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English speakers: did you know that when you learn English, you get a FREE bonus language? Due to mutual intelligibility (when two languages are closely related enough that you can understand one if you know the other), if you are fluent in English, you can read literature in Scots. Because of the colonization and disenfranchisement of the Scottish people, it isn't very popular to write in Scots and authors get told nobody will read their books, so I HIGHLY suggest you do. Support colonized people writing in their own language! Support Scots!

Suggested Scots lit:

Trainspotting (cult classic about the life and times of heroin addicts, mostly known for the movie adaptation, but it was a book first. Probably the easiest to read on the list for people who know English but don't know Scots.)

Be Guid Tae Yer Mammy (a darkly comic family drama, involves interesting topics like invisible disability, is in fact very funny)

But'n'Ben A Go-Go (Scots cyberpunk! Suggest you start with one of the other books above and get used to Scots before tackling this one though. This is written in "What if Scots, but it's the future so it evolved some?" so reading it is definitely hard mode. But if you're up for the challenge, it's some solid SF.)

These are just three. Please add on with other books in Scots if you have any recommendations.

Lastly: Here is an online Scots-English dictionary to help you out, should you need it. Happy reading!

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riverbed by olafur eliasson (2014)

this exhibition was created to question the relationship between the viewers and the museum building. by turning the museum building into art, riverbed shifts the audience from observers of the art to participants within the art itself.

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IM DELETING THE OTHER POST. I FORGOT GO_A

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Elizabeth Olsen Hunger Magazine, 2017 [📷: Nadia Lee Cohen]

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the lord of the rings is very very white, but i give thanks every day for the existence of the LOTR musical’s toronto version which featured rebecca jackson mendoza, an australian/filipino actress who also played queen breha organa (leia’s adoptive mother) in he star wars prequels. her costume is gorgeous if a little crazy and it’s just *clenches fist* amazing to see filipino actors in typically white fantasy roles! 🤩✨

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so,,we finally dropped the video:

we are so excited to finally share this with you, so go check it out friends !! s/o to @sapphoskies for recording, editing, and putting the whole video together <3 - atlas

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Tmw my irls are still watching aot in 2021 like... yall rocking with anti semitism⁉️⁉️

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Jojo Siwa explains the risk of coming out publicly she felt when talking to her girlfriend beforehand, but then emphasizes how happy she is that she did! 🌈❤️

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I did a teensy bit of hourly comics day before realizing that the entire comic would be me sitting at a desk... But here is what was captured which I think speaks very closely to what my life is right now to be honest

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“Over time, Demeter learned that she could cope with the absence of her daughter by impregnating the earth with garlic cloves. In the fall, she and Persephone cracked the bulbs in piles. They got on their knees and scooped out heaps of soil. They jabbed each clove into the earth before Persephone went back under. Sometimes when Persephone lay in the arms of her husband and looked up, she could see the roots poking through the ceiling. Millions of them suspended above her in the dark ether like a second sky. Her mother’s knuckles reaching out to her from the darkness, reminding her that if she ever chose to return home, her mother would thrust her hands through the earth and extend her fingers into spiral staircases.”

— Vi Khi Nao, Fish in Exile (via tonguebreaks)

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If there is a recurring theme to be found in Phoebe Bridgers’ second solo LP, “it’s the idea of having these inner personal issues while there’s bigger turmoil in the world—like a diary about your crush during the apocalypse,” she tells. “I’ll torture myself for five days about confronting a friend, while way bigger shit is happening. It just feels stupid, like wallowing. But my intrusive thoughts are about my personal life.” Recorded when she wasn’t on the road, Punisher is a set of folk and bedroom pop that’s at once comforting and haunting, a refuge and a fever dream. “Sometimes I’ll get the question, like, ‘Do you identify as an LA songwriter?’ Or ‘Do you identify as a queer songwriter?’ And I’m like, ‘No. I’m what I am,’” the Pasadena native says. “The things that are going on are what’s going on, so of course every part of my personality and every part of the world is going to seep into my music. But I don’t set out to make specific things, I just look back and I’m like: ‘Oh. That’s what I was thinking about.’”

PUNISHER (2020) by Phoebe Bridgers

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watching documentaries n crapola, wanted to draw a Pierrot

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actually you will not enjoy hearing this but you literally have to abandon your self deprecating humor. besides the fact that it can drive people away you literally are only hurting yourself by constantly making jokes that further cement the idea in your head that you are not good enough. I do not care that you think its a good coping mechanism it is absolutely not and you need to start challenging negative thoughts instead of feeding into them.