please for the love of god watch this clip from nathan for you
this is honestly one of my favorite scenes from any reality show ever, it completely defies explanation or description and it’s impossible to convey just how fucking insane it is to someone without showing them the clip
Anonymous asked: I DO totally understand disliking white people appropriating cultures that belong to PoC. Believe me, as a WoC, I do. BUT something to keep in mind when you see people on the streets is every race and ethnicity have people of different skin tones. There are Natives, Latinxs, Asians, etc. who are light-skinned and potentially white-passing at a glance. That does NOT erase their culture. That does NOT mean they are suddenly white. That does NOT mean they can’t engage with their own culture.
❤️❤️❤️ I may seem really confident with who I am as a mixed race person but it’s taken a hell of a lot of work emotionally and intellectually over two decades to feel like I have the right to connect to my own culture and heritage - and I know many other white passing POC have similar struggles.
if you find bones in the forest, sit a bit and listen. they are old and have some good stories to tell. maybe they’ll teach you a spell or two, or explain where the water on our planet came from.
if you find bones by the ocean, run. don’t look back. run, faster, faster. the sea may love you but there are nights where she knows neither mercy nor science, and the bones warn you only once.
aymsostrange asked: Hello, I saw a post you made where you mentioned you were am energy sun, the opposite of an energy vampire. Could you share a little more about this? I'm curious
Absolutely! Maybe you already are familiar with energy vampires, but there’s a lot of misinformation about them floating around, so I’ll just start there. So energy vampires can differ in many ways from person to person, but generally what they all have in common is a slight to very significant energy deficit. They need to receive energy from an outside source on a regular basis (most do via voluntary energy donations) in order to maintain the normal energy levels that people with regular energy systems ordinarily have. There’s a lot of stigma about them, but I’ve met lots of lovely energy vampires and even been an energy donor on numerous occasions.
Now, imagine the opposite. Someone whose energy system naturally produces more energy than the person needs or even can comfortably contain within themselves. Energy suns are named for constantly radiating energy like a sun (but doesn’t necessarily have any solar energy alignments). I came up with the term a while back when I finally figured out that’s what I am but then realized that there wasn’t really a good term for it. Some people call us “generators” or “power towers,” but I really don’t like being compared to machines - especially because energy suns are sometimes sought after for producing energy but we’re human beings… not convenient tools.
Anyways, just as energy vampires need some way to get energy on a regular basis, energy suns need outlets to use up all our excess energy. This can happen as just constant small amounts of energy radiation (basically low key grounding 24/7), by doing a big energy dump (like letting out a whole bunch at once), or by performing magic to burn it up (part of why I love doing energy work and magic in general). Personally, if I don’t find ways to use up my energy excess, it can get really uncomfortable or I can end up sort of fizzling and burning out temporarily from an internal overload, which really sucks. I call it “sun burning” when I spend time around someone and end up radiating too much energy at them. It’s so nice to know what that is now because my family members have complained about it for years. It tends to scare our skittish cats away because even if I try to walk over to them being super calm and slow, they just feel all my energy unintentionally blasting at them.
That probably covers the basics, but if anyone wants to ask anything else about energy suns, I’m more than happy to share! Thanks for asking (:
