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Full disclaimer, I am a white woman supporting my native friend.

Apryl is a Native woman of the Mohawk Tribe, South Quebec, currently living in Alabama with her son. He’s in kindergarten this year. She’s raising him according to her culture and traditions. The following is all posted with her permission, . Last Thursday, she gets this from his school:

She’s obviously concerned. So she writes into the teacher with the following:

And gets this Response:

……At which point ‘Concerned’ turns into ‘Disturbed’.

At which points she gets a phone call from the teacher. She described the following:

“So an admin called me. I started by explaining I am mohawk, where my community is, and how I’ve grown up in and am connected to my culture and people and am raising (Son) the same.

I pointed out I am Disturbed by my understanding of the activities planned and why. They claim to focus on local tribes, but teepees. I explained the history of the headdress craft. I pointed out that dressing up like am Indian for the day is racist as hell.

Then I had to explain what the term redface is because she kept insisting there would be no face paint.

She wishes they’d known I was native before because I would be a great resource for planning future events, but for this one it’s too late to make changes. Dressing up is just in good fun, her daughter did it when she was in kindergarten as well. Detailed some craft making a fringed vest with a paper bag? About how they’ve done this event for twenty years and no one has ever complained. The children really enjoy it every year. She’s willing to give my name and number to the Indian Ed teacher too discuss further events in the future and see about signing (Son) up for the class. (I sent the paperwork in. He wanted to try it. I did this months ago. Also, the fact that we’re native is on all his fucking paperwork).”

So she writes the principal. 

And Gets this in Response.

If you wonder whether her son understands the situation:

In case anyone is having trouble with the pictures, or TLDR:

My friend’s six year old son, a Native boy of the Mohawk tribe, was going to be exposed to his entire grade imitating his cultural heritage, while simultaneously watching them mash some thousand or more respective native tribal cultures into a grab pot of ‘cool’ things to celebrate. They did not consult the local Chickasaw, Chocktaw, or Cherokee tribes to participate, consult, or teach at this event, and instead are going to have the children dress in whatever their white parents’ impression of ‘native attire’ is. They were informed a week ago that this was racist. Apryl has done her due diligence in explaining to them why. They told her to be quiet because the kids have fun and no one has ever complained before. 

We are complaining now. 

She has since written the superintendent of the school district, and submitted a complaint to the ACLU and several of her social media groups for native parents and communities. 

If you have time, Feel free to drop a email or phone call to the principal and help explain why persisting in exposing children to stereotypes of cultures that suffered so greatly at the hands of white colonizers IS, and will ALWAYS BE, a bad idea. 

Principal Alex Hughes

[email protected] 

256.851.4670

A friend of mine and her son are fighting against a racist school and their “Thanksgiving” plans. They are planning on dressing up and having a “powwow” This needs to end, we need to make sure that they are told as loud as possible that this is not okay. 

Our Indigenous students deserve better. Our Indigenous youth deserve better. No Native child should have to deal with this. 

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I thought that would be the end of it.

Except ten minutes later he came back and told me he found out (she’s bi) and that both of us have a shot. I said “You more than me.” because he’s attractive and popular. 

My math teacher was trying to fix the rolling whiteboard and he just offhand said “This would be easier with a wrench”

NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE CHILD IS GOING TO DO, LEAST OF ALL THE CHILD!

WE’VE ALL SEEN A BABY IN A RESTAURANT!!!

Walked into a tavern, clocked the nearest group of insecure idiots, and immediately sold them on attending the circus

Killed a zombie and promptly got knocked unconscious

Was the only person to realize that letting a child see the severed head of her friend was, perhaps, not a great idea

Spent an hour painting his dick so that he and his friends could break into a hospital, then decided he wasn’t a huge fan and just fake-vomited all over a nurse

Talked everyone into being naked and boiling in the same room

Got mistaken for his former cult-leader self by a cat-person

Did drugs

Kicked his roommate out of their shared room so he could have a three-way

Got thrown balls-first into a fence by his best friend

Felt so sorry for the group of bandits trying to rob them that he gave them a piece of gold each and made them promise to find a better line of work

Almost got robbed by the same group of bandits again, but instead of being mad that they broke their promise, gave them some old armor so they wouldn’t get themselves killed

Won a strawberry at a carnival!

Saw fireworks for the first time!

Did tricks to entertain children on several occasions

Constantly overpaid for everything

Including when the people of Alfield were buying them drinks to thank them for taking care of the gnolls, Molly would secretly slip a coin into everyone’s pocket

Threw donut crumbs from Jester’s bag around like confetti

Won his part of the drinking contest

Told his friends that he pooped his pants once and doesn’t regret it

Gave many forehead kisses

Hid a coin in a broken tree just so it would be a fun thing for someone else to find later

Never passed up an opportunity to tell his friends about the weird kinky shit he’s into

Bought a religious tapestry, fucked on top of it and then wore it around a fancy hotel like a toga

Did not have nipple rings because those are dangerous and get caught on stuff, so he probably had to learn that lesson the hard way

He’s since been open about the emotional difficulty of having written the song since many people now message him on October 1st to ‘wake him up’ despite the song being a memorial to his departed father.

“STORY TIME: I WAS A TEENAGE CHOSEN ONE”

 “BABYSITTING MY FRIEND’S WEIRD DEAD HORSE (INVISIBLE)” 

Muggleborn:cool cool

Slughorn:Harry Potter

no one questioning why Five is driving even when he’s in a car with siblings who a.) also know how to drive and b.) don’t look like thirteen year old children 

Allison’s little “don’t do anything stupid” before she and Diego split up 

Luther putting on a bop that makes the entire family happy even when they’re not talking to each other

Klaus razzing hungover Luther, particularly the delighted “now you have to marry her!” when he finds out Luther did the do 

Five’s entirely underwhelmed reaction when Diego starts kicking the absolute shit out of a man Five was having a perfectly civil conversation with 

“You’re a young man, Luther” and the ensuing look on Luther’s face

the family’s connection to that bowling alley that isn’t expounded upon and never should be

Vanya dating a real human man is questioned more than Five’s relationship with a mannequin’s head 

Klaus shamelessly encouraging two of his brothers to fight each other at their father’s funeral 

related: Allison and Five having absolutely no reaction because this is about the level of bullshit they expect from this family 

Ben switching through the 3 siblings modes of “I want to help you make your life better,” “I’m only here to offer sarcastic commentary,” and “if you’re not going to make your own life better I Will punch you in the face so help me god”

also every time Klaus makes accommodations for Ben (pulling out a chair and pouring him a cup of coffee, putting down a cushion for Ben to sit on when they’re trying to make Ben corporeal)

For those who don’t know, the various patterns of tartan actually hold special significance to Europeans. Different styles of tartan are used to indicate a person’s allegiance to a certain clan, family, or order. It is even illegal in some places to wear specific brands of tartan without permission from the person in charge of the group to which the pattern belongs.

This being said, Aziraphale wears a very specific style of tartan. It’s called “Heaven’s Dress Tartan,” and it was designed specifically for Michael Sheen to wear in the show.

The naming of this tartan, along with the fact that it is the only tartan we see him wear, would indicate that this pattern is actually the official tartan of heaven. But as we see when Aziraphale is handed his military uniform and told to go assume command of his platoon, (they wouldn’t be waiting for him unless he was their Sargent - fight me,) Heaven has its own official Tartan, and it’s not the one Aziraphale is wearing.

Furthermore, when Aziraphale is discorporated and winds up in Heaven, the Heaven’s Dress Tartan on his bow-tie is gone.

This leads me to conclude that, since Aziraphale is wearing a unique tartan that does not match heaven’s, our dear Principality made his own tartan. He didn’t see that pattern somewhere and think it was nice, and he doesn’t wear it to show his allegiance to Heaven. This is A.Z. Fell’s clan tartan. He designed it for himself to wear, as his symbol. If he had a family, it would be their family tartan. 

Now, a thing about clan tartans is you’re only really supposed to wear it if you’re a member of the clan; i.e., a member of the family. Which brings up an interesting point:

Twice in the show, Aziraphale gives Crowley the Heaven’s Dress Tartan. The first is when he gives him the holy water. (Isn’t it sweet, the vessel he uses is decorated to represent himself?) This could perhaps be dismissed under the theory that it was simply what Aziraphale had on hand - it could easily have been any other securely-shut cup. 

However, in the scene where Crowley and Aziraphale meet Anathema, Aziraphale miracles a tartan bike rack onto the Bentley (which I couldn’t find a picture of). Aziraphale is willingly giving Crowley his specific tartan. Now remember what I said about clan tartans only being worn by members of the clan?

suddenly everyone was DMing Harry Styles like "am I ravioli approved???" And he mostly said yes, but the ones he said no to died. And the next day it would come out that they had been murderers or just terrible people.

They gave Harry Styles his own government Bureau of Ravioli Approval (BORA) and every baby born got an approval/disapproval rating with their social security number. Infant mortality dropped because every baby except the Disapproved ones lived.

Eventually he did like a 12-hour live special of him reading the death records of the last 20 years and approving/disapproving of their deaths. There wasn't any earthly repercussions to that but im pretty sure it meant he was sending them to heaven or hell?

The dream ended with a looney tunes ending card, except instead of porky pig it was harry in the middle with the message "This Dream Is Ravioli Approved." And i woke up.