A Big Fat Geek

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Zevran please

if vampires can't come inside without permission does that mean that you can just keep riding that thang and they can't um . yknow

Reblog to edge a vampire

does anyone else feel very strongly about their first dragon age romance? because i look at alistair and my brain is like. this is your first love. your high school sweetheart. you've been married for 15 years

i don’t give a shit that he’s 6’2 i want him MOANING and WHIMPERING

palestinian culture isn't something for you to "consume". buying as many "palestinian themed" things as possible isn't being an ally. please focus on real life decolonization rather than being a performative ally. pay attention whether you are actually appreciating the culture or just consuming it for your own self interest and gain.

and at this point in time instead of buying another $20.00 kuffiyeh online or paying $50 plus s&h for a hoodie of Luffy holding a Palestinian Flag, please consider finding a family on the vetted fundraising list and donate. you will be doing so much more than contributing to cash grabs marketing off a genocide

Anyway here's some additions from the Maasai and Kikuyu, two grassy plain-dwelling groups from Eastern Africa that I think count as unfuckwithable

Feel like Poland should be included since we're literally called "people of the fields" according to the etymology of Poland.

Also look at her GO

I’m Métis, here’s some of ours! You’ll notice it looks remarkably similar to the above.

We also have some less intricate clothing (if it looks a bit Victorian to you - that’s pretty much the right era for most of this!)

Can’t believe no one’s done it yet I will be the person to add the cowboys: Latin American focus.

Here is the Chilean huaso:

Gauchos, from primarily Argentina where they’re a large national symbol close to the level of cowboys in the US. Also gauchos are in Uruguay.  Their pants are called bombachas and the other garment wrapped around them are called chiripas.  They work in grasslands called pampas, known for being really fertile:

While they’re not as dressed up as the others or have as prominent of a culture, for a broader Latin American cowboy context, I feel like also adding llaneros, who are from Colombia and Venezuela, in the llanos region, a type of tropical grassland similar to the pampas, hence the name llanero. Pampas get annual flooding and these guys would go barefoot a lot, and you can see that the stirrup on the horse’s saddle is really different than what you’re probably used to seeing, to accommodate for that, which is what I want to point out as an aspect of plains cultures developing clothing/accessories/tools to suit the environment. 

Cowboy culture happened wherever Spanish colonial influence and grassland biomes came together.  They differ based on the grasslands having different climates (ex tropical in South America), and the local indigenous influence (ex, backtracking to gauchos, they would use this tool called bolas to catch animals, which were basically two balls tied to a string that you threw and it spun around an animals legs, and were an indigenous invention):

I would love to keep posting cowboy dress lol but will stick to the post’s theme of grassland of course.  

Wanted to add my culture, I am super in love with our traditional clothing, called the nosia (Bulgaria)

these head things are super heavy but beautiful. worn them a lot of times back then when i was a dancer

I like saying "I'll allow it" only in contexts where I have no power or authority

oh youre bi? why dont you "bi" me some time with a distraction while i crack this safe ya fuckin goon

you got it boss (makes out with the bank teller and his wife)

Using a fear of Palestinian revenge as justification for the occupation is both wild and familiar

Aint nobody thinking about vengeance after getting freedom 😭 all we wanna do on this planet is drink chilled juice and not die

Also “we need to keep oppressing people to keep them from retaliating for all the atrocities we committed against them” is not the winning argument you would want if you’re the one using it

For those of you wondering how old this argument is, it was used in the 1850's in the lead up to the US Civil War for why slaves couldn't be freed. The argument was used to motivate white Southerners who didn't own slaves to join the Confederacy.

For those of you unfamiliar with US history, a mass servile insurrection did not happen. The argument that oppressed people will, upon being freed, feel a need to take revenge just doesn't happen, and historically, we see it time and time and time again.

I love that whenever a middle eastern country is in peril the united shithole states of fucking america suddenly becomes a bastion of lgbt rights that all other countries must live up to or they deserve being bombed

the united shithole states of fucking america where the homeless population is half LGBT youth

gonna leave this here:

constructing Muslims as uniquely homophobic to try to get white gays on board with mass destruction even has a name, coined by theorist Jasbir Puar: homonationalism.

UPDATE FROM GAZA

edit: 23/11/23

The official death toll has now reached 14,854

still think there shouldn’t be a ceasefire? still think this isn’t genocide? still think this is self defense?

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND DEMAND A PERMANENT CEASEFIRE

Remember when the TV would fizzle when you touched it man I haven’t thought about that in years

DA4 not having to touch slavery with their grey morality hands is a huge dub

just start the game with it already being over

spend that vacant lore timeslot on the dwarves & Kal Sharok

fans might say its weak to ‘run away’ from a controversial topic but the fact of the matter is slavery isnt that interesting of a plot thread

there’s the resurgence of griffons, there’s an organization from beyond Thedas getting involved in current events, there’s Kal Sharok, there’s Weisshaupt, there’s the pressure between Tevinter & Seheron, there’s a dude in high level Inquisition armor roaming the woods calling himself Bad Dog

there was so much going on in DAI (even the mage rebellion didn’t have room to breathe and reach a satisfying conclusion) so I think scaling down the amount of conflicts is a smart decision if true

if the status of slavery in Tevinter was gonna be the linchpin of your DA4 protagonist’s story I hear you, I see you, I am submitting you to a mad scientist’s research facility deep in the mountains

happy birthday my beloved you're officially a teenager

TRICK OR TREAT PROTIP

Its much kinder to say "Tell me about your costume!" instead of "What are you?"

Kids can interpret that as excitement for where they got it or who helped them make it or why it's their favorite character, not as a costume fail bc grownups didn't recognize them.

My dog requires a full blown hug as soon as I walk through the door (via)