#indepence

[scotianostra]

Anti-Monarchy Rally.

While heavy handed police arrested protesters in London I saw no signs of any police on Calton Hill on Saturday.

I had planned on going to Glasgow for the AUOB march, but my friends needed a babysitter at short notice after being let down, so I had to stay around Edinburgh.

While there were about twenty thousand at Glasgow, I would say there was a couple of thousand at this rally organised by a group which campaigns for a republic called Our Republic.

Connor Cloughley who hosted the rally said  “Three hours ago a man sat on a gilded throne and had the audacity to ask millions of people across the country to swear allegiance to him, his heirs and successors. There hours ago, a crown worth millions was placed on his head at the end of an obscene coronation event that cost the taxpayer over £100 million, while families across the country struggle to feed themselves and struggle to pay their utility bills."

Speakers included Tommy Sheppard MP, Lorna Slater MSP, poet George Gunn, Cllr Ross McKenzie an independent councillor in Edinburgh, Maggie Chapman MSP (who was formerly an Edinburgh councillor Cllr Roza Salih from Glasgow, and storyteller Malini Chakrabarty.

Poet George Gunn who had travelled from Thurso to join the rally, read his own poem, the Oath to the Scottish Republic.

The poem began: “My allegiance is to the Scottish people, to all people be called a British subject and to swear allegiance to a king while my country has no place among nations is to be a ghost and to bear disgrace it is the disposition of all citizens our future republic…”

Pics are my own, but you can find more from the event here

[starkid-everyday]

There's lots to learn!

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Ha!

Ox like me ! ! !

[frances-baby-houseman]

We went to temple tonight for a yom ha'atzmaut party and they started playing david melech yisrael and I was like a sleeper agent being activated. I haven't sung this in decades-- they didn't sing it at our last temple!-- and yet! when it started I did the hand motions as though the last time I'd done it was yesterday.

[camushii1]

This too,

is yuri

[littlegalerion]

Okay, but why is nobody talking about this response and how genuinely upset he seemed? Not hostile, just like his biggest crush rejected him but he's a big boy and he can suck it up?

[howtobecomeadragon]

I think there's some really interesting stuff going on with the language used between Mike and El and Mike and Will. Namely: yes's, no's, and not giving or receiving an answer to questions.

I started thinking about this in relation to Mike and El post-reunion in s4, so I'll cover that first, and then go into Mike and El vs Mike and Will throughout the seasons for their big moments.

Immediately upon reuniting, El is giving Mike a firm no. She doesn't like that he's not hearing her and the importance of what she's saying.

Mike asks several questions here, even prefacing them with saying that it's an important question. Now obviously he's joking around, but it's so weird that El doesn't answer him once. She is giggling, she is smiling, but she's not giving him an answer and changes the subject instead of giving him a yes.

Mike gives El a no here: she wants him to do something, try the pizza, and he gives a firm no. He's not willing to try something new with/for her. She then pairs up with Argyle to force him to eat the pizza.

Mike continues to ask if she can hear him before saying he loves her, but once again she doesn't give him an answer. Obviously she's being choked and is likely not able to easily vocalize a response (if at all). But he knows that she can hear him. Earlier in the scene, she was speaking and answering questions.

He knows she can hear him, but he's asking anyway. Because he's scared for her safety and wants reassurance that she's okay, but the absolute excess of asking SEVEN times if she can hear him is strange, especially considering that the dialogue could've been written to have Mike ask something else repeatedly that would've made more sense within the context of Mike JUST caring for her safety: "Are you okay? Please answer if you're safe. What's going on? Can we help you?" All good options that would've made just as much sense as him asking if she can HEAR HIM repeatedly. Which of course calls back to the s3 "I love her" where El was out of the room, but did hear him and only let him know she'd heard him 3 months later, at which point Mike faked that he had forgotten and was uncomfortable at the idea of saying it again.

Later on in this scene, we see Mike and Will once more, and I don't see these scenes talked about often. This is after Max has died, after the gates open, before El saves Max.

El can wake up, she could answer him, but she's deciding not to as she's grieving Max, and decides that she's going to do what she can to try to save Max. Mike is again speaking and asking for a response but not getting one. Not blaming El here at all, but this is the third time we've seen this in one episode. It's a theme. El doesn't want to engage Mike in what he has to say or ask.

The next line of dialogue after Mike says "Wake up" is El saying "No." El is saying this to Max, but it is interesting, again, how we get another no from El almost responding to Mike here. He can't tell her what to do, he can't tell her to move on, he can't make her decisions for her. This is also paired with El saying "you're not going" to Max, which also pairs nicely with the flashback we see of Max saying that they make their own rules.

And El speaks here, in this space of spying, and I'm not sure the details of how El can project her voice to actually speaking from her physical body vs keeping her voice in the spying plane, but the assumption is that she's not speaking out loud, this is a private moment where El decides to speak.

I just think it's so interesting how often in these few short scenes of dialogue between the two, there's no yes's, there's no verbal agreement, they're not on the same page. El is actively ignoring Mike's questions and is shown to not answer him repeatedly even though she can hear him. And of course, they don't exchange any dialogue at all in the epilogue.

And so I went on to look at some of the bigger scenes and moments between El and Mike, and Will and Mike, to see how often we get yes's, no's, or if we don't get a response at all. And it's interesting. Coming soon!!!

El and Mike, post reunion in s4, El and Mike, s1-2, El and Mike, s3-s4, Will and Mike

[dullweapons]

❝ 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 , they say . as though it stops there ;  at your wrists , like a glove .  as though you could do this , ⅋ there could be any part of you that wasn't stained or dripping . ❞

DULLWEAPONS  ⸻ private  ⅋  very selective  original  character for the legend of zelda named  𝐑𝐀𝐘 𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐋 , a demonic weapon who has lived through all of the hyrule's bloody history with verse for BG3 to come : forged  ⅋  sharpened  by  ANSEM  , 26 , he / him , est .

❝ the never ending cycle is represented by the sign of the serpent that eats itself. no beginning , 𝐍𝐎 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆  . ❞

[otonokis]

ok wait i feel the need to ask has anyone else's hot topic stocked with like a small selection of tlb merch i noticed this at my local mall like a couple months ago and im like . bruh

[summehwintehalicevinnyy]

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, GHANA!! ❤🇬🇭

[illyrianbuck]

im doing a “two night courts drawing” based on my belief that the night court should separate between rhys and feyre as rulers

[shonpota]

Got this from relative, let's go green!

[shoujoboy-restart]

Europeans: you BLACKS are a bunch of lazy and ungrateful bastards! How are we racist? We literally spent decades giving you people aid and help!

Niger: okay, if that's the case then we are going to stop taking in your aid, we don't want your your influence in our country and we want to make our own decisions from here on out, your aid and influence hasn't helped to improve our life or economy so I doubt it will impact us either way, oh and you are gonna have to buy our Uranium under our terms.

Europeans:

[nebucat]

spending a couple weeks away from home and away from my toxic parent in a loving and comfortable environment at my partner's home has been an interesting and eye opening experience.

[spoks-illogical-art]

they are watching Convergence Day third weekend in a row

[de-chans-heta-translations]

War Of Spanish Succession Spreads to America (Part 1)

T/N: I am not sure info on *1 is true or not. I’ve tried to check it but I couldn’t find anything that confirms it. For the context, the kanji used is 弟, which means brother or pupil. Let me know which one is correct!

Hey people! Your girl who has the worst planning skills here~(˘▾˘~) I was planning doing translations during winter break but… like I said, I’ve the worst planning skills. Thanks for keeping up w/ me for a year despite my bad planning lol. And yeah, it has been already 1 year since I’ve started this blog I can’t even begin to tell you how much I appreciate your support throughout this already 1 year old journey :) I especially want to thank @keiksy-cake as thanks to their support, I am at where I am right now and got to meet all of you!

Hopefully I am going see you all great people in my next post. Bye for now! :)

[bettyweir]