white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy
If Native folks are making it to sell to white people with the approval of their tribe, it’s not “appropriation”–its support and appreciation! So yes, buy that native-made dream catcher, but not the mass produced fakes made by white people. Like, you can go to a pow wow and buy native crafts there, too.
All those "spend just 35 minutes doing a bunch of really hard exercises and you'll feel great forever!" videos are really discouraging. I usually end up doing like, 2 minutes of some of his while waiting for my shower to heat up, and ykw?
That's 2 minutes more than I would have done otherwise.
oh hey I have a thing like that last one that I like to do sometimes, but I do it lying down in bed. it's a very satisfying pop/shift in my hips/lower back, but doesn't always work. maybe I will try his version and see if it is more effective for me
I do consider Wolverine's interactions with Jean and Scott in the first X-Men movie to be sort of an inverse unicorn hunter scenario. sometimes the unicorn hunts you. aggressively.
the thing is. Logan finally makes one (1) pass at Scott that's so straightforward even Scott can't write it off as homoerotic bickering over Jean, and it sends him into a tailspin. he doesn't even answer he just leaves the room. gracelessly. listen it's 2001 and like, okay, obviously Professor X is gay, Scott knows that, he's fine with it but like. jesus christ. he has enough problems with the whole mutant thing; Scott Summers has not been exploring the lush garden of latent bisexuality. plus he's like SO coupled up with Jean so it doesn't even matter, right? it doesn't even matter and he never had to think about this again, except he does and he's dating a telepath (FUCK) and she Knows something is up and he can't brush it off forever so he tries (fails) to casually bring it up. haha hey Jean you know I always thought Logan had a bit of a crush on you, but I think he tried coming onto me the other day, can you believe it? ("I think he tried coming onto me" here means "he offered to suck my dick with all the subtlety you'd expect from a man who's very popular in truck stop bathrooms," btw.) and Jean Grey, the Dark Phujoshi herself, cannot hide that this is huge for her. this solves so many of her problems. she's salivating and Scott can see it and she's realizing too late oh no Scott was Not into it like that, abort mission hard. except he saw how excited she was for a split second before she got a lid on it, so he knows, and she knows he knows, and he know she knows he knows. and now Scott can't Stop thinking about it, and the more he tries to not think about it the more he does, vicious cycle, and he keeps having these dreams about. well. what if. what if I did let him suck me off a little. which Jean knows about, obviously, because she's a telepath (FUCK). so she knows. and he knows she knows. and she must know that he knows she knows. but neither of them are saying anything about it, just sweating it out while Logan continues to slut around the school in a white tank top pretending he's not playing six dimensional mind game chess to land the plane on this threesome.
Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!
Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.
5e Wizard Subclass: School of Necromancy, Improved
Ever wanted to play an actually cool and powerful necromancer wizard? Ever wished you could play a strong healer without being religious about it? Ever wanted to be goth AND a nerd? Well do I have the subclass for you!
Design notes: I designed this subclass to fit the lore of my setting where the strongest type of magical healing can be accessed through necromancy as you manipulate the life force of all the creatures around you. I purposefully did not lean into a "summoner" niche, as conjuration wizard has that pretty well-covered, and instead I wanted to make the player feel the power they have over life and death to kill their enemies and heal their allies. I hope you find this inspiring!
You focus your wizardly studies on controlling and manipulating the life force of every living being around you, bolstering your allies and dragging your enemies closer to their demise. Will you go against the image of the classic maniacal necromancer and be a benevolent source of healing and rejuvenation? Or will you embrace the tales of horror and leave death and destruction in your wake?
LEVEL 2
Necromancy Savant
You automatically gain one necromancy cantrip from any spell list. It does not count against the number of cantrips you know. Additionally, the gold and time you must spend to copy a Necromancy spell into your spellbook is halved. You also automatically gain the spell Find Familiar and it is considered a Necromancy spell for you. Your familiar is automatically of the creature type “undead”, and the forms your familiar takes reflect that, whether they are pieced together from different body parts or their form has a more ghostly or even skeletal appearance.
You also gain proficiency with the Herbalism Kit, and you can choose if each healing potion you make with it heals living or undead creatures. Potions made for the incorrect creature type do an amount of poison damage equal to the amount it would normally heal.
Grim Harvest
You gain the ability to reap life energy from creatures you kill with your spells. Once per turn, when you kill one or more creatures with a spell of 1st level or higher, you collect a number of hit points equal to twice the spell's level or three times its level if the spell belongs to the School of Necromancy, plus your wizard level. You may choose to either immediately absorb those hit points yourself, or you may bestow those hit points on any number of allies within 60ft of you, including your own thralls and/or familiar, distributed however you wish. You don't gain this benefit from killing constructs, nor can constructs benefit from your collected hit points.
LEVEL 6
Undeath Expertise
You have spent so much time dealing with undead and the forces that animate them that you are more adept with them than most. You add the Animate Dead spell to your spellbook if it is not there already. When you cast Animate Dead, you can target one additional corpse or pile of bones, creating another zombie or skeleton, as appropriate. Your thralls add your proficiency bonus to their weapon damage rolls.
You also have resistance to necrotic damage, and your hit point maximum can't be reduced.
Reap and Sow
Your flexibility with your Grim Harvest healing increases. You may choose to allocate seven hit points from your Grim Harvest ability and, instead of healing with them, use them to remove one poison, curse, or disease on a creature within 60ft of you. You may spend any remaining hit points to heal as usual. Constructs cannot benefit from this ability.
LEVEL 10
Master of Death
Your mastery over life and death increases. You add the Raise Dead spell to your spellbook. You also select an additional spell of 5th level or lower from the school of necromancy from any spell list. These both count as wizard spells for you, and don't count against the number of new spells you can learn this level.
Thrall Harvest
Whenever you create or enthrall an undead using a necromancy spell, the creature's hit point maximum is increased by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus times your intelligence modifier. As an action, you may choose one or more of your thralls within 60ft of you and sacrifice them. You gather the remaining hit points the thrall had when it was sacrificed and use them as you would with your Grim Harvest ability, distributing them as healing to any living or undead creature within 60ft of you.
LEVEL 14
Resurrection Savant
You add the Resurrection spell to your spellbook. It counts as a wizard spell for you and doesn't count against the number of new spells you can learn this level.
Goth Bitch Explosion
You gain the ability to temporarily rip free the life forces around you and bend them to your will. Once per long rest, you may spend an action and bonus action to release a wave of undeath within a 90ft radius centered on you. Every living and undead creature within range, including you, must make a Con save against your spell save DC. On a failure, each creature takes 3 times your wizard level in necrotic damage. On a success, they take half damage. Regardless of success or failure, the damage ignores resistance or immunity. If this damage brings a creature to zero hit points, they automatically die, regardless of other abilities. You may choose any number of creatures that die from this to automatically rise as your thralls, skeleton or zombie (your choice), each with one hit point. You may then take that pool of damage dealt and choose any number of creatures within 90ft, including yourself, to distribute those hit points as healing. Unlike other healing spells or resources, you may also choose a fallen non-undead non-construct creature who has died within the last minute as a target, and they will revive prone on the ground with however many hit points you choose to give them. If you yourself die and come back from this effect, you return with three levels of exhaustion.
christianity being a real facet of peoples lives instead of something you grow out of is killing me what do you mean youre 19 and still believe that mission trips are a positive force in the world
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"From researching historic twill patterns in museum collections to dyeing wool with Kool-Aid, Diné (Navajo) weaver and instructor Venancio Aragón interlocks research and experimentation to expand the visual and technical vocabularies of Diné weaving. Working on the Diné upright loom, Aragón is part of a generation of Diné weavers who reinterpret ancestral knowledge through experimentation, carrying the medium forward on their own terms. As he stated in our interview with him, “I am not a purist.”
Based in Farmington, New Mexico, Aragón is trained in cultural anthropology and Native American and Indigenous studies, currently teaching at Diné College, the Navajo Nation’s tribal college. Before transitioning to full-time weaving and teaching, Aragón worked as an interpretive park ranger at the Mesa Verde, Aztec Ruins, Bandelier, and Petroglyph National Monuments, where he led tours and developed public education initiatives. He was born to the Tó’aheedlíinii (The Water Flow Together People) clan and born for the Naakaii (Mexican people). His maternal grandfather is of the Tsénahabiłnii (Sleeping Rock) clan, and his paternal grandfather is of the Naakaii (Mexican people)."
i am once again making a silly little zine abt covid safety but this time it is very unserious and not educational at all so if ur new here and dont know what the Heck i am on about. here's a place to start!
id:
slide 1:
a photo of the front cover of a black & white printed zine held up in front of a quilt in the background. top text of the zine cover reads: "reasons I love wearing my mask in public" with bottom text in parentheses: "besides the on-fire garbage can that is public health these days." a cartoon drawing of Maria, a pale genderfluid person with a buzzcut and glasses, is winking and doing a peace sign. she is wearing a boat-style mask with a star mask chain and crayon earrings.
slide 2:
top text: "1: I haven't had a man tell me to smile in 6 years." Below is a drawing of Maria walking down the sidewalk wearing a black mask, a cat cropped t-shirt, patched jeans, & star earrings. They are carrying a Mitski tote bag and look unbothered with their eyes closed as a man who looks a lot like the distracted boyfriend meme holds up a finger as if he was about to speak, but just looks confused as his speech bubble reads "..." Bottom text: "I simply cannot go back."
slide 3:
Top text: "2: I don't have to make facial expressions." Below Maria is waving and wearing a polo shirt, blank face emoji earrings, & an apron that says "JOB" with a name tag attached. Maria stares blankly behind her mask. Bottom text: "autism wins!"
slide 4:
Top text: "3: I can sing to myself on walks without being spotted by traffic." Below is Maria strolling down the sidewalk with cars in the background, wearing a mask, a baseball cap, and a Phantom of the Opera t-shirt. Maria has a speech bubble of floaty text singing "aangel of muuusic" with music notes floating around.
slide 5:
Top text: "4: mask chains!" below is a boat-style mask with a mask chain made of letter beads that spell "yippee." Bottom text: "another layer of accessory-maxxing."
slide 6:
Top text: "5: adds to my aura of being the mysterious and unknowable coworker." Below Maria stands in their job apron with a black mask & mushroom earrings surrounded by question marks. Text around Maria reads "what do they look like??" "we are literally on the clock!!" "wouldn't you like to know weatherboy!!"
slide 7:
Top text: "6: nobody knows I'm eating fruit snacks." Below is Maria with her mask on wearing strawberry earrings looking nonchalant as text points to her saying "maria acting normal." In the bottom left corner we see through the mask like an x-ray showing Maria chewing as she holds a scooby-doo gummy. Text pointing to this drawing reads "the REAL maria."
slide 8:
Back cover of the zine shows Maria shrugging wearing a striped shirt, overalls with a heart patch on the front, and worm earrings. Top text: "of course none of these things are more important than keeping you & your community safe from preventable illnesses but if for some wild reason you don't care about that. this is everything the government doesn't want you to know!!" Below is the instagram logo and Maria's handle: @maria.therese.art
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