Selena Kane

my high score as of tonight = 97,500 or so 🤷‍♀️

i wonder if a stray bigfoot ever runs across one of the many statues of him/her/them in northern cali & oregon & washington & just... wonders what the actual fuck THAT'S all about

RACCOON GODS, by Trash Panda Go Kart 17 track album

Consensus on our 2nd cd, RACCOON GODS, seems to be that Just Folks like it real well—good to jam in the car, dance in the kitchen, fun catchy songs—but Music People don't have a ton of time for it. So I guess we succeeded at SOME of our intentions?

trashpandagokart.bandcamp.com/album/raccoo...

... my favorite line in that one tho is still, "I'm sailin through the storm, strapped to the mast"—Odysseus vibes, the song's object as siren

"You didn't show no visible scars, you could ride like Annie Oakley, you could shoot like Belle Starr" is great also, & brings Florida's Watson to mind 😬

neither her nor there but, it just crossed my mind that the line

"I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble"

in Bob Dylan's "Seeing The Real You At Last"

is originally from The Maltese Falcon

🥰🥰🥰

... or that an 'answer' will a) never be obtained & b) never be required... which brings us a bit closer to the spirit/animal non-binary reality situation of some or many of the cultures that predate us.

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At that point, it is possible that the question of what (if anything) is leaving footprints or hulking across the path in the dark of twilight, will answer itself in some peaceful fashion—simply by going about its business as we go about ours.

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So are people seeing large apes? Finding giant footprints? Maybe. (But not around bulldozers, most likely).

Answering the question of what's leaving them, however, no longer has any bearing on our dominance of the terrain, because *we have no such dominance* & that is understood.

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Now—in this scenario—we're not building logging roads, we're not going on deep-forest-excursions to Prove The Existence Of Things. We're trying to live in peaceful coexistence with The Forest & all of its inhabitants.

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Whereas if an animal wanders into OUR house, village, etc, & we kill it—that's on it for going somewhere dangerous.

(At what point our settlements crossed the line into dominating incursions is I suppose an open question.)

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If we look at the forest as A Living Entity, how does that change the Bigfoot Investigation?

A lot of ways, but maybe first in that we don't cut down so much of it. That would be homicide. WE would be evil! (& perhaps are)

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... which I mention because I have friends who DO think the animal that eats you or the moose that stomps you is literally, "evil".

I think it's hungry &/or you were in its house.

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My understanding of Queer Ecology is that you start by saying, "The forest & everything in it is alive & sentient & has as much right to be there as I do, if not more."

If I walk into the woods & get eaten by something, that's on me—the animal that ate me isn't "evil"...

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tooootally, that's where my head goes with the "uncanny valley" thing too

patriarchy may not have been a thing yet but I'm pretty sure dudes have always been dudes 🤷‍♀️ but hey, what do I know. I do remember someone saying the "uncanny valley" effect implies we once had reason to fear something that looked human but wasn't. But, "or it's projection", much like you're saying.

... or like, if a woman is out somewhere feeling threatened like in an empty state park at night, the more likely thought is going to be "there's a man out here being creepy" than "a large ape is stalking my car"?

hahahaha even just the word "experiencers" makes me cringe... so much current *everything* seems to be people looking for identity, something to attach to their sense of self. I'm too buddhist-inflected to think that's ever healthy!

... or we're yielding to colonialism when we see western european stories from an animist era as obviously false, idk. I really don't have any idea. I like the statement that "westerners" care too much about "real" vs "not"—I agree with that, it goes right back to "cogito ergo sum" & all that bs.

for perspective, if I walk into a venue, I'm like—

WHERE TF DID ALL THE GIANT MEN COME FROM

it's a weird sensation, & totally unsettling, but I think it's fairly standard for women to be, like, ok men are large & unpredictable & everywhere... there's no need to invent something to fill that role?

the thing about human vulnerability is...

I'm 5'7 & slim. I'm not a big person. Z is 4'11. We KNOW we're vulnerable—no need to project about it! 😂 So again that gets me riffing on patriarchy-type-shizz... sure, vulnerabilty tension explains the dudes, but what about the women who see stuff, etc.

I have time for both POVs on both of those things—literality of Indigenous legends (see also their story of a Big Wave which turned out, when we made contact with Japan, to match written tsunami records they'd kept way back when) & projection vs physical ubiquity...

creeper creepin in the BC woods

so either he made it up for whatever reason (see Ray Wallace) or it's part-real part-hallucination etc, brain wouldn't handle whatever actually happened.

made me think of this, tho, & some of the more-human-like Canadian descriptions? apparently this was taken by a confused elderly birdwatcher 😂

I have tended to think Ostman's story is ridiculous 🤷‍♀️ which for me as a Good Witch (tm) means "file under 'beats tf outta me!'"

I just can't come up with a behavioral model in which it makes sense for me, tho I guess some of the Indigenous stuff is close-ish?

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carried away by hairy apes? yeah I was actually looking at a picture of him in something I was reading earlier tonight & trying to read his face a little. what do you think?

!!!!!

love that you did the research! and yes, that would be fascinating & imo is *exactly* what is going on with the Glastonbury Triangle stuff in Vermont in the, I think, 1920s-40s? looks like an obvious serial killer to me but has been attributed to "wood devils"

(side note but sometimes I wonder how many serial killers saw bigfoot while lurking beside a mountain trail and just. never. said. a. word, out of sheer what-they-call bloody-mindedness!)

saaaaaaame!

& I know we've talked about this in contrast to the crunchy 90s eco-bigfoot vibe, but part of what allows for that minimizing approach is that it's mainly big ol burly straight white dudes who are safe enough alone in the woods to do the "research".

Indigenous POVs remain a treasure 💕

so anyway.

If you rearrange the picture to decenter the interests of patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism...

how does the blurry bigfoot picture change?

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