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A VERY HAPPY EASTER (:

- ReverseRacism

#not this time bitch

bran moving to new locations to make weird eye contact with characters

The only reason Pitbulls are considered bad or dangerous dogs is because of racism and the only reason people are starting to realize they’re not is because white People are suddenly going “wow this racist stereotype we imposed on a dog typically owned by black people is wrong and we should fight against this without ever acknowledging it’s racist roots.” So yeah pitbulls were never bad dogs and we always knew that, y’all are just racist.

Gouyen (c.1857-1903): Wise Woman of the Apache

Footnotes and citations available in the footnotes on the main site: click here.

Thanks to the Mescalero Apache Tribe for looking over the entry and okaying it for online publication. 

If you’re interested in the book, I put up a ton of details about it here, and you can preorder online here. 

Next entry, something less grim and gritty. More details behind the cut.

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Deadpool + $7 million last-minute slash from its budget

Isn’t that what it means to be a hero? To keep trying to save people, even from themselves? 

-Thor [Ultimates 2 #4]

“The tea is peppermint.” Chadwick said y’all ain’t about to get him fired. I love him😂

They did it, they fucking did it.

sometimes I see shiny things like this 

or this

and instead of admiring them the ghosts of my protestant ancestors possess me and I think shit like ‘well that’s just a little too much’

my ancestor Pain Wilhelmina Smith wacks a stick around my brain like ‘you like that Catholic shit? you gonna pay indulgences for that, huh? punk? get yee to a single room log cabin and PRAY’

anyway, my room is absolutely bare and buying a piece of clothing for over 20 dollars pains me

kynosoural and @memories? a match made in heaven

You have this… friend. Really nice bloke, buys you a beer when you’re feeling down, kills the people who’ve wronged you, etc. You don’t actually know his name though.

“When did slavery end in America?”

If you ask a white teenager, you might get the answer, “Four hundred years ago.” But that’s not the answer. Four hundred years ago was 1615, when the Jamestown colony had only existed for eight years and chattel slavery was just beginning.

Others might say, “When Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, of course.” But that’s not right either. That only freed slaves in Confederate territory seized by the Union. The Union slave states—Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and the then-in-formation West Virginia—were exempt and allowed to keep their slaves, along with Tennessee, which had more or less been returned to the Union, and Union-loyal areas of Louisiana (including New Orleans) and coastal Virginia. Because it was unenforceable in most of the Confederate states, only about 1-2% of slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

“Well, then,” they might say, “it was definitely when the Thirteenth Amendment was passed.” And still, they would be wrong. While that pivotal law did free the vast majority of America’s slaves, the text of the law is this: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.“

So when did slavery end in America? The answer is, “Never.”

As discussed in the PBS documentary Slavery By Another Name (available in full by clicking the link), as the federal government withdrew funding and support for Reconstruction, the South began a system of leasing prisoners—allowed by law to be used as slaves—to the plantations to replace their free labor. Those affected by this system were treated even worse than those held in bondage under slavery before the Civil War, as slaves were an expensive investment—the $800 average cost of a slave in 1860 is roughly $21,000 in today’s dollars—but leased prisoners were replaced by the prison if killed and payment continued as scheduled, deincentivizing what little humane treatment was afforded slaves.

It was so profitable and in such high demand that, within ten years of its implementation, the stereotype of black people in America had changed. Prior to the Civil War, the stereotype of black people was that we were inherently docile, servile, and loyal. This only makes sense, because if we were viewed as inherently violent and thieving and criminal like we are today, why would they have trusted us with their livelihoods, their crops, and their children? (Side note: this is also where the stereotype of black people loving watermelon came from—the idea that if we were just given a cool slice of watermelon on a hot day, we would work forever). But once they were no longer allowed to own us outright and had to lease us from prisons, police and judges did everything in their power to make sure they had a robust source of free labor. Black people were arrested on false or trumped-up charges, and within ten years, the recorded arrest and conviction rate for black people had skyrocketed so much that the stereotype was entirely inverted from what it had been previously.

The prison system may have stopped leasing prisoners to plantations, but they still lease prison labor to corporations and local governments. Prisoners—primarily black, of course, because we are targeted—are forced to fight wildfires, manufacture consumer goods, and even make goat cheese for Whole Foods. Our economy was built on slave labor, and it still runs on it to a disconcerting extent. And to make that work, black and Latino neighborhoods are targeted by law enforcement and manipulated through things like school closings and schools being unfathomably underfunded to ensure an ever-growing population of prisoners, an ever-growing population of slaves.

So the next time someone asks you when slavery ended in America, tell them the truth. Tell them, “Never.”

“I hope i ruined your day.”

this is the perfect grade of good luck

reblog in 5 seconds and all of your grades will inch ever closer to perfect

all hozier songs can be sorted into two of four catagories: devotion, revolution, fey godlessness, and horny

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I'm back! It's 3 am for me but still have questions to ask? What do you think the kpop industry should have done better?

I think labels need to focus on idols’ mental health. Some of these kids start SO young. (Don’t quote me on these numbers but) Sehun got street-cast at 13. Hyuna and Taemin debuted at 14. Samuel was training with Seventeen when he was 11. You wonder why Jun almost threw a chair at that pretty girl on that one variety show? They have no idea how to interact with the other sex because they spend their formative years and adolescence training 24/7 with their members. They develop anxiety. They develop depression. They develop eating disorders. They starve themselves. Yixing practiced with weights tied to his hips to get better. EXID lied to their families and didn’t come home for the holidays to try and convince them that they were more successful than they were. These kids struggle SO MUCH for so many years and in some cases (Yixing, Lisa, Amber), these kids show up and can barely speak the language. Then you have idols who speak out about mental illness and struggles like Taeyeon and Yoongi and Jonghyun and KNetz ridicule them and call them weak and call them headcases. These labels have to do more to protect rookies and help keep them strong and healthy so that they don’t snap or buckle under the pressure. You take these kids from their families during the most difficult years of their life, stick them in a dorm with 15 other scared kids, make them work 20 hours a day and with no guarantee of success. It’s SO much pressure and it results in very unhealthy habits. There’s idols I genuinely worry about and after Jonghyun, I know that worry is warranted. Showbiz is notorious for impossibly high standards and I get that but the thing about K-Pop is that it starts SO YOUNG and it’s so much more dangerous when this mindset is being forced into the extremely susceptible brains of 15-year-old kids who are away from home for the first time.

Yma Sumac (1954)

Lost dog immediately recognizes his owner in court room. More interesting posts like this here.

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

I was going to wait until I had this blog up and running before I did another giveaway, but this one is so near and dear to my heart that I couldn’t wait. 

I have been a fan of kpop since 2015, and I first fell in love with Super Junior. But only a few months later I listened to SHINee and fell in love with their music and their style. I was devestated to learn of Jonghyun’s passing and vowed that I would make him proud if I ever got the chance to do so. 

For those of you who don’t know, Jonghyun’s last album Artist | Poet, will be released on January 24, and all proceeds will go to his family. Something I want to do is give away albums to fans who might not be able to afford this album but truly want it. 

I’m not doing this for a pat on the back, I don’t want to gain anything from this. But Jonghyun was someone who I personally admired and I want to do something for his fans who loved and admired him as well. So here are the rules. 

001. you must reblog and/or like this post to be entered into the giveaway (you can reblog as many times as you want

002. you must be comfortable giving me your phone number (this is just in case you’re international and it requires it)

003. you must enter by February 1st. That is when I will end the giveaway and notify the winners.

004. there will be three winners 

005. you don’t have to follow me or anything like that, just reblog and like.

My hope with this give away is to give something to fans who want some sort of closure from Jonghyun. He was an amazing human being, and we’re lucky enough to get a final album from him, my hope is that people find peace after hearing it. 

Again please understand that i’m not trying to gain from this, I just want to do something kind for his fans who loved him dearly and miss him.

A special group, we like to call,“the IT Cast.”

Fun animal facts I have learned being a zoo docent

1. There are several ways to classify the large cats, one of the more useful ones is into the roaring cats (tigers, lions) and the purring cats (bobcats, lynxes). The puma (also known as the mountain lion) is the largest cat that purrs. I’ve heard it up close, it’s amazing. A cheetah’s purr sounds like an idling motorcycle engine.

2. Kangaroos cannot move their legs independently of each other, they have to move them in sync - when they’re on land. When they’re swimming, they can move them separately. Hopping is their most efficient way to move - a walking kangaroo is awkward as hell. They swing both legs forward using their tail as a third leg to prop up while their legs swing.

3. People often think that flamingoes’ knees bend the wrong way. They don’t - the joint you’re seeing in the middle of their leg isn’t their knee, it’s their ankle. Their knee is up by their body, and it bends the same way ours does.

4. Giraffes only sleep 1-2 hours a day.

5. Bald eagles’ vocalizations are not what you expect. When you see a flying bald eagle in the movies and hear that majestic caw sound? That isn’t an eagle, it’s been dubbed over with another bird, usually a red-tailed hawk. Bald eagles actually sound…not majestic. Kind of like if a kitten could be a bird.

6. Elephants are one of only a handful of animals that can pass the mirror test - in other words, they can recognize their own reflection (and not think it’s another animal, as dogs and cats usually do). They tested this by placing a chalk mark on an elephant’s forehead and then showing it a mirror. The elephant investigated the mark on its own forehead, indicating it knew that it was looking at itself.  The only animals that pass this test are the higher primates, the higher cetaceans (orcas, dolphines), elephants, and weirdly, magpies.

7. One-fifth of all the known mammal species are bats.

8. A kangaroo mother can have three joeys simultaneously at different stages of development: an embryo in her womb (kangaroos can do what’s called embryonic diapause which means sort of putting the development on pause until she’s ready for it to develop further), a joey in her pouch attached to one nipple, and a joey out of the pouch on the ground who nurses from the other one. The amazing thing? Each of her nipples make different formulations of milk for each joey’s different nutritional needs.

9. Bonobos, our closest genetic relative (they are more closely related to us than they are to either chimps or gorillas) are almost entirely non-aggressive, matriarchal, and use sex to solve all their problems. They engage in both same and opposite sex interactions, non-penetrative sex (oral, rubbing, manual) and with any age. That’s an interesting area to work in, lemme tell you.

10. Tortoises have super loud sex. Like, really loud.

11. All grizzlies are brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzlies (grizzlies are a sub-categorization of the brown bear).

12. Reindeer are the only deer species where both males and females grow antlers. The males shed theirs the beginning of December, the females shed theirs in the spring. So all of Santa’s reindeer are girls, heh. I love telling little kids that.

13. If a rhinoceros knocks off its horn, it grows back faster than you’d expect. One of ours, Rosie, has knocked hers off twice.

14. Gorillas get crushes on each other. And on the humans that take care of them. Male gorillas also masturbate. I don’t know if the females do, I’ve never seen it. Sometimes it’s like a soap opera up in there.

15. Langur monkeys are silvery-gray in color - their babies are bright orange. Like Cheeto orange, I do not exaggerate.

16. Polar bear fur is not white, it’s transparent, like fiber optics. Also, their skin is black.

Proving a point to my boyfriend.

PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry