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Don't mind me, just logging into this second account too look at a callout post made by someone I blocked.
I actually really needed this, thank you.
if your “gremlincore aesthetic” isn’t centered around military aircraft sabotage what’s the fucking point
gremlincore moodboard
Trans people don’t typically scream at people over being misgendered, so whenever a transphobe acts like trans people do that I just think “this is made up” or “what did you really do to get them to that point”
behind every girlboss is another, bigger girlboss
they call this a pyramid scheme i think
I think they prefer the term mlm
i think you're thinking of wlw
Wulti level warketing scheme
good work, gals
some of you haven’t realized that improving the world is a battle of miserable inches and not something that can be done in a glorious blaze of revolution and it shows
some of you haven’t realised that choosing revolution as THE way is a privilege
and you need to realise that aiming for revolution without fighting for the miserable inches will fuck a lot of other people over
I also think it has to do with the stories we tell. And maybe that’s privilege too - the luxury of being able to choose stories for their excitement rather their accuracy, idk – but we don’t tell the stories of the miserable inches. Rosa Parks sat down, MLK made a speech, Obama was elected, and now racism is over – a nice, neat story in 3 acts that fits in a 2-hour time slot with time for commercial breaks. We ignore the quiet heroism of a black woman deciding to use the white restroom so she can do her job properly, or a black man walking across Alabama because dammit he should be able to walk on a public road without danger. Of organizations patiently, repeatedly, steadfastly filing a lawsuit every single time someone tries to get away with something that’s illegal. Of one person getting their office building to separate compost from garbage, or organizing her apartment building on a rent strike, or taking one for the team to say “that’s kinda sexist don’t you think?” when his boss commits a microaggression in a meeting. We don’t talk about writing to your city council every single time police overstep their authority, or paying attention to which textbooks the school board is selecting, or sharing art from POC creators. So when you finally wake up and recognize your privilege and think “Holy shit! Women’s lives are harder for the stupidest reasons!” or “Oh My God, racism is out of control in this country!” or “Damn, my life woulda sucked if my parents hadn’t been able to pay for my college” or “Fuck, capitalism may have some impressive accomplishments under its belt but holy crap is unrestrained capitalism deadly!” or whatever, and you decide you can’t live with it anymore, and you’re going to do something about it, what do you think of? Harry Potter. Les Miserables. Mockingjay. I am either going to die on the battlefield in glory or rise up. And when that’s the only story you know, it looks like the only option. Revolution or acceptance. Anyone who says “Guys, we should at least have a plan before we violently overthrow the government” is a collaborator and a quisling because this has been going on too long and change can’t wait. And like, you’re right. This HAS been going on too long and change CAN’T wait. We should not do nothing. But revolution is not the only something that can happen. IDK, this kinda got away from me. I only know that I’ve been trying since June to figure out what a soft-spoken nerd can do as activism, and there is no answer out there. Meaningless symbolism, passive acceptance, and violent revolution are the only categories of advice I can find.
And don’t forget—the United States is one of history’s more positive outcomes for violent revolution, flawed as we may be. People talk about guillotines a lot on this site but nobody talks about how the French Revolution led to Emperor Napoleon.
There’s a reason violence should be the absolute last option, and it isn’t “if we defend ourselves then we’re just as bad as them uwu”. Violent revolution is a game of russian roulette with the gun pointed at millions of people. The only guaranteed outcome is bloodshed.
Incremental change or peaceful revolution are lower reward, I’m not denying it. But they are also EXPONENTIALLY lower risk.
I firmly believe that violence is a tool more suited to oppression than liberation. Not that it can never be used—but the greatest tool we have is withholding our labor. Strikes are the tool most suited to liberation.
Conservatives love guns. It’s unions they can’t stand.
You just had to be there
I think I'm physically unable to explain this post
the fact that people are still joining this cacophony of a website is somehow more jarring than the fact this was almost a full four months ago
lukewarm take but i personally do not give a shit if poor people cheat a system that was designed to fail them anyways. i also coincidentally do not enjoy the taste of boot rubber
why did i have a customer that hole punched his credit card’s chip out, because “he didn’t want a chip”, and then didn’t understand why I couldn’t process his transaction
Ok I just came across a tik tok of a 16 yr old Latina girl showing her room—trashed. Like completely ransacked. And her parents did it cos she has a hard time getting up for school that morning. My heart hurts so much.
How can you bring life into this world and then fucking be so horrible to your own child? She was crying in the video and going through her stuff, she makes jewelry and they trashed her jewelry making supplies.
Oh my god I want to cry how fuckinf awful. She’s “okay” like she isn’t hurt she kept posting but????? Oh my god. I would put them in the most abusive neglectful nursing home possible once they’re old. Fuckers. I fucking HATE adults like this.
If you wanna help her, her Etsy is Pigeonincooporated !!! Her father apparently asked why she was getting a huge influx of orders on her jewelry SMFH ppl telling her to not tell them she’s earning money which is smart. But yeah support this baby’s business please.
Her cashapp!!!!!!!!
every film noir detective who arrested the femme fatale instead of running away w her was a fool and a coward send post
"boo hoo she stole the diamonds/killed a man" yeah, and? maybe he deserved it. the diamonds look great w her outfit. you just hate to see a girlboss winning
𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕱𝖚𝖈𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕳𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖞
(inspired by seeing THIS DOPE ARTWORK by @sartagos)
Thank
Iris Van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer known for fusing technology with traditional haute couture craftsmanship.
@glumshoe seems up your alley wrt fashion
An angel
Wtf bats swim
Omfg
Here’s another little-known bat fact:
Orphaned baby bats are often swaddled tightly like teeny burritos to mimic being cuddled by mom and help ease separation anxiety.
They also seem to find pacifiers soothing.
I’m pretty sure I’ve posted on this before, but there’s always someone who hasn’t heard about this before. Plus, I’ll happily take any excuse I can to post cute baby animal pics (especially when they’re wrapped like tiny furry burritos) :)
GOD I love bats <3
@cruelfeline
Well, people have asked if the clones can swim.
We have an answer!
:P
Honestly the biggest disappointment I had researching ABC was that medieval authors did not, in fact, see the creatures they were describing and were trying their best to describe them with their limited knowledge while going “what the fuck… what the fuck…”
Instead all those creatures you know came about from transcription and translation errors from copying Greco-Roman sources (who themselves got them from travelers’ tales from Persia and India - rhino -> unicorn, tiger -> manticore, python -> dragon, and so on).
So unicorns are real
behold… a unicorn
I always thought animals in medieval manuscripts looked like the result of having to draw say. A Tree Kangaroo, but your only source for what it looked like was your friend who heard it from a fellow who knows a man who swears he saw one once, whilst very drunk and lost, and I am SO PLEASED to find out this is, in fact, the case.
Questing Beast
- Neck of a snake
- body of a leopard
- haunches of a lion
- feet off a hart (deer)
So is it
Or….
don’t forget that some of the legendary creatures they were describing were from other people’s mythos which were passed down in the oral tradition for gods know how long. You know what existed in Eurasia right around the time we were domesticating wolves into dogs?
these beasties. For a long time, science had them down as going extinct 200 thousand years ago, but then we found some bones from 36 thousand years ago. Which, y’know, is quite a difference. Since you can bet that any skeleton we find is not literally the last one of its kind to live, many creatures have date ranges unknowably far outside the evidence.
In South Asia there were cultures that described a man-beast/troll forrest giant who’s knuckles dragged the ground, and everybody from the west was sure it was superstitious mumbo jumbo, but you know what used to live there?
And did you know that some of the earliest white colonizers of the Americas heard accounts that there were natives still alive who had seen and hunted and eaten a great hairy beast, shaggy like the buffalo but much bigger, with a long thin nose like a snake and two giant fangs… so, like, mammoths, you know? but they were totally discounted because europeans of the time were like, elephants live in Africa and aren’t hairy, you can’t fool us, pranksters!
Anyway, the point is between the early writing game of telephone description thing talked about by OP, and the discounting of native cultural accuracy, I’m pretty sure most legendary creatures are in fact real animals one way or another
It can’t explain every single legendary creature, but yes, this is super important. Because History relies on written sources, it tends to sweep oral tradition under the rug, even if there’s a lot of interesting informations in it.
And it’s not just living animals that were badly described, or which descriptions got exaggerated over the course of centuries or through translation errors. Sometimes, people finding fossil bones of extinct animals might have also influenced some myths!
By now this is pretty well-known but it has been theorised that the Greek myth of the cyclops was started when people found Deinotherium skulls. Now you might say, uh, how is it possible to think a cousin of the elephant is a huge human dude with one eye?
Well-
- the big nasal opening kinda looks like an eye if you have no idea what kind of animal had this kind of skull (you can read more about this theory in this old National Geographic article if you like).
Here’s a less well-known one; the griffin is a mythological hybrid with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. The earliest traces of this myth come from ancient Iranian and ancient Egyptian art, from more than 3000 BC. In Iranian mythology, it’s called شیردال (shirdal, “lion eagle”). Now, it’s been the subject of some debate and it’s not confirmed, but there’s a theory that people might have seen some Protoceratops and Psittacosaurus fossils in Asia and might have interpreted it as “a lion with an eagle’s head”:
Check the “origin” part of the wikipedia page for “griffin” if you want to find more sources for this theory and for the arguments against it! Again, it’s just a theory, but I think it’s super cool.
This is a pretty well accepted theory for why dragons (or animals we group as like dragons, eg wyverns and drakes) are seen in mythos almost worldwide - because people found dinosaur bones, looked at them, and went “oh fuck what’s that? some big…. lizardy thing?” and then created dragons.
Also many deagon legends are simply exaggerations of well-known living reptiles like snakes and crocodilians.a
It also explains why dragons can look so different in the myths of the various regions.
In asia, Dragons tend to look very long and snake like:
One of the most common dinosaurs that used to like in the asia region, so would have been the most common fossils found by people:
The Mamenchisaurus, this thing is just all neck and tail! You find just half a fossilised skeleton of this monster, you can easily end up thinking of a long snake-like beast.
South America also has legends snake-like dragons among some of its peoples:
What fossils from pre-historic south America could be found?
The Titanoboa, which can easily grow to be 40 feet long.
In North America there is the Piasa Bird
Which wikipedia tells me comes from “ the large Mississippian culture city of Cahokia,” it’s describes as
What fossils could have been found in that region:
Pterosaur, and Triceratops. Features of both sets of skeletons could have been merged into one legendary creature.
Then we get our European style dragon:
One of the most common fossils that could have been found was a Cetiosaurus
which, despite being a herbivore, looked to have a mouth of sharp looking teeth, consistant with a dragons.
Dragons amongst the peoples of Africa are even more varied, but most revolve around some kind of giant snake-like creature. As a quick example, we’ll take Dan Ayido Hwedo commonly found in West African mythology.
Fossils in that area could have been included the Aegyptosaurus:
A quick google search tells me that most Sauropods: well known for being long necked and long tailed, are found in Africa.
If you found only a half complete skeleton of this thing; which is likely, because it’s rare to find a complete dinosaur skeleton, you could easily think of a giant snake monster.