#indentured labor

[havatabanca]

[fairytale-endinganyone]

A poem by Ramon Narayan after digging through his family history in Fiji ❤️

[kenyatta]

https://twitter.com/MilitaryTimes/status/1174102539798818816

See also David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years

[inkandblade]

Another Day Older and

Teen & Up • 12372 words • Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski

They've freed Wolf Packs before, but this one is more important than most.

In which Stiles is a card-sharp, and Derek actually wants to shave.

Stiles heard Jackson take a step forward so that he was next to Scott. The two of them were currently fashioned as pampered pets; shirtless and oiled with sweet scents, wearing thick, leather collars inlaid with silver filigree and seemingly branded with an ornate mark on the skin over their hearts. There was not a Beta or Alpha in the room who wasn’t currently comparing themselves bodily to the pretty little Omegas’ beasts.

Read it on AO3

[sunshinestate323]

OR

[havatabanca]

[eyecache]

"It’s taken from the Malay word. In Malaysia, the Malay people are the majority, and Tamil and Chinese are the minority. Local gangsters use this slang taken from the Malay. It’s ‘Jahat’, but when the Indians pronounce it change it to a ghetto slang, ‘Jagat’. Actually the initial title for this movie was ‘Appoy’, the name of the young boy in the film, because I started to write it ten years back. But then, as I grew and matured, I understood that this story is not about the boy alone, the story is about the world around him and the system around him. So, that is why I titled the film ‘Jagat’, it means ‘bad’, and represents a bad system. It can also be translated in English as ‘brutal’, which is much more suitable than ‘bad’ I think."

[eyecache]

“Enjoy this interview with 97 year old Mansee Subiah of Hermitage, Trinidad. She says her parents came from [Thanjavur], Ramapattam, Devakal. She is a healthy senior citizen, walks with a cane, is strong, and still lucid. She eats mostly vegetables and the occasional fish or shrimp.”