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To match my handles on twt and b.sky more lol

Origami Around
Cosmic Funnies

Janaina Medeiros
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Mike Driver

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NASA
Monterey Bay Aquarium
we're not kids anymore.
Show & Tell
i don't do bad sauce passes

#extradirty

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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Claire Keane
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@bestbeloathed
Offbrandcaptainamerica -> bestbeloathed
To match my handles on twt and b.sky more lol
do not go gentle into that good night
be a bit of a bitch about it
can't in good conscience leave this out
Getting roasted in the family group chat.
Knight and the enemy within - rust and rot [alt version of this]
-as mentioned in tags, this alt is for patreon- Rusty and crusty Wreg is about a4 300 dpi, and the is made for at-home printing.
Never read Baldwin before?
Nonfiction
The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)
The Fire Next Time (pdf download)
Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)
Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)
The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)
Fiction
Giovanni's Room (pdf download)
If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)
BONUS
Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)
Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)
Another Country (pdf and epub download)
Sonny's Blues (pdf download)
Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)
My next Black History Month request:
Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!
Okay but none of these pictures are as much of a mood as Morfin just chilling out, looking at his own corpse
Mandible NgLj-2:226
I bought this and it hangs in my terror themed bathroom and I love it
Hello!!! I'm so excited to finally share this little time-based guess-the-sailor fangame with you!
In Who is That Sailor? you have 30 seconds to correctly identify the characters shown on screen. The more you identify, the more time and points you get. See where you land on the leaderboard, and compete for the title of Master of the Muster Roll!
It's available as a web game on itch.io, and as an executable for Windows.
Play it here!
What has your experience been like as a native t*rror fan?
IT SUCKS LOL NOBODY WANTS TO TALK TO ME cause i'm a fucking buzzkill and i don't like to leave discussions of colonization and colonialism and imperialism to nothing more than a disclaimer and a frowny emoticon. i actually don't think "obviously they're all bad people" is good analysis, i don't think any interpretation can hold up when all you say is "obv a huge part of this is the racism" when all anyone does is just name it and then proceed to side step and talk around it for the rest of time. in this fandom for all the literary analysis and cool shit it's like the actual damn themes of the show are the only things people DON'T talk about and instead write thousands of words on homosocialism and class struggle and military service and victorian values and will analyze and analyze every character But with the racism REMOVED. as if it's too serious (read: just not fun!!!) to be included in with everything else, instead of being the sole point of origin around which all characters in the terror are formed, around which every theme is developed, around which is the very foundational reason every white person gets away with saying "polar exploration" like they were fucking exploring anything, around which is the reason imperialists felt they had such a right to the rest of the world that they did it in the first place! and i don't like to be a buzzkill, recently on discord i've been eating my words a lot because i realize that i can sound so negative about the things i like, but it's because i like them that i am so so so critical of their flaws. and the show itself doesn't even mince words the way the fandom does, i love the way the show is written (and as always by gosh one day i will get my hands on a copy of the book but today is not that day) and it actually does so much that i dreamed it would. it isn't actually just "white navymen doing white navymen things and we don't question the politics of why they're doing those things" it's narratively centered around the question of what is a navyman and what is a colonizer and how do these men bring their victorian english royal navy society to a world that is just absolutely fine without it, and how do they all end eachother through nothing but their adherance to a structure that (like all structures, like all borders) is enforced by violence when they never had to Do All That in the first place? it's good! it's really good!! i'm writing an insane essay about personifications of imperialism in the terror right now! but the fandom somehow seems to have watched an entirely different show from me. i don't mind being fandom silly i like to ship characters and in fact the terror is far from the most imperial text on which i spend my time (hi, aubreyad! mwah!) and be very facetious with, i just also don't think that by treating the central themes of the show (without which all interpretation and analysis falls through because it is not founded first on anything) as Untouchable Topics because they're So Serious is actually doing us any favors.
and that is just my like, baseline level gripe is that i wish white people cared about racism more than they do. the most they can muster is saying they care, of course they do, and then proceeding to somehow forget that caring is a verb and an action and needs to actually be done for you to say you do it. this doesn't even MENTION the anon asks i've gotten since the first time i expressed this sentiment. i was told indigenous perspective on polar exploration literally Doesn't Matter and Isn't Needed beyond the oral history we already have - which i don't know if i need to spell it out but one of the most common ways people are unthinkingly racist to natives is to want our words and our bodies and our relics and our writings and our ideas and our medicine and our stories and our history, but they don't want them all together in one place being breathed life by US. they want to put them on their powerpoints and tell other white people about the fun facts they've learned, about a people who aren't here anymore, and goodness forbid there's one of us in the room, who dares to remind anyone that you're talking about actual people, and that it should be indigenous people who get to talk about their own damn culture first instead of having to give up space so some white person can speak on our behalf.
that's a specific message i got a while ago that really hurt me, because it was framed so good-faith as if the person was really truly genuinely just curious about what justifies native ppl speaking at all. i was being asked to justify even being part of the conversation at all, something i guarantee no white 20-something in this fandom has had to do. but beyond that i've gotten more outwardly racist things, slurs and insults and "you should have all been wiped out we need to try again" and such. that all is just part of online life for me at this point because i happen to think shutting up about racism is not actually a good thing, so i'm kind of honestly used to it, but it was that first message written in the same polite tone that many normal asks are, many analysis posts in the fandom and many normal conversations, but asking me to justify even being alive and talking in the same place as a white person, in a fandom dominated by white people talking to white people about a culture of white people that only exists because of imperialism and racism, was really something i don't know that i've gotten over yet.
i have to cut this off here cause i am busy in offline life but if anyone wants me to elaborate on any of this completely feel free to ask, i'm actually not mean, i just (incredibly) don't like experiencing racism
The portrayal of white people who have been violently separated from their own culture stealing the power of black culture and music to try to get reconnected was SO literal and somehow not at ALL heavy-handed or trite. Fkn remarkable.
Nebulous AU idea I had where Fitzjames and Crozier are both taken prisoner by the mutineers
origins au where the warden dies of their injuries in flemeth’s hut after ostagar. and flemeth sees that the existence of a buddy grey warden was extremely emotionally load-bearing for the one she did manage to save so she puts a spirit in the warden’s corpse and drags them out with the exact same you worry too much young man! look, they’re fine! spiel
This post put so many dragon age themed worms in my head thank you
i hate to fade alone
William Pilkington/Charles Des Voeux / rated M / 3.1k words
Liam could all but hear him rolling his eyes as he asked, “Will you sleep if I describe to you this fantastical wife of mine?” His fingers scratched at Liam’s scalp, and it was the first hurt to feel good in ages.
“On my honor.”
On the shale, waiting for the lead of their pack to make a decision, Pilkington is told to rest for the night. Des Voeux joins him (for Pilkington's sake, not his own).
i love this because it's like. why did paleolithic peoples paint the hunt. perhaps to celebrate and honour brave deeds that kept the community alive. perhaps to bring luck for future hunts. perhaps to instruct those who came after how to slay the beast. perhaps to remind us we can: that the mammoth is not unkillable.
this graffiti, too, serves those purposes!
'have you been crying?'
my beautiful wife who's never had a happy day in her life <3
is anyone still jopping?? leyendecker pseudo?study? to honour my favourite song on the joplist.