If I Think About It Too Long I Start To Get Emotional, But I Love How In Splat 3 There Seems To Be More

Shoutout to all the ladies above 5″5, y’all are so pretty and I love you so much and I’m so glad I can be tall like you.  Embrace your height and embrace your body, your deserve all the self-love and external-love you receive.  I love you all have a great day <3

Oh straight people 😔

totally blown away to have found out this iconic scary picture is actually just of an animatronic halloween decoration. That picture and the Russian Sleep Experiment story had me in an absolute chokehold when i was a little kid, and even when i got older and accepted that it was fake, I still could never exactly account for what it was in that picture. Assumed it was some really good prosthetics, made for a macabre art piece or, I hoped, for some really obscure horror movie that I might be able to find someday. Nope! his name is Spazm and he’s from Spirit Halloween

This is Cultural Appropriation

The version of the wheel of the year we see today was popularised by Wicca which was founded by Gerald Gardener. Who was an English man. Ireland was very badly oppressed by English colonialism. The British slaughtered a lot of Irish people while they were being overtaken. And they are also the reason so many people starved in the famine. The British are also the reason Ireland converted to christianity instead of paganism.

This wheel is a jumbled up mess of a variety of European holidays all merged into one and labelled “Wicca”. This is appropriation as its unacknowledged where all these came from.

Not all European countries are the same and these colonial countries are not entitled to claiming the traditions they colonised.

In Ireland May Day/Bealtaine was still celebrated in certain counties until the last century. But people are still misusing it and mispronouncing it. Pronouncing Samhain “Sam hain” instead of “sow wen”, unaware that it is the Irish word for November. And that Bealtaine is the word for May. In a language still used.

English colonialism is the reason we starved The reason we stopped speaking our language as widely. And a religion popularised by an English man is now using our words without directly crediting the cultures.

And now its further reinforced by the way that people are taking these words out of context. Mixing them up with other European words. Without giving credit to any of the countries they came from.

Its like how people will take chakras from hinduism and sage from native americans and throw some jesus in and just call it “new age spirituality”

(Native people have it even worse than the situation with Irish culture. Native Americans are going through so much shit. Cause people use spirituality as an excuse to just take shit)

You can’t use things without acknowledging the fact that they are from specific cultures.

This is a more Irish accurate wheel of the years. Please acknowledge the cultures you got these words from.

I have more info on the holidays on my page. Lora o brien is another good native resource. Please share this with anyone who uses the wheel of the year.

Other European countries feel free to share a your countries more culturally accurate wheel of the year.

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I did it

“oh we can’t hold the Queen accountable for the actions of her ancestors!!!” 

her ancestors? you mean her dad? 

y’all realize she was crowned in 1953 right? Nearly 70 years of imperialism with her face stamped on it. She’s the longest-lived, and longest reigning British monarch. 

Y’all look at her and see a kindly withered old gramma with memeability, but completely ignore the amount of damage that she and her family have done to so many countries. 

“oh well, what did you want her to do, just walk away from it?”

yes. 

Yes, I do expect people to look at the harm that systems they uphold do to the world at large and then actively refuse to continue their participation in them. I do not believe that is too much to ask of anyone, let alone one of the most powerful women in the entire fucking world. 

Sorry that I’m not particularly impressed with her #girlboss legacy when the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and Australia are still feeling the monarchy’s effects on their homes and families. 

70 years and she never once thought, “Hm, maybe imperialism is a bad idea?” 

I hope the old woman kicks the bucket, and I hope that her family continues to disintegrate until the entire thing comes crumbling down. May independence finally come to the people England has been crushing under its boots for centuries. 

I really hope people understand that I can spend 30 minutes doing my makeup while readjusting my frilly pink mini skirt every other dab of my blush pad and still be feminist as fuck

everyone mentions the tumblr calendar of Out of Touch Thursday and Tuesday again? No problem, but we can go bigger. A larger scale. Is it not now Over the Garden Wall Fall?

HUGE shoutout to these two