Alaska Native Manitou

In 1866 Captain William J. Fetterman bragged "Give me 80 men and 80 horses and I will ride through the whole Sioux nation!" He was half right. He got halfway through. ☠️

Animal posters from Ranger Rick magazine.

After moving to Oregon I also had maps & images of Alaska, where I'm from.

Tasogare Shimanami/Our Dreams at Dusk by Yuuki Kamatani. It's about a group of SGRM (sexual, gender & romantic minorities) who support each other. Not perfectly, but they do learn from their interactions. The author is non-binary. 

https://dynasty-scans.com/series/shimanami_tasogare

On 6/29/2022 at 1:22 PM, roboticanary said:

ok this is cool

I think Captain Kangaroo had segments like this.

11 hours ago, roboticanary said:

You have it backwards

4 hours ago, roboticanary said:

If we're going to do good April fools videos I have to recommend this classic.

I think I saw this as a child, & was confused by it...

The Mayflower full of Pilgrims landed at Provincetown (not Plymouth Rock) in 1620. The local tribe saw it & I bet somebody said "There goes the neighborhood."

Columbus knew he wasn't in India, but to fool his investers he called us "Indians" anyway. At least he wasn't trying to discover Turkey.

Back in business. Please remember that there is a spoiler option 👁️‍🗨️ if you want to describe something not everyone wants to see. Or at least give a content warning at the beginning of your post.

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Emotions can be harmful, including love.

https://imgflip.com/i/6gzjaw

5 hours ago, SkyTuneRein said:

Does having a long-since expired warning on AVEN matter? Not that I'm signing up for a position.

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In my case I was given one for making a Supernatural meme, tagging Michael on fire as the BoD, Castiel as PanFicto, the latter's holy oil Molotov cocktail as Pan's "Statement to the BoD" thread and calling the former "Hey, assbutt!". I would share the meme but I have long since lost the link. I also got the point for implying David Jay, the equivocal head of AVEN, was being inconsiderate, in a slightly less polite way.

 

Don't worry, I suspect that there are many AVEN refugees here.

I have no interest in going to a party or club. Hanging out with people I know is one thing, mingling with strangers is another. I do like powwows, but even there I need to get away from the crowd now and then.

2 hours ago, DeltaV said:

There is also another thing, which I find mysterious as an outsider: Roe vs. Wade is a decision from 1973.

In this whole time, was there really no opportunity to settle the issue by a federal law?

E. g. in 2009 :

In the November 2008 elections, the Democratic Party increased its majorities in both chambers (including - when factoring in the two Democratic caucusing independents - a brief filibuster-proof 60-40 supermajority in the Senate), and with Barack Obama being sworn in as President on January 20, 2009, this gave a Democrats an over all federal government trifecta for the first time since the 103rd Congress in 1993.

This is is not meant as some sort of gotcha, but as a genuine question. What happened back then?

Many assume that Christians only back Republicans, but both major parties are in Big Churches' pockets. https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=W05

Yes, starting with my whole family. A bunch of ultraconservative gun-slinging bible thumpers who are too self-centered to understand why I want nothing to do with them now.

Gray Wolf Morning Song by Cherokee artist Carol Grigg.

I don't watch superhero movies, but one time I visited my BFF when she was. I looked at the screen and asked why Spiderman looked/acted like a grade schooler. She wasn't sure either.

My answer to the question: https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/King

And there are abusers who take advantage of "love trumps everything" culture to isolate & make their partner dependant.

1 hour ago, DeltaV said:

I sadly never played this most legendary of all open-world games (maybe I should, it got an update for PS5 but costs 40 € wow for a decade old game). I heard that the Skyrim NPC population is around 1000 (quite enormous compared to Elden Ring which is around 50!). So one temple should be able to handle the demand. But that everyone has to make a long journey just to marry is quite unfortunate!

Skyrim Wiki says: it’s the Temple of Mara. And surprise: Mara is the Goddess of Love. Who would’ve thought!

IMHO there should be 100% secular, civil marriage in a fantasy game for once! That would be refreshing. The in-universe explanation could be: different religious groups could not agree who the REAL goddess of love is (and a lot of blood was shed in this conflict). Finally the worldly powers made secular, civil marriage compulsory.

OK… b2t…

Another classic I recently finished: Final Fantasy VII, Original (1997). There happens a date with one character from your group at “Gold Saucer” (a huge amusement park). The character who showed up for my “date” was Yuffie, a sort of Ninja girl from a Japanese/Chinese-like region called “Wutai”. She even gave “me” (= Cloud) a “kiss” (peck on the cheek) and was very embarrassed after that, lol. Like: --- Silence --- It seemed she liked me as a friend / mentor but wasn’t really ready for anything seriously romantic.

Now I read that the game determines the date there depending on how you treat the characters in your group. I sure shot down all romantic attempts by Tifa and Aerith (who are the default options). But Yuffie seemed just like some troubled teenager to me, and I treated her nicely and so got her to “date” me in the end.

Typical aro playthrough!

If you ignore all 3 girls you end up with Barrett. 🤣

Squall Leonhart from FF8 is my all time favorite Final Fantasy main character. But his relationship with Rinoa Heartilly makes no sense at all. I could almost hear the game developers saying "we must force in a love story no matter what!"

At the end of .hack//G.U. main hero Haseo is given the "Promise card" to choose one of his teammates as his favorite & get a special ending with that character. You can give it to a female character & have a virtual wedding. But there's one woman who doesn't like Haseo that way, & one AMAB who does (gay wedding!) With the other male characters you end up with a best friend, little brother, or mentor.

The truth about Cupid

I suspect that at a subconscious level they did know there is a difference. They had 2 deities associated with love which were different from each other. The God of "love" (whom poets called Cupid but was commonly known as Amor or Putti) in practice ruled romantic love. The Goddess of "common love" (Venus) was in charge of lust/sex. At least that's how it looks in the books I've read.