#not a q

[bibliophilea]

Hey guys,

As a Phandom, can we not depict w*ndigos as some cryptid or ghost thing?

The native cultures the folklore is from by and large don't want them to be used or depicted by the general populace. Additionally, the general populace doesn't know them or depict them as the original sources do - rather, they are stripped of their context. Because of this, using them is disrespectful.

Using them is cultural appropriation.

I know a number of people don't realize this - heck, I didn't know it was disrespectful and cultural appropriation until the backlash against Supernatural using them, because most the sites I visited that had them just didn't mention it. (The same goes with s**nw**kers, by the way - the folklore they're from says we shouldn't use the name, and the cultures the folklore is from don't want us using it.)

I know this has come up in the Phandom before - Phanniemay nearly used it as a prompt several years ago, but it was quickly removed once the situation was explained.

I'm not naming any names - but I'm starting to see terms and folklore we shouldn't appropriate crop up in Phandom again, so I wanted to spread the word.

Here are some sources on the actual folklore, and why we shouldn't use it:

Stolen Spirits: The Appropriation of the Windigo Spirit in Horror Literature (Kallie Hunchman, Ball State University)

More Than Monsters: The Deeper Significance of Wendigo Stories (Kaitlin Smith, Facing History and Ourselves)

A Creature Without a Cave: Abstraction and (Mis)Appropriation of the Wendigo Myth in Contemporary North American Horror (Francesca Amee Johnson, University of Warwick)

#danny phantom #cultural appropriation #resources #this is why we need to learn how to research things before we use them #more than just a cursory glance at the first few sites on google #if a site says something is native american or indigenous in origin then we need to see if the originators want us using it #same with if it comes from other cultures as well #i'm not saying you're evil and bad tm if you didn't know #just that you should research more carefully #bib write #bib work #not a q

[dallonqs]

The Dallon’s shorts in El Paso saga (8/16-8/17/22)

The last tweet was replying to an account that was suspended so I don’t know what he was replying to ):

[ID: A series of Tweets and replies.

1: Dallon Weekes (@DallonWeekes): Is it shameful to wear shorts on stage? And is this entire tour gonna be hot, or are one of these cities going to betray me come September? #WelcomeToHellvetica

2: Dallon Weekes (@DallonWeekes): I don't want to overheat, but I also don't want to offend anyone with these teardrop quads.

3: spooky scary s(kellie)ton (@takenbysleepers) Replying to @DallonWeekes: i feel like as a dad you get a pass to wear shorts to places most people would not wear shorts to. it's basically a dad rule Dallon Weekes (@DallonWeekes) Replying to @takenbysleepers: I like this

4: blair-oween (@stateofweekes) Quote-tweeting the first tweet with an attached image of a much younger Dallon Weekes wearing shorts: you can do it again bestie.

5: Dallon Weekes (@DallonWeekes) Quote-tweeting the previously described tweet: I remember this show! Brobecks/El Paso. The band before us (Some LA douches w more scarves than songs) wanted to switch spots w us & then proceeded to play a two hour set as if they were headlining the Hollywood Bowl or some shit. Two dozen people in the audience. Lol.

6: ✰✰— Fake Dee is spooky!! || TFO (@OKIMSINISTER) Replying to @DallonWeekes: Who wears scarves in California Dallon Weekes (@DallonWeekes) Replying to @OKIMSINISTER: It was in El Paso, but I imagine the scarves accompanied them everywhere.

7: Kelly☀ (@The2ndKelly) Replying to @DallonWeekes: Are you making fun of a band for putting on a good show regardless....and for not having many fans? Why? Dallon Weekes (@DallonWeekes) Replying to @The2ndKelly: Of course not. Asking another band to switch set times is a dick move. & the two hours they took (supposed to be 30 minutes) meant that our friends band only got to play two songs before the place closed. Nobody really had fans there, it was just a bar show in El Paso.

8: Dallon Weekes (@DallonWeekes) Replying to @limousineaux: I do! I was really sick w the flu & I was all sweaty & almost passed out a couple times. It was a showcase show for FBR. It went well, but my keyboardist insulted the wife of the label head & blew it for us. Found out yrs later when the same FBR head set me up to tour w Panic karla (@vicestrokes) Replying to @DallonWeekes: storytime maybe???? Dallon Weekes (@DallonWeekes) Replying to @vicestrokes: That's the story!

/End ID]

Bonus: Dallon shorts

[ID: The picture featured in the thread of Dallon wearing shorts. /End ID]

#mod jaime #dallon weekes #idkhow #the brobecks #not a q #el paso #texas #shorts #storytime #i know this is like. very old news at this point but i predicted him bringing the shorts back in texas 👀

[loneviatoris]

Driving alone while singing lowly 'happy birthday to me' with tears going onto my face

- loneviatoris

#i hate my birthday #birthday #dark academia #chaotic academia #mental illness #mentally unstable #sorry for being depressing #not a q #writing #poetry #spilled thoughts #thoughts

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #typography #essays and articles #id included #ismatu gwendolyn #youve been traumatized into hating reading and it makes you easier to oppress #threadings #m #x

[thisonesatellite]

...so this morning i'm at the public pool, done with my laps, putting on makeup for work and there's a woman and a man -- both easily in their 70s -- who obviously don't know each other coming down the stairs, and she has a little trouble with her balance so he goes, "Can I help?" and holds out his hand and she takes it, navigates the steps while holding on to him and talking about the importance of exercise and he deadass breaks out the "Come here often?" to which she says, "Yes, but some mornings it would be nicer to stay in bed" while batting her lashes at him, and it was such God Tier Flirting that it reaffirmed my entire faith in humanity.

YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD FOR A MEET CUTE.

#satellite q

[latinotiktok]

#submission #videos #q

[queriesntheories]

REBLOGS ARE OFF CAUSE THIS GUIDE IS TERRIBLE AND YOU DESERVE BETTER

I will instead redirect you to THIS more comprehensive guide, and cobalt.tools. Cobalt solves the problem of low quality video when you're done with VLC, and it can also take videos from a dozen other social media platforms.

Support the cobalt dev and the better guide writer, not me. I'm just a person who boiled down a wikihow guide and a youtube tutorial into a TLDR. I did not do very much work. They have.

I might turn reblogs back on, but for now I implore you to put your attention where it's needed most. Thanks for understanding. (original post under the cut)

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alright i am sick of yt to mp4 sites being shady and full of viruses and finding websites that seem to be working and then don't work

so HERE'S HOW YOU DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH VLC!! VLC FREAKIN RULES!!

get your youtube link

open vlc, go to media > open network stream

paste your url in the box and PRESS PLAY!

wait for the video to open then go to tools > codec information

copy the entire file location (click the box, then ctrl-a to select all, then ctrl-c to copy)

paste into your browser of choice (i use firefox)

right click video and press "save video as", choose your file format if you want

DONE! NO VIRUSES OR SKETCHY STUFF!

the quality might be a little crummy but if you don't mind that, then shabam! video on your computer! then you can email it to yourself and have it on your phone too if you want! if you need a guide with pictures wikihow has you covered my friends

happy downloading and stay safe on the internet :D

#youtube #q's internet trinkets #tips #useful #vlc media player

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

#i've been listening to icarus by bastille #and for some reason my brain fills in 'this is how it feels to take a fall' as 'this is how it feels to take off all your skin' #and like fuck man #and I KNOW that’s technically not a misheard lyric but my post my rules cope #anyway my line now #also probably phrased this poorly but its ok #im allowed to be incomprehensible #as a treat #and then fuckin #from we sink by of monsters and men #the original line was 'please look away dont look at me' #and i kept hearing it as 'please learn a way to look at me' #anyway #shoving this post in the queue but please be aware that i am writing it very late at night #q

[madseance]

"it's not queer fiction unless the queerness is explicitly declared in the text according to currently accepted terminology and in a way that meets the approval of the entire audience" I mean follow your heart I guess but I trust myself as a queer person to recognise queer themes

#if you tag this post “q slur” that's an instant block fyi #fynn posts #this is only a subtweet insofar as I am subtweeting absolutely all fandoms past present and future

[kyouka-supremacy]

*Takes you by the shoulders* I ADORE character profiles and character trivia and likes and dislikes sections. I love knowing this ruthless, heartless, cruel man of a character has a childish dislike for mandarin oranges. I believe in the inherent beauty of all characters, no matter the background or moral stance, being made fundamentally human by assigning them insignificant culinary preferences. I stand by the supremacy of humanizing villains by giving them relatable tastes and trivial interests and ordinary hobbies. I treasure the hidden reminders that everyone is inherently human even when everything else we know about a character might suggest the contrary.

#ryūnosuke akutagawa #bsd #bungou stray dogs #mine #q. #05/04/23

[bibliophilea]

@ Danny Phantom Phandom I present to you a gift

No photoshop, no editing, straight from my phone’s photos: the Chicago River, dyed ectoplasm green on March 11, still bright green this day of our lord Pi.

Have phun y’all!

#danny phantom #phandom #chicago #chicago river #st patricks day #bib speak #not a q

[dallonqs]

not q’s but. this happened today and i am Not Okay

#idkhow #joywave #guys you don’t Understand this is EVERYTHING TO ME #not a q #dallon weekes #idkhow tweets #idkhow retweets

[loneviatoris]

I understand the difference between existing and living

#chaotic academia #dark academia #mental illness #aesthetic #mentally unstable #dark acadamia aesthetic #writing #poetry #not a q #me #words #🌤:post

[soracities]

Jeremy Radin, from "Lazar Wolf the Butcher" (poem written during staging of Fiddler on the Roof at Paper Mill Playhouse, shared on his IG page) [ID'd]

#q #quotes #typography #poetry #jeremy radin #lazar wolf at the butcher #fiddler on the roof #sing me down into the dark #m #x

[routeriver]

#sorry i saw this b4 going to bed so i had to draw this ok bye gn #jrrart #q!cellbit

[warningsine]

#philomena cunk #cunk on earth #diane morgan #charlie brooker #bbc #sine's edits #q