Kabul has fallen, Afghanistan is almost completely under Taliban rule now, and President Ashraf Ghani has fled. I wasn't alive during the Vietnam war, but having seen the images of Saigon at the end of it, it's impossible not to think of them when seeing the footage of Chinooks airlifting US embassy workers to Kabul airport. l cannot tell you how surreal it is to be watching the news from neighboring Pakistan, sitting next to my grandfather who has been alive for every change of government since the Brits left after the war.

History repeats and repeats and repeats, nobody learns a damn thing, and innocent civilians are the ones that suffer.

250 000 Afghans have left their homes. Many more are going to do so. And that's just the ones who flee. Those who don't will live under a conservative rule that is going to commit crimes against humanity on a daily basis, that is going to ruin the lives of generations to come.

The worst part is, I don't know what else there is to be done at this point. I can only pray that my country will accommodate the incoming refugees, though I fear they won't.

All I ask is that international community keep Afghanistan in their thoughts, and that everyone raises their voice against what is happening, both in terms of what the Taliban is doing, and how the actions of foreign powers led us to this point. The US, the UK, Pakistan, are all at fault, and must be held accountable

hi reblog or reply to this with your star sign and if you think humid heat or dry heat is worse. for science

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THIS

I showed this to my boyfriend and he sprinted to the cupboard and pulled this out

Wild when you know that celestial seasonings is run by a eugenics cult who believe Adam and Eve were aliens meant to eradicate all the dark races.

W H A T ?!

Oh….it’s true

The article says that the guy who founded Celestial Seasonings and believed all this crap left the company in 2002, and there’s no evidence that the company has any ties with this stuff anymore, so… That’s good. The bad news being that the inspirational quotes on the teabags are all based on this dude’s weird racist, alien eugenics philosophy.

I have toured their factory and yeah, they are now pretty chill. Mostly just wanna make nice herbal teas that people can afford. They even work to try to ethically source lots of their ingredients ect. Like the foundings are weird as fuck and there are some teaces of that still in the branding. But buying a box of country peach passion is not gonna fund a cult these days. Enjoy your tea!

But everybody knows that the REAL reward for finishing a side quest is to have it off the quest list and its markers removed from the map.

#we play video games to enjoy wildest fantasies#and mine? is to cross shit off my todo list

Alternatives to ‘Sioux’

As you may know, the word ‘Sioux’ is considered to be a slur amongst members of the Oceti Sakowin. It is not our word for ourselves, but rather a name given to us by another nation and perpetuated by the Europeans / Euro-Americans.

You also may have noticed that our official tribe names often contain the word ‘Sioux’ (‘Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe’ for example.) The reason for this is entirely legal. When our treaties were drafted, they were written as an agreement between the US Government and the ‘Sioux Nation.’ For this reason, we cannot fully abandon the name. However, when we’ve had opportunities, we’ve dropped the name in places we can (’Oglala Lakota County,’ for example, a name chosen by the rezidents.)

Simply put, members of the Oceti Sakowin generally don’t refer to themselves as ‘Sioux’ and, if we can’t change it legally, at least we can continue to assert our identity on our terms. So, if you choose to respect that, here’s a quick Oceti Sakowin education guide:

Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) 

Oceti Sakowin (encompasses all language dialects) is the simplest and broadest replacement for ‘Sioux.’ You can use this term if you aren’t aware of the specific language group to which ‘Sioux’ refers. Within the Oceti Sakowin are three main groups, which are further divided into seven subgroups:

Isanti Oyate (Santee — Dakota Dialect)

Wiciyela Oyate (Yankton/Yanktonais — Dakota Dialect ; commonly mislabeled as Nakota* Dialect)

Tinte Oyate (Tetons — Lakota Dialect)

Within the Tinte Ta Tunwan / Tintatunwan Oceti Sakown (#7), there are another seven subdivisions:

*modern terminology *In the past, the term Nakota has been applied to the Yankton, but this is a mistake. The Yankton speak Dakota. Nakota speakers are Assiniboine / Hohe and Stoney, who broke off from the Yankton at a time so long ago their language is now nearly unrecognizable to Lakota and Dakota speakers.

Oceti Sakowin (Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, roughly pronounced as oh-chey-tee shah-koh-ween)

That poor child who had to pay to commission his own mother ($;$($;_!$($; idc what you say MY kids get everything FREE from me

This could never happen with me I cantttt 5his 11 year old saving up money for a drawing from his own parent 😭

yall this is taken out of context, the rest of the thread said how the mom didn't want to take his money but he was really excited to commission her. it's teaching the kid to value artists' time & also treating him with respect on something he clearly wanted to do! (enough that he saved up for it, kept track of his mom's commission slots, and checked to make sure he was giving her a fair price!)

This is actually super sweet and fuck the ppl making it out like the mom was taking advantage of him. It sounds like he’s really proud of her and wanted to “officially” get art of her - that means he respects her skill and her work! Good kid.

here’s the finished piece by the way! source

tumblr is best app u just talk to urself and ppl go yep so true bestie

Babygirl you are preventing me from fast traveling

all night long the sword on the wall above my bed has been rattling and i finally woke up all the way and went wtf and turned on the light and found this.

@ those of you saying this is cute… that’s a feral rat. a feral rat hovered over my head watching me sleep for three hours while trying to figure out how to assassinate me with a longsword. thanks.

While you slept, He studied the blade

i love how romanced Alistairs dialogue goes from “hey random person” to “flirty schoolboy” to “entranced lover” to “husband”

“What do you need?” “Yeeeeees?” “Your desire is my command.” “Something you need, my dear?”

The first time Alistair said “your desire is my command” I legitimately had to stop for a minute

*thinks about my favourite character getting fucked over by canon* this is unacceptable *goes off to write fic where I fuck them over in my own, superior way*

anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

Arthur’s wife was called Gwenhwyfar first.

Like the kraken I emerge, summoned by the English theft of Arthur

Anyway it’s particularly irritating because traditional Welsh culture and beliefs have been so thoroughly stripped away and destroyed by England over the centuries, and Arthurian legend is one of the few surviving fragments we have left to preserve. And he’s specifically an anti-English figure. So the ubiquity of the boring and appropriative English Arthur across the whole fucking world is… Well, it’s not great.

This is so interesting! Does anyone know a good source/reading material where one could get more of the original Welsh versions of the stories?

The Mabinogion, translated by Sioned Davies is your best bet! It’s got a bunch of big-ass Welsh myths in, but most relevantly it includes Culhwch ac Olwen, which is a full-on Arthurian text (plus a couple of interesting ones).

There’s a whole bunch more that’s survived in fragments, but they’re all in Old Welsh - fully readable if you speak Welsh, but obviously not much use if you don’t (I don’t know if you do or not but from context I’m guessing not lol).

Trioedd Ynys Prydain (literally “the Triads of the Island of Britain”, though in English they’re usually called “the Welsh Triads”) are a huge collection of lists of three things from Welsh lore, including a lot of Arthurian lore. They’re not stories, but they contain fascinating allusions to stories, to whole strains of the Arthurian tradition, that we may or may not have elsewhere.

Absolutely fantastic addition, yes, Rachel Bronwich’s Triads are glorious.

if my partner/friend/commander died and showed up alive and allied with a terrorist organization two years later on a planet that was being actively attacked i would also uhhh not be totally cool and fine with it

shepard: no it’s cool cerberus brought me back from the dead with science for free

garrus, unemployed and vibing: i mean hell yeah bro lets do this

kaidan/ashley, employed and doing their best: what the fuck