Rebecca Wallace · @wallacewords
295 followers · 683 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

Yes ma’am, this is becoming a series.

“Home”
with a wistful woman in a turn-of-the-20th-century magazine, and a deliciously oversaturated photo from a midcentury science textbook. Lyric quoted from “Maroon” by Taylor Swift.

#collageart #analogcollage #taylorswift #midnights #maroon

Last updated 1 year ago

Spammy Snarker L.J. · @ljwrites
1375 followers · 70721 posts · Server rage.love

So. A chapter from Societies, from the perspective of an enslaver gun-for-hire who went after a Maroon group in Surinam, totally blew my effing mind. It has so many layers--class and race issues, a suspenseful military narrative, a "plot twist" from our brilliant antagonist-heroes the Maroons, all told by an unreliable villain narrator who is obviously racist and evil but can't help but admire his enemies despite his entrenched racism.

It's like the best short story I have read ever, and make no mistake about it: The direct teller might be the enslaver merc but the narrative was created from beginning to end by the resourcefulness and resilience of the Maroons, the actual heroes of the narrative. I hope my excerpts do justice to their exploits and that you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

#maroon

Last updated 1 year ago

Spammy Snarker L.J. · @ljwrites
1376 followers · 70530 posts · Server rage.love

Now moving on to groups of , excited because it was the prominent role of Maroons in the history of Surinam that got me reading about them in the first place!

#maroon #surinam #history

Last updated 1 year ago

Spammy Snarker L.J. · @ljwrites
1376 followers · 70504 posts · Server rage.love

"Four parties of [Black people] were sent out against the rebels, one of them under the most competent of the commanding officers in the service of the whites, the black freedman called, appropriately, Sambo. . . . However, in spite of the offer of freedom and spoils to the [enslaved people] in the party, they met with little success, taking only one of the plantain walks of the rebels. One source of failure was the high desertion rate of the [Black people], which at one time became so serious that special guards had to be set up to cut them off."

- Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas edited by Richard Price, from Chapter 15: Slavery and Slave Revolts: A Sociohistorical Analysis of the First Maroon War, 1665-1740 by Orlando Patterson

#maroon #history #jamaica

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Love NHL · @lovenhl
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WACOCA · @wacoca
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IceNine · @ic3ix
18 followers · 69 posts · Server mas.to

Finally found a patch of maroon bluebonnets! The maroon color is a recessive trait and this patch is already reverting to the dominant blue color.

#texasbluebonnets #bluebonnets #maroon #wildflowers

Last updated 2 years ago

WACOCA · @wacoca
11 followers · 21190 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

Pause 🙂
Ja, ich merke es selber.
Das wird wieder so ein "Mega Viel Musiktrööt Abend"!

5 Like Jagger ft. Aguilera (Official Music Video)

✌️

invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=i

#christina #moves #maroon

Last updated 2 years ago

kiwikayway · @kiwikayway
28 followers · 89 posts · Server mas.to

Maroon + Red TV, yes this represents me well, emotional & an outward aesthetic that makes others expect something different than they’re actually getting

#RedTaylorsVersion #maroon #midnights #taylorswift

Last updated 2 years ago

SXW Designs · @SXWDesigns
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Joosefu Lubiano · @joosefu87
1 followers · 11 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

That’s all i have to say. Almost a

#DearReader #maroon #swiftie

Last updated 2 years ago

fuzzy leftovers · @Frogluvr91
246 followers · 2766 posts · Server kolektiva.social
Israuor · @israuor
431 followers · 10002 posts · Server social.tchncs.de

da haetten wir noch was .. von

youtu.be/mDXUITk2ldw

@thomas

#maroon #metal

Last updated 7 years ago