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landwriter · 2 days

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watching dead boy detectives when you've lived in coastal bc

i love that they have a ship that services a metro area of 2.4 million people & all of southern vancouver island, to depict the ferry to (checks notes) port townsend, wa, pop. 10,388. cannot overstate how incredibly funny the scale is. on a regular day that route has more passengers than the entire population of port townsend. like a title card saying our beloved characters had to take three trains and a regional bus line and then smash cutting to a red london double-decker

that being said. bc ferries both as a crown corporation and as individual vessels is DEFINITELY haunted so this tracks actually

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good-wine-and-cheese · 2 months

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I made a joke in a server like "I'm Grimmer irl if he was 30 afab and Canadian" (literally not grimmer in any way at all) but I thought actually that would be a cute silly thing to draw

#wolfgang grimmer #my art #shitpost #doodles #I wont put it in the main tag lol #this turned out so well for literally no reason like I was not looking at any kind of ref for this. why is it always the shitposts #im realizing though that grimmer just would wear stereotypical canadian clothes tbh. hes got the vibe #I considered giving him a beanie but I like drawing his hair all fluffy. so no hat. he can have a joint tho #anyway transmasc canadian grimmer. I guess

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thepileofclothesonyourdesk · 8 days

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I think part of the reason that media literacy sucks is that its supposed to be taught in English class

but they use fucking shakespeare and other old ass books

they use media that is hard for students to understand (especially if they have a learning disability or English as a second language)

and they have to explain all of the cultural context surrounding the media to a bunch of teens that dont care

use modern media that your students can understand that exists in the same context as they do

#hell get them to analyze a marvel movie #have them think about the way the military is portrayed in military funded movies #Have them draw conclusions on why they keep pumping out movies with huge budgets even though theyre getting lower quality #this is coming from someone who enjoyed most of the books we read in English #im canadian so thats the only education system im talking about #media literacy

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dove-da-birb · 8 months

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*scrolling through tumblr* [I'm not drawing the zebra print that's on my shirt each time]

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*sees halloween rook*

*simp/crisis mode engaged*

Bonus internal reaction;

I have no fucking gems *internal québécois français screaming*

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xariarte · 2 months

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two years ago Sportsnet did an animated series on their most prominent Canadian players and I've just rediscovered them.

so here's some of my fave screenshots from the Dillon Brooks one, where he builds his superhero team filled with Canadian NBA players:

it opens up with Steve Nash and immediately see that he's reading, "How to Win Games and Influence Players" complete with his two MVP trophies in the back 🇨🇦😂

(he's there to call all the Canadian players with their individual superpowers btw)

first up is Dillon and his superpower is "fearlessness" bc he never backs down from a big moment (so true) but what really gets me is the fact that he named himself–

MR. FEARLESS????? 😭😭😭

brb i am crying with laughter rn. hope i can make it through the rest of this post... 🤣🤣

(the animation team was not getting paid enough for this i swear)

next is my fave Toronto Raptor Chris Boucher (💖), whose superpower is elasticity, bc his arms stretch everywhere...i can confirm this, having watched him for five years now 😂

beloved Dwight Powell!! 🥺💕

you gotta have a center who is super strong, who's a "force to be reckoned with" (Dillon's words...he is so real for that) and who can be animated as a purple rock human being 😤😤

of course Shai has to be here, bc he's the most talented one. he's smooth. so smooth that he's silky smooth, and smooth enough that the animation team put r&b music in the background 😂😭

lastly, it's Lu Dort!! his superpower is teleportation, which is the best superpower out of all of them: "...you shake him with a great move, he's able to get back in front...teleporting from place to place."

but having him hold a Montréal style bagel is the cherry on top 🥯

and that's the whole team!! plus animated Steve Nash. a complete superpowered Canadian team (not a coincidence that 4/5 of these players are on the upcoming Olympic team either)!! 🇨🇦

really recommend watching this one. there is a reason why this one has the most views out of the whole series!!

...like yes you have to listen to growly Dillon Brooks narrate...

but you can't tell me that you DON'T want to see Dwight Powell run through a brick wall with his super duper strength !! 😤🧱

#this was a long one...apologies from all the way up north #this video was the one that inspired this screenshot series. i was like. y'all gotta see this. you DO. 😂#why is dillon still holding ice cream at the end though???#canadian basketball #dbrooks #mr. fearless!!! i am still laughing... 😭😭

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sophsicle · 1 year

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CANADA BEAT AMERICA IN THE HOCKEY AND THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS TO ME THANK YOU

#6-2 motherfuckers #6 #2 #suck it #y'all are trash #why are you even here #go home #I just hate it when Americans get smug about their teams winning the Stanley cup #as though every american team isn't carried by its Canadian players #or russian #like you guys have more money you don't have more talent #except for that one time their juniors team was like Hughes Zegras Caufield #that was out of control #this is all a joke by the way hockey is dumb and none of this matters #but also we're winners and you're losers

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thedickcavettshow · 4 months

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One thing that will never make any sense to me is why we have actors faking accents in movies and tv shows. Like just hire someone who already has that accent? And so often they’ve got British actors playing Americans and vice versa and it’s just never good bc Americans are rarely good at British accents and British actors well.. they’re usually able to pronounce individual words in an American accent but they pretty much always end up mixing many different regional accents together which is extremely distracting so like. Why not just hire someone who actually has the accent the character is supposed to have… having actors fake accents is just unnecessary and never sounds as good as a native speaker would

#I was trying to watch the show Legion with my sisters bc I watched it a few years ago and though the first season was really good #But the main character is played by a British actor playing an American and his accent is SO. BAD. Like.#half the words he speaks sound deep southern and the other half are a mix of New Yorker and midwestern. With some Canadian thrown in there #And it’s just so distracting it makes it hard to watch…#And the thing is there isn’t really any reason his character couldn’t’ve just been British like #if you’re dead set on that actor just let him use his real accent instead of forcing us to endure his painful attempt at an American one #If it’s important to the character that he be American then just hire an American actor like are we running out of Americans? I don’t get i #Anyway. This is why I respect Kermit the frog’s decision to not attempt a British accent as Bob Cratchit in the Muppet’s Christmas Carol

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floor-tiles · 1 year

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happy thanksgiving to my american followers and mutuals

why is it on a thursday

#thats why we canadians are cooler 😎#we have a friday thanksgiving so a long weekend #jkjk love u guys #seriously though why a thursday

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avatarofwar · 5 months

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i saw you talk about wolf a few times from sekiro and was wondering if you'd want to share more of your thoughts on him or sekiro as a whole, the game really interests me compared to other dark souls games so i wanted to ask

sorry for the late reply but oh boy do I have thoughts abt wolf. trying not to spoil the game, so I'm gonna refrain from talking about the story. might go into just restating known things about the game, but I'd much rather play it safe and not spoil the story

before going to that. the game is very much different from dark souls (setting wise, while taking place in a fictional country it is in a historical setting. I cannot comment on the setting properly bc I don't know much about the time period, however), most notably in the combat (primarily shifting from a dodge-centric playstyle to a parry-centric playstyle (significantly easier than dark souls/elden ring parrying, however), with dodges having significantly shorter i-frames and being very unreliable for dodging attacks). it's very different but something I really enjoy, even if I'm not as good as I am at typical soulsborne combat. it's really fun when you get the hang of it, and while I might not be The Best at it (which is mostly bc of how different it is from soulsborne games, so ofc I'm not as good at is as I am at the other fromsoft games I've played), it's something I can still enjoy

a huge thing about sekiro is the difference in how the story is told. in soulsborne games the story is something you have to figure out; progressing through the main path doesn't give you enough to piece everything together if you don't read any lore. with sekiro, however, the story is significantly more obvious, on account of the playable character having unique ties to the world and its characters, rather than going the soulsborne route of being one of many people (wording hard, but the chosen undead for example is no one special, just one of many undead trying to link the flame). it's a very different method of storytelling, but is still something really good. for as much as I adore having to actively hunt down lore and story in soulsborne games, it's also great experiencing story through natural game progression

wolf is also canonically disabled (loses his left arm at the start of the game) and has a really fucking cool prosthetic that is a whole part of the combat system (even though I personally keep forgetting to use it). so good for him. he deserves a prosthetic that can have deadly weaponry attached to it. like a mini-flamethrower. he deserves a mini-flamethrower, as a treat.

putting the wolf thoughts beneath a read more because this is getting long and I might spoil some stuff (mostly relationship with another character, I'll try to refrain from story spoilers. also spoilers in general, but there might be some), and he has definitely become a blorbo (additionally, content warning for abuse)

first of all. wolf makes me want to throw myself off a cliff and I mean this in the most positive way ever. he is great and I love him but man he needs so much fucking therapy and he doesn't even realise it (therapy probably doesn't exist in that time period, but besides the point). he is very much traumatised and has been heavily shaped by it and doesn't even know it.

prior to the events of the game (I forgot how long ago it was) he was orphaned by war and got taken in by owl, a shinobi and also a piece of fucking garbage. owl raises wolf to be a shinobi under the iron code, with the number one rule being loyalty to his father (owl), with his master (kuro, the divine heir) a close second (and also to give his life for his master if necessary. which is also a whole other thing to get into).

owl is very explicitly abusive. he raises wolf as a tool rather than a person, and that upbringing severely affects wolf as a character - he is an incredibly capable shinobi, but lacks any skills other than that; he does not know how to be a proper person, he is a loyal wolf, but he does not know how to be anything other than that. hell, without spoiling too much about the context, there is a cutscene in which owl actively attempts to guilt trip wolf, going as far as using fake tears (saying anything specific is very spoilery. this isn't even the only horrid thing he's done, but I'm trying to refrain from too many spoilers).

wolf canonically does not value himself without anyone to serve (we see this at the beginning of the game, as events prior to the start of the game not yet known about leads him to believe he has no one to serve, and thus no purpose, so he isolates himself from the world in a well for 3 years). while he does have compassion for others (most notable example being concern over victims of dragonrot), he starts off the game driven primarily by duty. he is loyal to a fault, willing to do anything for kuro, but also valuing his service to kuro more than himself (cannot remember the exact wording, but when kuro expresses concern for how many times wolf has died for him, wolf states that it does not matter as it was in service to him).

there's also the fact that wolf canonically eats uncooked rice and genuinely doesn't know - as a fully grown adult - you are supposed to cook it, which is... genuinely something awful if you truly think about it and what more it implies about his upbringing especially considering it's one of the most basic things you could learn how to make (just... says a lot about owl if you seriously think about it).

he is a loyal wolf, but he doesn't know how to be more than that. he doesn't know how to just... exist for himself, to be his own person separate of his duty and he doesn't even recognise just how fucked up it is, because how could he, when he was shaped into this as a child, when his own father wanted him to be nothing more than a tool to use.

I could say a lot more about his relationships with other characters (that are actually good people) and how it just. makes me lose my mind, but this post is almost 1k words. so, simply put, kuro genuinely caring about him makes me so fucking emotional, especially bc of owl; his father might be horrible and an abuser, he might not know how to be more than he was raised, but at the very least he can serve someone who actively cares about him and his wellbeing.

#THERE IS SO MUCH TO DISSECT ABT HIS CHARACTER AND HOW HEAVILY IT WAS AFFECTED BY HIS UPBRINGING #I've seen a handful of people call him boring bc he doesn't say much and isn't that expressive emotionally and none of them are valid #I'm gonna explode those people with my mind powers. he isn't boring you just don't understand how to analyse characters #I need need need to get this man to some fucking therapy he so desperately needs it and doesn't even know it #if there ever was a fromsoft character most in need of therapy poll he would sweep and if he didn't I'd explode people with my mind powers #also I realise now a lot of my thoughts abt the game are just. restating known parts abt the game. I apologise for not being more specific #if you wanted to know my thoughts abt the story specifically. oops. I AM sorry but I do want to play it safe #I also do really appreciate how it was like. the (or at least one of?) first game in this time period made by a japanese company #which is part of why there are some things I do not know how to comment on bc I am very much a white canadian #also has a small poison swamp location. might be a plus for some people. I personally don't mind most poison swamps too much though #and ngl I kinda miss the iconic large poison swamp you have to traverse. it could be really fun being able to grapple #did I mention his prosthetic has a fucking grapple built in? well it does and it's really fun for movement.

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m0llygunn · 3 months

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I bought goat yogourt cause I’ve been doctoring this recipe I’ve been working on and I was like fuck it maybe goats are the answer WHY IS IT SO BAD HAHAHAHA

#I think there was also no sugar so that’s probably why but also AAAAA #goats were the answer though goat yogourt is staying in the recipe #lemon goat yogourt cake has a special ring to it #also I know other cultures regularly use goat biproducts I am canadian we do not <3

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haruhar-u · 4 months

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Not bad actually

#Shipping would be a bitch though #Idk why it’s showing the British flag in Canadian and it’s set to cad #Would still need to find a shorter blonde ombré purple wig

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emily-mooon · 1 year

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Nancy Wheeler’s favourite Cure song is ‘Friday I’m in Love’.

#argue with the wall #my mind will not be changed #i know this song comes out in the 90s but I’ll bet you ten canadian dollars that she is all over this song when it comes out #did i add a collage of nancy images that i have on my phone? yes. yes i did because why not #while making this post i am listening to this song on loop #low key jancy coded #also saw somewhere stonathan coded #you know this song is good when it works for jancy and stonathan #don’t know about jargyle though #same goes for ronance #stranger things #nancy wheeler #Spotify

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chaotic-queer-disaster · 2 years

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thinking abt my "culture" as a concept is super... strange. as a white north american. and i dont know how to articulate this beyond "its so big it's nothing" and im aware it's so so so incredibly privileged to have a big disconnect from "my culture" because it's everywhere as opposed to because people tried to stamp it out! I know. i'm just thinking out loud about how it is strange.

[on "no reblogs" just bc i dont know if im articulating this exactly as what i mean and im mostly thinking out loud in the tags]

#hello bat if you see this youve actually sparked thinkingthoughts bc of that oc question on nicola-writes skdhfksdf #anyway.#i dont know the actual CULTURAL origin of the food i eat or the clothes i wear or the music i listen to or w/e #i know its. european. presumably. and i know it's canadian/american clusterfuck. and i also know it is influenced by other cultures #on some level ! like i dont live in a bubble with NO other cultures in it but i dont rlly think anyone does lol #but like..... all the influence i can NAME is ONLY influence from /other/ cultures. not mine #i can recognize when something *isnt* part of my culture but i also dont rlly know how to define what my *culture* is beyond...#idk ! a big ol slab of White #the hallmarks of my culture are like. whiteness. overarching influence. white christianity. having everything made for ''wide audiences''#usually just made w/people like me in mind (most popular clothes most common food most tv characters etc)#and again thats SUPER privileged. obviously. im not complaining about anything (though ofc i dont think it /should/ be like this).#this isnt a ''poor white ppl :( no culture :('' thing this is more... wow we really did just destroy our own individuality for the sake of #white supremacy didnt we.#i dont know many people around here who can name parts of French or English or German or Irish or w/e culture SPECIFICALLY #even if thats what they are.#i read somethign once written by a woman of colour talking about how she noticed that white ppl seem to sacrifice actual individual culture #for the culture of Whiteness and White Supremacy (she capitalized it like that specifically. dont remember why)#especially white north americans (its less common in other places)#which CREATES this phenomenon where we genuinely just don't participate with culture on a conscious level very often #because. its everywhere. it's the ''default assumption'' of north american society. POC & their cultures are ignored in favor of us #and we really only notice when something is *not* our culture but not when something *is* our culture bc we never have to look for it #we participate with culture. obviously. its impossible not to. but we often dont do it on purpose.#idk. thoughts!! thought times. sometimes i have a single thought in my brain #and i am aware this is like 1 perspective and also the least important perspective on race & culture ever kdjhksdjf #i am just thinking.

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aceisferal · 8 months

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Was listening to Inner Ninja (Classified and David Myles) earlier today and all I could think about was Danny hearing it. I feel like he’d either love it or hate it. I need a second opinion please help 😭😭

I feel like Matt would hate the song though.

#iron fist #the defenders #Danny Rand #Ykw I feel like Foggy would play it for Matt shortly after finding out he’s daredevil #“a man named stick trained me in ninja skills’#“oh what and you found your inner ninja??#you read the rules before you broke them?#you broke the chains before they choked you out?#did you pay close attention when you learnt the code???’#daredevil #my brain has convinced itself that Foggy is Canadian #I’m not sure why and he probably says he’s from Hell’s Kitchen/NYC at some point in the show #but if he is Canadian (though canonically he’s not) he’d probably listen to inner ninja #Matt Murdock

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sunflowerdales · 9 months

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I sometimes wonder if people hear me talk and think I'm putting on a bad Australian accent

#I have been mistaken for an Aussie by an Aussie before in a voice chat last year #Someone thought I was Canadian once #though my accent flip flops #sometimes it sounds more London (with a hint of west country) and sometimes it sounds more Australian (with a hint of Irish)#I don't know why but my guess is that it's a masking thing because during lockdown I was primarily exposed to Irish and Australian youtuber #though if I'm angry or frustrated my accent definitely sounds more London and ngl I still have the habit of kissing my teeth when I'm angry

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allbeendonebefore · 9 months

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thinking about how much damage stuff like the alberta report did to us as a society and i am still mad about it and this was within my lifetime. the report may no longer exist but everyone on social media continues to parrot it so it might as well be still alive and kicking.

#i took an extra long lunch break today because this is wearing on me so much #they comment how the reason queer adults dont reach out to queer youth is as you would expect #one part terror that theyll be plastered with the Recruiter stereotype #one part shame about their own adolescences #but it must be better now it has to be #when i was a kid the idea of having an adult mentor never once occurred to me #even though everything i was reading in the process of finding a name for myself was written by and mostly for adults at the time #hapo reads queer history #hapo reads canadian history #shame shit different day but i like to think we have a few more people with shovels #and a few more people with a desire and knowledge about turning that shit into fertilizer #i can hope. i can try to be one of those people.#i see these comments and these whining adults crying about pride displays and i want to shake them #we have been having these discussions for decades and when we invited you we were ignored #now suddenly you want a seat at our table????? piss off #anyway this is a small part of why i do what i do

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