ALTlittle piece i did today in top surgery recovery
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doodle on handmade paper from a friend!!
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Don’t you just hate it when you give in to your lust for blood and you sink your fangs into a robot by mistake?
The vampire equivalent of the “accidentally ate the fake fruit” faux pas.
We live in an age of regrettably half-assed insults. I would have done great at like 1654 where you could walk up to someone you don't like and just say shit like "how cruel can nature be, that now age denies you wisdom, as youth once forbade you beauty" and get stabbed.
Let's make a haunted house together! Ingredients:
creaky floorboards and squealing hinges
uncomfortable and disquieting wall art
mysterious noises from... somewhere
flesh
dusty old opulent furniture
creepy dolls
memories of what once was and long-suppressed secrets
long shadows cast by insufficient lighting
show results/tag something else
reblog to enlist your mutuals in building the House :)
the general population’s education of indigenous american cultures is literally painful like people walk around not knowing that native americans domesticated dogs and turkeys, that many communities had farms that stretched for hundreds of miles, that many communities had completely terraformed their territories, that there were native trade systems stretching across the continent, that there were native metalsmiths before european arrival, that most native people were multilingual etc
also fed up with peoples assumption that sedentary cultures were “more advanced”. like sure, they had technology that hunter gatherer cultures didn’t, but that’s because the hunter gatherer cultures didn’t need those technologies. hunter gatherer cultures have their own ways of doing things, and they do it that way because it works for them. like what if i called you less advanced because you don’t know how to make a serrated arrowhead, and you don’t know how to work a bow drill or an atlatl or a long bow.
Hey, if you’re non-Native/not indigenous like me, I found this book to be helpful. It comes both as the original text for adult audiences and a version for young people that felt kinda like the history textbook I should have had in fourth-sixth grade.
I believe we currently have no evidence for a separate dog domestication event in the Americas, they likely traveled with humans onto the continent BUT what’s arguably even cooler is that Indigenous peoples of Tierra Del Fuego likely domesticated a completely DIFFERENT canid species, the culpeo! They’re called Fuegian dogs and were sadly eradicated by the europeans..
The llama, alpaca, turkey, fuegian dog, guinea pig, and muscovy duck were all domesticated by indigenous americans. In coastal British Columbia shellfish were farmed and harvested in sea gardens made from rocks and are thousands of years old.
There were also pre-columbian chickens in south america that arrived via trade with polynesians, if you like the blue eggs of the araucana breed you should thank the Mapuche people of Chile!
And that’s not even including the domesticated plants that have become staple ingredients in cuisines across the globe. Potatoes, tomatoes, corn, and chili peppers are all the work of indigenous american agriculture.
I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, "It was all such fun. I just had so much fun." I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.
