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xhanisai · 1 year

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every time i (a mixed race girl) come across a post that’s basically saying that Marinette, a mixed race girl, isn’t Chinese enough, my urge to set hellfire on this world increases by 100000000%.

#ml fandom salt #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug and chat noir #this isn't just white people saying this shit i've seen non whites going around with this #and ofc it's always the americans #more like AMERICUNTS FUCKS SAKE #listen i don't mind if you're like 'ooo i like marinette with brown eyes or grey eyes' or if you're like #'hey i made this neat redesign of marinette and she looks a bit more chinese here'#BUT #i can't stand it when people go around saying SHE SHOULD LOOK/ACT more CHINESE #FUCK OFF #my family and I are decendents of east asia and guess what SOME OF US HAVE BLUE EYES #and miraculous is a FICTIONAL show #judging someone's race by eye colour or eye SHAPE is stereotypical #i am not chinese enough to fit in china and i'm not british enough to fit in england and i'm not south asian enough to fit there or south #east asian enough to fit there DESPITE being a mix of all of this shit #like it is bad enough growing up being mixed and being told by so many people i'm not X enough #and now seeing my fave characters go through this shit too??? fuck off #ugh i'm so tired #fuck this fandom sometimes

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sad-endings-suck · 1 year

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There is a certain type of ship dynamic that simply cannot be created or replicated artificially and it’s called “this couple was never meant to be a canon ship but their chemistry is just so incredible we had to do it anyway” and I love it more than anything.

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ventiswampwater · 9 months

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AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981) dir. John Landis

#an american werewolf in london #aawil #horror #david naughton #griffin dunne #mine #I finally managed to download a decent quality copy of this fckin movie hjsdfhjhfds #which means I'm back on my bullshit. not that I ever left my bullshit. but we're so back 😌🔨💥#who would've guessed that higher quality footage yields higher quality gifs (answer: every giffing tutorial ever)#ofc these are still kinda wonky but there's?? marginal??? improvement??? and that's a win in my book lmao #pls be patient w/me in this trying time (as I slowly bamboozle and blunder my way thru learning gifmaking)#anyway. I ain't never seen two pretty best friends.#one always gotta be turned into a werewolf on the moors unwillingly #and the other? doomed to walk the earth in limbo until the werewolf's curse is lifted #smh 😔...................................#(sidenote: not sure if it's intentional. but the blood? on the sheep next to jack? eating the symbolism up w/a spoon tysm for asking)

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uncanny-tranny · 6 months

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Big reminder that your country is not immune to bigotry. I've seen so many people, for example, pretend like antisemitism doesn't exist in the USA because we were part of the allied forces in WWII (of course, they conveniently don't remember that we rejected jewish refugees when WWII broke out and we only really joined because Pearl Harbor was bombed, but I digress).

If you think your country is immune from antisemitism, racism (including anti-Indigenous racism), class issues, ableism, whatever else it may be, look deeper because you will find it.

#politics #antisemitism #antisemitism tw #i think if pearl harbor wasn't bombed we would have potentially never declared war #like yes it was better for us to have joined but realistically it wasn't to 'save the jews' like many USamericans think #we did NOT in fact 'save the jews' and we still have huge antisemitism problems ALONG WITH so /so/ much other shit #i can't understate that america isn't so far removed from the world that we just magically don't have problems #ANYway. tangent aside. it just.... annoys me whenever i see usamericans doing this #not because i think they're always malicious but it's a reminder that people aren't truly taught accurate us history #look if american history was taught to you in such a way you only felt warm fuzzy feelings you were FAILED...#...you were *failed* by an education system that was more interested in american exceptionalism than actual factual history #and i don't think america is the only culprit in national exceptionalism but i have the most experience as a usamerican #quick amendment that many jewish refugees were fleeing in the very beginning before war broke out *officially*#but we still rejected them sanctuary from nazi germany as a country (AND ofc america wasn't the only country to have done this!)

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holdoncallfailed · 1 month

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begging on my hands and knees for beyoncé to do a proper rock album please i would give anything

#ppl are saying that's act iii and i hope to GOD that's true because i've always thought her voice sounds so #incredible when she does rock stuff i.e. the you oughta know cover and ofc it fits conceptually with this project of exploring black #american influence on music genres that are erroneously considered 'white'#a lot of the weird ad libbing/rambling vocalizations in the middle of ameriican requiem are really reminiscent of patti smith imo #tunes

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national-hockey-lesbian · 9 months

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do you have any poetry collection recommendations/poet recommendations in general just to like Read?

boy do i ever!!!

okay i have two all time top favorite poets (not ranked in a particular order):

1. Louise Glück: There was actually an anthology published of all the books so published from the start of her career to 2012.

(Poems 1962-2012 is 600+ pages of incredible poetry and relatively cheap, especially for its size and considering poetry tends to cost more than fiction books)

Glück’s poetry is actually the reason I started reading more poetry in the first place. She writes both long form and short form poetry (with her more recent working being longer than a lot of her previous poems), and her language level tends to be pretty accessible.

She writes about hundreds of different topics, but reading from the anthology you get a large mix of themes about motherhood, love, and nature and she also has collections that focus on greek mythology as well as jewish religion.

She has won a Nobel Prize for her poetry, which I consider to be a pretty good way to gauge the caliber of her work!

Highly, highly recommend her work!!

2. Ocean Vuong.

I’ve read his three most recent works: Night Sky With Exit Wounds, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and Time is a Mother.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is actually a novel rather than a poetry collection but it reads a lot like poetry and I consider it to be an must-read.

A lot of his works center around his his experience as a queer, Vietnamese American and his relationship with his own intrapersonal identity as well as with his mother. I cant think of a single poem of his that isn’t absolutely incredible, and I think if you’re going to talk about the best poets of our age he’s a crucial mention.

I highly recommend reading his works in publishing order (which is the way I listed them above). His poetry is genuinely life-changing and I cannot stress how much I recommend his writing.

Outside of my two favorite authors I also recommend:

–Amanda Gorman, who is the youngest inaugural poet in U. S. history and is shaping the voice of modern poetry.

You can watch her recite her inaugural poem, “The Hill We Climb” here!

She also has published a collection of her poetry, Call Us What We Carry, which I read all in the same day I bought it because it’s brilliant and captivating.

—The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, which is a fiction novel but the main character narrates the story through her own poetry, making it a poetry collection and a novel all in one. I read this for the first time when I was 13 and I pick it up again every single year.

(I do also highly recommend looking up trigger warnings for this book before you read it, because there are a couple scenes that can be intense!)

—The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi. It’s likely you’re familiar with this quote from it (which i see circulating tumblr and pinterest all the time):

“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe. Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in.

I want an excuse to change my life.”

And I can guarantee the rest of this poetry collection is just as poignant and beautiful! Highly recommend, 10/10 stars always.

—Pablo Neruda is also one of my favorite poets! I own a large collection of his poetry, The Poems of Pablo Neruda, which places the original poem, written in Spanish, next to the English translation, which I enjoy a lot. He also has a lot of well-known quotes that float around tumblr a lot, so that sense of familiarity can be fun, especially when you’re not expecting it!

Hope you enjoy these recommendations!

#this is actually a funny request right now because whenever i recommend poetry i go through my own personal book collection #and i’m moving to college in less than a week (and flying with a limited amount of bag) so a lot of my favorite books are going #to be left behind and every single book on this list owns a well loved place in my collection #so i have DECISIONS to make #especially because i can’t guarantee that what i leave behind will ever come back into my possession #but anyways!! i am always down to discuss poetry #my sister also just gifted me a collection of all the poems she’s ever written and i wish i could just telepathically communicate it to you #but alas she has not yet taken my advice to publish any of her poetry anywhere😔 (except for in my personal library ofc)#i also donated a lot of my books recently and there was a really good poetry book in there i can’t remember the title or author of😭😭#ask #poetry #recs #me re-reading this list realizing how american it is clearly i have a bias

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juneviews · 1 year

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I'm convinced more than half of never let me go's purpose is just flexing phuwin's language skills lmao

#axelle rants #never let me go #phuwin tangsakyuen #also ofc the tourist was fucking french lmaooooo always count on the white person in a thai drama being french #or american or german but that's it white people only come from 3 countries in thai drama land 😂#if phuwin had started speaking french too I would've lost it

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stavroginova · 9 months

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sometimes at work I exchange emails with a person named Kim and I like to pretend I'm talking to the guy from disco elysium who switched careers to selling insulation materials

#good morning kim! ofc i have a truck for you #ill always have a truck for you kim #nobody cares aga #jokes aside i love kim for who she is: an overly polite american lady #disco elysium

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mintjeru · 11 months

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the taste of tangerines, 1/9 A heritage language is a language learned and spoken in the home, but not in the dominant society. Although it's a common belief that heritage speakers are fluent in their home language, this is not always the case. Limited ability to communicate in one's heritage language is a source of shame, so this topic is not often discussed. "The Taste of Tangerines" is a story about a speaker whose proficiency in English, Cantonese, and Spanish influences their feelings of belonging toward their culture. This comic aims to open a conversation on the topic and show people who relate to this struggle that despite differing languages, there are others like them. next

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#myart #comic #aapi heritage month #aapihm #aapi #the taste of tangerines #it is still asian american and pacific islander heritage month so i think it's a good time to share this #i'm very proud of it but i'm also preparing myself for zero notes bc i don't usually make art like this ahaha ;;;#as always each page will have image descriptions in alt text #and ofc i'd love to hear your thoughts!!

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stinkrascal · 10 months

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i really do not understand the barbie oppenheimer memes at all idek what an oppenheimer is. am i even spelling that right i dont know

#im sorry in advanced for this take but i honestly do not care about the barbie movie at all #i hope u guys like the movie and it is everything u wanted etc #but also thats a baby movie. for babies. and i dont watch baby movies #i go to the theater to watch grown movies for grownups. like. like. one piece film red. the most grown up movie ever #if they turned the barbie movie into an animated film id be on that. i just love animation so much #live action movies have to be created by dirs i care about otherwise im not paying attention #but anyyyyyy animated film in theaters is a must see for me simply bc animation is my fav medium #i really hope theres a massive animation resurgence!!! the new spiderman movie definitely helps w legitimizing animation #ofc it has always been a legitimate medium but americans are still under the idea that animation = baby movies or anime for teen boys #and it isnt!! theres so much potential!!! therefore i will always support animated endeavors

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veedyveen · 8 months

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tyler alvarez removed the link to american vandal on netflix from his bio on insta 💔 its over

#/lh #ofc he wouldn’t be attached to work from like… 7 years ago now??#like hes moved on and hes been in bigger things #but its still sad to see no ones advocating for this show anymore 💔💔💔#rip american vandal i miss you #ps if youre reading this you should watch the show called players its made by the same people who made american vandal and it’s honestly #just as good as american vandal to me #and its way more recent #but anyways ill always be batting for u american vandal dont worry ❤️#american vandal

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evansbby · 5 months

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Actual Irish anon here, not all Irish guys have ginger beards, also yes why do Americans cling to the smallest bit of irish heritage! 🥲

Literally 😭😭😭

#also you can’t just say Chris Evan is Irish 😭😭😭#he’s American pls #with some Irish heritage #tbh he looks Irish in the eye area I’ve always said this #and ofc a lot of people from the Massachusetts area have Irish heritage #but not all Irishman are sheamus from wwe pls 🤧🤧🤧#anon

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pikslasrce · 6 months

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i grew up in america and yea actually in a lot of areas, the major chains priced out the local businesses until they all shut down. there might be a local small business alternative to walmart for some things, for example a hardware supply store, but it’ll cost more and some people can’t afford to spend more even if they want to.

there are places called food deserts where there aren’t even grocery stores in a reasonable radius, but there is maybe a dollar general and it might have a very limited selection of unhealthy foods, and very rarely maybe even actual produce.

thats genuinely sad but i meant like .. starbucks/subway/fast food alternatives like.. yall dont have those?? again the question is rhetorical ik that your economy is built on franchise monocultures 😭

#again that is utterly incomprehensible to me bc like....#here if youre in a small place youll be more likely to have a locally owned convenience store for like necessities #and then if youre in a city or a larger town you will still see those but there will also be Different chain stores scattered across #and as for shit like starbucks and subway and shit like that. there are OPTIONS like so many different coffee shops and such #ofc some are franchised but like. thisis serbia they exist only locally 🤧#anyways thats why its always soooo jarring to hear yall americans speak abt your companies and franchises and supermarkets #its so sad fr #ask

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eggbagelz · 2 years

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Some day we're gonna have to talk abt how queer identities and labels and shit mean different things outside of the states and how international queer history isnt always a shared thing

#by not always a shared thing im not referring to a history of oppression ofc #but like whenever we talk abt queerness it always ends up being abt american queer history #like girl im fuckin south african. my history is not the same as yours. i barely have any RECORDS #of south african queer history. so id like to learn more abt that #instead of watching americans argue in circles abt xyz meaning xyz and acting like we're all in the same boat #chattering #sorry im just. im watching ppl argue abt ''ppl are ignoring that this means that to them''#and not fucking getting that that only matters to american queers

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whats-this-mustelid · 1 year

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Hi! was wondering if you could help me identify this guy.. looks like some sort of Marten but i'm not sure.. Thanks!

This is a tough one, but I suspect American mink!

The rounded face and small ears are usually the first thing I notice in mink. The uniform brown with no markings on the chest or belly is also unusual for weasels and martens, but typical in mink.

Here's an example of a taxidermy mink. I think they're pretty similar!

(photo from safariworks decor on google)

Hope this helps!

#american mink #probably #taxidermy #it is hard to say especially without scale #but I think mink is most likely #the reason I say american and not european is because european mink always have white chins #american mink can too ofc but they don't always #also european mink are endangered and heavily protected but I mean it could've been an older specimen #anyway I'll stop rambling! again I hope this helped! lemme know if you think I'm wrong

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bluemeetyellow · 2 years

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elaborating on the Power a scene of mike coming out to el would have... like just the fact that especially if mike goes thru an arc this season where he eventually feels safe enough to admit to himself that he’s gay and that he’s been hiding/repressing it to survive in Hawkins... and how that would line up with how El’s been running from her past for the last few seasons but in s4 she finally has to really confront it and so he’d understand, in his own way, what it’s like to always be hiding in plain sight because there’s people who want to hurt you that go along with the things you are burying... But how exhausting it becomes to always be trying to blend in and run away... and now he’s seen the way El was able to face her past head-on this season and it gives him the courage to want to stop running too and really reckon with what he’s been running from himself. Especially because now he knows he has people who.. *looks back at Will* who understand what it’s like and have found their own people and know places where they don’t have to hide who they are either. LIKE something like that would only strengthen their friendship while also giving each of them their own development. it just... god that would just be so beautiful :’)

OR THIS MONOLOGUE IS BEFORE THE SORTA CLIMAX OF THE ARC AND MIKE AND EL BOTH PROMISING EACH OTHER THEY’LL FACE THEIR OWN STRUGGLES HEAD ON... LIKE. COME ON YOU CAN’T TELL ME THAT DOESN’T HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO HIT LIKE A TON OF BRICKS!!

#ALSO THE NARRATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF MIKES LAST MONOLOGUE BEING ABT ASKING WILL TO BE HIS FRIEND...#but now that feeling has grown to be something stronger than friendship.. so mikes monologue like this is sorta a transition in his life..#like falling in love with will and wanting to be best friends with el still... not wanting to lose her over who he is and who he loves..#(yes i just ref'd the Cant Fight This Feeling lyrics... i simply think that being the song playing the first time Hop tries to give his #heart-to-heart could be foreshadowing <3)#talk abt Subverting expectations by making ur platonic confession JUST as impactful as your romantic ones #(cuz i wouldnt accept half-assing the byeler shit either ofc not)#like damn ok maybe its cheesy but i Love that shit.. love my good ol fashion american sugar coated stories all right..#litrlly they are best friends wahhh #listen at this point if s4 disappoints im gonna write SUCH a good and healing gay fantasy fix-it fic all right???#i was in the fall 2019 it fandom i know the drill LMAO #i have the perfect sweet byler ending scene in mind like... <33 #its sweet but also opens up for my own personal theory for what s5 is gonna look like which is p dark.. n does include will w powers but in #diff way than ive seen most ppl discuss it..#im so bad at watching tv cuz i always wanna write along w it LMAOOO #silver cat speaks

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