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Sea monsters, illuminated Persian manuscript, 13th century 

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About that Jowan sliders - screenshots should be fine!! And thank you so much 💖

Okay, here are Rook Jowan sliders screenshots! Make the pathetic bloodmage your hero!

All screenshots under the cut

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Sugpiat women, Alaska, by Lexi Qass’uq Trainer

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dude your poem fucking bit me

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a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

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In 1895, to save her kingdom from being torn apart, Queen Lili’uokalani signed over her authority to the US government.  Subsequent to that event, she was imprisoned in her own bedroom in her palace–‘Iolani Palace–for ten months. ��Her closest companion stayed with her, voluntarily, throughout her confinement, leaving only on Sundays to see her family.  During the time that she was under house arrest, Queen Lili’uokalani worked in crazy quilt style–the most popular quilting style of the day–and created much of the 97″ x 95″ “Queen’s Quilt” that is now on display in ‘Iolani Palace. Encased in glass, the quilt is worn with age and very, very fragile.  The pieces are sewn of velvet, ribbon, silk, linen–most of them likely scraps of clothing from the ladies’ own wardrobes.  Every section is painstakingly embroidered and embellished with names and dates and icons and symbols of the Old Hawai’i.

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ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

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how can you feel safe in a world with prisons holy shit "there are boxes where people lock you so they can forget about you and millions of people are involved in running and building these boxes." how would you not be fucking paranoid???? wtf who came up with that idea. insane!!!!! i dont want to go in a fuckign cage wtf????? dont do that!!!!!

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If you had your Warden sacrifice themself in Origins, imagine they didn't <3

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Maker Raven Calls To Human, Maker Raven Travels Between Worlds, Maker Raven’s True Nature (Raven Peapod Creation Story)

Terresa White (Yup’ik/French Canadian)

ceramic, pigment.

This work represents a Far North origin story in which the first man bursts from a pod of a beach pea and meets Maker Raven. In this meeting, Raven raises his mask and shows his face to the man. They look alike! Raven tells the man that he made the beach pea, and so he also made the man.

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Salman Toor, Lazy Boy with Cake, 2022

Oil on panel 11.875 x 30 in

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A bit of Moby-Dick oceanography context:

Up until the mid 1870s, it was generally accepted that life could not exist below a depth of 550 meters. This is why some of Ishmael's whale theories are so off and why Ahab pictures the sea floor as a vast wasteland of bones and shipwrecks. 🌊

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had a dream about getting addicted to vaseline on toast. my girlfriend crying, begging me to stop eating "that miserable greasy toast"

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Portrait of an Inuit Woman, Kootucktuck, in her beaded attigi, Fullerton Harbour, Nunavut, February 1905. Photo by Geraldine Moodie

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Let me sing you the song of my people...

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An Allegory of Power by Georg Janny  (1864-1935)