constant-instigator

I get why a lot of people hate the whole princess culture aimed at little girls. There’s a hell of a lot of toxic bullshit in there.

But when I was a tiny princess, my dad used to be my royal advisor. He would come to me, and over tea we would discuss the problems of the kingdom. He would tell me that new people wanted to move to the kingdom, and ask me what we should do. Or he would tell me that the teddybears and the dolls were fighting over the enchanted forest, and ask me what to do. Basically, he took the trappings of the princess culture, and used it as a tool to teach me about leadership, civic responsibility, and compassion.

So if you have a little princess around, consider helping her figure out how to run her kingdom. There’s no sense in telling a kid they can’t be a leader, or that they can’t wear sparkles while they do it.

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If you want to find me, I’m on AO3, Dreamwidth, Gmail, and Twitter as afrogeekgoddess.

I’m not sure if I’ll go to another platform at the moment—thinking of it gives me a headache. I need to do more investigation. I’ll likely stick around here for a while.

Sweet Potato Chipotle Bisque — Delicious TV

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The Very Orange Soup I made. I subbed the white potatoes for butternut squash and added some leftover bits of carrot.

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The soup I made today is the most amazing orange color. Not surprising, considering it’s got sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and carrots in it.

lifeinpoetry

it’s so hard to feel attached to your body these days

it’s so hard to feel attached to the idea of a body that may never exist

it’s so hard to feel attached to the idea of a world that may never exist

— Andrea Abi-Karam, from The Aftermath

Source: communeeditions.com poetry

allthingslinguistic

“More broadly, people at Warruwi Community avoid simply switching to a shared language because there are social and personal costs of doing so. Some families insist that their children speak only their language, usually their father’s. Languages are associated with particular pieces of land or territory on the island, and clans claim ownership of that land, so languages are also considered to be owned by clans. One can only speak the languages one has a right to speak—and breaking this restriction can be seen as a sign of hostility. Still, neither restriction applies to understanding a language—or as Nancy put it in an interview with Singer, to “hearing” it. Singer suspects that receptive multilingualism in Australia has been around for a long time. The phenomenon was noted by some of the earliest European settlers on late 18th-century expeditions into the Australian interior. “Although our natives and the strangers conversed on a par, and understood each other perfectly, yet they spoke different dialects of the same language,” one settler wrote in a journal. While Australia isn’t the only place in the world where receptive multilingualism happens, one thing that makes it different in Warruwi is that those receptive skills have a status as real proficiencies. Where the academic foreign-language field tends to see such skills as language half-learned, as an incomplete—or even worse, failed—acquisition, at Warruwi a person can claim receptive skills in a language as part of their repertoire. The Anglos in Texas aren’t likely to put “understands Spanish” on a job résumé, while the immigrant children might be embarrassed that they can’t speak their parents’ languages. Another difference is that people at Warruwi Community don’t see receptive skills as a path to spoken abilities. Singer’s friend Richard Dhangalangal, for example, has lived most of his life with speakers of Mawng, which he understands very well, but no one expects him to start speaking it.”

— The Small Island Where 500 People Speak Nine Different Languages by Michael Erard in The Atlantic

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lifeinpoetry

he would follow
her to the skies, to
the seas, to the ends
of the earth,

yes, but
what now, now that
they’re
here?

— Maya Phillips, from “Persephone, Engaged,” published in At Length

Source: atlengthmag.com poetry

low--kei

“All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties and down times are an indication of a lack of love rather than part of the process. In actuality, true love thrives on difficulties. The foundation of such love is the assumption that we want to grow and expand, to become more fully ourselves. There is no change that does not bring with it a feeling of challenge and loss.”

— all about love | bell hooks

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