The Navajo have a unique tradition. When a baby is born, it is regarded as the ultimate, precious gift and must never be abused. From the moment of birth, the child is watched over continuously by family and friends, who patiently wait for the child’s first…laugh.
“Has your baby laughed?” is common question posed to parents who have infants around the age of three months. The first laugh of a Navajo child is a very significant event. It marks the child’s final passing from the spirit world to the physical world, meaning he or she is now fully human. This milestone warrants a party, and what a party it is!
Whichever brother, sister, parent, cousin, aunt, uncle, or passing acquaintance is present at the first laugh is deemed to have caused it. The laughter instigator then receives the honored privilege of preparing a special ceremony to welcome the child into society.
Once a baby has laughed, training in generosity begins immediately—a value held in high regard among the Navajo people. At the party, where the baby is considered the host, the parents or person responsible for the first laugh help hold the baby’s hand as he or she ceremonially gives the rock salt, food, and gifts to each guest. There are also bags of candy, money, and other presents that the child “gives” along with the food. [x]
Yes it is true. I have had of a few relatives invite me to a A’wee Chi’deedloh "The Baby Laughed Ceremony" however I have not had the privilege to actually attended one personally. The Dine’ peoples believe that babies are of “two worlds” (Earth people & Holy people) when they are born. The first laugh signifies the babies desire to become a part of the Earth People so it is a great cause for celebration.
Thor and Steve complimenting each others new looks™
THOR’S ENTRY TO WAKANDA (i almost busted a nut)
Rocket wanting Bucky’s arm (aka a really popular fanon becoming canon)
Loki calling himself Odinson ;u;
Squidward
Okoye “why was she up there all this time?!”
Okoye, Natasha and Wanda fighting proxima midnight together
Bruce and Hulk arguing
Bruce yelling “come out come out” at Hulk like..hdhshshs same
Tony’s fuckiNG ARMOUR
Heimdall yeeting Hulk back to earth with his last breath
Thanos actually using the power, time, space and reality stones (even if he didn’t use mind and soul 😦 )
Peter saying “I should’ve stayed on the bus
Pretty much everything that had Gamora in it
Red skull (?????!!! the fuck)
Thor stabbing Thanos and pushing his axe deep inside his chest
M’Baku. Just. He.
Everything about Wakanda was 👌
Quill being jealous of Thor
Thor calling Rocket “rabbit”
Groot hurting himself to make a handle for Thor’s new weapon
Thor aka the Absolute Unit™
Loki’s “We have a Hulk ”
Peter yelling “magic! More magic” as he jumps from portal to portal
My man Steve Rogers holding back the gauntlet that has not 2 (as we previously saw in the trailer), not 3, not 4 but FIVE damn infinity stones. Holy shit.
Pete yelling “YES” as he kicks Thanos in the face
Drax screaming “devil carpet” at Strange’s cloak
There’s definitely more but that’s all I can think of the top of my head, please feel free to add more
not to keep sounding like a Killmonger apologist but like… if T’Challa hadn’t killed him?? this would be such a great time to have a conveniently murderous cousin in the palace basement. “look alive and suit up, asshole. you’ve got anger issues and we’ve got approximately 7000 aliens in the backyard. get to work.” [Okoye yeets Killmonger out a window into the middle of the fight]
– called for the elimination of an entire group of people based on race, gender and sexuality
– wore the regalia and shared the ideas of mass-murdering racists of the past
– I can go on to show what a meaningless and misleading comparison you’re making, but this is too stupid, I shouldn’t have to. And time’s too short – THERE’S A REAL PROBLEM CALLED THE FUCKING NAZIS WHO ARE ASSEMBLING AND BURNING SWASTIKAS IN GEORGIA NOW.
IF YOU CALL FOR MASS EXTERMINATION AND TRY TO INTIMIDATE AN ENTIRE PEOPLE BY WAVING THE FUCKING MURDER FLAG AND SPOUTING MURDER TALK, GET PUNCHED IN THE FUCKING FACE. IF I DO IT, PUNCH ME. IF YOU DO IT, SOMEONE SHOULD PUNCH YOU.
IF YOU CAN’T FIGURE OUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NAZIS AND THOSE WHO CONDEMN THEM, GET TO READING. WORKS FROM THE SURVIVORS, NOT THE MURDER-STANS, AND STOP PLAYING DEVIL’S ADVOCATE FOR THE WORST FUCKING PEOPLE ALIVE
NEO-NAZIS HAVE KILLED MULTIPLE PEOPLE THIS YEAR IN THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING A WOMAN WHO SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST. THEY ARE BY DEFINITION A HATE-KILL GROUP – THIS ISN’T FUCKING DEBATE CLUB, GROW UP.
“The recent discussions of political violence, particularly as it relates to punching neo-Nazis, tend to center on ethical concerns and skepticism over whether or not it’s an effective tactic.
I’m not going to attempt to address the ethical question. There are reasonable arguments for both nonviolence and the use of force.
But I will say this – punching Nazis is absolutely an effective tactic. In fact, it’s been proved time and time again to be the most effective means of simply communicating with Nazis.”
I rarely do these things but I think this is important and since it’s happening in Spain I doubt many people elsewhere know about this, so I’m sharing it:
During the festival of San Fermín, a very popular Spanish celebration (I’m sure lots of you are familiar with his image of people running in front of a group of bulls), these 5 men raped an 18 year old girl.
She had been talking to one of these guys when she realized she had gotten separated from her friends. The guy and his friends offered to walk her to her car, and when they were away enough from the party, they took that chance to rape her, and then stole her phone so she couldn’t ask for help.
These men had a whatsapp group chat called La Manada (The Pack) where they all had been talking about their intentions to rape some girl and planning the whole thing, where, as they raped her, they kept texting the participants of said group chat that weren’t present letting them know what they were doing, and where they later even shared a video of them raping said girl.
They declared themselves innocent, and people are believing it.
People are questioning the girl’s sincerity and arguing that she had been flirting with one of these guys before. People are saying it doesn’t look like the girl is fighting much or really trying to push them away in the video. A friend of these men said that they are men who “get lots of girls and wouldn’t need to rape”.
Three of this guys had been acused of similar charges before.
One of these guys hired a private detective to follow the victim, trying to find something in her behavior that they could use to defend themselves, and a judge allowed whatever information the detective found to be considered with the rest of the evidence.
Let me say that again: one of the guys who had raped this girl continued to spy on her after doing so, and a judge accepted this.
Now these 5 men are asking the media and everyone to please “respect their privacy” and not share unblurred pictures or videos of their faces. A judge has forbidden that their pictures get shared too.
beto being elected would be huge for texas. as someone from there, lemme tell you, he’s someone the state sorely needs. texas is in desperate need of a democrat and Beto is our best bet. in recent polls, cruz was shown to be ahead, but not by much. cruz. cannot. win.
there are ways you can help! if you live in Texas, you can sign up to volunteer. you can volunteer to do things such as send texts, emails, knock on doors. typical campaign stuff.
if you don’t live in Texas, you can donate. you don’t have to live in the state to donate. donating is one of the best ways you can support him because it funds his campaign! as mentioned above, he doesn’t take PAC money. he is 100% grassroots campaign, funded by people, for people.
i’m going to reiterate this. any us citizen* can donate. any. doesn’t matter where you live in the united states. so, I urge. if you don’t live in texas, donate. the average donation amount is $35, but any amount will help.
*if you don’t live in the united states/aren’t a citizen, legally you cannot donate. i don’t make the rules guys.
if you can’t donate, please reblog this so others can see it. people can’t vote in midterms if they don’t know who their nominees are.
this midterm election is crucial. getting Beto into the senate is crucial. reblog or donate!
tender hulk is not only stigmatized as a fan creation, but also flat out ignored when in canon. the hulk is a separate entity with his own thoughts, feelings, and ideas, which are separate yet intrinsically connected to bruce banner. the hulk is a protective, caring, emotionally intelligent being who is constantly overlooked and reduced to a big, dumb strongman due to his often impulsive nature and simplistic speech pattern, an act of which is routed in ableism. in this essay i will
just gonna leave these here #gentlehulkiscanon
110% true, gentle Hulk is so important to me. I’ve read a HELL of a lot of Hulk comics and especially in the early ones Hulk never ONCE attacked first. People see him (mostly military) and go omg giant scary monster! And attack him and Hulk OFTEN wonders WHY he is being attacked. He’s stated he doesn’t know why they are doing it and also stated that he WASN’T DOING ANYTHING but of course he will defend himself.
Hulk has also canonly stated “hulk is tired of the guns and the noise and the fighting”
And the few people that approach him nicely he defends the hell out of.
That’s why I love him so much. Hulk is so much more and I could rant for hours. I love this post for being this up
I HONESTLY THOUGHT HULK WAS JUST “RAAAR SMASH” THANK YOU FOR WIPING AWAY MY HORRIBLE PRECONCEPTIONS
Also, surprisingly civic minded at times
Hulk is also not stupid. Banner’s brain is still in there; Hulk is just focused on different things.
I love ALL of this
*…but how is ignorance about the Hulk’s gentle side POSSIBLY rooted in ableism? Sounds fake*
because hulk is an manifestation of mental illness, and the idea that he’s a monster and incapable of being kind and undeserving of love reflects people’s views o the disabled and the mentally ill.
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