Traci-Anne Canada, Author

Aspiring YA and MG author based in Atlanta. 

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I swear someone could go stranded on a desert island and have their hair naturally dread up and they would STILL consider it cultural appropriation

[bornabitch-allthedaysandnights]

This post proves the point of why nonblack people shouldn’t ‘dread’ their hair.

Only afrotextured (3c-4c type hair) dreads naturally because of its corkscrew shape.

All other types of hair matt, which is a whole different process where the cuticle of the hair has to be damaged and raised, revealing the inner sticky core of the hair in order for the hair strands to stick to one another. (picture for example here)

Obviously, these 2 things are not the same.

That’s why all it takes for black people to have dreads is a little twisting and some kind of moisturizing product, and a life time commitment to constant maintenance & hygiene. Black people’s dreadlocks are CLEAN.

And why white people do silly shit like back combing, the ‘twist n rip’ method, elmers glue, not washing their hair, and other forms of damage, lack of hygiene and neglect to achieve an imitation of the real thing they consider a ‘low effort’ hairstyle.

Ultimately the non-black people neglecting their hair to imitate dreadlocks are reinforcing the negative stereotypes about black hair that have existed for centuries and led to white people making laws against black people’s natural hair,saying black people’s hair is unprofessional, continue to make rules against natural black hair, fire black people for their for their natural hair, threatened black people with expulsion for their natural hair,assaulted black people for their hair etc

[heymrsamerica]

God dammit, I was looking for this post earlier too.

[badatstuff-deactivated20190904]

Africa has a greater population than North and South America combined.  Asia has a greater population than the rest of the world combined.  But they’re still treated as a pair of internally homogenous entities, each with a single shared culture throughout the continent.

[persephore-blog]

“Your job — as students who are receiving an education — is to be aware of your privilege. And use this particular privilege called “education” to do your best to achieve great things, all the while advocating for those in the rows behind you.”

source

[writingwithcolor]

“The fact that colonialism is so central to science-fiction, and that science-fiction is so central to our own pop culture, suggests that the colonial experience remains more tightly bound up with our political life and public culture than we sometimes like to think.”

— The Atlantic discusses the link between science fiction and colonialism. (via ceeturnalia)

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[meisterj]

Remember when Disney was all like ‘fuck how races work and homogeneous casts and couples’?

Black and white couple produce fillipino-american child. White dude is the valet. White step mother, one white step sister, one black step sister. Just a jumble, and it ought to happen again.

Some facts from imdb:

First multi-racial cast performing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

Whitney Houston was producing Rodger and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” and was to star in it until she decided that Brandy Norwood would make a better Cinderella. Brandy would not do it unless her idol Whitney took the Fairy Godmother role.

Brandy Norwood became the first African-American to play Cinderella. This version broke viewer-ship records when it debuted, and it holds the record for the bestselling video for a made for TV movie.

So fuck any noise where people say audience don’t want to see a mixed race couple, or more people of color. This was a success from television. I still remember Brandy singing Impossible. 

That ought to happen again. Mixed race live action cast where the relationships don’t made genetic or racial sense.

[plutoisaplanet-fuckyou-deactiva]

I loved this movie. It was my favourite as a child, I loved brandy.

[digitaldiscipline]

[jellogram]

Okay so I found the most incredible horse statue while doing research for my job and guys. Are you ready for this. Are you sure you're fucking ready for this thing

[jellogram]

*sees 2 notes* FUCK yes let's fucking GOOOO

Behemoth

[goawfma]

lil matt damon SNAPPED

[willsmithsmackedtheshitoutofme]

He looks exactly like Matt Damon

[te-amo-corazon]

the finger points 😭😭

[theseriouscynic]

Him and this gif have the same energy

[onlyblackgirlintheclass2]

He dragged him for not listening lmao

[cheese-greater-official]

The guy in the corner has the face of a man who has witnessed a murder and is absolutely loving it

[call-me-bitchmael]

That teacher is working so hard to keep his cool but I am a teacher, I speak teacher, and that man is having the best day of his entire career

[toastbutteregg]

[midgardian-april]

And fucked up knees.

[naamahdarling]

You will be playing Pokemon at 40…with a painful butthole. 😱

[thepringlesofblood]

i am SCREAMING!!!!! YESSSSSYESSSSSSSSSSSSSS ACOC is one of my FAVORITE SERIES ALL TIIIIIME!!!!!!!!

okwearebreathingwearebreathing

I’m going in-depth on the names we have thus far. Calorum is the setting that has some of the cleverest wordplay ever, period, and I want to know EVERYTHING about our new guys!!!!!

let’s get this one out of the way

Colin Provlone (Zac Oyama) - Provolone is a kind of cheese. Colin is a name of Irish/Scottish origin. It’s nice to have one simple one.

Bishop Raphaniel Charlock (Brennan Lee Mulligan) - hmmmm are we going to get an actually Bulbian cleric/warlock this season????

Anyway, the scientific name for wild radish is Raphanus raphanistrum, so that’s probably where Raphaniel came from.

wild radish has two other names - “jointed charlock” and “white charlock”. So there we go.

Your typical red radish (as Brennan described his character to look like) is a subspecies of Raphanus raphanistrum called sativus.

but!!! even MORE interesting!!!! you know what order and family radishes are in? the order BRASSICALES in the family BRASSICACEAE!!!!! Like a certain pontifex we know of??

This could be 100% unintentional, there’s a Lot of vegetables in the family Brassicaceae, but I remain optimistic.

Lady Amangeaux Epiceé du Peche (Anjali Bhimani) - so, Fructera has always been French, natch.

She is a mango! French for mango = la mangue

Amangeaux = almonds (according to google translate, I couldn’t find this word anywhere else online, it’s extremely possible that it’s just the most French-sounding way of saying “a mango”)

Epiceé  = spicy (can be used as slang for y’know. spICY)

du Peche = of peach. maybe she is of house Peach?

Karna Solara (Aabria Iyengar) - this one has me kind of stumped.

there’s the obvious karn->carn->meat connection, but she’s a chili pepper. lmk if there’s some secret vegetable lore I’m missing with ‘karna’

there’s also solar -> sun, which makes sense since the crest of Brightgarden is a big sun, and we see the DM screen this season has a big sun on it.

pLUS when I looked up scientific name for chili pepper, they come from the order Solanales in the family Solanaceae.

Thane Delissandro Katzon (Lou Wilson) -

Katzon

immediately made me think of katsudon- an egg rice bowl w pork cutlet on top.

thank you @blueaerin for your post about how this is most likely a reference to Katz’s Delicatessan, a famous deli in NYC! I never would’ve know that.

Also “katson” = Finnish for “I look” - from the verb “katsoa” meaning “to look at” or “to watch over” - probably nothing.

Delissandro - deli - deli meat

Delicatessen - the double s inspired by this?

while I was looking at Finnish stuff i found out “delissa” means “at the deli” in Finnish

Thane - y’all who read Macbeth know this one.

In Anglo-Saxon culture, It’s a title of a landowner, specifically someone who was gifted land by a king.

In Scotland, it’s a feudal lord.

There’s a connotation of military use in all of the descriptions I’ve found, so judging by the armor he’s wearing, it might be being used as a term for “commander”

[quiddie]

Not trying to bust up fun fan theories, but it’s just a reference to the fact that she’s specifically a Carolina Reaper pepper 🔥

[lilaeleaf]

Salt gobs!!! I love their rumpus and mayhem 💚

[remanence-of-love]

[ncutigatwadoctorappreciation]

Ncuti Gatwa filming the Christmas special.

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

things you need to start a d&d game

access to the internet

that's it

you don't need any fancy dice, there's apps and websites for that. you don't need expensive textbooks, basic info is available for free and everything else is homebrew-able. you don't need spell cards or a fancy dice box or a rolling tray or a dm screen. print your spell cards out for free online, store your dice in a plastic bag, roll your dice on the table, and stand up folders or boxes like we did when taking tests in primary school.

all those things are cool but the only thing you need is a brain, so don't let all the stuff you can buy deter you from doing some badass d&d stuff.

[stealerofkneecaps]

Adding tags from @burning-effigy because 5etools and talespire are amazing and I assume the others are as well

[ID: tags from tumblr user burning-effigy reading #YES THIS ABSOLUTELY THIS #use the 5etools website it’s great [pirate flag emoji] #for notetaking I use the goblin’s notebook #it’s an online notepad that also has a dice roller embedded in it #i keep other notes on notion too #for virtual table tops I like owl bear rodeo #honourable mentions to shmeppy/talespire/tableplop. /End ID]

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

adding these tags from @fairy-princette, wikidot is fantastic, plus they have way more subclass info than dndnbeyond or roll20 does, so that's cool

[ID: tags from tumblr user fairy-princette reading #highly recommend dnd5e.wikidot #got all the content /end ID]

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[2spirit-1spoon]

[fioblah]

can i get another shot at that?

tip jar

[injuries-in-dust]

Comic by PetFoolery

Hands up if you'd also adopt that little noodle! ✋

[the-sighs-of-sunset]

Tags by @interstellarvagabond

[injuries-in-dust]

THERE'S A SEQUEL!

[theanishimori]

MR. NOODLE

[injuries-in-dust]

The adventure continues!

Awesome dad is awesome.

[raimagnolia]

Hopefully the mother will get used to it

[injuries-in-dust]

Mom finally warmed up to Mr Noodle.

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