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ID / TL;DW: young Black man explains the history of voodoo dolls: they originated in England, where Black people where prohibited from learning to read or write, to help witches keep track of what ailed their patients. Eg., person goes to witch and laments headache, they treat their headache and make a small doll (called "poppet"), trying to represent them as good as possible, stick a needle in its head and put it up a shelf. When they return next week, the witch takes their poppet and asks about their headache. If it's gone, they remove the needle, otherwise they know they have to treat a rather persistent headache.

tartrazeen

I'm just gonna freeze-frame this for everybody:

tgirl-tamag0tchi

My girlfriend reblogging my post about being a gremlin over butter….

Glad I’m relatable babe.

g0bboparty

:3 babes we do the exact same thing about butter and peanut butter sometimes, dont worry lmao

tgirl-tamag0tchi

*kisses your cheek*

^>^ cute

saddragn

maid dress???????

Picked at these for a while when I first saw this ask and then just,,.. did not finish them, sorry!! But I’d rather get them posted than let them rot in my gallery forever so I finally sat down and rushed out the general idea I had going a month ago lol

choose ur maid!!

life-is-molasses

alteredpanel

happy make a terrible comic day. i decided to try making a comic using an inkwell pen for the first time with no sketch on a subject that's boring to everyone except me

burning-gray-mon

A Pride mural in a Lush shop window has sparked a wave of attention, with its creator highlighting its message of trans pride and visibility

transfemme-shelterdog

That mural fucks hard and honestly of all animals to give top surgery scars to, a tiger is the best fit.

I hope it stays up.

genderkoolaid

^ here's the full thing!

devinellekurtz

We're down to the final 6 hours to back my new artbook "Modern Dragons" on Kickstarter! Thank you all SO MUCH for making this campaign such a success. I can't wait to make this book real!!!

Click here for those last minute pledges!

json-derulo

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

cute-girls-from-anime-manga-vns

Uzaki's sister getting a Yuri subplot in the vol. 10 extras was NOT something I expected to see!

demilypyro

trans women really dominating the indie scene rn huh. lena raine and jamie paige keep popping off and appearing in the best games you can find on steam. gooseworx has her show in theaters. like 80% of content creators i watch nowadays are trans women. and more and more keep popping up. age of the tgirl fr fr

demilypyro

leviathan-supersystem

the thing is if someone were to say to me "hold on, I run a one-person churro stand- am i really 'bourgeoisie'? should I, what, get a job at a kitchen like you?" i'd say:

"now to be fair this is a case where the traditional marxist framework isn't a great fit- some more recent marxist theorists have proposed the existence of an 'artisan class separate from either the proletariat or the bourgeoisie, and i think that may be applicable here. and i'm certainly not saying you should get a job at a kitchen! I am saying however that people who work for an employer are exploited in a way that you aren't- that's why you invested in the equipment for this stand in the first place, right? so you can be your own boss and control the product of your labor. all i'm saying is we should work to address the exploitation that people who work for an employer face."

but it's never that! instead it's always

"hold on, I make zines and I do performance art and slam poetry, do you really thi-" yes I think you are bourgeoisie yes I think you should get a job. thank you for asking.

leviathan-supersystem

[liberal about to send you an annoying anon]: "surely this time marxists will reassure me that making zines while my parents pay my rent makes me the salt of the earth."

leviathan-supersystem

@lycheeboy depends on the publisher situation- if self published, artisan or petite-bourgeoisie. if they work for a publisher, somewhere in the proletarian to labor aristocracy range, depending on how exploitative the contract is.

theomenroom

Many authors are still copyright-holders even with a publisher. An advance isn't a wage. If they choose to switch publishers, they can start writing a sequel to their previous work with the new publisher unless their contract ehh the previous publisher specified otherwise. Their pay is royalties on the copyright they hold that the publisher pays for each sale they make.

There are creatives who work in wage labor and don't own anything after they leave their publishers; that kind of arrangement is common in comics.

For a clear example of this distinction, compare deceased authors whose estate controls copyright to their works vs retired former comic artists crowdfunding medical care

leviathan-supersystem

this is a good point actually!

@lycheeboy as theomenroom helpfully pointed out, relationship to copyright is just as important as relation to publisher,if not moreso.

leviathan-supersystem

@hecticpride0 I mean if you read the post you'd notice i already addressed the debate about whether "exploiting other workers" is necessary for someone to be considered bourgeoisie, or whether those one-person small business owners should be considered "artisan class" instead. I even indicated that I have some sympathies to the latter argument.

however, having spent time with artists, I am less sympathetic to that argument in that case, especially for certain forms of art, because I know where the money is coming from. either they support themselves with a day job (in which case they are proletarian due to their day job and they aren't whining for reassurance in the first place) or they are being supported by their wealthy family. at this point if I ask someone what they do and they say "oh I make zines" i'm just going to fill in "supported by rich parents" in my head.

and if your daddy is the ceo of a company, or even just the owner of a car dealership or whatever, he is bourgeoisie, and if he pays your rent while you make zines you are bourgeoisie by extention. I am tired of coddling people's feelings over this.

dee-the-red-witch

Hon, deciding what artistic mediums are worthy of support and which ones are automatically out-grouped is a fash move. How about you sit the fuck down, rethink your life, and leave small stage actors, poets, and indie wrters alone, you self-righteous purity cultist cock.