[thatredwine-deactivated20230714]

Every bait and switch was a work of art

cr. dwellingsouls

[aanakin]

Sorry I’m late, sweetheart.

[nagisa-cchi]

✧*:･ﾟ Ghibli’s Enchanting Creatures *:･ﾟ✧

[tommyknards-archive]

#but that smile though

[animations-daily]

The world is a cruel place. And you’ll learn that, even if it hurts.

PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006) dir. Guillermo del Toro

[imhavingacrisis-deactivated2016]

[3liza]

i truly fear it is a matter of time before tumblr succumbs to nannymode as well. we must post as many celebrity death threats as possible before then

[redpandarascal]

same energy

[itstimeforstarwars]

My favorite dynamic in both platonic and romantic ships are “we share the braincell” or “they are both very smart until you put them together and then they’re dumbasses.”

[thefoundationproject]

"My braincell is allergic to yours" is peak dynamic.

[wunkolo]

how did you get banned on soundcloud?

A month ago during the “soundcloud is going down” scare I wrote a script that basically downloaded my entire corner of SoundCloud at incredibly abusive speed and got bandwidth-banned for a month since CloudFlare detected it as a mass DDOS (which is fair I mean I was downloading like terabytes of data)

[wunkolo]

[the-insidious-dr-grey-matter]

Tiny Godzilla carved into a grain of rice

[wadey-wilson]

2020 be like, is it saturday tomorrow or is it june

[crittizen]

[themoonismybeloved]

i looked at my calendar turns out it is both saturday and june

[m3lth1ng]

I checked again and apparently we’re halfway through 2021

[wadey-wilson]

[geopsych]

Grasses in the wind.

[grubarchived]

green wheat field with cypress tree, vincent van gogh

[katrinageist]

When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas.  

It’s effective because especially for children, who don’t have enough historical context to understand much of the concept, you can still fully grasp the idea.  

There was nothing wrong with Jack seeing the beauty and differences in Christmas town, it’s when he tried to take what is unique about Christmas town away from those it originally belonged to without understanding the full context of Christmas things is when everything went wrong.

When Jack tries to get the folk of Halloween town to make Christmas gifts for children, etc., children understand that the Halloween town folk do not have the full context for the objects they are making, and they are able to see that the direct repercussions and consequences are very harmful.

[jumpingjacktrash]

what i like about this is the implication that if jack had taken the time to understand christmas town, bringing christmas to halloween town would not have been harmful. that’s how it works, folks. cultural sharing is GOOD, it’s only misappropriation when it’s done in ignorance and disrespect.

[kelseyridge13]

There’s an interesting level here in that Jack tried to understand Christmas town. He could see the magic while he was there, and he did try to explain it that way to citizens of Halloween town.  But they weren’t interested in the kind of life he was describing, so he started “rebranding” Christmas so that it was not like Christmas but was like Halloween. The people of Halloween town, never having actually encountered Christmas, have no way of knowing that what they’re being told about Christmas and “Sandy Claws” is inaccurate. Jack also tried to study Christmas and its culture, though he couldn’t quite get it; eventually, he literally decides to take it for himself, even as he knows it’s not really for him.  He started out feeling sad the others in Halloween town didn’t ‘get it,’ but he then decided it’s not important to fully ‘get it’ but instead to have it.

So it’s not just accidentally removing things form their context; he has intentionally disregard the meaning of the rituals he purports to be recreating, making them more fun for the recreaters but not like what the rituals are supposed to be and without the related significance.

[calamitycons]

This is the best way to conceptualize the wrong way to share culture I have ever seen and I think I finally get where people are coming from when they talk about “cultural appropriation.”

[okayilubuhbye-deactivated201611]

This is an EXCELLENT explanation through example!

[figureyourlifeout-deactivated20]

This is PERFECT. I’m using this in my classroom.

[bumblebeefromhell]

I think another good aspect of using this movie to explain cultural appropriation is that you can also show what cultural appreciation is. After the people of Halloween town realized the did the wrong thing, freed Santa and apologized, Santa brought Christmas to them, too. So they could understand what it actually is and experience it, although as an outsider. They are not the people of Christmas town, and they never will, but they still can appreciate some parts of Christmas.

[hartigays]

listen. i don’t “talk to people first” i simply sit around forgetting that i’m a person until someone texts me and i’m reminded that people know me

[barbiebimbobaby]

consider this: wheelchairs should be free

[marvelbitchbitchblog-deactivate]

Consider this: if you need it to live it should be affordable

[chaoszgod]

consider this: if you need it to live, it should be free

[thebootydiaries]

me: pls talk to me pls !!pls pls!!!

me: *can't hold a conversation*

me: *has nothing interesting to say*

me: *is bad at replying*

me: pls :) talkto me

[fabz-e]