i love being an artist/creator. the ability humans have to create things is probably the Greatest Superpower like, look at this lil rooster i just drew for no reason
he’s gay, and he doesn’t get enough sleep, but lives a decent enough life. i relate to this rooster
look at this hippo i drew (also gay). she’s having a good day, but she has a secret: she suffers from severe depression. it’d give her a hug if i weren’t so afraid of hippos. sorry martha. i hope tomorrow is as good as today
now see this “sweet” little gran? she hides a dark secret as well. that secret is tax evasion. 55 YEARS of nonpayment of taxes. we’re not surprised, gran. just disappointed
drawing a rooster and making it gay for no reason, or drawing lesbian hippo having a good day, or a criminal old lady (probably also a lesbian - i know her cats are) may seem meaningless enough. but now the world is +1 gay rooster, +1 happy hippo, and +1 tax-evading grandma. without my doing, these specific things wouldn’t exist, but now they’re on your screen and you’re thinking about them and they have been registered into your brains as things that exist. they’re real now
IT IS POWER!!!!
EVERYONE GO FORTH AND CREATE IT IS GOOD™
I scheduled this to post on this day while drunk on August 19th 2016. lololololololol
shit 19 year old me, i needed that reminder. hope you’re having fun playing pokemon go and not knowing that Trump wins.
i love being an artist/creator. the ability humans have to create things is probably the Greatest Superpower like, look at this lil rooster i just drew for no reason
he’s gay, and he doesn’t get enough sleep, but lives a decent enough life. i relate to this rooster
look at this hippo i drew (also gay). she’s having a good day, but she has a secret: she suffers from severe depression. it’d give her a hug if i weren’t so afraid of hippos. sorry martha. i hope tomorrow is as good as today
now see this “sweet” little gran? she hides a dark secret as well. that secret is tax evasion. 55 YEARS of nonpayment of taxes. we’re not surprised, gran. just disappointed
drawing a rooster and making it gay for no reason, or drawing lesbian hippo having a good day, or a criminal old lady (probably also a lesbian - i know her cats are) may seem meaningless enough. but now the world is +1 gay rooster, +1 happy hippo, and +1 tax-evading grandma. without my doing, these specific things wouldn’t exist, but now they’re on your screen and you’re thinking about them and they have been registered into your brains as things that exist. they’re real now
IT IS POWER!!!!
EVERYONE GO FORTH AND CREATE IT IS GOOD™
I scheduled this to post on this day while drunk on August 19th 2016. lololololololol
black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)
you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade
then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)
and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids
so yeah
viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie
Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa.
Why?
Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO.
Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.
Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.
We KNOW this.
There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.
Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.
this is your friendly reminder that the nazis used to falsify/deliberately misinterpret a lot of archeological evidence to fabricate this narrative of a europe-wide “germanic” high culture that consisted entirely of brave, white warriors (when in reality no such people have ever existed) and this concept was so widely spread that every stereotype concerning norse ppl/”vikings” was made up by literal nazis and you should take everything you think you know about them with massive grains of salt
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I have reblogged this about 30 times and I will reblog it 10000 more.
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Two people posing as a young home buying couple (they are a young couple, that part isn’t in dispute) are sending mass letters to houses in entire neighborhoods talking about how much they love the house and want to buy it. For those who have sold, the couple have then flipped the properties, turning massive profits and displacing whole neighborhoods so that rich white newcomers can move in. Watch out for Rarebird!!!
The couple denies doing anything wrong.
What Literally what There isn’t anything wrong with that, people flip houses all the time and the people that are “displaced” chose to sell their houses and were compensated for it. There is nothing wrong with that.
HI YOU ARE MORALLY BANKRUPT AND DON’T UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT PF GENTRIFICATION BYE
No offense, but can you explain to me why this is a bad thing? I am not disagreeing, I just don’t understand. Thank you.
Ugh this is so hard.
Okay, in Portland you’re talking about a historically very racist city that’s segregated low income families and families of colour into certain specific areas–the Laurelhurst arches, for example, are the borders within which no black people could own houses or businesses. Research the Vanport Flood.
So in the early 2000s an influx of poor white queers started in the poor people of colour areas. We couldn’t afford better, and we wanted to be around other queers. The schools are underfunded, there are still shootings, long term residents couldn’t get home improvement loans or refinance their mortgages, and when white queers made the neighborhoods edgy instead of “the ghetto” white bridge and tunnel tourists wanted a piece of it and slowly began infiltrating. Literally pushing out businesses of colour like the Native American Youth Association couldn’t afford the new raised rent on their building and was forced out for a business called, literally, “hovel” which sold overpriced knickknacks to the new white residents moving into the new apartment buildings. At first the apartment buildings were built on vacant lots, which isn’t as bad as displacing actual residents, but it drives property taxes up while the banks still refused to refinance or offer home improvement loans to long term residents of colour and low income residents.
The businesses moving in to the neighbourhoods are to a one too expensive for low income residents to access, so when people talk about “urban renewal”, the renewal happening is happening for the specific newcomer population of rich white people. The locals aren’t able to access these new services like yoga studios, expensive hipster bars, expensive urban coops.
And then there’s the school factor: newcomers aren’t invested in local schools and overwhelmingly tend to send their children to charter schools out of the neighbourhood, so a strong advocating force for schools is thus denied to locals.
As the process continues, locals get priced out. They can’t afford their property taxes, rents get deliberately upped (this happened to me twice), people get evicted with no notice so that landlords can remodel or simply sell the lots for money.
In my old neighbourhood an old empty lot that locals had turned into a park was sold to become a giant overpriced apartment building.
The family across the street sold because they couldn’t afford the new taxes.
Three blocks away a landlord kicked out three generations of a family who’d been living in a house divided into three apartments to sell to a developer who made a four story luxury condo building.
The last black owned business in the area was forced out to become a giant leed certified business office.
A family owned ethiopian restaurant was deliberately driven closed because the new developer didn’t think the prospective white residents of his new buildings would “want to smell that kind of food.” But the piss smell of the local microbrewery is so aromatic, amirite?
A local laundromat was driven out of business when a hipster laundromat with wifi, coffee, and wine moved in four blocks away.
What people like Rarebird are doing is facilitating this process without giving back to the community.
Flipping is, definitionally, paying undermarket value for a product to remodel it and sell it for more.
They aren’t paying long term locals what their properties are worth, taking advantage of the high taxes white people have brought while underpaying to buy these places they then profit off of.
This is part of a larger problem where rich people buy multiple condos and apartments and then never live in them, preferring to Airbnb them occasionally for a profit.
There is no corresponding housing being build for the people who are displaced.
None of these buildings accept section 8 and mandatory inclusionary income zoning failed, which means there are no affordable apartments in any of these new buildings.
Rents have risen in Portland six times faster than anywhere else, while we remain largely a poor state, with only Nike, Adidas, and Intel drawing in new workers, and these workers are not the long term residents who’ve been forced out by the greed of the incoming whites for local flavour.
The only geographic locations with prices comparable to the old North and Northeast Portland are incredibly far out, areas without good public transit, and usually without sidewalks.
57% of our school children are on free lunch this summer because their parents CAN’T AFFORD TO FEED THEM.
Over 800 families are on ONE WAITLIST for shelter.
Our dv and homeless shelters for single people are full.
And Rarebird is buying people out, increasing rents, not giving back to the community in any way, and taking their profits and reinvesting them into repeating the process over and over and over again?
And people don’t see a problem with this?
This is the racism just under the surface that so many white people will never even think about.
this is a really good explanation of gentrification, please read it!!
