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noise dept.
cherry valley forever
YOU ARE THE REASON
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Janaina Medeiros
Kaledo Art
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
if i look back, i am lost
Jules of Nature
Xuebing Du
oozey mess
$LAYYYTER
Cosmic Funnies
art blog(derogatory)
blake kathryn
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ellievsbear
shark vs the universe
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@amanda-peixes
when the character's real body isn't their human one but some kind of accessory or tool that contains their life force
when the character's human projection subconsciously shapeshifts to reflect how they perceive themself and/or what they want and becomes weaker and less within their control if their container is damaged or separated from them
do not taste plants if you don't know what they are
do not identify a fruit as edible just because it tastes sweet
hope you didn't eat any fucking seeds, bro
And today, we have this winner:
I saw the photo in my feed and went ohh, dude, no, we do not handle yellow rocks with our bare hands until we know for sure what they are. And I know that orange...
In comments, they continue:
and that's where I started cussing at the computer monitor. But someone else had got there first:
So just as a reminder, folks. If you don't know what it is, don't put it in your fucking mouth!
YOU GODDAMN STUPID MOTHERFUCKER
(Based on this!)
the more time you spend in active recovery from any given self destructive behavior or addiction the more you understand the common conception of the "relapse" as defined by a broken "streak" to be, like, so bad for one's own well-being that it would be funny if it weren't resulting in just a lot of misery and death
I told my girlfriend to think of quitting vaping as training her endurance by seeing how long she can run before she gets tired, then doing it again and hoping to go further next time. She said it really helped her.
This is the stages of change model, with each circle being a part of the process of growth. You'll notice how relapse is not a failing of the model, or a set back, but an active step in continuing to grow and change. Everytime you relapse, you learn something; maybe a certain time of year is difficult for you. Maybe certain people push you back into the habit. Maybe your other coping skills/replacement habits didn't work how you wanted and you need to strengthen them, or develop new ones. Maybe it's not quite as clear cut and you need to spend the time figuring out what exactly went wrong so you can catch it next time. It doesn't matter the exact lesson, but it's part of the process.
“I just need to learn how to seem more normal and they’ll leave me alone,” she thought, lacking any ability to understand why the boys they said were her peers seemed to hate her from the moment they met her
Patriarchal society teaches boys to hate girls and believe it or not being a girl involuntarily sorted into boys spaces can very often mean being seen as an acceptable (and even deserving) target for that prejudice
“Hello yes the boys you keep forcing me to be around keep attacking me on sight and the girls I find myself relating to and drifting towards have already learned that ‘boys’ are dangerous, which I don’t disagree with, but as a result they’re keeping their distance out of fear that I’m the exact sort of predator I’m trying to find refuge from, may I have some basic human kindness and connection, please?”
“That’s extremely selfish of you have you considered that maybe you deserve to be abused?”
“I had not! I’ll just internalize that now since it’s the only consistent message that anyone is sending”
I literally cannot stress enough the constant societal forces that work 24/7 to make even an unrealized trans girl think that her existence is fundamentally wrong and she deserves to be punished for it
Before I knew it was about gender I still knew that there was something ‘defective’ about me that justified the bullying and the harassment and the total lack of empathy from the people who billed themselves as figures of authority
“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.” - Eartha Kitt
Alarm Off perfec t time for put lying in bed to t/hink! Inside very Quiet and Peace thoughts very productive put in Alarm Off. Put Thinking in Alarm Off time. no problems ever lying in bedd with alarm off because good Contemplation and Eyes Closed for difficult deep thoughts about day. alarmOff yes safe place to close eyes lie in bed can trust not to fall back asleep. friend bed
they killed him for this
I very genuinely need tumblr to understand that museums are as diverse as historians, egyptologists, archaeologists, and what have you in general. Like from the way people are talking you'd think that only straight white Western men are ever involved in these concepts, because the internet at large just loves to be able to get on their little high horsie about how they are sooo much more morally correcter than the Evil Other
Which is absolutely not a concerning attitude to have, not at all no sir
forgot I'm on the piss on the poor website so I'll spell it out: Western straight white men aren't per definition the Evil Other either
You know where the real danger is? Anti-intellectualism, the concept of moral purity, and opening your damn trap when you don't know shit about fuck
#also our job market is a hellscape and a lot of us aren't wealthy either and neither are our workplaces #many museums especially have SUCH a hard time affording anything rn #the days of museums as institutions and the humanities being a realm of wealth and prestige are well and truly over #this is a field that is being devalued constantly in a world that would love to believe everything important is digital #or about making money #and that's a fucking problem bc the whole thing of museums is that they offer easily accessible education #HOW is the “go to your local library” website so indifferent or even hostile towards museums#academia (via @veilchenjaeger)
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Also the field is growing and changing all the time! I took a friend up to Montezuma Castle National Monument this past December, expecting her to learn about the Sinagua Indians, who might have assimilated into the Hopi. I was last there...oh, three, maybe four years ago? In just that small time the Parks Service had worked with the Hopi Nation to rename the extinct tribe and redo the entire small museum attached to the monument site. The former Sinagua, named by the colonialist Spanish, are now the Hisat'sinom, or "the ones who came before" in Hopi. Instead of "here's some stuff we found at the site," many of the exhibits are now "here's stuff we found at the site, and this thing right next to it is a modern recreation of this thing, made by the Hopi Nation for this museum, demonstrating one way we've determined they did assimilate because we can see unique weaving patterns and weapons from the Hisat'sinom showing up later in Hopi crafts and war kit." A lot of the signage still says Sinagua (changing that stuff takes time, money, and possibly a literal act of Congress if the signage itself is considered historical, because it dates back to the 1950s), but you can see the changes being made. (Also, checking the date on that signage has led me to discover yet another Wikipedia article I need to fix.)
Here's another for you, from the Minneapolis Institute of Art from when I visited a few years ago. First, I walked into this room and went "oh NO" because the very first thing I saw was this:
But off to the left was an entire wall of Native textiles where the MiA had repatriated historical artifacts and commissioned modern Native artists to make replicas of traditional clothing and weaving patterns, and it seemed really weird that they'd do that and then have a war bonnet gained by sketchy means chilling in the middle of the room, so I read the plaque for more detail:
TRANSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT:
The item is named as "Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) or Lakħóta artist, North America, Great Plains region." Right away we're on good ground with self-identified tribal names. It lists the item as "headdress, late 19th-early 20th century" and made of "eagle and other feathers, wool, buffalo hide, cowhide, horsehair, beads, pigments." So we're also continuing on with the certainty that they've really researched this item. It's not being dismissed as some "American Indian curiosity," it's being treated like the work of art and craftsmanship it is.
But here's why I posted this here:
"Gift of Jack Garcia, Lakħóta."
This wasn't looted. This was freely given. And the plaque goes on to make the provenance extremely clear:
"A Tsistsisas or Lakħóta artist created this headdress, which symbolizes power, leadership, and generosity. Jack L. Garcia, who donated the headdress to Mia in that same spirit of Lakħóta generosity, was a great grandson of two Oglála Lakħóta leaders: Śungmànitu Haņksa (Long Wolf) and Čhetáņ Lúta (Red Hawk). In 1874, the United States government discovered gold in the Black Hills, and broke its treaty with the Lakħóta, initiating hostilities. Both of Garcia's forebears fought against and defeated General George Custer and his army in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876."
That's a damn nice description. Correct names, a factual account with no moralizing or racist narrative: they fought, they won, period. The only inaccuracy here--on a technicality--is that the Native tribes involved in that battle called it the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and personally in a Native exhibit I'd use the Native terminology. I can see why they didn't (plaque space is finite and they would have had to explain the name), but the quibble is worth bringing up.
But here. The very last line. The point of all of this in the first place:
"At the installation of this headdress, a Lakħóta medicine man blessed the object with Garcia's family in attendance."
Not only is it freely given instead of looted. Not only is it given the respect it deserves as not just as a mark of honor but as an artistic object (seriously I couldn't get my camera to focus on the stitching but it is STUNNING how even and delicate it looks when you consider someone would have been dancing and attending ceremonies in this). But it was put in the museum with the very literal blessing of tribal elders. They made sure the Lakħóta community was involved and that the headdress was treated in a culturally appropriate manner. And off to the right is a small family tree showing Garcia's direct ties to the leaders they named, providing proof of provenance. That's an extremely far cry from "we're some old white bastards who took this because we wanted it, take a look."
Museums are trying. Some are doing better than others, but they are trying.
Try going to one sometime, and see for yourself.
happy pride month
this one kinda hurts when i see it every pride month. im glad to see an art piece of mine still circulating, and with nearly 100,000 notes too! it just hurts that im separated from it. everyone in the notes thinks im gone. im still here, but my potential community and connection is lost because im forgotten in place of the art. yeah, my deactivated profile does add to the profoundness of what i was saying, but i am still removed.
it takes 10 layers of the water filter to completely drown a tumblr screenshot if anyone was wondering
hi yeah i know ive been on this medication for 8 years but i need-- yeah. yeah 3 more months please. I'll call you in 3 months to beg for 3 more months, thanks. Bye. Love you.
The whole "the Old Magic actually sucks because material conditions have advanced" thing, but applied to cinematic martial arts. No, yeah, the legends are true, that move used to explode a man's entire skeleton, but you need to understand that people had more fragile bones back then. Poor nutrition, you see.
This five-point meridian strike is meant to make your head burst like an overripe melon, but it turns out it only works on people who have peripheral nerve damage from chronic vitamin B12 deficiency, which everyone did at the time it was developed. If you take your multivitamins it just makes your ears ring.
soldier, poet, king
we reviewed your report and found that "racist_chud" does not go against our community standards. ok
It's always a really great feeling to go back and re-read something you wrote and go "oh wow!! oh yay actually this is really good??"
The one downside is my instinct after "wow this is good" is to then go "wow I have to go tell people how good this is!" and now here. we have an impasse.
slides up into the group discord like "hey did you know that" *chuckles* *flips my hair* *presses my fingers to my temple* "there is a genius writer here and it's ME?!"
*I've slid a loose pamphlet of papers under the door and the first page is a crude crayon drawing of a character with the title 'Blorbo the Fic By: ...Me!!!'*
