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DnD party drawn in VR – A commission for @schnoodly.

“I’m honored to be the first person to do it,” he said. “It is very, very awe inspiring.” 

“A lot of people don’t really know Ojibwe,” Tecumseh said. “it’s been oppressed throughout history … I’m the first person in my family, my direct family, to not be at risk of being put in a boarding school. … I think that by taking someone’s language away you’re taking a part of themselves and their identity. By learning that, I wanted to let people learn my language, our language, and spread it across the world.”

Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Tribal Nations Education Committee Member Raina Killspotted presented Tecumseh an eagle feather as a language warrior. Williams presented him with a blanket as he accepted his certificate[…]

The game’s storyline follows a girl who falls asleep in the woods during a visit to her grandmother’s house. The teen, Miskwaa, wakes up in a dreamlike place filled with talking animals and spiritual beings. She must use the cultural teachings she has learned and her language skills to find a way back home. “This is a new way to tell a story,” Mary Hermes, director of Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia, said. Hermes, a professor at the University of Minnesota, cofounded Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia over two decades ago to strengthen Ojibwe language revitalization efforts. This is the first game development project the nonprofit has tackled. The game, which debuts Thursday, offers an accessible method for learners of all ages to engage with the Ojibwe language outside the classroom, adding to the opportunities for families and communities to practice language in everyday life. Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia partnered with the University of Minnesota and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop Reclaim! The development team worked with Ojibwe speakers from Canada, Minnesota and immersion school alumni for language accuracy. The game is voiced in the Ojibwe language and is playable in both Ojibwe and English.

Here is the game on Steam:

As important as it was to contact Tumblr when they made that asinine, fucked up change, now that they've reversed it, you have a chance to say thanks for reversing it.

I know that you're probably still riding the high (negative) from the stress of going through yesterday's changes, and worrying about the fate of your community, and how badly the change would have affected creators. We banded together, and we let the staff know that we didn't like what they were doing, and you know what? They listened. That's part of why we're here on Tumblr and not other places that would have just shoved that down our throats regardless of the hundreds of thousands of complaints. Yeah, they fucked up. Big time. But they also backed off, and it's important to speak on that front as well if you want them to do it again later.

So, even though you may still be mad that they did it at all, take a moment and a breath, and click here. Select feedback if it isn't already selected. And just say "Hey, thanks for listening to your users, and for rolling back the change. I like my community here, and I like that you listened to us when we asked you not to do something we didn't like." It doesn't need to be elaborate. But if we want them to listen to us, making it worth listening to us is a step in the process.

Which also means that if you added a negative review somewhere due to this update, consider retracting or editing it to address the back track on the update. If you were a premium user and you cancelled in order to speak with your money to object to the change, consider speaking again now that you've been listened to.

so, ways to get around this:

turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us

don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace

a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)

instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian

including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too

including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue

for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend

when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!

if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache

some online resources and museum collections:

fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples

the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates

costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)

v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece

lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces

nypl digital collection for photographs

national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art

national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific

stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource

wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain

auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!

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What Will I Become (2026)

Is a story where the directors Lexie Bean (they/he) and Logan Rozos (he/him) explore unique transmasculine vulnerabilities, diving into their own personal experiences while intertwining the stories of two young trans men who died by suicide, Homecoming king Blake Brockington and poet Kyler Prescott.

[Blake pictured on the left - Kyler on the right ]

Here’s something Harper Steele had to say in a recent interview that really moved me and made me weep and immediately fly to this app to share this news with all of you.

Im floored. This is what it’s all the fuck about. Harper admits she’s been focused fairly singularly on transfem perspectives as she’s transitioned — but then she hears from the creators of this documentary, watches it and is floored by what she sees. So floored she puts her material resources behind making sure this message gets heard. She was involved in the editing process heavily as she felt very passionate about making sure that the audience would connect with the substance of the film as intensely as she did. Not just that but she talks about how she has learned the ways in which the concept of “building a new masculinity” can be such a massive pressure on transmasculine people, and she wants that highlighted in the film, too. Im just. Emotional. Tbh. Please everyone hang in there. Please. Please please please. Support the heck out of this documentary once it officially gets a wide release. And whatever you do

— do not fucking give up.

So that post may have saved my life and it may have made my treatment a lot easier too.