like bullets over broadway

caitlin: 30. gay. arizona. either my midlife crisis is early or my quarterlife crisis is late

[frazernadines]

So, as you may have noticed, I haven’t been around. I’ve been busy, and honestly, I’ll probably continue to be busy. As some of you know, I am now an actively performing drag king in my local community, (yes even during the ‘rona, we’ve gone digital lads 😎 ) and I’ve been funneling my time and creative efforts into other spaces. I’m not deleting my blog or anything, BUT quite frankly, I don’t really feel like anybody skimming through this thing anymore. So I’m archiving it and taking it private. It’s really, truly wild to be making a post like this since tumblr was such a staple activity in my life for so long but I guess we’re here. The world is wild enough as it is right now. So like I guess this is kinda it? It’s been real, my dudes. Many lessons were learned, so much shit was witnessed. If you wanna catch my drag king shenanigans please check me out on Instagram @ frankiefahrenheit

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i love the infinite multiverse theory bc that means there’s a universe where ive pulled every single fire alarm ive ever seen

[fuckyeahgreatplays]

Following the Action: Some Thoughts on Shakespeare and Politics

How I read Shakespeare, and what I’ve discovered about the politics of his plays by doing so.

Today it is Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020. I am 40 years old, and we have been at war since six months after I left college. This war is one, we now know, the Pentagon itself felt was unwinnable and quite possibly counterproductive as early as 2005. Yet we are still fighting it. Less than a month ago it looked like we were going to expand this war into Iran, for reasons that made little sense, and were likely based on falsehoods.

This is the kind of cynical, cyclical failure that Shakespeare imagined again and again, but he struggled mightily to imagine how to make it stop. In his later plays, the Romances, we see forgiveness enter into the dramatic action, but forgiveness in Shakespeare’s plays is a form of magic, it can neither be controlled nor understood. A wife forgiving her husband and a statue coming to life are, on some cosmic level, the same. And the dead child she must forgive him for can never be resurrected. Prospero can forgive, but the act leaves him despairing, and thinking every third thought on his grave.

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Neil Gaiman, The Flints of Memory Lane

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via Tan France instagram stories

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Kent State University

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“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

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Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

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Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

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Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there

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What in the absolute fuck

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When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…

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I literally only know abt this bc my parents are hippies it’s fucked up

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I only had a vague idea of what this was and what happened until I did my own research on it.

When I was 21.

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i never heard of this…… and i live in this country……… WTF 

[fuckyouformakingmedothis]

Welcome to America. If you want to learn some actual history, then research it yourself

[peacefulatrophy]

This is why that “Kent State Gun Girl” is so goddamned ridiculous.

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[antique-scarecrow]

#i’ll ask a rich person where the trash is#and they’re like ‘oh right here’#then lead me down 2 hallways through a secret passage and into a cellar#and the trash is in the farthest corner of the cellar in its own closet#and it’s sensor-activated

why are these tags so funny

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THE BIN OF AMONTILLADO

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Next, finding a towel to dry your hands.

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[princesstigerbelle]

The size of those paws… and BEANS

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Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

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Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

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(via TumbleOn)

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What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

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Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

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Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

[thegirlthewolfate]

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

[archaeologistforhire]

Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year. 

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

[crazythingsfromhistory]

Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

[fluffmugger]

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.  

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

[ironbite4]

Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

[gluklixhe]

I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

[manbiteshog]

i actually have no clue how to use twitter. like technically i know how to use twitter but culturally i don't get it

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i found it. the best reductress headline

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[frazernadines]

JARVIS, I’m ready for my close-up. (at Boycott Bar)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7NTA22njM1/?igshid=1bszeps7rjnhz

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Bookmarking now and forever (x)

[tereshkova2001]

This is a *really good* article that both handles anatomy concerns and presumes zero background makeup knowledge. Well done.

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It’s amazing that the cover photo is showing both older women and people of color, something that the media consistently ignores regarding the trans community.

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for my followers

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