Bam, Said The Lady.

If you are a Brown-coat or from the 12th precinct, you are welcome. I hope you Always find Serenity here. If something catches you by surprise, apples is the official safe word.

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

I spent the rest of the day making distractions. Cleaning the pantry, washing my clothes, organizing the shoe rack, mopping the floors, buying things I don’t need off of Amazon, watching mindless movies… going thru the junk mail even. And now I sit here after staying up so late, and your memory still caught me. Still found me in my one moment of relaxation. Still made me realize how much lighter and brighter to me the world felt, how much easier it was to laugh when you were rotating on the same earth with me and not flying amongst the stars.

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

Tomorrow will be two months without you…

I just wanted you to know, I don’t let many people fully know me… and you knew me. You were there making memories with me for the entirety of my life. And the number of memories I recall about my life will continue to grow as I make more of them, but they will all be missing a big aspect of my life… and I will always find myself missing you.

You were my peace. I felt secure, loved, seen, heard, valued, and understood when your presence was in the same room with me. Now I feel lost and broken knowing you’ve left this world… Simply put, I lost my peace when we all lost you. I think of this very often and I oh so wholeheartedly hope that thru this experience, you’ve been able to find yours. Love you so much friend, and I miss you with all that I have.

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

I spent the rest of the day making distractions. Cleaning the pantry, washing my clothes, organizing the shoe rack, mopping the floors, buying things I don’t need off of Amazon, watching mindless movies… going thru the junk mail even. And now I sit here after staying up so late, and your memory still caught me. Still found me in my one moment of relaxation. Still made me realize how much lighter and brighter to me the world felt, how much easier it was to laugh when you were rotating on the same earth with me and not flying amongst the stars.

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

Me getting people Xmas gifts that also happen to benefit myself:

[shewhohangsoutincemeteries]

me: where do you live?

vegan: I'm a vegan

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

Me to Pilot Before Flight: If you crash this plane, these deaths are on you.

Also Me: **Becomes a serial killer when we reach cruising altitude**

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

Me: If you vote for Trump this time around, these deaths are on you!!

Also Me: **Becomes Serial Killer**

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

I just hope some very credible source accurately and painstakingly records everything that happens this year, because future archaeologists and historians will have an extremely difficult time believing anything recovered circa 2020. And in no way, should they exclaim anything utilized during the year 2020 was utilized as some form of ritualistic purpose.

[illusionwaltz]

How well do you see color?

I’m cry I scored 60, I feel blind

[batter666-deactivated20180822]

so everyone is aware, a lower score on this means a better score.

[thegaybeany]

I got a 30!!!!!!!! Yes!

[blinkingkills]

7, but i’m an art student so

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

I got a 0. I don’t know how but I’m not gonna question it.

[executiveoutcomes-deactivated20]

No offence but you know what's really weird about America? You've got hardly any history past a couple of centuries. No medieval castles, no Roman walls, no bronze age settlement sites. Is there even anything for archeologists to dig for?

People have been here for quite some time, they’ve only been white for 500 years

[queen-of-dirt]

As an American studying archaeology this ask filled me with a seething rage

[lifeinsherds]

Chaco Canyon. 1250 A.D

Monks Mound 900 A.D

Montezuma Castle, 1100 A.D

Temple Mound, 500 A.D

Just because they aren’t traditional western style buildings doesn’t mean they aren’t there. These are only a FEW examples of the monumental architecture built by Native Americans in the US. The “prehistory” of America is as vast and varied as whatever is in Europe.

[snarkaeologist]

I never understand people who will travel so far to see Stonehenge or Roman ruins but completely discount Cahokia or Mesa Verde. There are SO MANY amazing ancient sites in America. And most of them are comparatively little-known and visited.

I think a difference in Europe is that they seem better at coexisting with their history - there are cities where you can see modern buildings next to ones from the Middle Ages. Our (surviving) ancient sites in the US aren’t in the middle of major population centers, which makes them easier to overlook. I don’t think that’s entirely a bad thing, preservation-wise, but it’s also not an excuse for forgetting they exist.

[archaeologistproblems]

Folks I live in Atlantic Canada and I’m an hour away from an archaeological site complex that’s at least 11,000 years old, suspected to be 13,000 years old. That’s nearly three times older than the Great Pyramid at Giza. The Wabanaki are called the People of the Dawn for a reason. Come on.

[rynthetyn]

There are multiple temple mounds within 10-20 minutes of me on the gulf coast of Florida that date back more than a millennium, and were actively inhabited areas before the Spanish showed up and committed genocide.

[mxopifex]

And a whole bunch of Native American people built around astrological events just like Stonehenge. Except they weren’t just using the solstices that happen every year. No, they were using the major lunar standstills which only happen every 18 years.

There are places where Native Americans were building cities without an agrarian lifestyle. Hunter gatherer cities! That is completely different from how western civilization developed! How cool is that! How aggressively does that up end the idea that hunter gatherers were inherently more primitive than agrairian cultures.

The fact that I didn’t learn about any of this until I was in my 30s and actively seeking this information in my own time is criminal.

[labelleizzy]

It got better

[micdotcom]

Watch: Poet Porsha Olayiwola heartbreakingly reminds us all that black women’s lives matter too. 

[russula-nongrata]

“Men and boys are seen as the primary target of racial injustice,” AAPF associate director Rachel Gilmer told TakePart in May. “This has led to the idea that women and girls of color are not doing as bad, or that we’re not at risk at all.”

But studies show otherwise: Black women are killed and sexually assaulted by the police, and incarcerated at almost three times the rate of their white female counterparts. Yet news coverage of these cases are focused largely on the relationship between law enforcement and black men.

From the linked article above. None of this diminishes the importance of any Black Lives Matter protests or the lives of black men.

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

Seeking forever, in a dying ecosystem.

Trying to locate stability, while tipping on a cracked foundation.

Attempting to stay lost, in a place of make believe;

Where all things are kind and everyone is free.

But as I turn the page to read ahead, there’s less of a story to perceive.

And as more pages turn, the faster I peruse;

I’m searching for forever, knowing I’ll have to lose.

For the book’s already written and it’s story must conclude.

Even in fiction, things come to an end too soon.

I misplace myself in books, to omit the truth from which I used solace to hide away.

Though sometimes, sadness seems to only want to stay.

Letting my tears mix with the words on the page, this love for reading I swear it won’t fade.

The newspaper’s ink, wiped onto my sleeve, there’s still no place that I’d rather be.

M.B.

[dankarchaeologymemes]

a rock: *sticks to my tongue*

me:

________________________________________

This is truly delicious thank you for the submission!

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

How can we watch, standing idly by, while humans are being sprayed by fire hoses, tear gassed, and even killed in the streets when all they dared to do was exist?

Why are civil rights activists met with such enmity?

How can we love our neighbor when our neighbor hates us?

How can we remain silent when a person’s right to speak is taken away?

How can we take a back seat to freedom when humans before us risked their lives to sit in the front?

How can we continue down the path to equality, which those before have already started to pave, when so many others keep chipping away at the progress?

[gahdamnpunk]

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

[knitmeapony]

This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

[mrsmummycat]

Women.

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

Heroin won’t be in the casket at your funeral, but it will be one of the main pallbearers lowering you into the ground.

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

You go Glen Coco!!!

[nohasslecastleandcaptainmal]

Omg I love your bracelet where’d you get it?