hnohehdi.

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Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:05:56 -0400

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Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:04:16 -0400

“lmao” i typed, despite my ass remaining firmly attached

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:03:35 -0400

“lmao” i typed, despite my ass remaining firmly attached

digatisdi: Oh my god can you even imagine? OMG YESS betty...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:02:38 -0400

digatisdi:

Oh my god can you even imagine?

OMG YESS betty white as president snow! SO MUCH EVIL.

me: i wish a boy would like me

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:01:55 -0400

me: i wish a boy would like me
boy: i like you
me: no not you

Our off-rez Rez car(s) sucked ass.

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:59:41 -0400

apihtawikosisan:

I didn’t grow up on Rez because I’m not First Nations. I’m Métis, and not from one of the Settlements in Northern Alberta, where there is actually a land base somewhat comparable to the reserves. I have a lot of First Nations relations and I’ve spent time on different reserves, but that doesn’t make me First Nations either. Still an off-rez, off-Settlement Métis.

So the only reason I call our cars ‘rez’ cars is because growing up, beaters were all called rez cars. And yes, there were definite racist overtones to that name. After all, being and Indian or being ‘like an Indian’ was (and often still is in Alberta), something to make fun of. But maybe our cars were just ‘working class poor rural people’s’ vehicles, because living on the rez is about more than shitty cars folks.

And while I can laugh about it now, our cars were nothing to get nostalgic about. My dad is a pretty handy mechanic, so of course we drove beaters, because he could keep them sort of running and he didn’t want to ‘waste money’ (that we didn’t have anyway) on a newer vehicle.

To be honest, our vehicles were even shittier than a lot of the real ‘rez cars’.

Like the Volkswagon Beetle my mom used to drive me into Alberta Beach in. The heater didn’t work, so in the winter my dad used a pipe that drew heat from the motor, and radiated some warmth. The thing was, the pipe had to come in through the passenger side window, so that window was always cracked open enough to accommodate it, and if you touched the pipe, you faced a serious burn. You were always freezing in that piece of a shit car, and if you stopped, it would stall out. So you didn’t stop. You rolled through stop signs and hoped the simakanis didn’t bust you up for it. Meanwhile, mom smoked the whole way and you wanted to pass out from the exhaust fumes and cigarette smoke.

Or the Lada, with no padding in the backseat, just springs that we covered up with an old army blanket. I know my siblings have fonder memories of that car because they used to go bagging in it through the muskeg. Froze our asses off in that car too.

Or the ‘Turtle van’, named after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Volkswagon camping van. Okay it was kind of cool and I ended up living in it for a while, but whatever. When I was young, it mortified me because it ALWAYS stalled and you’d have to hop out and push it to get it going again. My friends thought it was cool, but I never felt anything but shame for being so fucking poor and having such shitty wheels. It screamed “WE ARE POOR”.

But you could fit a lot of us in that thing, holy shit.

And we did a lot of bagging down back roads with five in the backseat of a beater with a sixth person laying across, three in the passenger seat…we did it but it was hella dangerous. I was in a truck that nearly rolled with seven of us in the back, and we were the lucky ones. I had friends burn to death in wrecks, or get hit by drunk drivers on the back roads, or hit someone while driving drunk. Nothing to fucking celebrate there. Nothing romantic about poverty and death.

Thing is, with the oil boom in Alberta, rez cars seem to be a thing of the past. People from the reserves have nice wheels just like most everyone else, rich or poor. It may not last, because the oil booms and busts. My parents bought their first new vehicle ever a few years back. What a foreign idea for so many of us out there, but things change.

So fuck rez cars. You drive them because you have to, not because you want to, and there’s nothing to glorify about not having a choice.

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Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:48:02 -0400

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Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:45:57 -0400

adailyriot: svnoyi: asighttoframe: The two photos that I just...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:42:44 -0400

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adailyriot:

svnoyi:

asighttoframe:

The two photos that I just saw…This racism needs to stop…

Jesus Fucking Christ. No.

Christians need to stop. seriously.

teh lulz. “See dictionary: Pow Wows are used to cast spells”

the only spell any powwow has ever cast on me is that spell that makes me spend money i don’t have…

oogishkamaanisee: ghostofharrenhal: The Seam: Recast Primrose...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:36:22 -0400

oogishkamaanisee:

ghostofharrenhal:

The Seam: Recast

Primrose Everdeen, played by Madison Lindstrom (Métis)
Katniss Everdeen, played by Q’orianka Kilcher (Quechua)

Gale Hawthorne, played by Alex Meraz (P’urhépecha)

Mr. Everdeen, played by Adam Beach (Saulteaux)

Haymitch Abernathy, played by Zahn McClarnon (Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux)

I APPROVE

LIKE OMGZ

i kinda wondered if maybe district 12 had some indian things going on, but there aren’t very many indians in the appalachians so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense…

#202 When Katniss kissed Peeta to bring him back when they were in the Capitol, it wasn't only the kiss that had affected him. A strand of her hair had come loose from her braid and tickled his face, and all at once came back a memory that the Capitol hadn't distorted, because they hadn't known it had existed: lying in the sun on a rooftop with Katniss's head in his lap, fiddling with her hair. And he could remember being more happy than he ever had in his life.

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:34:33 -0400

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stfuconservatives: “…the white people don’t seem very happy for...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:46:52 -0400

stfuconservatives:

“…the white people don’t seem very happy for them.”

PS: Those are seriously, like, for real, shots from an actual Santorum ad.

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Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:08:28 -0400

gaywrites: The official title of this post on its original site...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:07:28 -0400

gaywrites:

The official title of this post on its original site is “Guy comes out of closet on Facebook to friends who are entirely too geeky to care.” Fits perfectly. More.

things i forgot about tumblr: it’s so full of hot guys!

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:05:55 -0400

things i forgot about tumblr: it’s so full of hot guys!

shadowed-aluasasit: gingerhaze: Can I set my dress on fire...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:40:22 -0400

shadowed-aluasasit:

gingerhaze:

Can I set my dress on fire now

Ugly laughing

omg i am reminded of one of my mexican friends who was obsessed...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:35:55 -0400

omg i am reminded of one of my mexican friends who was obsessed with vodka… i miss mexico.

c-thrilla: Tocabe line at DMPW (Taken with instagram) i took...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:34:51 -0400

c-thrilla:

Tocabe line at DMPW (Taken with instagram)

i took this picture y’all… aren’t my photography skills awesome?!

oh and i guess she’s pretty too… :P

c-thrilla: OMG DENVER IS SOOOOO GORGEOUS YALL I WAS THERE AND SAW THE GORGEOUS

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:34:00 -0400

c-thrilla:

OMG DENVER IS SOOOOO GORGEOUS YALL

I WAS THERE AND SAW THE GORGEOUS