Sparhawke

Random things archived so that I can laugh at myself later. They/them. Hele me ka hau'oli

[weepingwidar]

Ken Gun Min (Korean, 1976) - Mongolian Wrestler (2023)

[yesterdaysprint]

The Washington Herald, Washington DC, January 31, 1918

[8pxl]

[thesparhawke]

I live in Maine, these dumb incel cucks are all over the place kidnapping members of our community, and driving so so many into hiding. Ya'll are a fucking disgrace.

GTFO

[sarakipin]

Snake demon for your pleasure 🐍💜

[evenlyevi]

Dandelions

[nemfrog]

"Desmodont or blood-sucking vampire." Popular history of animals for young people. 1895.

Internet Archive (from a book uploaded there by scanner-nicole-deyo)

[podcastwizard]

sorry boss can't come in today i was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world

[cosmonautroger]

Félix Vallotton, Red Peppers, 1915

[thesparhawke]

"The only question is this: Do you have enough empathy and yearning and desperation to connect to others outside yourself and scream into the void in four part harmony? Enough brainpower and fine motor control and aesthetic ideation to look at feathers and stones and stuff that comes out of a worm's more unpleasant holes and see gowns, veils, platform heels? Enough sheer style and excess energy to do something that provides no direct, material benefit to your personal survival, that might even mark you out from the pack as shiny, glittery prey, to do it for no other reason than that it rocks?"

-From Space Opera by Catherynne Valente

[thesparhawke]

"If you're killing yourself to make someone else money, there ain't no future in it."

-From Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers

[thesparhawke]

"[...] our understanding that anti-smuggling is not the legitimate half of the international protocols (and national laws) against smuggling and trafficking. Instead, anti-smuggling measures are also revealed as central to the production of the very outcomes that the rich, powerful, and famous condemn. Seeing like a smuggler pierces this fog of war and lets us see that our own freedom rests on our rejecting the state and class rule."

-From Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below by Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi

[thesparhawke]

"Recognizing the symbiosis of the law and smuggling allows us to escape the totalizing gaze of the state, and, instead to see both smugglers and the smuggled as filling in the gaps created by a social system designed to fail most people."

-From Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below by Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi

[thesparhawke]

"According to a critic of transparency, philosopher and critical theorist Byung-Chul Han, part of the problem is what he calls the 'iconic compulsion to become a picture', that, 'everything must become visible.' We are suspected of something if we are beyond the frame. Being in the frame is to be, as Han puts it, operational but: 'subordinate to a calculable, steerable and controllable process."

-From Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below by Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi

[infectiouspiss]

I can see you 😰

[infectiouspiss]

forgot what day it was

[lovertm]

beetle + spider pins (GoodOldVintageNL)

[thesparhawke]

"Smuggling is an inherently distributive process."

-From Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below by Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi

[thesparhawke]

"The involvement of transgender people in the cross-border smuggling in certain parts of the West Bengal-Bangladesh border cannot be overlooked [...]. The fact that a substantial number of transgender people are involved in smuggling in certain areas of this border indicate its significance. One such respondent explains that their being 'neither male, nor female' keeps the border guards at bay, as the 'male' guards feel that 'handling hijras' undermines their dignity. However, border guards point to humanitarian grounds for 'letting them' do what they do, since 'they do not mostly have families or people to fend for them."

-From Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below by Mahmoud Keshavarz and Shahram Khosravi