kaseyno

Hi, I decided to make a donation post separate from my regular commission post, which you can find here: https://www.tumblr.com/kaseyno/725936934569082880/making-a-new-commission-post-real-quick-heres?source=share

my dog is having a really difficult recovery from surgery. His wound reopened and he seems to have gotten sick. I’ve taken out a loan to help pay for any vet visits to figure out what’s going on but I’m really struggling financially. if you wanted to toss me a few bucks, my ko-fi is ko-fi.com/kaseyb. I also have Venmo @kcbob.

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queenlua

kate o’hare was a socialist + antiwar activist, jailed during WWI for promoting said views—and yeah this incident recorded in her journals is fucking me up

When her 14-year-old son visited, [Kate] O’Hare was upset that warders denied him permission to play his trumpet for her. But they had no control over what happened outside the prison’s walls. “Last night we were locked in our cells waiting for the lights to be turned out when suddenly I heard a sweet but wavering note that I instantly recognized as Dick’s cornet… Nothing ever sounded sweeter than the noble strains of ‘Lead Kindly Light.’ Before the first bar was ended a dead silence reigned … From cell to cell a whisper ran ‘Be still and listen—it is Mrs. O’Hare’s son!’ No artist ever held an audience more breathless … When he played ‘Silver Threads among the Gold’ I could hear the women sobbing.”