“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.”
“Centuries before we had American Sign Language, Native sign languages, broadly known as “Hand Talk,” were thriving across North America. Hand Talk would be influential in the formation of American Sign Language, but it has largely been written out of history.
One of these Hand Talk variations, Plains Indian Sign Language, was used so widely across the Great Plains that it became a lingua franca — a universal language used by both d/Deaf and hearing people to communicate among tribes that didn’t share a common spoken language. At one point, tens of thousands of Indigenous people used Plains Indian Sign Language, or PISL, for everything from trade to hunting, conflict, storytelling, and rituals.
Also you all need to see Bronzino’s “Portrait of a Lady with Puppy”
(The puppy)
i really love this dude’s dogs
also i just sat there staring at this one for so long
this is a painting. that fabric was made out of Paint. those shadows on the lady’s waist were painted. by a guy in the FIFTEEN HUNDREDS. my man was born in 1507. before we knew what the periodic table or germs were, a man was like “i’m going to put liquids on hairs that are on sticks and drag the hairs on sticks in very small lines so the lines make a picture” and by god he did. this dude was doing photorealism and he didn’t even know what a fucking photo was.
