#center-south

[globalhappenings]

Weather: in Italy a weekend of fire with some thunderstorms in the North

Weather: in Italy a weekend of fire with some thunderstorms in the North

(ANSA) – MILAN, JUL 23 – Weekend still in the sign of blistering heat: the heat wave has reached its peak, uniting all of Italy in a framework of exceptionally above normal temperatures with peaks close to 40 degrees in Po Valley and in the inland areas of the Center-South. The heat is intense even at night (especially in large urban centers where the concrete re-emits all the heat accumulated…

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

still unwell over the prospect of Howdy slowly putting the pieces together and having a complete mental breakdown over it. Laughingstock edition!

[sare11aa11eras]

So like. The Riverlands, or at least Harrenhal, have like a gravitational pull. Which is why Catelyn, Jaime, Brienne, and Arya can’t ever escape there. Even in death, Catelyn can’t leave. Her memory and her body are bound together and to her homeland once more. And Jaime and Brienne spend all their time in ASOS in the Riverlands, and you think they’ll escape back to civilization and King’s Landing, and they do, but a) they are changed irrevocably from the people who started out so like did they really leave? and b) King’s Landing turns out to be a brief respite only. They must return once more, and they may even die there. And then Arya spends like two whole books there, wandering and traveling and never getting to where she needs to go. And even when she leaves, even with the whole Narrow Sea between her and those forests and streams, her consciousness and her soul still reside there, and she returns there every night, renewing her connection. Okay? They are stuck. They’re trapped. It’s just endless forest and rivers and the occasional band of outlaws or travelers or abandoned castles. Which, none of them can leave, either. Gendry and the Brotherhood are still there, even when their original purpose is lost and their leader dies. Jeyne, the orphans at the inn, Ravella Smallwood, the Freys, the Brackens and Blackwoods, the Bloody Mummers, the bear from the Harrenhal Bear Pit— they are all trapped. Okay?

[purpleshadow-star]

Pic context: Talking about the exy stadium at USC considering the fact that USC is a real school

I love how Nora just invents things in order to avoid complications with real-life things.

Like, using USC's football stadium as the exy stadium too would take a lot of work to figure out how that would be possible. Solution: invent a new stadium!

Having the characters play a real sport that already exists would mean looking into all the rules and regulations and history, etc, and there could be multiple elements of the sport that work against the plot of the story or complicate it in some way. Solution: invent a new sport!

I mean, it gives her full creative control over what happens in the story, and we as readers get to learn about a cool new thing without feeling the need to fact-check every element. Tbh, it makes so much sense to me.

Like, go off! Make stuff up! It's your world. We're just reading and enjoying and becoming obsessed with it!!!

[vanzuris]

i wake up and think about kyman, i make my bed while thinking about kyman, i brush my teeth while thinking about kyman, i make breakfast while thinking about kyman, i take a shower while thinking about kyman, i open any app and enjoy kyman content, i listen to music and associate the lyrics to kyman, i go to sleep thinking about kyman. next morning, rinse and repeat

[clovermousee]

spent one (1) day at epcot and now i’m fixating on these two again

[j-ellyfish]

What do you think of Romano's inferiority complex towards Feliciano, and I'm pretty sure you're Italian, so would you say that's accurate to how Southern Italians really feel towards the North?

I wouldn't call it an inferiority complex, but probably due to the centuries it spent split into different kingdoms and republics, Italy as a whole has a pretty strong localism, especially in smaller villages and rural areas, but also among the less educated people and older generations in general. Differences in habits, culture and traditions are still easy to spot too due to the aforementioned long centuries where each part of the Country was subject to slightly or highly different influences and history in every aspect of people's life.

The unification of Italy was led by the House of Savoy, which was the royal family originally ruling on a North-Western area of the peninsula for centuries and whose kings were then crowned kings of Italy starting from 1861. Industrialization, which then-unified Italy was already late to, was encouraged and financed in the Northern half of the Country, whereas the Southern half was neglected and its economy kept focusing mostly on agriculture for a long time. This caused a persistence of poverty and a lower percentage of literacy compared to the North, which was getting more economically competitive and thus wealthier on average.

To make it worse, Southerners who started migrating to the North (especially after WW2) to get a better job and give their family a better life and future, were often faced with racism and prejudice by Northerners.

This whole situation, the whole gap between the two halves of the Country that was caused primarily by how the Savoy neglected the industrial development of the South, would be dragged for so long that nowadays Italy still hasn't evened out these differences and they simply led to other issues for both halves.

This double standard also led to both halves developing their own secessionist movements, as Northern secessionists lamented how Northern industry (and thus, economy) had to "drag" the South and how migration from South to North would in their opinion deteriorate their own working possibilities; and Southern secessionists lamented how Italy favoured/favours the North which caused poverty, corruption and stagnation of the labor market to thrive. Especially among poorly educated older generations, it is not that uncommon to still come across prejudice and a bit of racism going back and forth between the two halves of the Country.

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As for Hetalia lore itself...

Hima portrayed the unification of Italy in a very straightforward and, in my opinion, quite accurate way, true both to Feli and Romano's relationship and at least partially to history, with Garibaldi (the most important Italian general and revolutionary) basically bursting into Romano's house and go "HEY YOU'RE GETTING UNIFIED!" while barely listening or caring about the brothers' opinion on it, and without Romano even having any real involvement in the process.

I can imagine Feli having had, however, a little more agency in it (though as the picture above shows, he might not have been super happy about unification, and we know Personifications don't really get a choice but comply to their bosses' orders) as he was, among other things, also the embodiment of the land the Kingdom of Savoy was based in. He was definitely treated with more privilege by the Savoy, heck, he was even picked to be the one getting the honor of being called Italy and deal with foreign politics and such, something that Romano has been shown to resent.

Feli is also seen being the brother getting to try his hands at industrialization the most and getting really good at the production of stuff like cars, which furtherly solidifies how the Italian Kingdom seemed to show a preference to one brother compared to the other.

Romano sounds like he feels pretty left out and neglected, and his pre-existing inferiority complex and frustration towards Feli was therefore fed even more.

I feel like I'm digressing a lot though, sorry! 😅

🌸 Big thing I should've mentioned earlier about my own interpretation of Hetalia!! I do not see Hetalia characters as walking stereotypes or necessarily accurate representations of the way their average citizen thinks or acts like.

Because of this, the question for me is not much if Romano's inferiority complex makes sense in the light of the relationship between irl Southerners and Northerners, but rather if historically are there any reasons why it'd make sense for this piece of land to resent another based on geopolitical and/or economic events.

And, in this sense, yes I absolutely think it makes sense, because the South definitely got the shorter end of the stick when it came to Unification, and Romano as a person already felt inferior to Feliciano due to how both Grandpa Rome and Roderich preferred his brother over him. Antonio also initially tried to trade Romano with Feli because he felt like Roderich had scammed him by giving him the 'lazy, high-maintenance' brother. Romano was basically always picked as the second choice anytime someone had to choose between Feli and him, and when he maybe thought he could finally be treated as an equal to his brother through unification, as they are both Italy, his hope was crushed right away once again.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Centro Historico de Lima en PERU

[isimchi]

Downtown revamp: Sim Center North & South

[clevervonskelli]

I'm trying to focus on what I liked about Episode 7 and my brain is just looping a few things.

-Was that Colonel Alkire at the camp heading up compound staff? I missed if he was named, but if so, I'm quite pleased to see him.

-Frank Murphy getting a letter from his mom ❤️

-The way the show approached the Great Escape. They managed to keep the focus entirely on the tragedy and incredulousness of the situation, and on how it could directly impact the American prisoners in the other compounds. It felt very balanced and very Great Escape in the context of MotA, not Great Escape eclipsing the show.

- MUSTANGS!!!!! MotA is a bomber-centric show and B-17s are incredible in how they can be beat to hell and keep flying, but fighter planes will always be my first love when it comes to WWII.

-Von Lindeiner's removal from his position as commodant being mentioned. He's someone I find very interesting, plus it's nice to have that hint of how there was a whole world of politics going on when it came to the running of the camps and the tension between the Luftwaffe and the Gestapo.

- I loved all the fountain pen shots we got to see this ep when folks were writing.

[notwordsspoken]

Every time I expected a Tegridy Farms scene to show up I instead was jumpscared with one of Kyle and Tolkien's tik toks

[makethatelevenrings]

I mean this with ZERO disrespect, I'm simply trying to educate myself on this matter because it impacts us all.

All I can find about the Israel-Palestine conflicts is the fighting. What I want to know is why.

Whats the backstory? Why are they fighting? Why is everyone persecuting one another and who in the government is responsible?

I heard Hamas bombed Gaza and has taken hostages. What brought on this violence? Do all the Palestinians agree with this?

(More personal opinion questions, you don't need to answer these)

Do you agree with Hamas? Do you think that violence was a last resort to free Palestine? Do you think it's justified?

One thing I do hate is people saying "I hate *this group of people*, they are bad." They can't all be bad. So I don't like the titles of Anti-Israel/Anti-Palestine because you're assuming everyone there is on the same side.

In conclusion, people are stupid. The government is messed up. Citizens and families want to live so why won't the government let them?

I’m genuinely grateful that you’re asking because educating ourselves is one of the greatest tools we have. I’ll break it up into sections.

1. What’s the backstory?

In 1918, the Ottoman Empire conceded land they controlled to Britain (this is still an ongoing problem regarding many, many things because the Ottoman Empire controlled many nations that weren’t theirs to control if you catch my drift. Look up the Elgin marbles for a fun wormhole of WTF Britain). The Arab Revolt was backed by France and Britain with the promise that if the Arab fighters could force the Ottomans out of the area of the Levant, they would be granted independence (McMahon-Hussein Correspondence) but, plot twist, France and the UK instead split the region (Sykes-Picot Agreement). The Balfour Declaration of 1917 expressed Britain’s support of the creation of Israel. After they gained control of the region, they established Israel and systematically began to take the land of Palestinians.

Note: Zionism began as a belief in the mid-18th century. Many, MANY Jewish people do not subscribe, encourage, or promote the idea of a Jewish state. I do not view Israel = Jewish because it is antisemitic to imply that the Jewish diaspora all exist under the state of Israel. Especially when many Jewish people disagree with Israel.

Note note: Zionism was created as a response to the numerous pogroms and other antisemitic hate crimes affecting Jewish people. the Holocaust was fucking awful. No ifs ands or buts. Genocide doesn’t justify genocide, however.

Continuing on. So, clearly, the Palestinians are pissed. They were promised independence and instead now have their land taken by a global superpower who has historically fucked over hundreds of countries (another wormhole for you: India under British rule, Ireland and literally all of its history with England, the transatlantic slave trade under Britain, Africa under British rule, Australia and the treatment of Aboriginals under British rule, America and the British, it goes on). Palestinians revolted from 1936-1939 because, again, their home and promise of independence was being stolen. They lost against the British army but then 1939 was a bit of an important year for everyone and they world was sucked into another world war.

With WWII saw the birth of the United Nations, an organization that might sound important but has the moral backbone with the equivalence of a chocolate eclair. The UN said “hey, why don’t we split Palestine and Israel into two different states so maybe they’ll stop fighting” (United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine) and, as a result, the 1948 Palestine-Israel war began. Hundreds died. 700k+ people were forced from Palestine and spread across the world in what is called the Nakba. Israeli colonizers quite literally moved into homes that had been occupied by Palestinians only days before. In 1918, the Jewish population of the region was 8.1%. In 1948, when Israel was recognized as a nation by the UN, the Jewish population of the region was 82.1%.

2. There’s plenty of infographics and videos explaining the next few decades but I’m already writing an essay basically so the gist is: Palestinians keep losing their homes and Israel keeps taking them. Israel forces the Palestinians into smaller and smaller parcels of land until the control virtually everything but a small strip of land (Gaza) and the West Bank. That brings us to 2006.

Hamas was elected in 2006 over rivaling Fatah, gaining majority amount of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council under the promise that they would help end the corruption many Palestinians were frustrated with. Instead they took military control over Gaza and established an autocratic state over millions of people who were already suffering under barbaric policies and practices from Israel. Politicians.

This is where things get a little…messy morally. Do I agree with Hamas? Fuck no. I couldn’t care less about Hamas because they don’t care about Palestinians. Do all Palestinians agree with Hamas? Firstly, you will rarely find a group of people where all agree with some. Secondly, I don’t think they appreciate being bombed by Israel while Hamas leaders chill somewhere else. The people of Palestine are the victims of Hamas and Israel.

Did some Palestinians celebrate Hamas’ actions? Yes. Do I think violence is a last resort? Yes and no. Do I think it’s justified? Yes and no.

Lemme expand on those last two points. I want to be an international human rights attorney someday. The loss of innocent life is always a fucking tragedy that I hope to help prevent or to bring justice for them. I understand violence. I understand why people are so angry. I understand the rage and grief Palestinians feel. 75 years of having their rights stripped away, their homes quite literally occupied, their land and culture chipped away piece by piece, and their children bombed and shot at.

“But how on earth can you think violence is justified if people get hurt!” The American Revolution was an act of violence that got numerous people killed yet you will rarely find someone who won’t justify it. Ukraine defending themselves against Russia wanting their land with no regard to how many Ukrainians they kill is considered justified.

People just seem to focus on the “violence is bad” aspect of things once POC are involved. Yeah, I said it. Americans tired of taxation, of British rule, and of not having their independence causes property damage, argues with soldiers in the streets, and starts a war is okay but when Palestinians do it, it’s a problem? When Black Americans ask to stop being brutalized by the police, it’s a problem? When Black South Africans ask to end an apartheid state, it’s a problem? When Central Americans ask for western nations to stop causing coups that destabilizes their nations, it’s a problem? I could go on.

Yeah, violence is bad. Violence is also the way that a lot of countries are where they are today. Violence is sometimes the only reason why things changed. Violence is enacted on the oppressed everyday yet people only seem to really care once the oppressed fight back.

3. I’m anti-Israel because I don’t agree with the government and the state of Israel. I don’t agree with their 75 years of violent oppression of Palestinians. I don’t agree with their current or past actions. I’m anti-Hamas. I think they’re a vacuous organization that is more focused on getting what they want than considering the consequences of innocent Palestinians.

I’m also really fucking furious at Joe Biden’s insistence that we send aid to Israel. We have given Israel $260 BILLION since 1948. BILLION. And yet we have people dying because they can’t afford healthcare. Students leaving school because they can’t afford tuition. We have 8 year olds in debt because they can’t afford school lunches. The unhoused population is growing rapidly due to the housing crisis. I can sense the unemployment rate creeping higher. I know many people who have lost their jobs this past month alone. We’re days away from another government shutdown and they can’t vote on a speaker.

American politicians would rather send Israel billions more to bomb innocent people than to feed their own citizens. That, in my opinion, is a sort of violence that can never be justified.

[ducksinspaceadventure]

My first survey, but I need it for my new story. I know DuckTales 2017 ended a long time ago, I just wish it could continue after that. So I thought I'd make some stories of my own as a continuation of that, in my own way. Surely you can help me decide on that new story. 😄

This is just for fun reasons, although I like space adventures the most, I wouldn't mind other adventures as well. So, your choice. 😁

[starlitangels]

Finally got the chance to listen to yesterday’s audio and my takeaway was Sam saying “intentions” with the Southern accent I’m more used to where the e sounds more like an i and it felt a lil more authentic

That’s all I took away from it lol

[paladinbutters]

i love making headcanons for characters that are useless and don’t change their story at all. craig broke his wrist once by falling off a trampoline. tweek hates olives. btw. if you even care

[junkbbykow]

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