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thelettilady · 1 year

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Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

If I had a song that described every inch of me…it’ll be by the lovely Nina Simone. It’s so easy to be misunderstood, and I had to learn that everyone isn’t even trying to understand. Go where people want to list. Want to learn. Want to grow. An overthinker needs a good communicator. A good communicator needs a great listener. And a great listner also needs a listener even if they talk with…

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candicoated · 1 year

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White supremacists will purposefully show the worst slums of former colonized spaces and then the best part of colonial architecture and then be like.:

"See these people can't run anything on their own, they need us. If colonialism was so bad, then the nations would look better. Why does every country they touch end up worse than when we leave?"

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olivettheory · 2 years

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The Slave Ship Named Jesus

WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram Goodreads Medium Tumblr A Vessel of Untold Horrors Little is known about this slave trading ship other than it was built in the Free City of Lubbock (Germany) circa 1520, acquired by the English circa 1540, and used mainly as a slave trading ship by the English from 1562 – 1568. One source states that this ship was under the direction of Admiral Sir…

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dippedanddripped · 1 year

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Panini x Reebok Question Mid Black Pulsar Prizm 4 November 2022

#Panini x Reebok Question Mid Black Pulsar Prizm #allen iverson #reebok questions #sneaker blogger #British sneaker brands

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robmoses1 · 4 months

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The Many Lights

There are so many different lights going on in this picture. The street lights on the street and in the park by the lake and then this really bright section in the middle. You can see the light just pouring out of the middle layer of the photo. I was tempted to tone that down, but I figured I’d leave it because that’s what it does. Then all the smaller lights climbing up the mountain in the…

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espressoristretto-patronum · 3 days

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A/N: Hi! I'm kinda new in the Hogwart's legacy fandom and I've seen so many people sharing their MC and their stories and I just wanted to share mine too!

English is not my first language, and my blogger skills (?) are poor, so proceed with caution!

Meet my MC!

Name: Tori Lewis

Birthday: 14th June 1875

Birthplace: Turin, Italy

Pronouns: She/her

Sexuality: Lesbian; pretty in the closet before going to Hogwarts, since she lived in a muggle world)

House: Hufflepuff

Wand: Acaia wood, unicorn core, 11'' length, quite bendy flexibility

Patronus: Jack Russell Terrier

Quidditch position: Seeker; Imelda practically begged her to join the Hufflepuff team because "I need a good competition in order to improve myself!"

Some extra facts!

- Her name

Tori stands for Vittoria. Why Vittoria? Because she is half-British and half-Italian (from her mother's side) 🤌. I chose the name because I like to think that her parents thought about Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and King Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy, both sovereigns by the time of Tori's birth.

- Why Turin?

Because well, it's my birthplace! Also, Turin is a special city: it has a lot of esoteric story. In a few words, this city joins London and San Francisco to create the triangle of Black Magic, but also the triangle of White Magic too with Lyon and Prague.

Future

- Spouse: Poppy Sweeting (she IS wife)

- Career: Auror and Natty is her partner, they're thick as thieves and menace to their superior

I think that Poppy's mission is still saving beasts from poachers, so I headcanon she is a sort of mix of Auror and magizoologist (guys, I have no idea about careers in wizard world lol)

- Residence: Hogsmeade (I headcanon that since she is a Keeper, she doesn't want to live far away from Hogwarts, I'm also too in love with Hogsmeade)

My personal headcanons with future wife Poppy 💛

- Even if they're in the same house and same bedroom, Poppy had never spoken to Tori before their first Beasts Class together because the last was often away and Poppy herself is a night owl, visiting Highwing or studying beasts, etc.

- Poppy was also sure that the new fifth year will become like her schoolmates. Because sure, why the new cool, brave student will be friend with Peculiar Poppy? But fortunately Tori is such a good egg, kneazles can confirm.

- Tori decided to kneel in front of the Graphorn (because we're not a monster, right?) following Poppy's example. It was Poppy that waited patiently for the mother dragon to take its egg back. It was Poppy that put down her wand when centaurs came to her. And of course, you should show respect to an Hippogriff before approaching.

That's why she chose to kneel. The Graphorn has fought well, it deserved respect.

- Poppy felt in love first. Tori felt harder.

- Poppy doesn't need protection but loves how protective Tori is.

- Their love language is physical touch. Every single one. Surprise hugs from behind? Lovely! Forehead kiss? Adorable! Cuddles in the vivarium with beasts? The best!

- Should I really say it? Poppy is an adorable little spoon and love to be wrapped in Tori's arms.

- Tori is a golden retriever. Already from day one when Poppy asked to follow her in the forest.

- Tori feel like she could die because of Poppy's cuteness, often screaming "STOP BEING SO CUTE AND SO KISSABLE I CAN'T FOCUS"

- Poppy is a great cook, Tori isn't at all. But a few times she has tried to cook to cheer Poppy up. The result was messy but still edible and Poppy appreciated the efforts.

- They're bad dancers but they don't care, they're having fun

- I have a very sappy proposal headcanon.

Tori proposed to Poppy after a couple of months after graduation (lesbian couples move fast, okay?) and she decided to be extremely romantic.

She studied where and when to find Mooncalves' dance and saved the day on her calendar. When the day came, she took Poppy and flied on Highwing to the special place.

Poppy thought the surprise was the mooncalves' dance, instead she turned around and found Tori on her knees, with a ring in her hand. A very shining ring that a selvatic niffler has tried to steal before Poppy could say yes, jumping from a bush the moment the ring sparkled under the moonlight. The little beast had caused little chaos but fortunately they catched it before was too late. With the retrieved ring in one hand, and the beast thief in the other, Tori asked grinning "do you still want to marry meee?"

I've surely more facts and headcanons for my MC, but I think this post is already long enough!

Anddd that was my MC! If you've read so far, thank you so much!

#hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy mc #hogwarts legacy oc #poppy sweeting x mc

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renthony · 1 year

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Anyway here's my reading list for my big film censorship project in case anyone's been wondering what I've been up to when I'm not being a stupid idiot cringey fandom blogger or whatever the jackasses think I am:

Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, by Frank Cullen

Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925, by David Monod

From Traveling Show to Vaudeville: Theatrical Spectacle in America, 1830-1910, edited by Robert M. Lewis

American Vaudeville as Ritual, by Albert F. McLean Jr.

American Vaudeville As Seen by its Contemporaries, edited by Charles W. Stein

Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville, by M. Alison Kibler

The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian, by Rick DesRochers

Humor and Ethnic Stereotypes in Vaudeville and Burlesque, by Lawrence E. Mintz

"Vaudeville Indians" on Global Circuits, 1880s-1930s, by Christine Bold

The Original Blues: The Emergence of the blues in African American Vaudeville, by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff

Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era, by Brenda Dixon Gottschild

The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World, by Randall Stross

Edison, by Edmund Morris

The Rise and Place of the Motion Picture, by Terry Ramsaye

The Romantic History of the Motion Picture: A Story of Facts More Fascinating than Fiction, by Terry Ramsaye (Photoplay Magazine)

Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company, by Charles Musser

The Kinetoscope: A British History, by Richard Brown, Barry Anthony, and Michael Harvey

The Man Who Made Movies: W.K.L. Dickson, by Paul Spehr

A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture, by Terry Ramsaye

Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, by Charles Musser

Dancing for the Kinetograph: The Lakota Ghost Dance and the Silence of Early Cinema, by Michael Gaudio

The First Screen Kiss and "The Cry of Censorship," by Ralph S.J. Dengler

Archival Rediscovery and the Production of History: Solving the Mystery of Something Good - Negro Kiss (1898), by Allyson Nadia Field

Prizefighting and the Birth of Movie Censorship, by Barak Y. Orbach

A History of Sports Highlights: Replayed Plays from Edison to ESPN, by Raymond Gamache

A History of the Boxing Film, 1894-1915: Social Control and Social Reform in the Progressive Era, by Dan Streible

Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema, by Dan Streible

The Boxing Film: A Cultural and Transmedia History, by Travis Vogan

Policing Sexuality: the Mann Act and the Making of the FBI, by Jessica R. Pliley

Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood, from Edison to Stonewall, by Richard Barrios

The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics, edited by Charles Krinsky

A Companion to Early Cinema, edited by Andre Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, and Santiago Hidalgo

The Silent Cinema Reader, edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Kramer

The Harlot's Progress: Myth and Reality in European and American Film, 1900-1934, by Leslie Fishbein

Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, by Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser

Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966, by Gerald R. Butters, Jr.

Black and White and Blue: Adult Cinema From the Victorian Age to the VCR

Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mick Lasalle

Dangerous Men: Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man, by Mick Lasalle

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, by Thomas Doherty

Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934), When Sin Ruled the Movies, by Mark A. Vieira

Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mark A. Vieira

Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration, by Thomas Doherty

The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code, by Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons

Moral House-Cleaning in Hollywood: What's it All About? An Open Letter to Mr. Will Hays, by James R. Quirk (Photoplay Magazine)

Will H. Hays - A Real Leader: A Word Portrait of the Man Selected to Head the Motion Picture Industry, by Meredith Nicholson (Photoplay Magazine)

Ignorance: An Obnoxiously Moral morality Play, Suggested by "Experience," by Agnes Smith (Photoplay Magazine)

Close-Ups: Editorial Expression and Timely Comment (Photoplay Magazine)

Children, Cinema & Censorship: From Dracula to the Dead End Kids, by Sarah J. Smith

Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915-1981, by Laura Wittern-Keller

Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960, by Liza Black

America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, by Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin

White: Essays on Race and culture, by Richard Dyer

Black American Cinema, edited by Manthia Diawara

Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World, by Wil Haygood

Hollywood's Indian: the Portrayal of the Native American in Film, edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor

Wiping the War Paint Off the Lens: Native American Film and Video, by Beverly R. Singer

Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film, by Jacquelyn Kilpatrick

Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory, edited by M. Elise Marubbio and Eric L. Buffalohead

Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film, by Ed Guerrero

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, by Donald Bogle

Hollywood Black: the Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers, by Donald Bogle

White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood From the Dark Side, by James Snead

Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance, by Charles Ramirez Berg

Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, by Nancy Wang Yuen

Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film, edited by Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar

The Hollywood Jim Crow: the Racial Politics of the Movie Industry, by Maryann Erigha

America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, by Daniel Eagan

Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies, by Robert Sklar

Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies, by Linda Williams

Banned in the Media: A Reference Guide to Censorship in the Press, Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and the Internet, by Herbert N. Foerstel

Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film and on the Cutting Room Floor, by Aubrey Malone

Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, by Jon Lewis

Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth, by Marjorie Heins

Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us About Hate Speech, by Kevin W. Saunders

Censoring Sex: A Historical Journey Through American Media, by John E. Semonche

Dirty Words & Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment, by Jeremy Geltzer

Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon, by Alexander Doty

Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film, by Robert Lang

Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film, by Harry M. Benshoff

New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader, edited by Michele Aaron

New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut, by B. Ruby Rich

Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film, by Richard Dyer

Gays & Film, edited by Richard Dyer

Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies, by Parker Tyler

Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture, edited by Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty

Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, edited by Ellis Hanson

Queer Images: a History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America, by Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin

The Lavender Screen: the Gay and Lesbian Films, Their Stars, Makers, Characters, & Critics, by Boze Hadleigh

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, by Vito Russo

Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: the Walt Disney Company From the Inside Out, by Sean Griffin

The Encyclopedia of Censorship, by Jonathon Green

#I'm so fucking tired #original post

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usafphantom2 · 4 months

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Russia's 'inability' to establish air superiority in Ukraine

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 01/09/2024 - 19:30in Military, War Zone.

Russia is once again showing that it is not able to achieve air superiority in Ukraine, as it did at the beginning of its large-scale invasion of the country, British defense officials said.

In the autumn, Ukrainian forces established a bridgehead, or a strong support point, on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River, near the city of Kherson in the south. The river has long been a critical natural barrier that prevents advances, but Kiev has taken a bold strategic measure that is re-enarging this front area.

To make the Ukrainians retreat, Russia resorted to its available air power to attack the Ukrainian bridgehead at Krynky, on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, controlled by Russia. But that changed on December 22, when Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk, commander of the Ukrainian air force, said that his troops shot down three Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers.

Su-34 Fullback.

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense (MoD) noted on X, former Twitter, the importance of the overthrow of the three Russian Su-34 jets over southern Ukraine.

A U.S.-made MIM-104 Patriot air defense system shot down the planes, according to Russian military bloggers. Ukraine also said that, on December 24, its armed forces destroyed two other Russian warplanes, a Su-30 and a Su-34, on the fronts of Odessa and Mariupol in the Black Sea. There has still been no official confirmation of the statements from either side.

After the losses, the Russian Aerospace Forces almost completely interrupted manned operations in southern Ukraine, the United Kingdom MoD said on Saturday.

“This demonstrates once again that Russia's inability to establish air superiority in the early stages of the Russia-Ukraine war continues to undermine its daily operation,” the MoD said.

Russian Sukhoi Su-35 jet fighters fire rockets during the Aviadarts competition, as part of the 2021 International Army Games in the Dubrovichi mountain range, near Ryazan, Russia, on August 27, 2021. (Archive photo: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov)

This lack of air support may have contributed “to the failure of an attempt by the 18º Combined Weapons Army of the Russian Ground Forces to clean the bridgehead,” British authorities said. In recent days, Russia has increased air strikes around the bridgehead, “but to a lower level than before the slaughters”.

Although the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in November on the X that its forces had consolidated positions in fortresses on the Dnieper River, the Ukrainian Marines questioned the operation around the bridgehead and spoke of high losses.

Some have told Western media, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, that the operation is useless, with many hit on the banks of the rivers or in the water before they even reach the other side.

Su-35 Flanker.

Open source military and intelligence analyst Emil Kastehelmi said last month that it was not clear what Ukraine's objectives were. “Although the operation itself may be somewhat questionable from the Ukrainian point of view, the Russians were not able to take the bridgehead,” Kastehelmi said.

“Instead, they continuously attack there with limited forces, suffering constant loss of equipment,” he added. "There is still the possibility of Ukrainians trying to open a new bridge elsewhere and expand the operation during the winter."

MiG-31 Foxhound.

The Russian military was expected to pave the way for their ground attack with air power that would destroy Ukrainian air defenses and ensure air superiority, but the Russian air force was practically absent in action, surprising many observers.

This unforced failure to compromise their air forces in combat at first was seen as a big mistake, which helped give Ukrainians an opportunity to combat. Russia has never had the same opportunity again and since then has paid dearly for this mistake with lost fighters and helicopters.

At the end of December, the independent think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) stated that, after the losses of aircraft, Russian forces were “concerned with Ukrainian air defense capabilities” and limited manned aviation near the Crimea occupied by Russia, particularly in the northwestern Black Sea region.

Moscow demonstrated that it can overcome Kiev in the skies thanks to disparities in the size of the force, in the electronic and technical capabilities and in the performance of missiles and radar, neither Russia nor Ukraine managed to establish air superiority due to the formidable capacity of the ground-to-air missile system on both sides. The airspace above the battlefield in Ukraine remains disputed.

Soon Ukraine will receive F-16 fighters.

Ukraine hopes that its fate will change with the eventual arrival of F-16 fighters manufactured in the US, some of which were promised to Kiev by some of its European supporters. But when exactly these advanced aircraft are scheduled to arrive is not clear and can still take months, if not more.

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thewertsearch · 1 year

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Asks Compilation 20/11 - 1

Young Pupa flies through the window of a fairy girl's respiteblock, falls on the floor, and has trouble getting up like an enormous pansy. The fairy girl then helps him walk again, and in return, he teaches her to fly, even though she probably already knows how to fly. Because she's a fairy. They fly out of her window together, and have magical adventures for many sweeps thereafter. To be honest, you hardly know a damn thing about Pupa Pan. But you do not care.

This is true. Even Vriska seems aware that she's misunderstanding the story - note that she herself points out the contradiction inherent in teaching a fairy to fly.

I guess it's possible that in Pupa Pan, the characters of Wendy and Tinkerbell have been combined - but it's much more likely that Vriska just doesn't give a shit about the lore, since she literally tells us that's the case.

I basically agree with your core point. I think Vriska really does believe that this training will make Tavros stronger. I also believe that she genuinely wants to help him grow.

...but I also think she's fully aware that it's cruel, and is enjoying tormenting him.

I'd need to see a lot more evidence before I'm willing to accept that Vriska actually likes Tavros in any sort of genuine or positive way. It feels much more like black romance to me.

[ This was all around page 2383 - C ]

Vriska loses a lot of points for what she considered doing to Tavros - but she didn't go through with it, and that doesn't mean nothing.

As I said at the time - there are some things even Vriska won't do. Why she considered it, and why she stopped, are complicated questions, and I think I'll be going back to this moment later in her arc.

Yeah, it really implies a lot about blue-bloods, and none of it is good. I know I'm a broken record at this point, but Alternia is absurdly fucked-up.

Jury's out. I think they're mostly human, since Nanna seems had a child with a non-Player - but then again, Dad could have been adopted. Who knows?

I think they'd start with toilets, and then move to progressively heavier and heavier objects, in order to test the limits of the Sburb cursor.

If it packs enough force to toss a bathtub around, what else can it do?

Haha, nice catch.

Let's say 'SS Tier' isn't a tier at all - it's a flag I apply to a single character, designating them as my current favorite. The hypothetical S+, however, would be an actual tier.

I've never seen it! That does explain what the fuck is going on here, though. I thought this might be an in-universe troll celebrity that Tavros idolized.

I'm lucky enough never to have known this type of person - although Vriska's personality does remind me of more than one middle manager I've encountered professionally.

To be honest, it's hard to tell which trolls canonically have disabilities, and which ones Karkat is just being a prick to.

I don't, to my knowledge, have any of the disabilities depicted in the comic, so I don't have much valuable insight to contribute. Hopefully we get an ADHD troll soon?

Hey, good point!

Although, I'm not sure if there's any hard evidence that the troll meteors didn't land in the brooding caverns. I guess the fact that the caverns are underground might present a problem, but the meteors could have fallen into crevices. Sgrub could totally make it happen.

Aradia, for sure - but her metal body would just make it explode.

This particular accidental reference has always been a pretty hard sell for me. Does anyone know for sure whether Hussie had heard about Lord British before the 'glitches' page?

Wait, why apples?

Oh, ok, that makes sense. It was his second ever message!

That's honestly such a cool title. - The WERT blogger.

I like it. I never considered that the positioning of the Kingdoms relative to the rest of the session would be a factor in the outcome of the war, but it makes perfect sense.

When you actually think about it, Derse could win the war on day one simply by annexing the Veil, preventing Prospit from cloning reinforcements. I guess that wouldn't be sporting, though.

This is true. We don't have the computational resources to solve chess - and there's a good chance we never will.

Interestingly, though, chess probably could be solved in the Homestuck universe, via the leveraging of computational resources from alternate timelines.

#asks #full liveblog #act 5 #yep this is comp 1 of 2. I've built up a hell of a backlog lol

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elhoimleafar · 11 months

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(TO DELETE LATER) ~ My Seasonal Reminder for everyone, now that we are in Pride Month and many people are gonna be sharing Santa Muerte statues with rainbow colors to sell you stuff and books, that this book is a whole offense to Brujas and Bipoc authors everywhere.

It is not a Mexican Author "elder" behind this book, but a British white privileged woman and her American white man friend who is so arrogant to call himself "the biggest authority on La Santa Muerte" who wrote this.

And no editor, no publisher via email, and not pathetic soulless white bullies without understanding of Hispanic Culture, and definitely not white cis straight man with a blog gonna make me stop saying it ✌🏼

Not especially white bloggers offering money via DM to silence me.

Not care how many reviews you buy on AMZN this is a work without heart just make it to take the money from Bipoc readers looking to fool everyone.

This is a literal act of cowardice and black facing.

This work is a total offense to real devotees of La Santa Muerte.

PS: I appreciate a real devote of La Santa Muerte took the time to read the book and make a decent review with perspective, not another Instagram influencer who Just make a video to sell you the book they didn't even read 👎🏽

#Racism #Racist #culturalappropriation #blackfacing #cressidastone #lasantamuerte #Secretsofsantamuerte #Santamuerte

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autistpride · 5 days

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BIPOC autistic people, content creators, blogs, and pages!

Okay...

This post was one that I was unsure how to write. I'm white and I am very aware of my privilege.

I wanted today's post to highlight and center the voices of autistic BIPOC individuals and honestly, I couldn't just talk about a few. I wanted to put as many names out here for people to follow.

For those who want to follow and learn and for those who need to find these wonderful people in their community.

When researching and working on my list, I came across a post made by Autistic, Typing in 2019 as they had made a list of Autistic Black/ Indigenous/ People of Color & Latinx Advocates to follow.

So today's post is a link to this amazing individual's link, https://www.faceook.com/share/p/VMWG2wURiVWuTP2r/

This link contains all their hard work and emotional labour, a comments section FILLED with people adding others or themselves to the list, as well as a google doc form to add/ edit/ remove autistic creators. So please, if you are one, go fill it out and have yourself added to the list!

Below are some people/ creators/ pages that I thought should be mentioned. I tried to just add the ones I didn’t see listed, but I know there is overlap and tried to point those ones out.

And PLEASE send me any others! I want to follow as many as I can.

Famous People

Anita Cameron- one of the original disability rights activists of the US.

Angela Weddle- artist (mentioned on the post)

Dr. Sarai Pahla- MD and medical translator

Dr. Angel Durr- CEO of DataReady DFW

Burnett Grant- senior lab tech at ZoomEssence Inc

Bernard Grant- Phd in English

Stephan Wiltshire- architectural artist

Lauraen-Rocelle Fernandez- Founder of Mask Off

Michael Buckholtz- music producer for acts such as MC Hammer

Jade Logan- comic artist

Elise Nicole Bowen- music composer who can be found on spotify

Avery Ahmer- tik tok influencer who talks about autism

Kayla Smith- Black Autistic Disability Rights Advocate and creator of #AutisticBlackPride

Kris Young- writer and blogger at Black Neuroqueer Punk (mentioned on the post)

Jackie Pilgrim- Board of NAMI

Armani Williams- professional Nascar driver

Morenike Giwa Onaiwu- advocate and public speaker co-edited All The Weight of Our Dreams and Sincerely Your Autistic Child (mentioned on the post)

Michael Fuller- music prodigy

Melissa Simmons- founder of MisTaught and the creator of Black History Month for Dummies & White Teachers (mentioned on the post)

Lamar Hardwick- the Autism Pastor. Writer and advocate (mentioned on the post)

Kambel Smith- artist known for complex architecture sculptures

Ronaldo Bryd- artist

Ikea “Syance” Wilson- artist and musician

Kris McElroy- writer, artist, and advocate

Talia Grant- first female actress who is autistic to land a mainstream role on British television

Kalin Bennett- first autistic person to receive a division 1 scholarship to play basketball

Tom Wiggins- former enslaved person who was an amazing musician

John Howard- martial arts competitor/ MMA fighter

Morgan Harper Nichols- storyteller and influencer

Questlove- musician and songwriter and collaborator for Disney Jr “Rise Up, Sing Out”

Lois Curtis- artist and plaintiff in the 1999 Olmsted Supreme Court Decision

Tyla Grant- found of Black and Neurodivergent (BAND) and host of the one percent podcast

Nik Sanchez- actor

Benjamin Banneker- naturalist and mathmetician

Talisha Johnson- writer and director of Too Autistic for Black

Joshua Beckford- child prodigy and youngest person to be admitted to Oxford at 6

Breanna Cook- Paralympic athlete

Creators

Marcela Collier @highimpactclub

Black Neurodiversity @blackneurodiversity

Autistic Black Woman @autisticblackwoman

Ryse @teachingwithmxt

Caro @disrupt_yuh_feed

Jessie @momma_lips

Nadia @autisticblackgirl

Kayla Smith @BeingKaylaSmith

Tiffany Joseph @nigh.functioning.autism (mentioned on the post)

Tiffany Hammond @fidgets.and.fries (mentioned on the post)

Lauren Melissa Ellzey @autienelle

La Fille Dani @myneurotype

Tim Boy @blackinfinityking (mentioned on the post under previous tag name @BlackAutisticKing)

Raven Derose @confidencewithrae

Danielle @zelue

Ahylaysia @ahlaysia

Rosalie Babette @theautisticgiraffe

Dr. Kofi @autisticallykofi

Jonteugbeye @jonteugbeye

Nia Patterson @thefriendineverwanted

Anansi @dreadfulrebel4x

Gianna Rose @usagi_rose_universe

M’Nda @melaninmaven97

Lina’s brain @ndwellness

Pages

The Activistic Autistic

The Art of Autism

Fidgets and Fries (mentioned on the post)

Not Your Mama’s Autism

The Kisha Project

Autism in Black

Neurodivergent Rebel

Black Neuroqueer Punk (mentioned on the post)

The Color of Autism

Sincerely Your Autistic Child

NeuroClastic- PLEASE pass along their post A Letter to Black and Indigenous Autistic Teens

Autistic, Typing- They have the amazing list of Autistic BIPOC Advocates here!!

Morenike GO

Black Autistic Lives Matter

Autistic People of Color Fund

Autistic People Of Color, Indigenous People, and Mixed-Race People - this is a private FB group highly recommended I can not comment on it

Neurodiverent Black Women- another private FB group recommended but I can not comment on it

Other Amazing Neurodiverse People

Simone Biles- olympic gymnast ad most decorated gymnast with 32 metals

Amada Gorman- youngest inaugural poet in US History

Clary Chambers- founder and CEO of SparkClarity

Solange Knowles- singer and actress

Harry Belafonte- singer, songwriter, actor. First Black person to win an Emmy.

Maya Angelou- poet and activist. Write “I know why the caged bird sings” and the poem “On the Pulse of the Morning” that was read at the 1993 presidential inauguration

Danny Glover- actor, director, activist. Prominent roles in Lethal Weapon, The Color Purple, and Angels in the Outfield

Octavia Spencer- actress, author, producer. Worked on The Help.

Brandon Marshall- former NFL player

Kelly Rowland- singer, songwriter, actress and member of Destiny’s Child

Jumaane Williams- politician and activist in New York City

Magic Johnson- former professional basketball player and one of the greatest 50 players of NBA

Clarence Page- journalist who has won a Pulitzer Prize

Mohammed Ali- professional boxer and activist

Black Girl, Lost Keys

Tumi Sotire @TheBlackDyspraxic

#audhd #autistic adult #actually audhd #autistic pride #autism acceptence month #autism #autism acceptance #asd #autistic

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morganlefaye79 · 1 year

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Get to Know the Blogger

I was tagged by @cleverblackcat, thank you so much! ❤

Share your wallpaper:

The Afterlife bar from Cyberpunk 2077 with a fitting Rainmeter skin because I hate it to have many icons on my desktop.

Last song you listened to:

I love to listen to French music, I just hate to speak it myself because:

Ton grammaire est terrible pour une personne qu'elle parle langues germanique normalement!😉

But for this song I especially love the opera voices of both vocalists (male & female) This song is from the album "Les fleurs du mal" which is entirely in French. Although the band being from Sweden.

And if you had any doubt, yes it is metal.

Currently reading:

3 weeks ago I had tickets for a show of a German comedian I liked very much throughout most of my life. I couldn't go because I had my bronchitis and so my partner bought me his book so that I could read it and didn't feel that bad about missing it.

Actually I placed the book aside, his humor didn't age well imo and so I couldn't enjoy it as much as I would have wanted.

Last movie:

I have no idea which one was the last one but it was either "how to train your dragon" Which left me with the urge to buy a toothless plushie. Or "Rurouni Kenshin" which I watched in my youth as an anime.

Last show:

I would have loved to say Cyberpunk Edgerunners, but it was Dragon Age Absolution. Don't get me wrong, I liked Absolution, but I loved Edgerunners, and I'm still salty about Rebecca!

Craving:

Coffee, but it is 3:30 am, so not a very good idea.

What are you wearing right now:

sweatpants and my Sabaton t-shirt.

How tall are you:

I'm rather small. I'm 1,60m which is around 5'3" (I'm too lazy to use a converter right now)

Piercings:

Not anymore, but I had several in my ears (which I could reopen with little effort) and one in my lip which I probably would have to redo. Which will be happen sooner or later.

Tattoos:

None, yet. But I had an idea for one. Maybe I will stop being a chicken and do it 🤣

Glasses? Contacts?

I'm wearing glasses, I would like to have contacts but all opticians I ask say no! I have some very weird eyes apparently

Last drink:

Herbal tea

Last thing you ate:

Sushi for dinner

Favorite color:

purple and orange (black actually but I didn't want to be like that 😏)

Current obsession:

Cyberpunk still

Any pets: My kat Elliott, who is a british shorthair. He turns 19 this year. Old geezer!

Favorite fictional character:

Ugh, why do I need to pick? Pure agony! I go with the poor little meow meows which are for Dragon Age Anders of course, and for Cyberpunk, Kerry Eurodyne.

The last place you traveled:

A city near Hannover (Germany) 2 years ago.

I tag without any pressure:

Any one else who wants to do this, fell free to do this and tag me.

#tag game #Spotify

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msclaritea · 4 months

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Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone uses pronouns to decolonize gender

"Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone uses she/they pronouns to 'decolonize gender'

The actor remembers thinking “everybody should just be they” from a young age.

By Wesley Stenzel Published on January 1, 2024

Lily Gladstone uses she/they pronouns, and says that they represent a way of resisting colonial structures.

“My pronoun use is partly a way of decolonizing gender for myself,” the Killers of the Flower Moon actor told PEOPLE, adding that using she/they pronouns is also a means of “embracing that when I'm in a group of ladies, I know that I'm a little bit different. When I'm in a group of men, I don't feel like a man. I don't feel [masculine] at all. I feel probably more feminine when I'm around other men.”

Gladstone also explained how her gender identity reflects their Indigenous heritage. “In most Native languages, most Indigenous languages, Blackfeet included, there are no gendered pronouns. There is no he/she, there's only they,” the actor explained. Gladstone has both Blackfeet and Nimiipuu heritage, and grew up on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana.

Gladstone’s nuanced relationship with gender began at a young age. “I remember being 9 years old and just being a little disheartened, seeing how often a lot of my boy cousins were misgendered because they wore their hair long,” they said. “It happens to a lot of kids, I think, especially Native boys leaving a community where long hair is celebrated [and then] just kind of getting teased for it…So I remember back then being like, everybody should just be they...."

AND the penny drops. Spreading a personal belief based on a child's decision is not 'nuanced'. It's ignorant. The long hair thing? Racism and prejudice. No one with a drop of sense is going to misgender a Native American just for long hair. Blogger with the ancestry of several tribes, here. I know what I'm talking about. So here we go, again.

And by the way, Lily Gladstone isn't just Black feet. She's also the ancestor of a former British Prime Minister. Now, you know. Another actor, who didn't just 'appear out of nowhere'. She was helped. Anything and anyone that Hollywood can use to keep pushing Gender Ideology.

#Killers of The Flower Moon #Lily Gladstone #Another Tool For Freemasons #I'm tired of this and disgusted #Martin Scorsese #Preferred Elite Bloodline #Hollywood needs to get its shit together #They're ruining one film after another and one artist after another by continuing down this road of blatant propoganda

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the-90s-music-colosseum · 5 months

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Can the anons here stop playing the victim and maybe ask themselves the question of WHY so many black bloggers found their propaganda uncomfortable? Not to mention, the purpose of this blog wanting crazy propaganda was because it makes for good content spread— and it for sure blew up! But not you have to deal with the consequences of funneling only the most unhinged propaganda and putting a gigantic wall of text for one over the other. It really ISN’T because the submitters hate black people at all, but people are pointing out that the undertones are still harboring very uncomfortable wording that is often used even subconsciously to glorify even the most mediocre white person, not even over anyone else, just in general. It would have been uncomfortable no matter what, but the hulking amount of it coupled with the methods and heavy handedness made it feel AND read as though there was something else going on. That’s just the nature of how that whole post was curated. And I don’t find it very fair that people here can accuse all these people of color mentioning this made them uncomfortable of being delusional or ridiculous or ignorant, because wouldn’t POC know better than any white person? I feel like when a black person says that something you said made them uncomfortable, you should fight back that defensive response and self examine and listen to them. Don’t get mad at them and demand them to sugarcoat it, they don’t need to hold your hand. I am IMPLORING this blog and the anons here to please consider that, because honestly, sometimes it does take an outsider looking in to tell you when you’ve gone too far. Even if Damon’s contender was another white man, the propaganda STILL would have read badly. Instead of saying “I could never be racist” and discarding everyone that is uncomfortable, sit with that and examine WHY you felt the need to accentuate his whiteness, his superiority, his Britishness, the blond hair and blue eyes as a picture of Greek gods, etc. None of this on its own makes you racist. But if you dig your heels in and call every black person that is uncomfortable with it ignorant and reaching, you’re certainly not facing the right direction.

Ok first of all, jeez the real wall of text warning is always in the anons

Also I could be wrong here but I don't think any anons or myself have stated that black people aren't allowed to take issue with some of the propaganda? No one is calling all black people who feel uncomfortable with it ignorant or reaching (unless I missed it, then please kindly point out where exactly it was said). In fact I think the one common ground we have in this whole conflict is that everyone has the right to express their opinion here. At least for me, that's what it is. If you find something makes you uncomfortable, then speak out against it, discuss it and let me know how I can make my blog a more friendly place.

#most attractive 90s musician #asks

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mariacallous · 2 years

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LVIV, Ukraine—One of the most profound images to come from the siege of Sarajevo was the stark image of the cellist Vedran Smailovic playing Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor every day at noon, sitting elegantly and defiantly in black tie in the midst of the wreckage of Bosnia’s National and University Library.

The library had been bombed by Bosnian Serbs on Aug. 25, 1992, destroying 90 percent of its 1.5 million volumes of precious books, including rare Ottoman editions. A 32-year-old librarian was killed that night as she desperately tried to save books. The scene of book pages burning and ashes rising in the air was an indelible image of the cruelty of war and a symbol of cultural destruction.

The beautiful, Moorish-inspired City Hall building, called Vijecnica, which housed the library, was more than a place to find books—it was a potent symbol of multicultural ethnicity. That, above all, is what the Serbs tried to destroy: the cultural ethos of what made up Bosnia.

A similar phenomenon is happening now in Ukraine. Russia seeks to destroy Ukrainian identity, and that includes monuments, libraries, theaters, art, and literature.

In the many conflicts I have covered, art and literature are essential to morale—to civilians struggling to live moment by moment through the attempted destruction of their country, as well as to the soldiers fighting on the front lines to defend their culture and history. It is also the basis of historical memory: what is remembered, what is forever kept.

Early this month, shortly before Russia began its latest wave of terror in Ukraine—featuring missile and Iranian-made kamikaze drone attacks on civilians in Kyiv, missile strikes on civilian infrastructure in Lviv, and other assaults elsewhere in the country—I went to one of the most remarkable literary festivals I have ever attended: the three-day Lviv BookForum.

Lviv, in western Ukraine, is a glorious baroque city that over the years has been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, and the Soviet Union, as well as having been besieged by the Nazis. Throughout it all, this wondrous city has endured.

The idea to have a literary festival in the midst of a vicious war is representative of Ukrainians’ defiance. Among the many who gathered in Lviv to attend in solidarity were Ukrainian writers such as the former political prisoner Stanislav Aseyev and Diana Berg, who lost her home twice in Mariupol; the Ukrainian novelist and human rights activist Victoria Amelina; and the British barrister and author Philippe Sands, who wrote one of the most powerful books on the origins of genocide, East West Street.

Also attending were the historian Misha Glenny; the disinformation expert Peter Pomerantsev and his father, Igor Pomerantsev, a dissident Soviet poet; the French American novelist Jonathan Littell; the award-winning nonfiction writer Nataliya Gumenyuk; and two extraordinary British doctors, Henry Marsh and Rachel Clarke, who came to Ukraine to bear witness to the atrocities. There were many others: philosophers, bloggers, activists.

It was an interesting mix of cultures, but the stars of the event were by far the Ukrainian writers, who read and told stories with courage and brutal honesty. The literary scholar Oleksandr Mykhed told the audience that on Feb. 24, the day of the Russian invasion, he realized: “You could not protect your family from a rifle with your poems. You could not hit someone with a book—you could try, but it won’t work with the crazy occupiers from Moscow. I lost belief in the power of culture, lost interest in reading.”

Shortly after that realization, Mykhed enrolled in the army; a week later, he lost his family home to a bomb.

But even in Lviv—relatively peaceful until the recent attacks—the war was not far away. In between sessions, we wandered the cobblestoned streets, passing the historic Garrison Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, honoring the fallen soldiers. One night, on my way home from dinner, I saw a crowd of young people gathered around a guitar player, who was belting out the Ukrainian national anthem. It was powerfully emotional. Everyone stood with their hands on their hearts, under an enormous full moon, singing at the top of their lungs in Ukrainian: “Ukraine’s freedom has not perished, nor has her glory. … Upon us, fellow Ukrainians, fate shall smile on us once more.”

The next day, one of my fellow panelists was Amelina, the Ukrainian novelist and author of the books Fall Syndrome and Dom’s Dream Kingdom. I first met Amelina in Berlin at a conference for human rights monitors. Since the war started, she stopped writing novels and started investigating war crimes. In her backpack, she carries tourniquets—her work often takes her to front lines throughout the country.

“While Russian occupiers try to destroy the Ukrainian elite, including writers, artists, and civil society leaders, the free world needs to hear and amplify the Ukrainian voices,” she said. “Then we have a chance not only to defend Ukraine’s independence this time in history but also truly implement the ‘never again’ slogan for the continent.”

Amelina told me of a recent visit to Izyum, in eastern Ukraine, after the Ukrainian Armed Forces had liberated it. She met with the parents of Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian children’s book author who was abducted from his house during the Russian occupation.

Volodymyr’s father mentioned to Amelina that before being abducted, his son hid his war diary under the cherry tree in the garden. Amelina helped the grieving father dig the diary up and later brought it to the Kharkiv Literary Museum.

“I chose the museum because it holds the first editions and manuscripts of my favorite writers executed by the Soviet regime in the 1930s,” she said. “I hope Volodymyr Vakulenko is still alive and his diary [doesn’t] start the collection of manuscripts of another generation of Ukrainian writers murdered by the empire.”

During one of our panels, we were joined on Zoom by a 27-year-old poet named Yaryna Chornohuz, who called in from the front line. As well as being a gifted writer, Chornohuz is a reconnaissance soldier and combatant in the 140th Reconnaissance Battalion of the Ukrainian Marine Corps.

“My position now is a combat medic of the reconnaissance combat group,” she said. “I’ve been on the front line since 2019. Now it’s my 14th month of rotation in [the] Luhansk and Donetsk region.”

She proudly told us that her unit took part in the defense of Severodonetsk, Bakhmut, and Popasna. In March, she took part in engagements in villages north of Mariupol. Now she’s participating in a counteroffensive on Lyman and Yampil.

Listening to her, I thought of how when I first went to cover a war, long ago in Bosnia, I carried with me a pocket-sized book of poems by the World War I poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Robert Graves. Somehow, the poignancy and pain of the poetry helped me understand the brutality of war in a more profound way.

In Lviv, I felt an intense solidarity among the writers who had gathered. “Intellectuals from all over the world coming together in Ukraine to discuss how justice and truth can prevail is already part of the solution,” Amelina told me.

That night, some of us boarded an overnight train to Kyiv in high spirits, carrying bags of fruit and bottles of whiskey. We arrived after dawn in the capital, unaware that we would soon witness Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wrath: missile attacks on Lviv, Kyiv, and other Ukrainian cities. We were sent to bomb shelters, waiting it out with locals along with their children and pets. Plates of cookies and tea were brought out; people pulled out books and computers. A seminar that was meant to take place in the hotel upstairs carried on in a corner of the parking garage that was our new home for the time being.

And I kept thinking of something that Mykhed had told listeners only a few days before in Lviv. “More talented writers of the next generations will take this raw material and make a beautiful novel about it,” he said. “But being in the center of the hurricane, you just try to grab the tiniest moments of your grief, the tiniest moments of your scream.”

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beatleshistoryblog · 1 year

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LECTURE 12: IN THE SHADOW OF THE BEATLES: Gerry and the Pacemakers from Liverpool perform their biggest hit, “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying,” a #1 smash in the UK, which climbed to an impressive #4 in the United States. The studio version is quite possibly the most hauntingly beautiful British Invasion song of all time in the humble opinion of this lowly blogger. This live version is charming, but not quite as moody and atmospheric and sublime as the studio recording. This is from the band’s appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 3, 1964. Like Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas and Cilla Black, Gerry and the Pacemakers scored big early on, but their success was not to last, and by 1966 they disbanded.

#Gerry and the Pacemakers #British Invasion #Gerry Marsden #Liverpool #Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas #Cilla Black #1964 #The Ed Sullivan Show

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