#Blak Sea

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Erdogan’s Third Term as President of Turkey and What It Means

On May 28th 2023, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was giving a victory speech to the excited Turkish masses, who had democratically elected him to a third term as President of Turkey. He achieved 52.2% of the vote in  the second round of elections compared with the 47.8% of the challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Prior to the election result, it had been widely speculated that the long autocratic regime of…

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        ✮        𝑮        R        𝑖        S        𝗟̲        E        R.        —                        ᴬᴺ        ᴬᴺ̲ᵀ̲ᴵ̲ᴴ̲ᴱ̲ᴿᴼ        ᴼᴿᴵᴳᴵᴺᴬᴸ    𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧        ᵂᴿᴵᵀᵀᴱᴺ        𝙗𝙮        xander.        𝙱𝙰𝚂𝙴𝙳        𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚        ᴵᴺ        ᵀᴴᴱ        ᴴᴼᴿᴿᴼᴿ,        ᵀᴴᴿᴵᴸᴸᴱᴿ,        𝙲𝚁𝙸𝙼𝙴                ᴬᴺᴰ        SUPERHERO        𝙶𝙴𝙽𝚁𝙴𝚂                —        𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃                ᴵᴺ        ²⁰¹⁷.        .        ⨍𝚘𝙧        ᴳᴱᴺᴱᴿᴬᴸ        𝙃𝙊𝙐𝙎𝙀𝙆𝙀𝙀𝙋𝙄𝙉𝙂:        ᴳᴱᴺᴱᴿᴬᴸ        ᴿᴾ        𝖤𝖳𝖨𝖰𝖴𝖤𝖳𝖳𝖤        𝖨𝖲        𝗥𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗗,        𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴        ᴬᴿᴱ        ᵀᴼ        ᴮᴱ        ᴸᴵᴹᴵᵀᴱᴰ        ᵀᴼ        𝗠𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗦        &        THOSE        𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥    ᵀᴴᴱ        ᴬᴳᴱ        OF        ¹⁸        (𝙿𝚁𝙴𝙵𝙴𝚁𝙰𝙱𝙻𝚈        𝟸𝟶+)        FOR        𝘌𝘈𝘚𝘌        OF        𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙏.

       his        story        𝗖𝘖𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍𝚂                themes        ᵀᴴᴬᵀ        𝒎𝒂𝒚        be        ᵀᴿᴵᴳᴳᴱᴿᴵᴺᴳ,        although        𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓        of        𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦        will        not        BE        ᵂᴿᴵᵀᵀᴱᴺ        ᴼᵁᵀ        𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗟𝗬,        they're        ᴵᴺᵀ̲ᴱ̲��̲ᴿᴬᴸ        TO        HIS        𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫.        𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗠,        𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦        𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗨𝗠𝗔,        𝗦𝗔𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗘        are        MA̳J̳O̳R        themes.        MENTIONS        OF        𝐀𝐁𝐔𝐒𝐄        &        ASSAULT        will        BE        PREVALENT        ᴰᵁᴱ        ᵀᴼ        ᵀᴴᴱ        ᴺᴬᵀᵁᴿᴱ        OF        HIS        𝚃𝙰𝚁𝙶𝙴𝚃𝚂.        ᴮᴸᴼᴼᴰ        &        (FAKE)        ᴳᴼᴿᴱ        ᴹᴵᴳᴴᵀ        ᴺᴼᵀ        ᴮᴱ        ᵀᴬᴳᴳᴱᴰ        ᴬᵀ        𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀𝙎.

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NAIDOC Week wrap up

Thanks for joining us throughout NAIDOC Week to learn more about queer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture! We thought we'd finish the week off with a wrap-up. If you missed any of our posts, check out the links below:

Visit Muru-ba, an online exhibition showcasing the faces and stories of First Nations LGBTQIA+ Elders.

Read Colouring the Rainbow, featuring essays and memoirs from twenty-two queer First Nations people.

Learn about gay Bunurong and Wiradjuri man Uncle Jack Charles, who cofounded Australia's first Indigenous theatre company, and campaigned tirelessly for Indigenous men in incarceration.

Discover the Blak superhero Condoman, who educated First Nations people about safe sex during the AIDS epidemic.

Read about Lookin' Good, one of Australia's first queer First Nations art exhibitions.

Learn about Malcolm Cole, the gay Aboriginal and South Sea Islander who marched in Sydney's Mardi Gras as Captain Cook.

[ambrosial-ichor]

"What poor, unfortunate souls they are."

Ambrose, the mysterious former Rose Quartz Stoneheart, has recently returned to the spotlight.

It seems he's started alchemy, wandering from planet to planet in search of "poor souls" who needs his help.

Rumors spin that he is a mage from a planet so remote, that the IPC had no information about it. None that he would give willingly.

He never refutes nor confirms these claims, however, only responds with a sly smile.

Tags:

#☆flowing ichor = interactions/asks

#☆beyond the veil = ooc/mod stuff

#☆seduction 101 = anything ship related

#☆ambrosial emotions = anything NSFW (MDNI)

#☆deal breaker = triggering topics

#☆ichor across the page = lore

#☆taking a page = reblogs

Character Tags:

#☆little gambler = interactions with/about Aventurine ( @a-gilded-imprisonment )

#☆little learned doctor = interactions with/about Dr. Ratio ( @veritas-ratio-rp )

#☆baby ducklings = interactions with/about The Ducklings ( @chxotic-dxcklings )

#☆little birdy = interactions with/about Kai ( @feathers-and-song )

#☆my gem = interactions with/about Sugilite ( @purple-cornucopia )

#☆my former friends = interactions with/about any of the 10 Stonehearts

More to come~

AU'S/Verses:

#☆son of Circe = Demigod AU (made by @blackcat2907 )

#☆ichor-filled seas = mer/pirate AU (made by @serendipminie @blak-ie and @blackcat2907 )

#☆a true mage = witch AU (made by @serendipminie )

More to come~ rules under cut

Rules:

☆mod is 18, don't be weird please

☆mod is also taken!

☆don't be afraid to interact! Though Ambrose will try to seduce anything that moves, he doesn't bite! Unless you ask, of course.

☆no NSFW asks, suggestive is okay but I don't exactly wanna rp porn- at least not in public view.

☆if you dm mod, please state your intentions, like if you have a scenario in mind you wanna rp with Ambrose! Please don't be weird in dm's though!

☆my main is @the-void-via , so I'll be following/liking from there!

☆have fun and remember Ambrose is an OC!

Happy chatting!

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hi can you check this post

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I envy your institutional access cause I just graduated

It's not fully inaccurate, I think, though I'm skeptical of it being traced back to a difference between West Saxon græg and Anglian greg. There is a tradition of gray/grey being used to denote a quality of light as well as (separately) a color; I'm just not sure that it comes down to which vowel is being used, or to an Old English dialect distinction. Most of the material I can find on this points to a more widespread phenomenon, with discussion of Old French vair as originally meaning something like "iridescent", and at least one author suggesting that the familiar phrase "grey-eyed Athena" is a mistranslation of glaukos and it should actually be something like "bright-eyed Athena". So yeah, grey/gray carries both of those meanings, but so do other words in other languages, and I really don't think our current spelling situation is likely to trace back to that.

I would also note that Bosworth-Toller, the definitive Old English dictionary, not only recognizes no semantic difference between græg and greg, but also that the usage examples it provides include græg being used both for the sea and for the fur of a wolf, which would undermine the claim that græg was exclusively for quality of light, at least during the Old English period.

I am cautiously open to the idea that in Middle English, this distinction was at some point by some authors clarified by using the two aforementioned different dialect words, though I'd need some citation from @helloelicia regarding that because I can't find any indication that this is the case, or examples of that distinction being drawn in a pre-modern text. The example given in the post doesn't work, because both graye and grey in that sentence are being used to describe eyes, which is a very common use case for the "quality of light" meaning. The distinction the author appears to be drawing there is not between graye and grey -- Middle English authors switch between different spellings all the time, it's not unusual to see the same word spelled two different ways in the same passage -- but between graye and blak grey. The adjective is the focus, not the spelling change. And in order to argue otherwise, you'd have to suggest that dogs' eyes are grey-like-the-color, which is not something I have observed. I would read that passage as saying that the eyes of both animals have a gleaming quality -- possibly referring to the tapetum lucidum -- but that those of dogs are being described as darker in some way.

Also, in my experience with Middle English, this kind of spelling distinction seems implausible to me. If Helloelicia does have a citation, though, then problem solved, done and dusted, why am I even here. Hoping they respond and clear it up.

Speaking of, here's my bibliography for this post. It's brief, because I meant to put aside the afternoon to work on my dissertation but I really wanted to do this instead, so I'm compromising by only allowing myself a limited dive into this topic before going back to work.

Kinney, Muriel. "Vair and Related Words: A Study in Semantics." Romanic Review, vol. 10, 1919, pp. 322-63.

Krieg, Martha Lenore Fessler. Semantic Fields Of Color Words in Old French, Old English, and Middle English. 1976. University of Michigan, PhD dissertation.

Moore, Arthur K. "The Eyen Greye of Chaucer's Prioress." Philological Quarterly, vol. 26, 1947, pp. 307-12.

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the Bering Sea (MASTERLINK)

- OF PUNISHMENT

- BY THE FACT

- FOR THIS USAGE

- OF THE PROBLEM

- OF ANE BLAK DOUG.'[718] 'HE

- IN THE AUDIENCE

- OF THE ARAB

- WITH THE DEVIL

- FOR THEIR LORD

- WITH THE INCARNATE GOD

- AS A PRETENDER

- OF POWER FRA SINDRIE MENNIS MEMBERIS

- OF THE FERTILITY

- FROM SCOTLAND

- OF A WITCH

- IN HIS GENERAL ACCOUNT: 'OFT TIMES HE

- IN SCOTLAND

- IN THE EFFICACY

- FOR THE CHAISSING

- IN THE FORM

- WITHIN ME

- OF THE CRUIK

- INTO THE ELEMENT

- OF CHANGING

- OF JAMES PULLWART

- IN LORRAINE 'ES SAGTE

- OF SACRIFICE

- AS IT

- OF BOTH SEXES

- WITH A DISGUISE

- OF JANET BREADHEID

- AS A FACT

- FROM THE CATHOLIC FAITH

- AT ANY TIME

- IF THE WOMEN

- DOWN TUIK ANE GRYTE NUMBER

- WITHIN AUCHT DAYES EFTIR

- OF THIS EVIDENCE

- OF JOAN WILLIFORD P

- AT ANIE TIME DOO ANIE THING

- IN KINROSSSHIRE

- AT THEIR PLEASURE

- FOR THE FRUIT

- OF DETAIL

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▲ SYNBIOTA. AN INDEPENDENT ORIGINAL CHARACTER WRITTEN BY HAXAN ( BLAK AUST. / SOUTH SEA, 26 ) , BASED ON 80'S-90'S SCIENCE FICTION, SURVIVAL HORROR, EXISTENTIAL FICTION & TOKUSATSU MEDIA. MINORS, PERSONALS DNI. BLOG FOLLOWS AGENT JAMES 'ACE' KIRBY, A PEACE KEEPING OFFICER WORKING UNDER RHEIA, AN ESOTERIC INTERPLANETARY COUNCIL.

[pionia-milly]

Watch "'Don't Have Money For...': EU Snubs Ukraine; Refuses To Help Amid Russia's Black Sea Dare | Watch" on YouTube

Omg, I think this start wwiii, wwiii start from blak sea in my dream and every countries be careful and be ready for safe and don't shake USA for peace. I don't like war anymore in this world but world has sociopaths races

[kumsal-thingss]

- "Çünkü güzellikleri görmek güzel oluyor".

-"Çünkü gördüklerinde güzellik oluyor"...

[nausinesaa]

Goddess of the sea

✿ Prints: RedBubble, Society6 ✿

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From now on, when sharing or discussing Blackness in a global context, this blog will use Bla(c)k as a descriptor to be inclusive of Black voices and experiences that are not African or a part of the Afro-Diaspora. However, when talking about specific Bla(c)k experiences, "Blak" or "Blackfella/Blakfella" will be used to talk about Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian, Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal Tasmanians), South Sea Islander, Papuan and Melanesian experiences of Blackness. Meanwhile, for African/Afro-Diasporic experiences of Blackness the terms "Blac/Black" or "African/Afro-Diaspora" will be used to denote African and Afro-Diasporic experiences of Blackness.

Why is this important?

Because Bla(c)k lives and experiences are important to this world. Recognizing the extreme diversity in Blackness as well as its negative universality in a racialized world is important in the deconstruction of antiblackness and the preservation of Bla(c)k Indigenous cultures.

Disclaimer: I only include those in the term Bla(c)k who have a consistent history of being racialized as Black by colonizers, have consistently suffered and experience institutional abuse because of that racialization, embody blackness more often than not and have claimed and reclaimed Blackness as an identity both in politic and embodiment.

(From top to bottom: Pan-African flag, Australian Aboriginal flag, Torres Strait Islander flag, Flag of Papua New Guinea, Flag of West Papua and the West Papua Liberation Movement, South Sea Islander flag, Flag of Vanuatu.)

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Silver gelatin print

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★ Black see bania ★

Source

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i uhhhh haven’t posted this yet vv much hc

but u bet ur asses that haruka and michiru die when crystal tokyo is established ; whether the causes of their death is through war, or through natural accidents, there is no room for the two lovers in the building of the new world. as they’d have to take their solitary positions at the end of the solar system, neither could bare to exist without everyone, and each other. knowing the light of the regular life, and the light of love that they held for each other, it was decided it was too cruel to let them experience seperation; YET, someone still needed to guide the outer rim ????? they couldn’t just not. it was their duty to do so.

so the two of them chose to pass on,  how that comes is a m y s t e r y honestly, but their star seeds begin a cycle again are born on their respective planets. completely solitary. their memories reset and it’s probably hella awkward everytime the outers or inners get together bc here’s 2 ppl who look exactly like haruka and michiru . . . . but aren’t. and are just cold and empty shells of human beings like in their first lives. . . ..

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Three postcards produced by the Australian Queer Archives (formerly Australian Gay and Lesbian Archives, though always fully inclusive in practice), where I volunteer. My write-up below is paraphrased from the text on the reverse.

The first shows Aboriginal South Sea Islander man Malcolm Cole dressed as Captain Cook for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade of 1988. Text on back notes that this was a camp response to Bicentennial celebrations, in which Cole and friends created the first official First Nations float. It was a ‘ship’, pulled the length of the parade by white ‘convict’ men. Malcolm was a dancer, founding member of the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre and a HIV/AIDS activist. More about Cole, including footage of him at Mardi Gras, can be found at the Blak History Month website (which is also a great repository of Aboriginal history in general).

The second postcard shows Lyn Cooper, wearing her ‘I Am a Lesbian’ shirt at the International Women’s Day celebrations in Adelaide, 1974. Cooper was a photographer and member of both the Women’s and Gay Liberation movements in Australia, specifically Adelaide. Her image remains popular and commonly posted in pride images and celebrations of lesbian visibility.

The third postcard shows the bushrangers Andrew Scott (Captain Moonlite- spelling intentional) and James Nesbitt, who met in Pentridge Prison (where, as an aside, Nesbitt repeatedly got in trouble for caring for Scott by bringing him things). They lived together after their release, before commencing their bushranging career across the colonial border in New South Wales. Famously, Nesbitt was killed in a police shoot-out, where the depth of Scott’s emotional response- he was reported to have kissed him as he lay dying in his arms- was remarked on even in the newspapers, without mockery. Scott wore a lock of Nesbitt’s hair as a ring, which he passed on to Nesbitt’s mother prior to his own hanging, writing to her as her ‘other son’. While the courts refused Scott’s request to be buried with Nesbitt, admirers later disinterred Scott and moved his remains to the same location as Nesbitt’s, finally fulfilling the request.

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Queer artists 02/30 - Dylan Mooney

Dylan Mooney is a contemporary artist working in painting, printmaking and digital illustration and a proud Yuwi, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander man. His work explores themes of resilience, strength and pride in both the Indigenous and queer communities.

The three artworks above are from Dylan's Queer, Blak, & Here series of digital portraits of queer Indigenous men. The portraits' subjects are depicted in moments of tenderness or gazing in defiant pride at the viewer.

“The Indigenous and LGBTQI+ communities are resilient peoples that are thriving and growing. Through so much adversity, we have overcome all the obstacles that have been thrown at us, and we will keep empowering each other and grow in strength for a better future for us.”

– Dylan Mooney

You can see the rest of Dylan’s Queer, Blak & Here series here and read more about his work here. 

[Image descriptions: All three images depict a different pair of young, Indigenous men framed against the sky with small rainbow and Aboriginal flags on their clothing. In the first, both face the viewer with one sitting behind the other; words such as “Blak + Queer”, “healing” and “strength” are painted on their arms and legs in white. In the second, the pair are viewed from the side with both facing the viewer and one embracing the other from behind. In the third, the two men face each other seated holding hands with a love heart appearing in the air between them.]