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ajathehigh:

hecatescaoranach:

Can we talk about how white washed the Pagan and Wicca community is?

All the aesthetic you ever see is of white women tromping around a foggy forest. Gods and goddesses are drawn as white- even Egyptian ones. Pictures of white people are used as god and goddess aesthetic.

Can we stop? Why are we letting blatant racism bleed into this group of people?

Not to mention the cultural appropriation of:

Shamanism (a closed tribe and religion)

Hoodoo (a closed practice)

Santeria (also closed)

Voodoo

Bindis

Smudging (a native american practice)

Dream Catchers

(I’m probably leaving out a lot more, but you get the gist.)

Also:

“Gypsy” (a racial slur of the romani AND the roma- sinti who were victims in THE HOLOCAUST for goodness sake)

SO CAN WE STOP NOW?

I would really like the difficulty level of finding a diverse aesthetic collage or god/ goddess illustration to go down by, like, 50%.

Thnx

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vassraptor:

spybrarian:

waitingforturnips:

Kids break into radio station, swear at listeners

A group of children broke into a radio station in Western Australia’s remote Kimberley region and put themselves live on air for an impromptu late-night show full of swearing.

The first police knew of it was a phone call from a listener, concerned at swear words being broadcast.

Station manager Angie Stahl says she had previously given the children lessons in community radio, and they worked out how to make the studio go live.

“But unfortunately their show mainly involved swearing, which was a bit punk, a bit avant-garde, but also breaches the broadcasting laws, and our codes of practice.

“So the cops got a call from an outlaying station ringing up to say, ‘I think you’ve got some kids on the radio, they’re busy swearing, you’d better go bust them’.”

Ms Stahl said the children appear to have entered through a window in her house, which adjoins the studios.

While in the house they ate some chicken nuggets and dyed their hair.

Not long after going on-air with their expletive-ridden jokes, police officers arrived to put a stop to the radio broadcast.

Ms Stahl said the children may have a future in broadcasting.

“They’d come in a couple of times before to do a couple of shows and programs, so I’d taught them the basics,” she said.

“So it’s good to see the knowledge was used correctly.”

“While in the house they ate some chicken nuggets and dyed their hair”

“A bit punk”

Amazing.

Lede buried: these were Aboriginal kids in an Aboriginal community in Western Australia. Specifically, in Fitzroy Crossing, whose reputation is, um, Not Good. An outlying station" implies rich white cattle farmers who live in the same region but not the same community, and who heard young Aboriginal voices swearing on the radio and called the fucking cops to have them arrested instead of just changing the channel.

Thank FUCK the cops reacted sanely and the children are still alive, are not in juvie, and are receiving punishments both commensurate with the offense and appropriate to their age and culture. It very much might not have gone that way. :(

Also, Aboriginal community radio is hugely important in remote communities like that. This is an area with a population density of 0.1183258/km2 (0.306462/sq mi). The actual town of Fitzroy Crossing has about 1300 people in it, with another 2000 people living in Aboriginal communities around there. Radio helps them keep in touch, share news, and is a means of sharing and preserving culture and (endangered) languages, and also gives the kids and teenagers something to do (and, for some of them, somewhere safe to be at times when they really need that.) (Aboriginal filmmaker Warwick Thornton got his start DJing at a community radio station like Ms Stahl’s, in his case in Alice Springs.)

It’s so cool that those kids were putting their skills to use, and I hope they do go on with it. Punk rock af.

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kieranquigley:

trying to activate heroic cryo-pod defenders with a guardian new to the tangled shore 

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gothzenyatta:

some of you have never united Ferelden against the Blight and it shows

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treebeered:

nevermind deleted that post because I’m 95% sure op was a terf but like

to reiterate the point itself, body hair on women is natural and good, and finding body hair attractive on women should not be considered weird when it’s the natural state of women’s bodies

as well as just about everybody’s bodies, which is to say that something so normal for us all should not be suddenly deemed unacceptable in only one group, and if that thing (body hair in this case) is something you see as actively enticing then that shouldn’t be weird

and also while we’re at it let’s directly say that body hair should be normalized/accepted/celebrated on women cis and trans alike - we should seek to dismantle dumbass patriarchal expectations for all of us, rather than cis women tearing them down for ourselves and then turning around and acting like trans women are only valid if they perform the standards we just discarded

like also the body’s natural and default state can be modified as much as we want it to to make our own selves happy and comfortable (see also: hair dye, tattoos, etc), and that’s great! but it shouldn’t be weird to let it be in it’s default state if we want and it shouldn’t be weird to find that attractive either

bebuzzu:

biff-donderglutes:

Thinking about that fallout 76 ad where like 9 people stand around and watch a ground burst nuke go off like it’s a pretty firework is like. Genuinely upsetting. Not only can I not think of any worse way to reflect the themes of the series, with the opening of Fallout specifying that WWIII only lasted an hour and with it destroyed almost all life on the planet at the hands of nuclear weapons, but it’s also just an irreverent and frankly dangerous way to discuss the most horrible weapons mankind has ever made. It would be different if it were actually some kind of satire, some kind of distinct point being made, but it’s literally just LOOK NUKES COOL and it’s more a re-invigoration of the cold war’s nuclear obsession than it is an indictment of it.

New Vegas: Ends with player traveling The Divide to meet a man that will damn the player for their actions, and uses the old world’s sins: it’s nuclear firepower. The player is then given option to nuke a location, with the implication being that to do so is morally unjust and disgusting. The moral high ground, however, requires great sacrifice, and gives weight to the player’s choice for proper good: to disable the nukes entirely. The words Ulysses leaves parallel’s the serie’s iconic phrase “War never changes” by saying people must change, because to repeat the sins of the past is to doom us to eternal nuclear disaster.

Fallout 76: Players set off three nuclear explosions to fight irradiated skyrim dragons. coUNTRY ROOOOOOOADS TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOME

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90scherry:

a lot of shit just not worth my time no more

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thatpettyblackgirl:

im really happy someone said this… like its capitalism at its finest & we feed into it & we are just so automated w/ everything we do

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