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an adoptable demon lady, she’s $15 USD - if you’re interested you can email me at [email protected]!

she’s been sold!

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another adoptable for $15 USD! if you’d like to buy her please email me at [email protected] and include your PayPal email - first come first serve!

she’s sold!

[sloppystyle]

[pjackk]

Weed often is for stoners that want to feel strange when they want to get weird

[gaybiden]

the child to adult pipeline is real asfuck

[bakwaaas]

we’re all boring to someone, annoying to someone, ugly to someone, but it’s not that deep

[timtimtara]

[one-weird-mammal-a-day]

Cuban greater funnel-eared bat (Natalus primus)

@ Carolina Soto Navarro

[basyacriptid]

@oobbbear​ pov you gave bat!dca bois try a lemon

[oobbbear]

It’s very effective

[animentality]

I hate when 4chan does this...talks sense...

[elfsightings]

[somecutething]

Dolphins doing cartwheels with an aquarium guest.

(via Ant.Giovanni)

[luidilovins]

I'm loving this new trend of people going to zoos and participating in animal enrichment. We use to observe large exotic animals for our entertainment, but the fact is that we are now trying to make ourselves equally as entertaining for them. It's interactive, completely parpicipatory and I would argue that eventually someone's gonna come up with something new enough that it expland ethologists understanding about how some animals think, problem solve, communicate and feel and I think its fantastic.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Human: play?

Aquatic creature from an entirely different branch of the animal tree: play!

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

[luulapants]

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

[guerrillatech]

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

Holy shit that's so cool

[knightofleo]

[beckiboos]

Finally “do you love the colour of the sky” got compressed for our convenience

[doehunt]

not enough music thats wet with blood

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[greyannis]

Big hard to draw girl

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Visit Original Link

[olreid]

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[ieiune]

yes and please bear in mind, the story of omelas shares unsettling parallels with the real traumatic history of leguin’s father, alfred kroeber, and uc berkeley anthropology dept’s exploitation of an indigenous survivor of genocide– to the point others speculate whether ‘ishi’ (the name bestowed by kroeber) may have inspired leguin to write the story (x). this is all despite the fact she personally deflected questions about her father’s relationship to ishi, and even disavowed activist criticisms of her father’s career during her lifetime— at the same time she sentimentalized over how formative his work was to her own worldviews and intellectual development (x)(x).

ishi was considered the “last” member of the yahi tribe, which was subject to an extermination campaign by settlers in the 1860s. after being “discovered” and jailed by the settler police in california, ishi came under kroeber’s wardship and worked as a janitor at berkeley’s anthropology museum. there is a lot of complexity regarding ishi’s relationship with kroeber and staying at berkeley, but these are the bare facts: ishi spent his remaining life being studied and displayed to the public as a living specimen of the “vanishing indian” myth. despite kroeber knowing ishi was immunocompromised, he was frequently exposed to white tourists and scientists, which led to ishi dying in 1916 from tuberculosis just after five years of contact.

against his further wishes, ishi’s body was subjected to an autopsy and his brain sent to the dc smithsonian in the name of “science.” only in august 2000, were his remains finally repatriated and buried with his tribal homeland (x). additionally, only in january 2021, was “kroeber hall” renamed at the anthropology department under pressure from indigenous activists (x).

if there is even an ounce of truth in claims about ishi and the child of omelas, then we should find it deeply troubling that leguin was essentially staging her own pedagogical “acknowledgements” of her family’s bodily and intellectual exploitation of ishi to the point of premature death and posthumously as well– including for her own literary career. the fact she refused to address ishi during her lifetime while her writings prominently allegorized on anthropological discourses of colonialism, civilization, and anarchism would then directly implicate her in this ongoing extractivism of ishi’s trauma. even not, the ethical geneology and engagement with indigenous knowledge that leguin inherited from her father should be seriously interrogated.

for further reading:

Kroeber Hall, honoring anthropologist who symbolizes exclusion, is unnamed.

Still Exploiting Him’: Remembering Ishi, the ‘Last Wild Indian in California.’

‘The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas’: A parable for Australia.

The NishPossessed: Reading Le Guin in Indian Country.