#humanity's most savage

[seredelgi]

Me when I see anything that isn't Levi

#levi #levi ackerman #levi squad #captain levi #levi simp #meme #funny #lol #cute #aot #snk #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #finale #manga #panel #icon #humanity's most savage #armin arlert #mikasa ackerman #eren yeager #hange zoe #hanji zoe #erwin smith

[fernsensei]

au where gabriel's forced to cooperate with v1 and v2 for whatever reason

#maybe the humanity never died and to ensure heaven's power the council decides to take the two most powerful machines of humanity and make> #>them work for them #idk #v1 and v2 for rent LMFAOOOOO #i like the idea how v1 doesnt give a shit and acts like a savage crow 80% of the time #and v2 tries to demonstrate itself to the angels as the 'smart one' #it fails miserably since it; as a matter of fact; too acts like a savage crow 80% of the time #gabriel only wishes god gave him more strength because another fuCKING RIPPED ARM AND I SWEAR TO GOD I'LL MAKE SURE YOUR VERY ATOMS WILL BE #ultrakill brainrot fase again. yay! #ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #v2 #v2 ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill

[adamworu]

Thinking about how the MPEs have the most traditional divine aesthetics of the Eva series and filled with Kaworu Dummy Plugs. There’s a sense of dissonance of their designs juxtaposed with their savage personalities. It works for symbolism because of the nature of angels isn’t exactly known to man.....

#neon genesis evangelion #kaworu nagisa #nge #mass production evangelions #all the angels are feared by man even their most humanoid #the mind can't be fully digitized so there's some degree of ad lib or possibly some ai thrown in #kaworu's far from savage but the mpes being savage makes perfect sense when you consider humans fear angels #so the ai would be typecast as savage #remember that it's thought processes not people in there #also made apparent in the dummy plug room of ep 23 which looks like the central nervous system

[mask131]

Okay I have to get this one out of the bag because I saw one post too many...

I know you all want to fight antisemitism and go against antisemitic stereotypes, and all that - which is good!

But stop, PLEASE STOP calling everything a "blood libel scenario". I don't know if it is the new trend on Tumblr to identify supposed "blood libels" everywhere in fiction, but let me tell you something clear... A SCENARIO ABOUT A MONSTER WANTING TO EAT A CHILD IS NOT A BLOOD LIBEL SCENARIO! Child-eating monsters, or the mythical idea of an anthropophagic entity, existed LLOOONNGG before the blood libel legend was created. And cannibalism in itself is one of the oldest fears and taboos of humanity. So please, stop calling every scenario where you have a ghoul, a demon, a hag, a harpy, a minotaur or a serial killer trying to eat a young human a friggin' blood libel scenario!

Blood libel implies two things. One, that the one performing the murdering must be Jewish-coded. Two, THAT THERE'S BLOOD! Blood libel is about the use of blood for magic/blasphemous/religious/sacred/occult/esoteric/devilish rituals - it isn't about the cannibalism! If it was about the cannibalism, it would be "Flesh libel" or I don't know "Let's-eat-kid libels". But no. Blood libel is about BLOOD and is about the belief that Jewish people supposedly killed kids to take their blood. Yes the myth is also about them using the blood to make edible goods, which does imply and invite a certain level of cannibalism into the hateful madness... Plus there's a clear confusion with the imagery of the witches' sabbath, where witches were supposed to eat dead babies in grand feasts... But the blood libel is primarily about blood. Using the blood to do impious things. Killing children for blood. And it all relates to the infamous antisemitic stereotype of the Jew as a vampire.

So please, before you start shouting "ARG! BLOOD LIBEL, CANCEL THIS PIECE OF LITERATURE/MOVIE/TV SERIES/CARTOON!", just... just think. Maybe it is just someone using the motif as old of humanity of the "I'm a monster because I eat babies" which in itself has nothing to do with antisemitism. To have an otherwordly being eat humans is one of the easiest way to set them apart from humanity and prove their monstrous nature. Ogres, cyclops, giants, dragons, bogeymen, water-hags, korrigans, trolls, werewolves, carnivorous trees... And what better way to show the depravity of an antagonist or terrifying creature than by having them prey on the so-called "innocents" - the kids?

Go look for Jewish-coded characters using blood for vampirism or blood magic or perverse demon-worship rituals, and there you'll have your blood libel scenario. But people who call things such as ogres in fairytales, or child-eating fairies, or the myth of the bogeyman "blood libels"... Need to start to learn about contextualization, research and critical thinking.

It is not a good thing to not call out a perceived discrimination... But it is not a good thing either to spread watered-down explanations of a discrimination's system, leading people to misunderstand what a racist cliche or hateful stereotype is about.

A scenario with non-Jewish-coded characters merely wanting to eat a child is NOT a blood-libel scenario.

#antisemitism #blood libel #antisemitic media #blood libels #it reminds me of how shocked I was as an European to see so many American media proudly depicting their vampires as Jewish #and how I had to realize most Americans had absolutely no idea of how violent the Jews are vampires thing was #if there is an actual group of humanity that would be targeted the most by the stereotype of child eating #it is definitively black people #thanks to the racist cliche of the cannibal savage #my rant of the day #go eat your daily child #everybody deserves a snack from time to time

[loverofallthingssmart]

white tears brown scars how i love u

#when i tell u that book ELEVATED my mindset abt like. everything abt woc interact w the world OURGHHFHHF constantly thinking abt it. #inspired by writing the second point to my speech and reading my sources and going damn. it rlly is a white men controlling white women fro #the 'animalistic horrible savage not human' people of color huh. and in the process everyone is hurt. woc the most. DAMN. #well except the white men. obviously #this is literally abt body hair but we could do this abt ANYTHINGGGG. man. that book deserved my 5 stars fr required reading for everyone #also my debate coach types like her age it is so funny to me i told her to look into smth rn and she responded and i was like omg i #thought ud be asleep and shes liek no with the tilted laughing crying yeah. then she sent the sunglasses one. im so obsessed w her. #i told her that and she sent me the prayer hands emoji. so i sent the thumbs up emoji. we r literally bridging the generation gap one emoji #at a time. #anyway. all this to say. woc. i adore u. that is all. continue.

[windsymphony]

I’ve stated many times that UKL is my very favorite fiction author but with one exception. I don’t think I’ll ever read the word for world is forest. It just sounds dreadful

#oh the colonized people are literally inhuman monkey creatures who have literally never done anything wrong and are innocent ? #she really missed the mark with this one. I’m surprised it’s so popular #the most dehumanizing noble savage narrative #like the fact that until the humans arrived there had never been any wars or murders because the indigenous people are that #exaggeratedly placid and #offensively one dimensional?!

[sootyships]

Bitch my f/os don't just accept my queerness, they like it.

#like for savage my being nonbinary is a source of comfort cuz i'm wholly outside the scope of the gender-segregated society he comes from #for jasper well i do it a bit weirdly sure but gems are genderless anyway so like #i'm less weird about shit than most humans actually #for ultron it's just another thing that helps me relate with him tbh. as a bit of an outsider. he can trust my pov better cuz i'm not IN it #okay i don't think whirl really cares very much lol #but again a level of queerness is the standard as far as he's concerned #etc etc

[earmo-imni]

I generally curate my dash very well, so I don’t typically see the horrendous reading comprehension that populates much of Tumblr.

But lately I’ve been going through the tag for my newest hyperfixation character, who in canon deals with some very sensitive topics, much like the rest of canon, and god damn if the reading comprehension on this site isn’t complete SHIT

#the main character isn’t always right you’re just reading him that way. he’s a fifteen year old kid you think he’s always right? #you think we’re always supposed to believe what he says is the word of god? really? #no that character arc doesn’t mean what you think it means you fool #it’s not anti/black it’s saying building bridges and working towards rebuilding what’s been lost to oppression is better than losing #yourself to anger and pain and simply destroying everything is bad for yourself and the world #also why are you so cool with murder as long as it’s the ‘right’ people? #and the story humanizing and sympathizing with characters who helped commit genocide isn’t white supremacist or racist or whatever #or condoning genocide for that matter #amazingly most people irl who help commit genocide/other war crimes aren’t usually total monsters they’re regular people #i know you’d probably like to think otherwise but you really genuinely aren’t that different from them #(general you) #not to mention the characters themselves explicitly regret their actions are working towards making reparations to the people they hurt even #at the cost of their own futures (specifically bc they know they deserve punishment) #and in some cases they even hate themselves for what they did #and as for that one person claiming that a certain people group is consistently shown as savage and violent in cankn: where in the fuckery #do you get that? bc i just read the entire fucking manga and did not see that anywhere #literally any time they’re not IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR those people are clearly shown as being kind and peaceful #i will smack you upside the head #marijn vents #fuuuuuUUUUUUUCK #stupid people. stupid people everywhere.

[conspiring-limabean]

i love lizards so much theyre literally just little beasts that scamper around and live their little lives. How can anyone not be completely transfixed by this

#when i went on vacation to mexico with my dads side of the family #the rental house had 2 iguanas that lived together under the steps outside #a male and a female #they were skittish but could be tempted out with food #another iguana lived a few meters away inside a hollow log #those were their houses they lived in them and returned to them every night and whenever they got scared #but the guy who lived in the log was very brave and wanted to be fed food by humans #when we sat in the grass the first time he came out of the bushes and ran right up to us #we gave them fruit #but the males were territorial to each other and if stair boy ever saw log boy he would chase him away #stair boys wife never gave a damn she was just there. and they lived in the same little hole together? #they were buddies they lived together? #with the hermit crabs? they live in a tiny house on the beach with hermit crabs and have drama with their neighbors. #where are they now. are they still alive. do they still live there #can you believe this shit #can you even comprehend the amount of uniqueness and individuality that can be found in every living creature #can you even believe the fact that there are stories and drama and history to everything that breathes on this earth #once i met a crawfish who was covered in scars and was the most savage little beast Ive ever seen #Ive never seen a crawfish that wasnt scared of me but he wanted to attack everyone and everything #and you could tell he'd lived his entire life doing that #where did he get each scar. why #he was one of a kind and he lived in a random little stream in illinois #once there was a flightless goose in a neighborhood pond who had a broken wing #that winter flocks of geese came and went as they flew south but he remained with his broken wing #but one flock left someone behind. and a goose stayed with him #and for the rest of the years i lived there those two lived together in that pond #staying there year round because he couldnt fly away to migrate south #theyve probably lived their entire lives by now #were they happy. why did the one that could fly give up that life in order to live with a flightless mate #thats insane. this is insane. go outside and find a cool bug to look at NOW

[tuulikki]

The thing is that the portrayal of Neanderthals as having been inherently grotesque and alien to H. sapiens is something we will never have proof of. But we do have proof that, in different locations and in different populations across time, we all found eachother desirable. We saw eachother and wanted to touch. And the offspring were held by their mothers and raised and had their own offspring in turn.

When you look for the first proof that H. sapiens found Neanderthals repulsive, you have to wait until the Victorian era, when the white masters of empires were busy portraying Neanderthals as stupid, brutish, and (of course) dark-skinned.

In more modern times, we’ve had people arguing that instead of seeing Neanderthals as Benighted Savages, they should instead be seen as Noble Savages, (allegedly) cruelly destroyed and driven from their lands by H. sapiens. Which one of their two you believe says more about your modern political views than it does about ancient H. sapiens.

And, whether we construct Neanderthals as Savage or Noble Savage, the fundamental assumption we project into the unfathomably distant past is still that H. sapiens saw Neanderthals as an Other, with the language we use being almost explicitly that of modern racial dynamics.

But we have no proof of any of that. We have no proof of hostilities. We know we co-existed and we had sex. That’s it.

Humans obviously have sex with some humans and kill others. We also know that, when small groups of humans occupy vast spaces with infrequent contact with others, unique cultures will always form, some more hospitable, some more neophobic/xenophobic. But many cultures of small settlements placed among huge unpeopled landscapes place supreme emphasis on hospitality to strangers. Plus, we fucking love other social animals, as evidenced by how we befriended wolves.

I’m a humourless weirdo and a wet blanket about popular constructions of Neanderthals as “monstrous”, and I freely admit it. But that’s because it’s tied up in legacies of imperialism. Not only that, but it also privileges one culture (yours, mine, modernity’s) as being most human by implicitly assuming we can project it onto people in the past. Since you don’t pretend that all global cultures share exact same values as you do, it doesn’t take more than a few moments’ reflection to realise you can’t do that to the past.

#neanderthals #opinions

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

#tw racism #critical #this isn't even about any specific media anymore #it's a pattern #and it's a pattern that seems so obvious #but it's so omnipresent that even the most progressive folks can't seem to recognize how terrifying it is #these tropes were written in blood

[heritageposts]

The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. Two prominent pro-Israel lobby groups are holding private briefings in New York City to coach elected officials and well-known figures on how to influence public opinion in favor of the Israeli military’s rampage in Gaza, The Grayzone can reveal. These PR sessions, convened by the UJA-Federation and Jewish Community Relations Council, rely on data collected by Frank Luntz, a veteran Republican pollster and pundit. [...] The Luntz-tested presentations on the war in Gaza urge politicians to avoid trumpeting America’s supposedly shared democratic values with Israel, and focus instead on deploying “The Language of War with Hamas.” According to this framing, they must deploy incendiary language painting Hamas as a “brutal and savage…organization of hate” which has “raped women,” while insisting Israel is engaged in “a war for humanity.” [...] Luntz’s Gaza war presentation puts his poll-tested tactics back in the Israel lobby’s hands, urging pro-Israel public figures to stay on the attack with incendiary language and shocking allegations against their enemies. In one focus group, Luntz asked participants to state which alleged act by Hamas on October 7 “bothers you more.” After being presented with a laundry list of alleged atrocities, a majority declared that they were most upset by the claim that Hamas “raped civilians” – 19 percent more than those who expressed outrage that Hamas supposedly “exterminated civilians.” Data like this apparently influenced the Israeli government to launch an obsessive but still unsuccessful campaign to prove that Hamas carried out sexual assault on a systematic basis on October 7. Initiated at Israel’s United Nations mission in December 2023 with speeches by neoliberal tech oligarch Sheryl Sandberg and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and speaking fees from Israel lobby organizations, Tel Aviv’s propaganda blitz has yet to produce a single self-identified victim of sexual assault by Hamas. A March 5 report by UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence Pramila Patten did not contain one direct testimony of sexual assault on October 7. What’s more, Patten’s team said they found “no digital evidence specifically depicting acts of sexual violence.”

They also advice to use different language for Democrat and Republican voters, which inadvertently provides one of the most succinct explanation of the difference between the two genocidal parties that I've ever come across:

To make their arguments stick, Luntz recommends pro-Israel forces avoid the exterminationist language favored by Israeli officials who have called, for example, to “erase” the population of Gaza, and to instead advocate for “an efficient, effective approach” to eliminating Hamas. At the same time, veteran pollster acknowledges that Republican voters prefer phrases which imply maximalist violence, like “eradicate” and “obliterate,” while sanitized terms like “neutralize” appeal more to Democrats. Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Donald Trump have showcased similar focus-grouped rhetoric with their calls to “finish them” and “finish the problem” in Gaza.

One of the slides, illustrating what language to use:

There are several more slides in the article. I recommend reading the whole thing, start to finish. One more thing I'd like to highlight though:

Luntz acknowledges Israel’s mounting PR problems in a slide identifying the most powerful tactics employed by Palestine solidarity activists. “Israelis attacking Israel is the second most potent weapon against Israel,” the visual display reads beside a photo of a protest by Jewish Voices for Peace, a US-based Jewish organization dedicated to ending Israel’s occupation of Palestine. “The most potent” tactic in mobilizing opposition to Israel’s assault on Gaza, according to Luntz, “is the visual destruction of Gaza and the human toll.” The slide inadvertently acknowledges the cruelty of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, displaying a bombed out apartment building with clearly anguished women and children fleeing in the foreground. But Luntz assures his audience, “It ‘looks like a genocide’ even though the damage has nothing to do with the definition.” According to this logic, the American public can become more tolerant of copiously documented crimes against humanity if they are simply told not to believe their lying eyes.

. . . full article on GZ (6 Mar 2024)

#free palestine #palestine #israel #gaza #hasbara

[makingqueerhistory]

Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals

William Wright

In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled Secret Court Files, 1920. The mystery he uncovered involved a tragic scandal in which Harvard University secretly put a dozen students on trial for homosexuality and then systematically and persistently tried to ruin their lives. In May of 1920, Cyril Wilcox, a freshman suspended from Harvard, was found sprawled dead on his bed, his room filled with gas--a suicide. The note he left behind revealed his secret life as part of a circle of (cut young) homosexual students. The resulting witch hunt and the lives it cost remains one of the most shameful episodes in the history of America's premiere university. Supported by legendary Harvard President Lawrence Lowell, Harvard conducted its investigation in secrecy. Several students committed suicide; others had their lives destroyed by an ongoing effort on the part of Harvard to destroy their reputations. Harvard's Secret Court is a deeply moving indictment of the human toll of intolerance and the horrors of injustice that can result when a powerful institution loses its balance.

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#queer history #queer #lgbt #making queer history #lgbt books #queer books

[cemeterything]

was thinking about this earlier but the dynamic of cannibalism being associated with high society and the culinary elite (hannibal comes to mind specifically) while also simultaneously being associated with the socially isolated and economically impoverished (as in texas chainsaw massacre) is so interesting to me i want to read 10 million books on why it happens so much in media....

i can only speak from a place of personal opinion and general knowledge, because i haven't read that many papers or in-depth studies on cannibalism, but i think it often comes down to an interesection between the themes of the story you're telling and class structures and divisions. cannibalism is a compelling form of narrative symbolism because it's undeniably impactful and hard to ignore. when portrayed as a practice associated with the culinary and social upper class, it might be used as a critique of the rich and powerful and their lack of ethics and willingness to consume and destroy others for their own self-interest by showing them literally preying on and consuming their victims, or a horror story/cautionary tale about how having everything can lead you to never be satisfied and turn to increasingly extreme measures to feel like life is worth living, or a dark fantasy of indulgence and excess. when associated with the poor, marginalized and isolated, it's often based in bigotry and harmful stereotypes of the "primitive" "inhuman" "savage" "other", however it might also function as a revenge fantasy where the most oppressed and exploited members of society turn on their oppressors and take "eating the rich" to its most literal extreme, exposing the fragility of class divisions and pointing out that those in positions of social and economic power are hardly the mythic titans their propaganda tries to make them out to be, but ultimately just as mortal and made of flesh and blood as any other human being, and not immune to being dragged down from their position at the top of the food chain and torn to pieces by the crowd (as well as reminding the audience of their own fragile mortality and precarious position in the social order, and the humanity we all share in common - however cannibalism often divides the perpetrators from both their victims and the audience, so this is rarer than the other interpretations mentioned).

cannibalism and power often go hand in hand. cannibalism has historically been used as both a means of displaying your power over defeated opponents and delivering a final, humiliating blow to their image by consuming their flesh, and a means of othering and dehumanizing your opponent by portraying them as the cannibalistic monster.

both the very rich and very poor also tend to be perceived as more distant from the people who make and consume these stories, making them easier to project fiction onto and transform into symbols and narrative devices (or, in the worst cases, dehumanize) than those who occupy the same social spheres as the creator. they can be held at an arm's length without discomfort and, depending on the target audience, may be a source of fascination due to the differences in their lived experiences. it adds to the fantasy, and makes any inaccuracies, exaggerations and fabrications feel more plausible because the majority of the audience probably don't have any personal experiences of being in those positions to draw on.

#cannibalism #classism #like this is literally just my interpretation based on my knowledge of media studies literary analysis and sociology #i cant say with any certainty whether its a True and Accurate assessment

[fatehbaz]

Travel back [...] a few hundred years to before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. 

Take orcas: while there are now less than ten left in Britain’s only permanent (and non-breeding) resident population, around 250 years ago the English [...] naturalist John Wallis gave this extraordinary account of a mass stranding of orcas on the north Northumberland coast [...]. If this record is reliable, then more orcas were stranded on this beach south of the Farne Islands on one day in 1734 than are probably ever present in British and Irish waters today. [...]

Other careful naturalists from this period observed orcas around the coasts of Cornwall, Norfolk and Suffolk. I have spent the last five years tracking down more than 10,000 records of wildlife recorded between 1529 and 1772 by naturalists, travellers, historians and antiquarians throughout Britain and Ireland, in order to reevaluate the prevalence and habits of more than 150 species [...].

In the early modern period, wolves, beavers and probably some lynxes still survived in regions of Scotland and Ireland. By this point, wolves in particular seem to have become re-imagined as monsters [...].

Elsewhere in Scotland, the now globally extinct great auk could still be found on islands in the Outer Hebrides. Looking a bit like a penguin but most closely related to the razorbill, the great auk’s vulnerability is highlighted by writer Martin Martin while mapping St Kilda in 1697 [...].

[A]nd pine martens and “Scottish” wildcats were also found in England and Wales. Fishers caught burbot and sturgeon in both rivers and at sea, [...] as well as now-scarce fishes such as the angelshark, halibut and common skate. Threatened molluscs like the freshwater pearl mussel and oyster were also far more widespread. [...]

Predators such as wolves that interfered with human happiness were ruthlessly hunted. Authors such as Robert Sibbald, in his natural history of Scotland (1684), are aware and indeed pleased that several species of wolf have gone extinct:

There must be a divine kindness directed towards our homeland, because most of our animals have a use for human life. We also lack those wild and savage ones of other regions. Wolves were common once upon a time, and even bears are spoken of among the Scottish, but time extinguished the genera and they are extirpated from the island.

The wolf was of no use for food and medicine and did no service for humans, so its extinction could be celebrated as an achievement towards the creation of a more civilised world. Around 30 natural history sources written between the 16th and 18th centuries remark on the absence of the wolf from England, Wales and much of Scotland. [...]

In Pococke’s 1760 Tour of Scotland, he describes being told about a wild species of cat – which seems, incredibly, to be a lynx – still living in the old county of Kirkcudbrightshire in the south-west of Scotland. Much of Pococke’s description of this cat is tied up with its persecution, apparently including an extra cost that the fox-hunter charges for killing lynxes:

They have also a wild cat three times as big as the common cat. [...] It is said they will attack a man who would attempt to take their young one [...]. The country pays about £20 a year to a person who is obliged to come and destroy the foxes when they send to him. [...]

The capercaillie is another example of a species whose decline was correctly recognised by early modern writers. Today, this large turkey-like bird [...] is found only rarely in the north of Scotland, but 250–500 years ago it was recorded in the west of Ireland as well as a swathe of Scotland north of the central belt. [...] Charles Smith, the prolific Dublin-based author who had theorised about the decline of herring on the coast of County Down, also recorded the capercaillie in County Cork in the south of Ireland, but noted: This bird is not found in England and now rarely in Ireland, since our woods have been destroyed. [...] Despite being protected by law in Scotland from 1621 and in Ireland 90 years later, the capercaillie went extinct in both countries in the 18th century [...].

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Images, captions, and text by: Lee Raye. “Wildlife wonders of Britain and Ireland before the industrial revolution – my research reveals all the biodiversity we’ve lost.” The Conversation. 17 July 2023. [Map by Lee Raye. Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[harmonysanreads]

I need a neuvillette dragon courting us but we don't notice till he's all sad cause he thought we was purposely ignoring his courting attempts😩😩🙌🙌🥲

Out of curiosity, I googled 'dragon courting rituals' but unfortunately, I didn't find anything unique or remarkable there. However, it is my theory that "dragon courting" in Neuvillette's case, will contain some traditions that will appear rather strange to humans. Reinforced by Neuvillette's voice line on vishaps:

This gets progressively funnier depending on which ‘era’ of Neuvillette you're in.

My personal favorite is freshly reincarnated Neuvillette, equiped with the emotional intelligence of a pebble and a teaspoon of understanding of the human world. He's confused about his predicament as he is and then the world throws this.. creature he feels the need to keep close in his life as if to screw him up some more. He observes you an unhealthy amount, yes, but, cannot make sense of the majority of what he sees. His memory is fragmented as well so he only recalls some things from his previous life. It takes more time than it should for him to accept that no, dropping freshly hunted animals or the mutilated remains of your enemies at your feet won't succeed in making you less afraid of him. He then opts for crystals, ores, gold—you know, the shiny things but, even those fail to make you rethink him as anything other than a monster. You can deny him for only a limited time as well because, in this stage of his life, he's the least patient. As the desires of his new form fester, he becomes more lenient towards brute methods.

His rough edges smoothen over the course of his time as Iudex. He at least, recognizes that courting in the human society puts consideration on matters such as mutual respect, compatibility, consent etc. and tries to follow decorum. While he isn't the most suave gentleman who'll effortlessly sweep you off your feet yet, he's not borderline savage at least.

Present Neuvillette on the other hand, is much more careful and does thorough research before making a move. If he's 100% okay with the repercussions that'll follow, he doesn't even need to rely on grand gestures to send the message to the public. His presence or, his name alone is sufficient to mark you. All he needs to do is talk to you in a certain way and in a consistent manner for Fontaine to eat it up. It may not be clear to you, but, it's obvious to everyone else and that's enough to eliminate the majority of competition. He'll still do some of the classic courting stuff like gift giving and (in his case) sampling water together. The insistence on being subtle might just become his undoing though, especially if you're equally oblivious.

#thinking about pre chief justice neuvillette and the emotional hevoc being his darling would bring #neuvillette brainrot #yandere neuvillette #yandere neuvillette x reader #neuvillette x reader #yandere genshin impact