As a Puerto Rican with Taíno and Indigenous heritage, I want to clarify something respectfully. Our Indigenous culture never used large feather warbonnets like the one shown here. Taíno adornments were cotton headbands, small feathers, shells, gold and cemí symbols, all very different from this design.
When games mix different Indigenous cultures together or place sacred Indigenous symbols on characters who look very white or Eurasian, it can feel uncomfortable. It turns our cultures into an aesthetic instead of real living identities. That contributes to a long history of Indigenous erasure.
I understand this is a fantasy game and creativity is valid. But the headdress shown resembles sacred items from specific Native American nations. Using those designs without representing Indigenous people respectfully or accurately can feel like misrepresentation. As a Boricua with Taíno and Indigenous heritage, I empathize with Native groups whose imagery is borrowed without their presence.
My point is not to attack the art. It is to advocate for cultural understanding. I would truly love to see Indigenous inspired designs in games, but created with respect, accuracy and acknowledgment. Especially Taíno culture from the Caribbean, which is often forgotten or blended into stereotypes. Representing us correctly matters.
the annoying thing about the timeline is zero context tweets like this where my first thought was about the hockey player, which like,,, makes this a really awful tweet lmao. but clearly this is about a fictional man
“Carter is evil” but after his brother died and his parents essentially abandoned him and he was raped by his nanny and he was stabbed and dealt with addiction and lost his baby and almost died again and and and it’s kinda surprising he wasn’t a million times worse.
paranormal reverse harem romance books are crazy… they’re in a life or death situation & shes like. the way out of this is to have an orgy, immediately. oh??
There have been a few collaborations between Stardew Valley and other games over the years. To be clear, i never receive any money from these collabs. I've only done them because I was a fan of the other games, or because I genuinely thought the players would like it.
Social media may be the most important invention of the 21st century. I truly believe that before it, we were only slightly more informed about the true state of the world than farm animals.
Because this has literally been happening since 1948, but have you ever seen it on CNN?
Amir walked 12 kilometres, barefoot, to get food.
He kissed the hand of an American soldier, thanking him for a bag of rice and lentils.
Then Israel killed Amir, right in front of the soldier.
A child, grateful for lentils. Executed in broad daylight.
Amir was 5 years old.
Chris became famous after succesfully leading worker strikes against Amazon. He is now putting his body on the line for Palestinians. He is an absolute hero.
They exhumed a 1lb 13oz fetus from a corpse. She did not give birth. Every headline I see that says “mother on life support gives birth” disgusts me.
This was not God’s will. It was an abuse of power over a woman to set an example and it’s terrifying.
Even it’s the last day of my life, I’d like to live one day in a world where the selfless don’t live and die based on the whims of nuclear armed child molesters
i’m thinking of mohamad abu al qumsan, whose wife and newborn twins were murdered as he went to pick up their birth certificates. may the ghosts of all the families you have helped to blow apart haunt you for the rest of your pathetic, genocide-enabling life
Many people are justifying their vote for Carney right now, saying "well he was the only strategic choice"
But this ignores that in January the NDP was ahead of the Liberals in many polls.
People made a conscious choice to pick a Liberal party in 3rd
They put us in this mess
Mark Carney eliminated the Labour Ministry (wow) and rolled the responsibilities into Patty's Hadju's overstretched portfolio.
This is how she treats organized labour.
Mark Carney is more corporate than Stephen Harper.
Just a reminder that Canadian postal workers haven’t had a negotiated collective agreement for over a decade.
They have never been allowed to ratify a negotiated contract the entire time the Liberals have been in power.