🙤 Enjoyable Things 🙧

Tagged by @greypetrel , thank you! 💙✨

Rules: List five things you enjoy and pass it along!

1. 💧Water / the sea : the element I find most at home with. It's comforting and terrifying, as Nature often is. I like the deep-sea creepy fishes, I like swimming, I like books that get all poetic about water, and I like just walking by the seaside and watch the waves for a bit. It helps that I live very close to it, plus my father taught me how to swim very early. I'm not the strongest swimmer, and I hate that I don't have lungs strong enough to dive deeper than three or four meters, but I still get a deep sense of satisfaction and 'wholeness' every time I go for a swim after a week of filling excel tables.

2. 🧭 History and Art History : well, this will surprise no one lol. Got a MA in 'modern and contemporary history' and sometimes I wonder if I should get another one. I mostly specialized in the late medieval to modern period (Renaissance is my thing, yes) and then in the XIX-XXth century. I like museums and galleries, ruins and monuments, and old books. I actually wanted to specialize in museology/museum studies with either a thesis concerning accessibility, or on museums' role in preserving and creating memory.

Do I watch a lot of period dramas? Yes. Do I give imaginary lectures in my head when I'm bored? Maybe so.

3. 🫀 Dance : kind of a sore topic, but still. I practiced a lot of sports, but foremost I was (am?) a dancer. Mostly jazz/modern and contemporary dance, which is one of the closest forms of therapy beside actual therapy. And no, I don't mean it like some kind of " you should try to meditate!!1" thing, but as a "you need to allow other people to see you. While you improvise there should be no judgement because shame is the antithesis of creativity. If done with intention and full presence, the smallest gesture can be meaningful because there is you behind it" sort of thing.

Currently I don't take dance classes -but I still remember exercises and routines that I learnt more than ten years ago when I first started and I was in elementary school. Damn.

4. ✉️ Gift-giving : maybe it's a fancy birthday gift, maybe it's a silly thing from a market's stall, maybe it's something spontaneous - I just love picking and giving gifts. I'm not saying that I'm the best ever at it, I'm sure I fucked up many times, but when you see that the other person really likes the gift(s)? Pure serotonin. Love it!

5. 📷 Analog/Film photography : it was my Thing TM during my teenage years. I still love the almost alchemical process behind it, and the physical aspect too - once it's printed it's printed, you can't accidentally delete it. I like how, even with all the theory and practice, the outcome is always slightly unpredictable. And portraiture? Portraits taken on film are something special.

Too bad it's expensive, ugh.

Now, tag time! Maybe @birdkeeperklink is in a sharing mood? No pressure tho! 🌸

Since summer school ended, I'm gonna make longer posts like this rehashing what I've learned.

Cree Dialect Continuum Map

Or more accurately, the Cree-Naskapi-Montagnais dialect continuum map

A dialect continuum is considered a chain of languages with "blurry" borders of legibility, where the "rough" areas of languages aren't clear, and as such are grouped together as a continuum--forming a "chain" of speakers that can understand adjacent speakers, but often not speakers of the "dialect" opposite of them. An example is how an Eastern Montagnais speaker might be able to understand adjacent languages clearly, but not Plains Cree (and vice versa). The variability of languages is often concentrated near the urheimat or "point of origin" before a common ancestor language split.

To add, North America has a few dialect continuums of other families that are often legally at least considered as "languages" (such as Inuktitut or the various Dene clusters of the (Sub-)Arctic).

Yupik (an Inuyunangan language), as far as I know are several distinct languages but lumped into one language by the US government census; I don't think they'd count here.

ps. Ojibwe Dialect Continuum Map

including Algonquin, Oji-Cree, Odawa, and Saulteaux (which linguistically are considered Ojibwe)

excluding the sister-ish language Potawatomi.

Note that these boundaries shown on the map are often based around communities and nations, and may not be representative of the exact placement or variation of the dialects; as I've said, things get really blurry.

snoopy of the day

as my own direct immediate list of game grievances i hate that stardew valley expects you to side against a wheelchair user who is upset that he was moved without his consent. i hate that the mass effect trilogy gives you visible scarring as a direct result of choosing mean dialogue and heals it if you're nice. i hate that the vampire the masquerade ttrpg has a monstrous player class that can appear as horrible vampiric monsters or as visibly disabled people and both of these appearances are mechanically the same. i hate that dark souls games have a difficulty level implemented in a way that cannot be adjusted for disability. i hate that i can play as a mermaid or a werewolf or a horse in the sims games but can't use a wheelchair. i hate that the ace attorney games have so much flashing and not all of the games can disable it. i hate that disability is constantly something that happens to teach a lesson, i hate that disability is something that happens as a punishment, i hate that disability is either compensated perfectly with no drawbacks or something that is endlessly sought to be cured. i hate that no character customization will ever include the mobility aids i use, that the player avatars that represent me will never look like me. i am so goddamn annoyed and so goddamn tired.

Look! Seahorses!

@cat-with-no-name ur so fucking right

Lacada Point, Northern Ireland [OC][4573x6860] - Author: Harz_marz on Reddit

There’s certain benign activities that you should do even if someone is judging you because the sort of person who would judge you for doing that isn’t a person worth listening to.

Worried about wearing that pikachu shirt when you usually don’t wear t-shirts? Do it. The sort of person who would judge you for wearing a pikachu shirt isn’t worth your time.

Worried someone will judge you for eating in public? What sort of idiot cares about another person eating a salad at the park? Just do it.

Worried you’re not dressed well enough for this mall? It’s a mall. If someone judged you for showing up in basketball shorts they have too much time on their hands.

What sort of person gets mad at someone else just standing to the side and reading a nutrition label? Not the sort of person I’d like to meet.

Someone judging you for not wearing makeup? That person is not worth your time.

This mindset has helped my social anxiety a lot btw. As long as you generally do your best to be a polite person other normal or slightly weird or out of character things you do are your business. The sort of person paying a lot of attention to every little thing a stranger does generally isn’t the sort of person whose opinion you’d respect. So stop letting their opinions matter to you when you haven’t even met them.

Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

Word for today: wisdom of repugnance

The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad

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Gullfoss - Iceland 2023 [2000x1500] [OC] - Author: snekbat on Reddit

Compare paychecks with you co-workers. It is the best way to get equality.

CHEERS TO GUY WALTON FOR “OUTING” THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES

From the article:  

Walton has devised his own criteria for named heatwaves in the US, based on duration and extremity, on a one to five scale similar to hurricanes. Heatwave Chevron is classed as a four and is “historic”, Walton said. The meteorologist said he has a list of 20 oil and gas companies – including Exxon and Shell – for upcoming heatwaves and will turn to coal companies if he runs out of names.

OUTSTANDING MOVE

100% Disagree

It’s an underdog story about classism in which the folk hero (Johnny) is confronted by a powerful man (the Devil) who tries to exploit the hero’s perceived ignorance and inferiority by offering a great reward with impossible odds. Although Johnny warns him that looks can be deceiving, and that he’s going to regret the dare because Johnny is the “best there’s ever been”, the devil is blinded by his greed and arrogance.

The devil creates an awful cacophony of technically excellent fiddle playing that would be impossible for Johnny to replicate. It’s a trick.

But Johnny just grins at him and starts to play “simple” classic country fiddling songs - Fire On The Mountain, House Of The Rising Sun, and Daddy Cut Her Bill Off. He doesn’t rise to beat the Devil - he simply creates his own music from his home, in the style that he knows, and his love of it and the familiarity of the music make his “backwoods” fiddling more perfect than the Devil could ever achieve.

It is thus the devil’s pride, not Johnny’s, that allows Johnny to Bugs Bunny his way into a golden fiddle.

(In that sense, I do agree that it is the most American song: in a land of prejudice and inequities, great power lies - dormant but ever-present - in those we underestimate and attempt to exploit.)

Also people initially react to the devil's part like "holy shit that's badass" because he's got electric guitar and bass and a whole backing band to make him sound good. Of course he sounds amazing. But if you drill down to the actual fiddling -- and this is straight from Charlie Daniels -- it's not as technically difficult as what Johnny does. It's fast? But it's mostly just going up and down scales.

Here's a good performance -- the devil's part starts around 2:00. Check out how long Daniels just stands there holding his fiddle while the guitar and piano carry the weight. I love that piano bassline but fiddling it ain't.

It's still an American narrative: if you can afford to hire a bunch of more talented people, you, too, can look like a genius. Doesn't make you one.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

i know people want to help birds by putting out bird feeders but right now with how badly climate change is impacting birds it’s way more important to provide water sources 💗

the fact ken got barbie a present for waffle history month now THATS a real man

The completed Afro Victorian ensemble. More to come.

Girl.

You're always gorgeous, but this is beyond.

he is trying so hard not to care and he is failing so so so miserably

Casa Galimberti, Milano, Italia.