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clonerightsagenda · 3 months

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One of my professional nemeses is a guy who does not know I exist who consistently posts god awful takes on Inside Higher Ed but today he posted one bitching about the decline of Western culture being taught in schools and how "It’s no secret that today’s kids have much less exposure to those Greek, Roman and Norse myths, legends and sagas" which is a bold take in the age of Percy Jackson, but he then went on to cite Lord of the Rings and Chronicles of Narnia as newer cultural touchstones that "reflect more modern sensibilities, values and concerns, including themes of diversity and inclusion and environmental awareness. They’re crafted with contemporary language and settings, even when set in fantastical worlds, making them more immediately accessible to today’s children than the sometimes archaic language and unfamiliar settings of ancient myths" which ???? Yes Lord of the Rings, infamously written with accessible language.

This is the same guy who wrote a post about how we no longer produce the same caliber of intellectuals as... and then listed off 15 people, all white, 1 woman, and two Georges, so I honestly think he may have been cryogenically frozen for a few decades and they thawed him out to write terrible thinkpieces.

#he went full mask off a while ago so I mostly don't read his posts anymore #but I did today and went ah same shit as always #this is the same guy who wrote that Mexicans came to the Americans 300 years ago #apparently confusing Mexicans with the Spanish #this fucking guy: what is a new trendy hip with the kids media franchise.... chronicles of narnia

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maddy-ferguson · 9 months

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people on twitter falling to their knees because celebrities are posting pro-israel insta stories how old are you that this matters to you

#and how and why are you shocked when supporting israel is like. the status quo...#if they're not smart but have morals or whatever some of them will have posted something in support of palestinians in 2021 because they're #just like: people dying is sad. which it is! if they don't have morals they're probably saying something like we stand with israel forever #and always like they're the actual us government or something #like i'm sorry how are you shocked that western and especially american celebrities are pro israel #like if you know enough to be disappointed that they are how do you not know enough to expect them to be i'm confused #and also idk being like omg noooo look at me x this isn't you is so weird like. what. again how old are you #anyway this is just like i was saying this summer #like rn doing a thread of celebrities you should unfollow because they posted something pro-israel is kinda pathetic #and the thread has 4.5 million impressions and it's just people going omg nooo sitcom background actor number 3 is cancelled now...like i #think it's so weird #it's probably going to get even worse for palestine and that's so sad #and like i say: brf slt

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aroaceofthesea · 3 months

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Feel free to talk about how you feel about this in the tags!!

*vote for what you feel is a normal time, not necessarily what you usually do. Idk use your own definition of normal

#this is a fascinating topic for me as a spanish person #it always feels like everywhere they eat so early so yeah i want non spanish ppl answering this lol #<-but also spanish ppl do vote pls lets confuse french ppl at least #maybe even americans #mine #polls

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burtlancster · 1 month

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apparently all mike wallace had to do to get him to answer this question was play truth or consequences

#there’s more than one story in the buford biog about him losing his temper and then breaking down afterward #bc he was upset with himself and also confused about why he always exploded like he did #but this interview was in 1948. he was aware that it was a problem from the beginning #it’s his irish temper + the emotional inheritance from his mother #but also i think he was massively insecure about certain things #like when they were filming ssos (from tony curtis’ memoir american prince) sandy mackendrick wanted burt to #slide down the booth in jj's first scene so falco could sit next to him and therefore it could be more intimate but #burt was adamant that jj hunsecker wouldn't slide down for anyone nor would he let himself be boxed in at a table without an escape route #but sandy had his own vision so they butted heads and the second sandy raised his voice burt upended a table #a disproportionate reaction to a creative conflict and probably (like he said) about a culmination of things not just that #financial liability and the fact that odets was writing scenes they were filming hours beforehand for one #does he want the push back bc the conflict breeds better ideas and he just doesn't know how big and scary he is? so it comes off worse than #what he intended?#or is he exploding bc he's sensitive about sharing his creative ideas and doesn’t want to be judged harshly #probably a combination of creative conflict and resolution being a part of his process and needing to feel like the bestest boy #but hes so fucking hard to pin down bc there's examples that contradict all of this #photoplay magazine #1948 #1940s #clipping #i should just post this whole q&a

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rivalsilveryuri · 3 months

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Do you say chewsday

I do. Sorry for being british.....

#VOICEMAIL #though sometimes its likr. i say tyoosday and words loose all meaning and my soul sinks halfway theough the floor in a grim reminder that #short people are closer to hell and i feel the heat of death so close to home #i think i used the wrog lose . i always forget which is which sicr i say them the exact same #the way i say words are likr. a fucked up combo of scottish .. somr kind of american i accidentally picked up. posh english when im tryign #to enunciate........ basically its all gone wrong i think . but i still say chewsday so has anything changed in the end #ph yeah and the scottish itself is a combo of glaswegian and dundonian so rwally its #a great combo to confuse anyone from anywhere

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crazy-lazy-elder-sims · 1 month

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me trying to look for inspo:

hey google whats that one building in NewYork thats in every superhero/modern fantasy movie and they all stand on the top of it contemplating and it has gargoyle status that sometimes talk to them i think

#as a non american nyc always fascinated me and confused me at the same time #its always the center of every movie ever but also they never show it fully somehow #and it has talking gargoyle statues i think

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frereamour · 2 days

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Misleadingly, one of Liam's is called "Guess God Thinks I'm Abel," suggesting Noel is Cain -- that is, the killer brother. But the song's not about brothers; it's about lovers.

Source: The Washington Times, May 2005

#this one always cracks me up #yeah man think on that a little longer i guess #love the archive making fun of the guy for being a 'confused american'

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novumoru · 11 months

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american friends, please help me, is it really such a hugely ~mystique~ thing as to why people would sacrifice themselves for a lost cause? are there no examples of people doing that in public consciousness???

i am reading so much about the mystification and glorification of kamikaze by americans but i also keep encountering white authors who are saying that they were only enlightened by Ivan Morris' nobility of failure because they could've never grasped the concept of heroes who fail without him and that's just... so unbelievable to me...

#it's the mystique of the white american mindset that can only ever think of succeeding for a cause i guess #i feel like i am losing my mind because they always talk about OH THE WESTERN MYTHS ARE SO DIFFERENT #but like idk there sure are heroes who fail in europa too #martyrs are a real thing #i am so confused

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hotmess-exe · 1 year

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i fucking hate US government form standards so much. why on earth is every race that is not "Hispanic or Latino" listed with "(Not Hispanic or Latino)" next to it?? literally what the fuck does this mean??? what am i, a HISPANIC AFRICAN AMERICAN, supposed to put down exactly???

#i'm always so confused by this shit like what the fuck #i'm literally both #i'm a first gen african american and my origin country uses Spanish #WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO #just thoughts #this shit is so stupid someone pls make it make sense #it doesn't even make sense for their own demographic counting purposes does it???#since it's the standard way to ask it i come across this shit on job apps all day #makes no fuckin sense

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lazaruspiss · 7 months

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used day-month-year format too much and forgot when 9/11 was the other night. still embarrassed. this was before i got drunk even like im so dumb

#getting my american privilege revoked aughhh #though honestly me being confused by month-day format doesn't explain me thinking it was in 2002 #... i was thinking of all the 'we remember' ads that aired the year after probably. the real 9/11 #oh also im a complete light weight and a silly idiot when drunk ive learned #im always a silly idiot but even more so #ramble tag

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running-in-the-dark · 6 months

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watching Buffy with my niece (11) and just had to explain what it meant when Xander said that Willow's phone was ringing, so she wasn't online. I feel old 😬

#there's actually a lot that I have to explain lol #but most of it is just US specific things that she doesn't get #I remember how confusing I always found that when watching american shows as a kid/teenager #and now rewatching some of them as an adult it's like ooooh okay now that makes sense #a lot of healthcare stuff. people not getting time off work. things like that that you don't get without context #also lots of things that are translated VERY badly. so badly that they don't make sense in german but you can tell what they originally said #once you know enough English. so I have to explain those things too #would've been useful to have that when I was a kid myself haha

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izzy-b-hands · 9 months

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On a random fic related side note, just saw I'm at nearly 80 fics written for our flag, and can only think to myself

'wow bud, you had like. over 100 for the Pacific probably even faster than this. You've really lost steam, huh?'

and like. Brain. could we just enjoy the number go up, even if number go up SLOWLY

#text post #i probably need to shower and try to sleep and not keep writing but like #my Emotions are very Much right now and they're waiting for me for when I try to sleep #but if I keep writing then i just randomly break into slightly confused tears and can keep going #aka god sorry izzy for any new our flag stuff i might write tonight bc he almost always gets to thru a new trauma #based on whatever im currently working thru or struggling with #him or stede god sorry to both of them i'll do my best to like. fuck push myself to write a cute fic #some of these are halloween leaning prompts like. I haven't written anyone taking the bonnet kids trick or treating yet #yes i know it's an almost entirely american thing and isn't realistic but like. how else am i putting these pirates #in a modern au with dorky current costumes like. jack alone is a beautiful font of opportunities with that #inflatable dinosaur suit? he has four including one handmade #tacky sex pun costumes? he has an entire plastic tub full of them #...brain really wants the number to keep go up i need to write PARDON ME

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rowanhoney · 8 months

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Man Americans weird me out so much

#this guy got a fig jam and Brie sandwich then is getting upset there’s no mustard sauces or anything to have with it im so confused #that sounds disgusting #who dips a sandwich in sauce is that normal American behaviour??#also if u have jam and melted cheese why do u even need sauce #also fig and mustard sound disgusting together #also he just returned his plate and asked for a takeaway box to eat out of idk why cos the plate was clean #THATS just wasteful #and asked me for sugar when I walked by when it was right next to him #and asked for forks for a croissant?????? who eats a croissant w forks????#Idk I’m just confused #cos he keeps coming up to me w weird and unnecessary requests #which then makes me feel bad like I’m not good at my job #Also cos he asked for tap water and I pointed to the water dispenser and said it’s just there #and he never got himself water but sat right next to it #so then I’m walking by feeling guilty like I forgot to give him water but it’s clearly self serve and it’s right next to him so I’m like #hmmmm #Americans just always tend to behave in a way where I’m like???? or have odd requests #tho this super working class English guy came in yday and asked if we did coffee. like ur in a coffee shop idk how to answer that #and had a few other questions that made me question is this guy an alien does he never leave the house idk

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britneyshakespeare · 2 years

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It seems hard to me when I look at her sometimes, and think how many without one tithe of her genius or greatness of spirit have granted them abundant health and opportunity to labour through the little they can do or will do, while perhaps her soul is never to bloom nor her bright hair to fade, but after hardly escaping from degradation and corruption, all she might have been must sink out again unprofitably in that dark house where she was born. How truly she may say, 'No man may care for my soul.' I do not mean to make myself an exception, for how long I have known her, and not thought of this till so late—perhaps too late. But it is no use writing more about this subject; and I fear, too, my writing at all about it must prevent your easily believing it to be, as it is, by far the nearest thing to my own heart.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti writing of Lizzie Siddal's health in a letter dated 23 July, 1854

#european date orientation even tho it feels unnatural to my american brain #quotes #pre raphaelite #dante gabriel rossetti #rossetti #lizzie siddal #elizabeth siddal #elizabeth eleanor siddall #he really did admire her. not just the vague and vain concept of 'love' but he truly respected and appreciated her.#as much as a young victorian man could anyway......#this book by jan marsh is so insightful. it's truly flipping a lot of my expectations and previous assumptions #i didn't realize how deeply he cared for her in all the years they were just courting. ppl made it sound like he encouraged her only a bit #in her artistic pursuits but he gave her all the credit and praise for everything.#lizzie could make one stroke on a canvas and he'd start crying #i think ppl confuse his later lurid affairs as a widower w him being a playboy in his 20s. which doesn't appear to be the case.#i remember reading somewhere years ago that there was no evidence he committed adultery in their (albeit short) marriage but ppl assume #based on what they know about him. but he and lizzie were still very young when she died and he was much more bright-eyed and bushytailed #it seems in her very early adulthood.#didn't yeats also lose his virginity when he was like 40??? and he of course got around w a lot of women once he did.#ppl always make assumptions of what historical figures must've been like based on their modern assumptions of how ppl behave #jan marsh is smashing my entire schema of dgr as a young man and im kinda here for it #the girlies are gagging for guggums

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opisasodomite · 8 months

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I only ever check Facebook to see what my elderly (soon to be) father in law posts (mostly to shittalk it to my fiancé) and one college friend, but somehow facebooks algorithm got royally fucked for me and now I’m only ever getting served posts for Indians learning English that are just big infographics of vegetable names and such things

#I’m always fascinated by the people who comment on these posts and are like what about X #especially when it’s confused Americans who really thought a tiny jpeg would lost every single vegetable or profession or sport or whatever #I also love when the post uses a really obscure dialects term for an item #like brinjal for eggplant #(though given thats apparently an Indian English term it makes sense in context)

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locketdropet · 9 months

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Seeing people in all-red or all-white outfits gets confusing when you’re multi-cultural

#from an American born Chinese American #you really see how historical and cultural influences shape a society when you’re confused where you go #as an artist I have choices to make and I’m always unsure whether it’s the right one

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