DEMY DRAKETH

demy draketh - 24 - she/her - taurus"Not a quality blog, but a quality blogger." -Miko Milo

[programmerhumour]

Easier than submitting a bug report

[sparrow-va]

[wattse]

This is 100% serious. NASA please shoot me into space thanks

[retrogamingblog2]

Pokemon Posters made by Paula Marilo

[retrogamingblog2]

Pokemon Posters made by Paula Marilo

[lesbianshepard]

apparently native american tribes were in contact with the donner party and offered them food when they saw the colonists were starving and the donner party turned them down and decided to go the whole “cannibalism” route instead. 

[lesbianshepard]

Until now the Native American perspective has been left out of the telling of the Donner tragedy, not because the wel mel ti did not remember the pioneers, but because they were never asked, or perhaps were not ready to share. Their oral tradition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year. Taking pity on the pioneers, the northern Washoe attempted to feed them, leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the camps. Another account states that they tried to bring the Donner Party a deer carcass, but were shot at as they approached. Later, some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains. Fearing for their lives, the area’s native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided further contact. These stories, and the archaeological evidence that appears to support them, certainly complicated my interpretation of the Donner Party event. The migrants at Alder Creek were not surviving in the mountains alone—the northern Washoe were there, and they had tried to help.  (source)

tfw a group of unprepared strangers show up, refuse the food you offer them, start fucking cannibalizing each other, and then call you the savages

[sindri42]

The story of the Donner Party is hilarious to me because like, everybody talks about them like these brave pioneers who made the ultimate sacrifice in pursuit of their destiny or whatever the fuck, but they were just complete dumbasses.

Like, have you ever heard of the Murphy Party? Sometimes called the  Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party? They were the first wagon train of the pioneers to make it over the Sierra Nevada, two full years before the Donners tried it, first of the american pioneers to reach the shores of lake Tahoe, first licensed physician in California, etc. etc. Ten families, about fifty people, not a single casualty (they actually arrived with more people than when they left). Because when the Donners picked the most charismatic city boy as their leader, the Murphys picked a mountain man. Where the Donners decided to take a “shortcut” that was completely impassable based on a letter they got from somebody who wanted to drum up business for a trading post he was building but who had never actually driven a wagon, the Murphys scouted properly and stuck to paths their vehicles could actually traverse. Where the Donners decided to shoot at the people who were already living in the area, the Murphys asked the natives for directions. When they got snowed in, they sent a few men on ahead to bring back supplies to the rest of the party after building a sturdy cabin for shelter, instead of trying to hole up in shoddy tents and lean-tos before eating each other.

Not to mention all the idiotic in-fighting in the Donner party; they were constantly brawling or stabbing each other or exiling people or just leaving old men on the side of the path to die or “accidentally” shooting their rivals while cleaning weapons, while literally hundreds of other wagon trains somehow made it through the same trials without any murder.

So naturally, the Donners got a lake and a pass and a state park named after them and became household words, while anybody who wasn’t a complete moron got maybe a local park or a small creek.

[ironbite4]

Daaaaaaaaaamn.

[thedoormowse]

It gets even better!

Donner was not the original leader of the group- the expedition started out under the leadership of a man named Reed, who did know what he was doing and had lead several groups safely to the Oregon Territory before.

When they reached the point where the new “California Trail” diverged from the Oregon Trail Donner convinced a large portion of the group to join him and travel across the Sierras.

Reed knew this was a very, very bad idea but Donner was apparently just- extremely charismatic and persuasive. Not only did the Reed Party safely make it to Oregon, as originally planned, but Reed immediately headed south as fast as he humanly could, and upon reaching Sacramento recruited a rescue party to bring emergency supplies up from the other side of the pass.

Unfortunately, it was already too late in the year and the weather forced the rescue party to turn back. Despite knowing the odds against the Donner Party surviving Reed refused to assume their deaths and stayed in Sacramento waiting for the mountain trail to clear.

So not only did Reed warn them not to, he was also the one that found the survivors afterwards.

Fuck Donner.

[lizard-business]

Sokka and Katara are PEAK sibling representation for many reasons, but one of those reasons is the fact that you literally cannot separate them as “the reasonable one” and “the dramatic hot mess”. Like true siblings, they have to take turns with the braincell.

Sokka’s getting whacked out on cactus juice and poor life choices? time for Katara to put on the Mom Friend Hat. Katara is impulsively stealing from pirates or starting another revolution? guess Sokka’s gotta pull out the Dad Voice™. You never know which one of them is gonna do something completely wild next, but you can be sure the other one will be there on the sidelines, armed with exasperation and vicious mockery in spades.

[coureirsix]

LITERALLY some of you don’t fucking know what “disposable income is” like i cannot stress ENOUGH that someone who was able to get animal crossing on day 1 of launch or a ps5 preorder that is still only working minimum wage job and/or cannot pay their rent on a monthly basis is NOT your enemy bruv they are NOT “the rich” like PLEASE cement that in your head. 

[dragimal]

[nyaloha-deactivated20240302]

fly, baby, fly! ☆

[gsjsnsnqkkwnw]

[gayk-47]

obsessed with the fish eye lens

[shesmydoct0r]

Being boss IS dope.

[evilvarric666-archive]

My hobbies? Uhhhh sensations mostly. Textures and patterns. But yeah mostly I just am really into like, experiences. Occasionally I dabble in thoughts.

[parkinglotfistfight]

[mezalea]

so I came to a realization while reading some stuff about ozai. bitchlord had the shortest reign of any firelord ever, but that isn’t the funniest thing yet. it was listed that the most notable victories of his reign was the surrender of omashu and the fall of ba sing se.

both of those were led by azula, not ozai. in short, his fourteen year old mentally unstable daughter did more in ozai’s seven year term than ozai ever did.

do what you want with this information. loserlord, indeed. 

[hollypunkers]

He didn’t even get the throne on his own, Ursa masterminded the entire coup for him

[mezalea]

the tags say no lies

[roach-works]

ozai fought two thirteen year olds as a grown man. the first one surrendered. the second one did not surrender and went on to absolutely kick his ass. 

[massacre-girlypop]

I’ll add that Ozai lost to the 12-year-old Avatar quite literally 15 minutes into his Sozin’s-comet-infused raid on the rest of the world. You know. The comet that literally began the war and gives Firebenders insane amounts of power. The invasion DIDN’T EVEN START and it was over.

This man lost the War that had lasted 100 years while he was cracked out of his mind on power to a 12-year-old who had only learned the other three elements earlier that year. I repeat. LOSERLORD INDEED.

[thottiehardy-deactivated2023111]

You can tell Iroh was the cool brother

[transhumanoid-deactivated202106]

boss dropped out of the zoom meeting cause his cat has learned how to unplug the desktop computer when he’s hungry

[cipheramnesia]

Direct action.

[official-lucifers-child]

why do so many animated hugs look like the coldest, most uncomfortable embraces ever?

[official-lucifers-child]

two people in a cartoon: *hug*

me:

[noodles-07]

Meanwhile, Stuido Ghibli:

[official-lucifers-child]

now THATS a hug!!! look at the movement!! look at the the arms and the closeness!!!!!

[justdecadentcollectiondestiny]

Can we make this a Studio Ghibli hugs appreciation post?

Like this one! The joy!! The pure happiness and delight!!!

[official-lucifers-child]

yes yes yes

[elendraug]

[cryinonthebusdyinlittlewuss]

[guerrillatech]

Amazing

[babyanimalgifs]

rain doggo 

(via)

[willfully]

golden retrievers are still the only breed i’ve ever worked with that go absolutely WILD with excitement for the rain most dogs tolerate it, some hate it, but golden retrievers, man. they’re on another level