Less than Zen

loki-zen:

sensei-aishitemasu:

lo-cotidiano:

jamaicanblackcastoroil:

futureblackwakandan:

cocoabutter-bae:

futureblackwakandan:

futureblackwakandan:

me hanging out with black people in the summer: “aye, yall don’t forget to put on sunscreen”

them: 

@flipflibberinflippinghell

Use the Walgreens Brand which is pretty cheap and it does wonders and doesn’t leave me with a white cast. And I’m dark as hell so I hate looking ashy but not all sunscreens are made equally and it’s one of the better ones I’ve used.

Wait cocoa/shea butter and coconut oil don’t protect you from the sun we really do need sunscreen??

Yea fam. All that “we don’t need sunscreen” shit is a myth. Combine that with the fact that most dermatologists don’t know how to spot skin cancer in Black people and it’s a nasty combination.

Yeah, it’s harder for us to get it but when we do it’s deadly. I know two people who died of skin cancer, both were Black.

“While incidence of melanoma is higher in the Caucasian population, a July 2016 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed it is more deadly in people of color. African American patients were most likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in its later stages than any other group in the study, and they also had the worst prognosis and the lowest overall survival rate.”

- https://www.skincancer.org/prevention/skin-cancer-and-skin-of-color

Sorry about the link, I’m on mobile. But this is from August 2016, which I know isn’t the most recent but it’s still SUPER IMPORTANT. Y’all please wear sunscreen. With Google it’s even easy to find smaller, Black-owned brands.

https://blackgirlsunscreen.com/ is Black-owned!

Important medical information boost

Resource for dermatologists

Patient information (us)

Self-exam tips and photographs (US source, but information up to and including ‘and if you see this, seek professional help somehow’ is generally applicable)

General dermatology resources concerning skin (and hair) of colour (UK-based resource hub; international research)

Sunscreen matters!

roseofmyeye:

dressesandalchemy:

malus-syl-vestris:

moniquill:

whadyameanhesdead:

systlin:

glumshoe:

greatrazinsofthesunne:

glumshoe:

Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.

For your consideration: cornfields

Cornfields are less mystical than wheat fields but more mystical than soybean fields. Two-bit monsters congregate in corn fields to eat people, but their power is nothing compared to the things that manifest in wheat fields. 

Have been in both wheat and cornfields; can confirm. Cornfields host monsters who eat people. Wheat fields attract old gods. 

I have a theory that this is because the notions most of us have of “old gods” are pretty intrinsically European, and wheat was (and is) the staple crop of European life. It is quite literally tied to the ancestral rituals and beliefs of most white people. Odin, the Morrigan, and even Zeus are actually linked to a set of peoples who cultivated wheat.

Meanwhile, corn (maize) is a crop native to the Americas. It features in the white cultural imagination in a very different way. Corn is a motif seen not in our ancestral myths, but in a much newer genre: the American Gothic. With its focus on the tensions between man and nature and—perhaps more importantly—the United States’s history of genocide against its indigenous population and trade in enslaved Africans, the American Gothic is VERY preoccupied with agriculture. Our monsters come out of corn fields because corn is a symbol for not only what we did to the Native Americans (who were the first to grow the crop), but of what we are doing to the very land itself. Corn is a monument to our cultural sins.

Meanwhile, I suspect that corn features very differently in the imaginations of people of color. If you asked a Native American person or a Latinx person what sort of mysticism they associate with corn fields, I imagine their answer would be very different than ours.

TLDR: White people associate wheat with our ancestors’ gods because our ancestors grew wheat. We associate corn with terrible monsters because it is a literal sign of our own monstrosity.

Native American here, can confirm that small plots of corn feel safe and homey; ideally they should be interplanted with other crops. You find turkeys and possums and raccoons in the corn. It might tell you important knowledge.

However.

Giant monocultures of corn, where the corn grows unbroken for miles and miles, not near human habitation, devoid of local wildlife, just corn on corn in the soft wind? Corn mega monocultures? Those sound like screaming.

“monocultures attract people-eating monsters” is not the take I expected to see today but I’m glad I saw it

The anthropological analysis and discussion on folklore is spot on. 10/10

Corn lore

audacityinblack:

silverfox66:

Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

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waitingforthecat:

casynuf:

Like to pat, reblog to throw the ball again 🎾

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belethlegwen:

edgar-allan-possum:

arbi-official:

cpunkhobie:

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read. I would have LOVED to see that

three types of people

Maybe quantum physics is different in a universe where a mob boss built a working supercollider that could create portals to other worlds in 2018

@abominablesnowdude’s tags are too good to let vanish

keirahknightley:

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

🎬 Peter Jackson

+ IMDb trivia

nintendocafe:

Samus Aran

Art by yagaminoue

mikkeneko:

mikkeneko:

A post about names/handles got me pondering:

At this point in time, I’ve had this particular handle for more than half my life. I’ve gone by this name for more of my life than I have not gone by it.

I wonder how many people on here that’s true for?

So here’s a poll:

Have you had a self chosen name, that is not a birth name, for more than half your life?

I have had a name (which is not my birth name) for more than half my life.

I have not had any name (other than my birth name) for more than half my life.

Unsure / don’t want to say / see results

See Results

This can be because you transitioned, changed your name for some other reason, had a handle for an online or any other community (SCA, etc) or anything else that meets the criteria of a name that you consider to be your name, which is not your birth name, which you have had for more of your life than you have not had it.

#oh wow. just became half my life this year#i have a real life name and an internet name. i didn’t stop having a real life name but i do in fact have an internet name. you know?#so. that’s not not what the poll is asking#polls

That is in fact actually exactly what the poll is asking!

yes-or-no-daily:

Yes or No?

Yes

No

See Results

rederiswrites:

dicaeopolis:

rederiswrites:

lovely story from a friend today.

Look, this post has been wildly more popular than I thought it deserved, apparently at least in part because “don’t burden others; be independent” is far more ingrained in people than I realized. So here’s the thing: society works when people help each other. Helping others gives people a chance to know each other, and gives them an investment in the people they help. Helping creates bonds. People enjoy helping, and you are doing a good by letting them help you if they so wish.

Offer help; accept help. You will be a part of creating a helping culture. Which, incidentally, weakens capitalism and the fractionation between people that benefits those who would use us.