Independent bookstores around the country have a particularly clever lifeline, one perfectly suited to the unprecedented moment we find ourselves in. The strange part? It came into being just weeks before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and before the bookstores started closing up shop wondering if theyâd reopen at all.
In simple terms, itâs a super clean, user-friendly online bookstore whose raison dâĂȘtre is supporting independent bookstores â not simply with exposure or resources (though thatâs certainly a factor), but with cold hard cashâŠ
Today, members work in all forms of live theater, motion picture and television production, trade shows and exhibitions, television broadcasting, and concerts as well as the equipment and construction shops that support all these areas of the entertainment industry.
earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i’ll often be in the middle of a novel and think “man i wish this shit were more ambiguous” and had to reiterate twice that i wasn’t being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don’t bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i’m not kidding
Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.
This really explains 1) some of the gaps in my childhood and 2) my steadily worsening ability to remember shit and actually take in new experiences as anything other than an inconvenience keeping me from sitting at home sleeping or staring at the tv for hours not taking anything in
tumblr developers cranking it into overdrive to make sure one of the few unique and usable social media sites remaining becomes a half-formed failed homunculus clone of tiktok like every other fucking website
Whenever a person walks out of the accessible bathroom stall and sees me, a wheelchair user, sitting outside waiting for the stall, they often apologize.
In the beginning, I said, “No worries!” Because I was too scared to be confrontational.
Then I started saying nothing.
But after a while, I realized that some disabled people may be a portion of the people that apologize. And I never want to make an invisibly disabled person feel bad for using accommodations that they need. There are many different reasons a disabled person would need the stall!
(It is tiring waiting for ages while someone uses the stall to change, or do their makeup. It is not annoying for anyone who needs the stall to use it.)
So, I’ve decided to start saying, “That’s okay! I believe every disabled person should be able to use the accessible stall!”
Because then, if they are invisibly disabled, hopefully that will put them at ease.
And if the person isn’t disabled, it will remind them that the accessible stall is not just “the big stall.”
Actual footage of the Universal Studios* CEO âtrimmingâ all of the shade trees at one of the L.A. WGA/SAG-AFTRA picket locations, so strikers have no protection from the intense heat of the sun
(*production company behind 2012âs tumblr hit film The Lorax)
hot take but none of you are allowed to use deer/antler imagery when working with cannibalistic themes anymore. you need to be honest with yallselves on WHY youâre associating deer/antler imagery with cannibalism. just because you arenât naming the name doesnât mean that the original anti-indigenous racism isnât still inherent to what youâre doing.
For those who need more explanation, a well known (but often misunderstood) figure in Algonquin and Aanishinabe culture is the wend*go.
No, Iâm not fully typing out the name cause we donât say that name and donât want to attract its attention. Yes, all of this is taken very seriously by us Natives.
The problem is that this very serious figure isnât taken seriously at all by non-Natives and, instead of respecting our culture and the fact we donât even say its name, its perceived as this cool monster to add to movies, video games and cool edgy OCs.
And, as with all thing Native being used and abused, misunderstood, and transformed by non-Natives, we are tired of that. Itâs not okay, itâs not respectful.
You want a people eating monster in a story? Use anything else.
As someone whoâs absolutely guilty of this shite on this accountâŠyeah you have the right to spitroast me for that. Fair is fair.
I do hope we can use creepy deer aesthetics on and about other mythological/fiction monster villains tho. As someone who had a deer almost kill their dog, I just find deer creepy and unsettling regardless.
first off: You are the single person who has responded to this post admitting some variant of having done this that actually listened to what was being said, acknowledged that you did such things while you didnât know any better, expressed an intent to never do it again, and asked for clarification on whether or not âcreepy deer aestheticâ is completely off-limits with that in mind. So with that said, I want you to know that youâre one of the very few folks in this post I respect sincerely.
To that end: While obviously I canât speak for Native America as a monolith, it would be my opinion that no, creepy deer aesthetics as a concept are fine. Deer can be fucked up and weird. There is a fundamental lure to the idea of a large prey animal behaving as a predator or in ways anathema to our understanding of prey. That juxtaposition and irony has a lot of narrative potential and for good reasonâit fucks severely! I donât want to see it go away! It fucks hard, for Christâs sake!
But it is my opinion that the use of deer aesthetics within the specific context of cannibal themes isnât able to be used anymore. The well has been poisoned too deeply. I never said once the specific being I was referring to in nearly any of my responses, but everyone knew exactly what I meant. Even trying to purposefully distance the racism from the imagery would be useless, since the racism is baked in to the assumptions by now. Reclamation may be able to happen in the future, but first we need to accept that setting it down completely is the right play for a while. You can distance racism from creepy deer stuff by purposefully and actively distancing it from Native America and cannibalismâif it becomes a recurring imagery on its own throughout multiple types of horror, rather than being innately tied by implication to the winter hunger, thatâs when we could maybe begin talking about whether or not to start re-examining our relationship with it.
The Algonquin are Anishinaabe. Iâm guessing you meant to say Algonquian, which for some reason no one on tumblr can spell right.
The Algonquin are a specific Indigenous people, and part of the greater Anishinaabeg.
Algonquian (with an extra A) is a language family which includes the languages spoken by the Anishinaabeg, as well as Cree, Blackfoot, Mi'kmawi'simk, and others. The cannibalistic spirit you are speaking of is part of the stories of quite a few different tribes and nations, including my people, the nehiyaw.
TLDR Algonquin =/= AlgonquiAn
The cannibal creature is not JUST Anishinaabe
Itâs important that if weâre teaching about Native stories that we get them right, and spell the names of the nations involved correctly
wow i sure wonder đ€đ€ what the new layouts supposed to look like đ€đ€đ€đ€ its a mystery
Donât forget yâall that thereâs a much better way for us to let Tumblr know what we think about specific changes, rather than @ ing staff or wip, and itâs sending in a support ticket and choosing feedback!
Tumblr reverted some of the asinine app decisions they made after a concerted feedback effort! So make sure to use this form! Itâs what itâs for, but itâs not well advertised!
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