Rayah Rob

'91 baby. In Chicago for seminary. From San Diego. I like too many things, so sorry. Superheroes, Frank Sinatra, hockey, other people's tattoos, and bulldogs are some. I don't really know what this is about yet. #slowoutofthegate #terribleatTHEINTERNET

[induskush]

ATTENTION DESI TUMBLR: MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN SOUTH INDIA ARE OF DIRECT AFRICAN DESCENT.

Please Stop being ignorant about your own countries

Please Stop being colorist and anti dark skin.

Please learn about the different groups of Black people in South Asia.

Please learn about the tens of thousands of years of historical interactions between African people and the people of the Indian subcontinent.

Please learn about the African presence in early Asia

Please learn about the Great Ethiopian Dynasty of East Bengal

Must watch vid

Please learn about the Sidi Saiyyed Mosque

Please learn about the Murud-Janjira Fortress 

Please learn about the recent African genetic markers found in modern Dravidian populations

Please learn about the Dalit Black Panthers

Please learn about the interactions between the Indus Valley Civilization and Nile Valley Civilizations

Please learn about the relationships between African and Dravidian languages

Please learn about the Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm and the African origin of all languages in South Asia.

Please stop being ignorant about the history and legacy of black desis.

[democraticnonsense]

Castelessness: The Pathology of Desi Twitter

[The] tendency to demand reparations from Britain while denying the same to Dalits is pretty common among the savarna desis. It is common to hear desis regularly criticize white people for colonizing bindis, yoga, and curry while maintaining a tight-lipped silence around the very troubling issue of caste privilege, which they have benefitted from. How do we make sense of this contradiction? It would be expected that people who are vocal about Whites not owning up to their white privilege would be equally vocal when it comes to acknowledging their caste privilege.

[yimmyayo]

[22ackermann]

In FEAR every DAY, every EVENING, He CALLS her ALOUD from ABOVE, Carefully WATCHED for a REASON, Painstaking DEVOTION and LOVE, Surrendered TO self PRESERVATION, From OTHERS who CARE for THEMSELVES. A BLINDNESS that touches PERFECTION, But HURTS just LIKE anything ELSE………No.1

[jasperhoudini]

My life.

[andyourhostkristenwiig]

[letangs]

21/87 pictures of sidney crosby

[crosby-87]

17 yr old Sidney Crosby laughing about Jack Johnson’s razor before the draft!

[jonny-toes]

the original bromance

[ancientart]

A quick note on καλός inscriptions.

Why are there (seemingly) random declarations of adolescent boy beauty on ancient Greek pottery? 

It is this question that has been puzzling classicists for over a century. Could these vases be viewed as fan club memorabilia? This post will give a quick overview on what these inscriptions are, examples, and a possible interpretation. 

As well as signatures and labels, declarations of young male beauty (‘καλός inscriptions’) are common on Attic vases. καλός (ΚΑLΟΣ when capitalised, and pronounced ‘kalos’) in ancient Greek means something along the lines of beautiful/ fine/ good, but is usually translated as ‘beautiful’ in the case of these inscriptions. Female versions of such inscriptions are rare. 

The shown example dates to ca. 500 BC. Its text is faded and hard to read, but ‘ΕΠΙΔΡΟMΟΣ ΚΑLΟΣ’ (Epidromos is beautiful) is inscribed. One of the most common καλός inscriptions was 'Λέαγρος καλός’ (Leagros is beautiful). A good example of the latter is at the MFA, Boston. This storage jar depicts two nude youths jumping together; one inscription reads ‘Leagros is beautiful’, another, ‘Leagros is beautiful, yes indeed!’. It is interesting to note that Leagros seems to have become a distinguished general in the Athenian army.

It is fairly certain that these inscriptions were not done to reflect the feelings of the craftsman -nobody would have really cared what they thought. It does, however, reflect what the craftsman thought would sell: thus, the feelings of potential customers. Professor Richard Neer of the University of Chicago notes that “it is even possible that some drinking groups would single out particular boys of praise, like fan clubs or chat rooms today. Vase painters catered to their enthusiasms.”

The shown artefact is © Trustees of the British Museum, and via their online collections: 1848,0320.1. Recommended reading: Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500 - c. 150 BCE, Richard T. Neer (Thames & Hudson 2012). 

[maria-tries]

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a cozy evening at barnes-rogers’ place

birthday gift for my dearest regularcorgi  ♥

[rayahr]

My heart

[rayahr]

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[ultrafacts]

When an assisted living home in California shut down, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go. The staff at the Valley Springs Manor left when they stopped getting paid — except for cook Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez, the janitor.

“There was about 16 residents left behind, and we had a conversation in the kitchen, ‘What are we going to do?’ ” Rowland says. “If we left, they wouldn’t have nobody,” Alvarez says.

Their roles quickly transformed for the elderly residents, who needed round-the-clock care. “I would only go home for one hour, take a shower, get dressed, then be there for 24-hour days,” says Alvarez. 

Rowland remembers passing out medications during those long days. He says he didn’t want to leave the residents — some coping with dementia — to fend for themselves. “I just couldn’t see myself going home — next thing you know, they’re in the kitchen trying to cook their own food and burn the place down,” Rowland says. “Even though they wasn’t our family, they were kind of like our family for this short period of time.“ [x]

Alvarez and Rowland spent several days caring for the elderly residents of Valley Springs Manor until the fire department and sheriff took over. The incident led to legislation in California known as the Residential Care for the Elderly Reform Act of 2014.

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[peaceloveandafropuffs]

YOU GUYS! Someone is making a movie about these two heroes! They have an Indiegogo page to collect money for the film.

[cherry2bsi]

My boy Miles Maker is doing this project. Support if you can!

[muchduck-psylax-blog]

Why does sexism still exist? It’s 2015 people

[jhennel1]

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[rayahr]

"I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced." -Dale Chihuly (Photocred: @cliffordjho) (at Chihuly Garden and Glass)

[rayahr]

The mountains saw that the sky was tired. They offered to take her clouds for awhile and let her rest. They embraced the clouds with compassion and care only a mother would understand as the soft bodies came to reside in every valley bed and space the mountains could provide. They promised to do so until the clouds felt ready to help hold themselves up and the sky had returned refreshed. Even once the clouds returned to their place above the peaks, the mountains promised to always be there, just in case, the clouds or their partner, the sky, needed them again. (at Redwood Valley)

[rayahr]

So glad I got to spend the day catching up with my Boo!!! 😁❤️ (at Dana Point)

[weloveshortvideos]