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have you felt the primal call of the unmerciful sea calling you to strike down those who would defy you? no? well if you stopped using overpriced flower-scented body wash and switched to SEA HAG, you might. 

look down.

back up. where are you? you’re a siren, bare-breasted and shrieking as you lure the unwary to their doom on the rocks below. and you smell amazing. 

what’s in your hand? back at me. it’s a vial of skin-nourishing ingredients, derived from the seaweed you used to strangle a hated foe. it does wonders for your skin tone and resilience, and we all can agree that we will need that resilience in the coming war.

look again: the seaweed is now a formal apology from the last man who unnecessarily tried to explain something to you.

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Bonus:

“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.”

Aziraphale pursed his lips. “I don’t think anyone in your part of the world reads Robert Green Ingersoll in this day and age. And besides…”

“The author of modesty. That’s me, that is. What were you going to say, angel?”

Happy anniversary to Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary! 

This jewel of the Great Lakes protects the wrecks of more than 100 vessels that have been claimed by fire, ice, collisions, and storms. The sanctuary serves as a museum of the Great Lakes’ maritime history. You can explore the many shipwrecks by diving, snorkeling, and paddling – and if you’d rather not get your feet wet, you can experience history at the many lighthouses that dot the sanctuary’s shores. 

(GIFs: NOAA; Photo: David J. Ruck/NOAA) 

trans person: i like gender tho

Two year old idea I finally got done. :’) I’d planned it for May, because mermay, but work got in the way, and then I hoped to do it in June but nope. Ah well, at least it’s done.

Plates from Dekorative Vorbilder

This week we present more plates from the Dekorative Vorbilder, a decorative arts periodical published by Julius Hoffman in Stuttgart, Germany from 1890 until the late 1920s. These plates come from volume 20, 1909. The series featured work from a variety of artists, and it was described by the press as “a compilation of figurative representations, applied-art embellishments, plastic ornaments, decorative animal and plant studies, allegories, trophies, heraldic motifs, club insignias, coats of arms for guilds, festive ornaments, etc.” Other titles by Julius Hoffman include Der Moderne Stil, or “The Modern Style” a periodical printed from 1899-1905, and Die Kupferstiche des Meisters, “The Engravings of the Masters” published in 1911.

The Dekorative Vorbilder was issued in monthly installments. The images we are featuring this week are from Volume 20, published in 1909.

View other posts from this title here.

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“this one person did this one racism and then apologized. forgiveness of them is more important than reflecting on the systems of power that benefit them, and that continue to thrive independent of their apology.”

fuck outta here. the actions of one person do not supercede systemic power. if you fuck up and do a racism and apologize, great. fantastic. if you decide to take it upon yourself to educate other white people, even better. love it. natasha_rothwell_growth.gif

but like. 

it is not incumbent upon the group you have harmed through your complicity in white supremacy to set aside the critique of systemic issues to center forgiveness of you as an individual. and if you think it is, then your apology doesn’t matter, because you set your feelings on a personal level above the harm done to whole communities by a system that, again, exists to privilege you and your feelings.

you can and should apologize and move forward and prioritize educating yourself and educating other white people. but you cannot dictate the weight that harmed communities give to that apology.

I’ve NOT read this comic before but from the plot description here it sounds like I need to catch up on it...I’ll have to look and see if I can find it in trade/back issue form and if it’s still ongoing then I will totally be adding it to my pull list to check out! :D

AND AW YASSSSSSS