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Hihiii my name is Jeff,, I go by any pronouns

This is my main but you can find art and stuff over at @jeffs-jars-unofficial (my artfight is corvid_foe!!!)

I like minecraft (minecraft dungeons), doctor who, cotl, resident evil, fnaf, tma and a longgg list of other things.. (autism curse)

ummm I love my mutuals send me a stupid ask I hope everyone has a nice day :3

randomwild

sp1resong

"do you prefer yaoi or yuri" well i like nothing. i like silence. just me. and the cold, empty cosm[Hears a twig crack] .

,Who gors there

sp1resong

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antiqueanimals

"Coyote Studies"

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 1 - Part 2. 1925. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Internet Archive

chroniccoolness

racist white canadians and europeans want you to believe the slave trade worked like this

it did not. it is public knowledge the slave trade worked like this

and in fighting antiblackness within canada and europe it is so so so important to acknowledge these places's participation in and benefit from the transantlantic slave trade. Slavery is not just the US's dirty past, it is a triangular industry lasting centuries that white people in the united states, canada, and europe benefitted from and continue to benefit from to this day. Slavery was good for white canadians and white europeans. They liked it. they encouraged it. they had slaves, they profited from the slave trade, and they used products grown from US slave labour in every day life. The slavery of Black people would not have been possible on the sheer scale at which it happened if it were not for active, consistent participation from europe and canada.

i-was-today-years-old-when

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

ancestralia

In 1997 Amelia’s daughter, Mary Moran, and other members of the Moran family were invited to Sierra Leone, West Africa, where they were welcomed in Freetown by Sierra Leone’s President and then flown by helicopter to the country’s interior. There, in the small village of Senehun Ngola, Mary and Bendu Jabati met and sang this song together for the first time. Years earlier, Bendu’s grandmother had told her that this song, which had been passed down in her village from mother to daughter for centuries, would one day reunite her to long-lost relatives.

In addition to finding out where in Africa her ancestors were abducted into slavery, Mary Moran discovered the meaning of the Mende song: a processional hymn for the final farewell to the spirit, it was sung in Senehun Ngola by women as they prepared the body of a loved one for burial.

(The OP's link leads to a site with a recording of the song sung by both Mary Moran and her mother, Amelia)

oldshrewsburyian

Because the original link was broken, I tracked down a news story about how the song is continuing to help Mary Moran's relatives find their African communities:

Also, there's an apparently sanctioned link to the full documentary about tracing the song.

I was really fascinated to learn that the song was originally recorded by none other than Lorenzo Dow Turner, the founder of Gullah studies. Gullah was dismissed (by white people) as a nonsense language until a Black linguist trained on Old and Middle English came along in the early 20th century, and I love him.

salsasalas

Love her new design

sometimesanequine

have a good disability pride month everypony

lleyksie

more ancient horse mamaposting

notdayle

Me and my girlfriend did a lil photo shoot in our regalia back in December

notdayle

Oh we’re engaged now btw 💍

mari2221

Bunny bunny bunny buny

sycamorality

now i encourage people to play toys and have fun engaging with media. but at some point if all your media engagement is only shipping, and you think everything is shipbait, it starts saying more about you than the source material