WERE YOU GUYS SUBJECTED TO SEA SHANTIES EXTREMELY OFTEN AT A YOUNG AGE OR IS THIS NOT A UNIVERSAL WHITE EXPERIENCE… bc like ur man knew all of drunken sailer at age 5
new tag game what did your parents make u listen to at a young age that fundamentally shaped u as a person
One time my grandfather picked me up from the airport and was driving me home and asked if I wanted to stop at McDonald’s. And I was like sure, we can stop at the one in [town].
And he was like “we don’t need to go to [town], we’ll just go to the one in your town. And I said my town doesn’t have a McDonald’s. And he was like "okay, we’ll go to the closest one”. And I was like right, the one in [town]. And he said “that’s twenty minutes away from your house, you really don’t have one closer?” And when I confirmed that he said “well, it doesn’t have to be McDonald’s. It can be whatever fast food place is in your town.” And I was like there is no fast food in my town. There is no food in my town period unless you want to stop for gas station hot dogs. And he was like “that doesn’t make any sense. Then what do you do when you need food?” And I said I drive to [town]. And he said “every single time you need food or groceries?” And I said yeah, that’s sort of how the fixed nature of buildings work. And then we drove in silence for ten minutes while this man tried to wrap his head around the fact that I had to drive twenty minutes to town to go grocery shopping.
Anyway a lot of you remind me of this experience pretty much every time the urban/rural divide comes up on this website.
I’m really enjoying that this is picking up notes because most of them are people like “oh yeah, 20 minutes isn’t even that bad, I have to drive an hour to my [town]” and then there’s a handful of people freaking out like “oh my god, are Americans okay??? Shouldn’t your government be doing something about this????”
Idk what the government is gonna do about it man, I think me and my 6 neighbors within walking distance are just gonna have to keep driving to [town]
Reading through the notes on this is wild because they seem to fall into three groups:
Yeah, same.
I flatly refuse to believe such a place is possible. You’re all making this up.
I wouldn’t want to live in a place like that, so obviously nobody would, and it should be illegal for these places to exist.
Analyzing the politics of a work that’s meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be “political” in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator’s beliefs?
Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it’s possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS
I went outside and got an education, that’s where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem
oops read the latest three volumes of space brothers in obligatory succession and am now a wet pile of sobs
I think it should be considered a form of degendering to try to divorce trans people from their gendered histories. My gender doesn’t make sense without the fact that I was a little boy, or something like it, before I was a girl and a woman. If you were always a girl, thats awesome, but a lot of people project their dysphoria onto me when I try to talk about my own fucking life. If you think talking about having been a boy makes me less of a woman, that is degendering.
Making a donation full/queen size quilt for the auction for the hospital gala in March.
The theme is Roarin’ Twenties, so art deco it is! It’s very simple, but a lovely design and shouldn’t take too long.
Of course, the longarm is down again at the moment, and with the canadian post being on strike again, the piece needed to fix it, which was put in the mail right before the strike, may take some time to get here.
But, well. It is only October. I’m sure they won’t strike for six months, right?
Right??
Of course not.
So I cut all the fabric up and did some of the piecing, now to finish putting the blocks together!
The before:
The after:
Quilt top finally done and ready to get some quality time on the long arm.
I already have the quilting design picked out, though I haven’t decided on what colour to do the quilting in. I’m currently leaning towards gold or cream.
heres my challenge to everyone for next month, for black history month. any time you want to draw inspiration from art, like poetry, music etc, pick a black artist. web weave with langston hughes and james baldwin and jamaica kinkaid and hanif abdurraqib and derek walcott and set your edits to meghan thee stallion and beyoncé and eartha kitt and coltrane and invoke basquiat in your art and it can be fanworks or original stuff and importantly, it doesnt have to be about race. obviously be cognizant of the context of the art youre using because a lot of the artists i mention specifically create art about racism but like. take your white doomed yaoi ship and make a webweave to poem by langston hughes. set an edit to body by meghan thee stallion. engage with black art in all contexts.
you can reblog this. other people should also be exposed to this idea.
Keith Haring painting his mural "Once Upon a Time…" in a bathroom at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City on May 27, 1989.
I need to leave my apartment and go to work but there’s a female Downy Woodpecker on my suet block pecking crumbs onto the ground where a female Carolina Wren is eating them #womensupportingwomen
But I can’t leave because I would disturb them and they really need this right now (it’s 3F and going to snow)
