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My name is Kat, I'm 28, and if need be, your new mom! I'm in too many fandoms to count and live with my loving husband, our son, and our baby girl.
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Originally posted by @the-aila-test (here), edited to add descriptions of each website and update the links.
Native-owned businesses to buy from. Taken from the North American Indian Association of Detroit.
For text searching, some of the major categories used are: Food, beverages, clothing, accessories, jewellery, home goods, hygiene, beauty, books, sporting goods — but there are also many items that didn’t fit neatly into those categories, so try ctrl+F / cmd+F for whatever product you have in mind!
https://www.sweetgrasstradingco.com - Food, beverages (coffee & tea), skincare and grooming, beauty products from a wide variety of different Native-owned brands. The closest thing to a one-stop shop you will get.
https://byellowtail.com - Clothing (stylish af hoodies, swimsuits, cardigans and jackets, tops, scarves, dresses), jewellery, candles, beauty and hygiene (soap, lotions, lip balms) from a variety of Native designers.
https://furandhide.com - VERY COOL leather and fur products! Drums, flutes, bells, rattles, shells. Also a selection of skulls, bones, claws, teeth, quills, feathers, and obsidian items.
“The average US president has been charged with 1.56 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 72, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted
The fact that you made this mathematically accurate made my tummy warm
This is my new answer whenever I’m asked why one should either (a) drop the outlier or (b) focus on the outlier to figure out WTF is going on there….
With a small correction - so far, 71 felonies to Trump (34 NY State felonies, 37 Federal) 1.54 felonies per presidential capita.
CASUAL REMINDER: DICK GRAYSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CHAOS GREMLIN WHO WILL ABSOLUTELY ENCOURAGED TIM TO BE A CHAOS GREMLIN AND TO STEAL FROM BATMAN AND LEAVE A DUMBASS NOTE AFTER TAKING BOTH HIS PLANE AND HIS CACHE OF WEAPONRY.
Like, Dick’s practically whistling a jaunty tune as he just WALTZES INTO THE CAVE, knowing Bruce isn’t there because he’s out on patrol, casually gasses up the Batjet without even asking, has a cute conversation with Tim while he does it, and then says, well, are you coming?, only to leave a note from “Jimmy Olsen” after he he CLEANED THE LOCKER OUT COMPLETELY.
The ENTIRE TIME his face says one thing very clearly:
He 100% does not give a shit that he’s stealing Bruce’s stuff.
This is the face of a man who has ZERO shame and is about to leave the world’s most annoying IOU note and took Batman’s still child-sized sidekick along for the ride.
You know what? I’m not picking a side in this because I get where each of these characters is coming from. None of them are right and none of them are wrong.
Tim has had his entire life burned down again, so many people he loved are dead, and it feels like this is salt in the wound, that he’s being stripped of Robin when he needs it most.
Damian is a child who is saying viciously hurtful things, but he thinks he has to fight for his place in anything, he thinks he has to destroy anyone who might come for what he has, he has to destroy Drake to secure a place for himself, because that’s what he’s been taught. Dick is the only person who has shown him anything stable in this place, of course he’s going to fight with everything he has, he’ll cut open anyone who comes at him, because that’s what’s been hammered into him since he was born.
And Dick’s coming at this from his own experiences–he says right there that Tim is his ally, his equal, Dick’s not his mentor. Dick is asking for someone to help him, not be someone else he has to take care of, because when is it Dick’s turn to mourn his father’s loss, too? When is it Dick’s turn to mourn that he’s been forced to put on the cape and cowl that he hates wearing? When is it Dick’s turn to have someone acknowledge that he had to give up his entire life to pick up Bruce’s? And what is he supposed to do, when he’s trying to hold everything together because everyone else is pulling things apart?
Tim’s at the age (and possibly older) than when Dick knew he himself needed to become his own person, to step up into a role that was uniquely his–and I don’t think he’s wrong about Tim being ready for that, either. Tim is traveling around the world as Red Robin here, he’s doing his own thing, he’s doing his own investigations, Tim is ready to be his own superhero, not the role of Robin.
Tim’s holding onto this for what feels like less because he needs the role of Robin specifically, Batman’s protege, and more because he wants to hold onto something familiar. I keep thinking of that scene in Adventure Comics where he tells Kon about how he tried to clone him, that he knew it wouldn’t be his Kon, but at least it would have been something. This feels similar, in a lot of ways.
Tim wants the familiar, he feels like he’s losing everything he loved, and he just wants something, regardless of whether or not it was the true thing that he was actually longing for. That’s why he can’t have any sympathy for an eleven year old child who needs a lifeline. That’s why he can’t see that Dick needs help, rather than help from Dick. Because Tim’s losses are mounting too fast and too high and it’s ripping him apart.
They’re all just barely holding on by their fingertips and have so little left over to give each other, Dick doesn’t have time to be gentle with Tim, Damian doesn’t have the emotional tools to be gentle with anyone, Tim doesn’t have the emotional resources to do more than just make it through the day, they’re all a mess, they’re all not right and they’re all not wrong.
I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator
you’ll get an endless streaming of songs (ad free!).
I personally found myself loving 1970s Ghana, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire!
Also 1920s and 1970s Japan for sure! Cambodian music:
spectacular. Love Armenia and Mali as well. I’ve been told 70s Germany is weird and 30s
Algeria is cool but I haven’t gotten around to those yet.
Italy’s 1960s is bomb ofc but I’m biased ;)
I NEED YOU ALL TO UNDERSTAND JUST HOW HARD I LOST MY SHIT ABOUT THIS
Because looking at this from Bruce’s point of view is really funny, like they’re driving on the highway, probably going like 80mph and suddenly there’s a KNOCK ON THE WINDOW, you roll it down to see your eldest child on a hang glider who just wants to say hi, where he had to have angled that thing VERY PRECISELY to be able to knock on the window and not scrape those overly large wings on the ground or on the car, but this demon child of yours did it anyway because he thinks it’s funny and all of that is very funny.
But the real kicker was when I scanned back up to look at Alfred’s face and promptly fucking LOST IT.
THAT MAN IS LOOKING IN THE SIDEVIEW MIRROR AND HE HAS TO SEE THIS IDIOT GRANDCHILD OF HIS COMING
THIS IS THE FACE OF A MAN WHO SEES THAT HANG GLIDER COMING AND KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT RICHARD GRAYSON IS ABOUT TO DO
THIS IS THE FACE OF A MAN WHO HAS SEEN SOME SHIT AND STILL CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT HE’S SEEING AND HE IS SO TIRED DOWN TO HIS VERY BONES
LOOK AT HIM, THAT IS THE FACE OF A MAN WHOSE SOUL HAS LEFT HIS BODY, HE DOESN’T EVEN SIGH, HE DOESN’T LET BRUCE KNOW THIS IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN
ALFRED JUST JUST LOOKS OVER, SEES THIS HAPPENING, AND DOESN’T SAY A SINGLE FUCKING THING.
The only thing better than someone laughing right in Bruce’s face because he’s being ridiculous is when TWO people are laughing in his face because he’s being ridiculous
no criticism OP just a moment of silence for the fact that they both laugh at him and then he and diana are trapped there for 37 years and none of the armor makes it back
“hi, i’m an author and this is my american character, chair lightbulb. in american, ‘chair’ means to be in a position of leadership, while ‘lightbulb’ means intelligence. yeah it’s kind of an unusual name in american. she’s always been distant from her american heritage, but her parents wanted her name to honor the american language, while still being unique. don’t worry, she’s very embarrassed about her heritage and it will hardly ever come up.”
“she lives with her cousin, george washington backstreet boys oreo® dq blizzard® creme. he also doesn’t know a lot about his american culture. this is symbolic of how i also don’t know a lot about american culture.