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[andallshallbewell]

[dozydawn]

[htmlrulzdood]

HAS ANYBODY ELSE READ THIS FUCKINGN BOOK

[chaotic-history]

Happy 372nd anniversary to the first anti-slavery laws in the not-yet-US!

[motherwytch]

Red Wolf

The Fam and I visited the Roger Williams Park Zoo today and I got some lovely shots of my most favorite animal that they have.

This beautiful girl is Saluda, and she is one-half of the mating pair that resides at RWZ.

The red wolf is the most endangered wolf species on the planet. There is only an estimated 20 left living on protected land in the wild, and approximately 240 in captivity within breeding programs like the one in place at RWZ.

I've always felt especially connected to Wolves, and it saddens me to know that they are in danger of dying out.

RWZ is my family's favorite zoo, and we purchase a membership every year, something I intend to continue doing for the foreseeable future so I can see all of Saluda's future puppies ❤️

[franziskas-book-club]

I’m Franziska, and I really like to read. Consider following me/liking/rebloging this post if you also like books (I will probably follow you back).

I will mostly be posting quotes from whatever I’m reading, but I may also rant about literature from time to time.

Some of my favorite works are:

Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey)

Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Edward Abbey)

Dune (Frank Herbert)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (JRR Tolkien)

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Roger Williams)

Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)

Current Reads: Dune Messiah (Frank Herbert)

Goodreads

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #6: 1955

The sound of a decade does not change the minute the ball drops on New Year's Eve. With the benefit of hindsight, it's easier to form these cultural shifts into a narrative, even when said shifts aren't always obvious. 1955 offers us the music we've grown accustomed to over the course of this decade: traditional pop, vocal quartets, jazz standards. However, this year also gives me an opportunity to highlight some different genres that will come to shape the decade in the years to come.

The post-war 1950s saw a boom in popularity when it came to music from South and Central America. We saw this before with the inclusion of other Spanish language songs reaching the Top 30, but artists like Pérez Prado and later Ritchie Valens helped to popularize Latin music in the States. Pérez Prado is, of course, known for popularizing mambo, a Cuban genre of dance music, by incorporating big band influence. The Prado song featured on this poll is not mambo, but rather one of its descendants, cha-cha.

In 1955 year-end chart, we're seeing the first traces of a genre of music that will help define the decade's sound: rock and roll. With the inclusion of Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock, we're seeing the first rock and roll song to top the Billboard charts. Obviously, rock and roll has existed long before Bill Haley and Pat Boone reached the top 10. Unfortunately, like many other historically Black genres, white faces typically sold better with mainstream audiences. Is this the last we'll see of record executives using white performers to market Black music to white audiences?

Foreshadowing is a literary device--

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[oldshowbiz]

but where does your forehead come from

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[cameoutstruggling93]

Successful solo zoo outing!

[chaotic-history]

The 1600's gang™️ as funny shirts that I found

Roger Williams: (he gets the basic one. it fits tho)

Increase Mather:

John Winthrop:

(in that order)

Thomas.ine Hall:

Anne Hutchinson:

Samuel Gorton:

William Stoughton:

[motherwytch]

Another video from yesterday of myself and others giving an adorable crow donations for the zoo. She was such a good girl 🥰

[travsd]

The Curse of Clawson

November is Native American History Month; next year (2025) will mark the 350th anniversary of King Phillip’s War, the beginning of the end for the native people as the dominant polity on this continent. I’m marking the occasion with a series of daily posts related to the history of the Native Americans and their interactions with encroaching Europeans. Some will have to do with pop culture;…

[l0velysmut]

family: “why are you just sitting in ur room smiling at ur phone?”

me who’s been reading smut about fictional characters for the past 6 hours: