I don't even like sockmonkeys

colombian, lesbian, vegan, radical mujerista/feminist, 14 years old and learning. i like art

[tolmutort]

[l-a-l-o-u]

This is my student film, Bleuet Fraise (it means Blueberry Strawberry in french)! I created this as a final project in my animation course at Cegep du Vieux-Montreal. It took a little over a year to make, including all the pre-production stuff like designing the characters, painting backgrounds, planning the shots and everything. The animation itself took about 4-5 months of full-time work. I know it’s a little short compared to all of those amazing student shorts you can find online, but please give it a chance…. I had to make everything myself! It was a huge challenge and I’m really proud of having completed it! I really hope you like it!!

Big thanks to my awesome musician @lizrainsberry for creating such an amazing track and to @yamsgarden for providing the voices!!

[rochastocade]

lesbian cartoon crush starter kit

[trainedchimpanzee]

omg why do white ppl love cheese so mu-

[100-manslayer]

I actually didnt know that

[grifalinas]

The answer is apparently “because we’re actually able to eat it”

[systlin]

Interestingly, what actually happened is that people who settled in Northeastern Europe came to rely heavily on milk products, particularly preserved milk products (cheese) from kept livestock as a source of protein and fat through the long frozen winters in the area. Those who could eat cheese lived, those who couldn’t starved. So, we adapted to keep producing the enzymes that let us digest lactose past infancy and into adulthood. 

Other cultures (particularly in warmer climates with shorter winters) that had more varied sources of fat and protein throughout their lean seasons didn’t need to develop this adaptation. 

Give this a few thousand years to simmer, and various European cultures developed hundreds of different types of cheeses that were integrated into cuisine in just as many ways. Using/loving cheese has been handed down to the descendants of those Europeans, and hey presto you have the map above. 

[grievousgrimalkin]

Imma be a downer and add an important note that milk has been wielded, intentionally or not, as a really awful tool of colonialism in North America.

This map doesn’t show it, because it’s post-colonial, but Native Americans, to this day, are also largely lactose intolerant (1) as dairy of any kind wasn’t part of the Native diet after early childhood, so their bodies simply don’t produce the lactase to digest lactose after they have been weaned.  When colonization hit and indigenous kids were forced into white institutions like the boarding schools that were designed to eradicate Native cultures and lifestyles by instilling “good white Christian values” into the Native children, they were made to drink milk as part of the diet they were forced to follow (2).  This obviously made them unbelievably sick and more prone to serious illnesses like tuberculosis and measles that often swept through the schools.

Even to this day, Native folks have a higher propensity toward lactose intolerance: around 80-100% of Native Americans are lactose intolerant (3). This still causes issues, especially in education. Dairy products are an inescapable component of school lunches most everywhere, and milk is often the only beverage served to students with free or reduced school lunches (4).  A 2009 study of 4th graders showed that well over half (68%) of Native students in public school were eligible for the free or reduced lunch program (5).  Being all but forced to drink milk or eat dairy when lactose intolerant (since options like juice or water aren’t readily provided through his program) and then being made to sit in a classroom while fighting severe gastrointestinal issues puts Native children at a severe disadvantage educationally, compared to their milk-drinking peers.  This line of reasoning also definitely extends to children of other minorities with high rates of lactose intolerance and high rates of students living in a low income family who rely on school lunches for a good deal of their daily nutrition, like black students (74% on reduced lunches (5) and 60-80% lactose intolerant (3)) or Hispanic students (77% on reduced lunches, 50-80% lactose intolerant).

It’s just one of the nasty ways the system is stacked in favor of even low-income white folks like me, so I’m gonna do my bit to call it out.

Sources:

http://web.ku.edu/~aihd/health/lactose_intolerant.html

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/651.html

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/documents/NICHD_MM_Lactose_FS_rev.pdf 

Personal experience on reduced lunches as a student. 

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/indicator2_7.asp

[visceralv]

Today, Google is celebrating the 80th birthday of Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011), the author of the well known Howl’s Moving Castle and many other wondrous fantasy novels. Happy Birthday! I liked the banner so much, I decided to make a gif of it for everyone to use however they please. No watermark or anything, and I’ve looped it smoothly. (It’s also transparent …) 

[smooniie]

ahhhhhh so perfect

[inspirikki]

:3

[moreawkwardpirouettes-deactivat]

literally the only time people point out that the gems are technically genderless space rocks even though they’re consistently referred to as women in the show is when someone says the L word

[greenwithenby-deactivated201609]

[sockmonkeythreefourfour]

errrr im going to be following some people back on my new blog and ill eventually get around to sending a message to these people to say like hey, this random blog is me. ok. just a heads up?? .

[gold-kushkloudz]

I had to post this!!! Ppl so disgusting

[feministwomenofcolor]

LOL white men like to act tough as shit until they realize that for the first time in their life there might actually be consequences for their actions

[gaulllimaufry]

its kinda stang e

[reneegabriela]

Guanajuato, México.

[julia-brown]

today, my school started offering free mini boxes of good quality pads and tampons in all the girls’ bathrooms. i’m here for this

[red-lipstick]

Kazuo Kamimura 上村 一夫  (Japanese, 1940-1986) - From Lyricism, a book collecting his works released in 2011

[wideeyedandwandering]

[draumstafir-deactivated20150606]

I don’t respect the military, I don’t respect the police, I don’t respect elected officials. I’m not gonna apologize for not supporting and respecting people who willingly partake in and benefit from oppressive, violent systems. 

[sockmonkeythreefourfour]

so um this blog is like. inactive now. I don't have the heart to delete it but I've already remade so... if you want to see my personal weab-ass cries about superheroes blog you can ask for it... I might make a feminist blog but I haven't decided yet so. ok. feel free to unfollow... ;__;

[kittyritual]

I wonder how the author of my immortal is doing. What happened to them? Are they the same? Are they totally different? Do they ever tell anyone they wrote it? Do they pretend it doesn’t exist? What happened

[bfallinginlove]

150322 Cheetah on Seoul Fashion Week (cr. owner)