#Greenland

[politijohn]

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#climate change #Greenland #current events #hellscape #news #glaciers #capitalism

[uroko]

Baie de Disko 

#Marmontel #curators on tumblr #greenland #aesthetic #landscape

[vangoghcore]

by freddychristensen

#greenland #village #sunset #snow #ice #winter #wintercore #scenery #landscape #photography #nature #naturecore #aesthetic #curators on tumblr #up

[zegalba]

Blooming Flowers near the glacial ice toe (2013) Located: Kangerlussuaq, Greenland

#flowers #blooming #nature #photography #white #Kangerlussuaq #greenland #2013

[maureen2musings]

Sunset gate

isabellandscapes

#Ilulissat #Greenland #sunset #iceberg #curators on tumblr

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Qeqertaq, Greenland

#astronomy #night #sky #space #stars #nasa #science #universe #nebula #galaxy #cosmos #aurora borealis #Qeqertaq #Greenland

[cristalplanetheart]

#sea #nature #whale #whales #iceberg #ocean #greenland

[ltwilliammowett]

Schooner Opal off Greenland, by johnbozinov

#tall ship #schooner opal #greenland #2023

[cakeofdoom]

If you've ever seen a list of 'History fun facts' you might have run into the fact that "Oxford University was founded before the Aztec Empire." This is true, but it's interesting that this is considered a fun fact. There is this general thought or idea that indigenous empires and societies were 'ancient'. Here on Tumblr I've seen the ruins of Machu Picchu tagged as ancient history (it was founded in the 1400s). In games like Civilization aztec jaguar warriors and incan sling-units are ancient units.

I think this idea is caused by a general view on many non-European societies as unchanging and static before European contact. I know this isn't a very novel take, but I think it's interesting because this belief has had a great impact on how colonisers governed their colonial subjects - and I think it still has an important impact today.

You're probably wondering how I'll make this about Greenland and you'll have to wonder no more. For a long time in the 1700s and 1800s the policies of the danish colonisers in Greenland often held that they were in place to preserve the traditional Greenlandic way of life. This was pretty absurd coming from the same people trying to eradicate the current religious and spiritual practices of the Greenlanders/Kalaallit. While its debateable how influential this goal actually was on policies, I do think that it created a very rigid view of what the Kalaallit should be. In the early 19th century southern Greenland was hit by famine as the amount of seals plummeted. Despite this the danish administration still pushed for seal hunting, only selling equipment for seal hunting and increasing the rewards for capturing seals. The famine could probably have been avoided had they started to provide better fishing equipment, but this was frowned upon. Green landers were supposed to catch seals, the Danish colonial administration thought.

Even today some people view indigenous people as wrong for not acting 'traditional' enough. I've seen people say Greenlandic seal hunting isn't actually traditional because they used motorized snow scooters and rifles instead of dog sleds and spears. Similarly with the Faroese whale slaughter because they use motor boats instead of row boats.

This post was written entirely because I've always really hated that fun fact because I hate fun and I hate facts.

#history #greenland #indigenous #rant #colonialism #colonization

[pangeen]

“ Ice shards “ // Luke Stackpoole

Music:  Hans Zimmer - Cornfield Chase

#Greenland #ice #iceberg #reel #reels #explore #discover

[politijohn]

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#eat the rich #capitalism #current events #news #climate change #greenland #environment #world news #environmentalism #green new deal #climate justice

[malbecmusings]

Chilling in a fjord in Greenland - Mads Rasmussen

#sailing #circumnavigation #ice bath #greenland

[bengaly]

Experimenting with different visual cues to show that a character is not quite fluent in a language yet. Commentary and extras below the cut. (the other language is kalaallisut, a real language spoken in greenland, albeit machine translated and probs not 100% accurate)

1. Blurred bits

I feel like this one isn't very visually pleasing, but it speaks to me more regarding how learning a language feels. You don't quite make out what the words are, and slowly pick up bits from what is being said. This also adds room for uncertainty on the character's POV, the speech bubble wouldn't be theirs, but what you read off it would be their thoughts regarding whats being said. The blur also helps keeping things incomprehensible even if you speak the other language being spoken.

2. Bits in multiple languages

This one adds room for out of the speech bubble commentary. It doesn't make misunderstandings as easy as with the blurred speech, and with an agglutinative language like kalaallisut it might end up being confusing to organise or break the sentence's syntax. It looks cleaner than the blurred bits though, and it still makes the other language incomprehensible (if you dont speak kalaallisut, that is). Colour coding would help indicate whats being understood by the main character and what isnt, and the texts would slowly be fully red across the chapters.

3. Faded colour to indicate not understanding

This makes the reader able to understand everything, and relies on the reader memorising that faded = not understood by the character. Other than that, colour coding would indicate a change of languages.

I like the reader only understanding what the character can understand and I like the types that leave kalaallisut still visible. Though option 3 might be cleaner and easier to manange.

4. Faded colour + blur

This is something I thought after posting it earlier on patreon. Blurring the parts the main character wouldn't understand can be a way for the brain to quickly skip through the missed text, in hopes that at least the first reading will match what the character is understanding.

Also, for the enjoyment of my 4 greenlandic followers, heres the machine translated kalaallisut version I used for 1 & 2. I had to use a double way translation tool and an annotation tool to be sure the words were somewhat related to what I wanted them to be. I can't really fact check it though, so I hope that whichever way the translator messed up is at least worth a chuckle.

If you'd like to see more of this kinda stuff, please consider supporting me on patreon

#comic #marangatu #language learning #brart #brazilian artist #latino artists #brazilian artists #greenland #if i were to make this a big project id hire a translator btw #and fool myself into learning a 7th language probably #the more languages you learn the less you care about how many people speak it or how profitable it'd be #sometimes the most dellicious languages to study are hidden in a 800km range area #also its amazing to see how many different ways there are out there to structure words and make sentences. i love languages #kalaallisut #comics

[breathtakingdestinations]

Kulusuk - Greenland (by Markus Trienke)

#Kulusuk #Greenland #Nature #Landscape #Outdoor #Snow #House #Photography #Travel #Travelling #Traveling #Tourism #Holiday #Urlaub #Reisen #Vacation #Fotografie

[mapsontheweb]

Lead pollution in Greenland ice shows rise and fall of ancient European civilizations.

#maps #greenland #pollution #lead #correlation

[herpsandbirds]

Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), family Falconidae, Greenland

photograph by Cal Sandfort

#greenland #arctic #gyrfalcon #falcon #falco #falconidae #raptor #bird #ornithology #animals #nature