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beardedmrbean · 3 months

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Got a wild one here for ya Nunny.

Submitted anonymously.

Oh fun, we got rage against the white saviors hitting now then?

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From coast to coast, wokeness is facing a rebellion.

Communities are fighting to reclaim their local heritage after a cancel-culture rampage in recent years eviscerated Native American images, nicknames and tributes at hundreds of schools nationwide.

"We’re actually fighting an anti-American movement," Lisa Davis, a pro-Native American activist in Cedar City, Utah, told Fox News Digital.

"The people trying to erase Native American culture are the same people trying to remove Thomas Jefferson and bashing American heritage."

Davis and other Cedar City residents formed the grassroots organization VOICE (Voices of Iron County Education) after the school board voted to eliminate the high school’s traditional Redmen name and logo in 2019.

"It was an honor to be called the Redmen," Julia Casuse, a "full-blooded Navajo" and graduate of Cedar City High School, told Fox News Digital.

The silversmith said she tells visitors at the family’s shop, Navajo Crafting Co., "I’m a Redmen through and through."

The school's nickname is now the Reds.

Yet the irony of the new name is not lost on Cedar City residents. "We went from honoring centuries of American and Native American history to honoring communism," said Davis.

"The people trying to erase Native American culture are the same people trying to remove Thomas Jefferson and bashing American heritage."

Eunice Davidson, a Dakota Sioux and president of the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA), told Fox News Digital, "It’s a terrible injustice to these communities,"

She and others claim the decisions to remove Native American images, nicknames and logos are made by local school boards, which are often under pressure from well-funded outside forces.

"The decisions never have popular support," said Davidson, whose organization is based in North Dakota.

"The taxpayer is being shunned and the school boards don’t care anymore. It’s Marxism and it’s taken over the school boards."

The grassroots group VOICE claims that 79% of local residents voted in support of the Redmen in a recent Change.org survey.

Battles all across the country

Communities around the nation are waging similar battles.

Activists in Killingly, Connecticut are fighting to reclaim the town's Redmen tradition after it was trampled by a statewide mandate to wipe out its own Native American legacy.

Cambridge, New York has taken its fight to save its beloved Indians tradition to the courts — after the Board of Regent announced its plan to trample Native American history across the Empire State.

Local residents recently voted two new pro-Native American candidates onto its school board, including Iroquois Dillon Honyoust.

"When you think about Native Americans, any icon that you see is about strength, honor, pride. Always a positive symbol to portray the strength of our heritage," Honyoust said in an interview with WAMC Northeast Public.

The school board in Southern York County, Pennsylvania voted in January to allow Susquehannock High School to bring back its traditional Warriors name and logo.

The decision came after five new school board members won elections in November by running on pro-Native American platforms.

"This movement was about erasing Native American culture and I wasn’t about to stand for it," Jennifer Henkel, a mother of three children and one of the new school board members, told Fox News Digital previously.

The powerful group National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), based in Washington, D.C. has led the effort to erase Native American images in local communities around the nation. The organization is funded by benefactors such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, along with taxpayer dollars.

Gonna clip it here, but it's wild (also not unexpected) to see things like this at the end of the piece

Students at Wellpinit (Washington) High School voted to keep the school's Redskins mascot in March 2023, rejecting calls to erase history and heritage by local Democrat leaders. The student body is 87% Native American, according to the Department of Education.

So much of this stuff is the 'offended on your behalf' nonsense we've been seeing for decades.

Gotta wonder if this kind of thing continues to gain momentum if the "I" will get dropped from BIPOC.

The NCAI "has tracked the retirement of more than 200 unsanctioned Native ‘themed’ mascots since 2019, and has supported legislation banning the use of these mascots in multiple states," the group said in a statement last year to Fox News Digital.

The group is also largely responsible for the effort to force the NFL's franchise in Washington, D.C., to drop its traditional Redskins name and the familiar Native American face that appeared on the team's helmets.

"Widely consumed images of Native American stereotypes in commercial and educational environments slander, defame and vilify Native peoples," the NCAI claimed in a 2013 report that tilted public opinion against the Redskins and other Native American images.

The report, however, offered a dubious narrative. Among other omissions, the report's lengthy history of the Redskins failed to mention Blackfoot Chief John Two Guns White Calf — even though he served as the face of the franchise for 48 years.

He was one of the most influential Native Americans of the 20th century. He fought for Native American causes and counted President Calvin Coolidge among his sphere of influence.

His proud facade appeared on Redskins helmets from 1972 until he was canceled in 2020. The NCAI scrubbed his name from its history of the franchise.

Fox News Digital reached out to the NCAI for further comment.

Communities across the nation, however, are fighting to preserve their Chief White Calf Redskins logo.

Voters in Sandusky, Michigan recalled three school board members who voted to eliminate the Redskins. They've since elected three new school board members who ran on promises to reclaim the Redskins.

Rick Spiegel, an activist in Sandusky who is leading the effort to reclaim the Redskins, said 2,100 registered voters in the town responded to a mail-in survey, with 90% supporting the traditional name.

A survey at the high school revealed that 74% of students, and 53% of teachers, supported the Redskins.

Even so, the Sandusky High School teams are now known as the Wolves.

"They're trying to erase or eradicate Native American history," said Spiegel.

The Michigan communities of Camden, Pawpaw and Port Huron, he said, are fighting similar battles to preserve local traditions.

The Red Mesa (Arizona) High School Redskins installed a new football field last year with a Redskins logo splashed across the 50-yard line.

Students at Wellpinit (Washington) High School voted to keep the school's Redskins mascot in March 2023, rejecting calls to erase history and heritage by local Democrat leaders.

The student body is 87% Native American, according to the Department of Education.

Kingston (Oklahoma) High School is also a majority Native American school that embraces the Redskins.

"The people that I’ve talked to — they have a sense of pride about our name, and about our mascot being the Redskins," Kingston athletic director Taylor Wiebener told KXII.com in 2020.

Students and residents of Donna, Texas, and McCloud, Oklahoma, have repeatedly voiced support for their Redskins identity, despite constant pressure, according to Native American activist Andre Billeaudeaux.

Casuse, the Navajo alumna of Cedar City High School in Utah, claims her allegiance to the Redmen began when she arrived at the school from a Navajo reservation in New Mexico in the 1960s.

She was feeling homesick while attending her first home football game.

"It gave me a sense of honor … It was a proud feeling for me, a sense of my heritage."

"All of a sudden I heard a very strong native beat. The school song," she said. "It stopped me in my tracks. It was wonderful hearing that sound and the beautiful Native music."

She suddenly felt at home, she said, adding that she served as a member of the pep club throughout high school.

"It gave me a sense of honor. I was never embarrassed about it, never felt any tinge of prejudice. It was a proud feeling for me, a sense of my heritage."

#submission #anonymous #nunyas news

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fangirltothefullest · 1 month

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So, I just reread the SCP logs for the Sanders Sides AU and I know you might return to them at some point, but I have a few spoiler questions if you wouldn't mind answering those (feel free to ignore this if you do, or just answer some of them if you only like a few of them, idk, I'm just curious and impatient 😂)

You hinted that Janus has coils and is warm while Virgil can shapeshift to some degree. What exactly are their powers though? Is Janus 'just' a naga or is there more to it? And can Virgil only shift into animals or whatever he wants?

Will Remus and Roman ever be separate? Like can Remus have his own body at some point? In the log Thomas said that Roman is willingly possessed, why?

Once they escape, do they find a safe place to stay? Are Joan, Talyn and Picani with them?

Janus isn't just a naga, it's some kind of anomalous serpent of immeasurable mass with coils that seem unending. There is a way to see the head fully (as far as the foundation knows) but you can get close by seeing the two side by side eyes shadowed in the coils. It also has eyes all over the majority of the coils themselves, but they are more haphazard. There is no way to determine where the "end" of the serpent is, though it's speculated to have humanoid arms somewhere inside. No one has ever seen the tail and all xrays show it's just continually shifting and moving interconnected lengths of bones within the serpent coils, other than the two arms which seem to shift positions, indicating it's continual movement is in fact a constant.

Virgil's shifting isn't like... shapeshifting into animals, it's almost more like mirroring whatever it is looking at. It predominantly has a shadowed form and when it manifests to speak with or copy what it's looking at it will do so and look directly like a mirror of the thing it's looking at. It is unknown if the Virgil scp has a regular form buit it is suspected that the shadowy smoke-like humanoid shape it holds when not directly looking at a person to mimic could be it's original form or the closest to it's original form.

Remus is the thing possessing? the crown and Roman is a willing host to it. They're pretty much around the same age and they just kind of agreed that roman would be possessed by it. whether this was a willing agreement or some sort of mind-altering effect of the Remus crown scp is unknown at this time.

Thomas is an anomalous entity, unknowingly, and is an Arc for those specific SCPs to escape into.

#sanders sides scp au

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2-dsimp · 2 years

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Genshin impact List!

Yandere Venti! + S/O that escapes

Yandere siren! Venti

Yandere! Siren! Zhongli!

Yandere! Siren! Zhongli + Angst

Yandere merman! Childe!

Yandere merman! Childe! Pt2

Light/Dark Fae! Kaeya!

Light/Dark Fae! Kaeya! + Crack cannons

Naga! Siren! Kokomi!

Demon! Diluc!+ Nun S/O

Demon! Diluc! + Anon Smooches

Demon! Diluc + Anon

Yandere! Kitsune! Thoma!

DDLC! Thoma!

Kitsune Thoma + Childe fighting over S/O🔪

House Hubby! Thoma

Demon! Albedo!

Fae! Albedo!

Villain! Albedo 🔞

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bluetooththereptile · 2 years

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Master list

Jojo Bizarre Adventure:

The failed negotiation (Fem reader x Acdc)

Under the balcony (Joseph joestar x reader)

His muse (Yandere phantom of the Opera Jotaro kujo x fem reader)

A heart's guardian (Angel Jotaro kujo x reader)

DC:

Multi family stuff:

Sea of tears (Potential yanderes Bruce Wayne, Lex Luthor and Ra's Al Ghul x fem reader) (vampire au) routes and choices : (1) (2) (3) (4)

1. Beloved (Yandere werewolf Clark Kent x fem reader) (vampire au)

2. The Apprentice ( Yandere dampier Lex Luthor x fem reader) (vampire au)

3. The Blessed one (Yandere vampire Ra's Al Ghul x fem reader)

4. Black Rose (Yandere vampire bat family x pregnant fem reader) (vampire au)

Batfamily:

His mother (Yandere Damain wayne x Naga reader x yandere Bruce wayne)

His mother (part 2) (Yandere Damain wayne x Naga reader x yandere Bruce wayne)

Being a Wayne (Yandere batfamily x male reader)

Being a Wayne (part 2) (Yandere batfamily x male reader)

Unwanted embrace (Neglected bat-family member x yandere Bruce wayne)

Unwanted embrace (part 2) (Neglected bat-family member x yandere bat family)

Unwanted embrace (part 3) (Neglected bat-family member x yandere bat family)

Unwanted embrace (part 4) (Neglected bat-family member x yandere bat family)

Our little secret (Yandere Alfred Pennyworth x batmom reader)

Unneeded embrace (Yandere batfamily x ex-family member pregnant reader)

Unneeded embrace (part 2) (Yandere batfamily x Now family memebr pregnant reader)

The moth and candle (Yandere Damian Wayne x fem reader x yandere Bruce Wayne)

The heir (Yandere Thomas Wayne x male reader x potential yandere Bruce Wayne)

Father in law (Potential yandere Bruce Wayne x reader)

Father in law (part 2) (Yandere Bruce Wayne x reader)

Black Robin (Yandere Tim Drake x Twin brother reader x yandere Bruce Wayne)

Crimson Bride (Yandere Damian Wayne x Twin sister reader)

Bat-mom series:

Super family:

Unwelcomed embrace (Yandere super-family x neglected reader)

Unwelcomed embrace (part 2) (Yandere super-family x neglected reader)

Super-mom series:

#master list #oneshots

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green-applepie · 8 months

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hey sooo I saw this naga Ayato art (you'll see it if you look it up) and his MOUTH??? 😍😍😍😍 I neeeeeeeed vore HCS for naga Ayato please I'm on the floor begging

Yes, yes I've seen that art and the serpent lord Kamisato has quite the maw, let's talk about what he does with it~...

- Ayato is an average size for a full grown naga, roughly 17 ft or about 6m from the top of his nose to end of his tail, even coiled up he still had quite the intimidating silhouette, and he is very aware of that and will use it to gain an upper hand

- Though he much prefers the meat of fish or cows Ayato will casually insinuate he’ll eat just about anyone, especially irritating shogun soldiers or guest he is growing tired of

-He will occasionally make good on these veiled threats and if you have gotten to point he was willing to swallow you…you’ll be getting digested as well.

-A horribly teasing pred, loves to squeeze pray in his coils and tickle their face his his tongue, commenting on his delicious they smell or how plump they feel under his thick strong tail.

-Plus teasing them about how scared they look under him

-The only one who has seen the inside of Lord Kamisato’s belly and lived to tell the story is Thoma, he’s so warm Ayato just likes keep in his belly on cold days. It’s more like extreme cuddling

-Gets a little bit embarrassing when Thoma comments on his belly bulge after a large meal

#genshin vore #deadly vore #soft vore #naga vore #extreme cuddling

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ourwrittenstories · 2 months

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-OC's- (Female) Inessa "Nessy" (Candice King) Samira "Sam" (Violet Myers/ Alexa Demie) Cassia "Cass" (Jane Levy???) Isadora "Izzy" (Emma Kotos) Leora "Leo" (Daisy Ridley) Ascella "Ella" (Lily James) Charlotte "Charlie" (Hailee Steinfeld) Ryann (Gabriel Epstein) Mimi (Olivia Rodrigo) Tien (Cindy Tran) Jacqueline "Jack" (Madelyn Cline) Tiegan "Tee" (Zoey Deutch) Poppy (Sabrina Carpenter) Laleh (Eiza Gonzalez) Naga (Male) Syrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) Carlyle "Lyle" (Adam Driver) Edrian "Ed" "Eddy" (Riz Ahmed) Maxwell "Max" (Tyler Hoechlin) Esben "Benny" (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) Isaac "Pitch" (Aaron Taylor Johnson) ~Canon~ (Female) Wanda Maximoff- Marvel Kate Bishop- Marvel Lucy Maclean- Fallout Honestly not that many, but if you think I'd write someone well let me know! (Male) Peter Parker (Tom Holland)- Marvel Stiles Stilinski- Teen Wolf Peter Hale- Teen Wolf Chris Argent- Teen Wolf Let me know if there's any canon men you'd think I'd write well too <3

#self promo #muse list #tbe;;;#ooc;;

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ao3feed-superbat · 4 months

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Flock Building for Dummies

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/bt3j5lL by DragonDart Clark Kent breaks up with his long-term girlfriend, uproots his life, and moves out to the middle of nowhere Montana. He leaves to join the Justice League, a group of fellow scientists campaigning for the rights of the half-man half-animal creatures known as the beastfolk. Things go a little sideways however when he meets the League’s first ever project, a bat harpy named Bruce with a flare for the dramatic and a habit of stealing children. A creature AU Batfamily fic with a healthy dose of Justice League bonding. Words: 5416, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League - All Media Types, Justice League & Justice League Unlimited (Cartoons) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, M/M, Multi Characters: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman), Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Duke Thomas, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Arthur Curry (DCU), John Stewart (DCU), Kendra Saunders, J'onn J'onzz, Oliver Queen, Damian Wayne Relationships: Justice League & Bruce Wayne, Cassandra Cain & Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne, Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne, Justice League & Clark Kent, Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman)/Clark Kent, Diana (Wonder Woman)/Bruce Wayne, Diana (Wonder Woman)/Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne, Batfamily Members & Clark Kent, Batfamily Members & Diana (Wonder Woman) Additional Tags: Batfamily (DCU), Batfamily Shenanigans (DCU), Justice League as Family (DCU), Found Family all around, Caretaker Justice League, Creature batfamily, Creature Fic, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Creatures & Monsters, Clark Kent is Not Superman, Bruce Wayne is Not Batman, well sort of, He's a Bat-Man, Clark Kent is So Done, Bruce Wayne is Good With Kids, Bruce Wayne is a Little Shit, Hal Jordon is Suffering, Protective Bruce Wayne, Human Justice League, Harpy Bruce Wayne, merman dick grayson, Centaur Jason Todd, Naga Tim Drake, Werewolf Cassandra Cain, Creature Stephanie Brown, Mothman Duke Thomas, Human Damian Wayne, i promise that will make sense, Sphinx Selina Kyle, Blood and Injury, Injury Recovery, Kidnapping, Dehumanization, Sort Of, These tags make this fic sound a lot darker than it is, Fluff and Angst, Mostly Fluff, Found Family, no beta we die like jason todd, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/bt3j5lL

#ao3feed #superbat #world's finest #Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne #Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent

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imthepunchlord · 1 year

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What do you think of the idea in many miraculous fanfictions that the kwamis are the progenitors to folklore and mythological monsters (like a bat kwami being the progenitor to vampires, a wolf kwami being the progenitor to werewolves, etc)?

I personally like the idea that kwamis and miraculous had some influence to mythology and folklore and how it came to be, but they're not the answer to everything. This way, it does show they had some influence through history, but also establishes that there's other magic out there and not everything is miraculous exclusive. And you shouldn't want everything to be originating from miraculouses, cause the world is big, and there's a lot of myths and folklore out there, and in ancient times, these singular jewelry pieces could only travel so far and so quickly. Unless they go a route of there being multiple types of one animal (which I think would be too much), then there's not enough for an explanation for a variety of myths that pop up.

Also, the miraculous won't match with everything, like take Pig. Assuming Pig represents all pigs, boars, and hogs, well, this doesn't represent everything about pigs in mythology. Boars in Greek, the Celts, and in Europe in general represents warriors, hunting, battles, and aggression. Pigs also represent gluttony, laziness, and animals for slaughter; how does the Pig Miraculous work off of this? Pigs in China are also known to be symbols of wealth and prosperity, how does the canon miraculous work off of that? Or can Gift be more broad in what sort of gift is given? Or does Pig have more powers to offer to work off this? But, that would clash with Pig representing Jubilation so can't work off the aggression of boars.

Another example is Snake, who strictly works off Ouroboros in terms of power, but snakes are tied to much more than that. Snakes are heavily tied to dragons through the Chinese dragons, the Naga in both India and Thailand, Greek Python and Hydra, and Norse Jormungandr and Nidhogg to name a few. Snakes are tied to creation myths and rain, guardianship and vindication, life and death, healing and evil, all themes of duality; ect.. The Snake Miraculous doesn't work off all of that. It's just Ouroboros that it works off of, which is a theme that pops up around the world, but it's not the only one for snakes.

So, no, I wouldn't vote that miraculous are the answers to every bit of folklore and myth tied to animals. I'd go they had some influence though in shaping views.

Also offers a good reason on why miraculous were made, cause there was other magic out there, magic that humanity couldn't face and deal with, so miraculous were a means to combat against what endangered them.

It also leaves it nicely open to what myths and icons you think are tied to miraculous and what exists outside of miraculous, which I think it's more fun for the fans to speculate and headcanon and not confirm too many through history and largely stick to mythical figures, like Robin Hood could've been a Deer given deer are tied to archery and are swift and elusive.

Another example could be Sun Wukong. You could count Sun Wukong as a powerful being that exists outside miraculous and he and Xuppu could've been friends or rivals or both, or you could roll with Thomas' claim that he was a miraculous user, @nobodyfamousposts told me once they had an idea that Miraculous world's version of The Journey West was Tripitaka traveling to gather up scattered miraculouses, and the characters we see were the hero names, and the interactions seen came from Tripitaka and the kwamis.

So, that would be my ideal.

#ask Punchie #miraculous lore #kwami lore

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infantisimo · 1 year

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In the 1950s and ’60s, women baked cakes in the abandoned ammunition boxes left behind by British troops in the villages of Nagaland, a state in northeast India. The Naga writer Easterine Kire recalls how wives of Christian missionaries taught English and cake-baking to young girls, including her mother. While they didn’t really pick up the language, the tradition of baking cakes was passed down “from mother to daughter and from daughter to granddaughter.” It was the men who thought to repurpose the boxes — they were airtight, preserved heat well and fit perfectly over the wood fire. Since they had no temperature controls, the baker had to sit by the fire, constantly stoking it and eventually reducing it to embers. The timing had to be perfect: A minute too soon or too late could alter the fate of the cake. The boxes eventually ended up becoming part of a family’s heirloom until electric ovens became commonplace.

In the opposite corner of India, in Kerala in the deep south, several bakeries trace their history to the Mambally Royal Biscuit Factory in Thalassery, established in the late 19th century. Its founder, Mambally Bapu, is said to have baked India’s first Christmas cake. Bapu had trained as a baker in Burma (now Myanmar) to make cookies, bread and buns. When he set up shop in 1880, he made 140 varieties of biscuits. Three years later, the Scotsman Murdoch Brown, an East India Company spice planter, shared a sample of an imported Christmas plum pudding. Wanting to re-create this traditional recipe but unable to source French brandy, Bapu improvised with a local brew made from fermented cashew apples and bananas. He added some cocoa and — voila — the Indian Christmas cake was born.

The beauty of the Indian Christmas cake lies in its local variations. The Allahabadi version from north India features petha (candied ash gourd or white pumpkin) and ghee instead of butter, along with a generous helping of orange marmalade. Maharashtrians, in west India, add chironji, also known as cuddapah almonds. The black cake in Goa derives its color from a dark caramel sauce. In the south, in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, cashew nuts are added to the mix. The Indian version is “a close cousin” of British plum pudding, but it has no lard and is not steamed. “Indian Christians add a generous dose of hot spices such as nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and shahi zeera (royal cumin seeds), roasted dry and then ground and added, also referred to as ‘cake masala,’” writes Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, an Indian publishing consultant, in “Indian Christmas,” an anthology of personal essays, poems, hymns and recipes.

“Our Christmas cakes reflect how India celebrates Christmas: with its own regional flair, its own flavor. Some elements are the same almost everywhere; others differ widely. What binds them together is that they are all, in their way, a celebration of the most exuberant festival in the Christian calendar,” writes Madhulika Liddle, co-editor of the anthology. Reading the book feels like a celebration in itself and makes one realize that Christians in India are as diverse as India, with Syrian Christians, Catholics, Baptists, Anglicans, Methodists, Lutherans and others. Though Christians make up just 2% of India’s population, this equates to some 28 million people.

Christianity came to India in waves. It is believed that Thomas the Apostle arrived in present-day Kerala in 52 BCE and built the first church. Syrian Christians believe he died in what is now Chennai in Tamil Nadu. San Thome Basilica stands where some of his remains were buried. Toward the end of the 15th century, the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama landed on Indian shores, followed by others, paving the way for Portuguese colonies in the region. Christian missionaries, who set up Western educational institutes, spread the religion further. The trend continued under the British Empire.

What is unique about India is the “indigenization of Christmas,” notes Liddle. It can be seen in the regional dishes prepared for Christmas feasts and celebrations. Duck curry with appams (rice pancakes) is popular in Kerala, while Nagaland prefers pork curries, rich with chilies and bamboo shoots. In Goa, dishes with Portuguese origins, such as sausage pulao, sorpotel and xacuti, adorn the tables. Biryanis, curries and shami kababs are devoured across north India.

The same regional diversity can be seen in Christmas snacks. “East Indians,” a Christian community in Mumbai described as such for their close ties to the East India Company, fill their plates with milk creams, mawa-filled karanjis (pastry puffs filled with dried whole milk), walnut fudge, guava cheese and kulkuls (sweet fried dough curls). In Goa, a platter of confectioneries called kuswar is served, including kormolas, gons, doce and bolinhas, made with ingredients ranging from coconut to Bengal gram, a yellow lentil. In Kerala, rose cookies are popular. Common across north Indian Christian households are shakkarpara, a sweet fried dough, covered in syrup; namakpara, a savory fried dough studded with cumin seeds; gujiyas, crisp pastries with a sweetened mix of semolina, raisins and nuts; and baajre ki tikiyas, thin patties made from pearl millet flour sweetened with jaggery, an unrefined sugar.

Liddle, who used to spend the festival at her ancestral home in the north Indian town of Saharanpur, also tells us about a lesser-known variation of the Christmas cake: cake ki roti. (In Hindi, “roti” means “flatbread.”) Like most communities in India, many Christian families in north India buy the ingredients for the Christmas cake themselves and take them to a baker who will prepare it. Bakers used to make the Christmas cake by the quintal (220 pounds) or more, and cake ki roti was a byproduct of that large-scale baking. The leftover Christmas cake batter was “not enough for an entire tin, not so little that it can be thrown away,” Liddle explained. So the baker would add flour and make a dough out of it. “It would be shaped into a large, flat disc and baked till it was golden and biscuity,” she said. The resulting cake ki roti may have “stray bits of orange peel or candied fruit, a tiny piece of nut here or there, a faint whiff of the spices … It was not even the ghost of the cake. A mere memory, a hint of Christmas cake.” Since cake ki roti was considered “too pedestrian,” it wasn’t served to the guests. Instead, it would be reserved until the New Year and eaten only after all the other snacks were gone.

Jerry Pinto, co-editor and contributor to “Indian Christmas,” recalled his childhood Christmases in Mumbai. There may not have been much snow in this tropical city, but wintry scenes of London and New York adorned festive cards and storybooks, and children would decorate the casuarina tree with cotton balls, assuming it to be pine. The mood would be set with an old Jim Reeves album featuring “White Christmas.” “Where do old songs from the U.S. go to die? They go to Goan Roman Catholic homes and parties,” quipped Pinto. Raisins would be soaked in rum in October, and cakes baked at an Iranian bakery. Every year, there was a debate about whether marzipan should be made with or without almond skins. The “good stuff” meant milk creams and cake slices with luscious raisins, while rose cookies and the neoris (sweet dumplings made of maida or flour and stuffed with coconut, sugar, poppy seeds, cardamom and almonds) were just plate-fillers.

The feasting is accompanied by midnight mass, communal decorations and choral music, with carols sung in Punjabi, Tamil, Hindi, Munda, Khariya, Mizo tawng, as well as English. “One of our favorite carols was a Punjabi one, which we always sang with great gusto: ‘Ajj apna roop vataake / Aaya Eesa yaar saade paas’ [‘Today, having changed His form / Jesus comes to us, friend’],” Liddle remembered.

Starting as early as October, it would not be unusual to hear Christmas classics by Boney M., ABBA and Reeves in Nagaland’s Khyoubu village. “The post-harvest life of the villagers is usually a restful period, mostly spent in a recreational mood until the next cycle of agricultural activities begins in the new year,” wrote Veio Pou, who grew up in Nagaland.

“Christmas is a time when invitations are not needed. Friends can land … at each other’s homes any time on Christmas Eve to celebrate. … The nightly silence is broken, and the air rings with Christmas carols and soul, jazz and rock music. Nearly every fourth person in Shillong plays the guitar, so there’s always music, and since nearly everyone sings, it’s also a time to sing along, laugh and be merry,” wrote Patricia Mukhim, editor of Shillong Times, a local newspaper in the northeastern state of Meghalaya.

Neighborhoods in areas with Christian populations, like Goa and Kerala, are lit up weeks in advance with fairy lights, paper lanterns and Christmas stars. In Mizoram’s capital of Aizawl, local authorities hold a competition every Christmas for the best-decorated neighborhood, with a generous prize of 500,000 rupees ($6,000) awarded to the winner. This event is gradually becoming a tourist attraction.

Rural India has its own norms and traditions. In the villages of the Chhota Nagpur region, mango leaves, marigolds and paper streamers decorate homes, and locally available sal or mango trees are decorated instead of the traditional evergreen conifer. The editor Elizabeth Kuruvilla recalled that her mother had stars made of bamboo at her childhood home in Edathua, a village in Kerala’s Alappuzha district. The renowned Goan writer Damodar Mauzo, who grew up in a Hindu household, said his family participates in many aspects of the Christmas celebrations in the village, including hanging a star in the “balcao” (“balcony”), making a crib and attending midnight mass.

In the Anglo-Indian enclave of Bow Barracks in Kolkata, Santa Claus comes to the Christmas street party in a rickshaw — the common form of public transport in South Asia. “Kolkata’s Bengali and non-Bengali revelers now throng the street, lined by two rows of red-brick terrace apartment buildings, to witness the music and dance and to buy the home-brewed sweet wine and Christmas cake that some of the Anglo-Indian families residing there make,” wrote the journalist Nazes Afroz. Bow Barracks was built to house the Allied forces stationed in Kolkata during World War I, after which they were rented out to the city’s Christian families.

Kolkata also is home to a tiny community of about 100 Armenian Christians, who celebrate Christmas on Jan. 6, in line with the Armenian Apostolic Church. Many break their weeklong fast at the Christmas Eve dinner, known as “Khetum.” The celebration begins with an afternoon mass on Christmas Eve followed by a home blessing ceremony to protect people from misfortune, held at the Armenian College and Philanthropic Society, an important institution for the community. The Khetum arranged for the staff members and students includes a customary pilaf with raisins and fish and anoush abour, an Armenian Christmas pudding made with wheat, berries and dried apricots, among other dishes. The Christmas lunch also includes traditional Armenian dishes such as dolma (ground meat and spices stuffed into grape leaves) and harissa, a porridge-like stew made with chicken, served with a garnish of butter and sprinkled ground cumin.

“Missionaries to Indian shores, whether St. Thomas or later evangelists from Portugal, France, Britain or wherever, brought us the religion; we adopted the faith but reserved for ourselves the right to decide how we’d celebrate its festivals,” Liddle wrote. “We translated the Bible into our languages. We translated their hymns and composed many of our own. We built churches which we at times decorated in our own much-loved ways.”

#christmas

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what are their favourite animals?

Tell you what, I'll do you one better: favourite animals and favourite beasts.

Janus is a simple man. He loves snakes. Particularly large constrictors, but really he loves any snakes. His favourite beast is, predictably, the basilisk. Fun fact: in this story basilisks can't kill other snakes with their stares, so Janus can actually look them in the eye so long as he's only using his naga eye.

Virgil is also stereotypical. His favourite animal is the spider. Any spider. He loves all of them. Wouldn't squish them if he found them in his home.

You'd think that his favourite beast would be a type of spider but it's actually the phoenix because it represents rebirth and the death of an old life.

Thomas's favourite animals are dogs. He loves the hunting grims. They're very good puppies.

Thomas's favourite beast is- okay it really depends on whether I classified dragons as beasts or monsters. I know I did classify them as something but I can't find where I did. If they're beasts then that's Thomas's favourite and if not then his favourite is the hunting grims.

Roman's favourite animals are lions. Listen, Lion King had an impact on him and it ties in with Remy's favourite animal. His favourite beasts are griffins. Strong, magestic creatures and they can fly!

Remy's favourite animal is a house cat. Just domesticated cats. He vibes with them. His favourite beast is the nightmare.

Remus's favourite animal is the octopus, though he likes all cephalopods. His favourite beasts are krakens.

Logan's favourite animals are corvids. Very intelligent birds. His favourite beast is the griffin. He and Roman share a fondness for them.

Patton's favourite animals are frogs. All frogs, but especially blue ones! His favourite beasts are whowies.

#ttl #touch transcends language #ask #anon #bluewic answers #character info #random facts #beasts

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Part 2 of Marvel comics characters list:

Cloud 9 (Abigail "Abby" Boylen)

Kid Kaiju (Kei Kawade:a boy and his monsters)

Ziggy pig and silly seal

Howard the duck

Aero (Lei Ling)

Jubilee

American Kaiju (Todd Ziller)

Somnus (Carl Valentino)

Amulet (Fadi Fadlalah)

Nightmask (Adam Blackwell)

Ghost rider (Robbie Reyes)

Synch (Everett Thomas)

Misty Knight (Mercedes)

Dazzer

Lionheart (Kelsey Leigh Kirkland)

Gwenpool(Gwendolyn "Gwen" Poole)

Moon Girl(Lunella Lafayette)

Devil Dinosaur

Blue Marvel (Adam Brasher)

Jack of Hearts (Jack Hart)

Dust (Soorya Qadir)

Shang-chi

Elixir (Joshua Foley)

Kid Omega (Quentin Quire)

Legion (David Haller)

Speedball (Robbie Brown)

Silhouette

Ultraman

Justice

Night thrasher

Firestar

The Unstoppable Wasp(Nadia Van Dyne)

Armor (Hisako Ichiki)

Hurricane (Makoto)

Charade (Chloe)

Codec(Adi)

Twister(Bruno)

Diana Soar

Cloak(Tyrone Johnson)

Dagger(Tandy Bowen)

Vin Vision

Virginia Vision

Ant-man(Scott Lang)

Skin (Angelo Espinosa)

Husk

Broo

Eye Boy(Trevor Hawkins)

Moon Knight

Gentle(Nezhno Abidemi)

Prodigy(David Alleyne)

Danger

Pixie

Singularity

Captain Universe

Squid Boy(Samuel Paré)

Jocasta

Echo(Maya López)

Destiny(Irene Adler)

Iron Fist(Danny Rand)

White Tiger(Ava Ayala)

Power Man(Victor Alvraez)

Nova(Sam Alexander)

Luke Cage

Transonic(Laurie Tromette)

Snowguard(Amka Aliyak)

Sky(Kaila)

Martinez T,Naga

Vance Astrovik

Captain Charlie-27

Manon and Maxime

Idie Okonkwo

Surge(Noriko)

Triage(Chris Muse)

Anole

Wind Dancer(Sofia Mantega)

Magma(Amara Aquilla)

Bombshell(Lana Baumgartner)

Locust(Fernanda Rodriguez)

Pinpoint(Qureshi Gupta)

Domino

Shaman(Dr. Michael Twoyoungmen)

Alloy(Ramone Watts)

Giant-Man(Raz Malhotra)

Moondragon

Gorgeous George

Wiz Kid

Quicksilver

Scarlet Witch

Toad(Todd Talonsky)

Blob

Avalanche

Pyro

Sabertooth

Wave

Tempo

Jo-venn

N'kalla

Lila Rhodes

Priya Aggarwal

Xavin

Red Widow(Ava Orlova)

Ying Liu

Demolition man

Elsa Bloodstone

Stingray

Fantomex

Captain Ultra

This is the last part of the marvel comics characters list, I'll let you know if there are any other characters I overlooked

Take your time and Happy writing❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Awesome!☺️ Thank you again for going out of your way to put together these lists. You’ve definitely brought some new characters to my attention that I’m excited to look more into and write for at some point.

#anxious answers

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mayullla · 2 years

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[ - Fairytale Picnic Event - Closed ]

Genshin and/or Naruto x Fantasy/Fairytale au

Ah- hello! You came just in time! How are you, it has been a while~ I just laid out the snacks and drinks on the blanket and was just gonna get something from the house. I kinda forgot the sugar cookies haha... You go on ahead, the picnic blanket should be under the cherry tree.

Hello everyone! It is finally here, a little event for you guys as a small thank you for helping me hit 1000 followers I am so happy that you like the things that I post and hope you continue to read them! *sweats* The event ends at June 30 2022 so watch out for that! Well? get going now! Follow the path and maybe you will meet a certain fellow!

Request list

How to send an ask~

You will be given three questions and from there you can pick what you want from the options listed below. (Send a hi too would also be nice!)

Example: I will pick the road to the lake and there I will meet Kaeya we will head to the picnic with roses and I will have cotton candy. Or you can just say: Cottage + Lily + Kakashi + Apple juice

Walking through the path of the garden the path ended up going two ways. In front of you was a sigh point where the paths go the first one goes to a small lake while the other one goes towards a small cottage. Which road will you pick? (pick one)

Go to the lake if you want gn reader Go to the cottage if you want fem reader

You noticed how many beautiful flowers there were but there were two that caught your eyes. You picked one.

A lovely Rose ;; Romantic Yandere (10/15 request) A pretty Lily ;; Platonic yandere (6/15 request) A bundle of Lavender ;; Romantic (8/8 request) A single Daisy ;; Platonic (2/5 request) So that I don't get too much of one type there will be limits. If they are somewhat even I will start increasing the limit.

Choosing your path you passed by pretty flowers and cute garden decorations you soon reach the destination the sign pointed to and see? (pick one)

Genshin ;; Zhongli, Venti, Thoma, Childe, Ayato, Kaeya, Diluc, Albedo Platonic only ;; Xiao, Chongyun, Xingqiu

Naruto ;; Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara, Kakashi, Shikamaru, Itachi, Shisui, Obito/Tobi, Deidara, Sasori, Kisame, Pein, Kakuzu

It seems that they have been here for a while and ask if they could join you to your picnic, maybe they were lost and could not get out of the huge garden, maybe they were just hungry or maybe they just wanted to spend time with you. In the end, you finally reached the picnic place, taking a seat you saw all the food laid out on the blanket and you wondered if Mayu may have overdone it a bit. (pick one only!)

Deserts and Sweets (optional)

Caramel pudding; vampire au

Apple pie; fairy / pixies au

Chocolate brownie; mermaid / siren au

Red velvet cake; android au

Cotton candy; witch/wizard au

Blueberry tarts; naga au

Ice cream sandwiches; arranged marriage au (only yandere/romantic)

Oreo cookies; royalty / nobility au

Peanut butter cookies; love potion au (only yandere/romantic)

Chocolate churros; villain au

Tiramisu; body gaurd / knight au

Sugar-coated donuts; ghost au

Dark chocolate waffles; maid / butler / servant au

Vanilla Macarons; make a wish / magic au

Or do you want a Drink? (optional)

Apple juice; Little red riding hood

Strawberry milkshake; Pinocchio

Caramel Coffee; Alice in wonderland

Black Coffee; Sleeping beauty

Tea; Other fairytales *For tea you can tell me a fairytale of your choosing; just note that I might not know the story and incase if I don't know I will let you know to send another request again.

This will take a while to write, I am going to write drabbles but unlike the genshin team comp request, most ask would probably be longer than that. So please be patient. I will write down all the requests I got below so if yours isn't there after 2 days of sending it send another one.

Request list

All requests are in a form of drabbles or if my hands slip a one-shot almost. No headcanons. (probably)

Follow me if you are gonna send a request and you are not gonna be anon. I lose a lot of motivation when I find out that people just want to take and leave when they got what they want.

#mayu event

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