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bargainsleuthbooks · 1 year

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Death at the Dance (Lady Eleanor Swift #2) by Verity Bright #BookReview #CozyMystery

I'm catching up on the Lady Eleanor Swift mystery series and enjoying finding out more about the intrepid sleuth. #Deathatthedance is the second mystery in the series #LadyEleanorSwift #VerityBright #cozymystery #bookreview #eleanorswift #Audiobook

England, 1920. Lady Eleanor Swift, adventurer extraordinaire and reluctant amateur detective, is taking a break from sleuthing. She’s got much bigger problems: Eleanor has two left feet, nothing to wear and she’s expected at the masked ball at the local manor. Her new beau Lance Langham is the host, so she needs to dazzle. Surrounded by partygoers with painted faces, pirates, priests and enough…

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#1920s #A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Book #A Very English Murder #Bookouture #Death at the Dance #Death on Deck #Eleanor Swift #Eleanor Swift Mystery #Verity Bright

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wonder-worker · 1 month

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I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the death of her family name.

I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.

Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.

All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:

“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”

Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.

#(the quote is by Richard Woodville in his deathbed will; he was the last of the Woodville brothers to die)#elizabeth woodville #woodvilles #my post #to be clear I am not arguing that the death of an English gentry family name is some kind of giant tragedy (it absolutely the fuck is not)#I'm trying to put it into perspective with regards to what Elizabeth may have felt because we know her family DID feel this way #writing this kinda reminded me of how I am just not fond at all about the way Elizabeth's experiences in 1483-85 are written about #and the way lots so many of the unprecedentedly horrifying aspects are overlooked or treated so casually:#the seizure and murder of two MINOR sons and the illegal execution of another;#her sheer vulnerability in every way compared to all her queenly predecessors; how she was harassed by 'dire threats' for months;#how she had 5 very young daughters with her to look after at the time (Bridget and Katherine were literally 3 and 4 years old);#how unprecedented Richard's treatment of her was: EW was the first queen of england to be officially declared an adulteress;#and the first and ONLY queen to be officially accused of witchcraft #(Joan of Navarre was accused of her treason; she was never explicitly accused of witchcraft on an official level like EW was)#the first crowned queen of england to have her marriage annulled; and the first queen to have her children officially bastardized #what former queens endured through rumors* were turned into horrifying realities for her.#(I'm not trying to downplay the nightmare of that but this was fundamentally on a different level altogether)#nor did Elizabeth get a trial or appeal to the church. like I cannot emphasize this enough: this was not normal for queens #and not normal for depositions. ultimately what Richard did *was* unprecedented #and of course let's not forget that Elizabeth had literally just been unexpectedly widowed like 20 days before everything happened #I really don't feel like any of this is emphasized as much as it should be?#apart from the horrifying death of her sons - but most modern books never call it murder they just write that they 'disappeared'#and emphasize that ACTUALLY we don't know what happened to them (this includes Arlene Okerlund)#rather than allowing her to have that grief (at the very least)#more time is spent dealing with accusations that she was a heartless bitch or inconsistent intriguer for making a deal with Richard instead #it also feels like a waste because there's a lot that can be analyzed about queenship and R3's usurpation if this is ever explored properly #anyway - it's kinda sad that even after Henry won and her daughter became queen EW didn't really get a break #her family kept dying one by one and the Woodville name was extinguished. and she lived to see it #it's kinda heartbreaking - it was such a dramatic rise and such a slow haunting fall #makes for a great story tho

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miralines · 1 year

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I don’t have the brainpower to elaborate on this the way it deserves but the Toy Soldier is a brilliant parody of militarism and Dapper Steampunk Englishness that really doesn’t get enough credit

#the mechanisms #the mechs #the toy soldier #as I’ve been archiving I found a Jessica law tweet about bad retrofuturism #the kind of thing I like to refer to as taking the punk out of steampunk #and she mentions ts’s manner is very similar to what she’s criticizing #and acknowledges it does murder which that character archetype doesn’t generally #but she didn’t get into how. it does murder. it follows any order. it loves battle and is posh and knows everything about tea etiquette.#and those are bad!! it’s not noble or gallant it’s a very polite war criminal!!#it’s that genteel English officer taken seriously and with the implications of its violence #which is a wonderful pushback to the kind of popular ‘steampunk’ that’s just romanticized neovictorianism

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aroacehanzawa · 4 months

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so um what are your thoughts on milgram so far🥺🥺 fav prisoner fav song theories etc

Ohhh i'm about halfway through the second trial so i haven't developed my thoughts very much for all of them yet, but i think my favourite is haruka especially with how much he changed between the two trials!

I also have a soft spot for mahiru, actually one of my favourite theories was that she was actually stalking her love interest and not in a two-sided relationship, so i was a bit disappointed when the second song showed that wasn't the case tbh..

I'm also intrigued by the theory that kazui breaking his lies was him coming out as gay to his wife, although i think the two mvs are still too vague on this so we'll have to wait and see about it in the third song 🤔

In general i think milgram is such a cool concept like directly incorporating this kind of audience participation really supports the message and social commentary they're trying to make. Like when fuuta was saying how we're basically no different from him when passing judgement on others... much to think about

#also really interesting to see the perspective of discussions in the english-speaking fandom #like how yuno must have done 'more' than abortions to be considered a murderer.#but of course that's considering a very western/first-world perspective on abortions which is (relatively) normalised #and the whole point is about what COULD be considered a 'murder' like same with those who didn't directly kill someone #but still caused their deaths.#anyway i love milgram i think it's such a neat concept!!!

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californiannostalgia · 7 months

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the raven cycle series and marauders fics have a weirdly similar throughline

the bad boy falls in love with the traumatized magician

the bespectacled leader has a prophesied doomed romance with a girl who's very aware of the class divide

the fourth guy is barely there until he very much is (or, depending on interpretation, very much isn't)

#I dunno how to explain henry tho henry my man I couldn't find a metaphor for u I love u bro #the raven cycle #my thoughts #marauders #hp #richard gansey iii #ronan lynch #adam parrish #blue sargent #noah czerny #henry cheng #james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #lily evans #peter pettigrew #the raven cycle spoilers #they're also both set in a very niche english-speaking culture #private school with uniforms and murderous teachers

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kinokoshoujoart · 28 days

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I can't read jpn so now I want a ds/cute mod with all the dialogue (but mostly just romeo's) retranslated... he's so different... like I actually hated the localized version growing up

oh he still irritating in jp but he’s not “The Worst” (i do like “The Worst” too……) and he’s unfortunately got pretty cute dialogue and a redemption arc for the irritating

it would probably be actual hell to retranslate the whole game as a hobby project, if it wasn’t then i’m sure someone would have made an english patch for the japanese version by now considering how much stuff (gay galpal marriage) was removed for the english version

i do enjoy the wacky natsume moments in the localized version, it would also be nice if we could play the game in english without so much of the game (women) (marrying befriending women) (marrying bestfriending witch princess as a woman) being removed and instead kept. as god intended

i’ll post jp dialogue + amateur translation stuff for various events in the game that i noticed neat differences in…….. it’s not just romeo, i’m just biased to disproportionately talk about the fella who i study like a bug

#asks #thank you for the aask #english ds rock romeo is very funny to me #ds romeo is funny to me in general he looks very small #he’s like a rodent #i’m a bit perplexed that jp version takes him as seriously as it does #my favorite romeo events / dialogue are the ones where his face never changes from brainless stare #you hit on girls (・∀・) don’t you ain #if there’s ever a remake i wonder how much would be changed #hmds really doesn’t fit into the wholesome cozy game genre that farming sims have become part of #i think it’s good to have comfy games but also incredibly funny to play a farming sim with murderous intent towards you

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golgothazterror · 6 months

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GT: Did I say something dumb again?

GT: Consarn it.

#homestuck #LoMaX #land of mounds and xenon #jake english #Wow this took me too long #its a shame tumblr is murdering the animated version i made #(this may very well be due to my own technological incompetence)#uhhh click for high quality i guess

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jaxxsoxxn · 23 days

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Feel free to ignoring this ( pls don't), so as you're one of the few people that listen to what I have to say about speedsters, here are some of my negative speedster hcs:

People, in fact, don't realise how dengerous, and scary, speedsters really are until its too late.

- almost every one in this condiction suffers from delusions. Like the negative speed force telling Eobard that he is a monster and him beliving that with all his soul (he in fact is) and he can not change, so he must make Barry's life a living hell forever.( For Owen a see him have some mental problems like Jinx from Arcane).

- They commit antropophagy. As you know speedsters need to eat a lot, and having in mind that the negative ones are "crazy" and by nature they have a too strong predator instinct, i just gonna leave this info here....( really want to talk about this, but dont want to sound weird)

- they can mimic other peoples voices. Speaking is basically vibrating the vocal chords, so a speedster can imitate anyone, and remembering the last hc, they can use it as a hunting tecnic. ( just like those criptids or skinwalkers).

- sexual impulses. They can be predators in any meaning of the word, and they have enough intelect to make plans, and at some point they may want to setisfy an urge...( it dosen't mean everyone of them do that, but again, just saying)

-claptomaniacs. They dont steal things for its value, they steal stuff because it looks intresting for them, when they dont want it anymore they just throw it away.( That aplies to humans too, the speedster can kidnap a person, just because they liked something in that person, thats not necesarilly sexual, they can spend hours looking at that person or hearing them talk.)

And thats are the most things that worried me about speedsters, I don't fear them losing their mind and messing up the multiverse, I fear them if they lose their mind and start to hunting people in the woods, and in big ass Citys that dont mind if somebody desapered.

Thanks for reading ❤! Hope you finded that at least a little scary and realistic, I want to become a terror and body horror writer in the future. I know its dosent about your AU but I would like to share it with another Flash fan.

I am a Twane hater first and foremost, so-

Also, Kaliesuriens, henlo :D

But, let's chat about it, in points! But imma use my ver of Owen as the main silly guy--

I imagine Owen would defiantly let the speedforce take over his mind at first, he's obsessive over coming back, even when he's "back". He needs everything to be exactly how he wants it, and negative Speedforce feeds into it - "Yes, you are right. How could it happen? It had no right, you didn't allow it." type of stuff. A child, who is stripped of all the control it could have, would fight for it with nails and teeth.

I do wonder if they'd commit autosarcophagy (autocannibalism). Time for speedsters is a horrid thing, and with Owen? Owen, who was stuck in speedforce and suddenly left, hungry and bitter - too animalistic to care. I mean, he heals so quickly and it hurts only a little, the meat is so fresh, even if the hair sometimes gets annoying. I do imagine he does not care for rawness of meat- And if he finds humans harder to hide, to get in time? Well, the corpses of animals with marks of human nails ripping through their flesh and teeth marks that couldn't be any other animal's? But remember not to touch it- not to move it. Speedsters always come back to their last place of hunt. Obsessive little things.

Owen, now twenty-five, still sounding like the sacred eight years old. Boomer has nightmares of his blood-red eyes and his silhouette leaning above him - so skinny and yet grown. His body so unlike his baby son, yet the same voice calling for his dad, for his papa - "Please, da, what did I do? Why aren't you looking at me?" He wakes up sick to his stomach. Owen, angry how others get their parents, hiding in a forest and hunting one of the rangers, knowing that he has a young daughter. They have everything, her last birthday he took her to Disneyland, while she whined that it's not Disney World - how dare they? How dare she. Only two "dad, help!" and he's exactly where he needs him.

Speedsters, at all, have a strong sexual drive for me - I mean, they do not have to rest at all. Mixed with stronger instincts? Damn. When Owen is home, softer - tamer, it's not that big of a deal. Until Axel comes over with rogues, so loud and eye catching. They both are horrid for each other, but only one of them might end up with scars after their meetings. Pied Piper jokes about being attacked by a feral cat.

I just wanna mention - with Kleptomania, it's qualified under inability to control impulses (the stolen stuff has literally 0 value, some give it away some throw it away) or at least was! But also, I doubt speedsters feel the guilt and anxiety later. But it's still under the "lacking control over impulses" which I believe is common under the Speedster fam tree. I also want to say that even while Boomer's not a speedster/handmade speedster, I can imagine that he has Kleptomania on some lighter lvl. It's just not as common, but when it hits, it hits pretty hard. He usually ends up giving the trinkets or even bigger things to other rogues. They know about his little issue. When he learns that Owen also does so, he worries that it's biological, but Weather Wizard helps him to figure out that it's not actually the same. (biggest thing he took - a chair from the police station, left it in the nearest trash can. He believed back then that he wanted to do it and did it to prove to himself that he can. He learned around a month later that it's really not that.)

So ye, ofc I had to put some stuff about Boomer and Owen (a lot of stuff about Owen), but what can I do :'D

Thing with Speedsters hunting, especially in DC universe, they would blend in with everything. You hunt near Gotham? Few people disappearing a week is the norm, if you're good enough, no-one notices.

Also, they can vibrate through the walls - whatcha gonna do? Creature Owen seems fun, but imma stay with my normal Owen, especially since in his main surviving au it's Digger with the speed and he got his pop's great agility. (gonna @kaliesuriens bc last time it didnt inform ya)

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victorie552 · 8 months

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Menegroth was totally sacked in Second Kinslaying, right? You know what invaders do when they sack cities? They steal shit. Everything that isn't bolted to the ground (and few things that are) is taken.

And Menegroth was, well, the cultural center of Doriath (and only stone/ish city to my knowledge) and also housed Daeron, who famously invented his own alphabet. I'm sure they had a great library.

Someone, and I'm nominating Maglor for the honor, definitely stole every and each paper (that wasn't burned down during sacking) and took it with them to Amon Ereb or wherever SoF dwelled at the time. ("I mean, it's that or leaving it to the orcs" - Maglor)

SoF had more Sindarin texts and cultural treasures than people in Sirion (they're refugees. what is there to say). Maybe they even offered to trade them for Silmaril (cultural heritage for cultural heritage), before they decided to just go on with the 3rd Kinslaying.

Sure a shit thing to do, but came in handy when Elrond and Elros happened.

#I want to say #very english of them #but every empire and invasion does this #I don't think there were a lot of texts as elves aren't really all that about written records #but they should have Something #stealing their stuff after destroying the country really adds insult to the injury #smaller hurt than all the murder #but still very much a hurt #I really think that has potential #maybe that made the negotiations for Silmaril worse #maybe in the end somehow they had more Sindarin texts than Noldor ones #maybe they gave it all to E and E when they send them to Gilgalad #they gave that all back this time not for silmaril but because it's the right thing to do #and of course it didn't matter in the end #you can make a story there is all I'm saying #headcanon #maglor #menegroth #second kinslaying #sons of feanor #silmarillion #silm

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bargainsleuthbooks · 1 year

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A Very English Murder (Eleanor Swift #1) by Verity Bright #CozyMystery #BookReview

Now that I've read the newest #EleanorSwift mystery by #VerityBright, I decided to go back to the beginning of the series to see how it all started. #AVeryEnglishMurder #cozymystery #goldenage #bookreview #audiobookreview @bookouture @brightverity

Move over Miss Marple, there’s a new sleuth in town! Meet Eleanor Swift: distinguished adventurer, dog lover, dignified lady… daring detective? England, 1920. Eleanor Swift has spent the last few years travelling the world: taking tea in China, tasting alligators in Peru, escaping bandits in Persia and she has just arrived in England after a chaotic forty-five-day flight from South Africa.…

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#1920s #A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Bok #A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Book #A Very English Murder #Audible Audio #Audiobook #Book Review #Bookouture #Cozy Mystery #Eleanor Swift #Hachette UK #Henley Hall #Verity Bright

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pesky--dust · 1 year

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I don’t want to reveal which country I come from, but I would like to share my personal the most infuriating mistranslations made by translators in my country in regards to Hannibal:

1. Instead of “We couldn’t leave without you”, we got “I couldn’t leave without you.”.

2. Total omission of Will’s “Didn’t I?” in Mizumono. In Primavera they translated it tho.

3. Instead of “If I saw you every day forever, Will, I would remember this time.”, we got, “I will remember this moment.” (with a long moment of Mads still speaking in English, so you cleary could heard that he said not only this “I will remember this moment.”).

4. Instead of “murder husbands” we have “a pair of murderers”.

5. The moment I fully realized that the translators in my country had decided to neglate the love of Hannibal and Will (and started to worry how much of homoerotic tension they omitted): instead of Bedelia saying, “Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment in the very sight of you? Yes.”, we got, “Would he like to eat you at the sight of you? Yes.”.

Excuse me—

#hannibal #hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #murder husbands #bedelia du maurier #they are gay cannibals lol #they are canon #they are married #eXCUSE ME—#why they did it #when i got into the fandom and started to watch in english i was like: oh i totally don't remember that.#wait a moment HOW DID SHE CALL THEM????#FREDDIE YOU ARE A QUEEN #yeah find nourisment in the very sight of you is totally the same as he would like to eat you #pesky--dust thoughts

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berryunho · 4 days

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it's only when normal people give me music recommendations that I realize what strange and inexplicable music taste I have like wtf is wrong w me

#1 i cant do slow music and slow is anything that isnt decidedly fast #like 99% of taylor swift songs are too slow for me to stand #i need constant layered noise and vocals okay #2 if a song is in english it cannot be about love #just not my thing i cant sing along i dont like it #like chappell roan is very good. but i cant do it. too much love.#3 i need a concept like obvs if the song isnt about love its gotta be about something and its gotta be good #hence. all the other music i listen to. is typically about murder.#and combined with the need for speed we get. metal.#but i only like very specific mental typically industrial or like horror rap #so basically this means the only music i listen to in english is rap #i listen to metal in every language possible mostly european though #and KPOP.#i make exceptions to these rules occassionally like when the perfect song is around #like hot to go or espresso #or songs i liked when i was a kid #BUT ANYWAYS EXPLAINING THIS TO PEOPLE IS IMPOSSIBLE #SO I ALWAYS POLITELY LISTEN AND GO yeah thats good ahaha EVEN IF I HATE IT BC I KNOW #IM THE WEIRD ONE GJQBROQNRLQNFKS #anyways idk why i felt the need to share this but yeah fun facts about lauren #berryunho.txt

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biromanticbookbabe · 1 year

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My January 2023 Reads!

I read the first five books and I'm still in the middle of the last three. Ford's The Good Solider and Woolf's The Common Reader are both from my grad class on Modernism. We only read pieces of The Common Reader so I wanted to finish reading the whole thing since it's one of Woolf's books that I haven't read completely yet.

Strange Weather in Tokyo and Convenience Store Woman are both novellas that are translated from Japanese.

The best of the books that I finished this month was Strange Weather in Tokyo.

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stinkrascal · 2 years

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When you say they bully vlad, is it bully affectionate or bully bad?

mostly bully affectionate but vlad takes literally everything personally because he is an insecure narcissistic baby man so when they mock him he's like "I've no idea why I bother with the likes of you people. You are all moronic, crass, and therefore beneath me." to which theyre all like "ok Vladdy Daddy <3 whatever makes you feel better!"

#jade answers #anonymous #straud asks #except for yakov he literally just calls vlad stupid on the regular #yakov taught vlad how to read and write in russian and english #so every time they meet yakov is like Let us touch up on your grammar skills my dear idiot boy!#marcellus and helena constantly mock vlad for being a sex pest. he says anything and they're like #Vladdy Daddy you would feel so much better if only you got pegged. Why don't you visit a brothel my boy?#they all call vlad 'boy; and vlad HATESSS it. he's always like 'I am NOT a boy. I'm a GROWN MAN!'#to which nadia will pinch his cheek and say 'Yes sweetheart and look at how grown you are! <3'#actually inessa just straight up insults him too because he has a terrible sense of fashion. but she does that to everyone so its ok #in my universe pretty much everyone mocks vlad bc he takes himself so seriously and hes incapable of having fun #even the vatores make fun of him except caleb doesnt mean to hes just very honest and whenever caleb sees vlad #acting like an insecure narcissistic baby man he's like #Vladislaus you are being unreasonable again. Perhaps if you had a hobby you wouldn't have such a terrible personality #lilith wants to murder vlad it isn't even bullying on her end they literally hate each other #lilith is also vlad in a different font. insecure narcissistic baby woman #the only person who takes vlad as seriously as he takes himself is breanna lol she thinks he's sooooo cool #but canonically every vampire ever thinks he's a wet blanket #all of this lore predates the straud legacy btw. this is all vlad/brie backstory reprisal lore #when vlad and breanna finally get together and start a family he's a lot less petty and vindictive. he calms down a lot

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black-rose-writings · 2 years

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It’s good to know I follow the right people because I’ve only seen 1 (one) thanksgiving post on my timeline today.

#by right people I mean #not americans #because americans are fucking weird #yall have like 4 holidays and they're all weird #maybe you have to be so weird and extra because you only get like those 4 #we're no longer english so let's shoot as many fireworks as humanly possible and have a bbq about it #hey you remember that one time we *didn't* murder the natives? Let's eat about it #capitalism holiday masquarading as a very serious religious holiday #and an actual serious religious holiday #am I forgetting something?#america is weird #if yall got regular time off-work maybe you wouldn't be so fucking extra about it when you do #but alas #your god is capitalism and free time is sin

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suck-mein-pokeballs · 1 year

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I think it’s funny how Wednesday and Enid are like one skin tone apart and yet gringos will draw her as almost black because she’s supposed to have Mexican background

#also the way they implied that Mexican colonialists weren’t racist assholes? extremely yucky and racist #that one scene where her ancestor is calling out the pilgrims saying that they lived at peace with the natives or whatever before they came #almost made me stop watching #like girl wdym you had the whole caste system and pretty much didn’t consider #anyone that wasn’t white and Spanish human #like according to the beliefs back then even being born in the new world already made you I feriar to Spaniards #they destroyed places of worship art and recording of history and shoved Catholicism down peoples throats #they very much raped and murdered as much as the English colonialists #sjhcbsjsbdjshdbd living in peace with the natives my ass #it was such a disgustingly white washed sanctimonious Mary Sue moment just gross man #hsdbjscbjcbeuchbrc I hated that moment so much #like girl why are you going out of your way to criticize colonialism and then be like oh but Spanish colonialists weren’t evil #they were nice and good and lived at peace with the natives #jdsbjsdbjdhbejebwi disgustang #criticize them equally or not at all #anywho originally I was going for how in Mexico people with wednesdays skin tone sometimes bend over backwards to act like they’re gringos #because internalized racism #and very much perpetuate racism and often consider themselves white or brag about their Spanish bloodline and shit #while they’re very much considered nonwhite by white people #and I’m always like girl why are you being cringe like that stop it #I’m really trying to cool down these tags give me a moment #weird Mexican rambling about how race is subjective and what’s considered white here is very much not considered white in other countries #and also how that impacts representation and how Mexican media is exclusively very fair skinned people while American media has arguably #better Mexican representation but it seems to come from the racist ass stereotype of what a Mexican person looks like that gringos have #and just talking about race in modern internet times is a nightmare because race is very much subjective but racism and colonialism are #so permeated in a ton of cultures that they are like cockroaches that you just can’t exterminate or escape #snfejnfekwkjdw #look man it’s six am and I woke up in the midsts of a panic attack for no reason and was trying to distract myself #I’m pretty sure I’m not making any sense #mein shit

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