Riki/ The Befuddled Dumbass

I imagine that when (or if, depending on how much Shirahama wants us to suffer) the gang finally finds a way to cure the Silverwood parasite from human bodies, Custas would be the one cured of it first.

Not only because I imagine most of his story arc going forward is going to be about him ignoring the silverwood out of grief for Dagda (it won’t really be an issue for the next little bit until he can feel truly safe again). Tartah will probably lock in on trying to find a way to fix the whole tree thing (because he’s in love but he doesn’t have the current emotional vocabulary to express that in a way that isn’t “fixing” a situation) and we’ll see how Olufrey second edition that ends up being.

Also there’s no way Qifrey wouldn’t prioritize a child’s well being over his own that’s genuinely his whole thing.

Anyway my evil prediction that I’m willing to be beat with a stick over if I’m right is that when Custas gets cured, Tartah gives him the most chaste kiss ever on the cheek or whatever because they’re like 12, and Qifrey just looks at them like this

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Cameron Kim: Grumpy, Emo, Mommy Issues, and the power to rival gods in his hands- Meet Cameron Kim, the guy who controls cities! Cameron's a 23 year old guy who just wants to go unnoticed, unfortunately his powers mean he can destroy everything in the blink of an eye and that kind of power invites trouble. He pretend he doesn't give a crap but he's got a heart of gold. He's one of, if not the only representation of what it's like being unhoused in DC.

Cameron's a character who's been let down- by his parents, by heroes, and by his cities. He has a hard shell because he's never had the chance to relax, constantly on the move to survive. But ultimately, he just wants some peace. Cameron's the farthest thing from an optimist, he's only ever gotten to see the worst of the world through his powers.

The Kingdom of Hawai’i was illegally overthrown with the help of American businessmen and we have suffered under the iron grip of America.

Our land is simply seen as a vacation spot, my people are simply seen as tour guides and hula dancers. We have had our culture, our history, and our people turned into a commercialized joke by America.

The rampant tourism kills our islands with endless hotels, attractions and overcrowding. The housing and living costs are out of control because of the false “paradise” narrative. The Navy poisons our water and destroys our land. Covid has killed so many of my people due to the reckless and selfish nature of tourists. I have lost loved ones to this virus, because tourists “couldn’t stay away”.

My people have suffered. I have suffered.

We are more than your vacation. We are more than an aesthetic.

We are a sovereign nation illegally occupied by the United States of America.

Restore Hawai’i to Hawaiians. End the American Occupation.

See the links below to learn more and to read up on your Hawaiian history.

“Native people used to live in this National Park” No. They still do.

“Native people used to tell these stories-” No. They still do.

“Native people used to use this plant as a natural remedy-” No. They still do.

YES i love it when adrian is way bigger than rocky uh here's my take on rocky and adrian

Native-Americans prefer not to be mentioned at all. There is no representation of Natives in white people books that they can be pleased with. They want white people to leave them out of their books altogether and to instead champion books written by Indigenous people themselves. Of course, those books don't achieve the kind of international fame and projection that the Twilight books did, but they're not grateful for that.

Exploit their heritage and name to make millions while the same tribe is currently suffering and the white author has given them nothing other than obsessed weirdos who fetishize them because wEreWolvEs

Use the "noble savage" stereotype which is just as dehumanizing and reductive, a trope created solely to support the white cast of a story?

Indigenous people's stories don't reach the level of fame Twilight has not because Twilight is good or accurate, its because of colonialism, white supremacy and people like you who dont take a single critique about your story seriously while dismissing all criticisms of these books by indigenous people as "hate" or being ungrateful.

Why on Earth should an indigenous person ever be grateful to a white person?

White colonisers took everything, EVERYTHING, from indigenous people. Stephanie Meyer and her editors should be doing everything they can to give the Quileute Tribe reparations for bastardizing their stories heritage.

Stephanie Meyer should be fucking grateful the Quileute Tribe are allowing this bullshit when they have every right in the world to sue her right into hell.

"Indigenous people should be grateful to white people" my ass. Fuck off.

Yes, Indigenous people, specifically the Quileute that Stephenie Meyer represented in several of her books in an incredibly flattering way, owe her a huge debt of thanks.

1 - Thanks to her people now know they even exist - most Americans have absoulutely no idea about any of the Native nations that exist in their country.

2 - Thanks to her they received unknown amounts of donations from Twilight fans and others - and I say unknown amounts because they have chosen to not disclose just how much money that was. I guess transparency is not important to them.

3 - Thanks to her president Obama heard of their existence and that they had been struggling for over 60 years to have their Northern borders recognized; and he finally signed a documented that reconized their borders, which is why they now have a nation. A nation dosn't exist without borders.

4 - And thanks to her they also got lots of money from tourists.

But they're not thankful because they are, literally ungrateful.

How 'Twilight' Stardom Helped the Quileute Tribe Regain Land

"It's brought us a lot of national attention and…

You know, there's still people that are just so amazed when they come out here to visit us, 'Wow, they're really here!', you know, 'There are really Quileute people!'

It's opened the way for our tribe economically, and then the media… because a lot of people, when they did come here and visit - you know, you got all these Facebook pages, and then of course you've got the media coming out and doing coverage of us and they got to see that little glimpse of our reservation…

It helped us, it helped us a lot! To push Congress and, you know, the House and when that bill was signed it wasn't…

In any case I believe in equality. I am proud of this fellow woman who, unlike most of the men in her community, is capable of giving it to a fellow woman (Stephenie Meyer) that she actually benefitted from her contribution. As noted, the men only feel resentment towards Stephenie. I think it's really cool of her that she can give some credit where credit is due.

For instance, I have very little doubt that the reason why most Indigenous people voted fro Trump and not kamala is for reasons of pure misogyny. This woman knows from experience how important it is to amplify women's voices.

Google and LLMs in general are racist, because it's built on feeding on a base of racist, biased information. Congratulations! You are a first-hand example of how useless those screenshots and results are!

I know you're a racist little fool, so here's an image with sources!

https://2024electionpoll.us

I won't ask you about your race because I'm not an American and therefore I wasn't raised to value people's opinions on the basis of their genetics.

which said:

Hmmmm "rounded up", "far from a clear mandate". And in the article *you* cited they showed they didn't finish their findings. They did four phases of surveys. First and third phase, Trump led. Second phase, Kamala was in the lead. I searched through their site, they never published the final fourth one.

In addition, the links I sent was surveys conducted by research institues: First Nations Development Institute. NARF also conducted their own research.

Surprisingly, this is what's in the article you sent:

You know, in the words part of the article, not the pictures.

Native News Online is a news group, NARF and the people First Nations Development worked with are research institutes. NNO worked with Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, but considering we never got final results from the fourth phase afaik from searching through their work, I'm not relying on an incomplete survey. We do have two completed studies; the ones I mentioned.

And you know what? Let's say you were right with your racist little beliefs about Native Americans shifting to Trump because of sexism.

EHHHHHHHHHHH Wrong again:

From the article you put in btw, from the article you. put. in.

Regardless, the conclusion from various articles is polling for Native American populations is difficult considering you know, Mormons people like Stephanie Meyer were instrumental in colonizing and brutalizing their homes. Her whole bullshit book is a white woman fantasy where teenage boys were depicted as "uncontrollable monsters".

Your activism isn't activism at all, you're frankly, making an ass of yourself, and you should like start reading instead of just handing me evidence of dumbassery.

She has colonized or harmed not a single soul. And, as noted, she depicted the Quileute in a remarkably humane, positive and heroic way that greatly benefitted first their public image and then their nation in very material ways.

If I were in a position of leadership and power in an American nation and I had been following this development I would certainly be giving very serious consideration to hiring a writer to do for my nation the same thing that Stephenie Meyer did for the Quileute, because who wouldn't want all those great things to happen?

But, also as noted, the only thing that Natives by their own admission want is to be left alone by white Americans. And any conversation with an American is a good example of why.

For instance, in this conversation Stephanie was accused of depicting the Quileute as werewolves. In Western culture a werewolf is symbolic of a human experience that anyone can have. So saying that Native Americans are no different and they too can go from men to beasts is not racist, it's humanist.

But Stephenie doesn't do that, she has them transform into the Spirit Animal of their nation which happens to be the wolf - a wolf, not a werewolf - who is mankind's protector against the vampire, vampires being always white European colonialists. So, she just like I said depicts them as super-heroes who win against white people.

An extravagant compliment considering that in real life as we know the Natives have lost against white colonialists. She nonetheless in her novels depicts them as victorious.

"In western culture", idc, no one cares about Western Culture. Their Native with their own meanings and culture. What does a wolf stand for for the Quileute?

Who said I'm American?

All the statistics so far have shown that men's pattern of criminality doesn't change when they start identifying as women, except on one count where they transgress more than the average cis man: trans women's three main reasons for going to prison are all about raping women and children.

Native-Americans prefer not to be mentioned at all. There is no representation of Natives in white people books that they can be pleased with. They want white people to leave them out of their books altogether and to instead champion books written by Indigenous people themselves. Of course, those books don't achieve the kind of international fame and projection that the Twilight books did, but they're not grateful for that.

Exploit their heritage and name to make millions while the same tribe is currently suffering and the white author has given them nothing other than obsessed weirdos who fetishize them because wEreWolvEs

Use the "noble savage" stereotype which is just as dehumanizing and reductive, a trope created solely to support the white cast of a story?

Indigenous people's stories don't reach the level of fame Twilight has not because Twilight is good or accurate, its because of colonialism, white supremacy and people like you who dont take a single critique about your story seriously while dismissing all criticisms of these books by indigenous people as "hate" or being ungrateful.

Why on Earth should an indigenous person ever be grateful to a white person?

White colonisers took everything, EVERYTHING, from indigenous people. Stephanie Meyer and her editors should be doing everything they can to give the Quileute Tribe reparations for bastardizing their stories heritage.

Stephanie Meyer should be fucking grateful the Quileute Tribe are allowing this bullshit when they have every right in the world to sue her right into hell.

"Indigenous people should be grateful to white people" my ass. Fuck off.

Yes, Indigenous people, specifically the Quileute that Stephenie Meyer represented in several of her books in an incredibly flattering way, owe her a huge debt of thanks.

1 - Thanks to her people now know they even exist - most Americans have absoulutely no idea about any of the Native nations that exist in their country.

2 - Thanks to her they received unknown amounts of donations from Twilight fans and others - and I say unknown amounts because they have chosen to not disclose just how much money that was. I guess transparency is not important to them.

3 - Thanks to her president Obama heard of their existence and that they had been struggling for over 60 years to have their Northern borders recognized; and he finally signed a documented that reconized their borders, which is why they now have a nation. A nation dosn't exist without borders.

4 - And thanks to her they also got lots of money from tourists.

But they're not thankful because they are, literally ungrateful.

How 'Twilight' Stardom Helped the Quileute Tribe Regain Land

"It's brought us a lot of national attention and…

You know, there's still people that are just so amazed when they come out here to visit us, 'Wow, they're really here!', you know, 'There are really Quileute people!'

It's opened the way for our tribe economically, and then the media… because a lot of people, when they did come here and visit - you know, you got all these Facebook pages, and then of course you've got the media coming out and doing coverage of us and they got to see that little glimpse of our reservation…

It helped us, it helped us a lot! To push Congress and, you know, the House and when that bill was signed it wasn't…

In any case I believe in equality. I am proud of this fellow woman who, unlike most of the men in her community, is capable of giving it to a fellow woman (Stephenie Meyer) that she actually benefitted from her contribution. As noted, the men only feel resentment towards Stephenie. I think it's really cool of her that she can give some credit where credit is due.

For instance, I have very little doubt that the reason why most Indigenous people voted fro Trump and not kamala is for reasons of pure misogyny. This woman knows from experience how important it is to amplify women's voices.

Google and LLMs in general are racist, because it's built on feeding on a base of racist, biased information. Congratulations! You are a first-hand example of how useless those screenshots and results are!

I know you're a racist little fool, so here's an image with sources!

https://2024electionpoll.us

I won't ask you about your race because I'm not an American and therefore I wasn't raised to value people's opinions on the basis of their genetics.

which said:

Hmmmm "rounded up", "far from a clear mandate". And in the article *you* cited they showed they didn't finish their findings. They did four phases of surveys. First and third phase, Trump led. Second phase, Kamala was in the lead. I searched through their site, they never published the final fourth one.

In addition, the links I sent was surveys conducted by research institues: First Nations Development Institute. NARF also conducted their own research.

Surprisingly, this is what's in the article you sent:

You know, in the words part of the article, not the pictures.

Native News Online is a news group, NARF and the people First Nations Development worked with are research institutes. NNO worked with Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, but considering we never got final results from the fourth phase afaik from searching through their work, I'm not relying on an incomplete survey. We do have two completed studies; the ones I mentioned.

And you know what? Let's say you were right with your racist little beliefs about Native Americans shifting to Trump because of sexism.

EHHHHHHHHHHH Wrong again:

From the article you put in btw, from the article you. put. in.

Regardless, the conclusion from various articles is polling for Native American populations is difficult considering you know, Mormons people like Stephanie Meyer were instrumental in colonizing and brutalizing their homes. Her whole bullshit book is a white woman fantasy where teenage boys were depicted as "uncontrollable monsters".

Your activism isn't activism at all, you're frankly, making an ass of yourself, and you should like start reading instead of just handing me evidence of dumbassery.

She has colonized or harmed not a single soul. And, as noted, she depicted the Quileute in a remarkably humane, positive and heroic way that greatly benefitted first their public image and then their nation in very material ways.

If I were in a position of leadership and power in an American nation and I had been following this development I would certainly be giving very serious consideration to hiring a writer to do for my nation the same thing that Stephenie Meyer did for the Quileute, because who wouldn't want all those great things to happen?

But, also as noted, the only thing that Natives by their own admission want is to be left alone by white Americans. And any conversation with an American is a good example of why.

For instance, in this conversation Stephanie was accused of depicting the Quileute as werewolves. In Western culture a werewolf is symbolic of a human experience that anyone can have. So saying that Native Americans are no different and they too can go from men to beasts is not racist, it's humanist.

But Stephenie doesn't do that, she has them transform into the Spirit Animal of their nation which happens to be the wolf - a wolf, not a werewolf - who is mankind's protector against the vampire, vampires being always white European colonialists. So, she just like I said depicts them as super-heroes who win against white people.

An extravagant compliment considering that in real life as we know the Natives have lost against white colonialists. She nonetheless in her novels depicts them as victorious.

"In western culture", idc, no one cares about Western Culture. Their Native with their own meanings and culture. What does a wolf stand for for the Quileute?

Who said I'm American?