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āyou know, that actually doesnāt sound SO BADā
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āIād hit you so hard you even forget youāve made Karate Kid part 3ā
āyou know, that actually doesnāt sound SO BADā
i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence
descendants casual pride looksā¢ļø š literally this month has flown by i started these a couple days ago then i was like wait a minute.... pride month is almost over, but i got this done before the end of the month so i consider it a win.
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Have you guys seen that clip
Go off Kermit
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Why the heck is this dude trying to confirm if the frog puppet is hetrosexual???
assessing the situation before he shoots his shot
Happy Pride to Kermit the Frog, questioning king
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Wally Dion, Green Star Quilt, 2019 circuit boards, brass wire, copper tube
I SAW THIS IN THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM! ITS HUGE!
it shimmers like no gemstones i've ever seen: green as malachite and emerald but shot through with opal, gold, copper. photographs can't do it justice because of how it shines, as well as the way the actual material elements have their own dimensions. you can lean in and study all the fine lines of the circuits or step back and admire how the rearranged whole forms new patterns. it's one of the most beautiful creations i've ever seen.
translator's note: in america, "seek shelter immediately" means "go outside and stand on the porch"
As an American, I can tell you this is true. Recently had a tornado warning and me and my family just sat on the porch. Got some beautiful photos of the sky tho:
Yes these are real photos.
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gosh, I love this movie. Finished Cobra Kai recently and yeah, it was pretty cool. also, commissions are open, so check it out right here ā commissions if you wanna ļ½”ā .ļ¾ā +ā Ā ā āµ Don't you guys just love an old movie from the 80s about karate enemies to lovers?
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Being the only bi cis guy amongst almost exclusively trans friends and peers is wild because in theory its like im living in a horny manga where all of a dudes friends turn into hot babes, but in reality they are hunting me like the last bison on the prairie. 5 years ago I mentioned bionicle and one of them asked when I was starting estrogen.
Wtf is a grungler
Youre fuxking kidding me Im being punked right??????
for OP's sake (because no one posted it yet), this word is a meme spawned from this tweet
Dutch is like my favorite Miyagiverse character of all time man
under US law, it's illegal for anyone who's not a member of a recognised native tribe to own an eagle feather. the penalty is a $100,000 fine.
14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."
and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.
so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.
on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.
probably a good thing I don't intend to move back there anytime soon. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on bird crimes.
@freedomisscaryshit I'm fucking dying I think you forgot the word "feathers" in your tags?? or do you just wish you could grab whole ass eagles that land in your yard??
As an Indigenous person, it continues to astound me that there are such strict laws (written by White people) in our name, laws against...picking up things just found on the ground. Like, stop pretending this is "for" us. We don't want this.
so, for clarity, that's not what this is. the law against possessing feathers is an anti-poaching measure, derived from a North American treaty protecting certain migratory bird species from hunting. that treaty has an exemption for indigenous people to allow tribes that use eagle feathers in ceremonial or religious practices to continue doing so.
i used to collect feathers (illegally) as a teenager and the thing is that it's incredibly important for feathers from wild birds to be illegal to possess because it ensures that they never become fashionable to wear. the reason we passed the migratory bird act was because the american and european fashion industry was driving species to extinction in a timespan of years. not just decades. the ecological devastation of exporting birds for hats was absolutely insane and people were watching wetlands and forests and meadows just empty out in realtime. look at the wikipedia article for the plume trade.
the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.
these laws, as harsh and ridiculous as they seem, saved flamingos, spoonbills, egrets, and all kinds of hawks and eagles from extinction. the minute these laws weaken and people can make money off killing them again, they're fucked.
this is one of those "no actually this regulation exists for a reason" laws much like work place safety and building fire codes (that Republicans keep trying to roll back) and is written in blood just like them as well. it's just not human blood this time, and the fact that people actually cared enough about long term future over short term profit to get it put in place is nothing short of astonishing. That it didn't get put in place in time to save several species is heart breaking.
And yes, it's still needed today, despite no one wearing hats. People will go to crazy lengths to acquire rare feathers
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I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.
Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.
#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain
Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"
I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.
I feel like, for the people who were once more idealistic and became more cynical, it's never "they aged out of it", but often "they got hurt and are afraid of being hurt again", "they were ignorant (often due to privileges they didn't understand they had) and as they learned more they got so horrified they overcorrected", and/or "they were proven wrong over and over and are afraid of feeling humiliated again."
Whatever the case, there are absolutely a lot of people who are just on a high horse looking down on those 'naive' idealists, but there are also a lot of people for whom it's rooted in fear. Sometimes the latter use the prior act as a mask, and sometimes it's just sincerely both. Sometimes it's also the clinical depression with or without the others, but yeah.
But the thing is, cynicism isn't inherently pessimism. Idealism isn't inherently optimism. As often as those overlap, they can be swapped. Mix idealism and pessimism, and you get... people with impossibly high standards incapable of finding joy in anything for what it is, who believe Perfect is not only possible but mandatory. You get people criticizing all representation for not being good enough, etc. Even those people can be motivating, but an oversaturation... isn't great.
The cynical optimist, on the other hand, is "expect the worst, hope for the best." And sometimes that hope is too passive, especially when surrounded by other cynics and especially too many pessimists. But the attitude inherently does believe things can get better, does want and will try to trust people, even expecting to get hurt more often than not, because sometimes they won't and that's still worth trying.
And we absolutely need idealistic optimists! We need the people with the most motivation to dream big and chase those dreams. The widest eyed idealists are so intensely powerful and we need so many more.
All I'm saying is, there's a solid step in between the misanthropic critics and the shining beacons. Often it's even beneficial to have both kinds of optimist. The cynic can sometimes help foresee and plan for problems, or help keep the scope of a project more attainable and sustainable. The idealist is more likely to see and take opportunities and motivate the cynic to act, providing direction. Just in broad stroke trends of course, but the point is, as long as it's rooted in optimism, in genuine hope, it can still be effective.
If peopleāif you, person reading this reblogāare skeptic and afraid and can't just let go of that, fighting through that fear is still good. The exhausted "fuck it, I may as well try" is still trying. "I know the odds are slim but they're Not Zero" is a workable mentality. "If I don't try I definitely won't succeed, where if I do I only probably won't succeed, and some chance is better than no chance" is a workable mentality.
And sometimes, if people can pick themselves up out of the pessimism pit and work on doing more of that, even just sometimes, then... they will start seeing things work out more. They'll see more things fail without it being the end of the world, more ways they can get up and try again or learn from it for something else. And the world starts to feel a little less scary. And obviously it's not a hard dichotomy, but maybe they keep getting even more optimistic, maybe they start leaning idealistic in some regards, too.
I fully agree that full misanthropy is ultimately a very immature attitude, regardless of anyone's actual age. Just, while some people will have a vivid wake-up call, others will need to work on it gradually, so I wanted to offer advice to them on how to do that. Start with hope. Out of exhaustion or even sheer spite if that's what it takes.
If morale wasn't important or powerful, there wouldn't be multi-billion dollar industries dedicated to trying to crush it. Don't let them win.