23.10.2016 // Trying to finish my latin homework ft. my cat who won’t leave me alone 🐱🐱
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i love that 17th century jewish poltergeist story where the family living in the haunted house calls a catholic priest for help before they contact a rabbi, because yeah, i think that would be my call too; id be like, oh? a demon in my house speaking latin and drawing inverted crosses on my wall in sulfuric bile? then without even questioning my faith i’d call up the catholic church and be like yo father, one of your boys loose come get him
Mushroom witch and her little mushroom friends
Tree of Life from Palace of Shaki Khans, Azerbaijan
i was reading about the myth of prometheus today when the phrase "new liver, same eagles" popped into my mind, so i'm keeping that in mind for the next time someone asks me how it's going
myheart-istheworstkindofweapon
The Money Tubbs only comes around every 5628 seconds. Reblog the Money Tubbs and you’ll find money!
Bitttchhh the last time I reblogged some bullshit like this I booked a 2k 30minute shoot lmao
You are a good kitty Tubbs. If you give me money that’s nice but I’m just reblogging you because you are a good kitty with a fat tum and you have already blessed my dash just by your presence.
tag urself
I genuinely don’t know why I made this, but the idea struck me at 2 am and took me way too fucking long to make so please don’t flop I’m begging
Bonus: (because Mark has more ““characters,”” I guess)
This video has utterly undone me
[All with thick, scottish accents]
Lad 1: An' you're sure I'm not gonna die? ...ah- no- I can't, I canne get- no, no
Lad 1: *hits bong*
*2 lads off camera squealing and laughing*
Lad 2 (off camera): ohh wee man, wee man! keep breathing in wee man! ...oh, wee man... you'll be feeling this...
Lad 1 (enunciating clearly): ...I'm actually bisexual.
It's always when guys get high that they admit that they're not totally straight, this guy did a speed run
Jenna Marbles quitting YouTube feels like a punch to the gut and I don’t even watch her videos
I’ve heard nothing but positive stuff about Jenna and how she’s changed from her problematic days and yet people still keep doing this shit. Meanwhile there’s 3 weekly threads on how Shane Dawson keeps being the scum of the earth and yet he still gets stanned and defended. Fuck you. Y’all ain’t slick
People can change, they can acknowledge how they’ve fucked up, and work towards becoming a better person. That’s what Jenna did. Her old problematic stuff is bad, it sucks, and she’s acknowledged time and time again that she’s changed and worked towards becoming a better person and it’s shown through her content. This fucking sucks and I hope she’s doing ok
the third amendment nerds have been waiting two centuries for this moment
Diving into the sea of brilliant golden light. My soul is guiding me home.
American Girl stories were the best tbh
Dude, read the books, she and her mom freed themselves in Book 1. We don’t disrespect American Girl in this house
Don’t you dare disrespect Addy, or any of my girls for that matter. American Girl used to be legit. Good stories, good dolls, good movies.
Felicity’s story was set in the beginnings of the American Revolution, and addressed the conflict that she faced when her loved ones were split between patriots and loyalists. It also covered the effects of animal abuse, and forgiving those who are unforgivable.
Samantha’s stories centered around the growth of industrial America, women’s suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.
Kit’s story is one of my favorites. Her family is hit hard by the Great Depression, and they begin taking in boarders and raise chickens to help make ends meet. Her books include themes of poverty, police brutality, homelessness, prejudice, and the importance of unity in difficult times.
Molly’s father, a doctor, is drafted during the Second World War. Throughout her story, friends of hers suffer the loss of their husbands, sons, and brothers overseas. Her mother leaves the traditional housewife position and works full-time to help with the war effort. They also take in an English refugee child, who learns to open up after a life of traumatic experience.
American Girl stories have always featured the very harsh realities of America through the years. But they’re always presented honestly, yet in ways that kids can understand. They just go to show that you don’t have to live in a perfect time to be a real American girl.
Dont you fucking dare disrespect the American Girls in my house. ESPECIALLY Addy!! That was my first REAL contact with the horrors of slavery, as I read about her father being whipped and sold and her mother escaping with her to freedom, but also how freedom was still a struggle.
A slave doll. Please. Read the books.
Don’t forget Kirsten, the Swedish immigrant who had to deal with balancing her own culture and learning the english language and customs of her classmates, or Kaya (full name Kaya'aton'my, or She Who Arranges Rocks) , the brave but careless girl from the Nez Perce tribe, or Josefina, the Mexican girl learning to be a healer.
And then there are the later dolls, that kids younger than me would have grown up with (I was just outgrowing American Girl as these came out), like Rebecca, the Jewish girl who dreams of becoming an actress in the budding film industry, or Julie, who fights against her school’s gender policy surrounding sports in the 70s, or Nanea, the Hawaiian girl whose father worked at Pearl Harbor.
These books, these characters, are fantastic pictures into life for girls in America throughout the years, they pull no punches with the horrors that these girls had to face in their different time periods, and in many cases I learned more history from these series than social studies at school. And that’s without even mentioning the “girl of the year” series where characters are created in the modern world to help girls deal with issues like friend problems, moving, or bullying. We do NOT disrespect American Girl in this house.
American Girl is probably going to be the only exposure young girls are going to get to history from a female perspective. This is actually kind of important considering that in history classes we dont really get that exposure. We dont hear about what women felt and endured during these time periods cause schools are too busy teaching us about what happened from the male perspective, which is not unimportant, but we need both. Girls need both.
These books were such a crucial part of my childhood and shaped my love of history, which still ensures today. These books can be a young girl’s first lessons in diversity and cultural awareness (hopefully burying that insensitive “we’re all Americans” tripe) and looking at history from more perspectives than just that taught in school. They also are an example of how women have ALWAYS been part of history, which some people would rather us not believe.
I think Kit and Kaya were the newest American Girls when I started “aging out” of the books, but hearing about some of these kinda makes me want to revisit them!
I wasn’t gonna say anything, but you know what?
Nah.
OP (of the tweet thread) was either a actively trying to start shit or is just a huge fucking moron. Probably both.
I’d like to point out that the company that makes American Girl dolls actually doesn’t skimp when doing their research and they don’t make the dolls with the intent to be offensive in any way:
And they departed from the norm in Kaya’s doll to fit her culture! The other dolls all show their teeth, and Kaya does not because that is considered rude in the Nez Perce culture!
It is absolutely true that these books covered the stuff in history that was absent from our history books. I still distinctly remember reading about Addy being forced to eat bugs she missed on tobacco plants, and that started me out from a different perspective and made it easier for me to know to reject the sanitized version of the slave trade we’re taught in school. And these books are targeted at ages 8+, which is a pretty critical time for developing your own thinking and morals.
Also kanani (a girl of the year) and showing Hawai’i in a non touristy stereotypical way. (She’s wearing a mumu and kukui nuts)
lagonegirl
Solomon’s Shield is the name of the app
OMG Download this!!!! Stop Police Brutality!
‘Boro coming in clutch
this feels like an important time to bring this back
thank you! I was looking for this!
There are many ways to do goth styles…it doesn’t all have to look the same.
Anarchist tip: if you need some piece of equipment, or anything really, look up if there are any alternatives designed in or otherwise for exploited countries. People have invented many of the necessities for renewable power, medicine, machining, internet - all the comforts of modern life really - in ways that are low-tech, small-scale, often made of recycled or abundant materials, using little to no electricity, and best of all, absurdly cheap
Like a microscope and centrifuge made of paper that cost less than a dollar together, and a non-electric sun tracker for solar panels that costs about 1/30 what a commercial sun tracker does
Great for squats, occupations, communes, mutual aid, personal independence, etc.
While I strongly recommend you’re careful and judicious about what you download from a site like this– don’t pirate books by living authors, trust but verify, etc.–
the eye has an entire archive of old books about survivalism/building community in isolated and exploited countries that are “share as long as you keep it free”