kozee

Hi, I'm Koa! I'm a 26 year-old digital and traditional artist. This is my personal blog; my art blog is now @seraph-sag !

[captain-price-returns]

Top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

[kestalsblog]

Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.

[doesnotloveyou]

@tearyeyedcat this was beautifully written, thank you for adding it!

[charlesoberonn]

Another excuse for me to post Head Writer of ATLA Aaron Ehasz’s great characters board:

[bluwubewwy]

Getting pinned to the wall by a beautiful girl named centrifugal force

[zegalba]

Vladimir Kush: burning in a candle flame (2000)

[retquits]

an attempt to capture what miss png did this morning

[miamaimania]

One bird, still perched. ⊡ Linen and wool hanging fragment · Egypt, c. 200–642 AD · Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

[nukopaw]

attack for cheezos :)

[moonlou22]

✨Cosy Mighty Nein✨

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[sapphire-shores]

pear butter 🌼

[desmolbean404]

QUIZ TIME!! Take this quiz, then come back and answer the poll!

100 REAL or FAKE Pokemon

100 Different 'Pokemon' will be shown to you. Choose if you think they are FAKE or REAL. Goal is to get a high score so you can brag to ever

What Was Your Score?

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100%! (You're one smart cookie!)

Remaining time: 1 day 5 hours

[koa-z]

[koa-z]

s1 that I am interested in asked for my number and I'm now completely baffled and trying to handle the fact that im talking with someone i like and they want me to flirt with them and are not a creepy old man

my non-friend dating experience consists of straight girls that I had to pursue as a lesbian (b4 transitioning to male) and unwanted advances from older men

jelp

it's like

this is too normal I'm not allowed to do this

[koa-z]

s1 save me from myself why did nobody remind me i h8 rendering

[koa-z]

ok yk what, I'll admit it. That dude following me and calling me the f slur until I went into a private business, knowing full well that I couldn't drop his ass cuz I was at work, did get under my skin.

[worteltje7]

some silly doodles I did for a Molly lives to see Nicodranas au zine that me and my friend made! we'll be handing them out at the Edinburgh liveshow this weekend :) (please no spoilers (in the tags or otherwise) past episode 112! i am lowkey not caught up with campaign 2. i'm sure it'll be fine.)

[koa-z]

the number of people who have threatened to kill me to my face this week has vastly exceeded the normal weekly average

[signaturecosmique]

THERE ARE TOO MANY BOOKS I WANT TO READ

I am looking rn at work on Asian American history from 1850-1900 (which is a period/context I am not super familiar with) and I'm just like. oh that book looks good. ooh that one also. ahhhh that one too. and then I become overwhelmed trying to figure out where to start and by the fact that I simply cannot read all of these books at exactly the same moment

[signaturecosmique]

what I really want is an account of the early transpacific networks from like, the Pacific Northwest (esp British + various multiethnic peoples living around the forts there), Alta California, Hawaii, Alaska, and Guangdong, in the first half of the 1800s. People writing about the post-goldrush era are always just dropping things like the fact that there were mixed-race Native Hawaiian and First Nations communities and Metis people from the prairies on the coast and sailors from South America and India and China BEFORE the Gold Rush and no one ever feels like telling me about how the fuck they all got there????

[signaturecosmique]

like hello???? why are you not FASCINATED that a British fur trader in San Francisco sent a ship to Hong Kong bearing California gold dust and newspapers from Honolulu, IN THE YEAR 1848

[sanguinarysanguinity]

What you're looking for is variously called the Maritime Fur Trade, the Pacific Fur Trade, or the China Fur Trade, in which sea-otter pelts from Pacific Northwest and Alta California were sold by Boston traders in China. (To vastly oversimplify who-all was here and what they were doing!)

Here's the Wikipedia article on it, which includes sources and further reading:

Maritime fur trade - Wikipedia

You may also find helpful:

Soft Gold, the catalog for an Oregon Historical Society exhibition on the fur trade. (Available on Internet Archive: Soft Gold)

The Fur Trade Gamble: North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820, by Keith Lloyd.

Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1787-1898, by Jean Barman.

Hail Columbia: Robert Gray, John Kendrich, and the Pacific Fur Trade, by John Scofield. (Alert to the tall ship nerds: the Lady Washington, a replica of which is still sailing in the Pacific Northwest and sometimes stars in films, was Robert Gray's ship.)

I haven't read any of the above books, that's just what a search of my local county library turned up. (This is all local history for me.) Hope something there helps!

Fun fact: in chinuk wawa, the Pacific Northwest indigenous trade language, the word for white people (and also for the English language) is bastən, i.e. Boston, referring to the numerous trade ships from Boston who came in to buy furs here and sell them on elsewhere.