the israeli forces are threatening to demolish homes in the town of silwan, if no action is taken this will happen in 48 hours. if the owners don't demolish their own homes, israeli forces will do it and charge a fee. don't let this die down when they need you most
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hey so maybe dont buy chunks of scottish land?? we kind of have a history with losing rights to our land to outsiders and an ongoing problem with losing agriculture land to people not using it for farming. buying land that you wont use for lord status is incredibly insenstive.
we’re not a mythical old land you can become a lord of. we’re a modern country just like the rest of you, we didnt stop moving when your specific ancestors left. am sick of the attitude that anyone can buy scottish culture and be entitled to it without learning the first thing about us beyond what you see on tv written by americans.
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May I suggest an alternative for people who want the novelty of a noble title without buying up Scottish land?
Presenting: Sealand
Sealand is a tiny independent principality just outside of Britain! You can pay a small sum to become a lord, lady, countess etc, without the dodgy colonial undertones of buying Scottish land - and if I remember correctly, much of the money goes BACK into ensuring Sealand can remain independent. And it was formed out of a desire to get around the UKs then draconian broadcasting restrictions, originally as a pirate radio station. Ergo, instead of ‘buy up Scottish land for clout’ it can be ‘become a lord with a nice side of fuck the British government’ - enjoy!
That ad is not for people to “buy up Scottish land” - in fact, it is for the preservation and protection of Scottish woodland. If you buy one of these packages, you get one square foot of land dedicated to you in a nature preserve and a novelty certificate declaring you a lord or lady since that’s the traditional title for Scottish landowners - obviously you don’t get a real royal title. You don’t actually control the land, and of course you can’t build or develop on it. The money you spend goes towards protecting and conserving natural flora and fauna, replacing invasive and non-native species with native plants, and repairing damage done commercial forestry.
Basically, this ad is just asking for donations to a nature preserve with a gimmick.
The band combines traditional metal sounds with indigenous Brazilian stylings executed on flutes, foot rattles, and other instruments. The two singers present lyrics completely in Tupi Guarani, an ancient language spoken by tribes throughout Brazil and other South American lands. Arandu Arakuaa, whose name translates in Tupi Guarani – or just “Tupi” for short – to “wisdom of the cosmos,” is the only contemporary band to sing in that language, and their colorful lyrics are about indigenous legends, rights, and the struggles facing native Brazilian tribes today. Some call Arandu Arakuaa the first “folk-metal” band in the history of Brazil.
For anyone interested in adventurecore, cryptidcore, cottage/farmcore, piratecore, fantasy, medieval stuff, liminal spaces, and/or naturecore, I would HIGHLY suggest listening to Fleet Foxes because this band pretty much covers ALL of these themes in their music!
Sadly thinking about a previous crush that you regretfully did not confess to, but still want an upbeat vibe? Bedouin Dress is the perfect song!
Feeling like living by the sea and then surrendering to madness, while doing a BOPPING banjo and guitar duet? Sim Sala Bim is the one for ya troubles!
Going on an expedition, in winter, with your sibling and showing them the haunting ancestral creations of your family as a ‘bonding’ experience? Blue Ridge Mountains is PERFECT!
Love stop-motion animation, with a hint of myth and mystery throughout the entire music video? THE SHRINE/AN ARGUMENT IS JUST WHAT YOU NEED!
With 4 full-albums, one mini album, and a previous EP with some lovely covers of popular songs, Fleet Foxes 🦊🌿🌱✨ has become one of my favorite bands to listen to at any time because of how passionate, haunting, and comforting their music sounds. It mixes a lot of classic Appalachian folk with bluegrass, ‘medieval’/acid folk similar to the underground sounds of the 60s and 70s, and experimental sounds!
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Bo Burnham’s new Netflix special is excellent and a really great capture of the isolation and loneliness that came out of the pandemic specifically, but also just modern life generally. But the male response to the song “White Woman’s Instagram” is proof that men have absolutely no critical thinking skills and didn’t listen to the lyrics or literally anything Bo Burnham has done his entire career, and thus cannot be trusted to be comedy or even general media consumers. I’ve seen so many comments from men about how women don’t need to be sensitive about the song because he’s just poking fun at how basic white women are on the internet and we need to remember to take a joke.
Except that’s not what the song is about, you boneheads. He’s not making fun of women, white or otherwise, dudes. He’s making fun of you and your constant need to devalue women’s interests and online personas as shallow and “basic” and using the modifier of “white” to act as a cover for your misogyny while ignoring that they’re real human beings with feelings on the other side of that screen. He literally sings about her dead mom. You think he’s making fun of a girl for posting an old photo with a caption about how much she misses her dead mom? That’s the comedy bit for you?
Once again, y’all’s English teachers failed you.
“Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, we wouldn’t have rock and roll as we know it now. Her pioneering guitar virtuosity was fueled by the gospel swinging, shouting, holy-spirit energy of the evangelical church and the blues she heard on Chicago’s Maxwell Street, which crossed each other like crackling live wires in her hands – and boom, we’re at the beginning of the revolution that would later be widely and wrongly attributed, almost entirely, to the white teens and young men who emulated her. “ - Cheryl Pawelski
Work Songs and Sea Shanties
There’s been a lot of posts making the rounds discussing the ties between industrial union songs, folk songs, and sea shanties (since there’s been a rise in sea shanty popularity because of tik tok.) But I have yet to see one making the direct connection from African American work songs. Which is a little disheartening, as a black person who has always liked and enjoyed the genre.
Work songs have existed lonnnnnggg before shanties. But the distinct lyrical and instrumental form of what we immediately think of as “sea shanty” had antecedents in the working chants of international maritime traditions. Mainly those sung while loading vessels with cotton in ports of the Southern United States, during the 18th and 19th century. And you know what also rose in the 18th and 19th century?
Answer: Chattel Slavery.
“In the first few decades of the 19th century, White European-American culture, especially the Anglophone—the sailors’ “Cheer'ly Man” and some capstan songs notwithstanding—was not known for its work songs. By contrast, African workers, both in Africa and in the New World, were widely noted to sing while working. The fact that European observers found African work-singers so remarkable suggests that work songs were indeed rather foreign to their culture.” Source
Slave music has many distinct qualities. In early captivity, drums were used to provide rhythm, but they were banned in later years because of the fear that Africans would use them to communicate in a rebellion (they were, and also used as escape codes.) Slaves then resorted to generating percussion, using other instruments or their own bodies. Another quality is the call-and-response format, where a leader sing’s a verse or verses and the others respond with a chorus. There’s also field hollers, shouts, moans, etc.
As slaves were forced into christianizing, their work songs evolved into Spirituals. Other measures to prevent slave rebellion included making sure that slaves from the same tribe were intentionally scattered, so that they could not share the same language. The forbiddance of practicing indigenous religions and speaking anything other than English meant that eventually, the large groups of slaves were once again able to communicate with each other.
Spirituals were largely informed by the colonial hymns and folk songs of the time. They had the multitudinous purpose of 1.) keeping everyone working 2.) imparting Christian values 3.) describing the hardships of slavery, and 4.) hiding codes to escape. Famous Spirituals include “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Wade in the Water” and they were a significant part of navigating the Underground Railroad.
The switch to steam powered ships by the end of the 19th century gradually made sea shanties obsolete as work songs, so they are largely preserved as folk music. But because African Americans were still forced into the labour class, their work songs continued to evolve. Here are some chain gang songs for example.
Work songs > Spirituals > Gospel Music > Blues > Every Modern Black American Musical Genre That we Know Today
Not only that, but the root genre of work songs still exist across the globe, distinct to the agricultural and industrial work force of each culture. These videos were all posted within the last 5-10 years, from Tasmania, South Africa, The Philippines, and Tanzania. You can hear the connection between them being the tremendous labour they do.
i know the fact that the name johnny is in so many folk songs and sea shanties and whatnot is due to the fact that it’s just a really common name but i choose to believe instead that every single song with that name in it is, in fact, about the exact same guy. the johnny cinematic universe, if you will.
Anonymous asked:
Hey!! This fae stuff is super interesting!! If I wanted to learn more about it, where would you recommend I look?
I have no idea if this will show up because it has a bunch of links…. But yeah searching for information on fae mythology and lore is hard because most of the time fiction stories are there and sometimes you just want to read a good old fashioned guidebook!
Here’s some:
Irish lore (I LOVE THIS SITE)
Classifications of faeries (wiki - brief rundown of the courts)
Note that the interpretations of the Seelie and Unseelie courts vary- some say they are strictly good and evil, some say they are day and night, some say they are for or against humans (though I see it more as some are less favourable or more favourable but both are dangerus and tricky), and some say (and I favour this take) that that are separated into seasons with Seeliee being spring and summer courts and Unseelie being autumn and winter courts which are then classified further into trooping and solitary fae.
Common theories and beliefs of the fae tie into pagan traditions, such as fae folk being more active on pagan sacred days like Samhein, Mabon, Beltane and Yule which are on this chart.
I suggest if you want to know more about the fae folk you should look into studying pagan practices and beliefs of old because often they correlate, as it is believed the fae folk celebrate the same things and due to their attachment with nature it makes sense we would have learned from them ehehe. Also if you want to write about them youll know what times of year they probably find sacred and what times of year people are more likely to get results if they give them gifts at these times.
Some books:
Fairies: The Myths, Legends, and Lore By Skye Alexander (I like this one too because it explains differences between sylphs, sprites, nymphs, selkie and other fae.)
The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries By Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz talks about the fae faith itself and I’ve actually read snippets of this in PDF form but I can’t for the life of me find it now!
Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia by Carol Rose
all of you typing your names into uquiz without a second thought are going to be in a hell of a pickle when you discover uquiz is run by the fae folk and your souls belong to them now. good luck trying to go outside when you’re trapped in a fairy tower
self care is walking into the forest and letting the fae take you
Today I learned oaks can talk with one another and collectively decide not make acorns for an entire year to try and starve as many squirrels as they can so next year’s acorns will have a higher chance of turning into trees, and my entire understanding of the world just shifted a little.
I hope y’all understand the racism apparent here and how black women are being expected to conform to the standards of white womanhood in order to be actually classified as women
I feel like it’s important to note that reproductive rights means something different to people of color, specifically black people, than white people because they were saying these women needed to go on birth control to be able to compete. Birth control really can have long term effects and how dare they try to control black women’s bodies like this. And it’s interesting how this is ONLY affecting black women. Because we don’t fit the Eurocentric idea of womanhood.