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i am a bright and colourful piñata and god is a thirteen year old boy whose parents announced their divorce on his birthday

[ishowdespair-deactivated2026012]

[paper-mario-wiki]

ok but wait. is the Hamlet thing real

Yeah! It's a super interesting paper on ethnocentrism and an argument against the idea of "universal values".

Essentially what happened is an anthropologist went to spend time writing an ethnography on a rural tribe in the Indian Bush called the Tiv. During her stay she told them the story of Hamlet, and in doing so it made clear the very glaring differences in the culture of the tribe vs the culture of Europe through their interpretations of events.

I'm sure you've heard of Translators vs. Localizers right? A translator tells you what is said, and a localizer takes the information and changes it to fit a different culture.

We can see that kind of early on in the article when a member of the Tiv begins changing nouns to fit how they understand the world.

Later on it greatly affects not only the tangible aspects of the story, but also the thematic meaning behind the actions each character takes.

And it culminates in the thesis statement: most people around the world, no matter where they're from, are predisposed to seeing their perspective as universal.

It's a super cool essay.

If you'd like to read it, it's called "Shakespeare in the Bush: Diversity or Universality?"

[aunnokokyuu]

HIIIIII if anyone has ever wanted to read a fic where dazai and chuuya get thrown into an alternate universe where they meet genderbent dazai if she had become the boss of the port mafia and chuuya as her right hand executive then wow do i have a fic rec for you. i always wanted to see dazai encounter a version of himself where things had turned out differently and read about a world where he hadn’t defected but instead usurped mori to become the pm boss after oda’s death but since i couldn’t find a fic like that i had to crack open the google docs and start writing. also i think the dynamic between dazai and yosano as two halves of mori as the doctor and the strategist are not nearly explored as much as they should be SOOOO i took it upon myself to do so. also i love lesbians and fem skk are such a good flavour ANYWAY PLEASE CLICK ON THIS FIC IF U WANT TO READ IT WOAHHH U WANT TO SOOO BAD 😮😮😮😮😮😮

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[valtsv]

i'm going to be honest with you all if i was a fictional character and i started coughing up blood or otherwise exhibiting the telltale signs of an untimely tragic inevitable death not only would i tell no one but my main priority would become having gay sex as soon as possible so that i can alter the trajectory of someone's life forever by suddenly dying just as our situationship begins to show hints of becoming something more

[valtsv]

them: you know you can tell me anything, don't you? you'd tell me if something was wrong, right?

me, smothering guilt or maybe just a coughing fit: of course don't even worry about it ^_^

the grim spectre of Death i've been seeing from the corner of my eye for weeks now, drawing inexorably nearer with each passing day: *twitches its skeletal hand a few inches closer to my throat*

me: man who asked you

them: what

me: oh nothing ^_^

[valtsv]

my obituary will be the next top r/AITA post

[sandinthepipes]

I just love when a fanfic is so very soft that I have to stop reading every three rows and walk around my room for a bit with a hand on my heart while whispering "oh my god they glanced at eachother", because I get too overwhelmed with love and sweetness.

[teoremaking]

[podencos]

Oh wait one last thing before I go… I was born w a hopeful heart which is I think why I never really lost my childlike wonder… so even when the world is a hard and harrowing place that leaves me wallowing at its feet I’ve still got this hearty, inspirited lust for life that encourages me to pull myself from the hole I will inevitably fall into and fall into and fall into but every time crawl back out of soon as I see all those stars in what I forgot isn’t an endless black sky

[arthoesunshine]

i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

[arthoesunshine]

— our town, thornton wilder

[rejectedprincesses]

Sutematsu Oyama (1860-1919): Japan’s First College-Educated Woman

Full entry (with footnotes) here. Patreon here. Art notes behind the cut.

Keep reading

[redsparrow12]

A great start to Women’s History Month

[problematicselfie-deactivated20]

The absence of women in history is man made.

[jettestblack-deactivated2017080]

How petty

[skeptikhaleesi]

just look at babe ruth’s face tho

so confused

so lost

i love it

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

pure hater shit

[whatbigotspost]

Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of. 

[urulokid]

From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:

“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”

Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.

A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”

TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard

[naamahdarling]

These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”

They gave up.

They couldn’t handle it.

Losers. 

Teenage girls are amazing.

[ms-gay-frogs]

don’t believe anyone who says that women were not as part of history as men were. they were not absent just erased.

[princessterf]

I learned about her from a children’s book in 2nd grade.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

SOMETHING. IS ON THE ROOF.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[ID: 2 replies. Reply from hamburger-time reads: don’t look, stay inside. I’ve seen horror movies. Reply from octagoncalibrator reads: possum intensifies. End ID]

The 2 types of people on Tumblr.

[deathsmallcaps]

There is a domestication movement of possums in America. I think ours are cuter too. are you guys domesticating them?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Australian possums are definitely cuter than American possums, and no, that sounds like a terrible idea. The last thing we need is even more animals running around that are unowned but dependent on humans.

Where I live does have a giant sinkhole where tourists go to feed the resident possums bits of fruit, though.

[geargoyle]

I kinda actually love that. But also, all I can think is, “Hey kiddos, wanna go for a trip to the POSSUM PIT??!??!”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My aunt and uncle got married in the possum pit.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It’s a hole in the ground. There are some possums in it. If you give them bits of apple they will eat it. I don’t understand the question.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The sinkhole looks like this:

The possums live in the walls.

[aviculor]

I wish to live near or inside the possum pit

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

Tourists & Traps 1st Stop: The Possum Pit!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Why is this still getting notes

[angelofthemornings-deactivated2]

I love how magical this is and how the Australian is just like

[saint--claire]

This is hilarious, because I actually used to live not that far from this place.  In terms of Australian geography, it’s still within relatively easy reach.  Some photos from the last time The Heart and I went - it’s beautiful.  Sadly, spotted no possums on the day.  Many bees.  Some suspicious fae traps.

Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen.  Generates a horrible instinct to jump off the side and see if you bounce.  The curtain is at least a couple of feet thick.

On the right of the photo you will see the two palm trees, which I firmly maintain is prime hammock-placing spot.

Pretty

Friendly bees!  There are many of the hives.

The view from the inside of the curtain.

[thegmsighs]

know the difference

It has come to my attention that many people mistake wyverns for dragons, so here’s a post to help you remember

Dragon: 4 legs, 2 wings

Wyvern: 2 legs, 2 wings

Drake: 4 legs, flightless

Wyrms: long snake like body with no appendages, can also appear as a traditional Chinese dragon with 4. Legs and no wings yet can fly

Amphithere: 0 legs 2 wings, can be feathered

Lindwurms: 2 legs, 0 wings, long body

Luck dragon: 4 legs, no wings, can fly, long body, furry with dog like face

Komodo dragon: 4 legs, no wings, real

Bearded dragon: 4 legs, 0 wings, often kept as pets

[theocseason4]

[aweirdlatina]

[damienstarry0w0]

[heresylog]

Have we already forgotten history?

[calamardoybobesponja]

[1yellowpepper]

Ok def was not expecting this level of relatability

[tchaikovskaya]

*submits this to the library of congress as a culturally, historically or aesthetically significant film*

[dubblebubble]

do you ever read fanfiction so good you wish it was a book that you could buy and put on some shelf in your bedroom and gaze at sometimes and remember how amazing that motherfucker was instead of having to squint at it on your too bright phone screen at 3 am

[reggiemess]

I love it when dogs try to help but the task at hand requires zero dogs so they just kinda stand in front of you and look serious.

[anotherknifeinmyhands]

"EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL TO THE POINT OF STERILE UNFUCKABILITY. " 1 . // 2. // 3. // 4.