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An Unknown Girl’s Grave

In 1995, builders were clearing the site for the construction of 30 St Mary Axe – these days better known as the Gherkin. An archaeological investigation unearthed the grave of a teenage girl, estimated to be between 13 and 17 years old. Carbon dating and pottery finds dated her death to between 350 and 400 C.E.. Whether she was Roman, Briton, or from elsewhere in the Empire is unknown.

Whilst construction of the skyscraper continued, the girl’s remains were removed to the Museum of London. When the Gherkin was finished in 2004, the developers requested that the girl be reburied at the site. In 2007, she was given a service at a nearby church, followed by a procession accompanied by an approximation of Roman music, and laid to rest (again).

Hello anon! You raise a wonderful point. Jews come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors. We come from all places of the globe.

As you can see here, in the easiest link I could find. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_AfricaThere are pleanty of African people of Jewish decent and tradition.

However, Wakanda, up until like. Last week or whatever, was heavily isolationist, even to the point of xenophobia. (Though, of course. They had damned good reason for this, and I can’t blame them a bit.)

As far as I can tell, while not speaking any Xhosa or Swahili, and only having asked Shuri (uh. King’s Sister. She’s pretty rad. And waaay smarter than me.) about it when she had the time. She said she did not believe they had that religion among the ethnic tribes that call Wakanda home.

The main religions here seem to belong to different tribes.

The Jabari, (whom I have never met, but heard of) worship a deity named Hanuman.

The Royal family worships a Panther Deity named Bast.

There is a good population of OvaHimbe people here, they’re monotheistic and recognize Mukuru as their Deity.

There are also Maasai people, and a few other tribes. Each with their own tradition, or form of tradition.

I admit, I have not gone out a lot. I try to keep quiet and out of the way, recognizing that T'challa in no way had to do what he has done for myself, and the other Avengers. So I’m not a huge expert on Wakanda’s socio-religious structure.

But as far as I can tell, Bastism (I guess? I don’t know what the actual religion is called) seems to be the biggest accepted religion among the Capital City.

So no, Kosher isn’t a thing I’m really seeing here. But in general, Wakandan’s are kind, considerate people. Who recognize some people have dietary restrictions for religious reasons. I just have language barriers, I think.

(I think the Jabari maaaay be vegetarians. But. Don’t quote me on that. I’ve only heard it in passing)

for the self-conscious beginner: No one makes great things until the world intimately knows their mediocrity. Don’t think of your writing as terrible; think of it as preparing to contribute something great.

for the self-conscious late bloomer: Look at old writing as how far you’ve come. You can’t get to where you are today without covering all that past ground. For that, be proud.

for the perfectionist: Think about how much you complain about things you love—the mistakes and retcons in all your favorite series—and how you still love them anyway. Give yourself that same space.

for the realist: There will be people who hate your story even if it’s considered a classic. But there will be people who love your story, even if it is strange and unpopular.

for the fanfic writer: Your work isn’t lesser for not following canon. When you write, you’ve created a new work on its own. It can be, but does not have to be, limited by the source material. Canon is not the end-all, be-all. 

for the writer’s blocked: It doesn’t need to be perfect. Sometimes you have to move on and commit a few writing sins if it means you can create better things out of it.

“Whether the Andrea Gail rolls, pitch-poles, or gets driven down, she winds up, one way or another, in a position from which she cannot recover. Among marine architects this is known as the zero-moment point – the point of no return.” –Sebastian Junger, “The Perfect Storm”

Posts like this aren’t my usual fare, but there’s a lot of readers on Tumblr. So y’all might be interested – or, if not, you really should be.

On Monday, this went down:

That’s the bloodless, matter-of-fact, ho-hum business event way of describing it. Let me paint you a different picture.

On Monday morning, every single Barnes & Noble location – that’s 781 stores – told their full-time employees to pack up and leave. The eliminated positions were as follows: the head cashiers (those are the people responsible for handling the money), the receiving managers (the people responsible for bringing in product and making sure it goes where it should), the digital leads (the people responsible for solving Nook problems), the newsstand leads (the people responsible for distributing the magazines), and the bargain leads (the people responsible for keeping up the massive discount sections). A few of the larger stores were able to spare their head cashiers and their receiving managers, but not many.

Just about everyone lost between 3 and 7 employees. The unofficial numbers put the total around 1,800 people.

People.

We’re not talking post-holiday culling of seasonal workers. This was the Red Wedding. Every person laid off was a full-time employee. These were people for whom Barnes & Noble was a career. Most of them had given 5, 10, 20 years to the company. In most cases it was their sole source of income.

There was no warning.

But it gets worse.

Happy black history month 🗣

““You know, and for me, I don’t know that writer’s block is the same for everyone, but for me what I eventually realized was, what the block was really about was about fear, and it was about doubt. And it was about sort of a loss of faith of myself in myself as a writer. And, you know, the thing that actually really helped me was, and I know a lot of people love this book: Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way.” –Rahul Mehta