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Gemma. BTS & HP. part of the slow roleplayers network! but on my sideblog: ravenpuff-writes

[midnightssea]

Don’t think about Minerva McGonagall’s grief over all the students she outlived

[axiddrops]

[agnesmontague]

red, pink, or white roses? strawberry, chocolate, or vanilla? pumps, flats, or sneakers? daffodils, daisies, or lilies? pizza, sushi, or burgers? rubies, sapphires, or diamonds? 

[hermngranger]

      “ you can’t HELP me, hermione. we’re on opposite sides of this war. ”

hp au: in a small twist of fate, draco and harry never meet on the steps of the great hall. this causes a chain reaction which makes hermione granger a hat stall. this stall causes the sorting hat to ultimately sort her into ravenclaw. due to draco and harry’s rivalry never sparking, they become friends. and by association harry gets draco to spend more time with the muggleborn witch from ravenclaw. ( featuring: hermione wearing draco’s scarf because HOLY FUCK YES  - also i might do a part 2 if requested. )

[farmfreshmemes]

[queer-posi]

Big fuckin shoutout to wlw who question whether they are a lesbian or bi or something else, I’ve been there too. You are valid no matter what label you choose and you don’t need to prove yourself to anyone. There’s no such thing as “not gay enough” or “not bi enough”. You do you, funky little sapphics 🌸

[crossconnectmag]

The New Third Series of Moire Pattern Animals from Andrea Minini

Top seven images are the new series of Moire Animals from Andrea Minini  ( Facebook ) In them he only uses two lines, that are repeatedly scaled or rotated. Thanks Colossal

Join the amazing Art on Facebook       Posted by Andrew

[ggggyhjbvgujjj-deactivated20200]

『vmin』 glitter ✨

FULL vid in HD: https://youtu.be/9saTsq2mwVU

note// as I already said, I was so inspired by this one, I started editing just after I finished listening to the song. Thank you for your request !

[tenthrees]

[davvic]

My cat Bishop sits outside my door every morning once she hears the alarm clock go off.

[pandaflavouredcookies]

The morning murps

[breaktotheotherside]

Someone has waited HOURS to tell you all the gossip.

[thegravelbro]

this is like the cat version of the professor clip of him going “hello!” every morning the same way

[darwinquark]

@fayebell

[bearimy-dot]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Hiatus Creations:

week five → captain raymond holt

“C’mon, sir. The math thing isn’t the problem. Night shift’s keeping you and Kevin apart. You two just need to bone.”— s04.ep08 | Skyfire Cycle

[morticiahaddams-deactivated2019]

I, Professor Severus Snape, do hereby give the Slytherin team permission to practice today, owning to the need to train their new Seeker.

[penroseparticle]

So I just went with my buddy while he got a rib tattoo, and they hurt like a lot, so he’s over there grimacing and being a huge manbaby so I just reach over and grab his hand so he can squeeze it because I’m a good person who helps others

And he’s clinging to my hand like it’s a life preserver and I’m being me and talking about nonsense like Grimace from the McDonalds commercials and how R2D2 is always ready to throw hands, and whatever, and the artist keeps glancing over at me and I’m like do your tattoo bro I’ve got my buddy handled

But then I realize he’s like, looking over because he can’t tell if he’s seeing something or not, and I glance down and I see my rainbow scalemail bracelet, and how I’m talking to my buddy all fondly and I’m like stroking his arm like he’s a wounded animal, and right as it clicks in my head the tattoo artist asks in his most nonchalant voice possible, like intentionally bland, I’m just talking about the weather haha what do you mean voice:

“So, are you guys close?”

And my gay ass is over to the side internally screaming because yeah, I am gay, but like this is just me being a good bro and my buddy is COMPLETELY OBLVIOUS TO WHAT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE HE’S A GARBAGE STRAIGHT PERSON AND HE SAYS

“Yeah of course, that’s why I asked him to come”

SO NOW THE TATTOO ARTIST THINKS HE’S RIGHT AND HE HAS A GAY COUPLE GETTING A TATTOO AND MY BUDDY HAS NO IDEA AND I’M AWKWARDLY SITTING HERE LIKE SHOULD I STOP HOLDING HIS HAND??? SHOULD I CORRECT THIS TATTOO ARTIST??? SHOULD I LET MY BUDDY KNOW??? MY GAY ASS DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE BEING INCORRECTLY ACCUSED OF BEING GAY, WHAT DO YOU DO

So that tattoo artist is like “Cool man, that’s great. Good for you.”

So then my buddy is like can I get some water, and the guy comes back with one bottle of water and my buddy takes a drink and then hands it to me, and I’m like obviously he has to lay down and needs me to hold his water so I just hold it in my hand, but turns out he was offering me water, so he turns to me and is like Colton, drink some water, and I take a drink and my garbage lizard brain is like “You’re drink sharing in front of the tattoo artist, now he KNOWS he’s right”

So we’re talking about tattoos with the artist and I mention that I’m getting a tattoo in September and my buddy is like “Yeah I’m gonna go and hold HIS hand for that one haha” and the tattoo artist FUCKING SAYS “I mean, I should hope so”

I MEAN, I SHOULD HOPE SO

I MEAN, I SHOULD HOPE SO

AND NO ONE ACTUALLY BROUGHT IT UP. I KNEW WHAT THE TATTOO ARTIST WAS THINKING BUT DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING TO CORRECT HIM. NOW WHEN MY BUDDY GOES BACK AND GETS HIS NEXT TATTOO IN THE FUTURE AND I’M NOT THERE HE’S GOING TO GO “OH WHERE’S YOUR BOYFRIEND”

[yanderechild-archive]

FUCK THIS!!! im a humanities/arts person!!! FUCK MATH!!! what the fuck is even calculus!!! what r u calculating!!!! fuck off!!!

[wearewakanda]

Why museum professionals need to talk about Black Panther

[Spoilers] The seminal film Black Panther has become an international sensation in the week following its release. Notable for its impeccable dialogue, witty banter, and nearly all POC cast, Black Panther provides a platform to discuss a multitude of topics on a national scale.....

[nativenews]

Museum Guide: These items are not for sale.

Killmonger: How do you think your ancestors got these? You think they paid a full price for it? Or did they take them like they took everything else?

[kaijutegu]

I work in a museum- an old one- and during this scene I was nudging my brother the whole time. I clapped a little at that line. Museums need to rethink the way we curate things. If we aren’t elevating the heritage of those objects’ creators, if we aren’t telling their story, if we aren’t making those narratives accessible to the descendants and letting them lead, then what is even the point? Decolonize collections. Practice co-curation. Hire scholars of color, and make the collections accessible to visiting scholars. Involve the descendant community and elevate their voices, not the white colonial narrative.

And for goodness’ sakes, don’t run your museum like a jewellery shop. Have context. Honor the objects for their beauty, but remember that no object is as important as the people who created it.

[heres-lou]

Ummmm,, and like straight up, give things back? Indigenous communities in North America have campaigned for decades to have body parts, ceremonial items and sacred parts of our history returned to their communities.

Ofcourse, Hurd scholars of colour and think critically about your role. But like sometimes, you just have to give things back.

[kaijutegu]

That’s repatriation (what I meant by “decolonize collections”) and it’s actually been federal law in America for almost thirty years. It’s been happening and will continue to happen, but it’s a LOT more complicated than just “give the stuff back.” Obviously you’re totally right- giving the stuff back is absolutely necessary. 

But at the same time, giving ALL the old stuff back to Native groups doesn’t really work, either- for us OR for them. What happens to the stuff when it goes back? Do the modern Alaskan Athabascans really want the 1000+ baskets the museum I work at holds? (No, they don’t. We asked them. They definitely do not want those baskets back.) What about Native groups who don’t want remains back- the Navajo, for instance, believe that the remains of the dead are taboo objects, unclean and best left buried. And there are some Native groups who actually WANT their objects in museums. Not every object has a ritual context- sometimes a pot is just a pot. Even some ritual objects aren’t as spiritually important, and we’ve actually had people from different tribes come in and help rewrite language surrounding an object, or give instructions as to how it should be stored. Some groups really want us to display their cultural artifacts, because it reminds people that Native American cultures are alive and real. 

One thing that works really well in a lot of cases is co-curation, which is when we commission and work with Native artists, leaders, and scholars to reframe the way we display objects. Like, recently, we asked Chris Pappan, who’s a Kanza artist, to come in and draw on the displays from the ‘30s. The juxtaposition of his art with the colonialist view of Native Americans has had a huge impact in visitor impressions- people go to that gallery now to learn and see what’s ACTUALLY happening today with Native Americans. This I think is how these institutions can use their power for good- elevating creator voices and letting them present their own past and own history. The Field does that a lot- we’ve had exhibitions from Rhonda Holy Bear, Bunky Echo-Hawk, and are continuing to work with Native Americans from many tribes to redesign and reframe the objects on display. We’re not doing this for social justice points- we’re doing this because the Field Museum gets something like 1.5+million visitors a year, and we owe it to the Native tribes we stole from to a.) tell their story b.) how they want it. 

If you take all evidence of Native Americans out of the big natural history museums, you’re taking away representation- and education- and a lot of tribes actually don’t want that. What many groups want is the old colonial narratives to go away and be replaced with their own messaging and history. Native Americans are mythologized and what we did to them is sanitized in the US education system. I know that the person who responded is in Canada- and from what I hear, they’re even worse about destroying Native history and sanitizing what the colonists did (and continue to do) to them and their cultures. And this is where I think museums can actually HELP. People only care about things they’re familiar with. If the only image you have of a Native American is a racist football mascot, you’re not going to care about them as a culture- you’re not even going to see them as people. There’s a lot of white people who don’t believe in Native Americans. Like, they legit don’t think that there’s ANY Native groups left, and I know this because I’ve talked to these people at work. It’s baffling, how little Americans know about their own country’s behavior. And it’s totally a global problem- I could go on for days about what the British Museum Needs To Do With Those Fucking Marbles, Give Them Back You Cowards, You Have Enough Money To Ensure Their Care In Greece You’re Just Being Assholes- but I wanted to respond with a Native American context because of the person I’m replying to AND because… well, most Americans don’t know this, and they need to, because knowing about repatriation and why we do it is important. 

Repatriation is so very vital, but it’s even more vital to listen to the Native American groups and ask them what they want to happen- as well as treat each tribe individually. We don’t hold onto Tlingit remains because the Navajo don’t want their remains back. Treating all tribes as identical is wrong- not as wrong as withholding their precious cultural traditions, relics, and remains- but if we’re even going to (as a museum industry) attempt to apologize for the atrocities we’ve sanctioned, the first thing we gotta do is ask people what they want. 

And the next thing we gotta do is listen.

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

Skeptical. Very much so.

[knightoflodis]

Skeptical? What’s skeptical? I am confused

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

About repatriation until the countries can show they can take care of the objects. I don’t like retroactively looting museums for the sake of correctness. Something doesn’t sit right with me.

Further, Palmyra and the Iraqi national museum comes to mind.

I don’t know. My opinions are developing on the issue.

[kaijutegu]

Ahh, gotcha. Yeah, that’s certainly another issue! With Native American repatriation, the objects and remains repatriated often aren’t conserved at all- they go back into use, or in the case of remains, they’re given a burial.

But sometimes it isn’t safe! Sometimes it’s dangerous for artifacts to go back- they might get damaged (see: Iraq) or they’re so fragile that they can’t travel, or the home country can’t support them. In these cases, you can still make these objects available to the descendants- through outreach, digital resources, reproductions, and on-site work. This is super important for African art in particular- in a lot of cases, sending it back isn’t helpful, because of the way Africa got split up- if an artifact is from a group that straddles a country line, who gets it? And what if sending it back means that now diasporic descendants (who never got the chance to know exactly from who they came from) don’t get to access it? Africa is so salient for this because of the slave trade- for a lot of people of African descent, western museums are the main way they get to see the actual things their ancestors made. They live in these countries, like the US, where their history and contributions are so frequently ignored, and don’t they have the right to connect to their heritage through artifacts, too? Giving everything back would be hugely detrimental- and again, people only care about what they see.

Which is where consulting these communities comes into play. In black panther, the artifacts have no context. They say nothing about African life! They say nothing about what it means to be African, or from a specific African nation/tribe! They’re treated like trophies, and that’s bad display. I think that one of the most important goals of modern museums is education- what can these objects tell us the public, along with the cultural descendants of the creators? In many cases, repatriation isn’t the right answer- but that can’t be decided without a conversation between museums and descent groups. A good-faith convo, not one where the museum flexes its financial/cultural power, but a conversation where the desires of the people and the reality of conservation are both discussed.

And even in cases where repatriation isn’t a feasible option, co curation is almost always a possibility. You’d be surprised how many groups will happily enter into dialogue with museums who hold their cultural heritage, so long as there’s a real effort to include their voices and opinions.

It’s not a question with a simple answer. Museums have to live with the legacy of their creation as a product of colonialism, and they have to use that responsibility in a way that provides actual benefits to the people affected.

[roadtripdad]

All of this, and libraries and archives too.

[srabaskerville]

[claudiagray]

In journalism school, you’re taught to look at a whole layout, to see how everything does or does not work together. Here are some reasons why they teach you that.

[petermorwood]

This is like the gun safety rule “be aware of your target AND what’s beyond it.”

[friendly-animals]