Fandom old. Official Palpakin auntie. Current handle: the _secret_history. I write meta and fanfic and translate things. Salty about imperialism irl. Big supporter of fictional empires.
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#indigenous peoples#native canadians#native americans#first nations#obviously not completely accurate but definitely gives some of idea of the political and linguistic complexity here prior to colonization
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There's something strange in the neighborhood...
#not my culture but my religion yes#recite or play surah al baqarah#the longest chapter in the quran#prescribed for getting rid of jinn and other spooky things
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at the beginning of the genocide i used to make a lot of posts encouraging people to speak up and thanking people for speaking up, because i know a lot of people were intimidated by manufactured complexity about the middle east, and a lot of people were scared of repercussions. and then i stopped, because it started to feel really dehumanizing to be thanking allies for the bare minimum, and because i was tired, and because i was distracted by the scope of loss
but now i've noticed that as things have gotten worse, as so many of the things we asked you to speak up before they happened have come to pass, people are actually less likely to talk about palestine than they were ten months ago. now that it's palestine and lebanon, now that it's genocide and carnage, now that it's clear that the rule of law really doesn't apply equally no matter how much people protest and how much evidence they compile, now that people are criminalizing free speech and actively inviting authoritarianism simply to curb protest on palestine, i've noticed a withdrawal that isn't just exhaustion, but also disillusionment. and unfortunately this has left the onus on the most vulnerable to continue to be the most visible
so let me get back to it. yes, it is the bare minimum and it is small. yes, it can be more complicated now with an election you care about coming up soon. yes, things are very bleak. but i've said it before. this isn't a short term process. this is the long haul. there is no button that ends a genocide, there is only a lever we are all collectively pulling together.
the least and most you can do is speak up. i will give you concrete examples: when you see a post that dehumanizes arabs, a post that ignores genocide, a post that justifies massacres, you actually should object to that. it's not nothing. this is the rhetoric that allows these wars to continue, as poisonous as overt warmongering is covert normalizing with warmongering, is ignoring the genocide in gaza and the massacres in lebanon, and all the other overreaches of the US war machine. when you see people being unfairly targeted for being pro-palestine, you should still support them. when you see the things you love—movies, celebrities, literature, publishers, companies—supporting genocide, normalizing israeli war crimes, ignoring the sheer amount of suffering in the world, ignoring the wars happening with your taxes, you should still speak up against them. this isn't something you stop doing. this is now something you live with, the way you live with every other principle you hold dear, whether it comes to racism, to homophobia, to kindness, to cruelty, to keeping libraries open, to keeping children alive.
if you remember that this is injustice, then you have a role. your role is to remind people. they haven't forgotten that they are committing injustice, they're hoping you have. and the least you can do, the very least you can do, is remind them that you haven't.
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Influencers were a mostly decentralized group of geisha which were founded in the late period of the Western Presidential Dynasty. Like all geisha, Influencers were known for their role as entertainers, though they were rarely found in okiya and only the highest ranking influencers could afford to work through a chaya or inherit a formal lineage from an older, more experienced member. Their sponsors (trans. 旦那) would often purchase them for a series of performances which would then be "livestreamed" to audiences of the peasant class. Practices of mizuage are largely unconfirmed, byt there is a wealth of secondhand and firsthand evidence of criticisms of this practice as predatory by a small circle of sponsors who would often claim an influencer only for early in their debut. The most famous mizuage collector is Raid: Shadow Legends.
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Western passport holders will never understand. To go anywhere with a third worlder passport like a Filipino one, you need your tax returns, certificate of employment, bank statements, marriage certificates, sometimes a recommendation from a citizen of the country you want to travel to, everything possible to prove that you have a job and a family at home and you're not planning to be an illegal immigrant, JUST to get hit with a rejection because the embassy didn't believe you had enough proof.
Did you have travel plans? Already booked the plane tickets and hotels? Fuck you, better hope they issue refunds (they don't).
#you can live in the evil empire and not know it#my highly specific tags#this has happened to...a lot of people i know
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*fixes my hair to look pretty for an event*
Friend: “wow I love your hair”
My brain:”dont say it dont say it, its weird”
Me: “thank you, my inspiration was Drizzt Do’Urdens dad, Zaknafein”.
Friend:” oh, I was gonna say you kind of look like Ariana Grande...”
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Return Of The Jedi
Art by Daniel Warren Johnson
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once again awake at 2:30 in the am, listening to depressing songs and steadily approaching the hour when i will be suddenly convinced an actual monster will pop out of the walls.
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don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.
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Raven Releasing the Sun
Artist: Hereditary Chief George Hunt Jr.
In this print by George Hunt, Jr., Raven Releasing the Sun, the artist shows the crafty protagonist in the moment after he has opened the chief’s treasure box and released the first of its precious items—the sun—which the artist has depicted as a mask-like face. The rays of the sun are so formidable as to reveal themselves as bold, red tapering lines embedded with formline ovoids, U-shapes, and three-pointed “trigons”—the building block of Northwest Coast design.
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the terror dashboard simulator
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i wonder how the lads in the blind are doing
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fuck this stupid baka life a man crossdresses ONE TIME and suddenly it’s like a whole thing apparently. it’s all ‘oh no the fire’ and ‘we lost good men that day’ and never ‘how was the crossdressing james the crossdressing looked fun’
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mrs franklin we’ve talked about this
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Plenty of highly intelligent people end up getting sucked in to cults because they just wanted people to hang out with. There are antivaxxer nurses. Your ability to act on empirical reason breaks down fast if your social and emotional needs aren't being met.
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I have eaten
the pomegranates
from the
land of the dead
and which
you were probably
saving
for your stolen bride
forgive me
they were delicious
as sweet as death
and as cold
(after william carlos williams)
[OPENS FRIDGE, REMOVES TUPPERWARE CONTAINER LABELLED "Pomegranates from land of dead do not eat"]
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