#then mandatory discussions

[l3ominor]

this... this "art" class... is so absolutely stupid...

they failed my first project cause it wasn't exactly what they wanted...

this is so DUMB

[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.

[bonefall]

i found a god awful doc about this one person (who, too, is a god awful being) trying to reason why mudClaw would be a bad leader. I'ma try to find the doc but meanwhile I'll submit this because someone could have the link, I'll need your honest thought about it bcs why are we defending oneWhiker now

Anon, buddy, I'm gonna have to sit you down and gently discourage you from casually calling random human people "god awful beings" in my inbox like this. Not when you're just talking about relatively basic media analysis. That isn't ok or normal.

I hope that when I speak harshly, it's coming from a place of condemning hurtful actions and the tangible harm that they cause. I don't appreciate people trying to get me to directly beef with other people directly by requesting I break down their individual posts or analysis documents (when I ask for people to share links, it's so I can see and prepare to counter the ideas because they usually "float downstream" if they get popular); but in a second ask, you linked this document and there's nothing harmful in it. In fact, it's got a far more neutral tone than I'd take if I was writing an analysis about Mudclaw.

If you couldn't tell the difference between a document like this and one that contains active abuse apologia rhetoric, I would be filled with concern. But I don't think you read it. I think you maybe skimmed it and stopped reading, or just heard the title.

Because this document literally says this;

and your takeaway, something you felt so strongly about that you came to me hoping I'd validate it, was "Why Are We Defending Onewhisker Now."

Art is a tool we can use to explore our own biases, and teach us something about ourselves. That overwhelming sense of anger and disgust that you probably felt when you saw "Mudclaw Would Be A Bad Leader" made you jump to an emotional conclusion and you assumed something that was not said. I know the feeling. You might have had a reactionary impulse.

You are not a bad person for doing that-- you're human. You can grow.

Why did it upset you this much, though? Is there something very personal about this that set you off? ...are you spending a lot of time in spaces online that keep you angry? These are questions for you to reflect with.

I do not know the owner of this document or "what they've done," if anything, so I will not link it, because their Discord is at the bottom of the doc. If they are truly a "god awful being", please do not engage, just block and move on. Nothing is accomplished by following around 'A Bad Guy' and boosting their cat takes.

But something VERY bad WOULD be accomplished if I indulged an anon for a situation I know nothing about and unwittingly became part of a harassment campaign. How do I know that you've got good intentions?

I usually just delete unsolicited links to docs and videos that are 'fightbaiting' like this-- trying to get me to beef publicly with a 3rd person. But I've seen more of these than usual lately so I would like to try and cool it down.

[ofswordsandpens]

reblog this and put in the tags your favorite (or most memorable) mandatory reading from school

[sminny-wew]

I went crazy went stupid yesterday

[smile-files]

something that gives me hope, even if just a bit of it, is how last night me, two of my roommates, and some of our other friends in the dorm building were all hanging out in our dorm watching the election results come out.

we were terrified, of course, but we felt the joy of our friendship through every moment of that fear. we chatted and laughed; we played ukulele, and violin, and mandolin, and we sang songs, and we danced; we ate doughnuts and baked cookies; we were there, some of us white and some of us black or asian or hispanic, some of us jewish and some of us christian, some of us gay or trans or intersex (or all three), some of us neurodivergent, all of us friends and all of us hoping things would turn out okay. we stayed up until midnight together, metaphorically holding onto each other for dear life. the room blossomed with love and humanity last night, and in the morning, in spite of the terrible news, that love and humanity lingered...

[howlingmoonrise]

gods i mcfucking hate these think-happy-thoughts-share-your-personal-life team building lectures. the ex-priest conducting it kept talking over me and at some point i just snapped and held my hand to his face until i was done talking lmfao

[trekkele]

Things I think Wayne Enterprises offers:

free/subsidized secondary education with a two contract post graduation

After school programs for k-12 that cover a variety of extracurriculars and education needs

Free parenting classes/counseling through a third party clinic that has zero ties to WE beyond the contract and a seperate board to oversee it

Free childcare ages 0-5

Paid Parental leave of 6-12 months, both parents can apply

Healthcare that covers fertility and birth control treatments

Dental

Post prison employment opportunities

Paid internships

[roseofcards90]

Don’t want to wake up in the morning again 😭 I still haven’t done those readings and I have to have them done by class tomorrow which idk if that will happen lmao

[collegeboysam]

Aemond getting MAD AF at Aegon in front fo the entire family for implying Luke would be bending over for his future husband soon >>>>>>>> my depression pills

HAHAHAHAHA ❤️❤️❤️

He sure tried to play it off as it being uhhhhh inappropriate topics of conversation in front of the children, which may be true, but if you think about it the kids must be used to Aegon's drunk trash talk by then. Aemond just tried to play it off as soon as it became a little too suspicious that he was annoyed at Aegon's commentary, he would usually enjoy Luke getting bullied, sooooo why the sudden interference?

Even Luke caught that, he knows Aemond's reasoning to stop Aegon from egging him on feels like a lie. And you can be sure he isn't the only one at the table who found that weird 😏

Happy you enjoyed that little detail! ❤️ I had sooooo much fun writing it!

[annelidist]

grit gate is the worst story dungeon i think

[miraluking-respectfully]

i thought maybe the swtor fever had abandoned me forever but i'm standing at the cash register going crazy over kotfe-era sav again

[hsslilly-blog]

i hate group projects man. killing myself. and it's for a presentation and they want to do a slideshow. i am not. doing a slideshow. this is a low effort project. i do not care about this At All.

[whifferdills]

final chapter of this 'wish it were worse so i could just stop reading' book [ATLANTIC - SIMON WINCESTER - NOT RECOMMENDED 👎] manages to be the most interesting it's been all 400 pages while maintaining the infuriation level. i think it's sooooo important to read books you disagree with it helps exercise your mental muscles and hurghenilgjf *dropkicks book across room*

[thepoisonroom]

honestly the more i have to tussle with ebook haters the more i wonder if their hatred for ebooks isn't due to a misunderstanding that ebooks can improve accessibility, but is more so a hostile ableist reaction against that accessibility

[wekillitwithfire]

daily phone call with my mom: complete!