Nela Tabris for @geekspren
My half of an art trade with wonderful @pestopascal, thank you for the opportunity to draw her ^^
This is what makes learning Spanish so uncertain -- I get told some word by Duolingo, that contradicts what I learned growing up along the US-Mexico border, and neither agrees with the words my co-worker from Columbia uses
:D
When I was a kid, we lived in Chile, and my mum had a friend who was from another LatAm country (I don't remember which) and one time she told a taxi driver to "keep the change" but she said "y quedate el pico", which to the Chilean taxi driver meant "and put away your prick"
i can’t decide if this is the single coolest girl in the world for making danger her middle name or the silliest for not seeing the raw power of “millipede danger” which is the greatest name i have ever heard
It's my favorite time of year! Time to make my annual blog post about the best queer books I read in the last 12 months!
I've been doing this since 2017 so here, go back and see some trends: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Now, you may look at the covers of this year's batch and think... Four out of five of those are... kind of intense looking. Are you okay. And the answer is no, but are any of us? These books will help! Probably!
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (lesbian, gay, bisexual, poly characters)
Ok so this book comes with like. All of the trigger warnings. Government sanctioned homophobia, racism, eugenics, graphic depictions of violence... read this one when you're feeling strong. It's a fantasy novel about characters who fight against those things in a world colonized by a profit-driven (and often, too familiar) empire. Brilliantly written, but steel your heart.
Twelve Percent Dread by @emilyscartoons (nonbinary characters)
Let's lighten up a bit, shall we? This one's a graphic novel that, as promised on the back cover, is fast paced and action-packed. Follow the adventures of Katie and Nas as they navigate jobs, adulthood, and the whims of one eccentric tech CEO who's going to change the world, one way or another.
The World We Make by @nkjemisin (ace, gay, lesbian, trans characters)
This one's a sequel, so sorry (not sorry) you're going to have to read The City We Became first. You'll love it, and you'll love this sequel. It's about New York manifested in human avatars, and it's about home and the power of being where you belong. The characters deal with some very real, familiar problems - and then they STOMP ON THEM WITH AWESOME GIANT CITY POWERS. Very satisfying read, highly recommend.
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (wlw characters & general gender shenanigans)
This one's the third in the series, also not sorry about this one, start with Gideon the Ninth. It's sci fi! It's necromancy! God is there and he's depressed. It's really hard to describe.
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow (bisexual, lesbian characters)
A novella for when you are short on time or attention span and want a Sleeping Beauty remix told by an author who knows her folklore. Definitely have the second novella in the series, A Mirror Mended, on hand for when you finish - you'll want more.
the-regeneratin-degenerate
Modern poetry at its finest
In 20 years no one’s gonna know what this means.
misskittycoventry
The super suit reference held up for like 14 years so I’m not too sure about that.
17 yrs
i have the type of gender where if you’re attracted to me, you’re gay. it’s always gay. my gender is gay
imagine trying to understand the locked tomb without knowing anything about whakapapa
Yeah! That's only fair, right?
First off, disclaimer that I'm nowhere near an expert. I've fallen down a few research rabbit holes, but I live almost as geographically far from Aotearoa as it's possible to get, so I was starting from zero. I don't know how much I still don't know, so I do recommend people do their own research rather than relying on me. But I can provide some sources to act as a jumping off point, and some advice from my own experience!
Māori history is recorded in oral tradition, so there aren't really any central source texts that can be translated and read. You have to sort of poke around, gather a lot of conflicting information, and then evaluate the sources of that information to see how seriously you should take them. Maybe it's just because I am like little baby, but I found I had to spiral in on answers. Every new piece of information provided new context for things I knew, or thought I knew, and I found that there was often no one right answer to a question. Māori society has a lot of internal cultural diversity, so multiple versions of the same story and multiple perspectives on the same tradition can be true at once.
You'll find that many sources use a lot of untranslated Māori words, to the point of being incomprehensible the first time you read them. It may be frustrating at first, but none of these words actually have English translations. Learning what they mean on their own merit is kind of the point. Just keep looking them up, and you'll learn to understand them from context.
So, sources.
- To start simple, the definition of whakapapa in a Māori-to-English dictionary.
- Here is the article on whakapapa from Te Ara, The Encyclopedia Of New Zealand. The article is credited to Dr. Rawiri Taonui.
- Here is definition from the Ngāti Rārua Ātiawa Iwi Trust, a land trust on behalf of two South Island iwi. Due to the nature of the source, this definition focuses on the role of whakapapa in land rights and legal inheritance.
- Here is a definition from Tākai, a website dedicated to parenting advice. Due to the nature of the source, it focuses on the role of whakapapa in formation of identity and personal security.
This next source I'm linking with the caveat that it is intended for Māori readers searching for their own whakapapa. I happened to find it via googling, but please be respectful of the sources listed in the document. Whakapapa is often considered tapu, or sacred, and it can be very personal information.
I'm running out of time right now, but this is the first place I'd recommend branching out in understanding from just whakapapa:
Compilation of Annabel being depicted as a monster and a villain for self care <3
DIRECTOR: Hey Tom Hardy here is some weird shit we're gonna put on your face to hide your beautiful little kissy lips pretty boy mouth
TOM HARDY, ENTIRELY NOT LISTENING BECAUSE HE'S BUSY FORMULATING AN ACCENT NO HUMAN BEING ON EARTH HAS EVER FUCKING HAD: Sure boss
reinventing just...what people did before we invented refrigerators...
cowpokeprose
Anonymous asked:
Uh??? The facts abt ur parents??? Whadda hell would u be open to doing more facts abt ur wild parents bc I love them
Sure! They’re very weird.
- My dad regularly sings to my mom about how much he loves her while standing exactly in the way of whatever she’s trying to do
- My parents didn’t marry until I was 4 and they regularly forget that they’re spouses. They generally refer to themselves as partners
- My mom proposed to my dad by yelling at him from a room away that her taxes were fucked and they had to get married to which my father replied “this is how I always dreamed you’d ask me!” and pretending to swoon
- My dad appears as an actor in the movie Swoon, supposedly an important piece of queer cinema
- My parents were both punks in their youth
- When I came home for thanksgiving with a mohawk, unannounced, my mom started crying because I looked “so handsome” and “just like your dad” and kept petting my head
- My dad only says “that’s my boy” to me when I say something gay about men
- My mom and dad have the same taste in women but opposite taste in men
- One time we were watching a movie set in Chicago and my mom turned to my dad, and in the most sentimental mom voice, said “Chicago honey! We haven’t been there since the anarchist convention!”
- My dad worked on California’s weed legalization bill
The anarchist version of gomez and morticia
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
When I was a kid my mum had one of those great big oversized Reader’s Digest World Atlases you still see pop up in thrift stores from time to time, and, fun fact, at the time our edition had been published, a few years before my birth, we had not yet orbited the back of the moon, and so while the front of the moon was shown in great detail (humanity having studied it for tens of thousands of years), the far side, the dark side of the moon, the side that is permanently facing away from us, that side was mostly just blank, with a very few details around the edges that we are able to see from here due to the slight wobble.
Seeing the dark side of the moon is that recent to us, as a species. And here it is, just another thing to pause on for a moment, and smile at, and go, “Neat!” before we scroll on to something else.
The present blows my mind, sometimes. I kind of love it.
This is marvelous!
bf: (slow smile) what? me: nothin :) me, internally: but was “reservoir dogs” actually meant to be that gay? the moony eyes, the first names, the hair combing, the shakespearean bloodbath, the tender cradling, the tortured deathbed confession. is tarantino capable of that kind of emotional sensitivity? even if he didn’t intend it, does it matter? can’t we assign meaning outside the intention of the artist? maybe the issue is not with tarantino, but with myself. am i ascribing homosexual undertones to a fundamentally paternal relationship, does my confusion about the nature of the interactions between mr. white and mr. orange reveal not only my own problematic expectations for “normal” male interactions, but the uneasy role of the Father in our society? truly the patriarchy confounds at every turn
