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Been dead over here bc I spent all of March/part of April fr having some kind of episode but I'm all good now and I wanted to share my final project for a class here. It's a zine about angels and computers.
If you like it, a reblog is much appreciated! :3
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Been dead over here bc I spent all of March/part of April fr having some kind of episode but I'm all good now and I wanted to share my final project for a class here. It's a zine about angels and computers.
If you like it, a reblog is much appreciated! :3
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coolest kids i knew in middleschool
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hewwo! i forgot to post this here but i wrote a short story last year and it's on itch.io now and you can read it for free! :3
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doodle based on a painting i made for my mom in like 8th grade
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A short comic I made about my experiences as a seasonal worker, and the way places change you.
Prints & PDF
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I love you robots and artificial intelligence with mental illness. I love you repression being depicted as literally deleting archived data to preserve functionality. I love you anxiety attacks being depicted as a system crashing virus. I love you ptsd being depicted as an annoying pop-up. I love you anxiety disorder being depicted as running thousands of simulations and projected outcomes. I love you artificial beings being shown to be human via their own artificiality.
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Reblog to have the most homoerotic year of your life 2024
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"they should teach media literacy in schools" english class "they should teach students how to spot misinformation" it's english class "they should teach kids critical thinking" it's called english class
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The weird thing about the debate on Israeli's indigenousness is that "indigenous" doesn't mean... you're From somewhere. You can stop being indigenous; you can stop being indigenous while still existing in the place your ancestors were born. "Indigenous" isn't that you have the memory of belonging to a place or notice little cultural things in your family that tie into your ancestral homeland. I mean, there's a reason we don't call British people in Britan indigenous.
Indigenousness is about perpetual opposition to settler colonialism, which is about the complete uprooting of a pre-existing culture and forcing that land to accommodate an extractivist, export economy. That's what it is. It's not about being from a place or even having a """tie to the land.""" (The "tie to the land" is definitely an element of indigenousness but it's really just a romanticized simplification of indigenousness — a simple answer for why indigenous people are at the frontline of environmental movements.)
When the Spanish came to Mexico, they worked with the noble Nahua people to de-indigenize them. They did this by converting them to Catholicism, teaching them European writing (Latin) and academics, and relying on the Nahua nobility to help enforce the new political system. Fransicans are usually credited with converting Mexico to Christianity, but the ones who did most of the work were the young, Nahua "niños del monasterio" who marched into the villages and burned the idols of the gods — of both their own and other indigenous communities. (Nahua soldiers are credited with being the ones who helped the Spanish conquer the rest of Mexico's native people).
Indigenous/mestizo scholar Chimalpahin wrote about the history of the "Aztecs" by calling every Nahua god a demon, by positioning the Spanish like a good development and by arguing his specific Nahua city was better than the other by appealing to Spanish sentiments. ("But maybe he was just speaking to the Spanish!!!" He wrote in Nahuatl for presumably a Nahua audience.) (Academics don't agree on whether to call him indigenous).
"Chimalpahin and the noble Nahuas were violently forced into assimilating into Spanish nobility; you are sick for trying to argue that they weren't indigenous anymore." I'm not arguing that they weren't, but they were players in de-indigenizing Mexico, and it's important that it was forced.
De-tribalization and de-indigenization are always violent and ugly; you don't lose your indigenousness, usually, because you're evil. Chimalpahin and the noble Nahuas were still victims and horribly traumatized. They were also enforcers of de-indigenization.
Anyway, I'm mestizo and have ties to central Mexico and feel a sense of belonging there, at times. I'm not indigenous to it though. The memory of any indigenousness in my family is just a memory now. We visit, and I eat so so many poblano peppers. But we've detribalized, become borderline settlers by participating in capitalism, lightened our skin through generations, probably intentionally (many Mexicans have heard the phrase that we have to "better our race"). If I wanted to actually reconnect, it would be a lot of work; any reconnecting indigenous person can tell you how much work it is.
I know people get really prissy about how "You can't compare Israelis to white European settlers in America because we actually have a connection to the land!!!! We are actually from there!! >:/ some of us are not even white!"
Well let's think of the majority brown mestizo (mixed) population of Mexico. Are they indigenous because they might have "ties to the land" and because they have lineage from it?? Maybe they were once, but for the majority now — no. Without a mass effort to oppose settler colonialism and reconnect, mestizos are not indigenous and might never be again, no matter how much of their pre-colombian culture persists in our quieter traditions and language. And the Mexican state is happy to co-opt aesthetic representations of indigenousness, to talk about our glorious "Aztec" ancestry, while actively hurting indigenous populations.
So assume some, or lets say all!, Israelis have every possible connection to the land (lets say they love the olive trees and cry over the murder of all the Nile crocodiles), maybe they're visibly non-white, maybe they can trace their lineage to the exact spot where they stand. But if they're on the side of a settler colonial, capitalist state (say it was even forced on them!! say they were even made to move there!!! say they are like the Nahua nobles) — how indigenous are you?
How much longer will you remain " indigenous " ???
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Ribcage is a hell of a word. Like yeah my bones trapped my heart inside my chest if u even care. I don’t know if it wants out
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for an art request, maybe smile dog but as a lil puppy?
She has human baby teeth
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these pictures of slenderman at dashcon will forever be like my favorite thing ever
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Suck your TBR Dry — 2024 Reading Challenge
Struggling with having too many books on your shelf that you haven't read? Join me for a fang-tastic laid-back reading challenge where you pick the books you read.
The SYTB 2024 Challenge is split into a monthly prompt and bingo board, allowing you to choose how to work through your TBR!
SUCK YOUR TBR DRY ; MONTHLY CHALLENGE
A series of prompts to help read through your owned TBR; Interpret each and every prompt to your heart's desire as long as you get your monthly taste of a good read. Prompts are meant to be open-ended, and any description included is there to help inspire you.
The only rule is to read whatever you feel fits the prompt! It's not meant to be very strict. Can be eBooks, physical books, library books, audiobooks, etc!
download the designated print-out here (5.5in x 8.5in)
SYTB ; BINGO
Complete a bingo board of general prompts to attempt to win a bingo or an entirely completed board. If you feel any prompt isn't working for your TBR, feel free to substitute (just not too often!)
download the designated print-out here (8.5in x 11in)
SCHEDULE
I will be posting about each prompt at the start of every month. I will also explain what book I am reading and why I chose it for that prompt (both for accountability and to inspire anyone unsure of what to read).
JOINING THE CHALLENGE
Anyone is open to join along for the ride of working on an owned TBR. You can simply use the Storygraph Challenge, you can use the promo graphic to announce it, you can do it in private by printing out the printables (all made to print b&w). Whatever floats your boat!
tags: #SYTD2024
CREDIT
If you post about the challenge, please credit me (@/bitethebard) or tag me. I created all the designs/graphics, which people are available to use as long as it is credited to bitethebard.tumblr.com.
Happy Reading!
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