#vaca time

[araneadillydally]

DillyDally 47

[spookiifi]

Sea pancakes!

[vjonny2x4v]

This some ritualistic tradition shit

[loverboybrightsideghost]

jason statham's big vacation you will always be famous to me

[nihilismtrcit]

cloudy summer days

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

i'm actually so glad that for some fucking reason the bear season 3 isn't available in spain yet cause i got to experience the greatest show to ever exist (miss vaca 2024)

[femmemortes]

Oh so Gabriela died? What if I fucking killed myself? Then what?

[unknown-user-offical]

Hair shenanigans, lmaooo. Also, the reason Yamada stopped Aizawa from buying him hair dye, he was banned for life.

[nursedflowers]

a little nervous for my upcoming flight but good thing is is that i get to sleep & write on the plane <3 (if I don’t get embarrassed by the person next to me if they end up seeing what i’m doing)

[kyunsies]

hi loves i have neglected mx info since i've been on vacation i will hopefully be back on a normal schedule soon <3

[alolanrain]

i'm probably going to get yelled at by a bunch of people... but thoughts on kukui/giovanni?

[nethhiri]

I wake up, write angst and violence at literally 5am. There’s something wrong with that but I can’t help that most of my inspo comes in that half-awake dream state.

[shyspider]

10 DAYS TO GO!!!

Can't wait!!!

You know what?

Fuck it. I'm posting this Sunday. I'm officially off hiatus. I'm getting back in the ring.

[icanarachnid]

One thing I've noticed reading Carl Sagan's books is his inability to consider that perhaps native/indigenous people are not so gullible or perhaps they are more advanced than he regularly gave them credit for.

In this instance, reading "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark", he gives an account by a man whose family benefitted from the selling or killing of native populations.

[Regarding his grandfather] When natives on the neighboring island of Gomera revolted, he brutally put down the rebellion, killing males over the age of fifteen and selling the women and children into slavery. He was heavily fined for his actions and recalled to Castile in 1490. Cabeza de Vaca would have heard of these exploits growing up; many years later he named a province in South America, Vera, in honor of his grandfather.[9]

Also, Cabeza de Vaca was just another colonizer and let's not pretend that killing any males over age 16 (or so they say, perhaps younger) and keeping the women and children as "hostages" is anything other than brutality. Also, the men were starving to the point of later eating their horses and what happened to these women and children? Or is it the same as it almost always is... they used the women and children not solely as hotages.

There was no resistance to their attack and Cabeza de Vaca found only women and children whom he rounded up to serve as hostages. A thorough search of the houses found plenty of food but none of the hoped for gold and gems.[22]

So when I read Sagan's part in trusting Cabeza de Vaca at his word, it leaves doubt. ESPECIALLY in this book which is about evidence, science, and not about believing some colonizer about how the indigenous population was so gullible that they acted this way. Moreover, Cabeza lost so much in this expedition only to sell this incredible account that was marketed as the "first European book devoted completely to North America.” I'm sure he profited well.

I have a difficult time trusting this man's later account on how he was this glorious thing to these gullible Native Americans. Yet I find in both this book and even in Cosmos (the two I've read so far) that Carl Sagan takes this approach when talking about select groups of people and it's disheartening, to say the least.

From Ch 13 Obsessed with Reality:

A more or less typical example is told by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, who with a few companions and under conditions of terrible privation wandered on land and sea, from Florida to Texas to Mexico in 1528-36. The many different communities of Native Americans he met longed to believe in the supernatural healing powers of the strange light-skinned, black-bearded foreigners and their black-skinned companion from Morocco, Estebanico. Eventually whole villages came out to meet them, depositing all their wealth at the feet of the Spaniards and humbly imploring cures. It began modestly enough: [T]hey tried to make us into medicine men, without examining us or asking for credentials, for they cure illnesses by blowing on the sick person . . . and they ordered us to do the same and be of some use . . . The way in which we cured was by making the sign of the cross over them and blowing on them and reciting a Pater Noster and an Ave Maria . . . [A]s soon as we made the sign of the cross over them, all those for whom we prayed told the others that they were well and healthy . . . Soon they were curing cripples. Cabeza de Vaca reports he raised a man from the dead. After that, we were very much hampered by the large number of people who were following us . . . their eagerness to come and touch us was very great and their importunity so extreme that three hours would pass without our being able to persuade them to leave us alone. When a tribe begged the Spaniards not to leave them, Cabeza de Vaca and his companions became angry. Then, a strange thing happened . . . [M]any of them fell ill, and eight men died the next day. All over the land, in the places where this became known, they were so afraid of us that it seemed that the very sight of us made them almost die of fear. They implored us not to be angry, nor to wish for any more of them to die; and they were altogether convinced that we killed them simply by wishing to.

— The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan (1996)

Carl Sagan leaves it at that and goes on to speak more about faith healers but what was the point at all in taking up pages from this account from a man who wrote a book years after his expedition with a marketed tag line? Unless he just believed the words of a colonizer so readily... I wonder if anyone who read this book when Sagan was alive brought this up to him. One can only hope.

[i-miss-summertime]

New Anthony tats gonna drop 🔥

[ptolemveamoved]

i am , once again , asking for a cute little mumu server on discord . . .  preferably with a small town , southern gothic or beachside town setting . <3