Hieroglyphic inscription bearing cartouche with the Nomen of Queen Hatshepsut (Khnumt-Amun Hatshepsut. Joined with Amun, Foremost of Noble Ladies), engraved into her pink granite obelisk at the Precinct of Amun-Re, Karnak Temple Complex.
SHIFT is a werewolf-themed zine put together by Sarah Mason, Sketchbook and FeatheryFlukes featuring 18 artists. I pledged on Kickstarter to get a physical copy as a collector’s item, but PDFs are still available. At A5 size, it’s small but packed with skilled imagery – a perfect haiku of lycanthropic goodness.
Each artist gets a two-page spread, and the imagery ranges from cartoony and cute to…
Anonymous asked: hi! i really like the cottagecore aesthetic, but i do want to enjoy it in a way that is respectful of indigenous people and cultures. do you know any good sources i could go to to learn more about this?
https://native-land.ca/ is the best starting point if you live in a settler nation, as it provides you with the names and some basic contact info for the tribe(s) still living today.
All tribes have a creation story: when you learn whose land you inhabit, find their creation story! Since these histories are oral traditions and often performances in their own right, find a video of their creation story.
Search for land reclamation and returning. They are not only a movement towards healing and justice, but the returned land is used for the good of everyone. onetwothree
These links are US-specific, but all settler nations have a history of cheating and abusing indigenous people out of both their land and culture.
Homesteading Acts, which also heavily discriminated against black Americans
history of civil rights, not until 1965 did all Native Americans have an unequivocal right to vote. And not until 1978!!!!!! were they allowed to openly practice their own religions.
You can enjoy the cottagecore aesthetic, and escapism is part of what keeps us sane under capitalism. It does not make you racist or colonialist to enjoy this.
But if we understand that there is “no ethical consumption under capitalism” then we can understand that things like cottagecore need to be critically examined through the history of the land we inhabit.
Learning about indigenous perspectives and history, seeing how they have survived and what they are doing to protect their futures is essential as a citizen of any settler nation.
The US, Canada, Greenland, Central America, South America, South Africa, parts of North Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and a slew of Pacific Islands can all benefit from doing what I’ve described in this post.
“Wall street can’t comprehend easy moral lessons most young children can grasp”
One sec, one thing real quick
This article is the best argument i’ve ever seen for why humanities are so important in education. Apparently you can just submit what is essentially a half assed book report with no reading comprehension or sources or basis whatsoever to certain news journals and call it a day.
Like Scrooge is pretty immoral and that’s kind of the whole point of the book. So much so that ghost visit him about it. That’s the plot. This is, again, an easy story that children can grasp via Muppets.
Anyone who sees Scrooge’s employee freezing all day in an office/going home to a hungry family he can’t support and thinks “Man, that Scrooge is a good and smart businessman” needs their own round of ghostly visitors.
Scrooge: *parrots common pro-business arguments specifically so the novel can refute them*
This fuckin guy who didn’t read past the first chapter: Well that seems perfectly sound!
And there’s a difference between Ebenezer Scrooge and the wealth hoarders of today, which is that his miserly behavior stems from the trauma of childhood privation, and from the fact that he really did work very hard to survive for many years early in life, and he lives in a kind of self-imposed quazipoverty because he’s so terrified of ever being poor again. It’s vastly different from real poverty, because he never actually has to go without food or heat or shelter, and none of this remotely justifies his behavior at all, but it’s a far cry from men who were born to wealth, inherited wealth, and continue to gain wealth in huge amounts daily without having to do a thing, who live a kind of alien decadence where they can eat gold leaf black truffles and could literally end all homelessness and still afford them, but choose not to because they have no concept whatsoever of not knowing whether you’ll eat tomorrow or having a sick child and being unable to afford a doctor, and they just don’t care.
