Tuira Kayapó brandished her machete in the face of a government official who was trying to convince indigenous leaders to accept a mega-dam project in the Amazon, 1989
(curled up against him in bed after earth-shattering sex, running my hands across his chest) that last song you sent in the #music channel….it was sooo good. You have such sophisticated taste….
(We make out again; he starts to drift away into sleep)
(I get up out of bed)
But y'know, I couldn’t help but think…
(I start rummaging around in my nighstand drawers)
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen you acknowledge the music anyone else posts in there? Not one reply, not one emoji react, in the entire three years of our server’s existence?
And yet ..
(The sound of a gun cocking; he opens his eyes)
You just keep on giving us spotify links, don’t you?
meetcute idea: your packer slides down your pant leg and falls out and you’re mortified as hell but a guy picks it up and puts it in his pants instead and runs away reallyfast so you have to chase after him and get ur oenis back
ok I don’t have anything new to say about how Fenris and Anders were missed opportunity character foils but bioware really did miss the opportunity of making fenris feel very conflicted about the fact that in the south people probably just assume he’s an apostate mage. i think you ask him once if he’s using magic and he’s like NO it’s TATTOOS but dude they are magic tattoos and you did have to learn to control them. and to any onlooker? man has glowy abilities that let him go fast and buff his own stamina and basically fade step and also phase through people. they are dangerous abilities he can’t always control when he’s angry and they are very flashy and blue. people seeing him would just assume. they’d tack on anti-mage sentiment to their elf racism, aveline has to cover for him already but templar carver probably is too. the markings are a part of him he didn’t ask for that he can’t put down. they give him unnatural power at all times. they exist to make him a dangerous weapon and he resents them but they are also beautiful and help him every day. not even anders brings this up in an argument.
[T]he American militarization of science would usher in a new era of ecological thought drawn from the notion of isolated landscapes permeated with nuclear radiation. […] Western colonizers had long configured tropical islands into the contained spaces of a laboratory, which is to say a suppression of island history and Indigenous presence. This generation of AEC [Atomic Energy Commission] ecologists embraced nuclear testing as creating a novel opportunity to study a complete ecosystem through the trace of radiation. […] [T]he Pacific Islands have long been fashioned as laboratories for western colonial interests, from the botanical collecting of James Cook’s voyages to […] structural anthropology. […]
The declassification of a 1957 memo from Brookhaven National Laboratory’s medical researcher Dr Robert Conrad, the doctor in charge of testing and caring for the hundreds of Marshallese exposed to radiation, has confirmed suspicious that it was the islanders as much as the environment that were subject to an AEC experiment. To his colleagues he wrote, ‘The habitation of these people on the island will afford most valuable ecological radiation data on human beings.’
Arguments like this appear elsewhere in AEC records. For instance, the director of the AEC Health and Safely Laboratory described neighboring Utirik Atoll in 1956 as ‘by far the most contaminated place in the world’ but that it will be ‘very interesting’ to get data from the environment and islanders when they are returned there. Referring to genetic tests about the impact of radiation on fruit flies and mice, he observed of the Marshall Islanders:
‘While it is true that these people do not live, I would say, the way Westerners do, civilized people, it is nevertheless also true that these people are more like us than mice.’ […]
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In claiming Micronesia and expanding the American exclusive economic zone, Truman tripled the territorial size of the United States. Although the land-base of Micronesia is 846 square miles, the oceanic territory, vital to US naval and airforce transit, represents three million square miles. […]With the advent of the far more powerful hydrogen weapons, the AEC in 1954 cordoned off an enormous area of the Pacific, banning the passage of ships or planes for 400,000 square miles. […] Estimated at one thousand times the force of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki […] [in] addition to spreading lethal levels of radiation over 5000 miles of the Pacific, Bravo’s fallout was detected in the rain over Japan, in lubricating oil of Indian aircraft, in winds over Australia, and in the sky over the United States and Europe. It caused the radiogenic illness of the crew of a Japanese freighter 1200 miles away. […]
When Rongelapese women began giving birth to babies without skulls and without skeletons (‘jellyfish babies’ and ‘grape babies’), infants with severe brain damage and missing limbs, scientists informed them that these miscarriages and defects were ‘to be expected in a small island population.’
Although scientists from the AEC Division of Biology and Medicine had ample evidence of the extensive radiological contamination of Rongelap, they allowed the islanders to return in order to deflect criticism of the AEC’s atmospheric testing program, and thus exposed the islanders to another 22 nuclear tests on Enewetak […].
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Text by: Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey. “The myth of isolates: ecosystem ecologies in the nuclear Pacific.” Cultural Geographies. 31 October 2012. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]
