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In a culture where people ask how youâre doing as a symbol of politeness and not out of any sincere desire to actually Know, you are equally expected to answer with some vague polite affirmative (âitâs going good/fine/okâ). Being truthful and saying âitâs not going well/its going badâ implies intimacy and invites further questions about your personal life. So somehow the alternative has become that being exactly neutral conveys a sense of negativity and gets the point across without opening yourself to invasive questions from strangers (Who, once again, are probably only asking them because this is the politness script) and honestly itâs kinda buckwild.
Damn
WATCH AND REBLOG THIS VIDEO. PLEASE
Yaaaaaassssssss my fucking lorddddd they switched the audio and image!!
Hey babes, have some fuckin tea
I was wondering if birds enjoy flying and I found this story when I searched.
Image description: two screen shots of a Quora question and answer.
Text reads: Do birds feel a thrill or happiness when flying? Basically, is it fun for birds to fly?
Answer by Bob Cormack, Ranch kid, engineer, mountain climber, flyer, ex-adventurer
I have observed ravens in the Grand Canyon that I believe were just playing. I was hiking down the Tanner Trail from the S. Rim and there was a wind from the north. These ravens were soaring up the canyon wall on the updraft created by the wind. When they reached the top, they would fold their wings (sort of like a stooping falcon) and dive to the bottom at very high speed. When they got to the bottom, they would soar up again.
There didn't seem to be reason for what they were doing except play.
But there's more:
The people with me started cheering and clapping as the ravens dove past. One raven in particular, seemed to respond to this and always came directly overhead on the dive to the bottom. After a while a raven (the same one?) started pulling out of its dive right overhead and shot over the canyon. Then (and I have never seen this before) the raven folded one wing and did what, for all effects, was a "snap roll".
That set everyone off on cheering the raven on, and it preformed this stunt 4 or 5 times more.
If this raven wasn't having fun and showing off (for humans, even!), then what was it doing?
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I want the winners of Masterchef Junior to judge Masterchef. Like, HUMILIATE THE POMPOUS LOSER ADULTS, MY CHILDREN. DO IT. MAKE THEM FEEL STUPID. Adults deserve to feel like that once in a while
The kids criticism would probably be a lot more valuble as most adult judges judge on things other than âdoes this taste goodâ which is why cooking was invented i think
Yes My Meal Looks Like Hot Shit. But Does It Taste Good? Yes? Then Eat It In The Dark, Shitstick
Sooo I have seen a lot of Animal Crossing "libraries" folks have made and...they're usually super not realistic as to what libraries are like (public libraries at least). They always use the "library wall" and are super austere and I just...ugh. Anyway I took it upon myself to make my own! We've got a children's area, community bulletin board, signage, seating, decor, etc., as well as books :)
I also took some pictures of the library in use! Rover is getting some assistance from yours truly, Savannah is working on homework while she babysits Hornsby, Mabel is #chillin, Blathers is browsing the stacks, Celeste is doing some research, and Kicks is checking out the bulletin board.
@voiceoflightcity
what if it was all a dream ...
Dream Fortress 2
âweirdâ is just a setting on my dryer
whats it do?
makes the clothes wetter
That is weird
the ONLY good âclassicâ creepypastas are:
NES godzilla (for visuals)
teds caving page
the whole âMY GIRLFRIENDâ aspect of nes godzilla is tedious but the pixel art makes it all worth it
this tweet is such a perfect encapsulation of what the brain trust on twitter considers activism at this point, i swear to god
she was a child
she was a child trapped in a legendarily abusive studio contract where she was being pumped full of drugs and sexually abused by producers
what is the point? âthink about this the next time you watch the wizard of ozâ? and do what? this tweet is so pointless
not for nothing but she was also a lifelong advocate of the civil rights movement and held a whole press conference to denounce white supremacist terrorism after the 16th street baptist church bombing
there are politicians who did blackface in office right now
judy garland has been dead for 50 slutty, slutty years
If you want to use this information to actually learn about minstrelsy I would recommend the chapter âPast Imperfect: Performance, Power, and Politics on the Minstrel Stageâ from Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by Brenda Dixon Gottschild. Gottschild covers the Africanist dance influence in minstrelsy, the re-appropriation of and resistance in minstrelsy by Black performers, the legacy of minstrelsy, and much more.
In a similar vein I would also recommend the Marlon Riggs documentaries Ethnic Notions, which covers anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the antebellum period through the Civil Rights movement, and Color Adjustment, which covers the representation of African Americans on television from its advent through the 1990s.
Youâre not going to raise your consciousness by watching The Wizard of Oz and feeling bad that Judy Garland did blackface (in not just Everybody Sing, but also Babes in Arms and Babes on Broadway, for the record) because she was a minor under the thumb of her abusive stage mother and legally obligated to perform in these films because of her contract with MGM. Engage with the work of Black activists on the subject instead and think about or criticize how the stereotypes from minstrel performances still manifest in popular culture today in different forms.
this isnât showing up in my replies because of the links so iâm boosting it, tumblr user thehours2002 is smart and thoughtful as always
NOELLE PLEASE
Gender affirming surgery of give me elf ears
Gender affirming surgery of give me vampire fangs
Gender affirming surgery of give me teifling horns
congratulations you are now a homestuck troll
This is the worst possible reply to this post have a horrible day
Queen Hippolyta | Harley Quinn 2.09 âBacheloretteâ
I think about this tweet every single time I see this advertisement
in college a teacher explained that criticizing gentrification wasnât about shaming or blaming the white people that were most likely living in the only apartments they could afford - it was about asking why their living there was inherently valuable. itâs not really about who - itâs about why. why white lives are literally valued more. why is the presence of white people a gentrifying force? what is it about whiteness that elicits immediate value?Â
And if you look up the stages of gentrification, it usually goes like âartists and teachers and etc move into this neighborhood because its what they can affordâ and THEN âdevelopers notice these people and try to capitalize on them.â
idk how many times it needs to be addressed that white hipsters and artists do play an active role in gentrifying neighbourhoods. yes, landlords, developers, as well as municipalities serve as the most powerful top-down parties that stigmatize and cosequently gentrify areas in the city that house many POC and working class people. but artists and other creatives can and do play an active role in âaestheticizingâ an area (very white aesthetics that are disconnected from what the neighbourhood is interested in), attracting middle class and upper class people because they are investors and provide a good image due to high cultural and economic capital.
in regards to the last comment above me: how do people think these relatively affordable houses in the city became available to artists and store owners in the first place? itâs often because the previous, marginalized population has been forced to move out due to being unwanted (contributing to a âbadâ city image). another reason is that occurs in various cases is that cities relies on a certain industry that has been abandoned over time, which results in these hip industrial places (factories, ports) with multiple restaurants and galleries and such in them. there had thus been a working class population at first which did not possess this position of aestheticizing and gentrifying an area; artists were the first to have a role in this, even if the average artist is financially poor. TLDR; artists can both be key players and victims of gentrification and are not per se exclusively not or the other.
there are countless of interesting articles that have studied gentrification in urban areas and looked at general patterns across cities and there are various explanations for way gentrification takes place with class and race, indeed, being a common factor. however, to suggest that the process only starts once corporations capitalize on creative spaces (as the comment above me does) overlooks how much larger the overall process can be.
here are some articles that iâve read that i suggest looking into for the points i named, as well as some other things relevant to gentrification and creative cities. and theyâre all available on google scholar without needing to connect to a uni library it seems.
Cameron, S., & Coaffee, J. (2005). Art, gentrification and regenerationâfrom artist as pioneer to public arts. European Journal of Housing Policy, 5(1), 39-58.
Casellas, A., Dot-Jutgla, E., & Pallares-Barbera, M. (2012). Artists, cultural gentrification and public policy. Urbani izziv, 23, S104-S114.
Glow, H., Johanson, K., & Kershaw, A. (2014). âMore Yuppy Stuff Coming Soonâ: Gentrification, cultural policy, social inclusion and the arts. Continuum, 28(4), 495-508.
Mathews, V. (2010). Aestheticizing space: Art, gentrification and the city. Geography Compass, 4(6), 660-675.
Pratt, A. (2018). Gentrification, artists and the cultural economy. In Handbook of gentrification studies. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Zukin, S. (2016). Gentrification in three paradoxes. City & Community, 15(3), 202-207.