leaves on a stream

 judo orange belt, business student, nerd, stoic, likes to rap a lot while making strange gestures with his hands. For someone who likes Overwatch this much, I need to get Overwatch. INFJ.

[75orchids]

I have seen the face of god

[secondhandsympathy-deactivated2]

This is the 6 IV Rowlet of Prosperity. Reblog and 2017 won’t be absolute shit

[crotah-deactivated20250225]

ok for those of u who are like me and need extra income & can only work from home

I just got a job as a transcriber. if you have a strong command of grammar in english (or other languages), you can transcribe audio for websites like transcribeme or rev, and they send money directly to your paypal weekly.

there’s no interview, you can work as much or as little as you want, and you make $20 per hour of audio you transcribe. you just have to pass a relatively short exam and they send you verification of your work account within a couple days. it’s good shit

[phvulgar]

Could you maybe send a link please? I’m in a pretty bad work situation and you’ve just offered a potential lifeline.

[crotah-deactivated20250225]

of course! this is the website I signed up for: http://transcribeme.com/?gclid=CJqJ3sHtitACFROVfgodamMP1A

[lichface]

@stealyourshiny

[razzledazzy]

Okay I’m only gonna say this once and preface this with the fact that I am Eyak and I probably do not want to hear your opinion on the Pharah skins Raindancer/Thunderbird. This is a really soul baring post so I’m not so sure about people reblogging it, if you do just try to be respective and remember this isn’t a go-ahead to go and appropriate all native cultures. 

They’re pretty damn clearly based on Pacific Northwest tribal cultures. The ones I can pick out being Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian, but we often get grouped together so that doesn’t surprise me. There are many more, but I don’t claim familiarity with all tribes and I can’t say if their art styles and myths were used.

For your comparison a little sample of the tribe’s artistic styles just to get the point across:

And I really have to get something off my chest people. I don’t have a problem with these skins, in fact I adore them. Please just chill with me for a second while I explain.

The biggest issue I see here is people (who usually arn’t ndn, let alone from pac nw tribes) yelling about cultural appropriation. Which good! I’m glad people are on guard for it! But it’s entirely possible that Pharah’s father was Eyak/Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian or from another closely related Pacific Northwest tribe, so we can’t really call that yet. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was.

Most importantly, speaking as an Eyak. Which is all I can do despite Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian being so closely related, our tribe’s relationship with cultural appropriation is uh, not exactly the norm.

The last Eyak fluent speaker died in 2008, her name was Chief Marie Smith Jones and she was also the last full-blooded Eyak on Earth. The very last. Please appropriate Eyak culture. It’s the only way it’s going to survive. There’s less than 500 of us remaining, and we’re scattered more and more every year. Families I grew up with in Alaska converted to Catholicism. The military took my family across the globe and left us an entire continent away. The language I learned at the dinner table in 1998 now almost exclusively exists on those cassette tapes my white father recorded that night and in reconstructive attempts from a French academic that studied our language from halfway across the globe.

It sucks shit guys, it really does. 

When I first saw the Thunderbird skin I cried, I cried for an hour. Because Overwatch is huge. It will live on for years if not decades. And there’s Pharah with her hair in braids I haven’t seen my mother wear in over a decade. Wearing the colors that remind me of a home I no longer have. Embodying a mythic figure that I trusted to protect me during Y2K and sought out constellations in the sky for. 

So before you spew vitriol about how racist it is that they did that. Just kind of chill out and think about different perspectives for a moment. If you really want to help us? Consider taking a poke about http://www.eyakpeople.com/ and taking a look at our language revitalization project! It’s pretty fun and you could even learn a language out of it. 

AwA’ahdah (Thank You)

[coelasquid]

I gonna ask people to please, please respect this person’s wishes to be considerate of what they’re saying and not willfully misrepresent the point they’re trying to make.

I just wanted to reblog this because it’s something I think about a lot in terms of how viewing cultural appropriation in a very black and white binary has the end result of making white supremacy stronger than ever. By treating different arts and cultures like that plastic-wrapped grandma furniture no one’s allowed to sit on because it needs to remain perfectly preserved, white culture and art becomes the only one people feel as though they can safely engage in. I absolutely know this is done from the very conscientious place of trying to prevent the dominant culture from taking things they like and running off with them like Jack Skellington, but when it’s taken in extremely pass/fail terms it makes it very difficult for people to celebrate their OWN cultures.

Of course the best answer is “let people tell their own stories and make their own art” but I have been told by several people from a number of different backgrounds that this hostility toward anything resembling cultural exchange by audiences assuming everyone behind the scenes is white makes them afraid to engage in their OWN culture in any public way for fear of being told they’re getting it wrong. I see this happen fairly regularly in a number of creative fields, television, fashion, art, even cosplay. The number of times I see cosplayers accused of “lying about their race” when they try to dress up like a character who IS supposed to be the same background as them every con season is staggering.

This is very anecdotal but just to look at it from another perspective, I personally am not native but I’m from a very Cree community. A significant number of my friends growing up were native and Métis, our school offered Cree as a second language, we had a Cree choir, Native studies was a mandatory class to get a diploma from our school division. As far back as 5th grade, traditional craftwork was a part of social studies when we were learning about different native nations across Canada. This included beadwork, like looms and embroidery on moccasins. I’m sure the intent was probably to make historically accurate designs, but being 11 year olds we all realized pretty quick it was like pixel art and we could write words and make little pictures, and everyone was working on their beading looms making patterns they designed themselves for months after the unit that required it ended. This was a group of kids, native and non-native alike, engaging in something they were taught in an educational context long after they were required to because they found a way to enjoy it in a contemporary manner that made it fun for them. That kind of thing was encouraged from us a lot, I remember a juried art show for our school division actively encouraging all of the students to focus more on native art and techniques if they planned on entering.

I remember experiencing a bit of a culture shock when I moved out of Northern Canada for the first time and experienced a white friend criticizing a Haida-inspired piece we saw in the hall at our art school for not being “accurate enough”. I was extremely confused because as, a 17 year old raised in Northern Canada my entire life, I’d never experienced that kind of criticism of engaging with native art in a modern, contemporary way before. I just kept thinking “You have no idea who made this! How do you expect modern Native people to enjoy making their own art if you’re going to criticize it for not being held up to a textbook standard?”

Obviously now that I’m more worldly and educated in what society is like outside of Northern Canada I understand the nuance of the situation and the different perspectives that people have informed by their own experiences, but It’s also important to remember that if you turn white culture into the only one people feel allowed to engage with in a fun contemporary manner, it will always remain dominant. This is of course not to say “cultural appropriation is made up, do whatever you want” or anything like that, just that it’s a very multi-dimensional issue to consider.

[fandomnerdhq]

Friendly neighborhood spider-man(s)

If u guys know where to give credit for these drawings, please let me know in the inbox! Yeah

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We walk in harmony, my student.

[egelantier]

kazuaki horitomo’s tattooed cats.

[stoic-judoka]

Tagged by the cool dude @jim-tagpn, leggo

Rules: Tag 10 people you wish to know better.

 
Birthday: April 10

Gender: cis man/ dude

Relationship status: in the very early stages of dating someone cool
 

Zodiac sign: aries


Siblings: 2 brothers, a year younger (twins)

 Pets: 2 border collie girls, 5 cows, 8 chickens, and 3 baby chicks :)


Wake up time: If it’s before noon it’s a win in my book

Lemonade or Sweet Tea: sweet black tea with lemon all day bay-BEE

Day or Night: nite

 
Coke or Pepsi: coke but I don’t drink that shit no more

 
Calls or Texts: CALLS. I CAN’T COPE WITH NOT HEARING PEOPLES VOICES AND HAVING REAL-TIME CONVERSATIONS. WHY’S THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND. I feel old.

Met a celebrity: I once picked up my baggage from the same airport carousel as the now-disbanded australian reggae band Sticky Fingers, unfortunately I didn’t realise they were sti fi until I was picking up my bags and heard the lead singer speak in his trademark pretentious kiwi accent. I’m not a massive fan anyway so the only thing to say that popped into my head was “hey are you guys sticky fingers?” which was shit so I didn’t say that and just left.


Smiles or Eyes: I feel they kind of go together but I’ll say smiles

 
Country or City: City please

 
Last song I listened to: "Legend Has It”- Run The Jewels

I tag the mandem @save-sansa @criticalrollmop @fightsinlipstick @annabb12 @larquebus @hannahkchristian, @intersexdaryl, @budojunkie, @ex3ditions

[cringeassremakingnaenaebaby-dea]

controversial opinion

dogs and cats are…….. both good……

[shaped-by-karate]

Be patient

Some may get there faster, but you’ll get there anyway.

[bellygangstaboo]

Bistreich’s suit alleges that both Gentile — a Democrat who represents Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights — and his chief of staff John Mancuso targeted him because of his diagnosis and tormented him with pranks so distressing he was forced to quit his job in June 2016.

Mancuso once organized a mass-decapitation of the stuffed animals Bistreich kept on his desk.

Bistreich found his Teddy bears with their heads ripped off — with one mounted on a flagpole — and a stuffed toy dog had been gutted and painted red to seem bloody.

The suit also claims the bullying was tolerated and encouraged by Gentile, who laughed and clapped his hands when a staff member compared Bistreich to Avonte Oquendo — the autistic boy who died after escaping his school through an unattended exit — by suggesting Bistreich “test the doors.”

This is so gross! These are grown adults bullying someone like they are on an elementary school playground. I have to continue believing that for every one asshole there are at least two caring people..

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

Gentile told Bistreich his “ticking” had gotten worse. He said, “We know your condition, but when you twitch like that it’s unnerving to people” and asked “Can you look into upping your medication?” the lawsuit claims.(x)

that is so disgusting, and highly illegal. I hope Bistreich wins the lawsuit.

[crazy-aunt-deactivated20170429]

An autistic person is not targeted “for their diagnosis” they’re targeted for the fact that they’re autistic whether they’re diagnosed or not. A diagnosis is just a document to hold up in court so you can say “yes, it was discrimination, not just regular old torturing a weirdo” and actually be believed about it but the thing is that regular old weirdos are usually also neurodivergent but don’t have a diagnosis.

The tendency to mock adults with teddy bears on their desks is ableist because most of the people who would do that are neurodivergent people. That kind of socially unacceptable behavior that doesn’t hurt anyone needs to be acceptable. It has to be okay to be weird and to comfort yourself and to stim whether people know you’re disabled or not.

[undergroundghosts]

i need ! !! to be ! !!! !! ! ! kissed ! !! !! ! !! and held!! !!! ! ! ! and !!!! !! kissed some more!! !! ! !!!

[moosekleenex]

[desicoups]

tag urself i’m lord B Y E ron

[porkrolleggandsarah]

SoOoOoOo I’d like to post more powerlifting content, but are there people on Tumblr I’m not following who actually lift?  Not just like selfies or people with “squats” or “deadlifts” in their user name because they ran Stronglifts five years ago.  But people who actually lift heavy shit and post about it on a semi-regular basis.

I unfollowed a bunch of people awhile back because I got tired of the whole one-sided thing.  Any recommendations?  @meghanwaslike @muscle-and-h8

[meghanwaslike]

People who lift. Lemme think. I know I’m going to forget someone. Keep in mind these are “personal” blogs with a lifting component, much like mine. They’re not necessarily 100% lifting shit. And some are PL, some are WL, some are BB. I just figured I’d include everyone. And seriously if I forgot you and we’re mutuals just tell me and I’ll add you to the list. I’m not awake yet.

@erinlifts @gettinonmyfitness @hashtag-gymlife @hvlth-gxth @ironinsideandout @ideokinesis @jiiminho @lifting-ink @luck-box @musclemartini @nicesquatrack @putthatazztowork @powerlifting-life @redwhiteandjacked @unnaturallystrong @validuskong @weskrongden @team-bear-arms @passavantsridge @liftingscientist @squatpilgrimvstheworld @barbellsandbetasheets @dunnt1410 @toadstrong @rageturtleswaggg @sociallyawkwardbuffguy @shred-and-gain @500fairytales @the-cure-for-pain

[writing-prompt-s]

Your phone rings. The number looks familiar. You pick up to hear your own voice asking you for help.

[asom-broso]

“i need your help”

“bitch me too the fuck”

then hang up

[heart2big]

[ready2rumblr]

This gets to me more than it should

[snorelaks]

we’re all just trying to bust a nut in this world whether it be a sexual nut, spiritual nut, health nut, career nut, success nut

[god-coward]

@poe-buddy