Notice who is allowed to not participate during the National Anthem, without calls to lose their jobs. Not told they are being divise. Not told they don’t deserve their jobs. Not told they are being unpatriotic.
You’re an Indian giver in the way you love: Everything you give, you take away.
What is an Indian giver?
A person who gives something and than wants it back.
what did the Indians want back?
More specifically, the term “Indian giver” arose from a series of incidents in which European colonists would borrow food and supplies from the local First Nations, then turn around and go “oh, we thought it was a gift” when the locals later tried to collect on the loan.
Modern history books like to bang on about “cultural misunderstandings”, but if you look at contemporary records, it’s clear that there was no misunderstanding - the colonists totally understood that they were being extended a loan, and simply didn’t want to pay it back.
The myth that Native Americans liked to swindle people by giving them gifts and later claiming that the gift had actually been a loan - hence, “Indian giver” - thus developed in order to retroactively justify the colonists stiffing the locals when those loans came due.
(In the interest of clarity, interest-bearing loans were not commonly practiced by North America’s First Nations at the time, though they did exist among some groups; in this context, the term “loan” simply means “I give you something you need right now, and you give me back something of equal value at some specified or unspecified future date”.)
Unceasing reblog.
Per usual things white people made up.
tl,dr: “indian giver” has been invented to justify the actions of white takers.
I don't trust Trump to handle a table knife, if that answers the question.
When the Obama administration left the White House, top officials warned that the No. 1 problem the incoming Trump administration would face globally is North Korea.
I remember all the Doctor Who fanfics I used to read where Rose often got badly stereotyped as a damsel in distress whom the Doctor had to swoop in and save and smooch but the way I remember Doctor Who 90% of their relationship was the Doctor just setting Rose loose on people who had done something to offend them and sitting back giggling in the corner as she shouted
So many of them became depressed and distraught because they were trained to find live bodies, and when they kept finding remains, their handlers and other rescue workers began to hide in the wreckage so the dogs could do live finds.
These dogs provided immeasurable help to those that were working the scene, bringing great emotional support just by being around the rescuers.
The picture with the honor guard fucking annihilated me. Actual tears.
;_;
I broke down in tears reading this….
She is a Good Dog
She is napping in Doggy Heaven right now where there are many nice things to eat and toys and warm hugs <3
Bretagne is a good and gentle soul and I am glad she was well loved and given kindness and joy in her time on this earth <3
In case you missed it: on Friday, Serena had a baby, and Venus advanced to the fourth round at the the US Open. WPBF-25 news producer Chris Shepherd tweeted that the baby girl is six pounds, 13 ounces. Beyoncé says congratulations.
But it’s so scary! I was in superwholock phase when I was sixteen. There are MOMS and people over 30 who are still in fandom spaces, who interact with people in THAT way and the older I get, less I understand. You’re a fucking grown ass person. If you still like the shows, nobody’s stopping you from reblogging stuff (of course, DEPENDS what kind of STUFF you’re reblogging but that’s another discussion) but when the adult is an active member of the fandom which is mainly populated by kids… It’s ugly and disgusting and I feel so bad even thinking about that.
I look at posts like this and wonder… when was I supposed to get out?
Was I supposed to get a mortgage and some sensible shoes and learn to play bridge? Shuffle off to the glue factory to die?
Do you know how much many fandoms would lose if you declared everyone over 21 (or whatever the cutoff is) “creepy” and cast them out? As bad as I feel for a 30+ year old mother who is deeply into Superwholock, why should she be unwelcome in the fandom? Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Sherlock are none of them Game of Thrones but they aren’t kids shows. Adults on the internet do not have a responsibility to keep everything they do sanitized for hypothetical minors who might see it. I AM over 30, and trust me when I say that this shit got hashed out in court back in the 90s when it was new.
Older fans saw hundreds of thousands of fanworks disappear in the early 21st century, sometimes due to technical and economic reasons (like the loss of mailing lists and the fall of Geocities) but we also saw how ugly things could get when puritanical think-of-the-children handwringing censorship turned into witch hunts and deletions on FF.net, LJ, and more. AO3 was a gift from older fans so new fans of all ages wouldn’t have to worry about that stuff.
I mean get off my lawn and etc, but everyone in fandom needs to understand that they are functionally in a public space that does not promise to be “safe” for them personally, no matter their age. You may end up interacting with adult content and like it or not it’s going to be up to you to control your experience- block people, blacklist tags, move to a more moderated community, whatever you have to do, but the whole fandom is not going to keep everything acceptable by any one person’s standards.
Fandom is a place where we all come together, and the only thing we need to have in common is a shared love of whatever Thing we came for.
Is OP saying that existing on the internet while over 21 is inherently abusive?
Also it cracks me up when people assume Tumblr is mostly kids.
A bare 12% of Tumblr’s users are under 18. The largest age group is 25-34. There are more people in their 40s on Tumblr than there are under 18.
Fandom is overwhelmingly made up of adults and always has been and if you are going to interact with adult spaces, which the internet is, you are responsible for policing your own viewing and interaction. Don’t want adults interacting with you? Block them. But the viewpoint that fandom is made up of children and is for children is a post ~2012 idea. It is new and while it is pervasive, it is utterly untrue.
OH NO, THERE ARE ADULT WOMEN ON THE INTERNET. Sorry, we don’t shrivel up into crones knitting socks when we pass the fuckable age of 25. You’re going to be in for a real treat of a wakeup when you pass the sell-by date and suddenly people are shouting at you that you’re not allowed to have hobbies.
I don’t understand why there’s this implication that older women in fandom interacting with teens is inherently creepy or predatory? Like, not that they don’t exist but that if you’re an adult making friends with younger people obviously it can only be b/c you’re a creep?
The best way to make friends and enjoy fandom plus learn about various life experiences is by interacting with a wide variety of age groups, nationalities, etc.
And ultimately, if you’re a young person who wants to avoid interacting with adults in fandom, then I would say it’s up to you to block people and avoid following/interacting with content, than expecting every adult you encounter to automatically walk on eggshells or treat you special just for being younger than them.
why do you hate kids so much? even if the kid follows you and you know you make content not for kids……. you have to block them. you’re the adult. why is it so hard to understand
What planet do you live on that you think people who often have thousands of followers need to check every one of them and decide if they’re being age appropriate? What if - big shocker - they don’t put their age out or lie about it?
And more importantly, how incredibly tunnelled vision do you have that you don’t realize that if these “kids” browse tumblr unsupervised by the actual adults IN THEIR LIFE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM they also have literally thousands of porn sites at their disposal, just one click away, many of them actually right here in tumblr? And it doesn’t have to be porn even. Extremism? Violence? All right there on the internet and the people putting it there won’t be having a discussion like this with you like many on this post are civilly doing.
What you are focusing on here, where you are laying the blame and responsibility is really appalling.
yeah, i’m laying responsibility on ADULTS. why do you hate kids so much?
Are you playing dumb at this point?
The adults responsible for children are the adults who chose to acquire them.
Please explain to me in full sentences how I’m supposed raise some hypothetical 15 year old who just followed my blog. Tell me how it works.
simple. you block them. that is all. i don’t understand how it is so hard for YOU to understand.
So you ARE playing dumb.
Which part of the “thousands of followers” and “lying about age” and “children have parents and guardians who are not me” are you not getting?
that you are a fucking adult and you still have to protect kids in the fandom! if you produce content that is not suitable for them, you HAVE to go through your hundreds of followers and block them. you don’t get to act like a child even if you are among them!
I don’t have to do shit, you entitled little muppet. Other people’s spawn are not my problem. They have parents who produced them. It’s those adults’ responsibility to keep them off the fucking internet.
Oh, and everybody, note this in Lesbo’s BYF:
please do not follow if you’re younger than 18! i can’t always check the followers because a lot of people follow me!
Fucking hypocrite.
At this point, I have a following of a few thousand people on my art blog. I am already providing a service for free - mind you, a service that eats up a vast amount of my time. I am decidedly not going through my followers and blocking each minor. I am responsible for what I create, I am not responsible for your consumption of what I create. That is entirely on you. If you have a nut allergy, and you eat a snack with nuts in it while being fully aware that it has nuts in it (because it’s right there on the package, it’s right there), and suffer damages to your health because of that, then I don’t thinkthe snack is to blame, and neither is the company that produced it. My art has nuts in it. If you can’t handle nuts, don’t consume my art. I’m not about to go around and smack the nuts out of my followers’ hands.
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Is anybody else amused that she’s up in arms over superwholock not being for kids only? Like, sure, do pick Doctor Who and Sherlock as those very special young people fandoms. That’s logical and reasonable. It’s not like those have been around for a really fucking long time.
Not that Supernatural is much better but at least it’s only been around for twelve years. And it’s totes child friendly anyway.:D
I am just forever baffled by this pearl-clutching attitude that seems to project this idea that internet fandom spaces are like creepy adults invading a middle school science fair, when if any such ridiculous analogy needs to be made, it’s more like a nightclub that has a regularly posted schedule of youth/wristband nights or is at times invaded by three stacked children in a trenchcoat purporting to be adults.
their arms are similar to our tongues in that their muscle fibers are oriented in three different directions
octopuses are disconcertingly strong (anecdotal evidence says that a 15 inch wide octopus was as strong as the scientist handling it)
on that note that same scientist said that when her octopuses escaped she would have to run behind them, “like cats” (paraphrased from sy montgomery’s the soul of an octopus)
aquariums have “octopus enriching programs” so they don’t get bored and fuck shit up in their tanks
they are crazy smart like. really. really fucking smart
but we can’t compare their intelligence to ours because our evolution branched from the same common ancestor so long ago we cannot comprehend how they think
it’s believed that their intelligence evolved when they lost their shell, and had to adapt to predict how countless of different prey and predators would act, how to avoid them, distract them, lure them or trick them
they visualize how other creatures are going to act, which means they have have awareness that others are individuals which is a type of consciousness but i can’t remember what it’s called right now
like, they use tools
they have distinct personalities
aquarium octopuses are socialized from a very young age and even though in the wild they are solitary creatures they become extremely friendly with enough human exposure
sometimes they dislike people for no apparent reason and will shoot water at them
they have three hearts
each of their arms has a tiny brain that controls movement and sensory input on its own i shit you not
they are color blind and yet they can camouflage their color and nobody knows how
they can change the color and texture of their skin faster than human eyes can keep up with it
great pacific octopuses are white when they are peaceful, and red when they’re excited
aquarium octopus have escaped their tanks and slithered down pipes into the ocean
escaped their tanks to eat the fish in other tanks
escaped their tanks to go fight other octopuses cuz they were bored
octopus fight club
learned how to take photographs
cost thousands of dollars by flooding new floors
they can feel, taste, and smell with their suckers and all of their skin
they enjoy tasting their food by slowly moving it through their suckers instead of shoving it in their beaks
they can rewrite their rna. no, really
the only reason why they haven’t evolved to take over as the next dominant race is because they’re doing pretty well in the ocean so there’s no need for them to adapt further
there’s a ton more but i’m so overwhelmed by love i can’ think of any at the moment i’m going to cry
read the soul of an octopus by sy mongomery no she didn’t pay me i just love octopuses so much
Also:
learned to shoot out the annoying light over the tank
hid in floor drains when caught out of their tanks by researchers
hid the shells of crabs stolen from a tank under a third, unrelated tank
Sy is a wonderful human and a great researcher. NEAq actually named a GPO after her in honor of all her work on octopuses. (Or octopi, or octopodes - they’re all correct). Definitely read that book.
-liked being splashed. Figured out that spitting water would have keepers splash back in response
- learned to spray 45°F water everywhere to demand splashes
-likes taking brushes from divers. Knows the best way to do this was to sneak up from underneath or reach over the shoulder
-will wait until keepers are looking away/distracted to grab stuff and knows exactly how far to sink down to get out of reach
-seriously octos are huge thieves. If you have something in your hand, they want it. As soon as they grab it, it belongs to them. There’s no food and they have no use for it? Doesn’t matter it’s their thing now.
-we lost a magnet scrubber for three days because one stole it from the interns. Every time she let it go and we reached a net to get it, she would snatch it out of the net and drag it back into the den. By the time we got it back she had torn apart the scrub pad
-honestly it’s like keeping an aquatic possessive 8-legged cat
