#stuff i found on facebook

[bossboudicca]

out of the earth you came

cardwell higgins, 1930

[dykeyuu]

based gender reveal

[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.

[obsob]

ITS YOU!!! ITS THE CAT ARTIST!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

its me !

[louferrignojrofficial]

he is just a little guy honestly

[necrotic-nephilim]

Sorry if this might be a rude question but why don’t you just make a seperate account for your nsfw fics?

not rude, it's a valid question! tbh it's a combination of a couple reasons.

i started posting anonymous dead dove batcest fics long before i had the balls to make a tumblr. at first i was content to just leave them unassociated with each other because i didn't really care about them being tied to me. i made this blog to actually show solidarity to my partner who wanted to make a sideblog for Sandman comic stuff so we could cheerlead each other and be brave together, since i've wanted to make a batcest sideblog but i've been nervous about actually having to get it going. (mal ik you're reading this go be brave and actually make your blog so i can cheerlead you damnit-) only did it dawn on me then that i should probably mention the fics i've written on the blog after like, three of them were posted anonymously. and it would've annoyed me to have half of them anonymous and half of them not, because notifications for them would've gone in different places. i could go back and take my fics off anon if i wanted to, but i can't switch the account they're on without taking them down entirely and that'd fuck over people who have them bookmarked already.

which, ties into my second reason, if i made an entire second ao3 account it'd be harder for me to see notifications, reply to stuff, and post things for both accounts because i'd have to constantly switch. and honestly i'd be terrified of accidentally posting on the wrong one on a brain fog day. posting fics is always the most tedious part of writing them for me lol. it's easier for me to stay logged into one account and have all of my stuff in one place for me and just use the anonymous collection when i feel like it. if ao3 pseuds worked like tumblr blogs, where you can't see all my side blogs but i can, i would've used pseuds, but since you can see all pseuds on an ao3, i felt it was a moot point.

and the last reason is i just feel more comfortable being anonymous on ao3 because of the rise in anti culture. on tumblr it's very easy for me to just filter that out and find the people i want to follow and block the people i don't. i don't mind getting hate, on tumblr or on ao3. but i think, for whatever reason you want to blame it on, there's been a massive boom of antis on ao3 who are very entitled about how they read on ao3. i tag extensively, but i just feel safer from getting targeted attacks if everything i write on ao3 isn't attached to one profile. if people like a fic i wrote, want to find more i always link my tumblr in the notes, but if an anti wants to get huffy with me, they can't easily track down my other things. they definitely could if they wanted to, but being anonymous on ao3 just makes me feel more secluded, in a weird way. it's like saying "if you want you can come find me but on here i'm just a weird faceless guy throwing stuff in the void". i've used ao3's anon feature a lot, actually, i used to be a hydra trash party dumpster kid back when that was in it's prime.

i also used to be vaguely popular on a different tumblr blog and my main ao3 and while i think it'd definitely be cool if i got a decent chunk of followers on this blog too, i don't really miss having fanfiction do so well i got targetted hate on all of my fics from the same people, i had my fics stolen, etc. it was really exhausting for me. i have 120+ works on ao3, not counting what's anonymous, and that level of exposure tires me, even when i use my main ao3 to post things that aren't trashy. it's just a weird feeling knowing so many people are subscribed to you on ao3 and what if you post something they won't like because you jumped fandoms again, or you're posting something niche, or you don't think it fills enough fandom tropes to be well-liked. i used to obsessively think like that, and it made me not write the things i wanted to because i cared about numbers. and i don't want to slide back into that hole. writing on anonymous is mostly to remind myself i wrote this for me, and if other people like it, they can come find me, but i don't have to perform like that anymore. if i get a really weird fucked up idea, i can write the really weird fucked up idea. at the end of the day, just makes me more comfortable! but i get it's a super confusing set up from an outsider perspective so, i really don't mind the question, thank you for asking!!

[hooked-on-elvis]

I’m gon be honest. Your posts and blogs are my daily newspapers. Every morning, I wake up and stall before work, yawning and scrolling through here. “Oh, so and so’s back at it again.” Like, I thank you for your time, service and efforts for writing my daily newsletters and magazines. I learn alot from ya, might need to take some notes here and there on your format as well 🤷🏻‍♀️👀

mwah!

I just might have to kiss ya now. 🥹 I'm horrible at remembering to take some time and send those beautiful messages to all the Elvis fans blogs I appreciate, but I try to support you as well as I can. By the way, yours is a blog I have the notification on so I won't miss a thing. ♥ Thank you for the sweet words, Lexi, and for the support. Your words gave me even more motivation to keep updating my blog with interesting stories, Elvis history and some footage and GIFS. Really. I don't wanna let you down, do I? Seriously. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your blog is AMAZING, your format is amazing already, so easy reading and organized. Keep the good job, sweetie! I'll keep my eyes open for your content. 🩷⚡

[thoughtfulfangirling]

I'm reading You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, and a major theme is grief as two main characters are widowed. It's slow and real and brutal and I love it. But also it's making me think far too much about how wrecked my world would be if I lost my spouse. Oof! 😭😅

[pears-trinkets]

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[sugaroto]

Absolutely no one:

My family after the exams: So hey how did that old friend of yours that you haven't spoken to in 5 years and changed schools did in the exams?

Me who doesn't even know if they're alive: 👁👄👁 how am I supposed to know

[deathishauntedbyhumans]

on the plus side i met a VERY cool woman tonight. i rlly hope she comes back and sings again i would LOVE to befriend her 🥺 very cool lady who is into lots and lots of good music and is also an activist please be my. friend

[bucephaly]

I hate that I have to automatically be suspicious of anyone who comes onto a cherokee post with a little 'I'm cherokee (:' tag. I wish more people would know the kind of research that needs to happen for disconnected people to be able to actually claim that.

Even if your family story isn't some 'my gg grandmother was a cherokee princess and the chief sold her for a keg of whiskey to white people in Kentucky and she was sent to a residential school [in kentucky] and the courthouse burned down so there aren't any records' etc etc, even if it's something mundane like 'yea your g grandmother always told me her mother was a fullblood cherokee who left the reservation. That's why we have dark hair / tan skin / high cheekbones' etc, even if you have photos, unless you have citizenship cards in one of the 3 federally recognized cherokee tribes or you have genealogy going back to names on the accepted rolls, you should be really careful before claiming cherokee. I promise that even if you think your family story is different from the others because whatever reason [you have photos, heirlooms, whatever], I have seen plenty of people with those same things have their genealogy come up with 0 cherokee ancestry.

[cultivating-wildflowers]

💥

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Wait can you

Can you not use hypertext on facebook or twitter

That's SUCH A BASIC FUNCTION WHAT

As far as I’ve noticed, Tumblr is the only social media still in operation that allows you to add links in your text to provide sources for specific statements without interruption the text.

Which is such an easy elegant way to allow people to fact check your work because they do not need to go through a list of sources below, they can quickly see your specific source per statement.

In the forum world of Internet 1.0, you could do that everywhere. That feature was standard. In internet 2.0, this simple feature is almost entirely gone, because social media designers have stripped out anything that takes you away from the social media platform that you’re on. Gotta maximize that engagement so you generate more content for advertisers.

Now that we know more and more about how much social media feeds misinformation.. it’s worth pointing out that none of the platforms that claim to be fighting disinformation have brought back this feature.

[patriciavetinari]

As a person working in TnS for [redacted], one of the big social medias, it's always hilarious to me when people say today's internet is safer for children than 20 years ago because 'nowadays kids don't just stumble onto hardcore porn or beheading videos' when my normal workday includes seeing an 8-year old platform user livestream how they open p*rnhub, confidently click 'I am 18 or older' and search for their favourite actress, then they switch view to their phone where they are subscribed to telegrams offering gore and blood, gamer girl nudity leaks, child sexual abuse materials, or a combination of the above.