#tests mandatory

[bacchuschucklefuck]

typical tavern scene

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[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.

[mercurymaceo]

School doodles dump :))

[awhoreintheory]

I don't know if you've gotten an ask similar to this but in a lot of the older Spider-Man comics Peter has blue eyes, he even has blue eyes in a few animated series!

Nobody ever seems to use this fact when they write Spidey in Gotham with Dick being his dad

I haven't! And if I had to guess why, I'd say a lot of us (me included) don't have the funds or access to the older comics, unfortunately :((

But i am SO putting that to use, so thank you! <33

Cmon imagine, like, Bruce seeing Peter for the first time. Everything about him is different from his usual black haired brood. He's pale, has light brown hair, he's (seemingly) untrained and clumsy, but he has the biggest and bluest eyes. Eyes that remind him of his eldest son and the matching smile to light up a room.

And if Bruce knows anything? Nothing in this family is ever a coincidence.

[humming-fly]

This 4th of July I’m stealing the patriotism euphoria that’s usually associated with assholes idolizing the worst attributes of this country because fuck ‘em I live here too and remembering the things this country actually got Right is an important exercise when trying to rally anyone to want to defend it in November SO putting my money where my mouth is I’ll start easy and say I really like National Parks!! It’s rad how many of them there are and how they’re actual set up to preserve some of the most beautiful wild areas in our country while still letting people visit to enjoy and experience nature!! (Less important but I love how they put national parks on the quarters I think that’s real fun)

Feel free to add on if something speaks to ya!

[bonestrouslingbones]

also i hate to admit it and i swear i DO understand the importance of them but fellas i fear i may be steadily morphing into a humanities hater

[ex-foster]

"One 2022 study found that 91 percent of women given fentanyl in their epidurals later tested positive for the drug"

"Another woman was given morphine to ease her pain during childbirth and was reported to child welfare services after her baby's first bowel movement tested positive for opiates—even though the morphine was noted in her medical records and a drug test she took shortly before she went into labor showed no drugs in her system."

[julie-finlay]

[albonium]

wild to me that it takes hours for people in the usa to vote. it's never taken me more than 10 minutes and that's including the inevitable chit chat with the people there because they're either my parents' neighbours or the parents of people i went to school with.

[lights-at-night]

i will KILL SOMEONE with HAMMERS if i cannot DRAW

[sunskate]

Adam Rippon's audiobook's on spotify - it's as funny as you'd expect and also gives a clear sense of how huge the sacrifices are for both the skater and family, and the kind of drive and single minded discipline it takes to reach an elite level. i still don't quite get how his mom (and dad) supported his career and 5 other siblings. and his describing how the ice rink was the first place he felt accepted and his whole path to the Olympics and being the first out male athlete on Team USA at a winter games is touching. it's a good listen

[satansfavoritestripper]

🏴‍☠️

[her-reidiance]

Switching back to calisthenics. Weightlifting was fun for a second but I'd rather be able to move my own bodyweight well rather than get big.

[ilikecarsandlike4people]

Genuine question because I'm curious, but did you have mandatory "textile work" classes in elementary school where they taught you how to use a sewing machine and how to crochet?

[schriftd]

STARES.