it does more harm than good to prop up the myth of the ‘neurotypical’ who completes tasks cheerfully with no issues. this person is a capitalist fantasy. the more you define yourself in comparison to this myth the more you justify social structures staying the same with minor accommodations to the ‘exceptions’ and the continued pathologizing of discomfort under hostile conditions
tumblr users’ obsession with self-reporting (especially as a weird form of penance) needs to be studied
you don’t need to tell the world you still like Harry Potter because it’s your comfort movie or because your dad read it to you when you were little or something like that in response to a post about the harm continued monetary support of Harry Potter causes. you don’t need to tell tumblr all the myriad of reasons you don’t like rap under a post about how rap is often misrepresented as ultra-violent or overtly sexual and misogynistic because of racism. No one on tumblr has to know anything about you. no one has to know you still read your old Harry Potter books or that the only rap artist you like is Eminem. No one is going to say “oh of course you’re the One True Good Person with a Good Reason!” when you say that rap is difficult to listen to because of your auditory processing disorder or you’re only a part of the Marauders fandom. Just keep your shit to yourself and don’t embarrass yourself under other peoples’ posts.
funniest possible reply and its not even on purpose
I love how it doesn't matter what expedition it is.
They all turn into excited kids when they meet penguins.
The Penguin: GIANTS! no way! I’m gonna wave at them THEY WAVED BACK! Holy Shit they’re dancing with me! My Wife is never gonna believe this OMG I got to dance with a Giant today so cool.
The Humans: Penguin! No way! I’m gonna wave at it IT WAVED BACK! Holy Shit it’s flapping with me! I got to play with a Penguin today; so cool.
where's the joy and whimsy guy? Have they found this one yet?
Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!
Who am I to deny a penguin some joy and whimsy 🐧
It’s a shame how much nautical stuff is focused on the royal navy, especially the ships. Enough about the battleships. Here’s some beautiful boats from other cultures.
(Left) This is a traditional Somali ship known as a beden. Traditionally, the planks are sewn together with coconut fiber instead of hammered with nails. Did you know ancient Somalia had a maritime empire?
(Right) Galway hooker, from Galway Ireland. The original cloth sails were treated with a solution made from treebark to protect them from rot, which just so happened to turn the sails their iconic rusty red color, and modern synthetic sailcloth is dyed to imitate this.
(Left) Viking boats (amongst others) were built with the planks overlapping (clinker) instead of being flush (carvel) this provides flexibility for the boat to bend instead of break in rough seas but still maintains strength.
(Right) a Māori waka taua (decorated war canoe). This particular one is Ngā Toki, and it previously held the world record for longest canoe at 123 feet long and 6 1/2 wide).
Four more that I know less about:
(Left) Haida dugout canoe.
(Right) Vietnamese Ghe Nang.
(Left) An Unangax baidarka.
(Right) An Uros reed boat.
I can talk a little about Pacific Northwest dugout canoes from a maritime archaeologist's perspective!
So the first thing to understand about PNW dugout canoes is that they're deceptively simple in design. There's a long, bad history of people looking at dugout canoes and going "oh, how primitive", when the opposite is true. They're very difficult to make well, and even more stylistically simple forms require a good amount of knowledge and skill in construction and use.
Image 1: An unfinished canoe in Haida Gwaii
PNW canoes like those of the Haida, Nuu-chah-nulth, Kwakwaka'wakw, Coast Salish, and Makah nations (amongst many others) are almost entirely made from a single trunk of red cedar, which, depending on techniques, could even be used to make two canoes. Before commercial logging destroyed old growth forests, these canoes could reach over 60 feet in length (18 meters) — to put in perspective, this is two thirds the length of Captain Cook's ship HMS Endeavour.
Each PNW culture has its own way of making canoes, and styles vary from region to region. The fascinating thing about PNW canoes is that they are essentially tailored to the environment where they're constructed. Nuu-chah-nulth canoes, designed for the west coast of Vancouver Island, have a high prow (front) and a low stern (back) which allows them to be launched directly into the strong ocean surf that is a trademark of the region. (Canoe crews would then have to either turn around or paddle backwards when beaching the canoe.)
Image 2: A West Coast Nuu-chah-nulth style canoe with its signature prow and stern
Broadly speaking, once a red cedar tree was cut, the initial shaping of the canoe would take place right there — if any defect was found in the material, the canoe would be abandoned, as dugout canoes require high quality wood. This is one of the reasons why in some parts of the PNW, you can find half-finished canoes in the forest. Once the initial shaping was complete after months of work, the canoe would be hauled down to the beach for finishing. One of the major techniques in finishing a canoe is steaming, which allows the wood to soften and expand with the addition of spacers, resulting in a light, strong watercraft that is wider than the tree it was carved from.
The technological capabilities of PNW canoes are unmatched for the region. Nations along the coast engaged in long distance trade, as well as warfare, and different styles of canoes were made for these different purposes. Makah canoes were capable of travelling over 40 kilometres offshore during whale hunts, and I have been told a story of Haida travellers many centuries ago who returned after many years away from a place where the locals ate strange white maggot-like food in bowls (possibly rice). It's also worth remembering that canoes perform better in the conditions of the PNW than European-style ships. A key difference between canoes and rigged ships is that canoes can hug the shoreline and are less vulnerable to being blown onto rocks by strong wind. While there are some significant trade-offs, this manoeuvrability makes them much better suited than the ships that Europeans arrived to the PNW in. It is also possible that they used woven bark sails in their canoes, though the existence of sails in pre-Contact North America is difficult to prove.
Unfortunately, with the colonisation of the PNW, traditional canoebuilding was threatened by colonial powers and banned under Canada's Indian Act. The only form of canoebuilding allowed in Canada was the racing canoe, and as a result, all technological development was channelled into the racing canoe, which remains a vibrant part of modern First Nations cultures in BC.
Image 3: The Loo Taas (Wave Eater), built in 1986 by master Haida artist Bill Reid — the first Haida canoe built in Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, in over 100 years
Some good resources:
( @archaeos yaka mash pʰayt-wawa: munk ukuk kʰapa chinuk wawa! so nayka tiki pi munk pus kakwa.)
saxali, @archaeos yaka wawa:
saltsəqw anqati-ikta-dakta chaku-kəmtəks-tilixam nayka, pi nayka tiki wawa kʰapa kənim kʰapa shawash-tilixam ɬaska uk wawa chinuk-wawa!
iləp ikta uk ɬush msayka kəmtəks kʰapa kənim kʰapa chinuk-wawa-tilixam: munk-kənim kakupus kakwa wik-q'el, bət wik dret! qʰənchi-lili bastən-tilixam ɬaska nanich kʰapa kənim, pi ɬaska mashachi-wawa, "o, dret kakwa-shawash!" (pi ɬas kəmtəks "o, dret kakwa-tenas!") wik dret! shawash-tilixam ɬaska mamuk dret ɬush kənim, pi dret kəmtəks-mamuk ɬaska. ɬaska hayu chaku-kəmtəks pus munk-kənim pi munk-isik uk -- kʰənəx kənim uk kakupus kakwa wik-q'el.
[pʰikcha ixt: sitkum kʰəpit kənim ukuk kʰapa haida gwaii]
chinuk-wawa-tilixam kakwa haida-tilixam, nuu-chah-nulth-tilixam, kwa-kawka'wakw-tilixam, saltsəqw-salish-tilixam, pi mahkah-tilixam (pi hayu wəxt) ɬaska munk kənim kʰapa ixt kənim-stik. ixt-ixt, ixt kənim-stik ukuk chaku mawkst kənim kʰapa xluyma qʰata-kakwa. anqati, pi chxi hayu-ulman-stik ukuk chaku-kakshət kʰapa tiki-dala tilixam ɬaska uk munk-iskam-iskam stik, ixt-ixt kənim ukuk manaqi taxam-taɬlam huf (18 meters) yuɬqat -- dret kakwa mawkst munk-sitkum-kʰupa-ɬun kʰapa ship kʰapa kʰaptən Cook, uk nim HMS Endeavour.
kʰanawi tʰawn ɬaska kəmtəks xluyma qʰata-kakwa kʰapa munk-kənim. xluyma iliʔi ukuk tʼuʔan xluyma qʰata nim kʰapa kənim. chaku-tulu-təmtəm nayka kʰapa kənim kʰapa chinuk-wawa-tilixam qʰiwa kʰanawi tʰawn ɬaska munk kənim kakwa kʼipʰwət-man munk iktʰas: kʰanawi kənim ukuk kʰəpit-ɬush pus uk tsəqw. nuu-chah-nulth-tilixam ɬaska miɬayt kʰapa tʼɬip-san kʰapa hayash tənəs-iliʔi. ɬaska pulali-iliʔi ukuk tʼuʔan skukum saxali-tsəqw kʰapa saltsəqw uk makuk-tʼsəm kʰapa nuu-chah-nulth-iliʔi. ɬaska munk kənim kʰapa saxali iləp pi kikwəli ʔaptsit (kʰimtʼa). munk-kakwa ɬush pus munk-ɬatwa kʰupa-iləp pulali-iliʔi kʰapa skukum saxali-tsəqw. (pi alta pus-qʰənchi kənim-tilixam ɬaska chaku-k'ilapay, ɬas chaku kʼilapay-iwa əbə ɬas munk-isik kʰimtʼa-iləp.)
[pʰikcha mawkst: kənim ukuk kʰapa nuu-chah-nulth-tilixam kʰapa tʼɬip-san saltsəqw-iliʔi-uput. saxali iləp pi kikwəli ʔaptsit ukuk, uk t'səm-nim kʰapa nuu-chah-nulth-tilixam.]
wik-saya kwansəm, munk-kənim-tilixam ɬaska ɬq'up kikwəli kənim-stik pi alta ɬaska munk-kənim qʰa uk miɬayt. ɬaska tiki dret ɬush stik pus kənim. pus-qʰənchi ɬaska chaku-kəmtəks ɬas stik wik-ɬush, ɬas mash kʰapá ukuk. kakwa ixt-ixt msayka tʼɬap sitkum kʰəpit kənim kʰapa hayu-stik kʰapa chinuk-wawa-iliʔi. hayu mun ɬaska munk-kənim qʰa uk miɬayt. pi alta ɬaska lulu kʰapa pulali-iliʔi pus munk-kʰəpit ukuk. ɬaska munk ixpuy-liplip kənim. munk-kakwa hayash qʰata-kakwa pus munk-kʰəpit kənim. munk-kakwa munk-tʼɬimin stik kʰapa kənim, pi alta ɬaska munk kənim manaqi-hayash kʰapa inatay stik. so kənim chaku wik-tʰil pi skukum. ukuk chaku dret ɬaq'aɬ pi kənim-stik uk tʼɬap ukuk.
kənim kʰapa chinuk-wawa-tilixam ukuk skukum pus hayu qʰata nim mamunk -- dret skukum pi kʰanawi iwa pot kʰapa chinuk-wawa-iliʔi. tilixam kʰapa saltsəqw-iliʔi-uput ɬaska ɬatwa-saya pus huyhuy. wəxt ɬaska pʰayt kʰapa hayash-saləks. kakwa ɬaska munk xluyma qʰata nim kənim. makah-tilixam ɬaska ɬatwa lakit-taɬlam kilometers kʰapa katsaq saltsəqw pus ɬatwa-nanich ikuli. nayka kəmtəks yaʔim: anqati hayu takʼumunaq kʰul, haida-tilixam ɬaska ɬatwa-saya pus hayu kʰul. ɬaska chaku-kʼilapay pi alta wawa ɬas nanich iliʔi qʰa tilixam ɬaska məkʰmək xluyma tkʼup məkʰmək uk nanich kakwa tənas-inəpʰu kʰapa pʰuli iɬwəli (alaxti lays ukuk). ɬush msayka kəmtəks uk kənim kʰapa chinuk-wawa-tilixam ukuk ɬush pus ɬaska tsəqw -- dret ɬush pi bastən ship. ixt-ixt bastən ship ukuk chaku-kakshət kʰapa ston qʰiwa win ukuk hayu-pʼuxən. bət wik-kakwa kənim ukuk -- əbə wik ayaq-ayaq! pi alta kakwa kənim ukuk ɬush pus ɬatwa wik-saya iliʔi. wik kənim ukuk ɬush pus kʰanawi qʰata; munk-kənim-tilixam ɬaska huyhuy kəmtəks-ɬatwa-kʰanawi-iwa pus xluyma hayash qʰata. bət kənim ukuk dret ɬush pus tsəqw kʰapa chinuk-wawa-tilixam -- pi dret ɬush pi ship uk bastən tilixam ɬaska chaku yakwa. wəxt tʼɬunas anqati, pi chxi bastən tilixam ɬaska chaku yakwa, shawash-tilixam ɬaska munk ship-sil kʰapa lakʰlwa-kʼaw skin-stik -- bət qʼəl anqati-ikta-dakta ɬaska munk-nanich dret ukuk.
sik-təmtəm-kakwa, wik-shawash-tilixam ɬaska munk-hilu shawash skukum pus munk-tayi-wawa, pi alta wik-shawash-tayi-tilixum munk munk-kənim wik-saya hilu. pʰasayuks-tayi-tilixam munk tayi-wawa uk shawash-tilixum ɬaska aɬqi kʰəpit munk-kənim, kʰapa "shawash tayi-wawa" kʰapa pʰasayuks-iliʔi (Indian Act of Canada). alta ɬush ɬaska munk kʰəpit-ixt qʰata nim kənim: uk ayaq pi tulu hihi. kakwa pus-qʰənchi munk-kənim-tilixam ɬaska tiki-munk chxi qʰata-kakwa pus manaqi ɬush kənim, kwansəm pus kʰəltəs ayaq-tulu-hihi kənim. alta ayaq-tulu-hihi kənim ukuk dret tʼukti pi hayash kʰapa shawash munk pi miɬayt kʰapa British Columbia.
[pʰikcha ɬun: kənim nim "loo taas" ("nayka məkʰmək saxali-tsəqw") ukuk. kəmtəks-mamuk munk-kənim-tilixam Bill Reid yaka munk ukuk kʰapa 1986. ukuk iləp haida kənim chaku kʰapa skidegate kʰapa haida gwaii pus manaqi takʼumunaq kʰul.]
tənəs-hayu ɬush pipa:
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/projects/02tribal/canoe_tech/canoe_tech.html
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Sorry for the photo because I’m at work but what the fuck
Like the ban is bullshit but the US needs to fuck all the way off. ALL the way.
Like. For context, for non Australians
In December last year Australia implemented a social media ban for kids under sixteen. Now, as someone who would have killed herself before her sixteenth birthday without the internet this is bullshit, but that's not the point here.
The United States has summoned an Australian citizen, acting in capacity as an Australian official, to answer to the United States Congress, as if it's any of their FUCKING BUSINESS what the AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT does ON ITS OWN FUCKING SOIL.
I never thought I'd want to rabidly defend the person who oversaw the ban to the point of wanting to throw hands but hey, these are unprecedented times.
The United States has been pulling this bullshit since they elected the orange fuckwit. OUR biggest scientific authority got a letter from the United States government demanding to know what they were doing to prevent trans people from getting jobs. The US government has been pressuring OUR government into destroying our PBS, which allows us to buy affordable medication, because it's not enough that they're killing their own citizens through medical bankruptcy they want to kill OURS too to "make America great again."
FUCK OFF.
I take issue with how many people conflate being rude with being more "honest" "sincere" and "real", while the same people will often conflate being nice and polite with being "fake" "insincere" "two faced", and even though this line of thinking has always existed, I think it's gotten worse in the last decade or so.
Don't get me wrong, brown-nosers and people who try to use a veneer of "kindness" as a manipulation tactic are very, very real. And they give kindness and good manners a bad name.
But I take issue with the idea that in order to be sincere and honest with someone you have to be rude and inconsiderate. It's a very childish view on human interaction and human relationships IMHO. You can be honest and sincere with someone while being considerate of them and their feelings as a fellow human being.
I also think it's incorrect to conflate kindness and good manners with being fake and insincere because, at least the people I've met who are fake and insincere people (brown nosers and manipulators if you need a more concise definition of what I mean by fake and insincere people) yes they can be good at making first impressions. They can come across as quite nice, at first. But if you spend any amount of time around them and actually pay attention, they are actually rude as hell. And it will always show at some point.
It's also asking yourself "does it need to be said this bluntly and/or aggressively and/or emotionally? Or can I find a way to say it that's not going to unnecessarily make the other person feel bad? Or make them feel attacked and put themselves on the defense?"
Is your least-controlled, knee-jerk self the real you? When you’re hangry and say something mean to a loved one, is that your unvarnished true self, because you’re without the false comfort of food and are too “authentically” you to treat someone you love with kindness?
It’s rather telling if people’s rudest, cruellest self is the one they identify as their “real” self.
hope is a skill
hope is a weapon you are trained to wield
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You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.
Theodor would approve.
fanart so upsettingly good it makes you get up and pace around your room in shellshocked silence
shout out to The Character for enabling the creative expression of some of the greatest artistic minds of our generation that i can easily access and be moved by without even having to leave the house or sit up in bed
never kill yourself there's literally always more art to look at. you can even make it yourself.
*encountering 2 butterflies that appear to be either fucking or murdering each other on the sidewalk* buddy im not sure exactly what you're up to but this is a public walkway u can't do that here
so i didn't realize butterflies have intercourse (sorta assumed it was an external fertilization situation), but no it turns out butterflies FUCK.
sometimes for up to 16 hours. and sometimes on busy public sidewalks where concerned bystander like yours truly are forced to scoop them up in vague disgust and deposit them gently under a nearby bush. i feel unclean
If your language lost, it should die with dignity, not be put on artificial life-support because ‘reasons’
#Sorry but I have no sympathy for that fight#let the dead languages be dead#grumping#controversial opinions#because people always get annoyed with me when I say this#but Gaelic (for example) shouldn’t still exist
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Gaelic hasnt been lost. It’s never died or been brought back. There’s an unbroken line of native speakers going back to the beginning of the language. That doesn’t seem like a ‘lost’ language to me. Furthermore I’m not sure what ‘artificial life-support’ means in this context. Gaelic is given funding for schools because there’s still native speakers of the language. It’s no more artificial than money being given to schools for English language lessons.
If anything is ‘artificial’ its the imposition of a foreign language (English) into a Gaelic majority zone and native speakers having to fight for decades to be able to be taught in their own language. Native speakers being forced to learn English to exist within their own regions because a central government would not allow services to be given in a people’s own language.
But then the clock only goes back so far with people who wish that minority languages would just die. There’s nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an ‘artificial’ act to maybe phone an ambulance?
“There’s nothing artificial about shooting someone but suddenly it becomes an ‘artificial’ act to maybe phone an ambulance?” — THIS RIGHT HERE
Also just gonna point out here:
In the UK, the languages Gaelige, Gaelic, Cymraeg and Kernewek (that’s Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish respectively) didn’t just “die out.” There was a concerted effort by the English to kill them off.
For example, in Wales, if a child was heard speaking Welsh in a classroom, they’d be given a “Welsh Not”, a wooden plaque engraved with “WN” to hang around their neck. They’d pass it onto the next child heard speaking Welsh, and whoever had the Welsh Not at the end of the day was punished - usually with a beating.
Kernewek was revived after a long hard struggle by the Cornish folk, and is now being taught again, but a lot about it has been lost because everyone who grew up speaking it has died.
And languages are never revived “just because.” The language of a place can offer so much insight into its history, so if you’re content to let a language die then you’re content to let history die.
People talk about “dead” languages as if they dwindle away gradually, naturally coming to an end and evolving into something else, but that’s rarely the case. Languages like Cymraeg and Gaelige and especially Kernewek didn’t have the chance to die with dignity, they were literally beaten out of my parents and grandparents.
Is it any wonder every other country hate the English? We invade their country, steal their history, claim pieces of their history as ours or flat out re-write it, and kill every part of their culture that we can.
It’s a miracle that any of the Celtic languages survived, so even if you don’t see the point in keeping them alive, the actual natives of each country we’ve fucked over are clinging onto what heritage they have left through the only thing they can: their language.
it’s psychological horror to YOU. to me it’s a romcom
it's a romcom to YOU. to me it's psychological horror
Oh, THIS motherfucker. THIS motherfucker is going to accuse indigenous Americans during the colonial era of child sacrifice???? Let's talk about child sacrifice, you steaming pile of rancid shit.
(and it's worth noting that all of these policies are impacting indigenous children as well as children in a range of other demographic groups. I have no doubt there are also policies and actions coming down from this admin that are also specifically targeting indigenous children in the US.)
And this is just a sample. Go to hell, and take the rest of the whole administration of child sacrificers with you. We'll all be safer without the sacrifices you're willing to make at the altars of greed, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism.
They think that fear is the same thing as respect.
So much of this shit feels over and over and over again like a gigantic racist idiot with a Dunce cap on his head is standing on a stage going “eating poop is delicious and good for you” and 500,000 doctors go “NO! Here is every piece of evidence in existence definitively proving beyond reasonable doubt that we are NOT supposed to eat poop EVER” and yet there’s still a crowd full of people below the stage going “:) Yay! Poop :)” and then months later you’re at a gathering and someone asks you “hey are you eating enough poop” and you tell them “no and nobody should be doing that” and the nearest ten people go “why are you being so aggressive about this everybody is entitled to their opinion and actually government officials agree and support eating poop so maybe you should do some looking into that I’ve heard there’s studies being done on the benefits of poop” and it feels like you’re going insane
I have no idea what to do with this, but wouldn't it be neat if Aang started doing all of his bending using the wrong style of bending? Just because he can?
Airbending? No, actually, it's humid in here. I used the water in the air :) nope, just manipulated the temperature with firebending. Common mistake! They look very similar!
Oh no, that wasn't earthbending. That was airbending. I'm basically just compressing the air! Sokka came up with that!
Avatar Aang comes in to give a bending demonstration, and immediately 60-year-old masters start gnawing the furniture because what do you MEAN that was waterbending!!! You made flames!!!? We've been studying this all our lives why would you come in and do this to us
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