blogalias padawan-crevette
Mar 03
  • tikkunolamorgtfo

    I don’t think a lot of people understand that no matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something that’s so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And you’ll say “Huh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but you’re right,” and that doesn’t mean you were “morally toxic” before, it means you’re a non-omniscient human capable of growth.

    Also, some preferred terms for things will change and evolve, and terms we prefer now might eventually be considered gauche or even offensive, and that doesn’t mean you were a bigot at the time for using them. It means we evolved as a society and chose new terminology to reflect that change.

    Nobody is a fully formed realisation of progressivism that can predict all shifts and modes of thought. The world will always change, and hopefully you will, too

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    • blogalias fatgothgf
    May 14
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  • unexplained-events

    Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

    VIDEO

  • smileforthehigh

    Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

  • desiremyblack

    (via TumbleOn)

  • pearlsnapbutton

    What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

  • kiwianaroha

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    Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

    And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

  • theopensea

    Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

  • thegirlthewolfate

    Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

    Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

    Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄
  • archaeologistforhire

    Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year. 

    “Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

    In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

    “If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

    “Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

    Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

    “The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

     http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

  • crazythingsfromhistory

    Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

    Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

  • fluffmugger

    oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

    it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.  

    Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago

    These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

  • ironbite4

    Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

  • gluklixhe

    I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

  • eastsidecosmic

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    • blogalias fatgothgf
    Apr 26
  • emi1y

    where is the photo of the frog statue that has a pussy i need it

  • gay-and-n3on

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    this one?

  • emi1y

    RVRVDJSKKFBSK NO THATS NOT THE ONE I WAS THINKING BUT THOSE ARE CERTAINLY SOMETHING

  • flowerworshipping

    If you like frogs with genitals boy do I have the ring for you!

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  • emi1y

    $1450 is a small price to pay for gold frog ring enchanted frog prince ring frog jewelry frog prince 14k gold frog frog stuff silly jewelry gift for girlfriend valentines day

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    • blogalias z-raid
    Dec 18
  • themauvesoul

    Hate diet culture so much bitches will b like “don’t eat processed carbs they’re so bad for you” like and??? So what?? God did not give us grain and stone to grind it with for no reason. Bread is inevitable. Bread is food for the heart and the soul. U think I’m gonna give that up in pursuit of instagram fitness?? U think I’m gonna deny myself the simple pleasure of toast with jam so I can endlessly chase an ever-shifting standard of beauty that ultimately means nothing? In 20 years I will no longer be beautiful and in 60 my body will be vacant food for other, smaller creatures. But the taste of fresh bread? Of homemade donuts and still-warm pie? I will carry the taste on my tongue into whatever follows this life. So like. Stop telling me I should diet lmao. I’m not abt to martyr myself just to get a man to look at me.

  • mockiatoh

    Op genuinely thank you for this

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    • blogalias chaoticlivi
    Dec 18
  • pillowpet-gay

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    ENBY LINK! ENBY LINK! ENBY LINK!

  • fangoriousfae

    This gels real nicely with something I noticed about the Kokiri whom Link was raised alongside.

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    The Kokiri seem to have a gendered dress code. Boys like Mido, the shopkeep, and the Know-It-All Brothers wear pointy hats, shirts (or a tank in Mido's case), shorts, and green shoes; girls like Fado and Generic Kokiri Girl, on the other hand, wear headbands, long-skirted sleeveless tunics, and tall brown boots. Now take a look at Link:

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    Link's outfit mixes and matches elements from both "uniforms": a Kokiri boy's hat and sleeves with a Kokiri girl's long tunic and tall brown boots. A big theme in Ocarina of Time is that Link is a bridge between multiple pairs of different "worlds" without truly belonging to any of them: Kokiri and Hylian, child and adult, hero and victim. Bridging the masculine and feminine without being either fits right in with all this.

  • armath-the-wise

    Enby Link! Enby Link! Enby Link!

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