#or even foreign countries...

[offshore-brinicle]

Can I say though Yi Sang and Aeng-du's instant connection and solidarity is one of my favorite things about this event, it's just so sweet and also so special how they find that feeling of safety just from also knowing someone from the homeland they have left behind while they remain so out of place in The City. It stands out so much when the general mentality of the world is "everyone for themselves" but S Corp's people and those who had to leave it behind seem to have found so much understanding and sympathy with each other.

Overall I find it so interesting and unique that more than any other District in The City the people of District 19 feel such genuine attachment to the land and its heritage, not just with Aeung-du, Kim and the rest of the Blade Lineage but going back to Dongbaek and Dongrang's EGOs too, it's just so special to see that very united sense of culture and heritage in a world that despite being multicultural and multilingual seems to have largely left such notions behind

[catofoldstones]

I wonder what it would feel like to find out that your husband and father of your two children is a paedophile at Super Bowl in front of the whole of country because that’s what Elia felt.

[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.

[teafrtwo]

[alatismeni-theitsa]

To live in Greece means to be surprised when politicians resign after a tragedy (more than 50 dead) their corrupted system caused.

Some Greeks I was around at the time were so shocked Karamanlis resigned that they congratulated him through the screen..... Congratulate a man because he did the bare minimum and took the responsibility that was his in the first place. A responsibility about something VERY basic that should have existed in our train system for DECADES. (Others are also responsible for it but the current one was currently in a position to prevent this)

Bottom line, the system is so corrupted and so deep in the influence of criminal rings that the higher-ups getting inconvenienced when people die is a first for us. A thing to be commended.

The tragedy could have been a human error solely - the accused also claimed he tried to move the rail but it didn't budge - but a human shouldn't be given that much responsibility to begin with! In 2023, instead of warning traffic lights and electronic systems, we have mostly humans communicating through wireless comms about the position of the trains throughout the country! They might as well text each other on Viber and be like "the train reached Kalamata, we are fine"

That's obviously not the whole picture but I am too pissed off rn to give a damn

--- Don't start with "it's basically the same here" if you are from an Anglophone or NW European country because 99% of the times I read such comments, turns out the speaker has no measure of comparison. You already have the most basic decorum, safety measures, and policies in place we can only dream of and beg for decades to have here. While no country is perfect or without problems, we've been asking for years to reach your level because down here at our level it's even shittier.

[meirimerens]

genuinely and legitimately when i see how so chronically incurious about the world some americans are i wish i could buy everyone a geoguessr subscription and every evening mandatory 15 rounds of Country Streak so you get to see how other people live

[bonksoundeffect]

The born in Eastern Europe curse of knowing you were doomed from the start

[otrtbs]

hey nat! i’m pretty sure you have answered this before But why did you pick brazil as a location for james’ dream house in ahb?

hello! it's definitely somewhere in the depths of this blog but i will answer again anyway!

i think brazil is the perfect mix of james and regulus. São Paulo is one of the art capitals of the world and for good reason. also i know regulus would love the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra and drag james there every chance he got. but it's also got the outdoor adventurous activities for james. with both extremes of the mountains and the oceans for him to explore. and it's got the most beautiful sunshine there and everyone i've ever met from brazil has been just The Most lovely and kind and welcoming. and i just wanted a soft and kind landing for james. after everything. somewhere warm where the birds sing. and to me, that was brazil.

brazil was always james' dream first, independent of regulus. but then it quickly expanded to include regulus, and that was fine because brazil was a good fit for both of them!

[frevandrest]

Do you think things would've been different had Louis and Marie Antoinette accepted constitutional monarchy.

Oh, definitely. I am bad at alternate history (which I dislike about myself, because it is super interesting), so I can't guess how, but it would sure be a very different situation if they honestly accepted constitutional monarchy.

There is this misconception of the French revolution as the "mob"/revolutionaries jumping at the first opportunity to crush royals, but in reality, Louis and MA were given so many chances and things dragged for several years until it became clear that they were uninterested at being constitutional monarchs. Then and only then the republic was founded and monarchy abolished. (And all of this before any of them lost their head).

We know is that the people of France - revolutionaries at least - wanted constitutional monarchy more than Louis and MA did. National Constituent Assembly prepared everything for it to be put into place, all while the royal couple pretended they wanted to play along. In the writings and speeches of many prominent revolutionaries, there is a clear will and hope for constitutional monarchy. Only a minority (mostly among Girondins) called for a republic. Still, the project of the constitutional monarchy was well underway and constitution prepared when Louis and MA decided to flee the country.

It became clear in the summer 1791 that Louis never really supported the idea of a constitutional monarchy. And yet, they did not proclaim the republic then and there - Louis got another chance. So things dragged for another whole year, but this is where the idea of a republic was truly born: through Louis' actions and treason.

So given that the king's treason and unwillingness to accept the constitutional monarchy led to the proclamation of the republic (and (in)directly, other things, such as the war with foreign powers and a surge of counter-revolutionary efforts to name a few), I can definitely say that things would've been different if he and MA honestly accepted constitutional monarchy.

[worstloki]

Loki surveilling the skyline of New York from the top of Stark Tower and clocking that his favorite paired set of buildings are gone. sad

[squidgirlautism]

i dont think goyim should have particularly strong feelings about what jews should think about living in the diaspora Tbh

[geddyqueer]

If you ever felt inclined to share the bizarre 2012 experience, I'd love to hear it ^^

>be me

sorry. um i was in copenhagen with friends on what was already a weird and unsettling trip and we went to the theme park in the middle of the city and in a fit of pique i got on a roller coaster which like. i mean i don't speak danish so i couldn't have known but it genuinely looked like a children's ride? i thought it was going to be a quick one. well instead this thing went on a loop de loop so tight that i passed out very briefly, and when i came to, [BODY HORROR TW] i had bit my tongue so hard that my mouth was full of blood, and the roller coaster was hurtling past a stage where the cardigans were playing their first live show since their hiatus?? and i just remember opening my mouth (which was full of blood), and asking the poor hapless woman seated next to me on the roller coaster "was that the cardigans?" and she was like "D:"

[jenna-louise-jamie]

it's extremely funny to think about when ben met alex again after brecon beacons. like 'oh hey it's that kid again. i'm gonna follow him around and see what he's up to. oh the kid is trying to spy on me now. i'm gonna threaten him with a gun. sike! lol got you cub.'

[gin-and-lemon]

Nothing is funnier to me than checking out of our hotel and spotting Mick apologetically barely stopping to take photos with fans while running to his shuttle like “I’m sorry! I have to go! 🥺”. The receptionist and I made eye contact and giggled at his little sprint, puppy eyes and all

[chorus-communities]

one day im gonna write like. a fucking essay on the personal and cultural and like. emotional importance of laika to me and why i specifically named myself after her and all of you will have to read it /silly

[pointless-letters]

“Multi culteral”