knight of the oaken sword

Lee | Lesbian | Aniyunwiya Bird Clan & SicilianFull time illustrator & designer, part time cryptid. Folklore, rare languages, and herbalism.  

[lokisbeautifulangel]

Before you scroll away read this.

This elder was burned alive because he was accused of being a “Witch Doctor “

He was actually a Traditional herbalist Trying to preserve the Maya Culture. The Governments and School System and churches in much of Latin America push this Narrative that it is Bad to be Indigenous that it was Satanic. This was Taught to the indigenous people so that they can chase the fantasy of being “ Latinos or Hispanics “ from the Colonizers. Hundreds of years of Mental Manipulation is to blame as well as a corrupt government.

People South of the Border are still being Murdered for there traditional and belief system. THIS IS EVIL!!

So I urge you to donate in support of our relative who was unjustly murdered out of ignorance.

[teddypdf]

all the “we are the descendants of the witches they couldn’t burn” girls who claim to be oppressed because they practice wicca or witchcraft:

recognize the hands of white colonizers in his death. remind yourself of why indigenous practices are off limits to non-indigenous people. donate to this elders family.

[siriusc]

do you ever get stuck in between “it’s ok not to have everything on track i got time” and “i’ve already wasted my life at the ripe old age of 23”

[chewedcorn]

All the time!

[diaryofandnwoman]

[theslaybymic]

This is what Native American fashion looks like without the cultural appropriation

Follow @this-is-life-actually

[spartanninja]

Yooooo, that looks so cool!

[moonlightandmarble]

Martin Sensmeier!

[redisawerewolf23]

https://byellowtail.com/ a link to the products

B.YELLOWTAIL

B.YELLOWTAIL

[losttheforestpath]

What this means y’all is that this isn’t for you if you aren’t Native American :)

[e-p-hart]

Mmmmm wrong.

[lunetta-suzie-jewel]

Buying something that is commercially produced directly from the producers is the textbook example of not cultural appropriation.

[unseeliesidhe]

hey yo can non-native shut the fuck up about how and when we do and do not shar eour culture? Ye? Wado. This is amazing

[eternainocencia]

beno siendo beno

[dieunrasiertebirkenstocktrgrn]

[antiporn-activist]

Fantasy means the thing you wish you could do.

[maysileedonners]

the “creators are ungrateful and only care about notes” argument is,, really strange to me?? 

because yes, we make these things because we enjoy it and we want to share it with everyone but… what do we have to be grateful for?? nowadays, we’re lucky if we even get 100 notes at this point. and if we do, you can be damn well certain that the ratio will be way off– eg; 70% likes to 30% reblogs. probably even worse than that, come to think of it. 

and when half of those reblogs are people posting unnecessary comments underneath the edit or putting shady comments in the tags about the subject (why reblog it at all then?) or about something trivial like how you used a different colour than they themselves would have used (to which i say, go and make your own??) … it’s just!!! it’s exhausting. truly.

without creators, you would all be staring at a dead dash (which we’re getting close to actually lmao) and this website would have no function. creators are what keep tumblr alive.

tldr; support content creators. reblog their goddamn work.

[fullofdreamsyouoverslept]

so i’m sure by now most of you have seen the news story about the patriots using their team plane to fly ppe into massachusetts from china (or at least if you’re local to new england you probably have).

it’s being shared on the news as a heartwarming story of a football team stepping up for their local area, but it’s also absolutely a sign of how truly and deeply fucked the federal response to this has been.

some background: massachusetts has received somewhere in the neighborhood of 17% of the ppe requested from the federal stockpile, and not one single ventilator. we requested 1000 of those and have now had to up our request to 1400. we have repeatedly been outbid by the federal government and now, most recently, had shipments of ppe that we ordered straight up seized by the feds in new york.

so, in desperation, our governor set up A SECRET DIPLOMATIC BACKCHANNEL to essentially beg china to send us badly needed equipment and make sure the federal government couldn’t seize it this time

florida has received multiple shipments of supplies in this same time frame, on time and unmolested by federal authorities. the difference? governor ron desantis is buddy buddy with trump and florida is a big swing state for the election. states that get on trump’s shit list are having to beg, borrow, and steal so that more people don’t die.

this is deeply, incredibly fucked and i don’t want anyone to ever forget it.

[kiana996]

Welcome to dystopia

[welcometobusinesstown]

[catchymemes]

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

East coast people pass Midwest people in a store and the Midwest people will strike up a conversation and the east coast people will get all creeped out cuz of how the weird strangers are trying to ask them questions when they're just minding their own business

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

I'm east coast people

[mrp3nguln2]

Im midwest people

Hows that local weather been treating you, huh? Hoo boy, ive sure been experiencing local circumstances

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

*crouches to a defensive stance in the middle of fucking costco*

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

[kristmaskiller]

This is southeast coaster erasure. We will be trapped in conversation until one of us dies.

[obstinatecurator]

Midwesterner: Mornin neighbor

East coaster, immediately regressing into a Nathaniel Hawthorne character: Father warned me there were devils outside the Township

[seventearstothesea]

West Coasters tell you their entire life story - very quickly! - while already backing away from you.

[seventearstothesea]

Yellow is my favorite but I rarely wear it. Today I'm wearing a yellow sweater/yellow nail polish/yellow shoes and like, as silly as it is it's really improved my mood today :>

[roseoilz]

switzerland’s earth houses are reminiscent of real hobbit holes

[phobs-heh]

Kingdom, s2 (2020)

[spotlessmy-deactivated20210523]

this was a great read. “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Devon Price

[emphasisonthehomo]

Imagine all of the insufferable oscar bait quarantine movies that are gonna come out in a few years, about a husband and wife forced to stay home together, and slowly learn to actually love and appreciate their spouse.

[emphasisonthehomo]

One of the Important Scenes will be where Husband watches Wife idk fucking eat an entire can of olives and goes “I- I didn’t know you liked olives” and she’s like “Yeh I love them” *insert obnoxious slurping eating noises to prove she is a Relatable Female Character.*

And then cue dramatic melancholy music while he sits and thinks about how his job is actually meaningless in the face of the fact that it’s prevented him from learning more about the woman he married all those years ago.

There’s a bunch of scenes where they look pensively at each other from the doorway. They start off quarantine sitting on chairs on opposite sides of the living room. As the days progress they move closer and closer. By the end of the movie they’re next to each other on a love seat.

It’s about two upper middle class white heterosexuals. He works at a bank and she runs an etsy shop making tiny idly jewelry. Their neighbor is an Eldery Likable Black Man who offers them sage advice talking over the fence of their backyards. He of course eventually dies of the virus, leaving his two neighbors to learn and grow from the experience- and to treasure what really matters in life.

It makes 10 Bazillion dollars and several high brow movie critics talk breathlessly about how it accurately and beautifully handled the emotional and social struggle of life during the pandemic.

[emphasisonthehomo]

Husband is played by like Leonardo DiCaprio or something. Wife is a slim blonde actress who is 20 years younger than him, even though in the move their characters somehow went to high school together. Black Neighbor Killed Off For Character Development is played by Morgan Freeman. The movie is touted as one of the most Important Films Of The Decade.

[cricketcat9]

Yep. That’s The Movie. IMO there also will be Elderly Heroic Asian Woman, owner of a grocery store, speaking bad English,  suffering but Performing Heroic Acts for the community, even the asshole racist who will eventually reform, cue tears. 

[katbelleinthedark]

The whole film just flashed in front of my eyes.