My name is PLINKO PLONKO and this is my BLOG. I enjoy BLOGGING ABOUT MY VARIOUS INTERESTS. This INCLUDES but is not limited TO:
diabolical Minecraft Youtuber Scott ‘dangthatsalongname’ Smajor of ‘world of warcraft with a view’ fame. though i am mostly retired as i discovered the beauty of the natural world
rain world (VANILLA PURIST. If this user sees even one depiction of lttm with that fuckass white cloak it kills her)
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inanimate insanity/hfjone
pokemon but only on tuesdays
wings of fire but only the darkstalkers legends book and only on thursdays
warrior cats occasionally when i have a warrior cats phase and those are the dark ages
hit fan hosted life series called beastlife which I play with my friendss #myfriends . This is what 99% of my posts are actually about. i play a character named breature and i love her a lot and i have a sideblog just for posts that remind me of her (@bbreature)
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I am insufferably themes pilled and am critical of most things. DNI anybody with a DNI list. remember to never plink too hard and always plonk when needed
this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐
its a cliche but im a slut for when a character is introduced as super chill and goofy and then you later find out theyre chill and goofy because theyre too powerful to be touched. the level 100 wizard whos already figured out everything and is just vibing now. big fan.
in some ways i do think im understanding frostpaws fandom reception (i’d argue she’s The most popular recent arc character, like AVOS onward nobody else compares) because her story is devastating if i forget how awfully it was paced and delivered . but i cant so now what
traumatized* mother wants to assume her clan’s leadership by placing her daughter in a position of power by faking signs from starclan, and convincing her that she has powers. as part of this scheme, the mothers partner in crime is a 19 year old she groomed into killing the clan’s deputy for her. 19 year old does this but gets sick of being pushed around so he sets a pack of wild dogs on the mother and she gets mauled to death in front of her daughter. her daughter is then pressured by her entire clan to pick another divine right leader, as they think that she is the only person who can ask starclan. this is an enormous burden. but because she doesnt know her powers were made up by her dead mom as a political play, she mistakes her own memories and imagination as visions and picks the worst guy imaginable for the job.
fake prophet** daughter suspects*** foul play in the deputy murder, confides in 19 year old (she has a crush on him), and then 19 year old tries to kill her too. as a result the 19 year old gets haunted by evil mom’s mauled ghost that keeps all her dog wounds in death like she’s a creepypasta and he falls into a deep spiral of violent paranoia. the daughter comes back**** and tries to tell people but is not believed because the 19 year old argues that she is so traumatized she cant tell whats real anymore*****. so she murders him in a really badass scene where she tears open his tendons and watches him bleed out unable to run. THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
*Assumably. it is implied but her motivations are hardly touched upon. what we get is that she 1.) hates starclan and 2.) wanted her clan to be safe. we must draw our own conclusions from that.
**frostpaw gets an actual real vision suddenly and for no clear reason. which sort of implies starclan was choosing not to intervene before? though there is also the implication, two books later, that it is because she believed in herself more. this also sucks, as she was actually very certain of herself before everything went wrong.
***starclan just tells her that the deputy got murdered. she does not figure it out herself (despite having all the tools to do so) (this is retroactively justified in the following books as her being somewhat in denial about it???)
****there is an entire book between when she is almost murdered and when she comes back where she finds out that her mom had manipulated her via meditation, of which most of her learning is off screen and skipped over through page breaks. she is also told to reconnect with her inner child which made me laugh really loud. she has like a whole group of nice cats who are emotionally mature and endlessly patient and help her work through her feelings, its kind of fascinating in that it felt like i was reading a ctommy therapy fic at times. this is also widely considered to be the strongest book in the arc
*****there is actually a swath of bullshit reasons cats dont believe her i just latched onto the most compelling one but it is a little ridiculous that nobody believes her. who do you people think tried to kill frostpaw??? the wind????
there is also a large portion of the final two books dedicated to the 19 year old as a one dinensional evil dictator of riverclan who gets everybody to listen to him by holding babies at gunpoint and i could not for the life of me take any of it seriously. he is 19 years old.
the arc ends in frostpaw going into a coma from her injuries from fighting the 19 year old to the death. it is implied that she is only in the coma for as long as she is because she doesnt want to wake up, and that her dying would be her “giving up on riverclan”. great. she has a final scene with the ghost of her mother here where she tries to get her mom to apologize for killing the deputy and she says “nuh uh that was my minion and not me” and then disappears and they never get another scene together again. I guess that was supposed to be the conclusion for them? Also her dead dad who was barely mentioned before this tells her to stay dead? Frostpaw is brought out of her coma by all the women (?idk) who love her singing to her and then everybody alive who has ever wronged her takes turns apologizing to her personally. she chooses the leader of riverclan, gets her full name and then the arc ends
frostpaw also gets spayed by a vet at some point as if she wasnt already dealing with enough
in some ways i do think im understanding frostpaws fandom reception (i’d argue she’s The most popular recent arc character, like AVOS onward nobody else compares) because her story is devastating if i forget how awfully it was paced and delivered . but i cant so now what
traumatized* mother wants to assume her clan’s leadership by placing her daughter in a position of power by faking signs from starclan, and convincing her that she has powers. as part of this scheme, the mothers partner in crime is a 19 year old she groomed into killing the clan’s deputy for her. 19 year old does this but gets sick of being pushed around so he sets a pack of wild dogs on the mother and she gets mauled to death in front of her daughter. her daughter is then pressured by her entire clan to pick another divine right leader, as they think that she is the only person who can ask starclan. this is an enormous burden. but because she doesnt know her powers were made up by her dead mom as a political play, she mistakes her own memories and imagination as visions and picks the worst guy imaginable for the job.
fake prophet** daughter suspects*** foul play in the deputy murder, confides in 19 year old (she has a crush on him), and then 19 year old tries to kill her too. as a result the 19 year old gets haunted by evil mom’s mauled ghost that keeps all her dog wounds in death like she’s a creepypasta and he falls into a deep spiral of violent paranoia. the daughter comes back**** and tries to tell people but is not believed because the 19 year old argues that she is so traumatized she cant tell whats real anymore*****. so she murders him in a really badass scene where she tears open his tendons and watches him bleed out unable to run. THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
in some ways i do think im understanding frostpaws fandom reception (i’d argue she’s The most popular recent arc character, like AVOS onward nobody else compares) because her story is devastating if i forget how awfully it was paced and delivered . but i cant so now what
girl with ptsd voice: hey, so something really bad is gonna happen, right? you guys are picking up on that too, yeah? The other shoe is about to drop, I just know it.
Why "Precolonial" Indigenous North American History Matters: A Mini Syllabus
Okay I had this half-finished lying around so I prettied it up into something vaguely usable and added links wherever possible (most of them being totally legal...)
This is not a full treatment of Indigenous history before European contact. It was originally created to be a 15 week class, so it was not intended to cover everything but to give a taste of various regions and histories. Unfortunately, certain essays I would highly recommend are in the Oxford handbooks I listed at the end, and I have been unable to locate free-to-access versions.
Each section includes a question to consider that is intended to suggest ways that these precolonial histories have reverberations into the present. In a course I'd be able to draw them out more clearly, but keep them in mind as you read, if you like. Finally, please keep in mind that few of these sources will read like a "straightforward history" of "precolonial [xyz region/tribe/nation]." Be open-minded and critical-thinking!
Part 1: Foundations
Questions to consider:
Why didn't we learn this stuff?
Why should we learn this stuff?
Why do so many Indigenous people distrust historians / anthropologists / archaeologists?
Readings:
Michael Witgen (Red Cliff Ojibwe), "American Indians in World History" in The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History
Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), Custer Died For Your Sins, chapter 4: "Anthropologists and Other Friends"
Floyd Westerman (Sisseton Dakota), "Here Come the Anthros" (music video!!)
Juliana Barr, "There's no such thing as prehistory"
Peregrine and Lekson, "The North American Oikumene"
(Parts 2-6 under the cut)
Part 2: Mesoamerica
Question to consider: How could so few Spaniards conquer the vast population of Tenochtitlan and other Aztec cities?
Readings:
Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Popol Vuh (translated by Allen J. Christenson)
Part 3: Aridoamerica/Oasisamerica
Question to consider: How did the Southwest region of the United States become so associated with the touristy image of the "peaceful Pueblo Indian"?
Readings:
Joe Sando (Jemez Pueblo), Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History
Kelley and Francis (Navajo), A Diné History of Navajoland, introduction
Severin Fowles, "The Pueblo Village in an Age of Reformation"
Part 4: The Midcontinent
Question to consider: How did the Five "Civilized" Tribes become so powerful, both historically and today?
Readings:
Alt and Pauketat, "Medieval Life in America's Heartland"
Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation), Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club
Part 5: The Great Lakes
Question to consider: What role did Indigenous peoples play in the French ultimately losing their North American colonies? (Why am I writing this in English and not French?)
Readings:
Georges Sioui (Wendat), Huron-Wendat: Heritage of the Circle (I can't find an online copy but it's extremely worth buying)
Kayanerehkowa: The Great Law of Peace (Kahnawake Mohawk)
Part 6: General Resources
I would also recommend these two handbooks, if you can get a hold of them for a non-outrageous price:
The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History (2016)
The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology (2011)
shoutout to twigbranch i dont remember much about her but honestly i love her so much regardless. shes not even a warrior cats character to me shes just twigbranch my best friend twigbranch
