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this website is a goddamn national treasure
Very cute - and once again, the pleasure of watching someone with good tools, good material and the expertise to make good use of both.
Can I eat the wood slices
Image ID: a picture of a desert captioned âthis is not a wastelandâ and a picture of an empty parking lot, captioned âthis isâ. End ID
Every day I discover forms of art I could not have concieved of before, and suddenly I am in awe of being alive.
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Thunderstorm jazz is freaking awesome. I need an album of that. Iâd sleep like a baby.
âoh Iâll bet thatâs Dorren... yup, thatâs Doreen.â Â https://www.doreensjazz.com
Reblogging not for the first nor the last time. Thereâs just something right about this conjunction of laid-back music and lively weather...
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I-I'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about this
My roommate just called from the kitchen to ask what was wrong because I laughed so hard I gave myself a coughing fit.
This Trilobite walked 6 inches 600 million years ago to send us all a dick pic
the long game
Imagine in another 600 million years your fossilized corpse is found by things that laugh at how much your footprints look like their copulatory flaps
âWhen youâre dealing with the fantastical, itâs always a big challenge to try and make these things look real, so youâve got to try and echo reality as much as possible and lean into that so that there is enough familiarity there that the audience sort of buy it a little bit more easily. [âŚ] The attention to detail is just so much fun to go back and look at. Bringing these characters to life, almost as much work goes into it as a hero character. Itâs beautiful stuff.â â Christopher Townsend, visual effects supervisor on SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (2021) dir. by Destin Daniel CrettonÂ
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Comrade Attenborough
If you haven't watched a
Attenborough's latest special on Netflix yet I'm begging you to. It's basically 1 hour of him explaining why capitalism must be dismantled if we as a species are to continue to survive, with a slight nature theme. He calls it his witness statement. Its him no longer trying to put it nicely and just screaming can we please stop destroying our planet and civilisation for FIVE MINUTES.
I am asking for ONE historical dog sledding movie to feature accurate harnesses PLEASE.
If we examine dog sledding movies that have a basis in specific historical events, excluding entirely fictional accounts such as Call of the Wild and White Fang, the sled dog movie with the most historically accurate harnesses is Snow Dogs (2002). In this essay I willâŚ
Just curious have you read white fang or call of the wild? Do you like the way london portrays sledding as an experience? Cause i thought it was really insightful how absolutely brutal it can be.
I personally feel that London portrays the brutality of the area and time well, having experienced it for himself. However these books also engage in heavy romanticism and I think it is interesting/of the times that London portrays California in such a way that is âdomesticâ and coded in âgoodâ feelings vs Alaska which is coded wild and brutally in both stories. We can examine Londonâs white, foreign to Alaska bias through these writings.Â
Buck, a domestic dog, leaves California and life as a beloved pet to become a wild savage killer in the north, an environment that shapes him into such a thing. White Fang, a wild-born wolfdog raised by Indigenous people, is sold as a fighting dog and lives a brutal life before he is rescued by a white man who then domesticates him and brings him to California so he can live as a happy pet. They are classic stories for sure, but from a modern sensibility it is unfortunate that they also happen to be a majority of peopleâs first exposure to dog sledding.Â
I think the brutality and cruelty in the way London portrays things, however inspired by accuracies at the time it was written, greatly affects peopleâs thoughts on dog sledding and Alaskan culture to this day. If you were a child growing up in the 90â˛s like myself we were lucky to have positive portrayals of dog sledding in the media coming out at that time unlike the people before us, renewed certainly (in my opinion) in the growing popularity and diversity of the sport and its victors such as Libby Riddles and Susan Butcher who were not only trailblazers for women in mushing at the time, but known for the love and care they put towards their teams, something they were often criticized for by less progressive mushers.
Iâve often thought as an adult that Jack London is really romanticizing specifically the brutality of the Northâyou said this yourself, obviously, but I think sometimes people donât realize that you can absolutely romanticize aspects of an era that arenât actually pleasant or positive, and thatâs very much what London does in a way that is quite recognizable among literature of his genre and era. Heâs impressed by the âsavageryâ he encounters in a really incredibly racist way!
From a practicality perspective, the husbandry of the dogs as depicted seems likely to result in a fair amount of wasteâdogs frequently injured by serious dog fights, for example. On the one hand, traditional methods of animal handling arenât always the bestâconsider for example the pre-two-point jumping position on horseback as practiced by the European cavalry and foxhunting tradition. This involved the human leaning back and pulling strongly on the horseâs reins as the animal goes over fences, which has the effect of putting a lot of pressure on the animalâs kidneys and mouth and making jumping much more uncomfortable for the horse!
On the other hand, animal management practices vary pretty significantly culturally, and values surrounding those practices can often be really culturally mediated, right? Like, Iâm sure youâre totally aware of the reason that the dog carting tradition in England died, but for reference for other folks: draught dogs used to be very common among poor Victorian English folks, which itself was a very brutal culture for poor and working class people. Lots of child labor and jobs that ate workersâ bodies up and spat them out. The dogs were therefore treated fairly variably depending on the values of the poor person who handled them. When the RSPCA was founded by wealthier people, one of their very first targets of animal cruelty was the draught dogs, in part because they associated brutality with lower-class people, and the fledgling RSPCA successfully campaigned to make using dogs for draft purposes illegal. Whereupon the poor people who used them for that purpose mostly couldnât afford to keep them anymore and, ah, most of the dogs wound up killed outrightâŚ.
So all that is me winding up to the question: insofar as we know, historically how were dogs managed and kept both by Indigenous and European mushers of the era? How much was London embellishing, and where? Do you happen to know any of that or where to go looking for the information?
(I also love Winterdance, which is hilarious, but Paulsen is so clearly portraying himself as trying to figure shit out as he goes along and absolutely does not Know What He Is Doing or even get a lot of information before he starts trying to figure shit out. This is the source for a lot of the humor! So itâs not necessarily a great source for figuring out historical practices about how people who Did Know What They Were Doing Thanks did things.)
(on the other hand, the image of Paulsen hitching up three or four well conditioned long distance racing dogs to his bicycle, none of which have any respect for his ability to set boundaries, and expecting this to not be a giant disasterâidk, I just about pee myself every timeâŚ)
You are absolutely correct that the brutally depicted husbandry would have been a huge waste. Well trained dogs were and are extremely valuable. It is also time consuming to train sled dogs.
Now its hard to extrapolate where London is pulling from real-life experiences and where he is exaggerating because the events that shaped his inspiration could have been extremely specific to him. It is very possible that he experiences some particularly cruel individuals in his time in Alaska. We must always read historical accounts of the arctic at this time with a scrutiny and understanding that these people held extremely outdated and racist biases that absolutely colored their experiences and recollection of said experiences. In that way it is hard to decipher what is accurate or not about indigenous Alaskan dog keeping practices at the time because so many of these writings, if not all of them, are colored by this bias that the indigenous people were âsavageâ.
We can however use the voice of modern eastern Canadian and Greenlandic indigenous folk to help us understand how the dogs may have been kept. And people today talk about their dogs with reverence. Sled dogs were a way of life from indigenous people in the arctic, they still are. Without your dogs in a world where snowmobiles do not exist you are dead. Your dogs are your life, your value, your family. Arctic people had been working sled dogs for a long, long time before white people came along. They have a huge cultural understanding of the dogâs value, while white Europeans and Americans coming into their lands did not. White people did not understand the tools put in front of them and often misused them (whips, the dogs themselves etc).Â
One of the differences we see between early white mushers and indigenous mushers is that the way they viewed the dogs was very different. The white people would run anything they could that was willing to work as resources in their communities were scarce. Indigenous mushers on the other hand, both at that time and those that mush ancestral breeds today, have a very specific understanding of what makes a good and useful sled dog culturally. This would extend quickly into the very beginning of sled dog racing. People became INCREDIBLY competitive. Competition and survival are two very different priorities when it comes to choosing and training your dogs and I think this too can contribute a lot to the differences between white mushers and indigenous traditions at the time.
It wasnât until Robert Peary (Arctic Expeditions in 1886 and 1892-92 and a contemporary of London) do we see white people making an effort to learn Inuit survival techniques including dogmanship, although his overall treatment of the Inuit can be criticized (fathering children with Inuit women, bringing Inuit back to the United States for study etc). So we can infer that white folk using dogs for sledding before and around this point perhaps didnât use dogs with the same cultural reverence of indigenous people, that includes Londonâs experiences.Â
Despite all the writing of cruelty and all the racist bigotry we get in these writings, we also see kindness and love towards dogs, regardless of the cultural background of the musher. Sure, there were 100% people just using these animals as tools, but there were also people like Scotty Allan, who had trained sheep dogs in his homeland of Scotland and probably had a much better understanding of dog behavior than many white people that came before him to Alaska. Allan firmly believed that dogs should never be yelled at and that one should make him understood instead. Himself and others founded the Nome Kennel Club in 1907 and along with it put in place rules promoting better animal husbandry so we can infer that there were some less than savory practices happening they wanted to prevent.
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A new study shows indigenous resistance cut emissions by at least 25%.
