and what do we say to death

The English title is Black Girl (1966, dir. Ousmane Sembène), and it's about a Senegalese woman being offered a housekeeping job in France by a rich white couple, and the creeping objectification that follows. It's angry and upsetting, and only an hour long but with a lot to say!

I did see one major spoiler that does have me stress to look up the content/trigger warnings if needed.

(Tumblr won't let me embed the trailer link, but that can be found here.)

examples:

yankees will see 16 million canadians harmed by ongoing wildfires and act like we set them on purpose. meanwhile six first nations communities are under emergency evacuation protocol, one has been completely destroyed, and the entire province (1.5x the size of texas in freedom units) has the netflix mexico piss filter over it. but sure, it sucks that you can't sit by the pool!

1 dollar equals nearly 1,500 arg pesos, it comes a long way!

i need folks to keep my game in the radar

every single month, i need to sell at least 17 copies on steam, so it makes 100 USD total, that steam will send back to me by the end of the month

VizuL is really the only source of income i have on my own, my dream is to be on the gravy train with my games, since it's all i can afford to work on

if you like narrative driven bullet hell games with different difficulty modes, or know people who do, please consider purchasing my game and future installments, you won't regret it;

if it's not your thing, please circulate the post,

Red flags: Unbelievable nature you've never seen before!, no external source cited, low image quality could be hiding AI artifacts, lacks scientific name for plant, OP is an aesthetic blog (no offense, I see you credit most of the artists you post, OP <3).

Green flags: Common name of the tree provided (although the leaves don't look like any olive tree I've ever seen).

Reverse image searches and citation trails all seem to lead back to now-deleted Reddit posts. Google Images says it's this one in r/NatureIsFuckingLit, and TinEye says it's this one in r/interestingasfuck. Both were posted back in 2020. This is important because the rise of AI images was in 2022.

People in the comments of places this image is posted throw around botanical terms like "dichotomous branching" [branches split into two at the nodes] and "divaricated" [branches grow far apart from each other], which are cool, but don't tell me what the tree is.

Searching up "Black Olive" on iNaturalist finally got me some answers, and it turns out that YES. This is a real tree! This tree is a Dwarf Black Olive (Terminalia molinetii, Formerly Bucida spinosa). The above photos are some particularly nicely framed shots of a tree with particularly small leaves, which really highlights the branching structure. I really wish we knew the photographer's name. Here are some more photos of the same species:

Terminalia molinetii by jriveracruz50 on iNaturalist, posted under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

This tree is native to Southern Mexico, Belize, the southern tip of Florida, and Cuba. Dwarf Black Olives are completely unrelated to Olive trees in the Olea genus that I'm more familiar with (the former is in Order Myrtales [Myrtles, Evening Primroses, and Allies], and the latter is in Order Lamiales [Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies]).

Image description: photo of a brown sign with white text that reads: "You can't save everything cute, eat everything that tastes good, and kill everything you're afraid of and expect a working ecosystem to come out of it." -- Flip Nicklin, wildlife photographer