one.twenty.one jigawatts

Que sera, sera.

[yawnzshit]

i am not okay actually. gnawing on the bars of my enclosure rn.

[alfiejwhitby-deactivated2024042]

Here it is! The final of my goodbye countdown artworks celebrating some of the best Thirteenth Doctor moments. Maybe, in a parallel time stream, the Doctor & Yaz hook up, grab a flat in Sheffield & enjoy a slower pace of life. Just for a bit. 💙💙

[proudlyunicorn]

I wish lesbians were as easy to find in real life as they are on tumblr

[proudlyunicorn]

11 FUCKING THOUSAND NOTES ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WHERE ARE YOU ALL COME DATE ME

[gleerant]

ok

[gleerant]

update: we are dating

[gleerant]

update: we are married

[proudlyunicorn]

update: we knocked up

[strugglingqueer]

This is the cutest story on the entirety of Tumblr, I swear to god!!!!!

[gleerant]

Update: had a baby together

[gleerant]

Update: he’s 1 year old today

[gleerant]

Update: he’s 2 today

[anarchistmemedistro]

500k notes and neither is deactivated. tumblr legends.

[instructor144]

I love when this one comes across my dash.

[desuke-dragon-queen-blog]

Okay non-European tumblr, I’m gonna explain to you why ‘white’ isn’t as simple here as it is in the rest of the world

- Shades of white in Europe range from ‘freshly fallen snow’ to ‘I am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle East’

- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction

- There are Europeans who don’t class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who don’t think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and don’t really give much thought to their skin colour

- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are ‘actually white’. I get it a lot myself. My response is always ‘well I’m not anything else, so obviously I must be’

- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, don’t feel white in the traditional sense. We’re not white like white British people. We’re not white like white Americans. We’re our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc

- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ‘nationality over race’. Being white isn’t as important as where you’re from

- So this really only becomes an issue if you’re an immigrant

- So being white in Europe doesn’t save you from racial discrimination, because sure, you’re technically white, but you’re not white white. Not the right white

- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and don’t bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by ‘chucking away any with a name you can’t fucking pronounce’

- And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like you’ve walked into the ‘Swedish supermodel’ clubhouse and you just know you’re not getting hired

This is all basic stuff and it’s very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like ‘no white person anywhere in the world ever knows what it’s like to face racial discrimination’, it’s really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they don’t give a shit if you’re technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American. 

[rememberthehuntress]

This doesn’t just apply to “darker skin” Europeans either (which I’m sure some Americans would argue are POC for some reason or other). Try being slavic in Western Europe. Hell, try being Sinti or Roma in any part of Europe.

[kieren-fucking-walker]

Especially in the UK you can be as white as you like but if you aren’t from Britain (or in some cases just England) then you face discrimination. It really isn’t that clear cut in Europe and it drives me mad when people say white people can’t experience racism because that’s such a US-centric idea.

[bazbucky]

And if you’re from anywhere in South-East Europe then you should prepare for your country to be slandered in every UK paper. Seriously, you can’t turn on the news, go on the internet, read a newspaper, without being told how Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish people are a drain on the UK’s resources and they should be banned from the country. And guess what?

(That’s Mila Kunis. She was born in the Ukraine.)

(Sebastian Stan. From Constanta, Romania.)

(Mia Wasikowska, from Poland)

(Nina Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria.)

They are white! Just because they are white, it doesn’t mean people from their countries cannot face horrible discrimination, and it doesn’t mean that they can’t be constantly told that they don’t work as hard as people from Western Europe, and that they don’t deserve basic human rights.

So just before you force your ignorance onto people who don’t hold the same views as you due to where they live operating in a different way, just remember that not everybody lives in America.

[stealthydice]

Here it is guys, the post that finally puts what I’ve been trying to say for far too long into words!

[jenniferrpovey]

…I didn’t know Sebastian Stan was Romanian.

But as somebody who has lived in England and the US, I can vouch for all of this. The race issues in Europe and the race issues in the US are not the same.

For the last few years, there has been an awful backlash against immigrants from Poland, with some of the same language used that Americans use about “Mexicans” (By which, half the time, they mean anyone from south of the US/Mexico border).

It’s worth understanding that

1. Racism and discrimination are everywhere.

2. They don’t take the same form everywhere.

[syrenpan]

I have lived in England for over 10 years now, and can confirm all of the above. As soon as I open my mouth people can tell, of course, that I was not born and raised British.

I was yelled at in the street because a lady thought I was Polish. People have pushed their chairs into my parents and insulted them in a restaurant because they were recognised as Germans.

Being white is not that cut and dry over here.

[jenniferrpovey]

And being “socially” white as opposed to just pale skinned evolves over time. I mean, there have been times in America when Irish and Italian people have not been considered “white”.

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

READ THIS POST IF YOURE AMERICAN

[therunninglifechoseme]

I’m American and this is the FIRST time I’ve ever heard any of this. I always think I’m up to date on world issues but wow I am not. Thank you to everyone for sharing! 

[varpusvaras]

About discrimination between nations in Europe, speaking Finnish and Sami languages in schools in Sweden was forbidden from students because Finns and Sami people were considered to be the lower race. Of course Europe has racism against black people, but yes, thinking about Europeans being “white” as whole is weird because a white Finn and a white Greek person couldn’t be more apart with their cultures.

[starshinelightning]

Yes, all of this, and let’s not forget people like the Finnish speaking Finns have historically and from some cultural standpoints a lot more common with native Americans and the Asians and Blacks in America than white Americans, despite our recent “rise” in the social rank of race.

Less than 100 years ago we were considered mongoloid (and while it’s not entirely wrong, though Uralic or North-West Asian and Caucasian mix would be lot more accurate), and were oppressed by another nation (Russia) that tried to enforce cultural and linguistic genocide on us, and before that we were oppressed and practically enslaved by Sweden, not all that differently as in any other colonized nation–which we were for 800 years.

For all intents and purposes, our “whites” are the Swedish-speaking Finns, who to this day continue to be a lot more privileged than the Finnish-speaking Finns, on average.

[sirenfrost]

In Italy, Southern people are considered less than Northern people and I, as a Northern people, can assure you sometimes it’s pretty bad. Mostly thanks to an idiotic right wing party that thinks that Italy should be divided in two: over the Po and below the Po (our longest river). They even think our ancestors are Celts lmao. Also a lot of people from the South are “less white” (again it’s stupid but whatever it’s just to make you understand), because they have ancestors from Africa so they are mixed, therefore their skin isn’t white as snow.

[fabiochampioraro]

Also in Italy people from slavic countries are often victim to xenophobia, people are always ready to see romanians/albanian/russians…etc as culprits for everything, and it’s not unusual to hear someone says “this hairstyle makes you look like an albanian!” or “why are you going out dressed as a romanian” yeah they use slavic people as an insult bc people are led to think that they come here just to steal everything from us. And guess what most of them are white as snowflakes!

I’d like to point out that also italian people have faced discrimination from other european countries. We were, and sadly often still are, always seen as part of the mafia and therefore dangerous, or inferior and poor (y’all can find signs saying pretty nasty stuff online, and i’m leaving this here even tho it’s in Italian), i’ve heard a lady telling his son to stay away from me and my family because we were speaking italian and so we could do “bad things” to him and there were times when in shops we were made feel not welcome because we are italian…..and guess what my family is white.

So please when you are outside the us don’t try to apply your “racial standards” bc they are not valid in europe.

[vanimeldes]

Bless this post forever and ever

[heywriters]

The Scottish, Irish, and Welsh are “white” peoples yet have a long history of oppression by white England. Even to this day you’ll hear celebs from those places (which are in the UK or even on the same island as England) discuss the same things as a POC actor in America, like “there are very few roles for us on TV” or “I only got the job because I changed my name and accent” and “I’ve had to play a servant or a stereotype for most of my career.”

This discrimination may seem less bizarre to Americans when you understand that the white minorities of the UK are descendants of peoples who lived there long before the Romans marched in and set English history as we know it in motion. It’s not about skin color, it’s about conquest, as usual.

[captainlordauditor]

yall really gonna use Mila Kunis as an example of a Ukrainian who faces discrimination and leave out the fact that she’s Jewish?

[elidyce]

When Heroes first came out in Australia, I was watching it with my then-partner, my sister, and a couple of friends. My then-partner, who is American, mentioned that the show had faced criticism because nearly all the main characters were white.

“What are you talking about?” say my sister and I. ‘There are two Italian guys RIGHT THERE.” 

“OMG you cannot say Italian people are not white,” he says.

“Yes we fucking can,” says the Italian friend watching the show with us, deeply offended. 

And then we had to pause it and a lot of complex explanations ensued. (Including the fact that Greek and Italian people generally aren’t considered White in Australia and in fact many a Nonna will smack you if you suggest otherwise.)

Basically, ‘white’ is a category upon which no two cultures/countries can agree on the definition, they all think they have the only possible definition, and it usually boils down to Preferred Flavours of Bigotry.

I mean, I’m of sufficiently Irish descent not to have been considered White in New York at certain periods, and I’m so pink and white I couldn’t get stopped at an airport if I tried, so basically it’s all bullshit and ‘white’ is like ‘normal’… everyone thinks they know what it is, but it doesn’t actually exist except as a tool for dividing people up into The Good Ones and The Rubbish Ones.

[arsenicjade]

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America

The fashion identities in the context of a wider conversation about American nationhood, to whom it belongs and what belonging means. Race a

A really good book on the historical whitening of European ethnicities in America ^^^^^

[schadenfreude-personified]

we hungarians are also othered due to our ethnicity not technically being european (hungarians were nomads and came from asia) but more privileged white americans or british folk will just claim we are the same white as them. people also try to erase this by saying we are related to the finns even though our language has more turkish in it (even before being occupied by them).

also, eastern europe is severely discriminated against in other parts of the world to the point where theres even a “slur” for immigrants from eastern europe going to the usa for a better life

anyways nationalism is gross and its racism lite. when youre a nationalist you support discriminating against people for their ethnicity.

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

Just adding to the super long post to say that just as ‘white’ doesn’t mean the same thing everywhere, especially not in Europe, ‘poc’ doesn’t mean a fucking thing to us either. If you tell an Algerian and a Moroccan living in Europe that they’re in the same ethnic category for being approximately of the same skin color, you’ll get punched, and deserve it too - because here, there isn’t always a shared experience between minorities. I know people from Maghreb (North Africa) who are very pale-skinned with bright red hair, but changed their names to sound more ‘from here’ because it wasn’t just about the look. 

I’ve got a friend who could be my brother looks-wise even though he’s Kabyle and I’m not. My mixed-race African-European cousin can be paler than my ‘white’ brother when he’s got a tan because we’re part Italian. I used to be bullied for ‘looking Chinese’ by kids of all ethnicities because I have almond-shaped eyes

[weaver-z]

https://www.change.org/p/department-of-land-and-natural-resources-protect-pololu-valley

I saw this on Tiktok and thought it needed to be passed on. Pololū Valley is sacred land currently at risk of being developed into yet another "scenic tourist attraction" for profit. Activists like @/melemaikalanimakalapua on Tiktok are fighting to have this petition seen by as many people as possible in order to prevent the senseless destruction of this land.

Note that the petition says not to donate to change.org--donations to change.org do NOT protect Pololū Valley.

I hope that by spreading this to tumblr, I can help it reach more people. Please sign this and reblog it if you can!

https://www.change.org/p/department-of-land-and-natural-resources-protect-pololu-valley

[colubrina]

[scorpionmotordemon]

This is so empowering to see proving that despite how hard the churches and Canadian government tried. They failed to "kill the Indian in the child" and that we will continue to flourish in our beautiful culture ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 and we will never give up

[astrodidact]

[revehive]

to trans people who can’t afford a binder or can’t get one, there’s an organization called genderbands! fill out the form on their website and they will send you a binder that comes for FREE!!  their binders are from individuals who donate (and if you’d like to donate you can also go to the website and see what you have to do!) they’re shipping to canada, the us, and mexico.

here’s the website

[systlin]

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

[assasue]

One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.

Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”

[whatevercomestomymind]

Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

[pbrim]

I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”.  (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.)  She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.”  “Why would you think that, ma’am?”  “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me.  See?”  They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle.  When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.

[catchester]

So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.

Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.

A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”

“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”

So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.

She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.

[everythingfox]

am scared

(via)

[sometimeredhead]

[tiktokmuseum]

are men okay?

[siderealsandman]

NO

[zymomonasmobilis]

my husband told me, after many years of being together, that when he was about 7 a teacher used to single him out for being disrespectful at school. Apparently his disrespectful offense was “smirking” too much???? So he got punished for smiling???? And eventually just trained himself to stop smiling so this teacher would leave him alone???? And that’s why he has such a stoic facial expression now and can’t smile for photographs.

I had to.....privately cry after hearing that one

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

Wow

[themildestofwriters]

It’s the only way men are able to discuss their issues because society taught them that they shouldn’t burden people with their issues or that their issues are meaningless or that their issues aren’t actually a thing. Sharing anecdotes with friends is one way of talking about it, because they feel comfortable enough to share. At the same time, they might just not know that the event was traumatic because it’s trauma y’all.

[crownquill]

im-

[sammyofthesea]

Take this to be your reminder that men experience trauma too and need a safe space to talk about it. Be that safe space for your friends who are men

[elodieunderglass]

I love the way that ediblesrex acts this journey too!

[melon-official]

i hope everyone with acne, eczema, vitiligo, psoriasis, dermatitis, and skin conditions have a good day today

[melon-official]

[a-very-jaime-thing]

Thanks OP! And I wish the same for all y'all!

[arabian-batboy]

This is how real change is made, through direct action.

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

Everyone should know the international sign for Help Me. Let’s make this famous!!

[amanda-bakes]

Interesting; I didn't know this was a thing.

[hopefulmisanthrope]

It’s apparently a thing, but it’s a very new thing, so it may need some help being known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help

[shrewreadings]

Link to the Canadian Women’s Foundation, which is doing the work of creating / promoting this.

https://canadianwomen.org/signal-for-help/

[malandi]

Devastating typhoon in the Philippines. Many are stranded on rooftops for hours exposed to wind and rain. Lives properties possessions lost. Victims of floods as tall as houses. Power outages across the country. Its devastating. Please donate if you can. Link to thread here

https://twitter . com/RDWritesThings/status/1326748023020347392?s=19

[acaemia]

🚨🚨PROJECT SAGIP: A FUNDRAISER FOR FARMERS 👨🏽‍🌾👩🏽‍🌾  AFFECTED BY TYPHOON GONI (TYPHOON ROLLY)🚨🚨

PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE!!!

Hello everyone! Please spare a minute or two to read through this post!

A SIMPLE REBLOG CAN HELP SO MUCH!!!

Last November 1, Super Typhoon Rolly—the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone since Haiyan—hit my country, the Philippines. It devastated many areas in the country, most especially Catanduanes and Albay. Over 2 MILLION Filipinos have been affected/displaced amid a pandemic.

FROM MANILA BULLETIN:

“A total of 372,653 families composed of 2,068,085 individuals were affected by Rolly in Ilocos (Region 1), Cagayan Valley (Region 2), Central Luzon (Region 3), Calabarzon (Region 4-A), Mimaropa (Region 4-B), Bicol, Western Visayas (Region 6), Central Visayas (Region 7), Eastern Visayas (Region 8), Zamboanga Peninsula (Region 9), National Capital Region (NCR), and Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR).”

Article screenshot from Rappler.com

TEXT READS: Flash floods due to Typhoon Rolly sweep away several homes in Batangas

Article screenshot from Rappler.com

TEXT READS: Bicol homes and schools in ruins after onslaught of Super Typhoon Rolly, lahar flow

During the on-going pandemic, the agricultural sector suffered greatly and this typhoon has only made conditions worse for the farmers of the Philippines.

Photo and post from Maemae Castro on Facebook

TEXT READS: Sa kasagsagan ng malakas na hangin at matinding ulan buhat ng bagyong Rolly, pilit pa rin na isinasalba ng mga magsasaka ang ilan sa mga hinog na palay na ilang buwan nilang hinihintay.

P.S Kanina ko pa ito kinuha pero hanggang ngayon nag-aani pa rin sila

P.P.S Lugi na naman sa presyo ng bigas

#PrayForOurFarmers

#RollyPH

[ROUGH] TRANSLATION: 

In the aftermath of strong winds and rain brought about by typhoon Rolly (Goni), farmers are forced to salvage the crops they waited months on end for.   P.S I took this photo earlier but they are still harvesting until now. P.P.S Farmers won’t get the proper profit for the rice they will sell.

I am knocking at your hearts and asking you to donate to PROJECT SAGIP, an initiative for the farmers affected by the super typhoon.

PROJECT SAGIP is an initiative led by For Our Farmers, a youth-led non-stock non-profit organization which “aims to help and uplift local farmers and fisherfolks.”

TEXT READS:

Bayanihan Para sa Magsasaka #ForOurFarmersYou may send your donation to the following channels:

Let’s lend a hand and help out or Kababayans affected by Typhoon rolly.

Project Sagip is a fundraising drive for the benefit of our kababayan in areas affected by Typhoon Rolly

A small help will go a long way!

TEXT READS:

Bayanihan Para sa Magsasaka #ForOurFarmers

You may send your donation to the following channels:

Paypal: [email protected]

(FOR THOSE LIVING IN THE PH):

Landbank: 3217 0633 36

BPI: 2819 0660 03

BDO: 004070174810

Gcash: 0917 316 6097

Photos from @forourfarmers on Instagram

TEXT READS:

#PROJECTSAGIP

We will be giving:

- Relief Packs

- Hygiene Kits

- Cash assistance for the next crop

The beneficiaries of PROJECT SAGIP are farmers from  Guinobatan & Legazpi, Albay Virac, Catanduanes Sta Cruz, Laguna Villanueva, and Misamis Oriental

Through the fundraiser, FOF will provide HYGIENE KITS, RELIEF PACKS, AND CASH ASSISTANCE*.

*due to limited funds, cash assistance will be given to farmers severely affected by the calamity.

FOF has also partnered up with another non-profit called Project Hero PH (@projectheroph on IG) for a mobile kitchen in evacuation centers in Albay, one of the most affected areas. 

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HOW TO DONATE

Paypal: [email protected]

Landbank: 3217 0633 36 BPI: 2819 0660 03 BDO: 004070174810 Gcash: 09173166097 (Aileen T.)

Donors from Canada 🇨🇦 may donate through Interac e-transfer: [email protected]

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YOUR SIMPLE DONATION CAN GO A LONG WAY. IT WOULD MEAN SO MUCH IF YOU COULD HELP OUR HEROES, OUR FARMERS.

PLEASE FOLLOW @FOROURFARMERS ON INSTAGRAM FOR UPDATES REGARDING YOUR DONATION. I WILL ALSO BUMP THIS POST WITH REGULAR UPDATES.

Thank you everyone, please keep safe!! When you eat the food on your table, please think about the farmers that worked tirelessly for your meal. They help us everyday and we have to help them too. :(

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SOURCES OF PHOTOS AND INFORMATION (QUICK LINKS):

https://www.rappler.com/nation/weather/updates-news-typhoon-rolly-philippines-2020

https://mb.com.ph/2020/11/02/rolly-kills-16-affects-2-m-in-12-regions-death-toll-feared-to-rise/#:~:text=A%20total%20of%20372%2C653%20families,Region%208)%2C%20Zamboanga%20Peninsula%20(

https://forourfarmers.com/about

https://www.instagram.com/forourfarmers/

https://www.unicef.org/philippines/stories/over-700000-children-among-most-affected-super-typhoon-rollygoni-hit-philippines

THANK YOU EVERYONE

[xearth-deactivated20211101]

PAG NAGDONATE PO KAYO DITO, I’LL CREATE AN ARTWORK FOR YOU. 🥺

[ekang-aroo]

Done! Guys please donate din kayo!