One of the most durable paradoxes of white supremacy – the idea that those who are closest to an experience of oppression are its least credible witnesses.

Walter Johnson

Quote is from Soul By Soul: Life Inside The Antebellum Slave Market. This is the type of violence, from microaggressions to epistemic violence to emotional/physical violence to enslavement/genocide, that gets justified by asserting that the oppressor is “objective” and “logical” and thereby “credible.” As if there is objectivity in choosing to oppress. As if the emotions of entitlement, indifference, greed or hatred aren’t involved. 

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glampersand:

claidilady:

claidilady:

okay but what if angels are black holes and halos are just the light warping around them being pulled in by gravity 

  1. paronomaniac said: Then receiving a visit from one is extra terrifying.
  2. pugletto said: oooh… story fodder
  3. elaienar said: That’s terrifying and I approve 100%.

WELL HERE IS THE THING, RIGHT? black holes you basically literally have to be in their gravity like pretty much on top of them to be sucked in. so that’s not really an issue. it’s TERRIFYING sure, but explains a few things which I will list:

  • my astronomy teacher said if you were somehow able to survive entering a black hole and reached the bottom or singularity, the way time works is that you would be able to see the entire universe laid out – like you’d know when the universe ended if you looked back outwards
  • which falls into line with the idea that the angels know all of time and everything except when it will all end precisely (or scientifically, the collapse of this universe is unknown, but supposing angels were black holes they would see until this unknown point)
  • matter falling into a black hole creates a disc of light which is probably among the literal BRIGHTEST things in the universe 
  • there are angels which are supposed to be the wheels of God’s Chariot, so it would make sense if, according to theories, that there ARE massive blackholes at the center of all galaxies which is what cause them to rotate, and those black holes are angels which make the galaxy spin. 
  • black holes were formed sometime after the big bang, which lines into the story of creation, that the angels came after the universe. 
  • angels can choose to physically manifest like humans, but aren’t actually. it’s said that you cannot survive looking at them or hearing them directly. NASA says that the “note” a black hole emits is the deepest sound found in the universe. i am just guessing here but you would probably die if you heard it up close instead of a bazillion light years away. ALSO side note cool fact apparently that “note”: “…It’s worth pointing out that the “sound” in question is 57 octaves (and one semitone) below middle C, which makes it 247×2−57≈1.71×10−15Hz, or one whole cycle every 18.5 million years.” CRAZY RIGHT although apparently some sing other notes and basically if there’s anything people know about angels it is that they DEFINITELY SING. anyways you can’t see black holes but you can see the things around them and the soundwaves surrounding them. 
  • also apparently scientists picked up a death “scream” of a star falling into a black hole but like…
  • anyways literally every angel is terrifying BE NOT AFRAID “haha okay but i’m crying though is that cool” 
  • black holes are probably angels. i’m just saying. 

this is exactly the kind of weird christian gnostic-empiricist apologia i like to see on my dash

have you ever seen the little leaf sheep nudibranch?,, it literally looks like an artichoke with a marshmallow in the front

iguanamouth:

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OHHH NO, OHHHHOHOH NO i cant BELIEVE this is a real animal and not a cartoon character from some pixar short

its real name is the costasiella kuroshimae, and theyre actually not nudibranches, but closely related sacoglossan sea slugs that feed on algea  .… .. .. .   . like … .. sheep

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they were discovered off the coast of the yaeyama islands in japan, and theres not actually a lot known about em – a few members of the sacoglossa branch have the ability to steal chloroplasts from algea the eat and add it to their own bodies in a Really Unusual process called kleptoplasty, which might account for their vivid green color ?

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either way theyre only 4.5 mm long and all they want to do is move super slowly and eat. a true hero among us

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