#how to plantation

[howtoplantation]

9 Incredible Health Benefits of Cloves

[rhaenin-time]

It's all, "The Targaryens are colonizers," until you point out that they left Valyria and assimilated into the local power structure, whereas the Andals still live in a very particular type of feudal societal structure that does not occur 'organically' and in fact is the result of a collapsed previously-centralized imperial power structure which in this case is also a settler-colonial power structure that was fueled by their version of Manifest Destiny and enabled through genocide of the remaining Children and the imposition of their self-described "universal" culture, power structure, and faith-system upon the pre-existing population. All of which resulting in a particular kind of power structure enabled by and deeply connected to that history that, I repeat, they still live according to. In which case the Targaryens, having distinguished themselves from the imperial power structure that they left, divested from, and took measures to prevent from rising again, and having proceeded to embrace change and adaptivity (to the point of assimilation) are actually less colonial than the culture they assimilate into.

And then it's still, "The Targaryens are colonizers." Because these people don't understand or even really care about colonialism. It's just another word for "foreigner I don't like."

[nashvillethotchicken]

Reconstruction ended in the US in 1877, and during that year, as well as the years immediately post civil war, there was an especially huge push for black people to find loved ones who were sold off the other states or countries during slavery, especially those who had children fathered by their masters as their masters were the ones who sold off the child/ren or had the best information on finding them. People would send letters, put ads in newspapers, even take trips themselves to go find loved ones that they had lost due to the scurge that was slavery. And I keep thinking about Louis du pointe du lac, sending all those messages to find his daughter that was sent out of state by her white father

[fluentisonus]

I need to do a rb/addition to that roman slavery post I made bc the notes keep missing the point I was trying to make & it's really annoying me but also I'm to tired to phrase it well

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

thinking about how silver knew or suspected that thomas might be alive almost from the beginning of season 4 and still didn't tell flint like

Flint: Do I need to be concerned that you took almost two hours to tell me about it?

Silver: We are at our least rational... when we're at our most vulnerable. If nothing else, this is a good reminder that without a doubt she is the point at which I'm my most vulnerable. The thought of losing her...

I see.

Silver: If we assume... that we are on the verge of some impossible victory here, a truly significant thing... if we assume that is real and here for the taking... wouldn't you trade it all to have Thomas Hamilton back again?

Flint: I think if he knew how close we were to the victory he gave his life to achieve... he wouldn't want me to.

Silver: I see. Though, that wasn't really what I asked, was it? Assume his father was just as dark as you say, but... was unable to murder his own son, assume he found a way... to secret Thomas away from London...

Flint: He didn't.

Silver: Would you trade this war to make it so? It is some kind of hell to be forced to choose one irreplaceable thing over another.

LIKE PERHAPS THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE YOU SHOULD BE CONCERNED HE IS NOT TELLING YOU

Flint: I know what it's like... to have lost her. And then seeing a way to have her back. I understand what that must've felt like. You asked me once what I would do, what I would sacrifice if it meant having Thomas back again. I honestly don't know... what I would've done. I honestly couldn't say I wouldn't have done what you did. I told you I'd see you through this. Put things back together again so that we can move forward. I meant it.

And then again he still doesn't tell him because he can't, not until he's certain he won't have to use it-not until he's certain he'll have to End Flint because he doesn't want to but he knows (has known this whole time) that he will be the end of him so he hid this Massive Thing from him even after he knew what it was like to lose Madi he Still hid it (this is of course assuming that thomas is still alive and that wasn't just a lie to madi or a justification to himself and flint to make sending him (flint) away to live the rest of his life in chains doing labor seem like it wasn't so bad really (and also ignoring the fact that miranda who was arguably more a catalyst for flint's war than thomas was is still dead and not even silver can bring her back from the dead))

it's just really funny idk what to tell you

[paint-it-dead]

i think we give him a week

lure him in with a sense of security

and then we bully him relentlessly despite whether he fits in or not. its only the norm for white celeb capitalist in here

[nevert-the-guy]

Have you ever tried to figure out how the areas in Cave Story logically fit within the island or are you normal?

[fatehbaz]

In this remarkably rich account of land and profit-making in colonial Calcutta (now Kolkata), Debjani Bhattacharyya traces the transformation of marshes, bogs, and muddy riverbanks into parcels of fixed, bounded, and alienable property under British colonial rule. Framed evocatively as a “history of forgetting” (6), Bhattacharyya details the everyday enactments and contestations of imperial power undertaken by colonial officials and merchants, hydrographers, Indian property owners, urban planners, surveyors, and speculators between the 1760s and 1920. Over this period, the fluid and culturally multivalent spaces of the delta were translated and transformed into “dried urban landscapes of economic value” (12). [...] [T]he economization of space was so encompassing that earlier ways of understanding and inhabiting the delta’s shifting lands and waters were [obscured] [...].

The British thus had to produce landed property both conceptually and materially in a process that proceeded through two entangled registers of power. The first was the legal register, which translated shifting and indeterminate aqueous spaces into apparently solid landed property through modes of legal classification and arbitration. The second register of power concerned hydraulic technologies of drying and draining the landscape (10), which materialized these legal categorizations in the production of urban space. 

By the early twentieth century, these “technologies of property” (5) had produced new lines between land and water in the city and rendered its fluid ecologies, such as marshes and bogs, as valuable “land-in-waiting” (172) for property development and financial speculation. [...] 

[T]he delta’s fluid ecology emerges at times as a limit on the property-making activities of the East India Company and the British Crown [...]. Bhattacharyya’s account highlights the mobility of the delta’s fluid landscape, with water, silt, and mud taking on agentic roles and shaping historical trajectories. [...] [Bhattacharyya] provides a fascinating account of the meanings of rivers and other watery spaces in Bengali cultural life, drawing on folk songs, poetic genres such as the maṅgalkāvya, storytelling, and forms of artistic representation such as painted narrative scrolls. [...] Bhattacharyya recovers forms of relationality and claim-making in the fluid deltaic environment that exceed the representations of colonial cadastral surveys and revenue records. [...] 

[H]owever, Calcutta became increasingly disconnected from its watery past. [...] [There was an] increasing entanglement of the urban land market with infrastructural projects to dry land and control water. These included the excavation of an extensive network of canals; the construction of docks in Khidderpore and the draining of the Maidan [...]. A collective amnesia about Calcutta’s fluid ecologies set the stage for the emergence of a speculative real estate market by the beginning of the twentieth century [...]. This period saw Calcutta’s remaining wetlands and marshes rendered as “land-in-waiting for property development” (169) in a process that continues to the present day.

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All text above by: Calynn Dowler. “Debjani Bhattacharyya, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta.” Asian Ethnology Volume 80 Issue 1. 2021. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[whimsycore]

They’re literally saying enslaved Africans benefitted from Slavery in Florida now. We’re literally about to have the worst decade imaginable if we don’t vote these idiots out.

[septicrodent]

I brought Ralis back instead of Erandur and Revyn won't look at me??? He then proceeded to give me a rather shocked expression??? I guess I underestimated how much he liked Erandur 😔

[dreamgirledward]

in my rediscovery of the interview with a vampire series that's about to start airing, it's been hilarious watching people actually get red-faced, hand-wringing angry in online spaces about 'yet another remake that no one asked for' when in fact the 1994 movie theyre all claiming to be a 'perfect adaptation' was notoriously disliked by the author (tom cruise as lestat specifically jhkjdhsfjkg) and heavily criticized for removing the gay subtext TEXT laden throughout the original story. people angry about the change in the time period as well arent really understanding how poorly a sympathetic plantation owner living in 18th century louisiana would age nowadays (and how poorly they age period)... this is why i wish more people understood what kind of skill adapting something from page to screen is, that it's difficult and an art in its own right, when done well. think about jojo rabbit, a film adapted from a novel that's got a completely different tone compared to its source material, but still poignant and manages to deliver an enrapturing, endearing story dealing with extremely dark and sobering themes. sometimes it's literally not possible to adapt something word for word, and i think fans of the books should count themselves lucky that anne rice was involved in production until she passed. the thing with interview with a vampire however, aside from appropriately casting way more black actors in a setting that, let's be quite clear, was completely whitewashed in the film, is that it's telling a queer dramatic story. it's doing what the film was too scared to do, which is be SUPER GAY and the 1994 film was only 'great' or 'perfect' for all those people who thought they may have stood a chance with brad or tom (who in my opinion werent even well-cast!) 🤷🏻‍♀️

[nashvillethotchicken]

I wish there were more black people who were into iwtv so I can talk about how Louis's class and race interests intersected

[jvzebel-x]

King Kalākaua-- dubbed throughout time as the "Merry Monarch"-- dedicated his life&complicated rule to establishing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi as an independent power recognized world wide, as well as revitalizing a culture that had been nearly ground to dust under the heel of colonization. Hula-- once publicly outlawed as a deeply spiritual&religious act by the missionaries who spearheaded the war to destroy our culture-- was brought back to the public consciousness by the King, an incredibly accomplished dancer himself.

The Merry Monarch Hula Festival is the most well-known portion of his legacy, and is celebrated by kānaka&lovers of hula all over the world.

Mahalo nui loa, Ke Aliʻi Kalākaua.

[rotzaprachim]

don’t reblog without permission

one of the most teeth gratingly irritating things to keep seeing replicated and reblogged from well meaning social media progressives is stuff that imports a mainland usamerican white majority/minority of color social dynamic in hawai’i. i see a lot of well meaning asian american continental activists doing this without realising that the majority settler population of hawai’i isn’t white americans! it’s the “local” ethnic mix of asian immigrants (chinese, japanese, filipino, and korean largely) as well as portuguese and latine immigrants (who are just blanketly left out of outsider HI discussions.)

 and the majority of local people are both locals who don’t meet usamerican definitions of whiteness and settler colonialists at the same time. when you see stuff that priviledges a usamerican def of whiteness or imports the white majority/minority of color continental model it’s obfuscating a lot of local issues and power dynamics, and also ignoring the fact that we as non-native asians and mixed race people are the group that need to cede power to native hawaiians. it’s a situation that i think echoes many other colonial and post colonial states globally but not.. the us way of seeing things. local is a cultural term that does not automatically mean native hawai’ian/kanaka maoli. the mainland asian american activists need to understand that they have skin in this game, and mainland usamericans need to get they have a lot more situational power even than non-native locals in hawai’i when it comes to these things. 

 (the other most irritating thing is stuff that removes the structural problems of MNC’s and global neoliberal capitalism and whatnot to make it a personalised breast beating well I went on a nice vacation but now i’m guilty so i won’t do it again #sorry #don’t go to hawai’i! thing without really understanding how that works.) 

[britneyshakespeare]

This is just a map of New England (minus Connecticut the fake New England state)

[sangcreole]

once again thinking about how almost every vampire had some artistic inclinations as mortals that’s carried into the dark gift whether it’s musical talent or artistic skills or even Daniel’s journalistic affinity. 

and then there is louis, who was just. rich and drunk.