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My mother is from aotearoa and while shes white and calls it NZ, I've grown up hearing her call many place names over there by their native name so ive always admired how much the country has held on to its original language.

Its also neat to hear that there's even push to embrace it even more.

Im from Australia and there's nowhere near that amount of respect for the original cultures or languages here

if you live in a colonised country where place names are both in the language of the native people and the language of the colonising country I seriously encourage you to start using the native place names. if it just has the native name (e.g. I know a lot of official place names in the USA come from native american words) I encourage you to learn the proper pronunciation for it. "what if it confuses people because the native name is less well known" then they can ask! or search it up! or you can elaborate! I live in aotearoa or te ika-a-māui. some people call it new zealand, or the north island of nz. I think it's important to acknowledge the original names. it takes very little effort but man it's important.

aotearoa is a great example of this. in recent years, there's been a push to replace english names with the original te reo māori names. more and more you'll see tāmaki makaurau instead of auckland. and people know what I mean when I say tāmaki makaurau! it's on the side of buses! it's on official government websites! my aunt and uncle (50+, white) use the māori names for nearby mountains even though the english names are technically the "official" names! my professors say it when talking about this region! I don't know. try it out. it works.

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I am neck (haha) deep into this manga/anime. Hikaru Ga Shinda Natsu (The Summer Hikaru Died) is such a poignant exploration of what makes humanity lovely and terrible by juxtaposing an actual eldritch horror next to the everyday horrors of human hate.

Please check it out! I haven't loved a story this much in a long time <3

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I'm high as fuck at medieval times and trying so hard to look normal. My friend pointed at a QR code and went "What is the meaning of this Rune..." and I almost threw up trying not to laugh

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off to have hot gay sex with your mom once again

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I have so much cardboard taking up space in my art supply closet... I should make a life-sized cardboard cutout of snotlout

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I want you all to imagine with me, if you will, what I witnessed today.

McDonalds parking lot. teenage boy. giant polished white ford Tundra. windows down. blasting. I mean BLASTING. Beethoven's moonlight sonata. boy demolishing burger.

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Just to make sure before I fumble this next chapter; we all want Spitelout to get punched, right?

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Pretty little babyy 🩵

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Pretty little babyy 🩵

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So..recently i on art block so here “abandonded” snotlout painting. I dont like it honestly, i do or i want another just more mood and dynamic.

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INCREDIBLY bold of Jax to claim to be the funny one when this happened in the exact same episode

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This is legitimately one of my fav quotes from him

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so today i’m gonna talk about *spins wheel of options* au where alastair sticks to his guns, doesn’t let call go to the magisterium, and goes on the run across state lines. they end up getting pursued by not only the magisterium for breaking their laws about mage children education, but also the us federal government because alastair sorts out everything except for enrolling call in any kind of official schooling. essentially this is the Most Unfun Road Trip Ever (in call’s words) with the highlight of mages struggling not to reveal their powers in front of normie fbi agents

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I raise you this:

I wonder who in the gang would ask these types of questions the most

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Whenever my fat thumb accidentally taps an ad and it takes me away from tumblr I always scream “SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Loud as fuck

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drew this post as a comic because its so fucking funny to me