#colonizers are gonna colonize

[martyryo]

Yaoi blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fury161]

heat goes on

[balleater]

even ignoring all the issues with the idea that the gods are colonizers: did we just forget that a part of the plan to release predathos was having the kreviris imperium come to exandria, a land they claim is "promised to them" and refer to the people living on it as "rodents" and all but use the actual word colonize to describe what they are planning to do??? is that not kind of an insane thing to just ignore in this scenario???

[rainy-daze1]

Taneesha doesn’t understand why everyone treats grave robbing like it’s such a big deal.

Like, they all do it, whether they wanna admit it or not. No matter how much Sausage insists that “Oh, I’m sure the spirits don’t mind!” (what??), or Drift says “at this point, it’s archeology, not grave robbing!” (okay, sure, that’s actually fair), or Lizzie casually comments “It’s not stealing? These are literally mine.” (what????), all of them were taking things from a burial site, and well, why shouldn’t they? Not like the dead guys are using this stuff. She’ll take better care of it all, thank-you-very-much.

She doesn’t get why the catacombs are such a big deal in the first place, actually. She knows that they are, from the way that some of her fellow misadventureres react to them. Jimmy gets all huffy about the names on the caskets being wrong (didn’t clock him to be a history nerd, but it’s good for a guy to have hobbies, she supposes), and at one point, Martyn leaves a room in a solemn mood that she doesn’t think was just the result of bad loot. And like, maybe it’s just some kind of… aura of weirdness around the place? Some kind of magic that her lingering relation to the void negates, or something. She doesn’t really want to think of it as a haunting, despite that definitely being the most appropriate word considering the literal actual reanimated corpses wandering the halls. Still. Whatever it is, she doesn’t get it.

And she’s tried! Really, she has! She’s checked every room she could find, lingered in doorways, opened coffins only to find that most are empty. She pauses every time she leaves a room, just briefly, incase there are any ghosts or feelings or things in-between that want to make themselves known to her, but there never are, or at least, none that she can see.

There’s nothing haunting her here. Nothing buried in these walls means anything. It’s just a bunch of dead things. Maybe they’re significant for other people, but it’s finders keepers, and she’s not interested in getting sentimental with ghosts.

So yeah, Taneesha doesn’t get why everyone’s so fussy about graverobbing, but to each their own. They can have their little moments, their pieces of closure, but that bell doesn’t toll for her. Not anymore.

[khattikeri]

you ever think about how japanese villainess stories overwhelmingly tend to follow the trend of "everyone calls her a villainess but ACTUALLY she's a genuinely kind, downtrodden, misunderstood girl whose actions and intentions get maliciously twisted by her enemies!!!" and then ponder the beautiful parallels between that and japanese war crime denialism

[moomeecore]

wait. what the fuck do you mean "princess celestia gifted them". why did she have them. why did she have them twilight sparkle awnser me

[bestanimal]

Round 3 - Mammalia - Peramelemorphia

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

The marsupial order Peramelemorphia contains the living families Peramelidae (“bandicoots”) and Thylacomyidae (“Greater Bilby”).

Peramelemorphs all tend to have a characteristic shape: a round, arch-backed body with a long, delicately tapering snout, upright ears, relatively long, thin legs, and a thin tail. They range from the size of a rat to the size of a rabbit. They are omnivorous, feeding mainly on soil-dwelling invertebrates, as well as seeds, fruit, and fungi. They possess a well-developed sense of smell and eyes that are adapted for nocturnal habits. They are are generally solitary, with females taking care of their young.

Female peramelemorphs have a pouch that opens to the rear, to protect their young while they dig for insects and their larvae. The gestation period of peramelemorphs is the shortest among mammals, at just 12-14 days. As in other marsupials, peramelemorph joeys are born as tiny, relatively undeveloped neonates and must crawl their way from the vagina to the pouch to latch on to a teat, where they will complete the rest of their development. Peramelemorph growth is fast, with bandicoots setting off on their own and becoming sexually mature at just three months of age. Female bilbies reach sexual maturity at five months of age, and male bilbies become sexually mature at eight months. This allows a given female to produce more than one litter per breeding season and gives peramelemorphs an unusually high reproductive rate compared to other marsupials.

Peramelemorphs originated in the Late Oligocene. Both the oldest modern bandicoot (Peramelid) and the oldest bilby (Thylacomyid) are known from Middle Miocene fossil deposits (around 15 million years old).

Propaganda under the cut:

The name bandicoot is based on the animal’s ratlike appearance. The name comes from an English corruption of an Indian word "pandi-kokku" meaning "pig-rat".

The smallest peramelemorph is the Mouse Bandicoot (Microperoryctes murina), which is 15–17.5 cm (5.9-6.9 in) long.

The Golden Bandicoot (Isoodon auratus) is especially adapted for life in hot, semi-arid environments. It has a low body temperature that is constantly changing, making it heterothermic. This allows the internal body temperature to fluctuate in response to extreme environmental temperatures without inhibiting and denaturing necessary proteins. Additionally, its low metabolic rate correlates to less heat being produced by the body, and a low thermal conductance does not allow the animal to capture and store heat well. A highly efficient panting mechanism allows for a low rate of evaporative water loss when cooling the body, conserving precious water.

The Northern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus) is one of relatively few native Australian ground-dwelling mammals that is able to survive in urbanized landscapes, due to their generalized diet and habitat requirements.

The Eastern Barred Bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) (image 1) is the basis for the popular videogame character Crash Bandicoot, and was selected from a number of Tasmanian mammals by creators Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin for its appeal and relative obscurity.

Described in 2014, a fossil species of Miocene bandicoot found at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area was given the genus name Crash. It was given the species names bandicoot. Because paleontologists are just Like That.

Wiped out due to predation from introduced foxes and domestic cats, as well as land-clearing for farming, the Victorian subspecies of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) was declared Extinct in the Wild. Thanks to 30 years of conservation efforts, breeding the bandicoots in human care and establishing fox and cat-safe sanctuaries, the mainlaind population was changed from Extinct in the Wild to Endangered in September 2021, a first for Australian conservation!

The Giant Bandicoot (Peroryctes broadbenti) (image 3) is more than twice the weight of other bandicoots and adult males of the species can attain weights well in excess of 4 kg (8.8 lb).

Unlike bandicoots, Greater Bilbies (Macrotis lagotis) (image 2 and gif) are excellent burrowers and build extensive tunnel systems with their strong forelimbs and well-developed claws. Burrows spiral down, making it hard for predators to get in. A bilby typically makes several burrows within its home range, up to about a dozen; and moves between them, using them for shelter both from predators and the heat of the day, as they are desert-dwelling animals.

Greater Bilbies are generally solitary, however, there are some cases in which they travel in pairs. Pairs usually consist of two females as the sole caregivers of their offspring.

Greater Bilbies do not need to drink water, as they retain all the moisture they need from their food.

Because rabbits are invasive in Australia, introduced by European settlers, bilbies have been popularised as an Australian alternative to the Easter Bunny. Haigh's Chocolates in Adelaide made 950,000 chocolate “Easter Bilbies” between 1993 and 2020, with proceeds donated to the Foundation for Rabbit-Free Australia, which does environmental work to protect the indigenous biodiversity of Australia.

Today, only the Greater Bilby survives and is vulnerable, but the Lesser Bilby (Macrotis leucura) is a recently extinct relative, having possibly survived into the 1960s. Its extinction was much “quieter” than that of the Thylacine, and was likely due to introductions of invasive predators like the domestic cat and red fox. Other “quiet extinctions” include that of the Desert Bandicoot (Perameles eremiana) which appears to have disappeared between about 1943 and 1960, and the Nullarbor Barred Bandicoot (Perameles papillon) which was last collected in 1928.

Today, many peramelemorph species are still threatened and endangered due to habitat fragmentation and introduced predators, as well as from competition with introduced rabbits. Areas designated to conserve vulnerable populations of bilbies and bandicoots have predator exclusion fences built around them, and must be heavily monitored for break-ins. In Currawinya National Park in Queensland, high-salinity flood waters damaged a predator exclusion fence, allowing feral cats to enter the sanctuary, wiping out all the bilbies in the park.

[astralcat]

i feel like i have a civic duty to share canon maraich goon sesh with the world

[gregdotorg]

the heirs of the guy who dug up the Buddha's grave, sifted 1800 gemstone and gold offerings and relics out of his ashes, and hauled his cut back to England are now putting them up for sale at Sotheby's HK, hoping a deep-pocketed Buddhist will help reset the family's karma and coffers.

[elvisqueso]

"...Will you go home?" — "Well, it's not like I have much of a home to go back to. I've never really...belonged anywhere."

Pocahontas (1995)

[maplebunie]

i think the thing which causes most conflict on this website is the difference between a post's audience and creator. 90% of the posts you'll see on here (in my experience) are personal vents/feelings/thoughts, sometimes constructed humorously. but when it comes across your dash with 10000 notes, it stops being a user's personal thoughts and becomes a curated post as if it was made with an audience in mind.

that's why you get a post saying "i love girls" and people adding onto it "don't forget boys and nonbinary people!" the original post was just a random thought, but it was perceived by the second person as "content" that had to include a wide audience

[themyscirah]

Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.

Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now

Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.

Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!

Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.

[devil-taemin]

How are we explaining that in a world where this girl in London has a cousin in Thailand (so Thailand exists) there is another country called Emmaly where everyone speaks Thai

[sneeplerbeepler]

this is how it feels growing up hindu in abrahamic environments

[mueritos]

happy indigenous peoples day ^-^ a year ago i found out my family is half indigenous, so ive made it a personal duty to try and reconnect in order to honor those ancestors and histories. it's not my fault that I may never know my tribal affiliation (we know they lived around Popocatépetl), but it is my responsibility to do my best to honor them. since starting grad school, i've made an effort to talk about my indigenous roots more often, and to be honest about the fact that i do consider myself mixed indigenous. I also talk about this taking into account that I have white privilege, and how this has complicated my relationship to indiginiety.

anyway, i went to an ipd event outside of boston today and was so happy!! i had to leave early for a health emergency (thank u random uti) but it was so fun and i experienced and learned a lot. loved the mexica dance group who danced for Huitzilopochtli (i love you Huitzilopochtli he was pulled for me during a tarot reading and he told me to be fucking strong!!!!), and i especially loved experiencing the seven sacred directions where the entire crowd moved as one. i talked to some lovely indigenous people and they gave me so much guidance and love! it made me feel so happy...I wish I was able to stay longer, but I enjoyed being in a space where I was so welcomed.

if you're detribalized like me or trying your best to reconnect, never be ashamed of the fact that you were forcibly removed from your tribal affiliation. never be ashamed of how you look like either! there were so many "white passing" indigenous folks there embracing and celebrating with those in full regalia, and so many people of many appearances joined in for ceremonial dance. even if you're 10% or 3% indigenous, I still think you deserve to know your ancestor's culture and history! i still think you deserve to honor those parts of you! they wanted us to forget about our indigenous roots for a reason, and i refuse to colonize my mind any longer. opening yourself up to indigineity, even if you don't know your affiliation or "how much" is in you, is far better than never learning a damn thing about indigenous folks.

i hope everyone had a lovely indigenous peoples day ^-^

[cconfusedkat]

Gonna be honest chat, everytime israel claims to make a ceasefire and people willingly believe it, that's how fast the israeli propaganda can work by making you think they're good people by calling a fake ceasefire

They don't care about jerusalem, they don't care about gaza, they don't care about palestine in general; they want to get rid of any arabs possible, which included their (already) areas of lebanon and syria as well as qatar.

israel bombed south lebanon AGAIN after claiming their ceasefire, so really they dont care and only want to prove to the media theyre the ones who deserve pity

Just my two cents since i usually talk more about palestine on my main twitter? But yeah, stop trusting israel and the president when they call a ceasefire- they never cared about us and theyll continue to never care about Palestinians, just as much as any other arab