#the past is a different country

[therobotmonster]

On the subject of comic books and emphasis.

Getting some use out of my Tyrannomax extras.

[qvincvnx]

the thing about culture that's difficult for a lot of people it seems to me is that "culture" is not some ontologically coherent Blob where you can sit at the table and someone will serve it to you and you get to just sit there and Receive it. or, it's not something you can dig up and carefully extract unchanged, if you sit carefully enough at your books, and then put on your mantle to admire. i'm a motherfucker whose career is about digging things up from books so i get the appeal, and yet that's not what Culture is, because culture is what you Do. so you already have one. what food do you eat? where do you live? what rituals do you perform? do you take your shoes off when you go inside?

culture is distinct from religion and ethnicity (though obviously it's interrelated with both), and deeply related to the place you live now and its customs and foodways and norms for politeness and hospitality, and what other populations live around you in the place you live now. trying to connect to the mystical immigrant old-country past of your ancestors is unlikely to get you the results you're looking for - culture is something you do every day and i promise you already have one. and you're already doing it. which means that you can also just as easily change the things you do if you don't like them.

[cuntylestat]

Fifty years later, you talk like he was your soulmate, like you were locked in some fucked up gothic romance.

“This is the odyssey of recollection.” The tapes are an admitted performance. This is the premise of our interview. Half a century later, allow me my odyssey. 

[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

[fvckw4d]

"other countries have poor people but worse, don't speak usamerican" fuck you actually. Shiver in my freezing ass cockroach infested poisoned water mold ladened lead paint flaking ass apartment with me. "At least you're not the REAL poor or getting bombed or whatever" repeat what you said back slowly and then jump into the poisioned river down my street. Starve with me. Bitch.

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

Omg back to Sweden again.

And this time for good.

I am not moving EVER AGAIN.

*puts roots in Swedish soil and starts stocking up to make glögg*

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Sometimes I get a bit ticked about the whole "invisible Canada" thing, but I went to a visiting scholar lecture about the Battle of the North Atlantic in WW2 from a British academic this morning, and he verbatim said: "Canada isn't involved enough it makes a difference." And the friend I went with pats my shoulder like, "I'm sure you guys did everything that you could do."

If that isn't the most concise summation of general opinions of Atlantic history I've ever seen, I'll never see a better one.

[aria0fgold]

The thing bout me being so fixated on The Cursing of Château Castle is that in order to understand and fill in the blanks of the setting the story was written in, I first have to understand isat's world itself. But thankfully being a mhyk fan as well, it prepared me for the worldbuilding that isat has because it's around the same level with each other. By that I mean that some concepts in isat isn't built the same way those concepts are in reality, which are commonplace. Like, Vaugarde is a country whose belief system is centered around Change, so change craft is an integral part of it but in Ka Bue, its belief system is centered around Expressions and change craft is illegal in it cuz of its "unknown limits." But it Is still possible to find places that knows change craft if you know where to look (something that Odile knows of too).

Meanwhile The Country's belief system centers on stars and space, in which case no one else other than those that knows of the belief can fully understand what stars and the objects beyond the sky are. Their knowledge of it are surface level basically, also something to note is that whenever Siffrin says "stars," it seems to be said in the language, or remnants of the language of The Country considering that Isabeau had to ask around what "stars" mean but it also is pretty clear that stars is part of the Vaugardian language and is something commonly known as the flickering lights in the night sky.

So basically, commonplace concepts in reality isn't as common nor does it even exist at all in the isat universe. So we go back to the setting of which The Cursing of Château Castle is possibly written on, clearly it's set in a place were castles are common, which means that there's a high chance of it being set during the medieval times of isat. BUT! Due to the way isat's world is built, that "medieval time" isn't something that can be based off of the way it worked in reality. Especially considering the fact that isat's world is already somewhat set in older times by the fact that modern technology isn't a thing that exists in it (such as phones).

And that the medieval times in reality is rife with a Lot of Problems but those same problema are already dismantled and might as well cease to exist with the way isat's world is built so the problems during isat's medieval times differs by a Lot. So in order to pinpoint and approximate What problems continues to exist in those times within isat and what other problems became a thing in regards to the changes of concepts and belief systems of isat's world.

[criminal-sen]

I AM BACK ON THE FREE HEALTH INSURANCE FOR POOR PEOPLE, THANK FUCKING GOD🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[marypsue]

Looking through my AO3 history for a fic I really liked and want to recommend to someone but stupidly did not bookmark and. I have no memory of this place. 2013 Mary what were you even doing in a BBC Sherlock merperson AU.

[mel-loly]

-c!Brazil!🇧🇷✨

[discourseposter]

"Ron tell us about what's happening in your country" I don't owe it to you read the news. I'm too busy trying to live my life in these conditions

[beastofmoss]

Also, if you're a minor working—please, please, be aware of the laws for minors. Most work places follow the laws, but I have been in places where they. Just. Didn't. And were probably breaking a lot of laws there.

[lisbonsteresa]

[through gritted teeth] i am so normal about this

[malewifehenrycooldown]

yeah yeah i got recommended that Henry Cooldown analysis video whatever. i am still not over people comparing Henry to a medieval knight, NOT even taking the time to unpack that said mental image of a knight is 'mostly' associated with the British Monarchy*, an extension of its Empire that *checks notes* did a long list of atrocities like imperialism and colonialism, and also (multiple) genocides.

Henry is NOT British, he is Irish. Although considering the history of Ireland and how poorly the British Empire has treated them (amongst SO MANY OTHER COUNTRIES AND DIASPORAS), yeah it's NOT surprising that an Irish man like Henry is essentially forced to adopt quote on quote 'British sensibilities' to 'survive'. <- intentional imagery or not, the implications are not lost on me.

Like okay, calling out the comparison is cool but it sure would be nice if people went further to unpack what that means and implies in the long term. you know, like ACTUAL CRITICAL ANALYSIS?!