#fake native

[anon7362847598]

"Struggling to pay rent" while you buy arbies and beg for money for cable, now your ass is headed to another state while rent was due and suddenly its an emergency to pay it??? Why the fuck are you even signed up to cable when you can't pay rent????? Where did you get the money for arbies after you begged everyone for 3000 dollars a few days ago??? Congrats to everyone who probably just payed these scam artists to take a vacation. Don't waste your money on these two, I tried to be supportive but this is just disgusting. Using anon because I don't give a fuck. Reported to paypal for good measure!!!

[bucephaly]

It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.

People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.

And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.

If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.

[lilyvalerieorchard]

Proof that Lily Orchard called Rebecca Sugar a Fascist/Nazi apologist while lying about her heritage.

Given that she has befriended her anti-trans, Trump-supporting brother, befriended a Neo-Nazi to both get back at her critics and Rebecca Sugar, it becomes obvious:

Lily Orchard is a far-right, brownfacing, antisemitic bigot cosplaying as a "woke progressive of color" just so she can infiltrate leftist spaces, spread her hateful rhetoric and take advantage of vulnerable people.

In other words: Lily Orchard is no different then a TERF.

Congratulations, Lily. You are a trans Auntie Ruckus, Blaire White 2.0.

[snekdood]

hey if ur in the midwest or more specifically missouri here’s some websites i’ve found helpful for finding native seeds and live plants (they’re not all in missouri or the midwest specifically but have some seeds from around here too bc truly human made borders are fake and plants go wherever they want so):

wildseedproject.net

mowildflowers (this websites cool bc they’ll deliver live plants to you if you live nearby enough and they also go to different places around missouri all year to sell plants at festivals or events or whatnot)

nativewildflowers.net

swallowtailgardenseeds.com

strictlymedicinalseeds.com

toadshade.com

treeseeds.com

ouriquesfarm.com

putnamhillnursury.com

sugarcreekgardens.com

prairiemoon.com

seedvilleusa.com (also on etsy)

mybutterflylady on etsy

everwilde.com

and if u ever need help or info or whatever about plants or even find a place to exchange plants and buy some on a forum check out dave’s garden

if anyone knows any other websites and wants to add them on i’d totally appreciate that c: !

(i will update this with more websites too if i come across any)

[lastdivantruther]

don't trust her dazai, she's gonna blackmail you to buy every flavor of ice creams and bully you anytime chuuya is around.

i don't trust my writing to be readable so dialogs under the cut:

Kyouka: Dazai-san, is it true that you're going to die of heartbreak if you have to hide your undying love for big brother any longer?

Dazai, earlier that day: If poor Chuuya hides his undying love for me any longer, I'm afraid he'll die of heartbreak!

Dazai, now: 'Not exactly in those words...'

Kyouka: I don't want you to die. So I decided to help you by acting as your illegitimate child. With this plan big brother will take pity on us and agree to go out with you.

Atsushi, murmuring to himself: Could it work? I mean, I wouldn't fall for it myself ofc, but Chuuya-san seems like a kind person... Would I fall for it?? If Aku had an....

Tsushi and Dazai: 'Isn't that the plot of the TV show from last night?'

Dazai: Kyouka-chan, that's a PERFECT idea!! 🌸

Kunikida, from his desk: No it's fucking not!

[cruesuffix]

this ginger bitch~~

here a bunch of photos of pre motley mick i have in my arsenal. my favourite pilgrim looking guitarist.

[felucians]

Imposter Syndrome as a native person is very real, especially if you're reconnecting or white-presenting.

Whenever pretendians with large platforms built on their "heritage" are outed as liars, it can affect actual natives mental health - which is why pretendians are such a huge issue.

To all natives with Imposter Syndrome, it's hard but you know your heritage and who you are - don't let liars take that away from you, especially when they want to be you.

[seabeck]

A random squirrel fact for you. The squirrels are actually doing what they were brought here for. It's actually quite sad. You see it used to be that back in the 1700s squirrels enjoyed the status dogs and cats have today. They were pets. All these squirrels are descendents of the largest wave of abandoned pets. On the west coast, "conservation" laws were actually intended to eradicate them as the public abandoned their pets and fondness for their squirrels.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pet-squirrel-craze

Interesting but we definitely have native squirrels, it's just those damn eastern gray squirrels that aren't native

[tomwambsgans]

i'm not saying i'm married to this hc but it's just occurred to me as pretty plausible that "mary" is not, in fact, a real woman that tom has dated and who broke his heart, but rather a story that tom made up so as to appear to have had past experience with women.

i wouldn't even say that this notion necessarily means he has no experience - i can absolutely imagine tom just deeply exaggerating and embellishing on some high school or even middle/elementary school girlfriend, making it sound like it lasted much longer than it did, that it was much more serious than it was, and that the heartbreak from its end was a reasonable excuse to have not been in any real relationships in the meantime. like, even just the name mary... that's so typical it's almost suspicious, isn't it?

[machinafulmen]

Can you explain the entropy AU?

Megaman X: Entropy is a mockup fangame where X and Axl need to rescue Zero from the maverick group Time's Arrow!

The members of Time's Arrow act as employees and/or bodyguards of their leader, Welcome Back, who is a sculptor that has one all-time favorite medium- reploids. X and Axl work together to defeat the mavericks and make their way to the museum where Zero is being held captive. During the final boss fight, Welcome Back (who's based on a parasitic horsehair worm) takes control of Zero's body and uses him as a weapon to fight the two.

Other than that, a lot of reploids are alive in this au for my own convenience with redesigns to match. Sigma is active again in his current form, along with a rebuilt Vile MK-VI and Velguarder! He actually considers Vel as an equal, with Vile ranking beneath the two of them. The rest of the games are unrelated, and Entropy was meant to be a spinoff to scratch my itch for Command Mission content.

Now I never intended to do anything with these, I even rewrote the "fangame" to be a mystery visual novel/point-and-click set in a masquerade party. The three were meant to investigate alleged maverick activity at the party in disguise, Sly Cooper style.

OTHERWISE. If I say "Entropy", I just mean my own redesigns and continuity. "Reprise" is my classic series redesign AU, and "Requiem" is my MMZ redesign AU.

I DO have more details on my toyhouse page if you were intrigued. I might consider doing more OC stuff in the future, I miss these guys!

[renesassing]

happy pride to my dykes, my faggots, my trannies, my queers. my siblings-in-arms. my extended family. whether you're out or not or only partially. i love you all so goddamn much. i hope life will be kinder to us all.

[agodth]

Nah I just found out one of my mutuals is fake af. Like... you follow me and act like THIS about me behind my back? Why follow me then?

[quasi-normalcy]

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[onethousandrbirds]

my favorite low-key piss on the poor internet discourse moment was the time lindsay ellis made a video saying, "twilight (and by extension stephanie meyer) did not deserve the hatred and mockery it received in the mainstream media and we should apologize to it and her for that" and several motherfuckers went, "actually it did deserve that hate b/c the book (and by extension stephanie meyer) was racist as hell" which would be true if the mainstream hatred the book had been about the racism and not the fact that a book for young women featured vampires that sparkled

[aangarchy]

My current honest thoughts and opinions on the live action

I'm gonna be real honest with you people: i'm probably going to watch it the second it drops. I've been a massive atla fan since i was 6, i went to see shyamalan's version in theaters at age 11 (yes i was disappointed) and i've read every comic. I can't bring myself to just not watch it. Yes some the costumes look cheap, yes Zuko's scar looks goofy, yes Ian Ousley's allegations give the entire situation a very dark undertone. And yet i'm gonna watch.

Currently with what i'm seeing though, they are already doing the show more justice than m. night shyamalan ever did. The casting is more ethnically accurate (except for ian), the costumes look closer to the original cartoon (i've been told they're also ethnically more accurate than shyamalan's, i am white so i'm not going to comment on whether or not that's the case) the characters look more like themselves and I'm including Azula in that one even though i've seen comments say she doesn't look "menacing enough", whatever the fuck that means (she's 14 you weirdos). I'm okay with them aging up Zuko and Sokka bc shyamalan did that too.

Do I think this live action will be the best thing ever? No. Since seeing the cast i've been cautiously optimistic, that definitely dwindled after those first promo pictures but i'm still feeling more positive than negative about it. But i don't have high expectations. If anything i just hope it'll be entertaining. The one thing i'm incredibly worried about is the bending and use of cgi. I'm hoping for the use of lots of practical sets, but it's Netflix. I'm sure it'll be more greenscreen than anything.

The trailer will show us how good or bad the cgi looks. If it's truly horrible, i'll still watch the show just to shit on it. If it's half decent, hey good for them. Either way i'll probably be live blogging my reactions to it on my main @sunflower-dori and posting my opinions on here, so even if you decide not to watch the show you can stay up to date through here

[bucephaly]

heyy I love your blog and love that you're reconnecting. I wasn't gonna say anything, but as the posts keep coming, I have to point out that despite everything, rolls and records just aren't the end all be all for indigenous ancestry. while I understand why folks (espeeeecially cherokees) would be extra protective of their identity, tribal enrollment, etc... this particular requirement can easily erase afro-indigenous histories.

my grandparents pointed out which relatives on our family tree were native, likely mixed. (I'll spare you the details, lol. but I was suspect for a long time, and your posts had me looking much harder!) while I can't find a direct ancestor in the Dawes Rolls, I'm seeing folks who seem to be relatives. there's substantial overlap on a rather uncommon surname linked to the slavers who owned and later held my family in indentured servitude (sharecropping) for 5+ generations in eastern Tennessee. The highest density of this surname (outside of Barbados!) is found in Oklahoma today, where I also have relatives.

records of my kin are generally spotty (a good # just with first names) and nonexistent before around 1850 because they were considered property until 1865, and so not recorded in the census.

what *is* recorded in the first records is that all of my relatives were illiterate up until 3 generations ago. this rules out the ability to apply remotely. and while there was an option for Dawes applications to be taken in person / recorded orally, the one drop rule (plus the promise of land allotment to those accepted) was something that I can't imagine visibly black and indigenous people were able to get past. recognizing afro-indigenous folks would have meant an upheaval in law, and in the colonial hierarchy of who has the right to what.

I don't live anywhere near the OG lands and my family did little more than attend a few powwows growing up... but I do read up on Cherokee culture and language, and don't feel any need to be enrolled or given access to Cherokee resources, etc... I'm content to appreciate from afar & online, and uplift native stories & issues when I can until a natural connection arises. I don't have a lot of time to do so, but I'm continuing the search for proof outside of my grandparents' physical features and stories.

I also have relatives who were Freedmen, and though I want solidarity for all people, cannot ignore the anti-black sentiments Cherokee bureaucracy and unfortunately a looott of modern native culture has displayed in barring and diminishing afro-indigenous membership and ancestry.

I am at peace with the fact that I may never find a paper trail, which though hard-won, is also a privilege largely afforded to folks with white/native heritage, and I think that should be acknowledged.

just wanted to offer a different perspective on this very white website, lmao

wado. & wish u all the best

Yea, very true! There's definitely a lot of anti-black racism and of course slavery in Cherokee history [and still some today] and this stuff really does need to be said. Iirc, many people recorded as freedmen were likely mixed afro-indigenous but were just recorded as freedmen. I'm not as experienced with freedmen and afro-indigenous history admittedly, and that's definitely a glaring gap that I need to work on filling.