Copperfingertips - Represent The Human Race

Giethoorn in Netherlands has no roads or any modern transportation at all, only canals. Well, and 176 bridges too. Tourists have to leave their cars outside of the village and travel here by foot or boat by. So you can probably imagine how peaceful it is here.

Kiki´s garden greenhouse

(just realised I never posted this on tumblr heh sorry)

this will be available as a square print later!

wip 👀

“my favorite thing about you is your smell

you smell like

earth

herbs

gardens

a little more

human than the rest of us”

- rupi kaur, milk and honey

Outsiders are not not saving a language by learning it.

While I’m personally grateful services like Tribalingual exist, creating some academic access to Indigenous languages, particularly for Indigenous diaspora (if they can afford it), I’m extremely dubious of the notion that a outsiders learning an Indigenous language is somehow “saving” it. There was a testimonial from some white American girl learning Ainu itak, and she spoke of it as if she were collecting some rare Pokemon card before it went out of print or something, framing it in typical dying Native rhetoric. What is she going to do with Ainu itak, except as some obscure lingual trophy?

If you want to save a language, save the people.

Language means nothing without history and culture breathing life into it, and in turn we are disconnected from our history and ancestors without it. Support Indigenous quality of life, ACCESS to quality education, quality health services (mental and physical), land and subsistence rights, CLEAN DRINKING WATER, advocate against police brutality and state violence, DEMAND ACTION FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN.

Damn, if you really want to “save the language” pay for an Indigenous person’s classes for them to reconnect to their mother tongues. I’m not saying outsiders shouldn’t learn languages they’re invited to learn, but don’t pretend like you learning conversational Ainu itak is saving it from extinction.

I have started playing Stardew valley again, this time together with my boyfriend and honestly it’s wholesome… like, not only Stardew Valley per se has a great calming and fulfilling atmosphere, but being there with my boyfriend, waking up with him at 6 am just like irl but here it’s to water crops, cut a few trees, perhaps fish and chat with the community? I love it.

Succulent DIY Project 

Keep reading

After finding out recently that most gift wrap isn’t recyclable I decided to wrap my holiday gifts in the least amount of material possible. No tape, no waste. It’s the little things sometimes. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

[Image description: Two simply wrapped gifts in brown paper bags and red string.]⠀⠀⠀

⠀#zerowaste #giftwrap #diy #solarpunk #holidays #genretomovement