#MARGIN I FINALLY DID IT

[prince-of-red-lions]

Since Legend won the battle a few weeks ago over at @whyoneartheven’s art blog, you should draw the next round wherein he karaoke-battles Wild

HERE WE GOO!!

wild started singing Mariah Carey, and legend doesn’t know how to feel about it. also, it’s somehow snowing inside? I think wild is a disney princess 💀

[mangle-my-mind]

Four Beatles biopics, each from a different POV? I'm already lamenting the person I will become when these come out.

[techmomma]

Hopefully my fellow rock nerds and oral history nerds will appreciate what I just spent an hour on.

So there is an indigenous oral history about Mt. Hood and Mt. St. Helens getting into a “fight” as a married couple where both are described as erupting at the same time.

So I just made a spreadsheet with a timeline of Mt. Hood’s eruptions based on geologic history recorded, and Mt. St. Helen’s recorded eruptions.

There are multiple points at which their eruptive periods coincide with each other.

One version of the account says that Mt. Hood backed out of the argument, while St. Helens stewed for a while (i.e., continued erupting). This matches almost perfect with a particular coincidement about 12000 to 13000 years ago, which saw the end of an eruptive period and beginning of a dormant period for Mt. Hood, as another eruptive period began for Mt. St. Helens.

There is another coincidence about 1800 years ago, and about 200 years ago, though these play out a little differently.

I have mathematically proven that there is a possibility that not only could they have erupted at the same time, but there is a distinct chance it could have played out exactly as the indigenous account states.

And this was done using only the dates given. There are margins of error for each eruptive period that allow for MORE overlap.

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

Happy because favourite book series is getting TV series adaptation.

Terrified beyond repair because favourite book series is getting TV series adaptation.

[whsprings]

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[jvzebel-x]

🦋

[locria-writes]

21 000 words, give it up for 21 000 words when asturias finally got his dick wet, bless his heart

[violetnaps]

what stage of grief is intensely studying the grading scale

[i-like-gay-books]

being an adult sucks i just realized that the reason why ive been feeling sucky for the past few weeks and not sleeping well and been bloated is probably due to consuming too much sodium why can i not be a kid again and not worry about things like sodium intake and blood pressure

[merulanoir]

Our Avernus campaign moved so that we play every other week, so naturally I had to make sure I get my DND fix each week. Our new Underdark campaign kicked off today.

I'm SO excited, I've wanted to run an Underdark story for such a long time. >:)

[mejomonster]

Hey anyone, got long covid? Did it make u unable to use bathroom? Did u fix it, and how. Please let me know.

[toastsnaffler]

this assay is so fucking fake......

[draygon-lord]

Vent

[hegrowth]

okay but I finished up the last of my coursework and started on the notes for my presentation, now I just have to finish that up and slap together my final project. ; w ; but I was productive and got things done ! I also showered. my head is doing a hurty now tho so I think I'm just gonna chill for a bit, hopefully be back later. catch me on discord.

[themyscirah]

Did I seriously just finish an art piece??? I know I'm me but did I get abducted by aliens or something like who is this person

[fursasaida]

This article is from 2022, but it came up in the context of Palestine:

Here are some striking passages, relevant to all colonial aftermaths but certainly also to the forms we see Zionist reaction taking at the moment:

Over the decade I lived in South Africa, I became fascinated by this white minority [i.e. the whole white population post-apartheid as a minority in the country], particularly its members who considered themselves progressive. They reminded me of my liberal peers in America, who had an apparently self-assured enthusiasm about the coming of a so-called majority-minority nation. As with white South Africans who had celebrated the end of apartheid, their enthusiasm often belied, just beneath the surface, a striking degree of fear, bewilderment, disillusionment, and dread.

[...]

Yet these progressives’ response to the end of apartheid was ambivalent. Contemplating South Africa after apartheid, an Economist correspondent observed that “the lives of many whites exude sadness.” The phenomenon perplexed him. In so many ways, white life remained more or less untouched, or had even improved. Despite apartheid’s horrors—and the regime’s violence against those who worked to dismantle it—the ANC encouraged an attitude of forgiveness. It left statues of Afrikaner heroes standing and helped institute the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which granted amnesty to some perpetrators of apartheid-era political crimes.

But as time wore on, even wealthy white South Africans began to radiate a degree of fear and frustration that did not match any simple economic analysis of their situation. A startling number of formerly anti-apartheid white people began to voice bitter criticisms of post-apartheid society. An Afrikaner poet who did prison time under apartheid for aiding the Black-liberation cause wrote an essay denouncing the new Black-led country as “a sewer of betrayed expectations and thievery, fear and unbridled greed.”

What accounted for this disillusionment? Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.

The article goes on to discuss:

"Mau Mau anxiety," or the fear among whites of violent repercussions, and how this shows up in reported vs confirmed crime stats - possibly to the point of false memories of home invasion

A sense of irrelevance and alienation among this white population, leading to another anxiety: "do we still belong here?"

The sublimation of this anxiety into self-identification as a marginalized minority group, featuring such incredible statements as "I wanted to fight for Afrikaners, but I came to think of myself as a ‘liberal internationalist,’ not a white racist...I found such inspiration from the struggles of the Catalonians and the Basques. Even Tibet" and "[Martin Luther] King [Jr.] also fought for a people without much political representation … That’s why I consider him one of my most important forebears and heroes,” from a self-declared liberal environmentalist who also thinks Afrikaaners should take back government control because they are "naturally good" at governance

Some discussion of the dynamics underlying these reactions, particularly the fact that "admitting past sins seem[ed] to become harder even as they receded into history," and US parallels

And finally, in closing:

The Afrikaner journalist Rian Malan, who opposed apartheid, has written that, by most measures, its aftermath went better than almost any white person could have imagined. But, as with most white progressives, his experience of post-1994 South Africa has been complicated. [...]

He just couldn’t forgive Black people for forgiving him. Paradoxically, being left undisturbed served as an ever-present reminder of his guilt, of how wrongly he had treated his maid and other Black people under apartheid. “The Bible was right about a thing or two,” he wrote. “It is infinitely worse to receive than to give, especially if … the gift is mercy.”