#multicultural thoughts

[aslansjedi]

New work posted on Ao3, and it's the first thing I've ever written that's specifically about Kanan and Hera, so I'm super excited! (It's also the first link I've tried to put in a tumblr post, so I hope it works...) Further details and summary of the story are below the cut.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla, Depa Billaba & Kanan Jarrus Characters: Kanan Jarrus, Hera Syndulla Additional Tags: Mentioned Depa Billaba, Secrets, Vulnerability, Memories, Accents, Hera's accent has always been a fascination of mine, Ghost Crew Are Family (Star Wars), kanan and hera are accidentally married, Post-Star Wars: A New Dawn Summary:

Hera and Kanan have become a team since they met on Gorse. However, as that teamwork blurs into a more complex relationship that is closer to family than co-workers, they must both learn how to trust one another with the secrets they've been hiding since they were children.

[rosegoldthorns]

I just love the miscommunication circumstances with Damian and the Batfam -NOT bc he grew up in a cult- but bc he grew up in wide range of cultures that did not include the USA.

Like when he first joined the family, he refused to eat any of Alfred's cooking because it was "poisioned". In factuality it tasted bad to him because it was bland and English but since he had probably not cooked before damian could not articulate that it was just not spicy. Instead because it tasted weird he decided that it was poisoned and it went as well as one can expect.

It wasn't until he watched Alfred make it that he released it was just unseasoned and most defintely not poisoned, it was in fact so lacking of powers that Damain concluded that there is no way he could be poisoned accidentally even.

Just like stuff like that. Please give me multicultural shenanigans that confused the hell out of everyone.

[markoliphant]

Also the Liberal party function looks like you’d imagine

[milli-moi]

Why does Rio speak Spanish?

So here’s a thought for everyone. I thought the Spanish from Rio was a cool nod to the origins of death as a personified thing.

One of the earliest personifications of death is Mexican, coming from the Aztec Goddess whose name was literally Lady of Death, or Lady Death. There is also Mayan mythology on death personified which would take the idea of Rio way back to BCE.

But then… doesn’t that mean that Rio would speak occasionally in her native language, not the language brought by colonisers but the original Mayan?

We don’t have enough understanding of the original Mayan language but it’s branched into multiple languages. I have read that Ch’orti is believed the closest, so wouldn’t it have been really cool if that’s the language that Rio randomly adds into conversation?

Her name is also Spanish which feels a bit odd in hindsight. I’m no expert in mesoamerican history so I might be wrong on some of the research I’ve done. I’m currently making a little comic thingy (which is taking longer than first planned) and I will have Rio speaking Ch’orti in it but if someone speaks ch’orti I’d LOVE the proper translation, and if anyone can give any more insight into if Ch’orti is the closest language to ancient Mayan then that would also be awesome

[sivavakkiyar]

‘can’t believe’ scroll has an interview with a biographer of Hedgewar where he seriously tries to claim that such a referring to such a pivotal figure of the RSS as ‘an ultra Hindu, a hater of minorities’ is ‘patently false’, while explaining why with this:

Jesus Christ absolutely no one knows what fascism is; what next, it was a Brahmin’s idea to burn the Manusmriti and Savarkar assented, so…(oh wait they’ve been saying that one for years). Wretched wretched

(you could quite literally say exactly all this about Gandhi, or almost any major savarna figure of the early 20th century)

[librarydeyo]

I don't speak Portuguese, but one time I was listening to a gamer's stream, Cellbit, in Portuguese at midnight while working on a project about strokes for my anatomy class

I got so focused that I forgot it was on, and when I started hearing it again my sleep deprived mind FLIPPED OUT for a good 10 seconds because it sounded like gibberish and I thought it was English.

I thought I was having a stroke, genuinely ㅠㅠ

[kgetsu]

hc + pale sands

HEADCANON + WORD — Pale Sands.

Pale Sands is a self-sufficient enclave despite its lack of trees and location within the desert. Its proximity to the ocean and soil-based fertility due to sharing space with a dormant volcano means that people don't generally sleep on empty stomachs. Kagetsu commonly talks about food like sashimi, dango, and rice across his supports + exploration lines which doesn't just speak to his preferences, but his ability to do so. Struggle isn't absent but it is absent more often than not.

Saltwater fish and onigiri are Pale Sands staples. Nori is not hard to come by. Because Pale Sands has a noted sparsity of wood but makes use of scrolls, the scrolls in question are made from papyrus plants and animalskin.

"Pale Sands has one volcano, but it lies dormant. I have never seen the fearsome flow of lava." (Kagetsu, at map: Lava Fields)

"Bonfires are very much fun! Wood was scarce in my homeland, so we burned leaves instead." (Kagetsu, Somniel: campfire)

In another regards to struggle, Kagetsu doesn't once express concern over the propagation of Corrupted throughout Pale Sands. Even Timerra does this in regards to Solm, the most isolated kingdom of the Elyos four. Pale Sands is just that secluded from the rest of the world; an island within an island, and for good reason, when a mountain range serves as natural insulation from threats.

Simultaneously, this isn't to say that Pale Sands people are defenseless; with honor above victory being a notable Pales Sands tenet, they are a cultured warrior people. Brodians but if Brodians were sticklers on the right and wrong way to win a duel. Them being pedantic warriors in conjunction with Kagetsu's flower-based name makes me wonder if the proximity to Elusia has anything to do with their beliefs, like cultural runoff, but that's a wormhole theory to go into at another time.

As if Kagetsu (Pale Sands prince + Solm extroversion + Elusian knighthood) wasn't already a cultural Frankenstein

[atickandacricket]

i feel like i could write an essay about why i’d never want to live in a house again. weird how i don’t feel safe in an essentially soundproofed building with the only people around, supposed friendly neighbors, wanting to keep to themselves because it’s difficult to deal with things like dv or “private family issues,” that stuff you’re on your own for

not to mention prices, gentrification and white washing, inaccessibility of the house itself or suburban mazes, quality of new construction, cost (and again, quality) of renovation, potential HOAs, legally required maintenance, zoning laws, lack of creative/innovative architecture, etc

so much of what suburbs are are upheld by pillars of white supremacy

[twinsunstars]

does anyone else sometimes match actors to characters when reading books or is it just me

[imflyingfish]

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[metapphjores]

i miss being a barista :(

[malwen-sosialaidd]

pretty sickening seeing the far-right jump on a tragic, isolated incident to push their divisive, bullshit agenda

[becca4leafclover]

waiiiitt I just realized the reason why I love QSMP so much as a concept is because it's kind of like my childhood growing up overseas oh my goooodddddd what if i cried

[melaniem54]

Review: Minimum Wage Magic (DFZ Book 1) by Rachel Aaron

Rating:  4.5⭐️🌈 This book had me at the title!Minimum Wage Magic (DFZ Book 1) by Rachel Aaron drew me in by that great title, then the interesting cover, and the story behind both.  Plus the fact that I got to discover a new author and ever expanding universe to dive into! Rachel Aaron has been developing this magical trippy world through 3 connected series, of which the DFZ trilogy is the…

[effectingsomedragons]

Hang on wait I'm suddenly OBSESSED with the idea of pointe shoes for quarians.

[dewdoll99]

how long we pretending that a lot of anti tourism rhetoric isn’t just testing the anti-immigration waters