#but i felt compelled

[nikossasaki]

Barbie | Teaser Trailer 2 (2023)

[skyward-floored]

I know this is probably. The randomest request you've ever had and ever will have but a story about Four an bread? Please with sprinkles? (Bc I don't like marinated cherries.) Thanks!

"Four, what is that?"

"Bread," said Four, the word somewhat muffled due to the fact that his mouth was full. "Duh."

"But... where did you get it?" Twilight asked, confusion all over his face. "We haven't been to a town in weeks, and even Wild's out of flour."

Four shrugged. "Around."

"Around," Legend repeated, not bothering to hide his suspicion. "Seriously? It didn't just fall out of the sky, did it?"

"No. It was just in the bushes there," Four said after swallowing, gesturing to the shrubbery. "Still warm."

"And you didn't stop to wonder where it came from?!" Warriors sputtered, and Four paused, then shrugged again.

"Nah."

"Smithy! You can't eat random bush bread!"

"Already did," Four said, dusting crumbs off his lap. "No use being so dramatic about it."

"...Are you kidding? What if it was a trap or something?" Legend said with a hand on his hips.

"What if it was poisoned?" Warriors said more sharply, and Four tilted his head, feathered earring swaying.

"You guys are being oddly concerned about this."

"It was an entirely random loaf of bread, somehow still warm, right next to our camp, in a bush. And you ate it," Warriors said, grabbing him by the shoulders. "Why, pray tell, wouldn't we be concerned?"

"Because this happens all the time?" Four said, unconcerned.

"What."

"I eat bread I find in the bushes all the time. Tastes better than anything you can get in a store, though Wild's is pretty comparable."

"Good to know," Wild said thoughtfully.

"And do you know why this happens?" Legend said, looking rather dumbfounded.

"It's free bread. I don't question it," Four shrugged, and licked a few crumbs off his fingers. "Hasn't done anything except give me a full stomach so far."

Warriors stared, then sat down, looking like he'd grown a few grey hairs in the course of the last couple minutes. Legend and Twilight continued to stare at Four with odd looks on their faces, while Four still didn't look the least bit concerned.

Hyrule looked around at them all, and hesitantly raised a hand.

"Um. Is this anything like the tree cookies I sometimes find?"

"The WHAT?!"

[thefearandnow]

So with Oppenheimer coming out tomorrow, I feel a certain level of responsibility to share some important resources for people to understand more about the context of the Manhattan Project. Because for my family, it’s not just a piece of history but an ongoing struggle that’s colonized and irradiated generations of New Mexicans’ lives and altered our identity forever. Not only has the legacy of the Manhattan Project continued to harm and displace Indigenous and Hispanic people but it’s only getting bigger: Biden recently tasked the Los Alamos National Lab facility to create 30 more plutonium pits (the core of a nuclear warhead) by 2026. So this is a list of articles, podcasts and books to check out to hear the real stories of the local people living with this unique legacy that’s often overlooked. 

This is simply the latest mainstream interest in the Oppenheimer story and it always ALWAYS silences the trauma of the brown people the US government took advantage of to make their death star. I might see the movie, I honestly might not. I’m not trying to judge anyone for seeing what I’m sure will be an entertaining piece of art. I just want y’all to leave the theater knowing that this story goes beyond what’s on the screen and touches real people’s lives: people whose whole families died of multiple cancers from radiation from the Trinity test, people who’s ancestral lands were poisoned, people who never came back from their job because of deadly work conditions. This is our story too.

The first and best place to learn more about this history and how to support those still resisting is to follow Tewa Women United. They’ve assembled an incredible list of resources from the people who’ve been fighting this fight the longest.

https://tewawomenunited.org/2023/07/oppenheimer-and-the-other-side-of-the-story

The writer Alicia Inez Guzman is currently writing a series about the nuclear industrial complex in New Mexico, its history and cultural impacts being felt today.

https://searchlightnm.org/my-nuclear-family/

https://searchlightnm.org/the-abcs-of-a-nuclear-education/

https://searchlightnm.org/plutonium-by-degrees/

Danielle Prokop at Source NM is an excellent reporter (and friend) who has been covering activists fighting for Downwinder status from the federal government. They’re hoping that the success of Oppenheimer will bring new attention to their cause.

https://sourcenm.com/2023/07/19/anger-hope-for-nm-downwinders/

https://sourcenm.com/2022/01/27/new-mexico-downwinders-demand-recognition-justice/

One often ignored side of the Manhattan Project story that’s personal for me is that the government illegally seized the land that the lab facilities eventually were built on. Before 1942, it was homesteading land for ranchers for more than 30 families (my grandpa’s side of the family was one). But when the location was decided, the government evicted the residents, bought their land for peanuts and used their cattle for target practice. Descendants of the homesteaders later sued and eventually did get compensated for their treatment (though many say it was far below what they were owed)

https://www.hcn.org/issues/175/5654

Myrriah Gomez is an incredible scholar in this field, working as a historian, cultural anthropologist and activist using a framework of “nuclear colonialism” to foreground the Manhattan Project. Her book Nuclear Nuevo Mexico is an amazing collection of oral stories and archival record that positions New Mexico’s era of nuclear colonialism in the context of its Spanish and American eras of colonialism. A must read for anyone who’s made it this far.

https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/nuclear-nuevo-mexico

There isn’t a ton of podcasts about this (yet 👀) but recently the Washington Post’s podcast Field Trip did an episode about White Sands National Monument. The story is a beautifully written and sound designed piece that spotlights the Downwinder activists and also a discovery of Indigenous living in the Trinity test area going back thousands of years. I was blown away by it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/field-trip/white-sands-national-park/

[arshem]

cryborgs → arshem

[badpanini]

what is the gift of art for if not to draw ur fav horror bimbo as an anime girl because of a dumb joke ur bf made

[maskedjoker]

This man sketchy as hell

[roninkairi]

You can only reblog this today.*

*PLEASE READ THE TAGS

[ravenkings]

[oooocleo]

ok surely this is allowed... im tripping over all these hands im drawing lately

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[theladyeowyn]

I just want to help my friends.

[periru3]

[faggotinni]

argentinian football player miku by @Ag_TheMatambre on twitter

[sandflakedraws]

re : how each brother reacts learning that they can't go back

you'll have to pry the "all the Brozone Bros knew what happened at the tree" headcanon outta my cold, dead dead dead hands.

[banzack]

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a child I was struggling at school, and I was unhappy, so my parents started taking me to a therapist. I ended up telling this therapist that I wanted to be a girl. I hadn’t heard the term transgender yet, but I knew I wasn’t a boy.

This therapist told me that it was a fetish. It was my first time hearing the word fetish. She told me that wanting to be a girl was something bad that I should be ashamed of. I was told not to tell my parents because they would be disgusted, and that if anyone found out it could ruin my life.

I held onto that shame for a decade until my senior year of high school when a transgender student started going to my school. I never met her, but I saw her around, and heard people talk about her. This was a transwoman living her life openly and publicly. She was doing the very thing that I was told would ruin my life, but her life didn’t seem ruined. She had friends, and seemed happy. Happier than me.

A year later in October 2013 DC comics published Batgirl #19 by Gail Simone. In this issue Batgirl’s roommate Alysia Yeoh came out to batgirl as a transwoman. Batgirl was so loving and accepting in that moment. My favorite superhero didn’t see anything wrong with being transgender. I sat at my computer reading peoples reactions and reviews to this comic for hours. I sent the author an anonymous message on tumblr thanking her for helping me find the strength to love myself.

I still had a long way to go before I was able to come out, but these things helped me start to heal. This is why visibility and representation are so important. Seeing another trans person in real life, and seeing trans people in the media I was consuming helped me be less afraid, and helped me hate myself less. In october 2019 I started HRT at 25 years old. Nearly 5 years later I’m happier than ever, and I love life.

[washiinmachiine]

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