Hi! My name is Ishko and my pronouns are they/them. I'm an autistic lesbian who loves horror. I like TTRPGs, Dead By Daylight, State of Decay, The Hunger Games, The Owl House, beading, getting high and lurking online.
This account isn't focused on mature content, but please be aware that it will be NSFW at times.
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About
I'm Wendat (Indigenous to NorthEast of Turtle Island) and I live in "Canada". My people originally lived on an Island in Ontario, but some of us are in Québec now. (I believe there are also a few more nations of us in the "United States" since we had to disperse!)
My main Queer identity is Two Spirit, but I also use the following labels to describe my presentation and experience: Non Binary, Lesbian, Soft Butch, Genderflux, Androgyne, GenderQueer/Queer, Sapphic.
Some of my interests are Clowns (especially Jesters), Indigenous History, Politics, Horror, Fantasy & Roleplaying Games.
For a living, I work in video game and PC software development. My focuses are Accessibility, User Experience, Character Art and VFX.
I also do specialized caretaking every weekend. My current approach is to be trauma informed and autistic friendly.
My blog’s content
Expect random stuff, my special interests are ever changing, and this blog is honestly just a place for me to be myself while being free of feeling cringe.
Don’t ever be afraid to ask me to tag things that you don’t want to see!
In this scorching summer, our tent has become an unbearable place to live. The suffocating heat fills it throughout the day, leaving us with no shade to protect us and no breeze to bring relief. When night falls, another struggle begins as rats and insects spread throughout the tent, stealing our children's sleep and filling their hearts with fear. Every day, we endure the relentless summer heat and the dangers of these harsh conditions. All we hope for is a safe shelter that preserves our dignity and gives our children the chance to live in safety.
"The Alaa family lived a peaceful and stable life in their beautiful home. Alaa and her… Ola Moh needs your support for Help Ola’s Family Fi
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I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.
Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.
Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.
here you can read an article about a survivor of the church and some of the things he experienced to help put into perspective how awful and just how recent it was
i love transfems and i love transmascs and i love transneutrals and i love transxenines and i love transandrogynes and i love trans men and i love trans women and i love trans nonbinary people and i love trans agender people and i love everyone i missed!!! i love trans people!!! i love trans non-people!!!! ily trans humans and ily trans nonhumans and ily trans demi/para/librahumans!!!!! yayy!!!! trans!!!!!
there's never enough money each month. there's always an unexpected illness. new symptoms pop up or old symptoms flare up. meds have to be managed always and refilled constantly and any refill has the opportunity to go wrong. any regular care has the opportunity to go wrong. any mistake can send your health spiralling. it's always "i just need to get through this bad patch" but as soon as one ends another begins. another crisis begins in the middle of the last crisis. managing one thing leaves another thing to be neglected until that becomes a major issue and has to be managed asap and the cycle starts anew over and over and over
9. Wyandot style contemporary art pot, 2022, Richard Zane Smith
The last piece this blog will look at is Richard Zane Smith’s 2022 Wyandot style contemporary art pot. A Wendat, or Wyandot, based in Oklahoma and part of the Bear Clan, his Wendat name is Sqhahiyo, or “On a Good Path” in their language (Chimayo Trading, 2020). On top of being an artist, he is a scholar and teacher of Indigenous art seeking to restore traditional art forms. This pot is housed in the Misko Aki collection alongside the first, pre-contact pieces we looked at, including the ceramic vessel fragments (Huron-Wendat | Misko Aki, 2022).
Inspired by his research on ancient Wendat pottery and ceramics, Smith created this pot to highlight key artistic elements and designs he uncovered in his research.
Smith’s pot is similar in shape to the recovered pre-contact ceramic vessel we looked at in our very first piece on this blog. Instead of a castellated rim, the otherwise smooth and rounded rim has two jutting out ridges across from each other, potentially to make them easy to hold or attach handles to, or simply to reflect the unique rim styles seen on traditional pots. Triangular designs and parallel lines are etched into the collar of the pot, which is just one colour. The rest of the pot is glazed with various painted designs – from floral motifs to triangular shapes like the chevron style in the sash. This is an artistic liberty reflecting more colonial times – the use of flowers, like in the calling card trays, appeased European eyes and interests, marking a departure from ornamentation being limited to geometric designs. The colours, though varied, are muted, creating tones and hues reminiscent of those that came from dyeing traditional goods with vegetable dyes. One of the main flowers in this design may be the elder thistle, the same European flower used on the calling cards (Sioui & de Stecher, 2014). The flowers are separated from each other by swatches of geometric design, none of these elements touching, creating distance. All these designs are painted against a black background, creating contrast with the top of the vase. Pre-contact ceramic vessels were meant to display social status, a source of pride (Huron-Wendat | Misko Aki, 2022). Smith effectively captures this narrative with this pot.
For an introductory overview of the Wendat people and purpose of this project, you can check out my first post. To see my sources, you can click here.
So I was scrolling and saw this image in an article about the European heat wave,
And was like, uh, are you missing something there, buddy? Like all that red in northern Africa? Because that's a lot of red.
And I was going to give them the benefit of doubt, since I don't know much about the climate in Northern Africa, aside from Morroco and Egypt, which seem like really hot places, so you know, maybe it's normal there?
But nope, that's not the case:
Africa is struggling with heat waves and many countries on the continent lack the resources rich economies have to deal with rising temperat
Some selections from the article:
"The region has been experiencing some of the most intense heat waves in recent years, but in many cases they’ve been under-reported due to misconceptions about Africans’ ability to withstand them.
“Africa is seen as a sunny and hot continent,” said Amadou Thierno Gaye, a research scientist and professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. “People think we are used to heat, but we are having high temperatures for a longer duration. Nobody is used to this.”
"The Sahel, for instance, has been heating at a faster pace than the global average despite being hot already. Burkina Faso and Mali, both in West Africa’s Sahel, are among countries that are set to become almost uninhabitable by 2080, if the world continues on its current trajectory, a UK university study found. Its people are especially vulnerable due to shrinking resources, such as water, and poor amenities, and a dearth of trees and parks means there are few options for places to cool off."
My father is still in the hospital, and his condition is very critical. Every day we struggle to provide the treatment and medication he needs.
We are really doing everything we can, but it’s not enough.
If you see this, please don’t ignore it this time.
Donate or even sharing 🙏💔
📌 Fundraiser vetted (#167 by el-shab-hussein & nabulsi), But we created a new GoFundMe page because GoFundMe suspended the beneficiary’s account on the platform.
I know that sounds harsh , but it’s the truth I’m living Right Now 😔
I keep wondering how many more times I’ll have to ask before someone hears our cry for help. While you’re reading this… she’s lying in a hospital bed waiting… struggling… fighting for her life.
The doctors told us the truth we were terrified to hear: If she doesn’t get this surgery immediately, we could lose her… forever 💔
We only need $999. That’s it. Not something impossible. that small amount… is the difference between life and death 😔
$999 might not mean much to some people… But to me, it means hearing my mother’s voice again. It means seeing her smile. It means she gets another chance to live.
So let me ask you something honestly..
If this were your mother and her life depended on $999… would you close this post and keep scrolling? Or Would you tell yourself “someone else will help’’?
Because that’s exactly what everyone is thinking right now. And that’s how people die. Not because they couldn’t be saved… but because everyone assumed someone else would do it . Please… don’t be the person who saw this and did nothing.🙏😔💔
I am not asking for luxury or comfort. I am asking for the chance to keep my mother safe. I am asking you to help us before we lose her . If our story reaches your heart, please don't leave without doing something. Your kindness today could be the reason my mother receives her medication in time🙏
Just $999… standing between her life and death. Don’t think someone else will help… because right now, no one has.🙏
I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?
- Ensure you're saving money, even if your partner provides for you
- Have a backup caretaker
- Don't get married officially if it means you'll lose your benefits
Even if your partner is not abusive, something may happen to them. If you're completely reliant on a single person, then you're completely vulnerable without them.
All of these things can be done AFTER you've lost your caretaker, but the government is usually SLOW. Doing them in advance will prevent you from being left with nothing while you wait for your request to process.
I must admit, I do get extremely irritated at how strong people will defend white racists of their actions on here (usually shielding behind other marginalization) and throw out words like "harassment" and "digital lynching" and will try to gaslight users of color into thinking that we just... Didn't see what happened. That we don't understand racism when we experience it.
Especially when I see myself and other more vocal users of color get harassed daily, and have to always be on guard with their social media, and no one cares because everyone prioritizes white voices here and spend no time with the rest of us via an actual, unspoken segregation of this app. But somehow we don't know what racism and harassment looks like.
So when you say "hey, this person's opinion was not an okay thing to say/their actions were not okay due to racism and I am not coddling that", you get hit with a bunch of people who believe that having "More White Voices must mean True and that Your People Did Not Experience what y'all did... Because the white people around me said it went this way! You're just Mean!!!"
Like ofc that's the perspective you heard, those are the only people you're ever around on here, and it doesn't benefit you to understand what racism actually looks like in action. So. Just irritating af.
Bc ain't no way I've experienced the range of directed racism on here, damn near every two days this year on this app, and I gotta sit here and listen to how someone being racist is actually the True Victim. That people who spend all their time la di da happy and unbothered and surrounded by fellow racists and/or complicit yet ignorant bystanders... Experienced having thet racism called out and suddenly THEY are "harassed".
How thin is your skin, that we gotta do this every day and swallow the pain, but you scream in agony the moment someone points out the truth. Okay. To quote my parents, I can give you something to cry about.
i bring a sort of “you should maybe interrogate your so-called ‘preferences’ to make sure they’re not literal textbook examples of severe unconscious bias” vibe that my woke gay friends dont really like
go out and fuck someone you aren’t attracted to because a stranger on tumblr said to
go out and date someone you aren’t attracted to because a stranger on tumblr said to
You’re Not Allowed To Be Gay Anymore
what this post DOES mean
if you just ‘prefer’ to avoid majority black areas of your city
if you just ‘prefer’ to read, write, think, and talk about men
if you just ‘prefer’ to socialize with people you (perceive as) your assigned birth sex
if you just ‘prefer’ to exclusively watch white-directed movies, read white-written books, listen to white-authored music
if you just unconsciously perceive men as more authoritative/competent and ‘prefer’ to be spoken to by them
this is a post about acknowledging unconscious bias. it is not a post about dating. please stop coming into my inbox and accusing me of rape apologism and telling me to kill myself. thank you
I understand that, for people who grew up ostracized and found themselves on the internet where they had authentic experiences that are perceived as inauthentic by virtue of being on the internet, Typing Quirks and the microcultures surrounding them can be a meaningful mode of self-expression, and I also understand that, especially for people who communicate primarily through the internet, they can replicate the pitch, timbre, tone and prosody that identifies us in our spoken speech (and from what I understand the specific web media from which many emerged used them to this end)... but please for the love of god can people stop using them so much especially in serious political posts they make it so hard to read if you have dyslexia or other language processing issues and are also very inconvenient to the many invisiblized people on the internet who do not speak English as a first language already performing a lot of labor by engaging with these spaces nearly exclusively in it. There's also just a certain insensitivity in using niche internet fan performances to talk about systemic violence. Why are you saying “minoritiez”.
Yep. It's generally inaccessible for a whole lot of people. Voluntary typing quirks can also make posts incomprehensible to those using screen readers.
UPDATE: I am still outside and there is rain and floods
Also reminder I'm still sleeping outside 😭 I've been outside sleeping in the rain for three days now and it sucks so much. My clothes are soaked and my stuff. I can easily get sick which I do alot due to my asthma. I would like to be in somewhere warm okay? At least wash our clothes and I can have a shower to get the rain water off. Florida is having hot mornings and rainy evenings. There has also been floods as well :( and that is dangerous. So please help me get to $1000 as well so we can get to a hotel.
UPDATE: I had to sleep through the thunderstorm and it was the most anxiety inducing thing I ever went through my God. It's 3 am now and I'm soaked, my stuff is wet and I got to make sure my puppy is fine since she's been whining during the thunder. I can't sleep since I have to keep watch. I'm under a 7/11 patio thing where they have seats for customers to sit and eat. It wasn't the best but it was something.
There is a flood area a few feet from us and the sound of the cars driving by I hear some roads are flooded too (not much but I can hear the splashes) So now that I'm okay, and I know it'll rain again later, I still ask for help to get me and my mom nights at a hotel? Please? It's been four days and staying in wet clothes can do damage to me, mostly someone prone to getting sick a lot which leads me to the hospital. I want to take a shower and sleep in a bed without fearing someone will come get me and my mom. Please? I'm exhausted, I'm overstimulated, I feel disgusting.
PAYPAL Somewhere around $1,000? More? I don't want to be out during a storm season here, I'll get seriously sick will is very dire and I don't want to go to the clinic the 100th time