarded windows.
They’re kind of designed for a very specific niche, particularly in 18th century naval combat where you want to fill a narrow space with multiple shots and the heavy smoke from the powder prior to attempting to board so that the defenders either get hit, take cover, can’t see for the smoke or are disorientated by the noise.
I think there’s debate about whether a ball on chain flail was ever actually designed used as a serious weapon in the middle ages. We know straight length weapons like morningstars, war hammers and maces were and peasants used threshing flails in revolts.
But there’s not many archaeological examples of non ceremonial or farming flails. Like a flail designed for fighting. There’s drawing in marginalia but they also draw dick trees and rabbits fighting snails.
Most evidence we have is mounted knights would use lances first, as they were longest but also easily lost or broken, then swords as they still had decent reach if you’re riding by someone, and maces if you got scrunched together against other cavalry, for short range and armour piercing.
Sorry I was making a joke give Antipope is a different thing to Anti-Pope
anti pope
Wait I missed something did we get two popes again?
I hear you get to eat plenty of ice cream after those.
I guess it’s a new Holy Roman Empire, because otherwise Snoop Dogg needs to get the votes of the Prince Electors to be King of the Romans, then the Pope can crown him Holy Roman Emperor.
Thank you kindly for asking. I would like the first please.
My pronouns are not an accidental duplication, I’d like a double serve of she-s and her-s to make up for lost time please.
I bought another gay little St Sebastian medallion last week on a whim. I’m not even past or present catholic. Or Christian or religious. I just like many queer people through history think he’s neat.
I bought it online from the Vatican shop, I know in hindsight giving money to the catholic church ugh.
They have an option where it’s blessed by the Pope (no extra cost lol). Now obviously he doesn’t do them individually, they just slap boxes of stuff down in the square when he blesses everyone and everything twice weekly.
And I was like sure why not, Pope might die soon. They slapped that crate out in the square Sunday, he blessed the square and then he died Monday.
So now I’ll have my gay little medallion blessed by the Pope the last time he did it. And I think it’s neat from an experiencing history point of view.
Yeah I’ve worrying that.
Thanks I wasn’t sure if would but then I was thinking about everything going on globally and the off chance the reactionaries tried to ban it here and remembered fuck I was born in a different country.
I used home laser for like two years and it worked well in some places and didn’t in others. It was cost effective but after getting professional laser on my face I’m planning to do that on the spots on my chest and back it didn’t work.