Flop Sweat & Forgetting My Lines

Note: In regards to this post [gif warning] http://akitron.tumblr.com/post/24086452114/how-to-walk-like-a-queen-x

Wed, 30 May 2012 18:11:12 -0400

Note: In regards to this post [gif warning] http://akitron.tumblr.com/post/24086452114/how-to-walk-like-a-queen-x
Dorian: plz charlize
Dorian: I kind of want to see the new Snow White film I am not going to lie
Cat: ME TOO I SAW MIRROR MIRROR
Cat: I WANNA SEE THE OTHER ONE TOO
Dorian: It comes out on friday!!!
Dorian: this week!!!!!
Cat: Oh gosh
Dorian: I get my welfare money that day too so
Dorian: yes
Dorian: I may take advantage of this hmm
Cat: :D
Cat: GOOD PLAN
Cat: oh man.
Cat: now that you know how to walk like a queen I guess you can walk like A WELFARE QUEEN ? ?? ????? to your film
Cat: LOOK A POOR PERSON HAVING FUN
Cat: think murder
Cat: walk
Dorian: yes a GOOD PLAN

today is a day for eartha kitt's "I'm Still Here"

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:52:37 -0400

aka

her peculiar 1980 disco album

(it is so good though)

zuky: mishachu: funeralfrost: Tim Burton should just make a movie called ‘Johnny Depp’. starring...

Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:34 -0400

zuky:

mishachu:

funeralfrost:

Tim Burton should just make a movie called ‘Johnny Depp’.

starring helena bonham carter as johnny depp

Co-starring Johnny Depp as Helena Bonham Carter.

I want Kathy Najimy to play Burton himself

Oh no oh no

Wed, 30 May 2012 11:48:06 -0400

I really need to get to my campus today to sign cheques for our queer group

But I’m brainbroken and just

Shit

Yeah

I need to but

I can’t

F u c k

It’s been a while since I showed you a picture of my face...

Wed, 30 May 2012 11:01:01 -0400

It’s been a while since I showed you a picture of my face tumblr! Look how big my hair is getting

[image: me, a light-skinned indigenous person, and my long and fluffy brown hair]

asezawesome: fyeahindigenousfashion: Indigenous Style Icon of...

Wed, 30 May 2012 10:48:39 -0400

asezawesome:

fyeahindigenousfashion:

Indigenous Style Icon of the Week: Buffy Sainte-Marie

Born on a Cree reservation in Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Buffy Sainte-Marie was adopted and raised in Maine and Massachusetts. She received a Ph.D. in Fine Art from the University of Massachusetts. She also holds degrees in both Oriental Philosophy and teaching, influences which form the backbone of her music, visual art and social activism.

As a college student in the early 1960s, Buffy Sainte-Marie became known as a writer of protest songs and love songs. Many of these have become huge hits and classics of the era, performed by hundreds of other artists including Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins, Janis Joplin, Roberta Flack, Neil Diamond, Tracy Chapman, The Boston Pops Orchestra, Cam’ron, Neko Case, and Courtney Love.

An educator before she was ever known as a singer, Buffy lectures at colleges and civic venues on a wide variety of topics: film scoring, electronic music, songwriting, Native American studies, the Cradleboard Teaching Project, women’s issues, the Native genius for government, and remaining positive amidst tough human realities. She serves as Adjunct Professor in Canada at York University in Toronto and First Nations University in Saskatchewan, and in the U.S. was an Evans Chair Scholar at the Evergreen State College in Washington State. She has also taught at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA).

An early Macintosh pioneer in digital art and music, by 1994 Buffy Sainte-Marie’s huge works were among the first to be seen in museums and galleries across North America: the Glenbow Museum (Calgary), the Emily Carr Gallery (Vancouver), the Mackenzie Gallery (Regina), the Institute for American Indian Art Museum (Santa Fe), The Isaacs Gallery (Toronto), Ramscale Gallery (New York), the G.O.C.A.I.A. Gallery, (Tucson) and the Tucson Museum of Art.

Buffy Sainte-Marie virtually invented the role of Native American international activist pop star. Her concern for protecting indigenous intellectual property, and her distaste for the exploitation of Native American artists and performers has kept her in the forefront of activism in the arts for forty years.

Anyone else introduced to Buffy via her gig on Sesame Street? She was a BAMF even on a kids’ show, playing a mouth bow, singing her protest songs and songs about nature and answering Big Bird’s questions as she openly breastfed her son Cody. Buffy was my favorite person on the Street.

[Images: Seven photos of Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Cree Canadian woman, posing dramatically as she plays her guitar, performing live on stage, modeling for the camera and one from her participation in a runway fashion show. She is beautiful, tattooed, badass and awesome.]

Will always be my favourite Buffy. She’s an icon and an inspiration to me. As well as just…an amazing person.

Is 2.30am

Wed, 30 May 2012 02:26:12 -0400

Why am I conscious

Time to change that probably

Be it Resolved

Tue, 29 May 2012 14:04:53 -0400

That I not video games until I have lunch. I should at least be able to manage like

Bread

I'm hungry

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:26:34 -0400

And I know there are leftovers in the fridge

But I can’t…figure out…how to food right now?

It's too hot out. I fear I may perish.

Mon, 28 May 2012 13:50:45 -0400

I hate summer so muuuuuuuch *quietly weeps*

(31 degrees, 39 after humidex)

Autumn's Catch All Commission Post (subject to changes all the time)

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:08:06 -0400

akitron:

akitron:

So I’m making this just for everyone’s information if anyone cares to get something drawn/made by me!

Digital:

full colour busts: 25$

sketches: 10$

black & white: 20$

colour: 30$

Traditional art is negotiable but will be more expensive due to the mailings and things.

Check out my art blog for examples!

hey kids i need some cash for food, busfare, and i really want to see SWATH

anyone wanna buy art offa me or

hey all! Autumn is a super great artist type person—I am considering when I have some SWEET LOOTZ commissioning her to draw…my D&D characters… (I’m a nerd. such a fucking nerd)

ANYWAY IN THE MEANTIME YOU SHOULD COMMISSION HER FOR THE ARTZ AS WELL

telegantmess: notthemarimba: so far this is a lovely morning scrambled eggs w/ kale pot of...

Sun, 27 May 2012 13:23:29 -0400

telegantmess:

notthemarimba:

so far this is a lovely morning

scrambled eggs w/ kale

pot of tea

talking to Dorian about how awful Shakesville is

Shakesville has taken the piss again?

::thisismysurprisedface::

nothing specific to today (well except this), more just a general reflection on

the horrors of Shakesville

notthemarimba: so far this is a lovely morning scrambled eggs w/ kale pot of tea talking to Dorian...

Sun, 27 May 2012 13:12:42 -0400

notthemarimba:

so far this is a lovely morning

scrambled eggs w/ kale

pot of tea

talking to Dorian about how awful Shakesville is

Weird Stuntcasting Ideas

Sun, 27 May 2012 11:49:26 -0400

What if Celia Keenan-Bolger and Sutton Foster in Side Show as Violet and Daisy respectively

with Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Hunter Foster as Terry and Buddy?

(and Josh Henry as Jake)

skrulls: liquid-stars replied to your post: liquid-stars replied to your post: ah i spent all… OUR...

Fri, 25 May 2012 21:09:00 -0400

skrulls:

liquid-stars replied to your post: liquid-stars replied to your post: ah i spent all…

OUR FUNCTION EXECUTIVES HAVE BEEN SKIPPING WORK SINCE DAY ONE

YEAH WHAT THE FUCK

CAN WE FIRE THOSE GUYS OR WHAT

i also was supposed to shower today…

Reblogging this conversation because I too have atrociously lax Function Executives

WHAT DO I PAY THEM FOR…

Tired and sad

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:31:58 -0400

Which admittedly is business as usual. Made some rp characters today though. Did some organizing w Matt’s help. Thinking a lot about in/dependence, why it’s so highly valued, why folks are so reluctant to acknowledge others’ self-professed understanding of their shortcomings in that regard…

May try to produce a post of length at

Some point…?

On the bright side I am getting a new phone today?

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:25:07 -0400

And it’s gonna have unlimited Canada/US talk & text PLUS a data plan. So that’s cool…

Guess who was supposed to be going to WisCon tomorrow but is not

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:20:08 -0400

Going to WisCon
Tomorrow

IT’S MEEEEEEEE

bluh

"Empowering femininity" has to mean more than just supporting people who wear pink stuff

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:43:48 -0400

kiriamaya:

This was going to be a long post, but it really doesn’t need to be, because the thought I’m having is pretty simple:

I agree with Serano when she says that a major key to gender liberation is “work[ing] to empower femininity, in all its forms.” But I don’t think that a lot of us have given enough thought to what that means.

Cultural constructions of “femininity” involve much more than just clothing, or even personal dispositions. Loving, nurturing, befriending, fostering deep emotions and connections — these things are considered “feminine”, and therefore these things are relentlessly derided and demeaned by our patriarchal society. It’s all too easy to dismiss these things in favor of aggression, “badassery”, and other things that are typically coded “masculine”.

You’ve done it. I’ve done it. We’ve all dropped the ball on this one big time.

In our social context, empowering femininity doesn’t just mean empowering people who like dresses. It means empowering mothers. It means empowering caregivers and nurturers. It means refusing to see these people, and these things, as “lesser”, and instead uplifting them. It means not seeing ourselves as lesser when we help, support and love, just because these acts don’t appear “strong” in the eyes of patriarchy. It means recognizing that “strength” isn’t everything, and that sometimes “weakness” is not only okay but absolutely necessary.

Only once we’ve gotten that through our heads will we start to liberate our own selves and the people we love.

Am I making sense?

yes yes yes

What a weird and surprisingly un-dark dream.

Tue, 22 May 2012 06:45:09 -0400

Sure it was basically apocalyptic but most of all was about FRIENDSHIP