Chapter Synopsis: Suzie meets a strange man who has lost his memories, and has to help him find his work place. This leads her to an unexpected location where she finds Coach and a new mystery to solve.
My Magic Grandpa is a paranormal fantasy adventure that takes place in the 90s, go check it out!
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Anonymous asked: No offence but you know what's really weird about America? You've got hardly any history past a couple of centuries. No medieval castles, no Roman walls, no bronze age settlement sites. Is there even anything for archeologists to dig for?
Just because they aren’t traditional western style buildings doesn’t mean they aren’t there. These are only a FEW examples of the monumental architecture built by Native Americans in the US. The “prehistory” of America is as vast and varied as whatever is in Europe.
People have been here for quite some time, they’ve only been white for 500 years
As an American studying archaeology this ask filled me with a seething rage
I never understand people who will travel so far to see Stonehenge or Roman ruins but completely discount Cahokia or Mesa Verde. There are SO MANY amazing ancient sites in America. And most of them are comparatively little-known and visited.
I think a difference in Europe is that they seem better at coexisting with their history - there are cities where you can see modern buildings next to ones from the Middle Ages. Our (surviving) ancient sites in the US aren’t in the middle of major population centers, which makes them easier to overlook. I don’t think that’s entirely a bad thing, preservation-wise, but it’s also not an excuse for forgetting they exist.
Folks I live in Atlantic Canada and I’m an hour away from an archaeological site complex that’s at least 11,000 years old, suspected to be 13,000 years old. That’s nearly three times older than the Great Pyramid at Giza. The Wabanaki are called the People of the Dawn for a reason. Come on.
There are multiple temple mounds within 10-20 minutes of me on the gulf coast of Florida that date back more than a millennium, and were actively inhabited areas before the Spanish showed up and committed genocide.
And a whole bunch of Native American people built around astrological events just like Stonehenge. Except they weren’t just using the solstices that happen every year. No, they were using the major lunar standstills which only happen every 18 years.
There are places where Native Americans were building cities without an agrarian lifestyle. Hunter gatherer cities! That is completely different from how western civilization developed! How cool is that! How aggressively does that up end the idea that hunter gatherers were inherently more primitive than agrairian cultures.
The fact that I didn’t learn about any of this until I was in my 30s and actively seeking this information in my own time is criminal.
Taos Pueblo has been continuously inhabited for over 1000 years (due to religious privacy, the people of Taos don’t tell the exact age to outsiders) and the buildings are built in the same way as they have been for that long.
It’s the same age as or even older than most medieval castles and people still call it home.
If any followers or passers-by to this post are currently fans of Hetalia and/or Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin, as a former fan of both, I am begging you: extricate yourself from those fandoms and stop consuming those properties as quickly and quietly as possible. If you can bring your friends and mutuals along with you, even better! It is simply not worth it (and downright dangerous) to be consuming what is essentially fascist propaganda at all, never mind now, when we’re seeing a global rise in fascism.
for a lot of people, attack on titan was their first introduction to anime, so its global reach cannot be ignored. that has led to a lot of fervent people trying to defend this show without looking more deeply into what we are saying. if you’re about to do something stupid like comment on this post when you don’t truly know what anyone is talking about or you just feel annoyed that we are knocking your favorite anime, read this first and then decide if you really wanna make that stupid comment.
from forcing an entire group of people to wear nazi armbands to the author’s own personal beliefs, do not sit here and say we’re looking too much into it. fuck off. fascism is on a global rise and it should scare you, and any decent person with common sense should be against any type of media depiction that is advocating for fascism/nazism/war crimes/ethnic cleansing. it’s beyond “it’s just a piece of fiction.” MEDIA INFLUENCES REAL LIFE. if you think media doesn’t influence real life and real life opinions, you are seriously deluding yourself. i don’t really know what to say beyond that.
qanon and the rise of the proud boys (a literal pro-fascist group) should be enough proof that we don’t live in a fucking fishbowl when it comes to fascism.
So I’m teaching English right now, and I just had my students write an essay about their heroes. A couple of my students picked Attack on Titan characters, because I let them choose fictional characters as well. One picked Eren Jaegar. He said that he admired that he was willing to do whatever it takes to protect his family and his homeland. When describing the lengths Eren was willing to go to, this student explicitly included MASS GENOCIDE in the list. And I uh. Well I sent him to guidance.
I understand the appeal of these franchises. Hell I used to be into them myself. But please realize that when you consume fascist media, you’re internalizing the same messages my Eren Jaegar fan student has. When you’re being repeatedly asked to sympathize and root for characters that are bad people who do terrible things, you start to excuse and rationalize those behaviors. You start to be desensitized to actions that should rightly elicit horror in you.
I’m not saying that watching Attack on Titan automatically makes you a genocide apologist. I’m not saying that we can’t think critically about the media we consume. I’m not saying we can’t have media from a villian’s points of view either. What I AM saying, is that framing is important. And unfortanely it’s almost impossible to get away from the positive framing of fascism in AoT and Hetalia. And if you spend too much time in a warped frame, you’ll warp to match. It’s really not worth it to keep engaging in that material.
I think it’s worthwhile to also mention that my student’s aspiration is to become a soldier. He wants to emulate Eren Jaegar in the defense of America. And I hope you can see how dangerous that mindset is for an armed forces member. A soldier should be able to make tough choices. A soldier should NOT be willing to do “whatever it takes” with no limits, self-justified by a sense of extreme nationalism. Yeah. That’s what you’re internalizing, folks.
TLDR; Don’t keep watching and producing fan content for franchises that promote fascism. Please. Respect yourself more than that.
If an autistic person overexplains something to you they probably don’t think you’re dumb they just think THEY would appreciate those details if they were the ones being explained to
A lot of things that seem obviously implicit in speech AREN’T obvious to autistic people. So we inherently think it’s necessary to specify things that might seem transparent to neurotypical people because usually WE’RE the ones who need those explanations
I’m pretty out of the loop on most famous people stuff but I’m gathering through context clues that a black gay man made a music video where he has sex with Satan and somehow there are people who think that’s not dope as hell?
a US senator is also arguing with him on twitter but his quick wit is making her look like a moron
