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🌊 Solarpunk Pirate Moodboard for an Anon 🌊

- Mod Vamp

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me and the girls in 2021 at our first post-COVID sunday brunch

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The Navajo have a unique tradition. When a baby is born, it is regarded as the ultimate, precious gift and must never be abused. From the moment of birth, the child is watched over continuously by family and friends, who patiently wait for the child’s first…laugh.

“Has your baby laughed?” is common question posed to parents who have infants around the age of three months. The first laugh of a Navajo child is a very significant event. It marks the child’s final passing from the spirit world to the physical world, meaning he or she is now fully human. This milestone warrants a party, and what a party it is!

Whichever brother, sister, parent, cousin, aunt, uncle, or passing acquaintance is present at the first laugh is deemed to have caused it.  The laughter instigator then receives the honored privilege of preparing a special ceremony to welcome the child into society.

Once a baby has laughed, training in generosity begins immediately—a value held in high regard among the Navajo people. At the party, where the baby is considered the host, the parents or person responsible for the first laugh help hold the baby’s hand as he or she ceremonially gives the rock salt, food, and gifts to each guest. There are also bags of candy, money, and other presents that the child “gives” along with the food. [x]

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my armenian father getting angry at a squirrel

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I have a very strange relationship with cereal. I’ll forget it exists for months at a time, then I remember that not only does it exist, it is one of humanity’s perfect foods. Then I’ll eat like 4 boxes in one day before some eldritch god takes the knowledge from me again. (Probably for my own good.)

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New Zealand Longfin Eel

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“You can’t win - I have the high ground.”

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my mom took this nearly 10 years ago. she was outside and just happened to have her camera when some newlyweds went by on a bicycle for two

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You know, one of the few good memories of my childhood were those summers at Nai Nais’s. They had that garden, Ye Ye and I would catch dragonflies. And then we just moved to the States. Everything was different. Everyone was gone. And it was just the three of us. […] I wanted to believe that it was a good thing, but all I saw was fear in your eyes. And I was confused and scared constantly because you never told me what was going on. And then Ye Ye died. You didn’t even tell me he was sick. So it felt like he just vanished suddenly.

AWKWAFINA as Billi Wang/王比莉 in The Farewell (2019)

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