cryptid-lantern

[idkhowtopickausername]

I feel like in the U.S. we should be holding protests against U.S. military trainings in Africa or something. Not that it would convince the U.S. government to stop doing something they’re so heavily invested in financially but it would be a good central message to direct some of the current energy towards and would make more people aware of one of the ways that neocolonialism operates and would hopefully be carried forward into future movements

[sudaca-swag]

gringos with their american exceptionalism talk about their "regional differences" as if they lived in a country where every state has 500 native languages, 7890 native ethnic groups and 13959592010 different "american" traditions, sir you only speak english and your "regional difference" is saying carmel instead of caramel and an unhealthy obsession with monstertrucks

[leroibobo]

oh if you ever are curious about non-maghrebi/egyptian african synagogues i highly recommend this website. they're unfortunately not as recorded in pictures as the other sorts of synagogues i post, but there is comprehensive information on them.

[aplpaca]

Also fun fact robin species from eurasia and africa, robin species from oceania, and ribin species from north and south america aren't actually all very related. The oceanic and american robin species are just called robins bc members of their families have distinctive red-orange like European Robins do (European Robin is a specific species name).

Robins from the americas are more closely related to Common Blackbirds (a european species) than they are to European Robins, and robins from oceania are more closely related to rockfowl (a pair of African species that are very much not shaped like any kind of robin) than they are to European Robins.

[muirneach]

i am pro banning israel from the olympics obviously so this isn’t debating that but one thing about me is i am always thinking about logistics. so if the ioc did ban them…. would the israeli athletes join ain. ie, would they and the russians and belarusians be put in the same category. because that feels crazy to me. yet surely they would not separate them into multiple neutral categories because that defeats the purpose i think? or would they just be like. banned point blank without ain option. because like when south africa was banned the ioc didn’t have neutral competitors did they? which makes me wonder why russian athletes are allowed at all right now even if under the neutral flag. but whatever there were probably many hours of debate that was had over that decision at the ioc so i’m sure they had their reasons. i guess

[usernamesuggestionsarefunny]

How come there are no fics where ASOIAF and ATLA happen in the same universe around the same time only they are two different continents. Clearly and obviously ATLA universe being fantasy Asia and Westeros fantasy Europe/Middle East/North Africa.

[pickapea]

my absolutely biggest online pet peeve is US centric people projecting their rich sorority girl bully stereotype of nurses onto everyone else, as if nurses aren't working class and mostly immigrants of colour everywhere else. and when did it become cool to hate on underpaid and exploited workers anyway

[heather-chandlers-weirder-cousin]

my parents got a video game achievement for hitting rock bottom except the video game achievement was Me

[avatardoggo]

i'm not a soccer girlie in any way shape or form but this world cup has made me Feel Things esp this game with morocco and portugal. like we just witnessed history. history. morocco being the 1st (FIRST!!!) african team to make it to the quaterfinals and then b e a t portugal to be the first african team in world cup history to go to the freaking semifinals!! like this is history HISTORY and yayaya ik for some ppl iTs JuSt SoCcEr but it's sm more than that. it's about teamwork, about pushing past the limits, ignoring what the rest of the world thinks about you, sweating with your brothers on a field in front of the whole world, it's about representing your country but also your continent which has the stereotype of being nothing but a primitive, third world place with little to offer the rest of the world. sports have sm feeling in them and this world cup i swear i've been moved so close to tears you can feel the dedication and commitment they have not only to each other but to the people of the nation they love.

[23sanguinity]

I may be sick in bed, but at least I will heal. at least I know I’ll live to see tomorrow. Free Palestine

[bxtonpxss]

Spirit Box || Headcanons

Opacho is multilingual. While not conversationally fluent, she can understand French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and a little bit of Russian. However, she really wants to learn Swahili, her native tongue.

[butchniqabi]

im offline for a few hours and when i come back the ummah is in shambles

[gender-euphowrya]

thinking about how maths class mainly teaches you the theorems named after greeks

[themthistles]

i understand that people generally don't mean for it to come off this way but it always peeves me when ameribrits and co talk about the state of lgbtqa+ rights in other counties as if homophobia and transphobia present there are a virus or some boogeyman that is going to breach containment and come for them. like oh what's this??? here comes christianity with a steel chair!! guess what our bigotry is your bigotry buddy. it always has been

[ian-galagher]

WIPs I hope to finish one day 😭

Africa

When Ian lands himself an internship with famous wildlife photographer Mickey Milkovich he can't believe his luck. Spending one month traveling through South Africa with his big hero is a dream come true. The two are off on a wild adventure but there's something mysterious about Mickey who seems to be holding more to his chest than just the tricks of the trade Ian had hoped to learn from him.

Stolen Goods

From the outside Ian and Mickey seem like two ordinary guys. Ian works at an animal shelter while Mickey runs a garage. At least, that's what they tell anyone who asks. Ian's shelter doubles as a front for his side business, selling the priceless artifacts of the museums he robs blind to the highest bidder or the country they came from.

Meanwhile Mickey fixes up cars that have clearly been stolen, no questions asked. Below the counter he deals in green card marriages and weapons. Both men lead dangerous lives. To blow off steam they meet every Sunday night at Roxy's for a casual hook up, only to find that their lives are far more intertwined than they possibly could've imagined.

You Can't Let Your Guard Down

Ian broke up with Ned weeks ago but to his annoyance he keeps showing up at his doorstep, begging for Ian to give him another chance. Fed up, Ian finds himself a bodyguard in the shape of Mickey Milkovich, hired around the clock to protect him. Neither of them realizes how their lives are forever changed by that one decision.

The Devon Creature

It storms when Ian boards the ship that is supposed to sail him out and away from his hometown in Devon, England in 1852. As the ship sinks to the depths of the ocean, and the crew drowns around him, the Merfolk come out to scavenge for the goods they carried on board. It's then Ian looks into cold blue eyes and pleads for his life.

~

I might never finish these but boy do I love them! I started writing them a year ago, December 2021, and have rough drafts of all four but actually perfecting and finishing them?! Impossible! If I could just get a few years off from literally every other task ever, I'd be perfectly happy spending every waking hour working on them!

I'm hoping to start posting Africa in May though! 😁🤞 MY BETA SAID NOW SO IM GONNA POST IT SOON 😭

[sixth-light]

Not adding this onto the post that keeps crossing my dash because it's not really relevant to that discussion, but: anytime the phrase 'nobody was living there' comes up as a form of justification for something or other, it is worth keeping in mind that in literally the last ten thousand years or so the only major areas of the world to have been settled by humans for the first time are Greenland, Iceland, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Madagascar. (We shall not count Antarctica on the grounds that nobody lives there permanently or is ever likely to.) Everywhere else has been inhabited by humans for tens of thousands of years. Even when Homo sapiens left Africa our ancestors were encountering (checks notes) our other ancestors, Neanderthals and Denisovans, not to mention other human species now extinct.

The myth of the unpopulated frontier, open for expansion, is just that: a myth, and one that generally serves a specific purpose in terms of justifying settler-colonialism. The question the phrase 'nobody was living there' demands is - who are you calling 'nobody'?