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https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead
Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.
“I’m sure it terrified people,” said Eber, 91, speaking to the National Post by phone from her Toronto home.
And it’s why, as many as six generations after the events of the Franklin Expedition, Eber was meeting Inuit still raised on stories of the two giant ships that came to the Arctic and discharged columns of death onto the ice.
Inuit nomads had come across streams of men that “didn���t seem to be right.” Maddened by scurvy, botulism or desperation, they were raving in a language the Inuit couldn’t understand. In one case, hunters came across two Franklin Expedition survivors who had been sleeping for days in the hollowed-out corpses of seals.
“They were unrecognizable they were so dirty,” Lena Kingmiatook, a resident of Taloyoak, told Eber.
Mark Tootiak, a stepson of Nicholas Qayutinuaq, related a story to Eber of a group of Inuit who had an early encounter with a small and “hairy” group of Franklin Expedition men evacuating south.
“Later … these Inuit heard that people had seen more white people, a lot more white people, dying,” he said. “They were seen carrying human meat.”
Even Eber’s translator, the late Tommy Anguttitauruq, recounted a goose hunting trip in which he had stumbled upon a Franklin Expedition skeleton still carrying a clay pipe.
By 1850, coves and beaches around King William Island were littered with the disturbing remnants of their advance: Scraps of clothing and camps still littered with their dead occupants. Decades later, researchers would confirm the Inuit accounts of cannibalism when they found bleached human bones with their flesh hacked clean.
“I’ve never in all my life seen any kind of spirit — I’ve heard the sounds they make, but I’ve never seen them with my own eyes,” said the old man who had gone out to investigate the Franklin survivors who had straggled into his camp that day on King William Island.
The figures’ skin was cold but it was not “cold as a fish,” concluded the man. Therefore, he reasoned, they were probably alive.
“They were beings but not Inuit,” he said, according to the account by shaman Nicholas Qayutinuaq.
The figures were too weak to be dangerous, so Inuit women tried to comfort the strangers by inviting them into their igloo.
But close contact only increased their alienness: The men were timid, untalkative and — despite their obvious starvation — they refused to eat.
The men spit out pieces of cooked seal offered to them. They rejected offers of soup. They grabbed jealous hold of their belongings when the Inuit offered to trade.
When the Inuit men returned to the camp from their hunt, they constructed an igloo for the strangers, built them a fire and even outfitted the shelter with three whole seals.
Then, after the white men had gone to sleep, the Inuit quickly packed up their belongings and fled by moonlight.
Whether the pale-skinned visitors were qallunaat or “Indians” — the group determined that staying too long around these “strange people” with iron knives could get them all killed.
“That night they got all their belongings together and took off towards the southwest,” Qayutinuaq told Dorothy Eber.
But the true horror of the encounter wouldn’t be revealed until several months later.
The Inuit had left in such a hurry that they had abandoned several belongings. When a small party went back to the camp to retrieve them, they found an igloo filled with corpses.
The seals were untouched. Instead, the men had eaten each other.
#being so English you die of racism#because youd rather eat each other than a seal#or try to signal to the friendly locals that you need help#many such cases#UNIRONICALLY#the terror#the franklin expedition#dorothy eber#then they infected all these people with European disease of course#the national post is a chud rag so this is an unexpectedly good article for them
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okay guys but in all seriousness the trump attempted assassination is going to rally the right like crazy. voter turnout will be going up. it is more crucial than ever that you SHOW UP AND VOTE IN THIS YEARS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
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people are saying do it scared, but you also gotta do it alone. you'll miss out on so much you want to do if you wait til someone will do it with you. do it scared and do it alone.
#missed out on a whole year I could have skated at my local roller rink because I didn't want to go alone#and now it's closed and I won't ever get that year back. sometimes you gotta do it alone if you want to do something
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the things that are reported matters. the language used matters. what is left out of the story matters.
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"She's so beautiful! I bet she goes to the library."
- my 7 year old daughter
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#girlhood#girlblogging#girlblogger#tumblr girls#old tumblr#fleuvien#this is what makes us girls#girlblog#it girl#just girly things#girl interrupted#lana del rey#black swan#hyper feminine#locally hated#ldr#lana del ray aka lizzy grant#lanadelrey#ultraviolence#nfr#bambi doe#doll#pinterest#just girly thoughts#just girly wishes#im just a girl#cinnamon girl#coquette#cool girl#tumblr girlies
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ok so for those of you who don’t know, there’s this twitter account of a japanese local hero mascot named dentman who went viral recently due to this tweet
but yeah he saw the tweet. and his response went viral as well (which is how i found his account)
and he just has like. hourly posts reminding you to brush your teeth
oh and his rival? his name is mr. mutans. whenever dentman posts he makes a post of his own, ofc
but THAT’S NOT ALL. literally while making this post i found a THIRD ACCOUNT that’s all about taking your meds
safe to say i’m losing my mind
anyway the point of all this was that people are ALREADY beginning to draw them ship art 😭
and the reactions are everything
I CANT ADD ANY MORE IMAGES BUT TRUST ME THIS IS SO FUNNY
toxic one-sided dentman yaoi wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but it DEFINITELY IS NOW!
#what the fluoride#toxic doomed yaoi#this is so funny#dentman#mr. mutans#mr.mutans#mutans#ohga man#ohga#twitter#tokusatsu#japanese mascots#local heroes#🍬#🦷#🍬🦷#long post#50k#60k#70k
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how to explain to non-americans that the better call saul ads aren’t exaggerated for comedic effect they are super normie
#better call saul#[name rhyme] did someone hurt you? I’ll kill them. I’ll make them suffer. i’ll burn the world down until we are the last 2 in it#local lawyer tag
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#girl problems#just girly things#just girl stuff#girlblog#girl blogger#coquette#girlblogging#girl interrupted#coquette girl#girlblogger#girlhood#lana del rey#cinnamon girl#daddy issues#girl hysteria#hell is a teenage girl#locally hated#pretty when you cry#this is what makes us girls#manic pixie dream girl#girlcore#dream girl#devine feminine#female rage#feminine urge#ultraviolence#female hysteria#girly blog#girl rotting#im just a girl
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#goblincore#goblin vibes#cryptidcore#goblin culture#goblin things#goblin community#eldritchcore#goblin brain#goblin behaviour#goblin energy#goblin posting#local cryptid#will o the wisp
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Thinking purely in the wavelike framework is incomplete, because it misses the particlelike aspects demonstrated by measurements that find localized particles that can be, for example, recorded by a single dot on a screen.
"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene
#book quote#the fabric of the cosmos#brian greene#nonfiction#wave#particle#incomplete#measurement#localized
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#girlblog#girlblogging#coquette#female hysteria#female manipulator#lana del ray#coquette aesthetic#female rage#femcel#girl interrupted#lana del ray moodboard#lana del ray aesthetic#locally hated#lana unreleased#lizzy grant aka lana del rey#lana del ray aka lizzy grant#lizzy grant#just girly post#manic pixie dream girl#lux lisbon#lana del rey#coquette dollete#coquette asthetic#girl boss#girl blogger#ultra violence#the virgin suicides#female manipulators#waifspo#waif
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WAKE UP BITCHES THEY FOUND NEW EURIPIDES FRAGMENTS
98 LINES, 80% COMPLETELY NEW MATERIAL
#Euripides#greek tragedy#classical studies#ancient greek#tagamemnon#archaeology#classics stuff#local queer classicist posts
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meanwhile notes put up by the guy hired by my dad to help with foreign guests at his little ryokan in rural japan (“my english is not perfect,” said the guy earnestly. “but i think i can always get the meaning across.” “great,” said my dad. “that’s all that matters.”):
#i saw that tweet and immediately had to message him: remember toilet hole????#this was about ten years ago but the most important thing you should know is:#he now does interpretation/translation for the local government#twitter#japan
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the barbenheimer experience i had was so funny i saw oppenheimer first and in a quiet scene we could literally hear ken singing in the theater next to us and then during barbie it when was quiet we could hear a fucking explosion coming from the oppenheimer screening
#literally everyone in the theater started laughing both times#barbenheimer#oppenheimer#barbie#ken#greta gerwig#christopher nolan#cillian murphy#margot robbie#rhis was the only time i was glad my local theater is a shithole#normally it’s so annoying hearing the show next to you#but this time it was hilarious
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