hate when theres a good deal at the supermarket and i dont have the money for it i hope a gas leak takes us all out or something i hope you die i hope we both die
The evolution of gender systems and power structures on Gallifrey, facts and extrapolation
an essay by me ˆˆ
Once Upon a Time, before the Time Lords came to be, the Shobogan, original habitants of gallifrey and ancestors to the Time Lords, were a matriarchal society, gouverned by what we know now as the sisters of Karn.
From that we can understand gender used to be something important, which contrast with its apparent non importance in recent gallifreyan society. So, what happened?
Tecteun found the timeless child, she experimented on them after finding out that the child could regenerate, she then used the child genes to give this hability to her people too. We also know that the Sisters of Karn were banished from gallifrey to Karn by Rassilion, so we can extrapolate that the two are linked. After Tecteun’s “discovery” she gave herself and others the ability to regenerate, creating the Time Lords. This new “evolved” gallifreyan took over the gouvernement and banned the Sisters to Karn.
From here the matriarchal society was gone, and standard binary gender were soon to follow as the Time Lords were not bound to it anymore. So we could stop her and go “oh gender doesnt exist on gallifrey anymore!” but I’m going to object to that. Why? because the majority of the Time Lords we’ve seen were men, old men even. which from a Doylist POV is explained by the fact that the show was created in a patriarcal society, but it still need an explaination from a Watsonian POV. So my interpretation of it is that when taking over the gouvernment, an oppositionary reaction happened and the Time Lords able to influance their shapes had a tendency to go toward masculine body to show their distanciation from the previous matriarchal system. Why old? because younger body are seen as being made to work, while older bodies mean that they’ve survived long enough to look like that, so that they live in a safe and hight ranked place which didn’t make them face any direct danger. it also signify that they don’t need to do physical work.
Time Lords then became a sort of patriarcal society, the time lords able to controle their shapes and who choose masculine one were being seen as better, above the one who couldn’t or choosed otherwise, and obviously above the Shobogan, since they even went to the point of concidering the 2, 2 different species. Gender didn’t disapeared, it morphed into something else.
So what about transidentity in all of that? why do I keep insisting that the Doctor is nonbinary even by gallifreyan standards? Well something stayed from binary gender and it’s its prescriptivism of the body=mind identity, the equivalent of being cis is to always identify with your apparence, this stayed in their society because it used to be based on binary gender (basically they’re like transmed). The Doctor has always said fuck to this, that’s why they’re nonbinary and trans both for our stardard and gallifreyan ones.
@you-have-to-use-your-imagination talked about how the equivalent of gender for Time Lords is ranks, and their not wrong! it’s what it end up as.
so it went like that:
-Matriarchy (rank is linked to gender)
-pseudo-Patriarchy (rank is still linked to gender)
-switching gender is okay as long as you stay in the essentialist mindset (dissociation of rank from gender)
If you are going to write a blog for horny men to read about your mothers pantyhose and heels then it makes perfect sense you should have experienced them first hand so you damn well know what your writing about. I want those men reading your blog hard, I mean really hard.
This 1604 Salamanca imprint met the wrong end of an inquisitor’s pen and razor in 1616 in Potosi, a major mining town in modern Bolivia.
My Spanish paleography skills are rough at best, so if anyone would like to take a stab at translating, feel free. From what I can tell, the inquisitor helpfully instructs the reader to “turn the page” on the title page and lays out a rationale for his work on the verso. The third and fourth photos show an expurgation with evidence of both the pen and the razor, and a view of the sewing follows.
The first page says “vuelve la hoja” = turn the page, as you said.
The inquisitor instruction says:
(Cruz) Yo don Mexia de Fernangu por comisión del comisario del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición expurgue esta suma de la opinión del poder de dar misas anticipadas por estar declarado lo contrario por la Santa Sede Apostólica. Firmado en Potosí a 17 de febrero de 1616
It says that the inquisitor has expurgated a text about the power of giving mass before the mass was paid, because what the book says is against the Holy See decision.
Drarry I Explicit I 35k I Hogwarts professors, Veela Draco (but he doesn’t know), slow burn, oblivious Draco, pining, smutty smut, Draco with long hair, touch-starved Harry and Muggle games.
Summary: Green eyes greet Draco when he arrives at the school gates, ready to start his new job as a Hogwarts professor after spending ten years in France. “Hey,” Potter says, waving at him as he approaches. “We weren’t expecting you until the start of term.” Draco is speechless. What the fuck is Potter doing at Hogwarts?
A million shiny thank yous to the absolutely wonderful @swymsuyt who was incredibly kind and gave me permission to remix this stunning Veela Draco artpiece.
Huge thanks to my wonderful betas @wheezykatand@purplehotmess for being so supporting and generally fantastic human beings.
None of my fics would probably see the light of day without the support of that wonderful person that is @avenueofesc, thanks Em and sorry for the usual “oops, this is longer than expected, but can you please still check it? ”
And finally, thank you @snowgalland@veelawings for running this fest and for being so kind to offer me an extended deadline when things got out of hand and the fic grew like a mushroom.
This is Doris Pollas, the cofounder of the organisation now known as lgbt+ Denmark which by being founded in 1948 is one of the oldest if not the oldest queer organisation in the world.
Doris lived in a farm in Jutland as a child. She was always butch and figured out she was a lesbian in her teens. When she heard about a club in copenhagen where boys kissed boys and girls kissed girls she went just some months after and it was through that club she started a paper connecting queer people all up to seventies and co founded lgbt+ Denmark.
She is now 97 year and wishes for every queer person to have an as loving and accepting family as she did.
I don’t see a lot of older gays from my country, so learning about Doris, a masc lesbian, was really nice.
Dracula Daily: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the one that started it all. Began May 3rd 2022, running through November 6th 2022
The Sorrows of Young Werther: J.W. von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, the original (rewritten is further down for those who find it much too dense). Began May 4th 2022, runs through December 25th 2022
Edgar Allan Poe Daily: Various Poe stories sent on days there is no Dracula. Began May 13th 2022, runs through at least the end of Dracula
Ovid Daily: the works of P. Ovidius Naso, currently working through the Metamorphoses. Began May 15th 2022, runs through August 27th 2022, with another book beginning January 1st 2023
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LOTR Newsletter: JRRT’s Lord of the Rings. Begins September 2022, runs through March 2023
Literary Letters: C.N. and A.M. Williamson’s The Lightning Conductor. Begins November 12th 2022, runs through January 28th, 2023, with more lesser-known works planned afterwards
Whale Weekly: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Begins December 2022, runs through 2025
Letters From Watson: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the short stories. Begins January 1st 2023, runs through December 2023
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