The way Europeans talk about North America when they say it reveals everything about the way they think.
To them, history here didn’t start until they arrived. Not until the so called real people with real culture and real architecture and real timelines stepped off a boat.
Everything before that gets treated like fog, like background noise, like a blank landscape waiting to be drawn on.
Like the Europeans arrived here and just found a land untouched by human hands ready for them to Manifest (European) Destiny in, instead of, like, a continent full of nations older than most European countries, with civilizations, trade routes, astronomy, agriculture, laws, stories, cities, innovations, relationships to the land that go further back than many of the languages used to belittle them.
When Europeans say “America is big,” they don’t even mean the actual land full of over 500 nations of distinct peoples.
They mean the unmarked page they imagine they wrote on. When they say “Europe is old,” they mean “ours is the old that matters.” The implication is always that Indigenous history doesn’t count as history at all, that Indigenous people were somehow outside the timeline until colonialism kicked the clock into motion.
I’m tired of watching it walk by unchallenged and seeing it drift by unchallenged.
North America wasn’t waiting to be discovered.
It wasn’t empty wilderness.
It wasn’t without time or culture or memory.
It was already ancient when the Europeans arrived.
Treating Indigenous people like footnotes or shadows just makes it embarrassingly obvious that a lot of Europeans still don’t see them as real people with real history, real innovation, and real presence.
This continent has been old for longer than Europe has had its current borders. The only thing that’s new here is the colonial amnesia.
Um. Not to be one of those “DID HE JUST SWEAR” people but. WHAT DID ETHO JUST SAY?? Genuinely tell me what he said if not “bdubs bitched me.” DId he say *DITCH??* he did not say a D sound. Bdubs clearly heard the same thing as me because that reaction was priceless lol.
the person who remembered about its knights au and has been sketching it religiously for the past month
this au exists since 2023 and i've been returning to it from times to times but this time it's serious....... i've been possessed. it was fun before but now i'm really starting to come up with the story and characters relationships. these are almost my ocs at this point😭 i've never been au guy and never loved to come up with stories and stuff but this one is so special to me
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
Natural Black Hair Tutorial!
Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.”
The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!
bdubs, gayly: okaaaayyyy. [normal] i will be careful.
etho, in the same tone: okaayyyyyy [laughs]
bdubs, extremely indignant: oh, oh let's just make fun of me [garbled objections] we go back for years!
etho: i like how you said that! [more insistent, talking over bdubs] no i LIKED how you said that!! i thought it was good!
bdubs: oh it was a nice way? oh okay. [gayly again] okayyyyyy :)
etho, copying him again: okaaaayyyyyyy :)
After years of global searching and processing human response, the internet has finally completed its original task of finding the most perfect cat video possible.
this is THE dnp clip of all time for me like the amount of facial expressions dan goes through without saying a word and then a rare hand hold !! just them sharing a brain in general and loving that about one another
in which bdubs and etho take care of each other's health and wellbeing. transcript under the cut:
etho: my only goal in this is to keep bdubs happy.
cleo: that's all you ever care about!
etho: i just don't want him to say i hate it afterwards.
cleo: how's that working out for you?
bdubs: it's wonderful, he's very wise. and he's taking care of me, i'm a little sick.
bdubs: etho's taking care of me
etho: we gotta watch bdubs, make sure he's safe
[bdubs is smacked into the cow pit]
bdubs: [distressed noises]
etho: [putting blocks down to protect bdubs, leaving himself open] oh now he's looking at ME, NO!
etho: protect me, i'm low!
bdubs: etho you're low?
etho: i'm gonna eat all our lapis
bdubs: here, here here here! have some stalactites! [group laughs]
etho: i don't think that's safe! are you sure?
bdubs: they're good, they're good, i tried them. they're delicious.
bdubs: but alliance and priority is etho's love and health.
bdubs: i'll take care of etho's snail here...
joel: you're just following etho's snail here bdubs?
bdubs: i'm walking it to safety. yup.
etho: get underground! over here!
bdubs: [yelling] i'm coming! it's bad up there.
etho: follow the torch, follow the torch.
bdubs: okay! it's still coming though so get ready! [shouts]
etho: oh, bdubs...
bdubs: it's FINE!
bdubs: [screaming]
etho, fragilely: bdubs, bdubs...
bdubs: you! you did so wonderfully!
etho: my life flashed before my eyes just then...
etho: i was debating like, should i make a moss farm? and then when i heard you were doing it, it's like no i'm gonna hold off. i'm gonna rely on my buddy bdubs! [bdubs mhms] he's gonna take care of me this season.
etho: feather falling! feather falling!
bdubs: that's what I wanted!
ren: you should probably give that to bdoubleo, to be honest.
etho: bdubs, i will -
bdubs: no, it's fine, i'm gonna get it myself.
etho, quietly: you need it.
etho: someone help bdubs, he's got no gear. bdubs - someone help bdubs, please. i don't want him to die.
for bdubs, so when he dies all the time it'll help him. he needs all the help he can get.
bdubs: no i don't, i'm fine.
etho: he doesn't even have a shirt!
bdubs: it's for battle....
etho: oh, okay
bdubs: i don't know who's gonna take care of me now that he's gone... he was the one that took care of me. and kept me alive!
etho: i don't know how you're gonna do this scar, because i'm gonna defend bdubs, and then you'll die.
scar: come on!
bdubs: yes, i'm okay! she was chasing me! we were there, we were making plans!
etho: i got you a life bdubs, i got you a life!
scar: boop, sign the contract!
etho: bdubs you gotta protect me.
bdubs: i'll protect you.
bdubs: set your spawn just in case.
etho: i did, i did, thank you. you're always so considerate, bdubs.
bdubs: yeah, yeah, i care.
etho: you're sick right, i gotta take care of my poor guy...
bdubs: yeah i'm just gonna lay here.
etho: bdubs we need you!
bdubs: i'm on it!
etho: oh it's getting dark - bdubs, save me! thank you. just at the right time there.
[bdubs sighs loudly several times, and etho silently turns around to look at him, making bdubs laugh]
etho: you okay bdubs?
bdubs: i'm fine.
bdubs: how dare!
etho: who am i kidding, i'm washed up bdubs! it's all over!
bdubs: stop it! no!
cleo: i'm gonna get so annihilated right now.
etho: cleo's right, she's right, i have no confidence anymore because of her.
bdubs: stop it. no, you're a hero!
etho: i'm wondering if you were needing a cohost, if you were running out of steam.
bdubs: alright, yeah, yeah i do, i'm out.
etho: but i can texture too, like i [mumbles] texture.
bdubs: yeah yeah! i know you can - i know that too much is uncomfortable. right?
etho: i don't know what it is. like i like it when you do it.
bdubs: sure yeah, but it can be too much.
etho: i got a little bit of texture in here!
bdubs: you do, look at this!
etho: i could throw some granite in here, i could do all kinds of things.
bdubs: you sure could and you know it.
etho: bdubs is just protecting me okay, he knows what's best for me.
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