The Birds

Just rebloggin'.

[its-spooky-bitch]

Me when I see someone say that Ed and Lorraine Warren’s cases are real and legit:

[the-reblog-squad-deactivated202]

Reblog if you don't use Generative AI to write fanfics/original fics or to create fanart/original art.

[koobiie]

i recently learned to crochet!!! meet my 3 sons the apple brothers

[ginnie-darling]

what is Elric of Melniboné if not a pinup boy for goths and metalheads

[retrocatastrophy]

[everydaylouie]

clocking out

[teaboot]

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

[teaboot]

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

[rhubarbspring]

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[dancing-crow]

thank you yes, I did need this today

[san-sebastienne]

Baby: taking part in the ancient and beautiful art of dance

Parent: taking part in the ancient and beautiful art of not stepping on your baby while he’s learning to dance

[neovagina-penisis-evangelion]

When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.

[brehaaorgana]

Also it just overlooks the fact that large parts of the United States literally used to be Mexico. Like yeah, chinese-american food is a diaspora cuisine and it's awesome.

But Mexican-american food is "regional cuisine that often began developing in what used to be part of Mexico/Mexican territory and continued to develop after the borders changed."

Some of it isn't "striving to recreate the flavors of home." Sure, maybe like, Mexican food in Chicago is about that. But I'm from Arizona. My family is from Tucson by way of (Tucson being annexed) and then Sonora & Chihuahua. We're not trying to recreate anything — because Tucson is still in the Sonoran desert.

This is a map of the Sonoran desert region:

I've helpfully marked Tucson.

Just to be clear, it takes an hour and 20 minutes nowadays to drive to the Mexican side of Nogales. You could walk the journey in a little over 27 hours. So obviously less than a week on horseback.

What I'm saying here is that the "diaspora" is maybe implying that Mexican-american cuisine largely developed with huge geographical distances or lack of access to Mexican cultivars or something but like.

Here's a map of New Spain in 1819:

Here's a map of the War:

I'm just saying that a lot of Mexican-American food is literally just food and culinary traditions that Mexicans were eating in northern parts of Mexico/New Spain.

It might shock people to learn, but there were Mexicans living in Mexico. And parts of Mexico are now the United States. And those Mexicans, if they stayed, are now Mexican Americans, and our culinary traditions have undergone normal growth and innovations over time. Mexico-mexicans also had normal innovations and growth in their regional cuisines as well! That's just how time and increased access with faster transport works. I have met a lot of people from Mexico who seem to think the second they're in San Diego instead of Tijuana, that the food is no longer authentic Mexican food and...it is baffling to me. It's an invisible line in the sand.

The border is not actually an impenetrable wall. The food doesn't become inauthentic at border patrol checkpoints. Those didn't even exist not that long ago.

It's authentic to something that isn't strictly about citizenship and documented nationality.

[neovagina-penisis-evangelion]

Of course! This is a great addition. It's crucial to remember that not all 'ethnic' food in a country comes from diaspora. Some of it is simply the native cuisine of land that was annexed.

[chiropteracupola]

It's Another Beautiful Day of Not Being On Mount Everest. just how Every day of my life will be Another Beautiful Day of Not Being On Mount Everest, on account of how I am Never Ever Going There.

[frogadir]

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

i literally can’t stop laughing at this

[cometcrystal]

[schakira]

[lennguine]

float

[biteybeast]

[biteybeast]

tags from @grahoria

[stillnaomi]

if your idea of protecting vulnerable people is to find and then lock up or kill all the Bad People, instead of changing the social structures that enable and incentivize the abuse of vulnerable people, then what you’re actually doing is indulging a fantasy of moral purification, not engaging in protection. you’re treating abuse as a personal defect instead of a social relation, and that guarantees it'll keep reproducing itself no matter how many scapegoats you kill

it's a comforting way of thinking because it lets you believe that the structure of society is fundamentally sound, with danger coming from a few exceptional monsters. that all we need to do is police people's minds and desires better. but abuse doesn’t thrive because of a handful of people are inherently monsterous, it thrives because of isolation, precarity, unchecked power over dependents, the privatization of care, the silencing of victims, and institutions that are incentivized to manage liability rather than prevent harm

you have to accept that the current structure of society enables and incentivizes abuse, and that the answer to that isn't lynch mobs or the government rounding up "bad" individuals. the answer is changing our social structures to stop people being vulnerable to abuse in the first place, regardless of age, disability level, gender, or economic activity

[shadeslayer]

art by Tima Lotah Link (Chumash) for the Native Voices 16th Annual Short Play Festival

"merciless indian savages" is a direct quote from the US declaration of independence, and this is referencing the art of "manifest destiny" as a white woman standing over the us countryside