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Being multilingual is just *tries to open the emojis* *accidentally hits the switch keyboard* *αρχίζει να πληκτρολογεί στα ελληνικά* *desperately trying to switch back to English* * sélectionne le clavier français*
#multilingual#multilinguism#no one @ me about the grammar#my grammar in Greek and French literally suck#i just know the basic stuff#i know them because they’re household languages#Greek immigrant#French#québécois#québec#child of immigrants#edit: fixed the Greek text#again Greek is a household language I rarely use outside of my family#so my grammar and vocabulary suck
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Stop acting like immigration is purely a product of imperialism. People living outside their ethnic homeland isn't a new thing, or a result of the imperial core, and to suggest otherwise is kind of facisty.
People move around, and form communities in various locations, it predates capitalism. We know that there were large Indian communities in Athens in the classical age (this was long before Alexander conquered parts of India). We have records from the Middle Ages of Norsemen living in Byzantium, and Middle Eastern enclaves in China. Immigration predates capitalism, and society has always been multicultural.
#196#my thougts#immigration#leftist#leftism#anti imperialism#anti facist#anti capitalism#anti capitalist#anarchy#anarchism#ancient greek#ancient greece#byzantium#byzantine
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The migrant shipwreck near Greece is a horrible tragedy – but it wasn’t an accident
“The Greek coast guard’s conflicting account states that the vessel was first spotted by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, at midday on Tuesday, June 13. It claims that once it achieved contact, those on board repeatedly stated that ‘the boat was not in danger, they wanted no help other than food and water, and that they wished to continue on to Italy.’ The coast guard states that at 1:40 a.m., the boat ceased moving, and at 2:04 a.m., a coast guard floating vessel reported that the trawler had capsized.
“International legal experts have noted that even if those on board the trawler said they did not want to be rescued, the coast guard had the obligation to independently evaluate if it was seaworthy and intervene if it was not. Photos of the trawler show that it was clearly overpacked, those on board did not appear to be wearing life vests, and the vessel was not flying any flag …
“These tragedies are no accident, but a product of political choices. Over the past decade, the EU has reduced access to asylum and made arriving on the continent ever more difficult — increasing policing and surveillance along its borders, erecting and expanding walls, and illegally pushing back thousands of people …
“There are years of evidence that Greece and Frontex regularly engage in and cooperate on illegal pushbacks — pushing migrants back over the border despite their right to seek asylum. In recent years, these pushbacks have been stepped up, both on the country’s northern land border and at sea. Those caught on the northern border are usually beaten, robbed of their phones and all their valuables, often stripped naked, and put in boats on the river Évros. People who arrive on Greek islands are usually gathered up, put on rubber boats, and abandoned at sea. Boats intercepted in the Aegean Sea are often damaged or have their engines removed, or else the Hellenic Coast Guard will simply tow them back to Turkish waters.”
#migrant shipwreck#boat crossings#migrant crisis#refugee crisis#migrants#refugees#asylum seekers#asylum#immigrants#immigration#humanitarian crisis#fortress europe#greek coast guard#frontex#greece#european union#eu#europe
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Video shows migrants waiting before ill-fated migrant boat voyage
03:41 - Source: CNN
CNN —
The hull of the fishing trawler lifted out of the water as it sank, catapulting people from the top deck into the black sea below. In the darkness, they grabbed onto whatever they could to stay afloat, pushing each other underwater in a frantic fight for survival. Some were screaming, many began to recite their final prayers.
“I can still hear the voice of a woman calling out for help,” one survivor of the migrant boat disaster off the coast of Greece told CNN. “You’d swim and move floating bodies out of your way.”
With hundreds of people still missing after the overloaded vessel capsized in the Mediterranean on June 14, the testimonies of those who were onboard paint a picture of chaos and desperation. They also call into question the Greek coast guard’s version of events, suggesting more lives could have been saved, and may even point to fault on the part of Greek authorities.
Rights groups allege the tragedy is both further evidence and a result of a new pattern in illegal pushbacks of migrant boats to other nations’ waters, with deadly consequences.
This boat was carrying up to 750 Pakistani, Syrian, Egyptian and Palestinian refugees and migrants. Only 104 people have been rescued alive.
CNN has interviewed multiple survivors of the shipwreck and their relatives, all of whom have wished to remain anonymous for security reasons and the fear of retribution from authorities in both Greece and at home.
One survivor from Syria, whom CNN is identifying as Rami, described how a Greek coast guard vessel approached the trawler multiple times to try to attach a rope to tow the ship, with disastrous results.
“The third time they towed us, the boat swayed to the right and everyone was screaming, people began falling into the sea, and the boat capsized and no one saw anyone anymore,” he said. “Brothers were separated, cousins were separated.”
Another Syrian man, identified as Mostafa, also believes it was the maneuver by the coast guard that caused the disaster. “The Greek captain pulled us too fast, it was extremely fast, this caused our boat to sink,” he said.
The Hellenic Coast Guard has repeatedly denied attempting to tow the vessel. An official investigation into the cause of the tragedy is still ongoing.
Coast guard spokesman Nikos Alexiou told CNN over the phone last week: “When the boat capsized, we were not even next to (the) boat. How could we be towing it?” Instead, he insisted they had only been “observing at a close distance” and that “a shift in weight probably caused by panic” had caused the boat to tip.
The Hellenic Coast Guard has declined to answer CNN’s specific requests for response to the survivor testimonies.
Direct accounts from those who survived the wreck have been limited, due to their concerns about speaking out and the media having little access to the survivors. CNN interviewed Rami and Mostafa outside the Malakasa migrant camp near Athens, where journalists are not permitted entry.
The Syrian men said the conditions on board the migrant boat deteriorated fast in the more than five days after it set off from Tobruk, Libya, in route to Italy. They had run out of water and had resorted to drinking from storage bottles that people had urinated in.
“People were dying. People were fainting. We used a rope to dip clothes into the sea and use that to squeeze water on people who had lost consciousness,” Rami said.
CNN’s analysis of marine traffic data, combined with information from NGOs, merchant vessels and the European Union border patrol agency, Frontex, suggests that Greek authorities were aware of the distressed vessel for at least 13 hours before it eventually sank early on June 14.
The Greek coast guard has maintained that people onboard the trawler had refused rescue and insisted they wanted to continue their journey to Italy. But survivors, relatives and activists say they had asked for help multiple times.
Earlier in the day, other ships tried to help the trawler. Directed by the Greek coast guard, two merchant vessels – Lucky Sailor and Faithful Warrior – approached the boat between 6 and 9 p.m. on June 13 to offer supplies, according to marine traffic data and the logs of those ships. But according to survivors this only caused more havoc onboard.
“Fights broke out over food and water, people were screaming and shouting,” Mostafa said. “If it wasn’t for people trying to calm the situation down, the boat was on the verge of sinking several times.”
By early evening, six people had already died onboard, according to an audio recording reviewed by CNN from Italian activist Nawal Soufi, who took a distress call from the migrant boat at around 7 p.m. Soufi’s communication with the vessel also corroborated Mostafa’s account that people moved from one side of the boat to the other after water bottles were passed from the cargo ships, causing it to sway dangerously.
The haunting final words sent from the migrant boat came just minutes before it capsized. According to a timeline published by NGO Alarm Phone they received a call, at around 1:45 a.m., with the words “Hello my friend… The ship you send is…” Then the call cuts out.
The coast guard says the vessel began to sink at around 2 a.m.
The next known activity in the area, according to marine traffic data, was the arrival of a cluster of vessels starting around 3 a.m. The Mayan Queen superyacht was the first on the scene for what soon became a mass rescue operation.
Human rights groups say the authorities had a duty to act to save lives, regardless of what people on board were saying to the coast guard before the migrant boat capsized.
“The boat was overcrowded, was unseaworthy and should have been rescued and people taken to safety, that’s quite clear,” UNHCR Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean Vincent Cochetel told CNN in an interview. “There was a responsibility for the Greek authorities to coordinate a rescue to bring those people safely to land.”
Cochetel also pointed to a growing trend by countries, including Greece, to assist migrant boats in leaving their waters. “That’s a practice we’ve seen in recent months. Some coastal states provide food, provide water, sometimes life jackets, sometimes even fuel to allow such boats to continue to only one destination: Italy. And that’s not fair, Italy cannot cope with that responsibility alone.”
Survivors who say the coast guard tried to tow their boat say they don’t know what the aim was.
There have been multiple documented examples in recent years of Greek patrol boats engaging in so-called “pushbacks” of migrant vessels from Greek waters in recent years, including in a CNN investigation in 2020.
“It looks like what the Greeks have been doing since March 2020 as a matter of policy, which is pushbacks and trying to tow a boat to another country’s water in order to avoid the legal responsibility to rescue,” Omer Shatz, legal director of NGO Front-LEX, told CNN. “Because rescue means disembarkation and disembarkation means processing of asylum requests.”
Pushbacks are state measures aimed at forcing refugees and migrants out of their territory, while impeding access to legal and procedural frameworks, according to the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). They are a violation of international law, as well as European regulations.
And such measures do not appear to have deterred human traffickers whose businesses prey on vulnerable and desperate migrants.
In an interview with CNN last month, then Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis denied that his country engaged in intentional pushbacks and described them as a “completely unacceptable practice.” Mitsotakis is widely expected to win a second term in office in Sunday’s election, after failing to get an outright majority in a vote last month.
A series of Greek governments have been criticized for their handling of migration policy, including conditions in migrant camps, particularly following the 2015-16 refugee crisis, when more than 1 million people entered Europe through the country.
For those who lived through last week’s sinking, the harrowing experience will never be forgotten.
Mostafa and Rami both say they wish they had never made the journey, despite the fact they are now in Europe and are able to claim asylum.
Most of all, Mostafa says, he wishes the Greek coast guard had never approached their boat: “If they had left us be, we wouldn’t have drowned.”
#‘If they had left us be#we wouldn’t have drowned:’ CNN investigation raises questions about Greek coast guard’s account of shipwreck tragedy#greek coast guard#greece#brown skin#white privilege#racism in immigration#africans#european racism
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#greek diaspora#greek#greek aussie#wog#(last time I checked the term was reclaimed but let me know if it is otherwise)#aussie#immigrant
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All the resources being spent to find the Titan Submersible...
Where are the resources for the Greek boat tragedy?
#titan submersible#the titanic#billionaires with nothing better to do#greek boat disaster#immigrants#refugees#whose lives are more important#stockton rush said safety is waste
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It feels so weird to see people from the whole world talk about the tragic situation that happened in Greece a couple months ago, where a ship carrying migrants and refugees capsized and the EU refused to go on a search.
But this isn't the only time this has happened. The Greek government has been treating asylum seekers and migrants like absolute SHIT for ages. Our authories are non-stop violent to them, and continue to push migrants back to the Turkish border, many of them have absolutely nowhere to go. Children are missing school out of hunger. Our intelligent service has spied on journalists that report conditions at the border. This is inhuman.
Months may have passed but our government won't change. And I want more people to know about this.
#wills mumbles#greece#greek politics#human rights#immigration#refugees#asylum seekers#greek government#politics
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⚖️ Δικηγόρος εξειδικεμένος στο Δίκαιο Αλλοδαπών & τ.νομικός σύμβουλος στη ΜΚΟ 'ΑΡΣΙΣ' σε θέματα προσφύγων και μεταναστών.
💼 Ενδεικτικά,αναλαμβάνονται υποθέσεις που έχουν να κάνουν με:
• αίτηση για πολιτικό άσυλο
• άδειες διαμονής προσφύγων και μεταναστών
• προστασία από απέλαση και κράτηση
• οικογενειακές επανενώσεις
• διαβατήρια
• αιτήσεις ακύρωσης και αναστολής, • προσφυγές - υπομνήματα
• πολιτογράφηση-κτήση ελληνικής ιθαγένειας
• Golden Visa υποθέσεις κλπ.
#δικηγορος_για_αλλοδαπους#δικηγορικο γραφειο#δικηγορικο_γραφειο_για_αλλοδαπους#χαρτια_για_αλλοδαπους#δικαιο αλλοδαπων#προσφυγικο_δικαιο#μεταναστευτικο_δικαιο#πρόσφυγες#μετανάστες#άδειες_διαμονής#πολιτικό_άσυλο#προστασια_απο_απελαση#προστασια_απο_κρατηση#migration law#migrants#refugees#political asylum#asylum#residence_permits#application for political asylum#refugee and immigrant residence permits#protection from deportation and detention#family reunification#passports#cancellation and suspension applications#appeals#memoranda#naturalization-acquisition of Greek citizenship#Golden Visa cases#demande d'asile politique
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Small video from the protest in Piraeus, Greece that takes place now towards the headquarters of the greek Coast Guard and Frontex for the crime near Pylos island where hundreds of migrants drowned in a shipwreck
#greece#greek#frontex#coast guard#shipwreck#pylos#πυλος#migrants#immigrants#refugees#ναυάγιο#φροντεξ#λιμενικο#Youtube
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If you feel down for it, I would love to see a small crossover between your Canadian and Ancient Greek characters
since you asked so nicely p:
occasionally i think about how they're actually contemporaries today, but it's hard for me to say anything significant about Canada-Greece relations from here because most of them are based in Eastern Canada (Montreal and Athens are the only sister cities between the two nations, which certainly would make an interesting dynamic! but one may have to ask @randomoranges)
so the primary connection I know is from the University of Alberta; we have a dig site near the modern village of Kallithea (in Thessaly, south of Larissa). I do regret not going to field school when I had the opportunity; I did hear secondhand that the post-dig ice cream was excellent. Since Edith is the representative for the university, she's standing in for Ed here. If I remember correctly, which nationalities can dig where is strictly controlled by the Greek government, so I think Canadians typically work on sites in northern Greece.
The only other connection I can think of off the top of my head would be the torch lighting ceremony for Calgary's Winter Olympics...
#projectcanada cities#pc: strathcona#athens and sparta adventures#aasa: athens#aasa athens#hapo doodles#digital art#clip studio paint#edith garneau#flyingkickapow#update the citation for athens and mtl being sisters is dead#so im struggling to find info on the bond#but i imagine either its a reference to greek immigration in the 1840s#or to assistance from canada in wwii#further update i did find the declaration in the montreal archives#however its basically like We should be friends because....... culture?#they're like economic and cultural cooperation!#and im like sooo you're bonding over poor econ high culture hey#my french isnt fantastic but even i can see theres like net zero info in this document lol
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The Greek Interpreter pt 3
Back to Mr Melas and his mysterious plaster-faced man.
...as he opened the door of our room he gave a start of surprise. Looking over his shoulder, I was equally astonished. His brother Mycroft was sitting smoking in the arm-chair.
Given the fact that it seems as though earth's orbit through space is more erratic than Mycroft's schedule, and easier to divert, this is quite astonishing. Also... didn't they literally just leave him? The man must have moved like the wind.
"Here it is," said he, "written with a J pen on royal cream paper by a middle-aged man with a weak constitution. 'Sir,' he says, 'in answer to your advertisement of to-day's date, I beg to inform you that I know the young lady in question very well. If you should care to call upon me I could give you some particulars as to her painful history. She is living at present at The Myrtles, Beckenham. Yours faithfully, J. Davenport.'"
Is she really living there at present? Mr Davenport? Is she? are you sure she isn't living somewhere else right now?
Also, lol at Mycroft being sure to put in the type of pen and the fact that the writer is middle-aged and has a weak constitution.
It was almost dark before we found ourselves in Pall Mall, at the rooms of Mr Melas. A gentleman had just called for him, and he was gone.
What? The man who was told he would be in grave danger if he told anyone, and then you broadcast the fact he had told people in all the daily papers is missing? I'm sure this is absolutely fine and in no way at all worrying. Definitely not connected to the fact that you broadcast the fact that he had told people the villain's secret in the newspaper.
Mr Melas is totally fine.
"He wasn't a tall, handsome, dark young man?"
"Oh, nor, sir. He was a little gentleman, with glasses, thin in the face, but very pleasant in his ways, for he was laughing al the time that he was talking."
Well shucks. Who could have foreseen this? No way to have stopped it. Absolutely unpredictable circumstances here. No one to blame. No one at all. It was impossible to foresee this turn of events.
"He is a man of no physical courage, as they are well aware from their experience the other night. This villain was able to terrorise him the instant that he got into his presence. No doubt they want his professional services, but, having used him, they may be inclined to punish him for what they will regard as his treachery."
Excuse me? 'no physical courage', wtf is that supposed to mean? How is courage physical, for one, and secondly, did we listen to the same story? Where he managed to get information from the prisoner without alerting the bad guys even though he was scared. Then afterwards, rather than staying quiet for his own safety he brought the tale to the attention of people he thought could help? Wtf do you consider courage, Holmes? And then he just went about his day, knowing his life had been threatened? no physical courage?
Gonna have to respectfully disagree on this point.
Also 'they may be inclined to punish him for [...] his treachery'? You think?
So weird that no one seems to have seen this coming. Like, my dudes, you took an ad out in the paper. In the era when everyone (except Holmes) reads the paper. What did you think was going to happen?
On reaching Scotland Yard, however, it was more than an hour before we could get Inspector Gregson and comply with the legal formalities which would enable us to enter the house.
'We can't go in without a search warrant' is an age old complaint, it seems. I love that this is in here.
"You may have observed the same wheel-tracks going the other way. But the outward-bound ones were very much deeper--so much so that we can say for a certainty that there was a very considerable weight on the carriage."
"You get a trifle beyond me there," said the inspector, shrugging his shoulder.
Little sad for Gregson that this is 'beyond' him. This is one of the clearest and simplest pieces of evidence we've seen Holmes provide.
"It is a mercy that you are on the side of the force, and not against it, Mr Holmes," remarked the inspector, as he noted the clever way in which my friend had forced back the catch. "Well, I think that under the circumstances we may enter without an invitation."
Yes. Because you got that search warrant... that you mentioned before. Not by name, exactly. But you got legal right to enter the property. So... you can enter the property? Unless you still needed an invitation even with that, but if you had an invitation wouldn't you already have right to enter? Or maybe they were legally only supposed to enter while someone was present.
He dashed up, the inspector and I at his heels, while his brother Mycroft followed as quickly as his great bulk would permit.
Did Watson mention that Mycroft is fat? I'm not sure he did.
Peering in, we could see that the only light in the room came from a dull blue flame which flickered from a small brass tripod in the centre. It threw a livid, unnatural circle upon the floor, while in the shadows beyond we saw the vague loom of two figures which crouched against the wall. From the open door there reeked a horrible poisonous exhalation which set us gasping and coughing.
Well this is horrifying. Slowly gassing people to death. These guys are really horrible. Such a terrible way to kill someone. Are they trying to make it seem like an accident?
"Where is a candle? I doubt if we could strike a match in that atmosphere. Hold the light at the door and we shall get them out, Mycroft, now!"
Because an open flame is... better than a match? I do not understand this logic.
The other, who was secured in a similar fashion, was a tall man in the last stage of emaciation, with several strips of sticking-plaster arranged in a grotesque pattern over his face. He had ceased to moan as we laid him down, and a glance showed me that for him at least our aid had come too late. Mr Melas, however, still lived, and in less than an hour, with the aid of ammonia and brandy I had the satisfaction of seeing him open his eyes, and of knowing that my hand had drawn him back from that dark valley in which all paths meet.
RIP Paul. They really fucked you over with that newspaper ad, didn't they? Your full name just out there in the world, being suspicious. Or maybe you outlived your usefulness to them.
Glad Mr Melas is okay, and it's nice to see Watson using his expertise to save the day a little bit. Even if the circumstances are pretty awful. This story is pretty dark, especially compared to the blue carbuncle goose chase (even with its brief commentary on the prison system) and the yellow face was pretty optimistic, even if I feel like everyone needed a lot of therapy. Here we have a man imprisoned, tortured and then gassed to death. And another almost suffering the same fate.
Watson's poetic turn of phrase softens it a little, but also makes it a bit more melacholy. Bleak, I think is the word I would use for this one.
His visitor, on entering his rooms, had drawn a life-preserver from his sleeve, and had so impressed him with the fear of instant and inevitable death that he had kidnapped him for the second time. Indeed, it was almost mesmeric, the effect which this giggling ruffian had produced upon the unfortunate linguist, for he could not speak of him save with trembling hands and a blanched cheek.
I am informed that a life-preserver is a type of bludgeon. And this little giggling man sounds utterly terrifying. I would absolutely do whatever he said if he threatened to bludgeon me to death. Watson seems surprised that Mr Melas is suffering from trauma. I get that Watson's a little... unhinged? regarding life or death situations, but between this and the lacking physical courage comment from before. Rude. Guy almost dies multiple times and it's definitely partially their fault for not trying to protect him. And they're busy judging him for going along with it.
And now we get a bit of an exposition dump.
...the unfortunate young lady came of a wealthy Grecian family, and that she had been on a visit to some friends in England. While there she had met a young man named Harold Latimer, who had acquired an ascendancy over her and had eventually persuaded her to fly with him. Her friends, shocked at the event, had contented themselves with informing her brother at Athens, and had then washed their hands of the matter.
A+ friends she has there. Wow.
'Acquired an ascendancy over her' is such a poetic turn of phrase for 'manipulated and controlled her'. This whole story is tragic and horrible. And so dark.
The brother, on his arrival in England, had imprudently placed himself in the power of Latimer and of his associate, whose name was Wilson Kemp—that through his ignorance of the language he was helpless in their hands, had kept him a prisoner, and had endeavoured by cruelty and starvation to make him sign away his own and his sister's property.
Seriously, this is horrible. Oh look, these people have no support system and no way to communicate, let's take advantage of them and torture them and no one will care. If it wasn't for Mr Melas, no one would even have thought to look.
...the plaster over the face had been for the purpose of making recognition difficult in case she should ever catch a glimpse of him. Her feminine perception, however, had instantly seen through the disguise when, on the occasion of the interpreter's visit, she had seen him for the first time.
'Her feminine perception'... i.e. the disguise was terrible and she actually knew what her brother looked like. Feminine perception. Maybe I should argue that in the next D&D session 'my character's female so I should get advantage on perception checks, Sherlock Holmes says so.' Lolol. This is made more amusing to me by the fact that I am both female and well-regarded as being one of the least observant people most of my friends and family know. My mother makes a game of it sometimes 'can you tell what's different in this room?'
No. The answer is always no.
Months afterwards a curious newspaper cutting reached us from Buda-Pesth. It told how two Englishmen who had been travelling with a woman had met with a tragic end. They had each been stabbed, it seems, and the Hungarian police were of opinion that they had quarrelled and had inflicted mortal injuries upon each other. Holmes, however, is, I fancy, of a different way of thinking, and holds to this day that, if one could find the Grecian girl, one might learn how the wrongs of herself and her brother came to be avenged.
Fuck yeah, Sophy. Stab them. I hope they knew it was you as they died. There is at least a little satisfaction in that. There's a whole story in those last few sentences which would be an epic revenge tale.
I had genuinely forgotten how many of these stories end with things happening off screen without Holmes or Watson being involved. This is another case where the villains get their justice meted out extra-legally, but this time it at least seems to have been a result of their actions rather than divine intervention. The point of the stories is clearly the method not the resolution.
It's... not satisfying. And like I mentioned before, it's a really dark tale. I didn't not remember it ending so horrifically. Also Sophy's friends are all terrible and should be ashamed of themselves.
I watched Magpie Murders on the BBC this week and the whole thing revolves around the fact that the last chapter of a whodunnit is missing. They say multiple times that it's the most important part of the book, and I don't necessarily disagree, but its strange to see in these stories, which were not the first mystery stories but early in the genre's evolution where the emphasis lies. Whodunnit is important, but the comeuppance clearly isn't. And even the who isn't as important as how Holmes gets there.
The slight mentions of mesmerism are interesting, and could totally be rolled into my 'Holmes but supernatural' alternate universe, where Kemp is accomplished at mind-control. That would make it even darker, if anything though.
This whole thing is just a tragedy from start to end.
Copper Beeches next - and I've read that one many times. Copper Beeches and the Solitary Cyclist used to be my favourites as a kid. I'll be interested to see how much I remember. Also, it'll be interesting to see what current!me makes of past!me's taste.
#Letters from Watson#Sherlock Holmes#The Greek Interpreter#long post#This one is bleak#people taking advantage of immigrants because they have no support system and no way to communicate#And the fact that if they'd just thought to keep an eye on Melas they could have followed him and got there in time
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Greeks every time they see a Greek name in the credits
#greek#greek immigrant#greek representation#greek culture#greek diaspora#child of immigrants#it’s the snap too#and the little smile#gotta love it
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I know setting saganaki on fire is specific to the Chicagoland Greek community, but listen. Gale would love that shit. It's a chance to prepare food while using magic to create a cool and dynamic presentation at the table. It's right up his alley.
#don't mind me#I've been projecting my experiences as someone who grew up in a greek immigrant family in the chicagoland area onto him since moment one#gale of waterdeep#gale dekarios#bg3#baldurs gate 3
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if you steal from a shop you should be prepared to be soundly beaten by the shopkeeper.
#- HK#my town had a thief a few years ago who robbed a greek restaurant and the employee was an elderly middle eastern immigrant#who followed the thief into the parking lot and pulled a gun on him#the thief grabbed him and shot him and killed him. and then THE THIEF. PLED SELF-DEFENSE#ridiculous#mobile#x#theftblr
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Book Review: Threads That Bind (🇬🇷 Greece)
[image 1: book cover; eerie pinks and greens - a young woman with dark curly hair manipulates a tangled pink thread; image 2: map showing Greece; image 3: the Acropolis in Athens - ruined white stone structures stand high on a hill overlooking the city; source: wikimedia]
Threads That Bind
Author: Kika Hatzopoulou
YA World Challenge read for 🇬🇷 Greece)
Technically I already read a Greek book (that I didn't like), but this one seemed interesting and I'm glad I picked it up!
Review
In a post-climate-disaster world where city-states have fought water wars over the last Arctic icebergs, certain humans are born with powers of the gods. In the slums of Atlante (former Athens), three sisters hold the powers of the Fates - one to weave, one to draw, and one to cut. Io, the youngest, is a cutter, feared for her ability to snip any life-thread with her powers. When murderous wraiths with severed life-threads start appearing, Io is hired by a mob queen to get to the bottom of it. And a rare fate-thread ties her to her partner on the case.
I loved the complicated and messy family relationships that are laid out with psychologist-worthy analysis. The idea that families can be both loving and abusive at the same time. And the threads that tie us to them that aren't so easily cut. Especially when we have our own wrongs that have been done.
This had amazing worldbuilding as well as a lot of queer representation that was just so casually there.
I was not expecting that ending, but it was amazing! It sets up well for a sequel so I hope one is in the works.
This seems to be marketed as YA even though the protagonist is like 19-20, minimum? I felt it was just as worthy of adult shelves. It was a great mix of mystery, gangs, relationship studies, and Greek mythology by a Greek author.
I highly recommend picking it up!
Other reps: #m/f (main couple) #lgbtq (multiple side characters) #immigrant
Genres: #mystery #family #fantasy #romance #mythology #dystopian #magic
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Hi Theitsa! How do you feel about countries like Greece, Italy, Bulgaria etc. offering jus sanguinis rights to diaspora who can prove their ancestry?
I don't mind it! I hope it's clear that when I speak of the mindset Blood =/= Culture it's done in the spirit of inclusion. If you have and if you don't have "Greek blood" you can partake and ask for citizenship.
I'm happy to get more people into Greece officially. However, I'd like to take a closer look at the Greek government on this gesture because our politicians never implement a law that doesn't serve them first and foremost.
I can't speak for other governments but ours probably does this because our working population has been driven away to other countries and as a country we don't earn enough for our taxes to support our public sector. They get more taxes this way I suppose. Oh, and they also do it for votes. But, well, if Greeks of diaspora can benefit from it that's a positive element 😄
Consider also that the Greek government doesn't grant citizenship to Afro Greeks who are born here, nor their parents after being in the country for decades. It's a rare case when they grant it. (The offices are more lenient with light skinned legal immigrants unsurprisingly 🙃) They see dark skin and all of a sudden they believe that these immigrants will drain our public resources - as if it's not the politicians themselves who degrade the public sector deliberately and as if any immigrant who can afford it doesn't choose private care.
Nothing against the diaspora who seek citizenship - may they get it. I just wanted to point out the flaws in our system that always give a dark side to every law.
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