#just indigenous things

[sephirajo]

Yo my mestise queers, I love you all 💙

#just mestize things #mestize #mestizo #mestiza #just indigenous things #pride #lgbtqia+

[skansennow-arghans]

Certainly it is a bit depressing how so many otherkin accidentally fall into ecofascism and such because of hating humanity. loathing humans won’t do anything, humans are also an animal species, but also with a unique capacity of altruism and caretaking. A cat does not care that a bird species can go extinct, but humans do, and there is truly something beautiful in humanity. It also alienates us otherkin where our kintypes are actually very close to humanity—drakons are protectors of human houses, pantries, and givers of health. My kintype is bound by humanity yet there is barely any representation for otherkin such as myself.

#otherkin #not to mention how this completely alienates indigenous people such as myself! #”humans are a curse” maybe the white man but not my ancestors. Not me. #otherkin community #dragonkin #nonhuman #alterhuman #hating humans is a very human thing to do. just saying.

[patrocles]

Indigenous Guest Stars - RESERVATION DOGS (2021 - )

#reservation dogs #reservationdogsedit #tvgif #dailytvfilmgifs #dailytvgifs #dailytelevision #lily gladstone #wes studi #michael spears #kaniehtiio horn #tatanka means #nathan apodaca #amber midthunder #gary farmer #kiowa gordon #tamara podemski #when u start watching a lot of indigenous media its fun cus you start clocking everyone #its just leo pointing.jpg #hey you were in this thing that this other person was also in too #the overlap is mad cus the content is so few

[maya-kholin]

thinking about why I love monster hunter and how it's not just that it delivers on the very specific power fantasy of defeating large beasts in cool ways with a bit of metal on a stick, it's that most substantive problems can be solved by defeating a large beast with a bit of metal on a stick

interpersonal conflict is vanishingly rare in monster hunter. everyone's united against a common environmental threat. greed, oppression, the various evils of humanity barely make an appearance. if there's a problem you can probably kill an elder dragon about it.

it's a nice little bit of escapism to go to a place where everyone is just trying to be nice and help you succeed. at bopping the god of monsters in the face with a hammer.

also there are cats everywhere and they are my friends.

#monster hunter #monhun #not that there aren't things to criticize if you go looking for them #like the plot of world is we did a colonialism #and then the plot of iceborne is we did another colonialism #there are indigenous wyverians and lynians in the new world hello??? #but the game isn't too worried about its own setting #just have fun happy hunting #relaxing monster slaying simulator

[spider-man-2o99]

hits the disinformation machine with a bat a big bat a big heavy lead-core thick wood bat kablam whack whack whack whack whack. miguel ohara does not have "spider instincts," he has never in even one piece of official material ever had nor experienced the phenomenon that fandom colloquially refers to as "spider instincts," okay, that concept is entirely and 100% a fandom-born headcanon that people created post-ATSV as an excuse to write the guy as a stupid Feral Brown Beast-Man caricature . lord have mercy. it takes. two seconds of research 2 not perpetuate racist malarkey. do better

#talking tag #spider-man 2099 #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #atsv #across the spiderverse #hi. dead canary walking here #one more person calls him Feral. calls him animalistic. bestial. stg im killing the hostages. #THE furthest extent of any quote-unquote Instincts that is ever brought up in SM2099 is a small scene where he comments upon-- #--theoretically Already Having th necessary neural pathways and instincts in place to use nd control his powers as he adjusts 2 getting the #fucksake. calling a mexican man that you already dont see as human Feral is not a compliment get it thru ur heads. #pejoratives r not Flattering th shit used 2 dehumanize Actual People for centuries isnt a Quirky Funny Thing to call an indigenous characte #christ. if youve never read sm2099 then ur bad faith self-righteous sm2099 opinions are less than worthless to me. #You Are The Emperor Without His Clothes On waving your dong all over the town square. just shut up already. youll look smarter.

[hamletshoeratio]

"A strong queen is just what this country needs!"

The Irish who know the queen in question as the famine queen:

#queen charlotte #queen charlotte a bridgerton story #bridgerton spoilers #a feminist moment for the ultimate anti feminist that was queen victoria #massive yikes just thinking of her involvement in the history of my country alone #over a million people starved & the British Parliament refused to accept financial aid from abroad #if they were offering more money than Victoria because they didn't want them to outdo the queen #and what she gave was pitiful considering her wealth #indigenous people as well as literal enslaved people across the Atlantic gave more financial aid than she did #yes bridgerton is fictional but the historical figures depicted had a real world impact #so much of which is still felt today #and just because Victoria was queen and not a king it doesn't make her crowning a win for feminism #Victoria historically was very very anti feminist #i don't know enough on george iii or Charlotte to comment on them but i know plenty about Victoria #haven't cringed so hard at a line since the famine episode of victoria the things i watch for leo suter #but as much as Victoria herself was portrayed inaccurately in that ep #at least it introduced the history of the famine to people who weren't taught about it at school #bridgerton

[tigone]

one thing i think the terror does really well (which i think is reallyyyyy difficult to properly execute) is managing to create a sympathetic portrayal of colonisers, whilst still condemning colonisation. these characters are dying. they’re suffering and in pain. but they’re still portrayed as invaders, and their actions have (sometimes life threatening) consequences. that also doesn’t negate the feeling and emotional connection that is created with them. think about goodsir’s appreciation for the world, even after seeing the worst of it. or the pain of crozier’s recovering alcoholism. the characters and their actions aren’t separate, but you can still see their suffering and empathise with it. i just think that’s neat.

#also i have this whole other thing #about how tuunbaq is presented #like rather than mysterious indigenous magic #it feels more like an active protector #(or at least it could be if silna could control it) #idk i just really like this show #the terror #tig talks #francis crozier #harry goodsir #henry goodsir #the terror amc

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

#and then they're like ''ohhh they're mizrahi!'' [connotation nonwhite‚ virtuously indigenous] #and i have to be like. no. it's just that‚ as palestine was in fact ottoman-administered greater syria for most of the last 600 years‚ #you could get there from other parts of the ottoman empire. such as the part of now-ukraine your ashkenazi family is also from. #it wasn't actually a hermetically sealed arab-only ethnostate that evaporated immigrants on sight. it was a pretty decent place to live as #a jew by at least some accounts. or better than the front of the hapsburg-ottoman war anyway which is where they were coming from. #i'm not sure who you think it's serving exactly to believe that there were literally no ashkenazim in the middle east before the 1st aliyah #however there were some. and this information does not actually threaten a modern anti-state of israel position like at all. #but since apparently you've constructed your new Diaspora-Centric Identity around the idea that 'palestine' and 'diaspora' #are the two mutually exclusive nonoverlapping regions and the former is ontologically a no-european-jews-allowed zone #i guess i can give you a minute to try to figure it out. #ugh sorry this is nothing it isn't anything. for one thing it's fantastically unimportant #and for another thing i don't know how to like talk about it in a way that doesn't make me sound at least kind of like im trying to justify #myself as being somehow less complicit or something. i mean i think my complicity as an american dwarfs the rest of it honestly but. #i just feel really insanely alienated where the rhetoric of my theoretically most closely politically aligned group is not really built to #like. accommodate the facts of my family history. #sorry. i have honestly no idea why im so obsessed with articulating this concept ive just been chewing on it pointlessly for days #box opener

[waterlilyvioletfog]

No but you don’t understand. The storytelling of the flashbacks to Cassian’s life as Kassa on Kenari. The fact that we get no translations for the language, but everything we need to know is communicated to us anyway. We understand which kids are In Charge, we see the leader’s prudence, how she commands respect, her generosity in allowing Kassa to join. We see the ritual of the marking application. We see jewelry, bowls, cups, toys— and weapons, though we don’t realize exactly what kind they are until they are needed, but used too late. We don’t know what the last thing Kassa said to Kerri was. We know exactly what he said. The green of the forest, the yellows greens and oranges of the kids’ clothing. The older kids stepping over a log, but Kassa, the youngest and smallest and last of the pack, swings his legs over sitting down. The shot panning from the green of the forest to the dead land near the mining site. The shot of Kassa overlooking the ridge where the mining happens. The total saturation of Kassa’s world— the color, the teeming life, the grime. Contrasted with the world of the Republic-soon-to-be-Empire, which is dead, cold, grey and black and artificial red. Glassy and clean. Literally and metaphorically surrounded by death, Kassa is the only alive thing on that ship. His shirt is the same color as the dead crew’s faces. The pop of color of the Andors: Maarva and Clem’s bickering, their bright clothes, Bee’s shiny paint, Maarva’s bright hair. Theirs are the first words chronologically that the audience can understand. Kassa can’t. Maarva kidnaps a frightened, angry, child with a community— on a whim. After the event itself, the fact that she kidnapped him is never discussed. Two people were lost to that band of kids: their leader and their straggler. Cassian is still looking for his sister. Cassian keeps going home and promising he’ll be back. Kassa never returns to Kenari.

#I’m sorry just. god!!! #star wars #andor #andor spoilers #cassian andor #kassa #sw andor #maarva andor #thinking about kassa’s blow stick in cassian’s room. his whole family knows he’s from kenari. he was kidnapped. he’s from fest. #like when we say that andor talks about the oppression of indigenous people under imperialism. the aldhani. the kenari. jfc. #maarva should in fact be criticized for kidnapping a child from his home and forcing him to assimilate. she is also a heroic character. #simultaneously! these two things can co-exist. #andor 1x01 #andor 1x02 #andor 1x03 #star wars meta #????? wtf how is this show so good

[bibliophilea]

Hey guys,

As a Phandom, can we not depict w*ndigos as some cryptid or ghost thing?

The native cultures the folklore is from by and large don't want them to be used or depicted by the general populace. Additionally, the general populace doesn't know them or depict them as the original sources do - rather, they are stripped of their context. Because of this, using them is disrespectful.

Using them is cultural appropriation.

I know a number of people don't realize this - heck, I didn't know it was disrespectful and cultural appropriation until the backlash against Supernatural using them, because most the sites I visited that had them just didn't mention it. (The same goes with s**nw**kers, by the way - the folklore they're from says we shouldn't use the name, and the cultures the folklore is from don't want us using it.)

I know this has come up in the Phandom before - Phanniemay nearly used it as a prompt several years ago, but it was quickly removed once the situation was explained.

I'm not naming any names - but I'm starting to see terms and folklore we shouldn't appropriate crop up in Phandom again, so I wanted to spread the word.

Here are some sources on the actual folklore, and why we shouldn't use it:

Stolen Spirits: The Appropriation of the Windigo Spirit in Horror Literature (Kallie Hunchman, Ball State University)

More Than Monsters: The Deeper Significance of Wendigo Stories (Kaitlin Smith, Facing History and Ourselves)

A Creature Without a Cave: Abstraction and (Mis)Appropriation of the Wendigo Myth in Contemporary North American Horror (Francesca Amee Johnson, University of Warwick)

#danny phantom #cultural appropriation #resources #this is why we need to learn how to research things before we use them #more than just a cursory glance at the first few sites on google #if a site says something is native american or indigenous in origin then we need to see if the originators want us using it #same with if it comes from other cultures as well #i'm not saying you're evil and bad tm if you didn't know #just that you should research more carefully #bib write #bib work #not a q

[detectivenyx]

"twilight was a deeply anti-indigenous text with an abusive power-imbalance masquerading as a romance story written by a mormon and it was weird when white people tried to rehabilitate it" and "a lot of contemporary criticism of twilight boiled down to homophobia and misogyny and wanting to keep some kind of purity in a constantly-changing vampire mythos" coexist.

also donation link to the Quileute Move To Higher Ground initiative

#look im certain that indigenous americans especially from the Quileute nation itself criticised it when it came out. #at the same time they were absolutely drowned out by white men afraid edward would take their masculinity #calling him a faggot and saying he was more a fairy than a vampire because he sparkled in the sunlight #(ignoring that some vampire myths do suggest they are fae but when have homophobic white men led us astray before?) #even so it meant that it was absolutely ripe years later for white women to try to rehabilitate. #and because of all the homophobia and that a lot of criticism at the time WAS just 'how dare women thing be popular.' #because 'uh this is a severe power imbalance' and 'this story characterizes us as 'noble savages' and that's not a good thing' #got absolutely drowned by men afraid a sparkling bloodsucker would uproot masculinity

[xiexiecaptain]

Fun fact: in Anishinaabemowin, the term for a cat purring is "nagamo gaazhagehns" / "nagamo biizhehns" / " nagamo boozhehns" (different dialects have varying words/spellings for a house cat)

But the main thing is that "nagamo" is the verb for "he/she/that one sings"

Cat purring in Anishinaabemowin is essentially called "cat singing"

#anishinaabemowin #ojibwemowin #ojibwe #anishinaabe #indigenous languages #the words for cat also are fun #gaazhagehns comes from the verb 'gaazhage' which means 'he/she/that one eats greedily or is gluttonous #so gaazhagehns translates roughly to 'little greedy eating one' #and boozhehns/biizhehns are the diminutive versions of the the word for a lynx (bizhiw) because #--that was the example of a feline that existed in our language/world when domestic cats were introduced to us #so we just called them 'tiny/baby lynxes' #i love anishinaabemowins maliability and ability to just create words to address new things #nish tag #linguistics #original posts #indigenous tag

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Nooooooo, not doing celebrity discourse. I have lived in that world and it's far too complicated by bad faith and people putting fucking bizarre spins on statements and scrutinizing especially women, LGBTQ+, and PoC for any potentially bad opinions or things that might be construed as bad opinions or things that are bad opinions, period in order to pass a clear moral judgment on a person YOU DO NOT KNOW, in sum total. And I ain't doing it. Miss me with that.

#taika in particular has said some things i do not agree with and will not agree with #and i ain't defending anything or any bad opinions he has #but he has also had a lot of frankly racist bullshit thrown at him #including some goddamn bizarre takes on his work #and it's hard not to note when an indigenous artist is being treated real differently from white artists #also i just read the transcript of the interview and people #are badly misconstruing what he said in an off the cuff conversation

[andoutofharm]

anyway please show love to your queer and indigenous friends and show support for the groups and organizations trying to make a difference for these communities IN the states they live in. most of us don’t want to leave, and we shouldn’t HAVE to leave to be recognized as humans worthy of rights and respect and love, not just by our representatives but also by queer people (especially white people) in big cities in the north who assume their experiences are universal.

#seeing all the outpouring of love to the queer and/or indigenous people in oklahoma these last few days has been the one encouraging #thing to come out of all of this #but i have seen just as many comments of dismissal and ‘thats what you get for living in oklahoma’ FROM other queer people #and . honestly if that is your attitude fuck you. you have no way of understanding what it’s like to be queer here. #you dont know what youre talking about. educate yourself or shut up. #and like. i am not indigenous so i do not share firsthand experience with what they experience #but i have been around them all my life and i am always trying to learn how to do better for and by them #and you should do the same.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, ed. by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

This has a bunch of authors I already love in it (Stephen Graham Jones, Darcie Little Badger, Waubgeshig Rice, and Rebecca Roanhorse!!), and several authors I've been meaning to try (like Tommy Orange, Nick Medina, and Kelli Jo Ford, to name a few), so I'm really hyped for them all to be together in one volume! Plus dark fiction is very much my jam (especially when it comes in a bright and colorful package).

#books of 2024 #books #book photography #never whistle at night #never whistle at night: an indigenous dark fiction anthology #shane hawk #theodore c. van alst jr. #stephen graham jones #rebecca roanhorse #darcie little badger #waubgeshig rice #i'm sorry i'm not tagging ALL of them lol there are twenty-six (26) stories in here and i do not have the attention span for that many name #i love all the details on the cover too!! #the longer i look at it the more i find #full disclosure: i did in fact used to whistle at night because i don't want to startle creachers directly into my face when i take out-- #--the trash or nocturnally shovel snow but uh. i have stopped doing that. since this book hit my shelf lol #(also sorry i just now noticed that the detached human eyeball is PURPLE of all things) #(driscoll posting) #(yeah this was vaguely in the driscoll lineup too #that's where it's been living on my shelf in the meantime) #(right next to OTHER TERRORS lol) #driscoll #in btw #anyway ignore this next text post i'm about to make pretend i'm reading this #and/or doing my damn taxes

[meirimerens]

thinking about how mishandled the herb brides are because like. The Text tells us they're not sexual beings (P1 mentions them being virgins, engaged to the Earth, and not to be touched even by their husbands, almost, for a lack of a better word and to conjure an image more than anything, priestess-types) and that their dances are nonsexual and sacred (all all true and correct) WHILE. giving them detailed / 3D modeled nipples. topless. clothes very conveniently torn [in ways that would be unrealistic for actual dancing like in the fucking moshpit]. all pretty thin hairless white-passing blemishless 20-something women. being already sexualized as white-passing asian women, but if they looked more like other NPC models/members of the Kin like the Kayura models (which to me would make more sense because they are never mentioned to be mixed in the way Artemy, an indigenous man who's blonde blue eyes due to being mixed, is [while still very much being indigenous and it being a central part of his story]), it would be even more obvious and would steer even more into Very Blatant fetishization of asian women. and then one asks, are they white-passing because they're sexualized? are they sexualized because they're white-passing? was it an admission of guilt to not make them look like Kayura model, because it would be too obvious then? or is it an admission of lust for women more white-passing? is it about beauty in the eye of the beholder?

then there's bewildering and dehumanizing lore of members of the Kin being non-humans, through the existence of the Worms (literally half-soil), them being a (more or less literal) hivemind, and that being "less human"/closer to the earth (nice_dichotomy_what_lies_outside_of_it png but also... the game touches on that...) immunizes them to the Earth's disease... and yet the Brides look like women... pretty thin hairless white-passing blemishless 20-something women who someone found wise to give 3d modeled nipples to, still good for the ritual cutting... do you hear how i'm going mad yet...

edit to add because while i was so mad and it WAS in my mind i just didn't have the strength to add it when i first wrote:

and they're bought and traded between the odonghs they pair with (again, closer to cattle or things) ... ladies there's so much. there's too much.

#werewolf tearing shirt off again #ah well. [lets myself drift away in the images i've made of the brides and my constant quest to humanize them and respect them and #make them diverse and full of life. which i might never manage to and yet i try.] #also i was thinking like. their celibacy + virginity + central spiritual place in the kin do be reminding me a lot of priestesses #[really sorry for boxing them in like that but if there is stuff of the same thing just with another name imagine i used it here #i just don't know any other] #and priestesshood famously was an option for women to avoid marriage; and often domestic/sexual servitude to their husbands #same for nuns who are also said to be like. ''engaged to christ'' in their own way (again only making tangentially similar patterns; #not calling the Brides nuns of course) #so having them be Said to be nonsexual [until they're said to be etc] while being Shown as sexualized it's like. oooh the misery #neigh (blabbers) #disclaimer i'm white & i'm sure Many indigenous women regardless of origins have touched on this in more direct and deeper ways i ever coul #oh there's also the fact that the kin is said in design document to mirror in ways 19th century native americans #and the herb brides going to sexualize themselves in the B.H. ''for outsiders'' (p1 dialogues) #mirrors native american women being pushed in brothels from the crushing roller of colonization stripping them of land #pushing them into poverty and homelessness #in ways that i um. raised eyebrow emoji to say the least. find deeply uncomfortable.