it's going to be okay

butch clark kent propagandist

[bathater]

rana, mid-20s, any pronouns. also sometimes found talking about viddy games at @vigilskept. enjoyer of women’s wrongs & hitting that comic book character with a butch beam. liable to write essays about carceral politics.

[freakoutgirl]

It's important to have one medium you are pretentious about and another medium that shows you also have dogshit taste

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

[ancestralia]

In 1997 Amelia’s daughter, Mary Moran, and other members of the Moran family were invited to Sierra Leone, West Africa, where they were welcomed in Freetown by Sierra Leone’s President and then flown by helicopter to the country’s interior.  There, in the small village of Senehun Ngola, Mary and Bendu Jabati met and sang this song together for the first time.  Years earlier, Bendu’s grandmother had told her that this song, which had been passed down in her village from mother to daughter for centuries, would one day reunite her to long-lost relatives.

In addition to finding out where in Africa her ancestors were abducted into slavery, Mary Moran discovered the meaning of the Mende song: a processional hymn for the final farewell to the spirit, it was sung in Senehun Ngola by women as they prepared the body of a loved one for burial.

(The OP's link leads to a site with a recording of the song sung by both Mary Moran and her mother, Amelia)

[bathater]

For anyone looking: original link is broken, but fortunately the site is still up just migrated here. Also shared on the site are this clip of a news report regarding the story of Amelia and her descendants and a video of Mary and Wilson Moran's own reflections on their family history.

The full story of search connecting Amelia's Song to the Mende is told in the documentary The Language You Cry In. The distributor's site is here if a public library near you doesn't have it available already.

The story of Harris Neck, GA and the seizure of land by the U.S. War Department removing 75 African American families from their homes is also part of the Moran family's story and part of the ongoing injustice faced by Black communities in the U.S. South. You can find out more about the fight to reclaim Harris Neck in the short documentary film Descended: The Fight for Harris Neck, which is currently fully available on YouTube.

The Harris Neck Land Trust has more information on all of the above on their website, where they can also be contacted and accept donations to help support them in their legal battle to reclaim the land for the families it was stolen from.

[officialpenisenvy]

koriand'r STUNS in led zeppelin crop top

[amaltheas-garden]

I mean technically shouldn’t he get 2 Oscars

[twilahasbecks]

[helloitsbees]

[cataclysmcrows]

big fan of when grief drives characters to do fucked up things that are ultimately pointless and do more harm than good rather than just like. going to therapy

[whatcha-thinkin]

You won an all-expenses-paid trip to the Olympic games! The only catch is that you must compete in one event as the normal-person benchmark to compare with the athletes. Which event?

figure skating

speed skating

ice hockey

snowboarding

downhill skiing

ski jump

biathlon (skiing + shooting)

bobsled

luge

curling

I may not be an Olympian but I can make a decent effort in [tag]

travel? Italy? cameras? uggggggh just met me stay home

Voting ended onFeb 14

[ghksxodh]

[enchantingruinscandy]

Putting powdered sugar on the post below

[thirdpunch]

[pagliaccis-clown]

has this happened to anyone

[thestarfirearchives]

The above scans have one of the most fascinating explorations of Starfire’s character I’ve found yet, I’m honestly amazed I’d never seen this before.

Context: Trigon has taken over Raven and is using her to enact his evil plans. The Titans come to stop him and save Raven. The Titans are incapacitated, and Raven sets them fighting their inner demons in their minds, confronting them with their worst thoughts and fears, planning to make them effectively fight their own souls to self-destruction so she can make them Trigon puppets. Standard comic-book stuff right?

So, what ideas, insecurities and fears does Starfire’s inner darkness present her with?

Her people and family enslaved, plus it being her fault in some way (amusingly Blackfire is missing from this scenario).

The worry that Robin is ultimately scared of her, of her power and rage, and that he will never commit to her in the same way she would to him. 

The idea that she’s forsaken her people and her planet by choosing to stay on Earth, especially since Tamaran had gone through so much trouble recently.

The fear that she wouldn’t be strong enough to let herself return to slavery if it were the only way to save the people she loves, that no matter the stakes, she would simply be too weak and cowardly to do it. As someone who firmly believed she would do anything for her loved ones, being forcibly confronted with this idea is the one thing that breaks her apart the most.

Yeah…

As some additional trivia, on a lighter note: these issues served as the main inspiration for the scene in the Teen Titans TV show where Trigon pitted Beast Boy, Cyborg and Starfire against their inner evils. The cartoon even copied the design of the dark-sides being black and white, with solid red eyes.

The New Teen Titans (v2), Issues 3 & 4

[bathater]

peer reviewed tags from @roobylavender

[timejoshi]

and fuck grant morrison

[timejoshi]

ok but what is the reasoning behind it being a horse girl movie.. i wish to be enlightened

horse girl (tim) learns that her favourite Horse (bruce) is going to be killed any day now because he's so wild and untameable (having a violent grief episode) and in a desperate bid to give the Horse (bruce) one more chance the horse girl (tim) tracks down the horse trainer (dick) who once trained the Horse (bruce) into winning blue ribbons at competitions (defeating evildoers) but eventually gave up on trying to tame the Horse (bruce) because he was just too wild. please mister horse tamer (dick) you're his only hope you're the only one who ever got close to taming him... no can do horse girl (tim) my horse taming days are done i tried too long to tame that damn Horse (bruce) but it's just impossible... fine mister horse tamer (dick) I'LL do it... if you help me... i will tame the Horse (bruce)... i'll become the best horse tamer this small farm town (gotham city) ever saw

[sreppub]

i see the vision op

[silverwhittlingknife]

[dickgreyson]

Dick buying slades contracts is like one of the funniest things ever, but i would go further. I would keep him on a keep-the-fuck-off-the-eastern-seaboard retainer. Pay the fucker he’ll take it

[dickgreyson]

[dear-ao3]

[chilliesh]