#or an anthropologist

[falling-star-cygnus]

idk how to explain to my social circle that i like people the same way a scientist likes rats

i wanna stick em in a room and light the outside on fire

[curiositypolling]

*this is just about having medical needs that would have meant death without modern medicine, so no ‘I’d probably die from not being able to distinguish the blur as a lion’ we have a healthy caveman squad who cares for each other, we just also dont have, yknow, penicilin. etcetera.

pls reblog for sample size etc

follow for more occasional useless polls :)

[piiinch]

something i appreciate so much that wheel of time does better than any other fantasy show is showcasing all the different cultures that are present in the world and how that forms a character’s perspective and informs how they interact with characters from a different culture from their own.

in just the first 3 episodes of s3: its perrin and alanna sharing the different ways they grieve their dead and even liandrin's funeral custom (which helps propel the plot forward too!), how loial introduces himself in an ogier fashion and how bain and chiad do so in an aiel fashion to marin al'vere and not to mention just how the aiel culture just Clashes with everyone that's not aiel themself, its siuan continually using fishing analogies from her tairen unbringing, and how Different and Vibrant tar valon is from tanchico is from the aiel waste/three-fold land. and there's so much more i didn't catch

the show doesn't let you forget for a second that this fantasy world is vast with its own nations and people and cultures and that these characters are from different places of differing upbringings and it makes the world feel so alive.

it seeps in everywhere and makes the show so textured in a way i haven't seen in a long time. and don't even get me started on the wardrobes!

[communistkenobi]

stealing this screenshot from a post correcting people about what liminal spaces are, because I want to say something kind of unrelated and don’t want to bother the op - it’s funny this wiki article identifies airports as one of these non-places, and one of the “criteria” for a non-place is somewhere where you are able to remain anonymous, because (at least in north america, I can’t speak globally), one of the primary terrors of airports is its ability to render you a known quantity at basically any time, to bring you into public attention specifically by cops and security people identifying who you are. Airport security, bag inspections, police, surveillance cameras, etc do this security theatre routine at airports in a way that is more intense than other public spaces. Like I just don’t think this state of remaining anonymous in the airport applies to muslims or other religious and racial minorities the state deems to be a “high risk population” vis a vis border security, I think if you want to make the argument that these places allow anonymity, a fundamental part of this analysis has to include the fact that this anonymity is premised on visiting state violence, surveillance, and coercion on largely non-white and religious minorities, particularly and especially muslims, to “protect” and secure this space of (largely white) public anonymity 

[bismuth-soup]

Average vintage story enjoyer (I will starve to death in winter)

[yesloulou]

Drive the Dream with Daniel Ricciardo | West Australian 🇦🇺

[mutualcombat]

as humble thanks for everyone putting up with me while i remake my blog, here's a WIP of this astarion drawing (with his tits back by popular demand) that i've been chipping away at

[erinwantstowrite]

i think it's very clear with the everything about me that growing up, i loved temperance brennan, and i still do to this day

[everytimewetouch-dot-mp3]

svsss omegaverse secondary sexes because i have brain worms

this was actually kind of hard. on one hand, pidw is a stallion novel written mostly as fan-service, so of course there’s gonna be lots of papapa between the mega-ultra-super-alpha and all his pretty omega flowers. airplane would’ve written it to be the horny drivel that is, in some sense, the beloved heart of omegaverse.

on the other hand, eye personally think omegaverse can be so much more interesting than ‘alpha=masculine powerful manly man, omega=feminine weak submissive and breedable.’ gentle alphas, delicate alphas, powerful feminine regardless of gender. aggressive omegas, assertive omegas, direct and violent and capable omegas regardless of gender. that’s good fuckin soup, and i feel like that probably existed in airplane’s original drafts before he started pumping out the fanservice.

ANYWAYS, this is the list:

shen yuan: omega, much to his chagrin

luo binghe: alpha (obviously)

ning yingying: omega

ming fan: beta

shen qingqiu: alpha (half-bitched, but his condition is managed and no one but mqf knows)

yue qingyuan: alpha (but he’s got a whole thing going on on too)

mu qingfang: beta

qi qingqi: beta

liu qingge: beta (which is the shock of shocks to shen yuan when he finds out)

liu mingyan: alpha

shang qinghua: beta

mobei-jun: alpha

sha hualing: beta

tianlang-jun: alpha

zhuzhi-lang: omega

su xiyan: beta

old washerwoman: beta

old palace master: beta (but he hides it with fake pheromones, medicines, qi manipulation, and magical artifacts)

little palace mistress: omega

gongyi xiao: alpha

qiu jianluo: alpha

qiu haitang: omega

almost all of bingge’s harem: omegas

[welcome-to-green-hills]

Guys, how am I supposed to archaeology when I know that this guy exists?!😭❤️

[fertbutt]

playing fallout new vegas and having to listen to caesar complaining about travelling and getting to study the languages of various communities living in the wasteland and calling it a waste of time while irl the humanities are constantly disregarded and getting a higher education and opportunities to study anthropology hands-on costs tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and requires so many connections and he was just getting that FOR FREE from the followers but that wasnt cool enough for him so he decided to use the education he was given to start his little fascist larper group and enslave people

[demonboyhalo]

hat from @drv3sprite-edits!

what kind of execution do yall think talentswap Kokichi would have? (idk who will be a killer in my fic yet, so I decided to brainstorm execution idea for all of them lol)

[yourdailyqueer]

Stella Nyanzi

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 16 June 1974

Ethnicity: Ugandan

Occupation: Activist, poet, writer, medical anthropologist, scholar

Note: One of the first scholars to publish research on African homosexuality. International press has called her "one of Africa's most prominent gender rights activists," "a leading scholar in the emerging field of African queer studies," and a leader in the fight against "repressive anti-queer laws" and for "freedom of speech."

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Religion and culture and their intersections always face the same savior attitudes, where outsiders who have no experience with those communities assume that the people in them are dumb savages who need to be saved from their own ignorance. The idea that we could not only be aware of issues in our communities but actually talking about them and trying to solve them just does not occur to people who want to play the role of the intelligent and rational heroes.

[possessable]

rest in pieace the 12th expedition you should've gotten to play minecraft together

[tastesoftamriel]

I'm already semi-overwhelmed by my research outline (only 7k words to go) and my brain is like...

'Towards a Decolonisation of Fantasy: Deconstructing Cultural Essentialism in The Elder Scrolls'

...I am NOT writing that. Or am I...I mean I am literally at my laptop. ~Tal