Library of Ellie

Hiiii. Ellie's blog since 2011 or something. She/her queer

[diserbillyti]

Weird conversation I keep seeing about videogames:

disabled bloke: Is there an easy mode, or something that removes [mechanic]? I have [disability] and can't do [mechanic].

guy: heh no offense kid but perhaps [genre] is not for you... and that's OK! not every game is for everybody... have you considered heh maybe cookie clicker or stardew valley? it seems more your speed 😎 leave the real Gaming to the big boys...

guy2: what would the point of [game] without [mechanic] even be? If you remove the difficulty from Elden Ring it's a horrible tedious piece of shit incapable of causing wonder or joy in a human mind.

guy3: no more yellow paint!!! stop handholding and dumbing things down!!! we are not stupid!!!!!!

And it's like OK so playing videogames doesn't turn you into a miserable piece of shit, obviously, but dude. This is simply nowhere near as common around other forms of entertainment media. It is specifically videogames that are like this.

I mean, other mediums it's like,

disabled bloke: is there an audiobook of this? I get really bad migraines if I focus on text for too long.

guy: there isn't an official one man sorry :/ maybe if you put the ebook through text-to-speech? i can show you how to set that up

guy2: there's an independent ebook version on youtube! [link]

guy3: i want to suck your dick bro i love you bro let's live together forever bro like a family bro peace and love on planet earth

Even when you run into some freak who's like, "I just love the feeling of paper in my hands. Books are sacred. I could never use an audiobook instead, I love the experience of reading too much," if you put it to them as a disability thing they usually just shut the fuck up and go away. They're not offended by the existence of the audiobook.

Bizarre behaviour man.

[softwaring]

[vedurnan-archive]

[invaderxan]

[konohahater]

car is a sentient beast that eats dollars and can tell when you have money in your bank account

[konohahater]

🎯

[sanguinewolves]

yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔

[autistic-af]

Reblog if a mutual who's never spoken to you can randomly send you memes that made them think of you.

[corruptimles]

theres no spider pet in the game so this is what i gave my annabelle mii

[thewhimsyturtle]

It’s Derby Day!  🏇

The 151st Kentucky Derby is shaping up to be an exciting one! Bob Baffert is back (with only one horse still in the running), four of the five inside horses this year plus two farther out may start out fast, two of the top three favorites are deep closers, and chances of rain are 100%! ⛈🐎💨

With Mom's soft spot for grays, we will be rooting for beautiful gray Sandman, but we will be keeping an eye on favorites Journalism (what a headline that would be!) and Sovereignty, alternate entry Baeza, and versatile Coal Battle! 🤍🤎🐎🐢

Time to put on a fabulous flowery fascinator like my pretty pansy and start the party! How much longer until I can CHOMP my hat?? 🌸😋👒

[antifa-lizards]

[flootzavut]

Who would win

Miss Piggy

Spike from BtVS

Voting ended onApr 29

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[severestudentsoulampomothill1972]

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[m4a1-shermayne]

This turtle is in hell and all you can think about is cum

[spookedstarzz]

got that dog in me and mitski has been showing financial interest in it

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

[zagreus]

[gayvampyr]

adult friendships are so dumb like yeah i think i can find a time to hang. how’s february 17th at 4pm

[ziggy-scardust]

that’s next week! Don’t forget!

[dailyhistorymemes]

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

[paula-of-christ]

[im-the-princess-now]

I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

[dresshistorynerd]

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

[trickstertime]

Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

[jennybobenny73]

Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:

Eternal Heart Sculpture to Honor Choctaw/Ireland Relationship to be Unveiled at Choctaw Nation Capitol - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun

[marmota-b]

Frankly, despite the tragedies behind it, one of my favourite bits of human history.

[a-calico-rabbit]

Damn, þe US really is Britain’s kid.

[beardedmrbean]

[junglejim4322]

Going back to sleep is so powerful im a huge fan of going back to sleep