Being good to each other is so important, guys.
that went in an unexpected direction
I swear I’m going to make my boyfriend cosplay those guys with me. (it won’t take much besides getting a purple shirt with a triangle, then finding a table and chairs)
If you do that please send me pics
@kylebija with the #charlesstreetmessengers at the #folklifefestival. #folklife #seattle #spaceneedle #pacificnorthwest #pnw #groove #groovement #seattlecenter #rain (at Seattle Center)
Street Art byDavid Zinn
me: why are you destroying earth!!!
aliens: because theres people who think that english is the only language they need to speak
me: thats fair i understand
For some reason I find this all the more amusing because it’s written in English
moi: pourquoi vous détruisez le monde!!! l'extraterrestre: parce que il y a des gens qui pensent que l'anglais est le seule langue pour parler moi: ah ça c'est bien
ich: warum zerstört ihr die erde!!!
aliens: weil es leute gibt die glauben dass englisch die einzige sprache ist die sie sprechen müssen
ich: das ist fair ich verstehe
ég: af hverju eyðileggið þið jörðina!!! aliens: af því að það er fólk sem finnst að enska sé sú eina tungumál sem þau þurfa að tala ég: oh, það er vit í þessu. ég skil.
ik: waarom vernietig je de aarde!!!
aliens: omdat er mensen zijn die denken dat engels de enige taal is die ze hoeven te spreken
ik: oh zo, ik snap het
minä: miks te tuhootte maapalloo?
alienit: koska tääl on ihmisiä joitten mielestä englanti on ainoo kieli jota niitten täytyy puhua
minä: toi on reilua, ymmärrän
私: どうして地球を滅ぼしているんですか？
宇宙人: 英語しか喋る必要がないと思う人がいるからです
私: なるほど、わかりました
me: Wosück maakt ji de Welt twei!!!
aliens: wieldat dat Lüüd gifft, de dinkt dat Engelsch de allenige Spraak weer, de een snacken mütt
me: jo, daar seggst wat. Nu versta ik’t
aniga: dhulka maxaad u burburinaya !!!
shisheeyaha: dadka intiisa badani u malaynayaan in Ingiriisidu tahay afka oo kaliya ay u baahan yihiin inay la hadlaan
aniga: waxaan fahamsanahay. waa wax cadaalad
我：你们为什么在毁灭地球?！！
外星人：因为有人以为他们只会英语就可以了
我：懂了，说得有道理
ako: bakit niyo sinisira ang mundo!!!
taga-ibang planeta: kasi merong mga taong akala nila Ingles lang ang kailangan nilang matutunang lenggwahe
ako: ah, sige naiintindihan ko
Aku : kenapa kau hancurkan bumi!!! Alien : karena masih banyak orang berpikir hanya bahasa inggris satu-satunya bahasa yang terpenting Aku : oh, oke lah..
tôi: tại sao các người hủy diệt trái đất!!! người ngoài hành tinh: bởi vì có người nghĩ rằng tiếng Anh là thứ tiếng duy nhất mà họ cần biết tôi: ồ thế thì tôi hiểu
Eu: Por que vocês estão destruindo a Terra?! Aliens: Porque há pessoas que pensam que o inglês é a única língua que eles precisam falar. Eu: Isso é justo, eu entendo.
jag: varför förintar ni jorden!!!
utomjordingar: för det finns folk som tror att engelska är det ända språket de behöver kunna
jag: rimligt, jag förstår
Já: Proč ničíte Zemi?
Mimozemšťani: Protože tu jsou lidé, kteří si myslí, že angličtina je jediný jazyk, který potřebují znát
Já: To je fér, to chápu.
ja: dlaczego niszczycie Ziemię?
kosmici: ponieważ są ludzie, którzy myślą, że angielski to jedyny język, którego potrzebuję
ja: rozumiem, w porządku
io: perchè state distruggendo la terra!!!
alieni: perchè ci sono delle persone che credono che l’inglese sia l’unica lingua di cui hanno bisogno
io: capisco, mi sembra giusto
Yo: porqué estás destruyendo la tierra!?!?
Extraterrestre: porque hay personas quienes creen que inglés es la única lengua que se tiene que hablar.
Yo: te entiendo, es justo.
Я: Почему вы уничтожаете Землю?!?! Инопланетяне: Потому что есть люди, которые считают, что им нужно говорить только по-английски. Я: А, ну понятно, тогда ладно!
A modern Rosetta stone.
मैं: तुम क्यों भूमि का नाश कर रहे हो?
एलियेंस: क्योंकि लोग है यहाँ जो सोचते हैं कि उन्हें सिर्फ़ अंग्रेज़ी बोलनी है।
में: अच्छा ठीक है, समझ सकता हूँ।
Common Worth, 2016 Liz Anna Kozik
Made for Making Comics I with Lynda Barry @thenearsightedmonkey
Checkout this video my BF put together with his sister. He recorded the audio 10 years ago when she was 5 years old. They drew the pictures recently. It’s terrifying and adorable at the same time. I’m partial to the mayor egg person with the top hat.
Bonus library drop box sign on Instagram
look, someone needed to be the Family Disappointment and the Gay Cousin and I’m really good at multitasking. just playing up my strengths.
Step-wells in India by Victoria Lautman
Step wells are honestly one of the most beautiful and impressive feats of technological infrastructure anyone has ever produced.
this seems to be @mizpollard 's job today on her birthday
Here’s a masterpost of resources to aid in learning South Asian languages! This is by NO means comprehensive. A very limited number of languages are represented here. This search was really frustrating because the more I looked, the more I realized how many dozens of South Asian languages are simply not represented or their existence acknowledged. If you have any resources/languages you’d like to me to add, please let me know!
Assamese iLanguage
Balochi Balochi Basics UChicago Resource List
Brahui Overview Common Phrases (1) Common Phrases (2)
Chakma Mastersite
Dzongkha Vocabulary Grammar
Dimasa Grammar
Dogri Overview
Halbi Script/Language
Hindi/Urdu WUSTL Hindi-Urdu Resources HindiUrdu.net Hindi-Urdu Flagship Resources Columbia Hindi-Urdu Resources
Hindko Overview
Ho Swarthmore Resources Farsi Virtual Persian Resource Masterlist (1) Resource Masterlist (2)
Garo Overview
Gondi Mastersite
Gurung Video Series
Jingpho Grammar
Kannada UofIowa Resources Language Reef
Kashmiri Mastersite
Khams Tibetan Language Materials
Kharia Kharia-English Dictionary
Khasi Learning Basic Khasi
Kurukh Kurukh Grammar
Kokborok Learn Kokborok
Lepcha Grammar (1) Grammar (2) Basic Phrases
Malayalam UofIowa Resources Common School Phrases
Manipuri Common Phrases Language Reef
Marathi iLanguage
Mishing Grammar
Nepali Nepali: Beginner’s Primer NepalGo NepaliLanguage.org UofIowa Resources Nepali Masterlist (1) Nepali Masterlist + MP3 Lessons (2)
Nyishi Grammar
Odia Resource Masterlist
Pashto King’s College Resources
Sindhi Sindhi Masterlist
Tamang Writing Tamang
Tshangla Overview
Tulu Common Phrases (1) Common Phrases (2) Common Phrases (3) Common Phrases (4)
Apps Mango Languages (Bengali, Dari, Dzongkha, Farsi, Hindi, Malayalam, Pashto, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu) Livemocha (Farsi, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu) Duolingo (Hindi)
Other Resources So You Want to Learn a Language? (has resources on a ton of languages!) Digital South Asia Library Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (this resource is awesome!) UChicago Recommended Resources Omniglot (has some basic info for a lot of languages) Languages of India Mastersite
For all you language nerds out there. (I’m currently doing Turkish on Duolingo!)
Aaaaah
Yoda the Cat Takes on Star Wars BB-8 droid. [video]
Someone pointed out that Kylo Ren is basically space Zuko. I started drawing parallels, fell down the trash chute, and here we are now.
edit: toph added by popular demand.
edit 2: Added other characters because I have too much time on my hands
shilpa ray - shilpa is indian-american and has a voice like someone hacking up velvet with a chainsaw. she uses an indian harmonium in most of her work. whenever i listen to her music i feel like i am smoking a cigarette somewhere in the highlands after being spurned a former lover.
song recs: ‘venus shaver’ if you want to rage against european beauty standards, ‘’liquidation sale’ if you want to rage in general, ‘lessons from lorena’ for crying at 2 in the morning about england’s shitty government a la yours truly
2. nadine shah is pakistani-norwegian and her music would not sound out of place in the soundtrack of a giallo film. her voice soars around you, it’s fucking incredible.
song recs: ‘aching bones’ if you want to feel like you are slinking aimlessly around the velvet-lined chamber your cruel father trapped you in in 18th century rome, ‘to be a young man’ to feel like you are an ancient vampire lamenting his youth, ‘never tell me mam’ for motherly angst. did i mention she’s from newcastle, and is therefore fam? oop the north
3. natasha khan, or bat for lashes, is english and pakistani and a literal forest nymph. she makes music for twirling round rosebeds to, possibly with a faraway look on your face.
song recs: ‘oh yeah’ for ascending to the astral plane, ‘travelling woman’ for solidarity, ‘bat’s mouth’ for when your lover is trapped in a bat’s mouth n’ that
4. sasha perera is sri lankan and a goddess. she was an electro queen with jahcoozi and now records sparse and vaguely terrifying music under the name perera elsewhere.
song recs: ‘polaris’ - someone on youtube described this song as ‘feeling like you are falling asleep in an humid attic with a jungle view’ which is v apt, ‘light bulb’ for a feeling of impending doom, ‘drunk man’ for slowly dehydrating in a desert while vultures circle above you
5. ecca vandal is a sri lankan australian and sounds like queens of the stone age fronted by gwen stefani (if gwen actually looked good in a bindi, lmao). she has only released a few songs so far but i am very excited about her. i think she sounds like what vod from fresh meat would sound like if she made music.
song recs: ‘white flag’ and ‘battle royal’ for stomping about, the ridiculously named ‘father hu$$la’ for slinking about
Also plugging my friend Micropixie (Brit-Indian who’s spent time in France and now is in the US) whose stuff veers between music and spoken word and is a little bit political a little bit eccentric:
Here’s a masterpost of resources to aid in learning South Asian languages! This is by NO means comprehensive. A very limited number of languages are represented here. This search was really frustrating because the more I looked, the more I realized how many dozens of South Asian languages are simply not represented or their existence acknowledged. If you have any resources/languages you’d like to me to add, please let me know!
Assamese iLanguage
Balochi Balochi Basics UChicago Resource List
Brahui Overview Common Phrases (1) Common Phrases (2)
Chakma Mastersite
Dzongkha Vocabulary Grammar
Dimasa Grammar
Dogri Overview
Halbi Script/Language
Hindi/Urdu WUSTL Hindi-Urdu Resources HindiUrdu.net Hindi-Urdu Flagship Resources Columbia Hindi-Urdu Resources
Hindko Overview
Ho Swarthmore Resources Farsi Virtual Persian Resource Masterlist (1) Resource Masterlist (2)
Garo Overview
Gondi Mastersite
Gurung Video Series
Jingpho Grammar
Kannada UofIowa Resources Language Reef
Kashmiri Mastersite
Khams Tibetan Language Materials
Kharia Kharia-English Dictionary
Khasi Learning Basic Khasi
Kurukh Kurukh Grammar
Kokborok Learn Kokborok
Lepcha Grammar (1) Grammar (2) Basic Phrases
Malayalam UofIowa Resources Common School Phrases
Manipuri Common Phrases Language Reef
Marathi iLanguage
Mishing Grammar
Nepali Nepali: Beginner’s Primer NepalGo NepaliLanguage.org UofIowa Resources Nepali Masterlist (1) Nepali Masterlist + MP3 Lessons (2)
Nyishi Grammar
Odia Resource Masterlist
Pashto King’s College Resources
Sindhi Sindhi Masterlist
Tamang Writing Tamang
Tshangla Overview
Tulu Common Phrases (1) Common Phrases (2) Common Phrases (3) Common Phrases (4)
Apps Mango Languages (Bengali, Dari, Dzongkha, Farsi, Hindi, Malayalam, Pashto, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu) Livemocha (Farsi, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu) Duolingo (Hindi)
Other Resources So You Want to Learn a Language? (has resources on a ton of languages!) Digital South Asia Library Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (this resource is awesome!) UChicago Recommended Resources Omniglot (has some basic info for a lot of languages) Languages of India Mastersite
