February 2012
252 posts
Everything. Sucks.
Natural Science get out of my life
just
go
“I watched a good gay movie that was the opposite of Wilde in how depressing it...”
– me, describing Maurice to a friend (via yarr-metis)
wait. oh my god. that’s lestrade.
ALEC SCUDDER IS LESTRADE. !?!!?!?!
HOLY MOTHERFUCK MY LIFE WHAT IS THIS
YIWEN ARE YOU READING THIS?
FSLDKja;slfkjqlewkrfjlewkfj;q
THE NUMBERS ARE BROKEN
GODDAMN YOU BROKEN NUMBERS
FIX YOURSELVES
jeez, my mental health drops by about a bazillion...
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And while I'm letting out my angsty trans feelings
I can’t believe I’m saying this.
I always love being non-binary.
But I’m sort of getting frustrated because I feel like there’s no way to be me. And to be recognized by other people how I want to be recognized. There’s no script, at all. Sometimes it would just be easier to be binary. Even a non-conforming binary person. Even a trans gender-nonconforming binary...
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A moment of angry ranting
You know what is possibly the most frustrating situation I have experienced? Asking people where the bathroom is.
Let’s start with the fact that I have great difficulty communicating with strangers. Then I get to sit there and feel them stare at me trying to figure out “what I am” so they can tell me where the men’s or women’s restroom is.
And no matter HOW I say...
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The beginnings of the American Revolution,...
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
and this is why we don't get doctor who on our televisions kids
“The question is: Should the privatization of public water supplies be allowed?...”
– Peter Brabeck - President of the board of directors of Nestlé.
This speaks volumes.
(via domesticterrorism)
I don’t…I don’t get it. Without water YOU DIE. And yet we are still questioning whether people have a “right” to it? WAT???????
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Contemplating the poc/white ratio of Circle of...
THE CIRCLE
Briar - mixed POC (Sotat is equivalent to a Middle Eastern type country, has brown skin, kinky hair, and green eyes)
Sandry - white (pale skin, light brown hair, blue eyes. From Emelan, which is based on Turkey and contains Italian/European influences but racially seems to be mixed from white to Mid-Eastern to Mongolian)
Daja - POC (dark brown skin, kinky hair, dark eyes, she’s...
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wamátukȟa čha "ečháŋni" imúŋkiŋ kte
knightoftaurus:
sofriel:
“ečháŋni”? Hahaha. miš-eya wamátukȟa. aŋpemištinme k’eyaš nahaŋȟčiŋ lila makȟa -_-
La oushpayhikaywin awyimen chinishtouhtamihk.
Naw, ninishtoten! I would write that “L’oshpehikewin aayiman chi-nishtotamik” in the newer spelling. Once you figure out what letters they use to write which sounds, it’s not too bad. Nimiyeusten e-piikishkweyaahk...
wamátukȟa čha "ečháŋni" imúŋkiŋ kte
“ečháŋni”? Hahaha. miš-eya wamátukȟa. aŋpemištinme k’eyaš nahaŋȟčiŋ lila makȟa -_-
Albert Goldbarth, "The Sciences Sing a Lullabye"
sharingpoetry:
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an...
I can't believe I get to write about colonization...
Dis mak me happy
fangirlmarena asked: #3 is one of many reasons why...
ndnsurgency:
sofriel:
ihavethisblog:
jalwhite:
fangirlmarena:
jalwhite:
Yes.
I have struggled with this a lot. I use the #NDN hashtag because it’s important for me to claim it and to contribute to what the definition of it is / can be — and it has meaning for me outside of Tumblr. Plus, I do feel community with folks - but in my head that list is very clear. My NDN community is not...
fangirlmarena asked: #3 is one of many reasons why...
ihavethisblog:
jalwhite:
fangirlmarena:
jalwhite:
Yes.
I have struggled with this a lot. I use the #NDN hashtag because it’s important for me to claim it and to contribute to what the definition of it is / can be — and it has meaning for me outside of Tumblr. Plus, I do feel community with folks - but in my head that list is very clear. My NDN community is not the same as THE #NDN...
I'm sorry, I can't get over this
fangirlmarena:
jalwhite:
liquornspice:
If someone tells a white and Native person they “don’t look Indian,” you can be pretty certain a chorus of angry voices will come to their defense, OUTRAGED, writing about how stereotypical images of Indians negatively affect people’s lives and we don’t all look like Pocahontas and etc etc etc…
But someone just told a Black Native woman that violence...
littleojibwe:
super-eklectic1:
karnythia:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
poemsofthedead:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
liquornspice:
What I learned from tumblr/Native American studies classes: the only “invisible” Indians who matter are white ones. This anon msg was sent to Jal.
I like your blog but you always go to far with Black stuff. The statistics about Native women being abused do you...
Anonymous asked: Don't mean to be ignorant, but I don't understand what's so bad about the dialogue at the end. Mind explaining?
eateroftrees asked: Oh god that dialog at the end ahhhghhh
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What I really need right now is a thunderstorm.
A massive, pouring, thunder-and-lighting taampet. One I can hear raining against the roof and the window and see the lake swirling and rushing against the point.
And then, I need spring cleaning.
Dead giveaway that an author not only is NOT from...
i-sauntered-vaguely-downwards:
eateroftrees:
sofriel:
Supposedly uttered by a Chicago native: “Who the hell drives a horse and buggy through downtown Chicago?”
*facepalm*
The wal-mart in my town has a space to park your horse and buggy.
Do people think this never happens?
>.<
WAIT I’M CONFUSED!
There are horses and buggy’s getting driven… in downtown Chicago?
REALLY!?
-...
Dead giveaway that an author not only is NOT from...
eateroftrees:
sofriel:
Supposedly uttered by a Chicago native: “Who the hell drives a horse and buggy through downtown Chicago?”
*facepalm*
The wal-mart in my town has a space to park your horse and buggy.
Do people think this never happens?
>.<
Ha, that’s legit!
The thing is that anyone who’s ever been in downtown Chicago knows there’s a thriving tourist...
The Yuchi House: A Storehouse of Living Treasure →
selchieproductions:
© Renee Grounds.
Renee Grounds is a Yuchi language instructor.
Unnoticed by most passers-by, there’s an old yellow house in Sapulpa, Oklahoma that is the meeting place of the world’s only living experts on a unique language and culture, called Yuchi. Something remarkable is going on inside the “Yuchi House”— native speakers of this ancient language are conversing and...
Dead giveaway that an author not only is NOT from...
Supposedly uttered by a Chicago native: “Who the hell drives a horse and buggy through downtown Chicago?”
*facepalm*
oh god.
unaguerrasinfondo:
liquornspice:
unaguerrasinfondo:
the olmec head thing has returned…
Yeah…this was always shady reasoning to me. I mean, I am all about seeing evidence that Africans traveled to the Americas long before white Europeans. And there’s definitely not enough scholarship done on the cultural exchange between Amerindians and Black folks even during or after the transatlantic...
My main issue with trans identities (excluding...
sanaa-tamir:
velocicrafter:
stfuconfederates:
Real talk for a second. I really don’t care what your identity is as long as is doesn’t affect anybody else in any negative way. It’s your identity and just because I don’t believe in it, I’ll recognize that it’s what you believe and that, at least, you feel that it’s somewhat integral to you.
I’m left-handed. If you’re right-handed and decide...
Anonymous asked: Welcome to life.
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Up and down, up and down...[mental health trigger...
I suck, I rock. I’m verging on self harm, I’m on top of the world. I love Chicago, I hate Chicago. I want to do everything, I don’t want to do anything. I’m doing worthwhile things, nothing I do matters.
oogishkamaanisee:
best thing I’ve done all day is
searching “butt” in my Ojibwe dictionary and cackling at all the verbs that my ancestors came up with that are butt related.
nabagidiye: having a flat butt
zhaashagidiye: having a protruding butt
zhooshkodiyebizo: sliding down quickly on your butt
zipodiyeni: clamping your butt cheeks together/tightening/clenching your butt cheeks
...
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On this whole "transethnic, transabled, transfat"...
Some initial points.
Body Integrity Identity Disorder is a real thing. People with this condition generally feel that one of their limbs, for instance, should not be there, sort of in reverse of the phantom limb phenomenon.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder is also a real thing. I don’t understand this as well, but the impression I get is that it involves extreme obsession over a perceived defect...
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Creeeeeeeeeeee
I have checked out Spoken Cree from my library despite part of my brain yelling at me that it is probably a really bad idea to start learning Swampy Cree when I haven’t even entirely got Plains Cree under control. But it was just sitting there, such a thick and beautiful-looking lesson book!
(You see, Michif was the first Algonquian language that I learned. I didn’t have any actual...
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I really should think about doing something about...
My eating is atrocious - I regularly subsist on no more than two poptarts and a Chinese sweet bun for an entire day. Despite this, I’ve been gaining weight for the first time in my life since puberty. My sleep schedule is an utter mess, and on top of everything my depression seems to be coming back for the first time since I started my medication, except I don’t think meds will solve...