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ALSO, JUST FOR THE RECORD!!!! If you are refusing to stop taking photos of people you look like a cop.

I'm nowhere near Appalachia--Texan born and raised--but I've heard stories. And there's just some little pockets of civilization you just leave the hell alone and forget you ever heard about them.

holy mother of fucking classism WHAT is this post and why was it recommended to me??? “feral people”???? “their kind”?????? hello???? do you hear yourselves????? do you think before you type out words and hit send??? Be Normal About The Appalachias Challenge, Difficulty: Fucking Impossible i guess. y’all really see a low income family living in a rural area and start pissing your pants with fear and writing horror stories. fuck off with that. there’s no “feral people”, there’s no whispering in the woods, and you don’t go into the woods after dark BECAUSE ITS THE FUCKING WOODS AND ITS DARK AND YOU’RE MORE LIKELY TO GET LOST. fuck. i’m so tired of this shit. we’re literally just people.

why are people so persistently weird about appalachia

this is so stupid y’all should be embarrassed

I'm not even sure what kind of bigotry this is but it's something. My god.

i feel like the zoo in hobart that housed the last living tasmanian tiger.

ID / TL;DW: young Black man explains the history of voodoo dolls: they originated in England, where Black people where prohibited from learning to read or write, to help witches keep track of what ailed their patients. Eg., person goes to witch and laments headache, they treat their headache and make a small doll (called "poppet"), trying to represent them as good as possible, stick a needle in its head and put it up a shelf. When they return next week, the witch takes their poppet and asks about their headache. If it's gone, they remove the needle, otherwise they know they have to treat a rather persistent headache.

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

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