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I dropped my phone in the shower and the water opened up instagram and changed my fucking PRONOUNS?????
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Instead of "live laugh love" or "home is where the heart is" my (wonderful, progressive, very accepting) dad put up the racism sign in the foyer
whats the racism sign?
The racism sign, as I like to call it, is from an art piece I made halfway through my first semester of art school:
It reads "any attempted theft will be reported to the police" in the 15 most commonly spoken languages by immigrants here other than English or other western european languages (in descending order).
This sign was only half of the art piece, the other half was the most stereotypically Icelandic painting I could think of:
When the piece was shown the painting and the sign were hung on opposite sides of the room, making the sign more of an afterthought for those who don't speak any of the languages written on the sign. Standing out just enough for them to notice it and maybe wonder what it said, but ultimately not giving it a second thought for the most part.
I wanted to highlight one of the most common ways racism and xenophobia present themselves here as well as the comfort of ignorance. The sign doesn't cater to you, you ignore it it, and you don't care what it might say. You don't have to think about it because it doesn't affect you.
For those who can read the sign though, or bother to translate it, this is just yet another reminder of people's ignorance and double standards. My inspiration for this piece came from my old workplace, where they had this sign hanging on one of the doors:
The main things that stood out about this to me were that
- It was the only sign on the premises written in anything other than Icelandic and/or English
- All of the additional languages (Vietnamese, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian) specifically targeted minority groups that already face discrimination here
- The location of the sign. We only had 1 of these, and they chose to put it up somewhere where only staff would see it rather than the customers. In fact, it was right next to the break room so you had to walk past it every time you went on break. And it was a sign reminding people not to steal. Big win for inclusivity here
People love saying that we're not racist/xenophobic here even though we very much are. The problem is just that so many people don't take the time to look when it doesn't directly affect them. I was very happy with my piece because people actually came up to me and asked what the sign said because they wanted to know, it started a conversation and made those previously unaware of this issue more aware. I wonder if these sorts of signs would be anywhere near as commonplace as they are if more people looked at them critically and asked "why is this the thing we bother translating?"
Anyway, all that aside I love my dad and I like the way this art piece turned out but also I am slightly worried about giving people the wrong idea when this is the first thing they see when they enter our home 💀
Well if you want my permission to show it then you have it :))
Anonymous asked:
It honestly delights me that you are from Eastern Europe and yet you know and use the word "scathing" in English. That is one of my favorite words and I would not expect someone to speaks a terrifying Slavic tongue to know or care about it, thank you Meri
Jdbsjdbandba;dnd oh my God. me a slavic prole i speak the pure beautiful tongue of yours well enough to tell that i am being condescended to
this video is putting me in a daze i swear
Opening up the skittles portal
HOW MANY CHECKMARKS DOES THIS GUY HAVE???????
he invented nyan cat he's allowed to have as many checkmarks as he wants
Orange and pink is a godly color combination. Orange typically isn't everyone's favorite color but she absolutely shines when she's with her girlfriend
Question is did Hobie find the graffiti or did he make it? 🤭
Here's a Cresselia I drew, based on my terrible memory! I ended up combining her regular and shiny palettes together, whoops.
btw it's okay if you can only convince yourself to do things with silly reasons. when i wash my face i narrate a "skincare routine" youtube video in my head. once, a pretty girl once said she was attracted to me while i was moving crates around, and that was my motivation to do yard work today. exercising is a lot easier when i think about how i want to be able to pick up my niece and swing her around even when she's older.
so like if pretending you're doing real-life stardew valley gets you out in the sun, or if making yourself a good meal makes you feel like you're the host of a cooking show, do it! do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself!
i'm the guy who writes the books that the protagonist in supernatural horror movies frantically reads somewhere in act ii. job's pretty easy. lot of "legends of vampires have recurred all throughout human history" and "demonologists agree that the quickest way to un-summon a demon is to trap it in a cursed object". no citations of course; they don't pay me citation money. i had to learn html back in the early aughts when everyone started seeking their supernatural info on websites they found via top search engines like FINDLER and WEBSIGHT but that's died down now which is great because i didn't have it in me to pick up css. currently working on a new book about horses that are evil. it's called HORSES THAT ARE EVIL in all caps so the protagonist can find it quickly to yank off the library shelf. it will be published 35 years ago.
Although I am not a necromancer and despise the practice I must admit that this is a most ridiculous statement.
I just want queer safety and queer happiness
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i made a higher resolution live slug reaction
bonus: a smiling version :)
okay i kept you all waiting long enough here's the pog version
dni if: you have perfect eyesight, clean your room regularly, never want any tattoos, hate milk, are taller than 5’5, don’t own a watch, hate on feel-good movies, don’t use chapstick, sleep with more than 2 pillows, prefer stem over humanities, never had an emo phase, have your own car, actually look like your age, live in a large city, use a planner for school/work, use twitter, have led lights in your room, like swedish fish, look good in yellow, have bad handwriting, or bite your nails.