We all got that one vassal who's read a few too many warrior tales... Trying to get a little freaky with it on the down low... Won't shut up about his loyalty unto death... Saying shit like "my liege, I am your blade...." Bitch I sent you to guard my isolated holdings in the eastern provinces for a reason!!!!!!! #REBLOG!!!!!
turned down a date because i want to go swing my sword at a tree later tonight. alone
Nothing will prepare you for this
Now THIS is art!!!
official fish post
yeah i'm wlw (wench loving wench)
i started playing Disco Elysium and last night (the same day i started playing) i woke up to my stomach hurting so bad that in my delirium i thought it had to do with something from the game.
and looked it up…
i thought this was completely normal until waking up later after the pain was gone.
you’re playing the game better than anyone else has ever played it
A sheep in the role of Cordelia in “King Lear With Sheep.”Credit” Nick Morris.
The SS Warrimoo, a passenger steamship traveling from Vancouver to Australia, was silently knifing its way across the mid-Pacific waters. The navigator had just finished calculating a star fix and handed the results to Captain John DS. Phillips.
The Warrimoo's coordinates were LAT 0º 31' N, LONG 179 30' W. The date was December 31, 1899. "Know what this means?" First Mate Payton announced, "We're only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line."
Captain Phillips was prankish enough to seize the opportunity to do the nautical feat of a lifetime. He summoned his navigators to the bridge to double-check the ship's position. He altered his course slightly to focus directly on his target. He then altered the engine's speed.
The calm weather and clear night worked to his advantage. At midnight, the SS Warrimoo rested on the Equator, exactly where it had crossed the International Date Line. The ramifications of this odd arrangement were numerous.
The ship's bow was in the Southern Hemisphere, in the middle of summer. The stern was in the Northern Hemisphere, in the midst of winter. The date on the aft portion of the ship was December 31, 1899. The date on the forward half of the ship was January 1, 1900. The ship experienced multiple days, months, years, seasons, and centuries simultaneously.
original artist is laura benson, her site (with prints to sell) is here: (x)
much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today
@endless-demon thank you so much for asking! it's a little complicated but I think simplification does a disservice to the issue and is exactly what people like David Seymour rely on to spread lies about historical context and current consequences. I'm putting this in a reblog because it's long, and I'm putting it on this post because I'd rather this video be the one to get seen. as always I'm pakeha and also not an expert, so I'm very open to corrections on details but im confident of the broad strokes.
so when the English first arrived to build settlements in aotearoa, they formed a treaty with Māori (te Tiriti o Waitangi), the people already living there, that the English can govern their own settlements, as long as they allowed for continued māori sovereignty (tino rangatiratanga). there exist two versions of the text, English and te reo Māori, which do not perfectly match. after this, the English settlers began acquiring massive swathes of land by legally questionable means, and asserting absolute sovereignty over these areas. these culminated in the land wars, which then lead to massive land confiscation as a form of both political punishment and colonization. the end result is that now the crown own nearly all land in aotearoa and claim absolute sovereignty over it.
now, the Māori text does not claim sovereignty over the property that the crown recognizes Māori own. the text promises, among other things, self determination for Māori, which is essentially impossible under a westminster system of government because they are currently a demographic minority. it's only very recent in our history that the crown has acknowledged the legitimacy of the te reo Māori text, and even more recently that we began to actually implement any of its principles. one of the biggest ways the treaty is used in modern day is to guarantee Māori have an opportunity at the table for major national decisions (particular those of environmental significance), and to defer organizational power for Māori issues to Māori communities.
the treaty principles bill seeks to water down these promises by allowing these rights to all new zealanders, "democratising" the treaty and removing those guarantees that have been so hard fought for by Māori. but, more importantly, it seeks to seed division and racism within this country to gather more support for the ACT party who are sponsoring this bill.
this bill was part of the coalition agreement by our current 3 party right wing government. the national party agreed to sponsor this bill to first reading (allowing public submission on the bill) but no further. I personally believe, along with many others, that when the time comes to vote for the second reading the act party will threaten to pull out of the coalition if the bill is not passed again, and our prime minister will not have the strength of character to stand up to his deputy. regardless, the relationship between the crown and Māori has already been damaged, both by the simple introduction of the bill as well as all the changes our current government has implemented.
as Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Treaty Negotiations outlined in his speech during the bill, the National party believe that te Tiriti must be killed, not in a single action, but by a thousand cuts, like the removal of references to the treaty from our legislation and curriculums, and the disestablishment of agencies like the Māori Health Authority, cuts to Māori advisors to govt departments, removing māori seats from local government, etc.
there's so much more to this issue, like the centuries of abuse and mistreatment of Māori by the crown authorities, how this abuse is ongoing to Māori children and adults today in state care, how iwi voices are our last line of defence against environmental and ecological damage by industry, the unilateral natural of the treaty reparation settlement process... but this is why this protest was staged in parliament today.
(in fact, there is a much larger protest taking place nationwide, scheduled to arrive the day the bill was supposed to be introduced. the bill was in fact introduced a week earlier, in a move many suspect was done to prevent exactly this kind of protest.)
as far as I'm concerned though? I think te pāti Māori achieved exactly what they wanted by this protest. they forced the government to drop the mask of civility, and force the protestors out of the building. and they showed their supporters that their protests are working - they felt threatened enough by this that they lashed out, felt a need to retaliate by suspending hana-rawhiti maipi-clarke from the house for 24 hours. the coalition are getting nervous
fuck it 10 pm post we like to party
this video feels like seeing an old friend for the first time in a decade
Hold fuck. Holy fuck man it's been so long
Samuel Vines Boots theory of emotional labor and boundaries
for those who don’t know, the theory is this: if you’re poor, you can only afford 10$ boots. these cheap boots last for a short time, and have to be replaced once a year. but if you’re rich, you can afford 50$ boots, and you only have to replace them once in ten years. so in ten years, the poor person spends double as much as the rich person spent.
imagine you have a relationship in which you struggle to set a boundary. you reason to yourself that the emotional cost of having that conversation is more than the emotional safety gained from having that boundary respected. but the longer you’re friends with that person, the more emotional tax you pay from having your boundaries trodden over, and at some point you realize you’ve paid far more than you would have if you’d just set the damn boundary in the first place.
This is so, so important, but just to help make the core point clear: If setting a boundary is more work than not setting it, run. That person is not safe.
I want to point out that it's not as simple as “that person is not safe.” relationships can go sour with the best of intentions if one person isn't setting boundaries for whatever reason (and these reasons can be feeling like the other person isn't safe, but they can also be the result of past trauma or abuse, or mental illness, or so on) and the other person doesn't have to be abusive at all. if you aren't setting your boundaries, you're going to get hurt no matter how little the other person wants to hurt you. yes, this learned insecurity is often the result of abuse, but I made this post to be about boundaries first and foremost.
We got one very hilarious win
source: That's Ms. Bulldyke to You, Charlie! by Jane Caminos
imagine how much more fucked up the history of the world would be if eating someone's brains reliably conferred on you their memory and knowledge
Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English
this is one of a [series] and they're all fantastic
joseph ford is the photographer and the knitter who made the pieces is nina dodd (ninadoddknits.com)
Various ice formations on wheels caused by driving through the snow.