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people should have mascots
(medias.meow.social)
For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.
Image descriptions and plain text captions of written content are expected of all screenshots. Here are some image text extractors (I looked these up quick and will gladly take FOSS recommendations):
-web
-iOS
Please begin copied raw text posts (lacking a screenshot that makes it apparent it is from Tumblr) with:
# This has been reposted here to Lemmy as part of the "Curated Tumblr Project."
I made the icon using multiple creative commons svg resources, the banner is this.
Confidently incorrect
Mariam Webster Mascot a person, animal, or object adopted by a group or groups as a symbolic figure especially to bring them good luck
Masca Indo Germanic
meaning face covering.
Aka the root word of mascara... The witchy connotation comes in from certain type of masks that were worn in the middle ages but does not describe the act of wearing a mask. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/masca