[thenatalchart]

also i’ve been watching squid game and superstore. i feel like i don’t really watch a lot of tv on my own but those two shows i’m watching by myself so i can’t talk about it with anyone and it’s like, just me and my attention span lol. but squid game is really popular right now so it’s probably a bit different since i could probably find a lot of people right now watching it

[theambitiouswoman]

Don’t say it doesn’t work when in reality you’re not being consistent.

[thenatalchart]

Lol implicit racism u mean. Where it’s in their thots. Cause they been raised in the culture. Racism’s in the air. The water. if they claim they aren’t racist they’re probably implicitly racist. I think the only thing that makes me feel okay w hanging w a yt is when they actively call themselves anti racist bc they understand no matter what. The way they’ve been conditioned as a white person, to view black n brown bodies as less than human, objects, doesn’t stop. They have to actively do shit to stop viewing us that way. And majority dont. Bc they’re not explicitly racist.

this took me while to work out what you were talking about bc i haven’t been on this blog lmao omg but yeah and also no bc doesn’t implicit racism imply the racist beliefs are still there and therefore why anti racism is needed? like you are right but i’m talking about really “subtle” things that seem to just go over white peoples heads bc they haven’t had to deal with it themselves i guess? so yeah implicit racism i guess but a specific nuance to it bc i know many (self proclaimed) anti racist people that still just say and do the dumbest shit and don’t realise. again it’s just hard to think of examples whereas with implicit racism it literally has a definition so idk how to explain myself better. but yeah there are more obvious things that white people do that are so weird, like i remember once at a party someone said something racist about asians and for some reason a WHITE PERSON decided to come up to me and be like “that person just said asians were dirty and deserved to die, that’s so fucked up” so essentially they literally just came up to me and told me i was disgusting and deserved to die TO MY FACE but i was supposed to be like, grateful or something bc they personally didn’t think that and they were “calling it out”. no sensitivity to the depth of those words bc it doesn’t mean anything to them. and i know that isn’t a great example, since i can’t think of any i convey properly but it’s one where i think it explains the thought process of some “woke anti racists”. even in the og post i made someone was like as white people we need to call out white people more and i responded about how white people can’t all the time bc they literally can’t pick up on all of it but it’s also things like that where white people think they’re battling something but really they’re just making people feel worse. but you are right btw bc it is because they’re conditioned to see people who aren’t white as less human than they are and everything else you said is true it’s just i was struggling to explain something that me and a few friends feel like we can’t put into words and therefore can’t even confront white people on it almost?

[perrfectly]

Taken in Venice by my friend

[thenatalchart]

white people are actually so gross wtf

[girlschasinggirls]

sydney sweeney liked it 💀💀💀 why does it have so many likes in general how did that many people think that was okay.. unless they didn't even read the caption idk

[thenatalchart]

sydney sweeney is actually unbearable lmao from the her recent twitter drama to kissing an underage girl, i don’t know why people continue to give her the time of day at all when nothing about her is exciting or interesting or literally beyond bland anyway

[thenatalchart]

white people are actually so gross wtf

[tokyoproxy]

Flower raft - Tetsugaku no Michi (Philosopher’s Walk),Kyoto by Jun

[thenatalchart]

remember that girl that bragged about being constantly engaged in cool girl my husband is basically my master mode and then got defensive about it and had to try and convince everyone her husband was a good man and basically her reasons were that she was poor and already had a child so she was thankful he even took a chance on her. she said she was “grateful for the opportunity” bc he paid for their house and married her. like literally those words. “i’m grateful for the opportunity”. it lives in my mind rent free

[huariqueje]

Kitchen in morning light  -   Simeon Nijenhuis , 2020.

Dutch, b.1969-

Oil on panel,

[hedgehog-moss]

« […] An iridescence—a crazed green—out the kitchen window New leaves. First wind today for these new leaves. Is it this week. We drink our tea. The knives and forks glitter in their dark drawer. They will be there after. […]

I put the kettle back on. We are on pause. The change of scale in our thinking has occurred. Planetary death so what is yours. How big. Where do I put it. […] Far far away you said  opening up the book. […] I look at the page. Your hand knows how to turn it  so the next thing comes about. All will be buried in dirt. »

— Jorie Graham, “With Mother in the Kitchen”

[prgnant]

[mythopoeism]

early homo sapiens b like help i cant stop making bowls . help i cant stop domesticating plants and animals. help i cant stop developing language and architecture and religion

[pricklydyke]

ok im obsessed w this tag

[thenatalchart]

i remember once i saw a post on how to actually draw asian characters and the results ended up looking so white and they made out the one that actually looked asian to be a gross caricature and obviously not all asians look the same so that drawing is not a one size fits all but it seriously didn’t look like a caricature? i was so confused like are we really supposed to make asian characters look white out of fear of making their eyes look too “stereotypical”?? the post had so many notes thanking them too so they would no longer do that and then i went to the source and the post was literally made by a white person????

[thenatalchart]

hi pam! How are you? 💕

I think you spoke about learning Korean some time ago (a long time ago, I guess actually haha). Do you still learn it? How is your progress and what did you find are the “essentials” when learning it, like where did you start, what do you think one needs to understand etc.? I started learning it two days ago - so far I can read Hangul, in a reaaaally slow pace but still haha. I still don’t understand anything but at least I can make sounds (and therefore some sense) to the symbols I see 😂🌀💙 I’m amazed at how things I couldn‘t fantasize making sense of, I now can ‚read‘. 🙈🙊 I love learning languages, I learned English, French and Russian in school. I also had to learn Latin @uni. Recently I also started practicing Russian again with duolingo (which is a horrible app IMO 😅😅 no grammar rules explained whatsoever, that irks me so much - guess my mercury placement haha). Do you have any language learning Tipps? Like apps?

And a more Astro related question: do you think there are placements in our chart which indicate our language learning style? I don’t mean an interest or a talent for learning languages, more so where to look at to know how you can best pursue learning them? Thank you so much, I love reading your answers!! 🥰💓

yes i’m still learning. i would say my progress has been good and i’m the go-to translator for some of my mutuals now lol. i think you started off right by learning hangul straight away so you don’t have to use romanisation and from there i would recommend ttmik and how to study korean and go through their lessons one by one bc so many people swear by them. to confess, i actually don’t know how to study well. i never took notes or properly practiced. well on my phone i kinda did but i didn’t sit down at a desk or anything and do lessons lmao so please keep that in mind.

anyway moving on, one thing to note is that from what i’ve learnt, not all languages are equal. you said you learnt english in school so i don’t know what your native language is, but say you were a a native english speaker, learning french, spanish, german or swedish for example are considered the “easy” languages to learn. learning a language of course isn’t easy but in terms of ranking they overall rank easier. korean is one of the hardest. but then it goes both way ofc, so for ex. korean is considered one of the easier languages for native japanese speakers to learn while french is considered one of the harder ones. the reason i bring this up, is bc from the stories i’ve heard too, this means studying a language can be different depending on how distant the language is from the one/s you already know (i’m saying this due to your astro question as well)

i think the overall advice for korean would be to start off with verb endings and grammar patterns so you can recognise them in a sentence (this is basically what ttmik does btw). this might make more sense even once you know a little bit more but it can help immensely bc then you can google it bc korean sentences aren’t spaced the same way and grammar will usually be attached to the word and makes it hard to look up new vocab if you don’t recognise it.

for example: 사랑은 마치 불장난 같아서 다치니까 (blackpink lyric lol)

in bold is grammar and not part of the actual word, even recognising this is helpful early on bc even if you need a refresher on a grammar particle you can google it (using 사랑은 from the example above) by simply typing in “은 grammar” you will find several free websites and probably even videos that will explain it for you. and since you know 은 is the grammar particle and 사랑 is the word, if you didn’t know what 사랑 meant, you could just look it up.

and this is basically how both a friend and i learnt. we just read things, googled, and repeated. i don’t know if that works for everyone, but i think it’s effective.

so back to your astro question. i don’t know, sorry. since learning languages can be different depending on the languages you already know and since learning a new language means you have to go in kind of ignorant and learn things the hard way (that’s why there’s so many “things i wish i knew before i started studying korean” videos and blog posts) i don’t think it’s easy to associate a language learning style to certain astro placements.

oh btw with duolingo, i never used it but i heard that while the app is a little bad, the actual website is great bc that’s where all the explanations actually are and apparently the app and website are meant to be used in conjunction with each other

[photographybyamyjennings]

The weather FINALLY broke after over a month of rain and wind, we had a lovely perfect late spring day. I missed most all of the spring flowers, but I didn’t miss the Hawthorn..

[egberts]

this person's flex on my sister's post has me dead

[thenatalchart]

Can you maybe give an example for the type of subtle racism you‘re referring to in your last text posts? I am white but I want to try to change my behavior, but I can‘t if I don’t know what I am doing wrong. (Also: I don‘t mean this in a ‚you have to educate me‘ type of way, I hope you don’t get me wrong. I just find it hard to understand what you are talking about without an example - and I guess that proves your point furthermore)

i think giving an example would require a lot of explanation and nuance bc like the person who replied to me assumed, i’m not talking about a one off comment or bad joke that can just be “called out” so idk what to tell you but i think you just need to understand that you were raised white and have benefited from white privilege your whole entire life so there is just literally no way that it’s not going to manifest in your personality in one way or the another (bc it seriously has been and is your surrounding world), that’s why it comes out in subtle ways that are hard to explain and seem to only be knowingly understood by people who haven’t experienced the same privilege. all you can do is continue trying in general and i think most of all, just to not be defensive about it. i think there’s a lot of white people that get upset when it’s pointed out to them that they’ll never be “perfect” when it comes to being not racist (idk how to explain it better) but ofc that just makes the problem worse tho.

[thenatalchart]

white people will never fully get it just like men will never fully get it. they can only get so close. that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t keep trying