#native american stereotypes

[aroaceleovaldez]

mildly entertaining pjo fandom curse (mostly in that you can make games out of it):

everybody draws Piper showing skin. half the time Shel as well. literally almost EVERYBODY. go look at Piper fanart. is she wearing a crop top? i bet she is. or if she's wearing a dress hers is gonna be one of the most revealing. bonus points if they gave her a belly button piercing. and it's almost always only Piper and/or Shel. i thought we had a whole discussion about sexualizing young indigenous girls back in like 2021 but i guess nobody processed that part cause pjo fandom acts like if they dont have Piper show her stomach or have her shirt ride up they'll die.

the curse is that you will never unsee this. have fun with that.

[1emon-ice]

Mikusona Monday!! I tried to do a native themed one, most of my references based off of makah outfits and my own experience seeing and wearing native dance outfits!

[shoezuki]

sometimes i am forcibly confronted with the white colonial perspective of indigenous peoples modernly and it always shocks the shit out of me. like just how blatant and unapolegetically indigenous ppls r seen as a thing of the past, were wiped out or just. dont think of us at all.

i been reading a reddit exchange on a post critiquing the 'go back to your own country' shit and the comments mentioning indigenous peoples being the true natives of north america are consistently met with people saying 'but we killed 99% of them' or some shit like 'almost all americans have never even met a native'. like fuck are we unicorns or something?

[genericruleroftheflies]

It kinda makes me sad that some people will (maybe hypothetically) see Micky Dolenz wore a “Native American style” headdress to Monterey Pop Festival and think he was participating in cultural appropriation.

Because, he truly believes/d he is of Native American descent. His headdress was meant to be appreciation to his heritage. AND when asked by a tribe in need to donate money to help members who had been wrongly imprisoned… he put his money where his mouth was.

So, like sure it might have been some (mostly) American white ignorance, but at the very least he wasn’t doing it all for show. He really care about a culture he thought was part of his own.

And he also (kind of, maybe unrelated but similar) went through a journey of having to definitively decide to NOT straighten his hair anymore. Which… might not sound huge but in the 60s that was A CHOICE. Especially when as a CHILD like a little boy he was one tv where they dyed his hair blonde so he seemed like a more picturesque, ideal American boy.

And, not to make it a side note, but one of the songs he wrote specifically mentions and calls to questions why Native Americans (Indians) are living in the worst land we have to offer in America.

All that to say, there’s room for criticism AND I think he was genuine in his attempt to care and bring attention to issues facing Native American people in the 1960s. And when challenged head on to support them, he did.

[disabled-battlekukku]

remember when archie sonic made the echidnas british colonizers and not only were n*zi echidnas introduced but the guys they were actively being racist against (the dingoes) were portrayed as pissy bad guys, "appropriated" the echidna's technology (despite the echidnas themselves appropriated their land) because they "couldn't create technology of their own" and also more n*zi caricatures too

and then the spirit of one of their colonizers banished them to desert superhell

[acemarkey]

hey so has anyone else noticed how the fandom has shrunk boothill down to "redneck who hates the ipc." or is that just me

[marshgremlin]

i always find it funny when ppl describe sasappis as the voice of reason. i mean, that man has never said anything reasonable in his life. he is purposefully as unreasonable as possible. just for fun.

[kingofdorkville]

rio bravo is one of the the most diverse movies dino's been in but statistically speaking there should be a black person somewhere. texas was 40% black in the 1880s.

[dorothydalmati1]

Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies 1941 Episode 36: Saddle Silly

Written by Rich Hogan

Directed by Chuck Jones

Animated by Phil DeLara

Voice characterizations by Mel Blanc

DISCLAIMER: Contains stereotypical depictions of Native Americans.

[aliveria]

i had a dream that i opened a book and with the text there were printed photos, which played like videos with each scene when you looked at them. the videos were of a stage play about julius caesar, and it was called 'Great Braves.' one of the actors was ray stevenson (looking as he did when he played that soldier in BBC's Rome) and his line that i remember was an exuberant "We will be as great braves," in reference to some battle the men were going to embark on

I have literally no idea where this came from but it was a pretty rousing performance. quite Shakespearean

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

Really funny how More Fun Comics #73 introduced two of DC's most popular superheroes, both of whom had wildly different Golden Age origins than any other origin since, and yet both origins are on completely different axis of 'would be cool if they were an Elseworld story someday'.

To whit, Aquaman's Golden Age origin sees his father as an undersea explorer who discovers the ruin of Atlantis, and uses their advanced technology to grant his infant son the ability to breathe underwater and communicate with sea-life. I'd be really interested in a modern take on this idea - I did see a fanart a few years back that reimagined Golden Age Aquaman as a tech hero, old-school divers suit and all, and hell it would even be cool to have an Aquaman story not focused on Atlantis, but instead on Aquaman as Protector of the Seas.

On the other hand, Golden Age Oliver Queen is a white guy who has... ahem, ""gathered"" a huge collection of Native American* artifacts and cultural relics, which he keeps for himself and used to train himself in archery and the like, before all of the artifacts are destroyed when criminals burn his house down. Oliver seeks out a secret, long-lost Native American* city and runs into Roy Harper when his plane crashes. Roy has been on the island the city is buried under for years, with his only companion being Quoag, his Native American* ""manservant"" who talks like every racist Asian caricature from the Golden Age because I guess the writers were too used to writing WWII propaganda to be creative in their racism. Anyway, thieves show up, Quoag dies and is immediately forgotten, they force in some really painful references to Green Arrow and Speedy (like, if you thought the reasoning for Speedy's name in Arrow being 'Oliver's sister does drugs' was painfully forced...) and eventually Oliver and Roy find the Native American* city, which is made out of solid gold because... reasons. Rather than tell anyone about it, Oliver and Roy decide to dismantle the city, sell it brick by brick, and use the money to become wealthy, and also fund their superhero exploits because apparently they decided that was a good idea.

If DC ever brings back Golden Age Oliver Queen under any circumstances and the story doesn't end with Modern Ollie and Roy teaming up to shank him and redistribute his wealth, I'm going to kill someone.

*I say 'Native American' knowing that it's incredibly broad, but the comic doesn't offer a specific group. It also... doesn't call them Native Americans, which I'm pretty sure you can guess.

[lord-squiggletits]

Been reading a book about the development of the English language that includes chapters related to English languages/dialects and their impact with class. Thinking about how much people freaked out and made it a meme/joke that Prime Wars Overlord had a US Southern/"cowboy" accent. About 🤏 this close to deciding to write all of my stories going forward with all characters speaking Texas-accented English as the default instead of Standard English going forward bc I'm annoyed about my accent family being treated like a joke and/or used as a sign that horrible things deserve to happen to them

[roguemonsterfucker]

a horse game appropriating and misusing Native American culture for The Aesthetic? It's more likely than you think.

[majorshatterandhare]

Hey, look at me! I did it. I listened to a new-me-album. I don’t do that very often.

It took me 2.5 years to listen through all the mechs albums and feel like I have spent a good amount of time with each, feel content with them. Reach for them all equally as much (except maybe TtbT2, which is my favorite).

It has taken me 8 months to decide to listen to a second Jessica Law album. Not because I didn’t like Languid Little Lies, but because I absolutely adore it!

I’m just so happy and content to listen to the same stuff all the time that I don’t ever feel the desire to seek out new stuff. That goes for music, podcasts, tv, movies.

I feel a bit bad for not having more knowledge on the other projects mechs members have done and continue to do. I would like to love everyone’s work, it’s just gonna take me years to get through everything sufficiently. But also that means I don’t have to fucking worry if I do come to a point that I’m desperate for something new because there will be something to reach for.

And like, I didn’t like HNOC for quite a while. I continued to listen to it on occasion because I liked everything else I knew by them; didn’t understand why I didn’t have any enjoyment from it. I think it was mainly because I had almost zero knowledge of Arthurian legend. Had to read Gawain and the Green Knight in high school and listened to a retelling of the story where Merlin gets trapped in a cave forever by a lady on Myths and Legends (podcast); didn’t really care at all. Wanted to care (about Arthurian Legend) because I knew that a lot of Celtic myth got fucked up and put in there. So everytime I listened I’d end up reading more about Arthurian legend because I couldn’t remember who was who until finally I understood it well enough that I could actually enjoy everything smart about it and the music itself and trans Mordred and more and more. I didn’t have that issue with OUaTiS or UDaD or TBI because I had knowledge of European fairytales and Greek myth and enough about Norse myth already. Same reason I usually skip Drop Dead, the first song on my favorite mechs album. I just don’t care about it at all, in an ambivalent way. It doesn’t do anything for me. But I also have no experience with Crypt of the Necrodancer. But I listen to it on occasion because there’s nothing wrong with it and maybe this time will be the time it clicks.

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Made the mistake of going outside because I forgot there were 25,000 Americans in Dublin today for American college football matches happening in the Aviva… I wish for death… I’m about to run home and quarantine myself there til they leave.

[dorothydalmati1]

Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies 1941 Episode 19: Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt

Written by Michael Maltese

Directed by Friz Freleng

Animated by Gil Turner

Voice characterizations by Mel Blanc

DISCLAIMER: Contains some Native-American stereotyping.