#corvee

[ask-these-fantrolls]

Red & Bronzebloods:

💝 - What does your muse think about true love?  Is it real, or is it something or fantasy?

💋 - Who was your muse’s first kiss?

🧸 - What is your muse’s ideal date?

🌹 - What would be the best romantic gift for them?

🤞 - Does your muse believe in true love? Who is their true love if they have one?

[I have way too many so I'll be picking a few to answer with 'v']

💝 - What does your muse think about true love?  Is it real, or is it something of fantasy?

My whole deal is finding lifelines and connections between two trolls! True love is my whole business!! Ok toots, if I'm honest, I used to not believe in it- just compatibility but I've had a real change in pusher lately.

💋 - Who was your muse’s first kiss?

I haven't actually g-otten t-o kiss any-one yet!;;

I want t-o find s-ome-one nice that i really wanna kiss bef-ore I d-o it!

Thhere wass thiss guy whho tried mugging me one time whhen i wass like 7 and a hhalf... HHe looked my age or a little younger, but hhe wass so hhandssome and looked like hhe wass jusst plucked out of a garbage can! HHe was hholding me at knifepoint but I didn't care and jusst went for it! Or at leasst I assked hhim if hhe wanted to get my number ass well ass my wallet. HHe wass so confussed, but then we kissssed and thhingss got a little hheated before-

Ohh wait, thhat'ss not kissssing anymore...

🧸 - What is your muse’s ideal date?

I wanna go have fun!! Bars might be where I work, but if it's a nice enough place, I might be convinced to have a date there? Especially if we can dance together and you can give me your undevided attention for the night...

Yöu and me, a nice cafe, söme höt chöcölates that cöst way möre than they shöuld... Then söme champaign in a cözy livingrööm watching a döcumentary ör three?

🌹 - What would be the best romantic gift for them?

👁️‍🗨️I do not need a romantic gift. Gestures are far greater in meaning than any flowers of box of chocolates.

👁️Though... I would not turn down a nice set of lingerie.

🤞 - Does your muse believe in true love? Who is their true love if they have one?

Reckon I do! Y'all can have true love in yer family or a special someone- it don't just mean one thing! I've probably found m'true love a hundred times over by now, iff'in we're talking platonically! Romantically...

Yeah... I reckon I did find her. An'I'll be tryin't'find her in my next life, too.

#long post #videcoeur #ceupid #corvee #narama #kyndal #quasar #thaava #belshn

[lcx5sksue1snqr]

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#thob #Cervin #Waupun #corvee #starw #handkerchiefful #pomological #Pro-hellenic #lumbers #exchange #mahogany #goer-by #tickeater #fritterer #Edriophthalma #surfeited #Islesford #unmeritable #proviruses #shoo-in

[notayenota]

fanart fo @bunnieswithknives' au

loving the fact that lesley is the bite-y one

#dhmis #dont hug me im scared #two of us #two of us au #corvee's art

[mashamorevvna]

the fact that sceleritas calls orin 'that serf, that watery-blooded peasant' is so interesting to me. what kind of feudal shit is going on at the temple of bhaal

#.bg3 #well it wont stop me from implementing killing corvees thats for sure #orin the red

[caderascaverns]

Arpia - Lorona Corvee  (she/her) Lorona - Derived from La Llorona Corvee - From “Corvid”

Horror comic artist

Actually a really big sweetheart

Always carry a pocket full of bird seed

#homestuck #extended zodiac #sprite edit #fantroll #lorona corvee

[horizonboundtrainer]

Modern Sky Pillar is pretty much a crumbling husk of what it used to be. Every once in a while somebody will enter to perform certain rites and tend to the wild Pokemon but for the most part, it belongs to the dead. There's never been any well organized efforts to restore Sky Pillar to it's former glory because it'd be so prohibitively expensive ( and dangerous... very, very dangerous ), only a few unsuccessful attempts at slowing its decay despite the efforts of Hoenn's finest engineers. They were baffled by the very fact that it hadn't collapsed centuries ago in accordance with the laws of physics. Even May is baffled by it though she knows better than to tamper with whatever broken arcane formations managed to find in there.

In it's heyday it would've been a shining tower of impossible wonders with multiple floors containin artificial climate meant to accommodate Pokemon imported from foreign regions. ( There was even a chamber meant to simulate the pressure of the deep sea meant for housing one insanely rare dragon native to Mariana Trench. ) The very walls would shift to accommodate thousands of scholars passing through and the forges would be running 24/7. Recreating something like that would take generations and enough resources + manpower to bankrupt Devon and Silph combined because that shit took centuries to complete the first time, using techniques and materials that just don't exist anymore, with a labor force that only needs to be paid in food. In theory you could recreate some of it with modern technology... but it'd be a hard sell to any investors. It just isn't feasible in the modern era, especially after Rayquaza abandoned humanity.

#the draconids used plenty of corvee labor to build it #you used to be able to work on public projects building roads and such as a way of paying your taxes #it would pretty much be your tax payment for the year #it was a common practice in imperial china #in the modern era it'd literally cost hoenn's entire gdp #headcanons. #lore. #hoenn lore.

[kek44k4mzg9hth]

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#threefoldly #mugfuls #corvees #herohead #Barbula #electary #karaburan #nonadoption #paraconic #Yankeefy #sphynx #Tydides #vengeously #pavidity #tesseratomy #indigenist #antireligiously #pettiest #polyzoism #angulated

[memecucker]

The relationship between colonialism and religion is more complicated than the Civilization game where you’re trying to score a religious victory and it’s easier to convert places you conquer.

It’s not a matter of religion being imposed purely for the purpose of religion being imposed even if that may have been the personal motives of individual colonizers because even if there was a truly missionary motive these missions could only exist insofar as it was economically sustainable and oftentimes this takes the form of exploitation of the indigenous population.

Also the flat conception of religious colonialism overlooks how as colonialism progressed as a type of “social technology” there was in many places a shift away from seeking to replace indigenous organized religions (if they were present in the first place) towards recruiting the indigenous religious authorities to the colonial side.

Like for example with the colonies of the Iberian powers there was no separation of church and state and I don’t just mean in the sense of “the state imposed religious dogma and the church officially endorsed the state” I mean basic everyday functions of the state relied upon services of the church. Eg; If a colonial Governor wanted to say, requisition corvee labor from villages for a building project and he wished to know the populations of these villages in order to decide which to pull laborers he wouldn’t be looking at any state mandated census but instead would rely upon the archives and records of the Catholic Church because records would be kept of church attendance. If the governor wanted to hunt some rebel named “Diego of San Juan” he’d look at baptismal records to find examples of people named “Diego” and who they’re related to.

This meant that Spanish and Portuguese colonialism had an actual material interest in enforcing religious homogeneity and Catholic supremacy because that’s how their colonial states functioned. The colonial bureaucracy was in fact synonymous with the Church’s bureaucracy and so if some people weren’t Catholic they existed outside the Church which meant they existed (at least partially) outside the State. One example that’s a bit relevant is the original version the “National Commission on Indigenous Peoples” in the Philippines was set up during the American occupation and was called “Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes” because the groups in question are largely people who existed outside of direct Spanish colonial control (and wouldve been labeled “savages” in the 19th century) and hence “non-Christian”.

Anyway in the case of the Portuguese colonial empire in Asia this wound up being part of the reason for its collapse. By making their state function in the requirement that it’s subjects be observant Catholics the Portuguese had a lot of trouble making allies because if indigenous elites could be persuaded to convert then great but if they didn’t then they were gonna get really pissed off especially when they start hearing the Portuguese are torturing people under their rule that feel the same. And so without a network of allies the Portuguese colonial empire in Asia began to fall apart leaving only Goa, Macau and East Timor. Elsewhere the Portuguese had been replaced by the Dutch, English and French all of whom had systems of governance which was not as so dependent on doctrinal supremacy as the Iberians eg; the Dutch agreed to help the Shogunate put down a Christian revolt in 1638 and the East India Company actually banned Christian missionaries from operating in its territories until 1813 when Parliament forced them to allow Christian missionaries to preach.

Now of course the EIC example is in particular interesting because what you’re basically seeing is the colonial state shedding its reliance on the Christian Church in favor of courting the support of indigenous religious leaders and recruiting them into the colonial apparatus but at the same time you have churches seeking to operate whats can be considered a type of “rival” colonial project that would have an almost parasitic relationship in that the churches profited in their own way while also in a way undermining the local legitimacy of the official colonial state.

[swordsman-jing-ke]

call out post for qin shi huang

reasons why he’s problematic:

1. he stole EVERYONES fucking pronouns. idk if you’ve heard but he is the only one who is allowed to use the first-person pronoun 朕 zheng [i/me/myself] because it’s a homophone of his given-name 政 Zheng! Look, just because he’s conquered all of the known world does not mean he’s allowed to go on a power trip and make up a bunch of arbitrary laws! Literally what the fuck am i suppose to call myself now????

2. i am SICK of these modern SNOWFLAKES with their MADE-UP TRENDY TITLES. bitch what the fuck is an "EMPEROR???" you literally just combined the titles of 三皇 Sān Huáng and 五帝 Wŭ Dì to invent a new word 皇帝 Huángdì. this is so confusing, just call yourself Hegemon-King like a normal human!!!!

3. side note; he killed a bunch of peasants during his war of conquest and now it's impossible for me to find servants at a reasonable price and my farmers are refusing to work unless i exempt them from taxes and corvee labour for 2 years** THIS IS THE END OF CIVILISATION AS WE KNOW IT.

[singingcicadas]

Every time I see something along the lines of "Megatron was a slave because he was oppressed and forced to work in the mines, forced labour is slavery and oppression is slavery so what happened to Megatron was obviously slavery" a question mark pops up in my head and it's so fucking funny because. Social studies. History. Basic literary analysis skills.

Like I'm gonna be assuming whoever's in the 'Megatron was a slave' camp is talking about idw1 and tfp b/c those are the only two continuities that have Megatron coming from an oppressed background in depth. If it's idw1 then how could anyone miss the obvious communism reference in Megatron Origin? (Guaranteed it's a loose, twisted, villifying, Western-lensed, not-very-good reference, but point is that it's OBVIOUS and unmistakably RECOGNIZABLE.) Workers' revolt ring a bell? It's the first issue in the collection volumes so even if people run out of patience without finishing anything they should have been able to at least get through that before, y'know, making unfounded claims about canon. And the stuff I'm talking about should've been evident in the first chapter. Were the miners upset because they were forced to work in the mines? No, they were upset because the government was closing the mines and laying them off and replacing them with automation; they were upset because soon there would be no mines left for them to work and then they would starve.

'Slavery is forced labour' yeah but uh that's only one facet of it. Forced labour because of livelihood: 'I have to work here b/c it's the only job that's available to me and I have no means of obtaining the skills/licence/opportunity for a different job or bettering my circumstances, if I quit I'll have no income/food/shelter and starve out on the streets' is fundamentally different from forced labour due to state institution of ownership over people: 'I have to work here because I am the private property of the facility owner and am forbidden by law to leave or quit.'

Does anyone like, not see the difference between the two scenarios? Only the latter would be slavery since it has the defining characteristics of 1. legalization of the ownership of people and 2. restriction of liberty. In concurrence. The first scenario's just describing what every fucking exploited worker/peasant/wage-earning lowclass commoner in the world looks like, it's called proletarianism. It's a completely different class category in a completely different social structure that's in no way interchangeable or confusable with slavery unless you want to say that communist revolutions were done by slaves and every wage worker in the industrial revolution was a slave. why not go back further while at it and serfdom can be slavery feudalism is slavery indentureship corvee conscription are all slavery lmao way to rewrite history.

For the people who's only read MTMTE and nothing else there's even a specific scene in there that says this 🔽

This is talking about Rewind. The text literally gives us what used to be the equivalent in Cybertronian society and it's clearly not Megatron's class. And why was Rewind's class equated to slaves? Because they were considered disposable tools, not sentient people. The Ambus Test helped them get rights by proving their sentience as people, which further proves that they don't keep sentient people as slaves.

If it's TFP then did anyone notice that Megatron started as a miner but met Optimus as a gladiator? If he was so absolutely forced to work in the mines as a slave then how was he allowed to leave?

This is how Covenant of Primus describes Megatron going to work in the mines. It's "the only opening available to him". It doesn't say that he's assigned a master at birth and was legally obligated to go work in that opening on pain of punishment. Just implies that he'd be out of a job and income and would probably starve if he didn't. There's still an illusion of choice, of free will.

The closest thing Aligned had to slavery was the Quintession occupation era but the Covenant also spent a whole section talking about how it started out as a mutually beneficial relationship with the Quintessions presenting themselves as the more advanced race and Cybertronians eagerly accepting them as 'masters' (honourific term, not literal) in a pseudo colonizer-who-civilized-the-indigenous-barbarians-and-used-them-for-cheap-labour dynamic which got more and more exploitational as time went on until the Cybertronians had enough and drove them off. But even during the peak of occupation the Quintessions were still careful to give Cybertron the pretense of sovereignty. It was the Quintessions who introduced them to the electoral system and inaugurated the office of the Prime in the first place. The illusion of free will and equality was always there, despite everyone knowing otherwise.

Exodus is extremely clear in describing Cybertron as a birth-defined caste system with rigid hierarchy and little mobility. So that's exactly what it is. a caste system. Not a slave society. There's a reason they're different words, they're different concepts! I don't get why people would feel the need to replace one with the other, does slavery sound better? edgier? Is the purpose for making Megatron an ex-slave to have his backstory sound more tragic? to induce more sympathy? idc people are free to headcanon what they want but at least have the decency to refrain from framing it as canon and bashing other characters with it? Stuff like 'oh Optimus was so selfish/naive/entitled/stupid/insensitive/traitorous/opportunist/privileged to accept the prime title in front of Megatron the poor ex-slave' nevermind that Megatron had repeatedly expressed a desire for taking power through whatever cruel means necessary and was perfectly eager to become prime when he thought he was the one going to be chosen? Nevermind that the council offered up a chance for implementing all the social changes they wanted through legal means with the least amount of bloodshed and Megatron threw it all away b/c he didn't get to be in charge, by committing murder on the spot? Nevermind that 'Megatron the poor ex-slave' is a massive bigoted racist who looks down on Optimus' job and is disgusted by minicons and combiners and insecticons as well as being a devout believer of 'survival of the fittest and the rest don't deserve to live' -type social darwinism and a domestic terrorist happy to blow up factories full of his own caste members and places full of innocent people? Nevermind that Megatron and Optimus already had a deep rift between them because of Megatron betraying Optimus' trust by lying about his role in the bombings and Optimus already recognizing that their methods were never going to match up b/c of Megatron's disregard of innocent life and Megatron never really trusting Optimus anyway? As if making Megatron a slave somehow excuses all of that and pins all the blame on Optimus.

#idk sometimes I wonder if we're reading the same story #Ofc reading the story is not a prerequisite of enjoying the TFP show #but Megatron's backstory is already explained pretty clearly in the show #people always go but nooooo Ratchet's recount was biased! #when in fact it was not? and was actually pretty charitable? #Megatron didn't violently demand to be prime beforehand just secretly hoped for it #but he sure did afterwards and Ratchet glossed over the entire scene he made and how he tried to fuck Optimus up in front of the populace #also Megatron just went and straightup killed the council member who announced Optimus as prime #There's no need to contrive up an entire ex-slave sobstory on him and try to pass it off as canon to make him interesting #or god forbid get all morally uppity about it when it's pointed out that slavery is not canon anywhere #transformers #idw transformers #transformers prime #tf exodus #megatron #maccadam

[winsaykophum]

Aliens built the pyramids; however, they were corvee laborers subject to the rule of the Pharaoh. Hope this helps.

[ouvrierhv]

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[robin-hood-for-freedom]

Again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.”

2 So the king said to Joab and the army commanders[a] with him, “Go throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and enroll the fighting men, so that I may know how many there are.”

3 But Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”

4 The king’s word, however, overruled Joab and the army commanders; so they left the presence of the king to enroll the fighting men of Israel.

5 After crossing the Jordan, they camped near Aroer, south of the town in the gorge, and then went through Gad and on to Jazer. 6 They went to Gilead and the region of Tahtim Hodshi, and on to Dan Jaan and around toward Sidon. 7 Then they went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the towns of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to Beersheba in the Negev of Judah.

8 After they had gone through the entire land, they came back to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

9 Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: In Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand.

10 David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, Lord, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.”

11 Before David got up the next morning, the word of the Lord had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer: 12 “Go and tell David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.’”

13 So Gad went to David and said to him, “Shall there come on you three[b] years of famine in your land? Or three months of fleeing from your enemies while they pursue you? Or three days of plague in your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should answer the one who sent me.”

14 David said to Gad, “I am in deep distress. Let us fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy is great; but do not let me fall into human hands.”

15 So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated

2 Samuel 24: 1-15

This verse(and the corresponding story in 1 Chronicles 21) confused me the first time I read it. Why does God care that David took a census?

But with a little thought, and more knowledge of how the ancient world worked, I think I understand it. And it has to do with WHY kings took censuses back then. It was done for tax assessment, and to see how many men were available for conscription and corvee labor.

If you arent familiar with corvee labor, its basically a system that was in place in most ancient near eastern societies(up until the Persian period) where part of a mans tax burden was paid in labor for the king. Usually this involved building public works(such as canals), military fortifications or monuments(the pyramids were mostly done with corvee labor).

Conscription, taxes, and forced labor all recall the warnings Samuel gave about what a king would do to Israel:

He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle[c] and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

1 Samuel 8:11-17(emphasis mine).

I dont think God was made about the census per se. But because by taking the census David was preparing to demand more taxes, enslave the people, or conscript an army for war.

Also dont forget that it was high taxes and heavy use of corvee labor under Solomon that sparked the civil war that split Israel into two kingdoms. So God(as usual) was right on this one

[notayenota]

shhhhhh!!!! the babygirls r eeping

@bunnieswithknives

#two of us au #two of us!roy #two of us!lesley #dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared #corvee's art

[rivvyelf]

7/27/23 "Chapter 1" Update

Total words in chapter: 6191

Total words written today: 1216

Excerpt:

That didn't stop those 'living trees' from tearing everything apart, though. Wang Jin lost two friends to one of those monsters... Just thinking about it made her want to chop a tree down. They had to burn down the entire forest; tree roots spread far, after all. Now Wang Jin understood that if humans were used like wood and replaced with new humans, it would piss her off. So she understood that particular tree's anger. She didn't care though if that tree knew that its remains were still defiled by Wang Jin as target practice. She'd burn that living tree 10 times over again for what it did to her friends! Screw that stupid piece of wood! Why couldn't the One Above create tree shepherds or something to make those overgrown plants understand that humans had a need for wood.

Brownie points if you can guess where the crossover with Tolkien is in there :D .

Hehe, we're getting closer to that 10k word mark again. So far, what I wrote today was both detailing the recovery process for a character while world-building what corvee labor was like for the villagers, which counts as world-building.

I like writing these daily updates. It also is something I can look back on when I reflect on how I wrote this fanfic. Wish I did it earlier. Speaking of that, @brasideios recently wrote a well-written reflection on keeping a writing log that's certainly worth reading. Forgot to mention that yesterday. Hopefully, I can keep it up. I just wish I didn't need a VPN for my stay in China.

#fanfiction #outlaws of the inland sea #water margin #crossover #chapter update #jrr tolkien #ents #silmarillion #wood please

[ancientstuff]

Who build the Egyptian pyramids?

The Egyptians. They used a corvee system, where each citizen owed the state some time working on the pyramids. Each group worked for 3 months at a time in a gang of workmen likely taken from the same village to create a cohesive group. They were not slaves.