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tamak0

I'm working on a little comic!! This counts as part 1

tamak0

Part 2!

tamak0

Part 3!!

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Part 4

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blackqueerblog

So answer is yes we do want an Indian Cinderella next

daniel-oneiroi

fuck yeah I mean can you IMAGINE the dresses?! just anarkali style alone

i mean

any of these

could easily fit the profile

pumpkinminette

Fuck yeah i want an Indian Cinderella

angel-starbeam

Yes.

datfearlessfangirl

YES GIVE ME THAT DIVERSITY.

celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725

UNIRONICALLY GIVE ME INDIAN CINDERELLA

rmftjin

Um yes please?

yulecogs

We read Chinese Cinderella at school. I know it’s not Indian but it’s still another culture

gdcee

Actually, the Cinderella story is very old and has hundreds, even thousands of variations across various cultures and time periods.

The story of Rhodopis is considered to be one of the earliest variants of Cinderella and comes from Ancient Greece. The tale of Ye Xian, aka the Chinese Cinderella, dates from around 860 AD.

There is a Japanese Cinderella story that dates from the 13th century. There’s a Vietnamese variant, an Iranian variant, and a whole bunch that pop up in One Thousand and One Nights. Like seriously, it’s all over the place. I wouldn’t be surprised if there actually was an Indian variant of Cinderella but I just haven’t heard of it.

des-pina

I love how the tweet was like what you want more?? And we all went bitch yes

queenmoriarty

bye imma move into a hut and become a forest witch 🧙‍♀️

bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

raginrayguns

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

manyblinkinglights

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.

tell-the-stars-hello

The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.

emoracreations

For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes.

https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars

and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:

https://www.lifeprint.com/

first4halos

t*mblr is such a weird site because one post will be like “i personally believe that all of society’s problems stem from a capitalist system” and you scroll down and the next post says “i want to peg the mothman”

wintersoldierarcherspy

archatlas

Nikita Busyak Creates Architectural Drawings That Look Like They’re Illuminated With Real Lights

A simple flick of the switch can transform a home from dark and asleep to bright and full of life. Ukraine-based artist Nikita Busyak captures this effect in his enchanting pen and ink illustrations of cityscapes. In each architectural drawing, he digitally manipulates the windows so that they glow with golden light, making it seem as though someone is home.

femmesandhoney

cowboybeebs-deactivated20211104

Female solidarity

biologicallyangry-deactivated20

The Collective Has Spoken

femclasscirce

That was an ancient Greek chorus sis

girlnumbersix

ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were

ainudraws

Happy birthday Hinata Shouyou!!

(I forgot to post these here!! XD)

nikkalick

The second I saw these funky lil dudes I felt my brain get a rush of serotonin

hobbicatto-deactivated20231231

kiss kiss fall in love 💞

ashstfu

half of me finishes a book within 6-12 consecutive hours and the other half of me takes roughly six months.

lumen-du-reves

I know everyone cites Percy Jackson, Harry Potter or The Secret History as their entry into dark academia, but I think we’ve all been forgetting these ??

Literally any modern academic, astrology, historian could be tied to these. The art in them and the interactive aspects?? Forget anything else THIS was the blueprint. We all wish our bullet journals and study notes looked like these.

Not to mention there is a film in development with the premise of “a research institute, where the fringe sciences that no one else takes seriously are studied in earnest” ??!!! Guys it’s made for us. Everyone go thank author Dugald Steer!

And also make your own book like this for your subject specialty so I can enjoy learning like a kid again. Maybe I’ll present my master’s thesis in one of these bad boys, who knows?

unexplained-events

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

smileforthehigh-deactivated2017

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

desiremyblack

(via TumbleOn)

pearlsnapbutton

What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

kiwianaroha

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

theopensea

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

thegirlthewolfate

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

archaeologistforhire

Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year.

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

crazythingsfromhistory

Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

fluffmugger

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians. So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

ironbite4

Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

gluklixhe

I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

eastsidecosmic

deadpoetwilde

dear god the sheer magic of being so invested in a book you just sit and read half of it feverishly without any ability to stop, just gulping down word after word like it’s water in a desert and your eyes aren’t fast enough for your mind and when you reach the last page you look up and realize you’re not decades and miles away but in the space of your own room,,,, truly unmatched by any other human experience