harpoon baptism

Hi!! I'm Teddy!! 💖 Aotearoa 🔞 patron saint of putting mustard in food

[flaxblessing]

wiggling string to make usable garments is my passion

I am also on mobile 100% of the time and tagging things is a pain in the ass. so if you dont want to have untagged insects or spiders or creatures or whatever on your dash i think you should simply not follow me ok

I'm probably older than you

[memegetter]

happy pride month.

in new zealand, our evil government are trying to legislate definitions of women and men, in ways that are legally incoherent but clearly trying to pave the way for more horrifically transphobic legislation. we have an election in a few months but our main opposition party, and all our mainstream news media, are so spineless and cooked that there's a good chance the ghouls will win reelection.

it took 2 whole months for local terf group 'speak up for women' to get 2,000 signatures on the petition that led to this new bill in our parliament.

it's taken five days for this pro-trans 'they don't speak for us' petition to get 17,000 signatures.

this is a show of support that is really heartening for a lot of trans people in our corner of the world.

cis/ish women, if you're from here but haven't signed yet, please do. and if you're not from here and you know any new zealanders, could you send them this petition? a full fifth of our population lives overseas, and there's a good chance they don't follow the news.

LINK

[viralfrog]

[transhuman-priestess]

Why do you think arcane is slop?

Arcane is a quarter billion dollar, 12 hour commercial for a video game that became famous primarily for having a bot problem, microtransactions, and the most infamously toxic player base of any video game of the last decade.

The developer of League of Legends, Riot Games, has a Wikipedia article whose table of content looks like this.

By the late 2010s, league of legends was a joke. It was a shorthand for toxic shithead gamer behavior. It wasn’t taken seriously as a game by anyone anymore, so Riot Games had to do something with it, the company’s only profitable IP.

So Riot Games basically bought a French ad spot studio, pumped money into them, hired some writers, and set about to make a TV show based on a then decade-old video game. Why? To rehab the IP. And they pulled out alllllll the stops to do it.

Every aspect of the plotting is a safe bet. It’s a cop show. It’s vaguely edgy. It’s lore-friendly. It’s designed not just to appeal to players but to bring new people in. Sure most of them probably won’t play the game much, bur you really only need a few whales to make money off microtransactions, right?

Sure it has “great queer rep,” but those queers are cops so you know they’re the good kind of family-friendly, nonthreatening queer.

Arcane managed to win critical acclaim primarily because it did its best to appeal to the broadest audience, which it did by saying absolutely nothing of interest.

Art reflects its creators. Arcane is a vapid, empty show because League of Legends is a vapid, empty game. It’s a Skinner box designed to fleece teenagers with access to dad’s credit card of hundreds of dollars in bullshit cosmetics. It cannot be anything but slop.

[herpsandbirds]

Dusky Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) male displaying, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA

photograph by Dallas Harrell

[vintage-treasures]

Egyptian Ibis, mixed media sculpture (1069–664 B.C.) Egyptian artisans of the Third Intermediate Period crafted this figure using a combination of banded alabaster for the body and bronze for the extremities. The ibis served as the sacred manifestation of Thoth, the god of wisdom and writing. Such figures were frequently deposited as votive offerings in animal catacombs during the later dynasties. Loc. Private Collection. Dim. 15.2 cm H (6 in.)

[telekitnetic-art]

🍓🐁 STRAWBERRY PADDLE

An original formline piece made with acrylic markers, coloured pencils, and a thrifted ornamental wood paddle. Approx. 16 inches by 3.5 inches.

I'm lowkey very emotionally attached to this piece. mouse on a strawberry 🙂‍↕️ but I will have this for sale at Fur-Eh next month!!

[fishthingdaily]

Today’s fish thing are these fish buttons!

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[ahtokasano]

hello friendly reminder that you do not need a special occasion to use nice things! if you wait long enough your nice bath bomb won't be as fizzy! your favourite fruits will go out of season! candles are meant to be burned, not looked at! you're not enjoying your special tea if it's just sitting in your cupboard! you're allowed to have nice and special things on completely ordinary days! heck, it might just make that day special!!

[gillipop-plus]

[frostedmagnolias]

Parrot Pendant

ca. 1600-1650

Spain

Enamelled gold set with a table-cut foiled triplet simulating ruby and hung with pearls

Victoria and Albert Museum

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[bugshroom]

the biggest basket fungus i have ever seen

[fishthingdaily]

Today’s fish thing are these fish clocks!

[melodeelaine]

Razorbill Guillemot, Bempton Cliffs on the East Yorkshire coast of England, UK

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Brooch with lovers.

Culture: Burgundian - Dutch

Date: 1430-1440

Medium: Gold, enamel bosses, gemstones, pearls.

[redsugarx]

Styles from the Steppes: California Steppes Photoshoot (Esther)

Nav: Photoshoot Duo/Esther/Tara // Shoot & Styling Background // Macaron Design Background // Ferghana Design Background

"Call her briar rose or smth tho bc those 12 ft long braids kept picking up thorns on the hills" - Yulan

Pt. 2 of our AAPI series: Meet Esther, our model for the Macaron set! 🍬

A Bay Area native of Chinese-Mongolian heritage aptly born in the Year of the Horse, Esther works in software engineering and enjoys baking, thrifting, and bouldering in her free time. We chose Esther for this look to help represent the bridge between Mongolian / northern steppe heritage and the Central Plains influences that shaped this style of hanfu.

Our Macaron set is named after a Chinese horse pun: “馬卡龍” is the transliteration of “macaron,” but literally reads “horse-card-dragon.” Keeping with the dessert theme, we designed this set in pastel confectionary colors and styled Esther with pastel eyeshadow shades to match! 🍭

Historically, this outfit draws from Northern Dynasty dress and the legacy of the “胡服騎射” policy — “wearing Hu (non-Han) clothing and shooting from horseback.” During the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao promoted the adoption of cavalry-friendly clothing elements associated with non-Han horse-riding peoples of the northern steppes, many connected to the lands of present-day Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. Over time, these styles became integrated into Hanfu. The pants in the Macacron set, for example, are a hybrid of hundred-pleat skirt and lantern pants, literally “百褶燈籠褲” or hundred-pleat lantern pants. The belt is made of imitation Songjin brocade, and features a pattern of golden horses galloping through waves, humorously titled “馬上有錢” 🧧

For styling, we gave Esther dramatic 12-foot-long twin carabiner braids, a modern nod to braided hairstyles long associated with many nomadic steppe cultures for beauty, identity, and practicality on horseback. And if you catch a glimpse of her nails, they’re hand-painted press-ons featuring horse artwork from a small studio in Inner Mongolia!

For AAPI Month, we’re celebrating the many ways heritage moves: across borders, across generations, and across the stories we choose to wear. 🐎

CREDITS Model: Esther Sue (ig: @/esthers_ue) Hair: 糖糖 Tangtang (me, ig: @/tang.tang.mm) Makeup: 玉藍 Yulan / Chlobalt Blue (ig: @/chlobaltblue) Photography & Editing: Hong Majaya (ig: @/hongwithcamera), Sylvia Gong (ig: @/sybiashoots) Horses: Giddyup Productions (ig: @/giddyup_productions) Weapons: Christabel Choi (ig: @/christabel_choi), Haydon Fu (ig: @/fuhaydon), Kevin Wong (@ktw-shu) Additional Assistance: Faye Sun Location: Sunol, California, USA Clothing: Cloud9 Hanfu 九雲閣 (ig: @cloud9hanfu), 馬卡龍 Macaron LNY26 Earrings: 金马贺岁 by 黛组学DaiStudio Braid extensions: 梦想成真假发 Shoes: 清欢阁 Nails: 蒙古马 by TanghesNail 指尖造物