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ohmypawsandwhiskers · 1 year

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As someone exploring and reclaiming their indigenous heritage and culture, I am super excited to announce that I purchased my first ever ribbon skirt! I have already been rocking my earrings this week at work, and I am excited to receive that skirt!

#paws speaks #indigenous #reclaiming culture #shoutout to my coworker that actually empowered me to explore this despite not having any connection with my birth father #i felt less than and not able to take up space because I really wasn’t raised on the rez #but she told me my experience is so common and how we lose so much of our identity and. power in a very colonized space #and my spirit feels so much joy at the moment

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designresearch-ii · 2 years

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Identity, language, culture: Flavour of the month, and then what? - Leki Bourke

RNZ: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/442632/identity-language-culture-flavour-of-the-month-and-then-what

I am in a war. A war with self identity. A war with culture. A war for survival.

I am failing to maintain a part of culture that has been passed down for generation to generation - the language.

In this day and age, the language of Vagahau Niue and Cook Island Maori is been seen at its most vulnerable. As someone who is of Niuean and Cook Island descent, it angers and deeply saddens me to think that some time in the near future both of my native languages will be extinct.

Because of my lack of understanding within my own culture, I held a grudge and was angry at my migrant parents for not teaching me the mother tongue and I was angry at myself for not doing enough to learn - this is the barrier that I am faced with.

However, reading this article it makes me question myself - what I am doing to reclaim my cultural identity ? How can I shift my perspective to think about this in a positive light? Am I myself, putting in the hard yards to learn both my languages?

At the end of the article, Leki Bourke, ends off on a good note and instills hope and positivity within me. As someone who has been battling many barriers in anger and sadness - his words are spark inspiration and comfort to know that through my design practice I can make a difference with the revitalisation, maintenance, and preservation of my native languages.

This article has made me re-think my direction of my design research concept as I am now interested in shedding a positive light upon the issue of vulnerable languages, culture and self identity - I need to focus on the opportunities and not on the fear of failure.

“Our creative sector serves in the revitalisation, maintenance, and preservation of indigenous languages.”

#reclaiming culture

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butlerkitty-art · 5 months

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old/unfinished explorations of freya's past through her garb as Leader of the Vanir & Queen of the Aesir.

#I just wanted to think about how she probably had to give up a lot of her Vanir sensibilities in asgard #forced to abandon the green & bronze of the Vanir and wear the blue & gold of the Aesir in change #how stifling it must have been for her to become a wife #i tried to incorporate some things she currently wears in her old Vanir garb #like she tried to reclaim her past and culture even though she was barred from it #i think i originally wanted to add more adornments to her vanir design?#but couldnt figure them out so. whatever #i do really love that picture of her with sparrows bite though shes my wife forever & ever #also peep the brisingr in her aesir design... cus she had baldur <3 #god of war #gow #god of war 2018 #gow 2018 #freya #freya god of war #freya gow #god of war freya #gow freya #gowr #gow ragnarook #god of war ragnarok

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bitternanami · 9 months

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been watching nezumiva's retrospective of aa3 and like always im Thinking About Her. alt text has img description

(w crop because tumblr messed w the quality a bit)

#ace attorney #dahlia hawthorne #doodle #i like the view of dahlia as someone who bases her entire worldview on the idea of maintaining control #of others and of herself #as a way of reclaiming agency from a world and a culture that has starved her of it #she is just doing this in the most deeply toxic way possible <3 go girl give us nothing

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cluster-b-culture-is · 1 month

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Cluster b culture is being mad that your personality disorders are demonized in media and only portrayed as serial killers in horror movies,,,but also having those same characters being your favorites and projecting your disorder onto them anyways bc "omg they're just like me fr"

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#cluster b culture is #cluster b #anonymous #bpd #npd #hpd #aspd #mod orange #mood #imo it's totally valid to be annoyed about bad representation while still having fun with what little representation we get #plus reclaiming all the negative stereotypes and poking fun at them is very fun

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welcometogrouchland · 1 year

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I also think it's nice that they made Camilla a sci-fi nerd and Luz a fantasy nerd. They're genres that are often seen as completely opposing one another by many people, which is what we're led to believe about Luz and Camilla in season 1. Luz is silly, nerdy, frequently in over her head and irresponsible and loves the boiling isles. We're led to believe that Camilla is the normal, conventional TV mother who'd be disgusted and terrified by the demon realm if she saw it.

Then yesterday's lie gives us a lot of nuance to this, and we realize that while they're still very different and now on opposite sides of a conflict, both mother and daughter are incredibly kind people (seen in their treatment of Vee) who love each other but struggle to make the right choices without hurting one another.

Then thanks to them drops all this Camilla characterization and we realize! She was a nerd too this whole time! The wedge between Camilla and Luz is motivated by past traumas and grief! and for the future has them switching sides on the central conflict of where Luz should stay (Camilla now wanting Luz in the demon realm because it's what's best for her, and Luz believing that staying in the human realm is what's best for the people she loves). They finally talk and realize that, like Willow pointed out earlier in the ep, the two are so alike. Camilla reveals that she's a secret nerd too! That she had a hard time growing up and accidentally hurt Luz trying to save her from the same fait! It's so important to me that Camilla keeps calling Luz a good witch. It's affirming her interests and goals, reminding her that she's just as good as the hero of her favorite story. And Luz finally only realizes that she wants to be understood...when she's finally able to understand her mom. When she realizes that the woman she loves and admires is just as much of a nerdy screw-up as her and that there's hope for her. Her palismen ends being multiple animals at once, showing both how Luz making unconventional choices (like carving an egg) keeps paying off for her and how her potential is limitless now that she finally knows and accepts her own goals, but to me it also reminds of the fact that Camilla is a vet and passed a love of all the weird and unliked animals (like wolves, possums, snakes, etc) to her.

It's just so so sweet and it really shows how much love and thought the crew put into this mother daughter storyline (FTF haters are not welcome on this page, respectfully). I can't wait to see how both of these misunderstood but healing women (who radiate "little/big sister" and "mom" energy respectively) are gonna interact with a) the lonely, easily manipulated and well intentioned but ignorant collector (a mix of both their interests as a magic being with a space motif! I just realized that lol) and b) the nasty puritan white man who's really obsessed with conforming to society's norms even when it literally doesn't benefit him at all.

Anyway, I believe in noceda( AND clawthorne 👀) family supremacy 💙

#the owl house #toh #toh spoilers #luz noceda #camilla noceda #this isn't proofread so if there's words missing or misspellings or somethings unclear feel free to mention #but this is just a messy thought dump #I have a ROUGH WEEK. I wish there was a more positive vibe in the fandom rn (although i kinda get it but also :( sad)#but there isn't one i will create it #tentatively I don't have a responsibility to do that I just wanna talk about things i noticed and like #i am going to post reqs just u wait. bitch!#also uhhhh other things i thought while making this post but couldn't include:#hunter and gus being fantasy trekkies is really funny and cute but also fits really well with both of their characters #gus has always been in love with the human realm and this is the ultimate neat little bow on that.#he's dressed as a character he relates to (captain avery trying to get back home to the family he loves) and his interest is uniquely human #bc sci-fi is kinda uniquely rooted in/associated w/ the human realm in toh. even in something like Belos' steampunk tech #SPEAKING OF. hunter oh my GODDD #he gets so attached to the human realm in TTT bc he's finally somewhere safe (he's always been entrenched in the most-#-toxic parts of the demon realm and it's culture which is ironically propelled forward by one humans influence)#and it's like a part of him is reclaiming his weird split heritage. he loves magic and he loves sci-fi and he's silly abt both #he's not a witch or a human and he's happy. or at least he will be #anyway. i love this shows relationship to fiction it is sweet and comforting and funny

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flyingclubhouse · 6 months

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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1193010257/block-print-sew-on-patch-support-your

The new patches are in my shop.

#mothman #support your local harbinger of doom #cryptid culture #punk patch #block printing #cryptozoology #reclaimed linen #recycled fabric

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desimartinis · 4 months

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everymadara · 7 months

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Chapter 674

#naruto #madara #madara uchiha #uchiha madara #six paths #+ kakashi #reclaiming his culture #yes i've already made that joke before whatever

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clovencraft · 7 months

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Happy Halloween!! 😈🎃

#halloween art #witchcore #witchy vibes #vulture culture #memento mori #the earth reclaims #my theme #my art #digital art

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crawledoutoftheocean · 2 months

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constantly fighting the urge to change my entire aesthetic to piratecore

#i'm roma and cornish it's both my culture and reclaiming cultural appropriation.#peace and love on planet earth #mermaid #therian #alterhuman #otherkin #nonhuman #crawls

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xx-hyper-cryptid-xx · 4 months

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#discord server #cringecore #cringe culture reclaimed #cringe culture is dead #system #alterhuman #otherkin #plural #fictive #fictionkin #therian

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year2000electronics · 6 months

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since we're talking about it, here's the stupidest hill i'm willing to die on: there hasn't been an actual new tumblr sexyman since like 2017, it was a specific phenomenon in time that's over and now people just pick any popular character and try and say that's onceler 2. tumblr sexymen are guys who are shipped en masse with themselves, get wildly mischaracterized to the point of being unrecognizable, are oddly isolated from the narrative, completely inescapably eclipse other stuff in the tag, and have thirst posts etc that wildly break containment. until we get swarms of unironic final boss benrey/chill benrey before he got caught in the door that one time on ao3, i'm putting the term up on a shelf. thank u very much for ur time and i hope you have a pleasant day

every day i talk about sexology i only descend more into the insanity. this phrase is literally undefinable. it has a definition in the same way religion has a definition. because every time you try to define a religion, you turn your back and realize "oh shit! the way ive defined it has left out this crucial big religion!" and so you fix your definition until its a rambling of nothing thats vague enough to encompass anything and yet means precious little. there is no hope for any of this anymore. nobody even knows what we're trying to say anymore.

#mothra answers #i do agree its a bygone era though just bc it refers to a specific grip tumblr had over the internet #which it just doesnt have anymore #its ok. we can let go of the term. we can send it to hell now #we dont need to 'reclaim' it. we dont need to 'destroy cringe culture' it.#we dont need to make fanart of all of them standing together.#you can have a conversation about the unfair content bias in fandom #or about the rampant sexualization of character content that people get unwillingly exposed to #without using that word. its ok.#lets all take a breath.

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autisticdreamdrop · 10 months

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