Character Corner

With only 2 exceptions, the books below are written by indigenous authors. (Tree Girl is written by a white American born in Bolivia, but takes place during the Mayan genocide of the 1980s; Golden Kamuy is written by a non-Ainu Japanese, but is one of the few books about this culture) 

For brevity and diversity, I did not include all the North American Native books I found - feel free to post your favorites in the comments! If anyone can suggest more Latin American indigenous stories (which were difficult to find from Latine authors) or especially Hawai’ian native stories (which I couldn’t find any of), please let me know.

Australia

The Things She’s Seen by Amebelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch

Canada

The Missing by Melanie Florence Sorrow’s Knot by Erin Bow Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett

Japan - Ainu

Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda

Latin America

Saints of the Household by Ari Tison Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen The Huaca by Marcia Argueta Mickelson Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta

New Zealand - Maori

The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera Falling into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku

United States

OP: "Grandpa made this for Dad when he was a child, and now it's been passed down to my son."

just the ol' nine-to-five

"Like most people remembered in memorial brasses, Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge were well born, both daughters of gentry families with properties in Sussex, Kent, and beyond. Their homes were close by, and like others of their status, they were probably raised at home until adolescence and then placed for several years in another elite household; they would certainly have known each other in childhood, and they easily could have lived for several years in the same household.

Both would have been expected to marry in their late teens or twenties, although a few well-born daughters (about one in every twenty) did not marry, by choice or happenstance. Only a handful entered nunneries; the rest, supported by modest bequests from their parents, passed their lives as dependents within their families. Usually identified as “maidens” or “singlewomen,” they paid their own way in both coin and family service.

Contemporary records offer no further information about Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge, and like other maidens, they were quickly effaced in family memory. Everything we know comes from the memorial itself. The brass offers two clear indications that both were never-married: no husbands are mentioned in their inscriptions, and the uncovered heads—and, in the case of Elizabeth Etchingham, long f lowing hair—of their effigies were conventional signs of maidenhood. Elizabeth Etchingham was likely born in the 1420s and died by her mid-twenties; Agnes Oxenbridge was also likely born in the 1420s and was in her fifties when she died, almost three decades after Elizabeth Etchingham.

Although Elizabeth Etchingham’s burial in her family church in 1452 was unremarkable, the internment in 1480 of Agnes Oxenbridge next to her, rather than in her family mausoleum at Brede, was exceptional.

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and he is a kid. He is just a kid

Here’s the general art style Chinese mountains are drawn in:

And here’s how some of them actually look:

Image 1 is a photograph showing a stereotypical landscape of rolling hills and mountains. The foreground is dominated by a forest of green trees, while the gentle peaks and valleys beyond recede into misty shades of blue that lighten progressively before they merge with the pale sky in the background. Even though it is fairly mountainous, the predominant axial expression is horizontal.

Image 2 is a Chinese landscape painting. The foreground is dominated by a grove of bamboo, some of whose foliage droops over the middle ground consisting of a placid waterway with a narrow fishing boat and birds in flight above it. The background shows narrow mountains rising vertically from a thick mist that obscures the water’s edge. The mountains have steep, almost vertical sides, and their peaks are blunt. The space between two neighbouring mountain faces is less than the height of the mountains themselves. Vegetation on the mountains is sparse, tending to be on the tops of peaks and crags, with the steeper mountain faces appearing to be bare rock. Although the waterway and the slim boat express horizontality, the mountains in the rear and the bamboo in the front express starkly contrasting verticality instead.

Image 3 is a photograph of a karst landscape consisting of geological formations, tall as mountains, that are narrow and closely spaced with steep (almost vertical sides). There is more bare rock than vegetation, which is confined to the more horizontally-inclined surfaces such as the flattened peaks and the tops of cliff faces.

Image 4 is a screenshot of Tumblr tags that read:

#its because theyre not technically mountains! theyre karsts #a karst is made when rocks like limestone are eroded by water over time into weird shaped like these ones here! #sediment rocks are laid down and then pushed up from the seabed through tectonic force and get worn down into these shapes over time :)

Donald Trump gets attacked by an eagle.