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hashtagloveloses

this is it. this is the purest photo in existence. reblog for 100 years of good luck

leatinwlw

if you watch the wilds and are 18+ we should follow each other and become friends maybe if u want to !!!

i offer these gifs as an offering <3

jellolegos

“How lucky I am to have a thousand lifetimes in which to find you. How lucky I am, because alone a single lifetime with you would be worthy of the divine”

kirammans-violets

All such amazing art, thank you for all the work you’ve done :)

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tennant

DOCTOR WHO - Vincent and The Doctor + Van Gogh’s paintings

Wheat Field with Crows (July 1890)

The Church at Auvers (June 1890)

Café Terrace at Night (1888)

Self-portrait with Straw Hats (summer 1887)

Bedroom in Arles (1888)

The Starry Night (June 1889)

Sunflowers (1889)

therealglowup

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biscuitsarenice

Coast Australia

blacklacerabbit

Dance Theatre of Harlem Company. Magnifique! 🩰

symphonicseauxl

Beautiful! The piece is Bach Violin Concerto in A Minor (3rd movement)

boredpanda

1800s-1900s Portraits Of Native American Teen Girls Show Their Unique Beauty And Style (15+ Pics)

tikkunolamorgtfo

I love love love seeing historical/archival photos of people who are not white Christian Europeans :)

sashayed

this is my fave from the source, tho.

titenoute

You have no fucking idea how much i love you for the sources.

gogomrbrown

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

punkrockradio

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

robotsandfrippary

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

here are some reconstructions of Tenochtitlan

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

just a note, we don’t think of old european cities as ruins, because those civilizations continued and kept building over the old–there are no abandoned ruins for us to visit & photograph. when we picture those old cities, we have only mental images drawn from our own assumptions & prejudices–images that tend to glorify ‘civilized’ europe.

since victors write history, our image of native american cities was created by colonizers motivated to uphold the ‘native savage’ myth. when we think of these civilizations now, we think of ‘uncivilized’ (rough, broken, abandoned) ruins, because that’s what remains. ruins are the only thing left. because of the destruction wrought by western invaders, these civilizations never had a chance to continue building. they were destroyed, and all we have left is an unimaginative shadow of their former glory.

baby-yodas-mom

went to peru and visited some of their museums and learned inca history that american schools don’t teach you. basically you know why they were beaten out by the spanish invaders? because incas were mostly scientists and not warriors. they had advanced medicine, farming and science technology. THATS what they were good at - tech - not building weapons to most efficiently kill people. the spanish were good at that. so they won. basically the real savages and thugs won and murdered a bunch of scientists, and their technology and advancements are lost forever. it took into the 20th century for colonizer technology to advance in the field of medicine and agriculture to the level of the incas. colonizers literally set human knowledge back like 500 years.

molothoo

It’s crazy to me that, literally everyone in the world was doing just fine until Europeans showed up flipped the script

homoquartz

i mean all of this yes but if you are nonnative please make sure you are not internalizing this idea that somehow our cultures are more “worthy” of preservation or w/e bc we were “advanced” by european standards

let’s please bust the myth that western europe was somehow this bastion of technology and knowledge (bc it is absolutely untrue) WITHOUT devaluing indigenous cultures that didn’t create long-standing monuments or what have you