just as I now sweep through you

somebody told me once that if you listen carefully you can hear the echoes of the birth of the universe in the static

[mr-snailman]

hi. i'm sean, but they all call me snail. he/she. ગુજરાતી.

art | writing | rambling | that marble hornets au | this vicious minute

talk to me about hockey | music | literature | watergate | old movies | bad movies | weird movies | horror | noir | biology | audiovisual tech | inclement weather | theology | birds | baseball | large bodies of water

WANTED:

art requests. not kidding.

paintings of storms. or ghosts.

photographs of massachusetts. particularly that one crumbling brick ruin near new bedford whose name i can't remember :(

book/film/music recs

any leads on old-school goalie masks in the chicago area

tag/ask games

any information at all about a man named rytis rackausas.

stories. dreams. tell me something true, or something real. histories. warping geographies of the heart.

[handweavers]

the idea that the british empire accepted their decline with grace and peacefully and willingly withdrew from all their colonial territories and took their loss quietly is commonly expressed as fact but it's very much untrue, it's a successful propaganda campaign for them to claim that this is what happened but they were busy committing war crimes throughout their colonial territories long after supposed "independence" & they continued/continue to maintain economic control over these regions and actively killed local movements that wanted economic sovereignty, land reform, nationalization of natural resources much like the united states did/does within their sphere of influence. i say this not to minimize the atrocities the us has committed but to make a point that the uk is also guilty of these crimes up to the present as much as they'd like to pretend this was an era that ended a century ago. british colonial violence isn't something that ended after ww2 it continued throughout the 20th century and still to this day if you look at the actions undertaken by the british military and their mercenaries throughout the former empire

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

[mr-snailman]

comin on summer again everybody say thanks megan thee stallion

[mr-snailman]

last resort 50 mg diphenhydramine hcl not that u care but this is for my records… my father will kill me if he ever sees that bottle but to be fair right he said I could have Benadryl and diphenhydramine IS Benadryl that’s the active ingredient it’s just the label that’s different

[mr-snailman]

took a while to kick in but it definitely worked I was out like a light eventually and I dreamed and dreamed and dreamed and most of it was upsetting and horrifying actually I went to the reservoir to drown and meet death but a bunch of people in silly costumes showed up to rescue me… I dreamed about narrow dirt roads and crumbling houses and chain-link fences and it was like a horror movie you can’t save anyone not even yourself

[iplaycomputer]

nature is beautiful

[nathanieljumpscared]

I got tired so theyre late

Happy pride to taylocke (ig maybe tamylocke?) Everytime i render glitch effects i forget how i did anything ever and die so it never look the same.

I love the specific angst of "my beloved is haunted by something that takes her away from me and also prevents me from keeping photos of her" i eat that shit UP. YOU dont get to keep her!

[glitchy-haha]

INCREDIBLY CONCERNING SPIKE IN ANTI-BLACKNESS IS HAPPENING RN.

Some of yall may have heard some of the shit that has been going on right now. I'm gonna give a quick run down of some of the stuff that has been happening. Note, this is not all, and it may never be all as much as I will try to update this.

(I am going to try and compile and briefly explain these as much as I can. There may be misinformation. Please inform me if I got something wrong.)

(This will also be updated with additional information and new topics added.)

1) Racist Chinese Dolls.

There are these dolls in China that are being called "Natasha" baby dolls. These dolls are not only very obvious caricatures of black people, but they are being advertised as a "stress relief" in which the people who buy these abuse it in various ways.

This links to a video of a compilation of the various "uses" of the doll. There are more in the replies of the tweet. (Another link to the same tweet just incase)

2) The Mocking, Abuse, and Dehumanization of Black Children.

Apart from the aforementioned doll, there are apparently people going around mocking, abusing, and dehumanizing black children.

Some people have compared black children to the doll.

Others have been going into African countries and have found ways to mock, abuse, and dehumanize black children for clout.

(Source 1 + Full Video) (Source 2)

There are more videos surfacing.

3) Black people are going missing.

Black people, especially children and teens have recently been going missing at an alarming rate. Some of these same people are turning up dead, deaths being ruled as "suicides."

While it generally unknown why many of these people are going missing, many suspect that their disappearances, deaths, and even lack of coverage is rooted in anti-blackness.

The following is a list of black people that have been reported missing as of recently. Please note that this is not a complete list (it may never be completed due to the fact that many of these disappearances will still occur as time passes) this may contain inaccurate information. Please inform me if that is the case.

By the time you see this, some of these people may have already been found either alive or deceased. This post will be updated overtime.

It is also heavily encouraged that you reblog this with more links to recent cases of missing black people if you are aware of any that aren’t included on this list.

Alexis Shaver

Payton Diver

Nasir Tacuma

Ka’Laya Cooper

Makaila Monae Adam

Moriah Kerre Smith

Uchechi Chijindum Nkemdirim

Victeria Uriah Spear

Rilen Wade (Found. Is Safe)

Leara Sessoms

[glitchy-haha]

If you are reblogging this, please be sure to reblog updated versions because things can happen and information can become updated. I plan to update this post as much as I can.

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[nonaferatu]

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result

[mr-snailman]

last resort 50 mg diphenhydramine hcl not that u care but this is for my records… my father will kill me if he ever sees that bottle but to be fair right he said I could have Benadryl and diphenhydramine IS Benadryl that’s the active ingredient it’s just the label that’s different

[mr-snailman]

somebody on the kinkmeme said opav mattboles gunplay and like it’s not my thing by a mile and a half but I can’t stop thinking abt how that would go down… I do have ideas and bc it’s me they’re more comedic than sexy but hmmm maybe…

[gouged-doll]

[mr-snailman]

just finished FD Signifier’s vid on interracial relationships and it was so interesting… like as a mixed person I always feel rlly weird abt strictly intracommunity dating bc it’s just literally not possible for me every relationship I have is going to be interracial one way or another and I sorta don’t get why anyone would oppose that BUT this video rlly opened my eyes to a different perspective and why although obviously everyone should be free to love whoever they want there is a systematic devaluation of Black relationships that makes a difference in the way ppl talk and feel abt interracial relationships

[mr-snailman]

although like lets be clear when i say i was less serious abt ahimsa i kind of mean that i was an angry violent kid and on some level i sort of still am even though i'm trying to be better abt it. idk it's interesting growing up in a three-way interfaith household bc i think i rlly shoved back against a lot of the hindu/jain philosophy growing up bc i fucking hated that we weren't normal why couldn't we just be normal like all the other kids families (i grew up in the south, for the record) and sometimes that expressed itself as. well. idk lets just say i was always the bloodthirsty one. short fuse, quick to anger, always ready to make it physical. and i'm a lot older now and im still not vegetarian and i never will be but i try to practice nonviolence in other ways like advocating for peace and human rights here and around the world and also the little things like being patient with other people and conscious abt consumption and helping make sure my immigrant neighbors have access to toiletries and diapers etc. and the older i get the more ahimsa is important to me even tho it's never gonna look exactly like it does for the rest of my family and i don't rlly go in for syncretism the way they do

[mr-snailman]

okay my REAL red flag is that i actually honestly unironically think "have u ever rlly loved a woman?" is a good song

[bookingbook]

let's all look at long hair jared raab okay