#maybe it's because I'm British

[on-a-lucky-tide]

I just really fucking hate how twn has worked so hard to reinstall the toxic masculinity into the Witchers. They just went ahead and shat all over the opportunity to construct a sensitive examination of the working class man, their trauma, their vulnerabilities, their flaws and their goodness.

Their honest to fuck goodness.

You know, the men who smile at a little girl to make her feel at ease, the ones who discuss the women and children left behind by war for the monsters, the ones that Ciri thinks fondly of at her lowest.

I really hate the twn interpretation of them . Gives me the ick. Especially when the fucking upper class villains/aristocracy get their storylines sanitised and uwu-ified for sympathy. Are you shittin' me about Eredin right now?

Yes. Feel sorry for the rich elf dude, but those orphan Witchers that were stripped from their homes and experimented on? Nah man, they're just drunk, sexist dudebros in it for le coin. The first one? Yeah, his sob story is he got caught fuckin the wrong person, lololol.

[connectionterminated13]

Curse Stephen King for making me continuously imagine Michael with a new yorker accent.

[sciderman]

I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with so much Iranian hate and drama <:[

oh anon. hate to break it to you (a lot of people make this mistake) but iran and iraq are two entirely separate nations.

and also i think reducing it to the words "hate and drama" kind of doesn't cover it, anon.

[plushri]

250,000 people turned up in London for Palestine yesterday! Make the next demonstration on Saturday 9th March even bigger, please show up if you can.

If you're in the UK, email your MPs and urge them to support the potential motion for ceasefire in Gaza tabled for 21st February.

All you have to do is enter your postcode at the site will generate an email to your MP for you! Then autofill your information and it will send the email. It takes a few seconds. No ceasefire, no vote!

From the river to the sea 🇵🇸❤️

[lobinilo]

Dear Mr. Hammond,

I am Kate Louise Pemberton. Or Bird - a name your son gave me. Before you throw this letter away, please read it all. It's taken me several months to put pen to paper trying to find the right things to say, but the truth is, I'm still not sure what to say. Yes, I am the one who invited your son to New York and I am the one who was waiting for him at the airport. I thought we were gonna spend the rest of our lives together, not just those few short weeks. Love at first sight as the clichè goes. Luke and I met at a party and after that he was the only person I ever wanted to spend my time with. But I am now left with nothing. I have nothing to hold on to but memories of him. Just like you, I am now confronted with the pain of trying to move on. The truth is, if he hadn't met me, he'd be alive today. I know that. And that is something that I will have to suffer with every day for the rest of my life. For now - and I hope you understand - I wish to mourn alone. Maybe a time will come when I can think back on those precious memories without pain and life can start again.

The Last Photograph, dir. Danny Huston

[elizabethrobertajones]

Actually the real thing that hits going back and doing SB on NG+ is Zenos' english voice acting - he's SO posh in a "this man is played by Bendydonk Cumbersome in a sad war drama villain" way. He's DRIPPING the 1900s imperialism. I think this coding is why I never took to him because he was SO evil British and I've been trained to hear that accent and assume he's going to try and shoot the War Horse or whatever. That's a guy who will yell at his troops to charge an artillery assault on foot.

It's really noticeable that post-SB his voice changes from the cut to the throat and subsequent Elidibus-ing because he does not ever sound like this again even when he's got his body back, and his later voice is far more neutral "i can fix him" evil which, while he's been beyond saving for me from the first time I heard him speak, at least makes sense to me why someone might like him and be able to work with that.

Raised by British media though and always happy to watch a historical drama, I struggle so much not to start at the typecasting the voice gives me :'D

[bredforloyalty]

jim shelley u kinda crazy for going in with frankenstein's monster And lamb right after that (melody maker 1996)

[royalberryriku]

The more I learn about the history of the middle east in general, the more I realise that the "Israel-Palestine conflict" is actually just a group killing their own fellow shared ethnic group who are "too brown".

Hebrews and Arabs both originate from Phoenicians, aka "Abraham's descendents" according to their respective oral stories and passed on histories. They are from the same place and people. However, there is a narrative that twists this and claims that Arabs were "always an outside force that invaded", when the various groups within that ethnicity always had their share of cooperation and conflict in various stages of history. Just like, say, the various groups in France. They were of the same group and no particular ethnicity had no more of a "claim" to the land than the other, they just had their beef and eventually integrated.

So when I see "but the Arabs are colonisers" I can't help but ask; what is a colonisers to you? Seriously. If colonisation means "any conflict in the past between a shared group from the same place" every single group would be colonisers. There's no such thing as "an innocent conflict" where atrocities weren't committed by either side. So please get that out of your head if you want to say "but the Arabs did X, Y, Z to the Hebrews so it's colonisation and they don't belong in A, B or C areas". That's just not how colonisation works. It's like calling TERF or cis a slur when they're not. Conflict between the same people from the same area is, yeah, a conflict hit not colonisation. However, a people who are from a completely different place who want to erase an ethnic group and take over their culture, erase their history and get rid of their physical features? Yeah, that's what colonisation is. It's genocide with the aim to erase a specific group or culture and take it and the land over. For example, the British in the Middle East.

The problem with calling Arabs "colonisers" is not only is it completely historically wrong, they're from the same place and have the same origins as the Hebrews, but they (like Palestinian Jews) have been their since before the British came. Compared to European Jews who came later on after having lived in Europe (and became European as that is genuinely a part of their culture and ethnicity as well and shouldn't be erased or forgotten, that's also cultural erasure of Germanic, Polish, etc traditions passed on) and, sure, do have origins there *as well* but it needs to be understood that they, specifically Zionists, are a part of the British colonial project aimed at killing *both* Arabs and Jews. The point isn't to help Jews against a colonisers from the first few centuries (sorry to tell you everyone, but no, the Ottoman Empire, Baylon and the Pharaohs literally do not exist anymore, like how Italy isn't the Roman Empire by default because that's where Rome is), but a group of people who've just been living there for the past few centuries and generations who just want to live. The problem is, they haven't been allowed that and propaganda keeps being pushed that completely jumps around historical facts like, for example, Jews (ethnically speaking) were not always Jews but the Ancient Hebrews, aka, Phoenicians, aka where Arabs came from ethically. They are the same people, just who moved to different areas and developed different cultures and languages. Sort of like, you know, every other nation with specific dialects for specific regions and different cultures and folk stories depending on where you go.

The point is, so much of Jewish history is actively being erased to "protect the Jews" by...commuting cultural genocide of the Jews and Arabs. It ignores the actual impact of Nazism within Israel's formation and history, how much it influenced policy, how Jews who were "too visibly Phoenicians" aka appeared too Jewish or arabic or middle eastern in appearance were deemed as "weaker" and "lesser" for my surviving the holocaust and used as a reason to deny rights to both Jews and Arabs who were too visibly Semitic. It ignores how antisemetic Israel is towards Jewishness and how utterly antisemetic Islamophobia is because they are literally from the same origin and, yes, hatred and fear of one does carry into hatred and fear of the other. So much of the propaganda and denialism of history happening right now is a direct response to dear and hatred of "big noses", "brown skin" and people deemed as too middle eastern because they, just like in World War II, World War I and beforehand, antisemetism is the backbone of British imperialism and conquest of the middle east (yes, this also means a targeting of Arabs and Jews as people who look a specific way). And yes I'm annoyed and yes this is a ramble that's probably not very coherent, but damn I'm so sick and tired of misinformation and the twisting of everything to suit this narrative of "Arabs versus Jews" as if they aren't both just Semites who are being collectively oppressed, erased and reinvented by the west to suit western ends.

[squishosaur]

me and my beautiful wife who makes the worst jokes in the world and also wants to violently & mercilessly revolt against the upper class <333

[kaurwreck]

for the ask game: LILAC CHARCOAL AND RASPBERRY

anon this is so sweet 😭

[ask game provided below for reference; if you'd like to play, please reblog from OP here:]

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

LOVE IN THE AIR JAPAN EDITION!! You'll liveblog it too, right?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Nah, not interested.

Obviously I like Love in the Air, but in general I don't pay any attention to remakes.

The original follows the book pretty religiously, and my only major "Why wouldn't you get into that more???" part is glossed over in the novel too (Is everyone just ignoring the fact that- for no significant reason because they have other ways of seeing Payu- Sky humored Rain's boner to the point where he reached out to the man who facilitated his gangrape- presumably for the first time since then- just to ask about some stupid fucking race??? When they could have just followed the semis from Payu's garage?????????????).

*cough*

So yeah, I'll give it a skip.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Emily being an atheist is so funny to me girl was born with prophetic dreams and was like I Will Simply Not Believe In Anything Ever

[immortalsins]

first freehand machine embroidery in over a year lmao | 31/08/23

[achillean-knight]

JUST watched a video about the Afton's and I really love their British accents, but I've seen people dislike it so.... I'm curious. Reblogs or comments welcomed, I really want to know people's thoughts on this!

[ratislatis]

I need everyone to know that when I heard the first note to s2 ep21. I was like "oh my fucking god are they actually playing mcr on this podcast" forgetting that they always do covers??

and then scary marlowe's voice sailed through my car speakers

and I fucking SCREAMED

besties I screamed for THREE straight minutes I was in HYSTERICS. can you imagine being one of those other cars on the highway and just seeing this scrawny teenage girl with possum memorabilia all over the place. and her jaw is just on the floor. and you can't hear anything but you can physically see that she is expending all the air in her lungs

she is yelling "NO WAY. NO FUCKING WAY" with dumbfounded hilarity unparalleled by god

[anachronistic-falsehood]

i'm having ideas for like a qsmp character roleswap and how that would effect the story. like we switch the backstories and canon events of some characters and see what it does. pac and cellbit swap, mike and bagi swap, felps and forever, bad and phil, roier and fit, and tina and tubbo maybe??? or tubbo and niki??? idk those are the only ideas i have right now but i am rotating this potential au in my mind so hard. imagine kid pac running away from the island and ending up in a war with philza minecraft. cellbit and bagi living together in an orphanage before turning to robbery as a means for money. roier from an anarchist wasteland and fit with no memory of why he's here. ofc spiderbit still speedrun their wedding and fitpac still exist in the most agonizing slowburn ever except now cellbit is in a spiral of panic, roier is being recruited by the resistance, fit is depressed and emo, and pac is eating people <3