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These are for custom monster designs! You can give me as much or as little info to go on as you like. I'll work with you to make a design you're happy with. You'll own the creature's design and can use it for any non-profit/ industry purpose. Some absolute no go's: -NSFW (except gore) -Fetish stuff -Mechs -Complex armor -It shouldn't be applicable given the nature of these comms, but absolutely no pedo shit! I will block you
The eye doctor is the most fun doctor you can go to. They never steal your blood. They never make you get naked and put on a paper dress. They're just like, "Can you see these letters? It's fine if you can't, we can fix that." And they don't even spell anything.
Every time I go they put me in a chair and they say look into this machine there's a hot air balloon or a farmhouse in there and I do and I'm like you're right I see it and they're like yeah keep admiring that hot air balloon or farmhouse and I do and I'm like this shit's quaint as fuck and then do you know what happens next they attack me they jumpscare me with air directly into my eyeballs and i fall out the chair and they say sorryyyy but they're NOT they wanted this to happen they KNEW about the jumpscare well now I'm wise to it now I know better when I go in and they say look at this bodacious hot air balloon I'm like NO WAY DUDE that balloon wishes me harm have at thee and I attack them and push them on the ground and spit on them
"she thinks this is bonding behavior" my friend this has BECOME your bonding behaviour
Blue screens in office n 47.
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy
what if I just made my profile picture a male calico cat or something. hurm
Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.
Oh my god?????
Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????
Best tumblr update of all time?
rebloggable asks
reblog buttons being over to the bottom of the post
replies being given back after being taken away
polls
a comparatively less broken video player
bigger gif file size limit
gifposts in the first place
something else
This is why they'll never get me off this site. I liked this site even when it was practically unusable.
Polls are delightful but I feel like the "polls" response leading the crowd right now is recency bias. For those of you who are newer here, or those who have forgotten the bygone days, consider just how fucking unusable a site would be if you have to scroll for pages to finish reading a post and then scroll for pages up again to reblog it and then scroll for pages down again to continue browsing. Consider how often you would miss the mark and reblog completely the wrong post. Consider the hell of when the same post appears several times on your dash in a row, especially with a few different endings, especially if those endings argue with each other.
Now make it all harder still with post chains indented so far you can't even read them...
being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.
I'd say this is an anomaly but seriously roos are sometimes nosy and just need to be in your business, OR they will fight you if you look at them funny. I love them, they're great, but they make little sense.
The fucking horror I felt in my soul of the 3 seconds it took to try to and work out what the fuck this animal was
have you ever suddenly + involuntarily lost consciousness
yes (fainted)
yes (head trauma)
yes (substance-induced)
yes (lack of oxygen)
yes (blood loss)
yes (multiple)
no
I got this little booklet from Galway Pride last year but never got round to captioning it, hence the delay. Galway Pride/Bród na Gaillimhe makes everything available in both English and Irish and in fact it was after attending an Anseo agus Aiteach (Here and Queer) meeting at Teach Solais in Galway that I was inspired to start this page.
Image description: a series of images showing the four pages of a small black paper booklet containing LGBT terms in Irish. The first image is of the front of the booklet - along the right side is the progress pride flag and it says "Gaeilge Aiteach - Queer Irish, by Galway Pride 2020 - le Bród na Gaillimhe." The second image is of the back page which has text at the top and bottom and Galway Pride's logo in the centre (the logo is a small rainbow with three people standing under it).
The top text reads "Bhí an leabhrán seo déanta le tagairtí ó 'An Foclóir Aiteach'. Tuilleadh eolais air anseo: https://usi.ie/focloir-aiteach/ *** This booklet was made with references from 'The Queer Dictionary'. More info on it here: https://usi.ie/focloir-aiteach/."
The bottom text reads "Más mian leat tuiulleadh cleachtú a dhéanamh ar do Ghaeilge, bígí linn ag Anseo agus Aiteach! Tuilleadh eolais ar Facebook 'Teach Solais LGBT+ Resource Centre' *** If you'd like to practice more of your Irish, join us at Anseo agus Aiteach! More info on the 'Teach Solais LGBT+ Resource Centre' Facebook."
The third and fourth images contain the following LGBT+ terms in Irish:
Forainmneacha (fur-ann-um-ugh-ah) - pronouns
siad/iad (sheed/eed) - they/them
sí/í (she/ee) - she/her
sé/é (shay/ay) - he/him
Mar shampla: "Úsáidim siad/iad" (mar hahmp-lah: oo-sawj-um sheed/eed) - For example: "I use they/them"
Gnéasachtaí & Féiniúlachtaí (guh-nay-suck-tee & fay-noo-luck-tee) - Sexualities & Identities
Leispiach (lesh-pee-uck) - lesbian
Aerach (air-uck) - gay
Déghnéasach (jay-guh-nay-suck) - bisexual
Trasinscneach (trass-in-shcuh-nuck) - transgender
Aiteach (atch-uck) - queer
Idirghnéas (ij-urr-guh-nay-suck) - intersex
Éighnéasach (ay-guh-nay-suck) - asexual
Painghnéasach (pan-guh-nay-suck) - pansexual
Neamh-dhénartha (nuh-yav - jay-nawr-ha)- nonbinary
Mar shampla:
"Is leispiach mé" (is lesh-pee-uck may) - I am a lesbian
"Is duine neamh-dhénartha mé" (is dih-nah nuh-yav - jay-nawr-ha may) - I am a nonbinary person
Note: I previously got an ask about how to say "I am queer" which I feel is pertinent to this booklet as they appear to have answered the question much more succinctly than I could.
The stereotype of the nerd girl taking her glasses off and suddenly she's beautiful, but in reverse. A cold tough mean office lady who glares at everyone until she gets glasses and suddenly becomes sweet, approachable and friendly since she no longer has a constant headache over not being able to fucking see, doesn't need to squint at everything, and actually remembers individual people by name now that she can tell them apart at all.
like this OP?
Most people who say they want a "village" really want socialism/a social welfare state, but they're Americans so they can't just say that.
The #1 defining characteristic of a village is that everyone's always up in each other's personal business and your ability to get your needs met depends on your interpersonal relationships and your reputation. Your ability to conform to the rules and expectations the village has set for you.
That means that if the village says you shouldn't get pregnant when you don't have a man to provide for you and you get pregnant regardless, they can refuse to support you. They can reject and stigmatize your child.
When you make a decision—any decision—from what you wear and who you associate with to who you will be romantically involved with and what that will look like, to your education and career, family planning and whether you will leave your partner if they abuse you—the village has a say in all of it.
A proper social state, however, decides which services to provide, how much to fund them etc, there are still cultural biases there, but it won't tell you how to live your life. If all university programs are free, you can go study liberal arts instead of law, your parents can't stop you, and if the state provides a stipend, free housing and free meals while you study and also takes care of your basic needs afterwards, you have the ultimate freedom to do whatever the fuck you want to do with your life.
Want to have 8 children and a trad lifestyle in the countryside? Cool, they'll have healthcare, schooling, meals, competent teachers, after-school activities, public transit, public parks and activities—all for free. And none of that will be dependent on how many people around you like you and your kids personally and what they think of your lifestyle.
You want to be aggressively transgender and live in the city with your 8 person polycule and spend your days doing art and running a café that only does matcha? You can do that too. You'll get free housing for all of you and the business space provided for you, even if everyone in your neighborhood thinks you're weird.
The bureaucrats handing out the collective resources ideally shouldn't give a shit what you do with them.
When I applied for uni and chose a liberal arts degree instead of STEM, nobody told me "yeah no sorry we don't approve of that, you'll have to do something we think is useful or pay for it yourself". I got a free education plus a stipend, subsidized housing and food and everything else.
Unless you want a community of people who get to have a say in everything you do, you don't want a village. Socialism or perhaps communism might cause less despair maybe?
if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"
Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!
More pieces from the Vinita Cultural Center from last year's basketry exhibit
#the museum i worked at had a collection of these baskets!!!#they are like #idk its hard to describe them #they dont look quite like regular baskets they look like so beautiful #anyways check out the Mountain Heritage Center's exhibit on cherokee/rivercane baskets to learn more
Yes, for some reason I don't think they had any Rivercane baskets at this exhibit, the Vinita cultural center is a bit small so maybe that had to do with it? But traditionally Rivercane baskets look like this:
(credit to Lizzie "Nannie" Youngblood and Rowana Bradley, artist unknown for the Chief's Heart shoppers basket)
The basket pictured in the post is likely commercial round reed (with some flat reed), the commercial form of the materials we would use such as Honeysuckle, Buckbrush, or Trumpet Vine. Many Western Cherokee picked up round reed basketry due to lack of supply of Rivercane after the forced removal to Oklahoma.
I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to in regards to this post but I am a tribal member who is posting this and these were taken at our own museum within our own territory in Oklahoma. This information provided is provided by our knowledge keepers and elders.
I am one of these people you talk about being alive, sharing my culture 🙂
I strongly dislike how "some museums have unethical practices, and repatriation of stolen goods should be a high priority when applicable" has morphed into "all museums are evil, and museums are an unethical and untrustworthy source of information by nature."
Also: where the hell do you think culture is shared? Do you think that you can just... show up to some Indigenous elder's house and go "pls teach me about baskets, thank you?"
Boy, if only there was some kind of centralized location that was open to the public where you could go to learn about things! Maybe a location that has storage space for lots of items and displays to help people understand those items so that you're not constantly asking artisans to do the intellectual labor of explanation! Maybe a location that has room for artists in residency so that they can show you the things they do, or a location that has space to bring in guest speakers. Oh, and it definitely needs to have centralized digital infrastructure to store records based about items so that we're not making a bunch of scattered artisans write stuff down and keep it in boxes in their closet or something.
I wonder what an institution like that would be called.
