Alabaster Crow

carmen papalia:

From the series on replacing his cane, this is one where he replaced his cane with a megaphone and would stand at intersections repeating “I can’t see” until somebody would stop and help him cross the street

Another cane replacement, this time replacing it with a high school marching band who would change the music depending on if there was something in the way or not.

A museum intervention where he got people at the MET to go through the museum with their eyes closed and experiencing touching things he’d gotten permission to touch (the floor in this image) and just exploring a visual art museum blind.

The Blind Field Shuffle, in which he has dozens of people form a conga line behind him with their eyes closed and leads them on a blind tour of the city - literally the blind leading the blind.

Wish I could find a better photo, but this is a museum gallery he curated where the works are almost at floor height, making them accessible to children, little people, and people in wheelchairs, but requiring abled people to bend down or sit on the floor in order to see them properly.

For only $10 you can get a full dice reading.

This will include a traditional three question dice reading using 3 six sided dice

A dice reading for the good in yourself for the upcoming month of July, and what you will need to work on to better your overall experiences through June.

And three roles of the 20 sided die to see what you can look forward to.

For only $10 you can get a full dice reading.

This will include a traditional three question dice reading using 3 six sided dice

A dice reading for the good in yourself for the upcoming month of July, and what you will need to work on to better your overall experiences through June.

And three roles of the 20 sided die to see what you can look forward to.

Dice Divination

You may ask one question or choose not to ask a question at all.

You may choose a traditional reading (done with 3 six sided dice)

Or

You may choose a Polyhedral reading (I will then choose which die will be best suited for your answer)

Yes/no questions will be answered with a 4 sided die but will offer no clarity about the question.

Rules

No romance questions

No medical questions

No career questions

No time sensitive questions

Anon requested this sigil from my secondary blog.

He said something to the effect of "it'd be really cool but there are other projects that would probably supersede it within a decade or two"

That's whats at stake for Western science - a nifty addition expected to be at parity with projects already underway within one lifetime

UNESCO recognizes it as a vulnerable language (Gaelic is considered more severely as “endangered”).

The Scots Wikipedia is exactly what it sounds like, an alternate wikipedia where the articles are all written in Scots. There are other wikipedias that provide content for other languages the same way. It helps preserve and give access to a threatened and underrepresented language, which is invaluable.

About 16 hours ago, it was discovered that an American teenager has been editing and writing articles not in Scots, but in an American’s disrespectful phonetic take on what he thinks Scots sounds like. 

“The problem is that this person cannot speak Scots. I don’t mean this in a mean spirited or gatekeeping way where they’re trying their best but are making a few mistakes, I mean they don’t seem to have any knowledge of the language at all. “

This problem isn’t unique to this incident. Frequently on tumblr I see Americans making jokes about Scottish actors making what they’ve called “garbled Scottish sounds” and attempting (and failing) to type in Scots. Scottish languages have been decimated over the centuries, and Scots Wikipedia should be an amazing language resource.

The worst part? He’s apparently been at this for YEARS. He’s potentially (more info to come) edited or penned nearly 1/3 of Scots Wikipedia. Apparently when Scots speakers have corrected him in the past, he’s had a “haughty attitude,” claiming that other Scots speakers (who were never present, unsurprisingly) approved of his failed attempts at writing in Scots.

The damage is heart wrenching:

“Potentially tens of millions of people now think that Scots is a horribly mangled rendering of English rather than being a language or dialect of its own, all because they were exposed to a mangled rendering of English being called Scots by this person and by this person alone.

They wrote such a massive volume of this pretend Scots that anyone writing in genuine Scots would have their work drowned out by rubbish. Or, even worse, edited to be more in line with said rubbish.

Wikipedia could have been an invaluable resource for the struggling language. Instead, it’s just become another source of ammunition for people wanting to disparage and mock it, all because of this one person and their bizarre fixation on Scots, which unfortunately never extended so far as wanting to properly learn it.”

Even worse, many people are praising this kid as the all-time most dedicate “troll,” as funny, etc. It’s inexcusable.

Apparently, the kid was using online Scots dictionaries (not a reliable way to translate a language) so that at a glance or to a non-speaker, enough words…..looked like they were being used in the APPROXIMATELY correct place. That combined with a small number of moderators and tens of thousands of articles to look after let this non-speaker edit and moderate pages despite being caught a few times and questioned by speakers.

That’s all I know.

Helios vs. Apollo

Helios: The god of the sun who is also, literally, the sun. He drives his sun chariot across the sky each day. Also he is a titan god, while Apollo is one of the 12 main Olympian gods. (Hyperion, also a titan and Helios’ father, is also associated with the sun, but is technically the god of heavenly light and is more known for being the father of Selene, Helios, and Eos - moon, sun, and dawn)

Apollo: The god of light, including sunlight. He is closely associated with the sun and sun worship, but he isn’t literally the sun. Most practices involving him have more to do with healing, prophecy, and the arts than the sun, but the sun is definitely still one of his main symbols.

Selene vs. Artemis

Selene: Kind of the same deal, Selene is the moon in a physical and personal sense, just like how Helios is the sun. She is also a child of Hyperion and also technically a titan. (If you’ve heard about the now-infamous tiktok moon hex, it would technically be more directed at Selene than Artemis)