#2 different countries

[strawbebbiesart]

june/ july / august 💌🥪🦢

#digital art #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr #original illustration #original art #sasha's art #work and classes start next week for me and also for all of my friends #and probably the whole city as well #so i wanted to do something to say goodbye to this summer #there was so much stress we went through with me moving to a new country and figuring out health care and banks and all of that fun stuff #and a lot of going back and forth between vienna and my home town #and also two (2) of my friends moved apartments and everyone went on vacation at different times #BUT #throught it all we still managed to see each other a lot and i feel like we made the most of it #i had fun and i really appreciated it all #so i wanted to capture all of these small moments #the swims in the danube and the picknics and the swans with their chattering #this was my first summer i got to spend while living in this city i've dreamed about my whole life #and i got to spend it with the love of my life and a beautiful group of friends #here's to many more!! #i hope you all also had a nice summer and i hope your return to work/ school/ whatever is comfortable and easy ! #i have many ideas for art currently which always happens when i am about to have yero free time lmao #we'll see how much time i manage to make for it and when i can post my next big Piece #but hopefully soon!! my resolve is Big and my passion is all encompasing !!!!

[ladykatibeth]

Thinking about the idea that the vampires issues with growth (at least as we humans are seeing them in a 4 year period) is often brought up as like….a failing or flaw like stubbornness…and how I super disagree so I did some time scale math.

So, if a human lives to 100, a single year is about 1% of their total life.

Laszlo is 311, a year is worth about 0.32% of his total life.

Nadja is about 500 a year is worth 0.20% of her total life.

Nandor is 760, a year is worth about 0.13% of his total life.

To put this in perspective, about 46 years ago computers starting being advertised and bought as a more commercial product (but they won’t reach 50% kept in the home until 2000)

For Laszlo scaled (keeping in mind some error, because every additional year changes the conversion slightly) the computer began being marketed about 14 years ago.

For Nadja scaled the computer began being marketed about 9 years ago.

For Nandor scaled the computer began being marketed about 6 years ago.

But that’s computers, iPhones weren’t a thing until 2007, 16 years ago.

For Laszlo scaled (keeping in mind some error, because every additional year changes the conversion slightly) the iPhone began being sold about 5 years ago.

For Nadja scaled the iPhone began being marketed about 3 years ago.

For Nandor scaled the iPhone began being sold about 2 years ago.

We got from the invention of the telephone to the iPhone in about 131 years.

That’s about 42% of Laszlo’s life, 26% of Nadja’s and 17% of Nandor’s.

If you put this to a 100 year scale Lazlo experienced this development in 42 years, Nadja experienced it in 26 years and Nandor experienced it in 17 years.

So, all things considered…….I think they’re pretty well adjusted 😂

Also just for fun, Nandor and Guillermo have known each other for about 13 years, in scale, for him, this is about a year and 248 days. Thats been about 40% of Guillermo’s life.

Nandors going through a speed burn and Guillermo is going through a slow one is what I’m saying.

#I mean #I think they still should probably put in effort to stay up dated #but I don’t blame them for struggling #especially with how speedily tech developed recently #they’re actually pretty good? #for like #the equivalent of going to a whole different country culturally speaking #every 2 years #wwdits #Nadja of antipaxos #laszlo cravensworth #nandor the relentless #wwdits meta

[willowcrowned]

#honestly I think this one really comes down to whether you find Heather Matarazzo or Chris Pine more charming #and possibly how much secondhand embarrassment you’re willing to endure #polls #anyways I’m watching the first one for the first time since I was like. twelve #it’s. fine #it really is emblematic of the genre of films that just make up a European country and have everybody from it speak in a different accent #on the assumption that American kids won’t know #which like. part of its charm maybe. but also. not #the princess diaries #the princess diaries 2

[pedro-pascal]

some food i had in vietnam

#food #asian food #vietnam #vietnamese food #words cannot express how good all of those were #i already LOVED bun cha but i truly had a love at first sight for cao lau hoi an #it was so freaking fantastic #also i discovered bun bo hue which is definitely a different take on pho but like SOMEHOW better i can’t explain it #and all the phos there were insanely good and if you paid more than 50k VND you were being ripped of which is like 2€ #i was shaken. also banh mi are < 1€ this is so crazy to me #god i need to move to asia how can i come back to poland #i cannot live in a country where food is not the most important thing in the world

[peonycats]

did i just see someone hc South Korea to be the child of North Korea and America post-WWII

#why this fandom has a particular obsession with making alfred the (good) dad of his colonial and imperial possessions (like liberia) #is smth i'll never understand #hws america #hws north korea #// disk horse #hetalia #hws south korea #LIKE THERE'S SO MUCH I COULD WRITE ABOUT THIS HOW IT PLAYS INTO NARRATIVES OF WHITE SAVIORISM AND THE IMAGERY OF AMERICA NEEDING TO “GUIDE” #THE “YOUNGER” “LESSER” NATIONS OF THE WORLD WHO ARE SO OFTEN CONVENIENTLY POC HMMMM AND BASICALLY DOES A MISS SAIGON RETELLING AS WELL #THE BELIEF THAT TODAYS SK HAS NO HISTORY OR CULTURE W/O THAT AMERICAN INTERVENTION AND OTHER COUNTRIES ARE ALLOWED TO MODERNIZE AND REMAIN #LIKE IT'S NOT CUTE?? ITS NOT ADORABLE OR FLUFFY THAT IS LITERALLY PRO-AMERICAN IMPERIALIST PROPGANDA #also nk being a shitty mom who's paranoid of sk replacing her is 1) the demonization of asian moms as irrational and inhumane and in need #of white intervention and 2) justification of the usa's shitty alienation of nk as a pariah state #he's a different oriental but edward said is rolling in his grave rn

[bongosinferno]

I'm on episode 5 of the Fallout show; NO WHAT THE HELL I LITERALLY THOUGHT TO MYSELF "MAN I'M BEGINNING TO LIKE THIS SHOW" AND THEN THEY JUST REMOVE THE NCR FROM CANNON. WHY. THAT'S SUCH A FRUSTRATING CHOICE

also STOP PLAYING ON THE NOSE MUSIC I CAN UNDERSTAND THE PLOT WE DON'T NEED CONSTANT 50S MUSIC

#fallout 1 #fallout #fallout 2 #fallout new vegas #fallout meta #fallout show #fallout tv show #fallout prime #fallout tv series #fallout tv spoilers #fallout amazon #fallout series #THEY FUCKED IT. “PEOPLE DIDN'T AGREE ON HOW THE WORLD SHOULD BE IMPROVED IS NOT ENOUGH” #I feel like I know this is completely irrational to be upset over. It's literally fiction. DOES not matter #the Tv-show can do what it likes #BUT IT FUCKING SMARTS to do a twist like that. Hope they at least expand more on it?? #I'm not even against an “NCR falls apart” or whatever #I think you could do that interestingly #but it was like a whole country #I was thinking this was maybe some different continuity then the games. Honestly would've preferred that. #they could've just had it in California without bringing up the NCR. That's fine. But this such a boring end to that continuity. #especially when you compare it to New Vegas. The line “people don't agree when trying to make the world better” is such a nothing line #ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPARED to New Vegas #which actually engages with the ideas and theme of history repeating beyond that surface level #I hate being upset with media #it's a pretty good character beat for Lucy #and I think this is the first time Maximus becomes likable as a character for me #but maaaaan that's a dumb twist

[worstloki]

Loki surveilling the skyline of New York from the top of Stark Tower and clocking that his favorite paired set of buildings are gone. sad

#everyone wants thor and loki to have visited earth a bunch of times and obviously they wouldn't be too invested in earth politics #but i think the concept of much time passing between visits should be taken advantage of #like what if one of them missed seeing the statue of liberty on their past 3 visits and now that's 'suddenly' a famous historic landmark #Loki like wow I sure hope that restaurant in the Soviet Union is still around! #and Natasha's head whips around so fast like you mean Russia or one of the surrounding countries that used to be part of the USSR #Loki: uhm. well. what's the difference #Natasha: here is a map of the countries does this help #Loki: it does not help but thank you for trying #Thor: what do you mean Rome is gone???? Rome was HUGE????? #Tony: well it's been a few centuries since then Europe is very different now #Thor: (visibly distressed) so the the sweet effeminate men enjoy the streets no more?? #Tony: ...I don't keep track of foreign border laws about that #Thor shows up after 3 years and there's a new president and he's very confused through the entire meeting #brodinsons being so detached from the political scene but being so used to realm politics they come to correct conclusions about things #even though the timeline and how long things stay the same on midgard still messes with them #Loki: at least Egypt is still around #Thor: China also #Brodinsons visiting New Zealand(Aotearoa)/Australia/various British mandate islands before the British formally showed up #returning 2 centuries later and 'the gene pool has altered drastically' 'must've been a war' #well it's either that or since Asgard seems spared of colorism they treat all humans as the same and don't notice. which might be worse #on the colonisation and liberation side of things

[libraryleopard]

read a review of true detective: night country that said it would be better if evangeline navarro was a man to which i say boooooooooo that is such a terrible take. first of all the only reason i'm watching this show is because the leads are women and second of all her character is clearly a way for the show to explore the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women so no actually her character would not work in the same way if she was a man and would probably make the themes of the show less effective.

#also i think evangeline and liz ARE different enough for their dynamic to work #because it's clearly established that 1) liz is more of an outsider to ennis and 2) does not necessarily understand indigenous stuff as muc #true detective night country #lulu watches things #lulu watches true detective night country #lulu speaks

[pcktknife]

thinking xinyans spikes make her look unappealing........

#imma explode i cant stand genshin fans bro yall dont know anything #thinking shes out of place in her country bc of her eng accent and rock and roll....shes pioneering a new genre she punk shes literally #is not meant to fit in #ive never seen a worse read of her character #also moving her to mondstadt would better her character at all 'make her barbs best friend' YUNJIN IS RIGHT THERE #theres literally a dynamic of a traditional opera singer being friends with a musician of a new genre how the fuck do you think putting her #in mondstadt would better her character #and saying her being brown doesnt affect her popularity bc kaeya is so stupid as if kaeya isnt a character you 1) interact with multiple #times 2) has lore directly tied to a huge plot point of the game 3) is brothers with diluc and also has that lore happening #she and kaeya have different number of fans cause kaeya has more lore and has more importance to the story her being brown could still #effect xinyans popularity regardless of what kaeya looked like he was probably always gonna be popular #im gonna explode no one's allowed to have opinions on xinyan but me now cause what the hell did i just read #kae.txt #ive never had the interpretaton of a character piss me off so bad oh my god #mhy

[chialattea]

Isabela warmup

#chia draws #dragon age #da2 #dragon age 2 #isabela da2 #im still super artblocked #plus trying to find my style #plus moving to a different country #to study in a language I’m still learning #plus being on STEM hell #pls pray for me to the wlw gods #also I love Isabela so much #I think she rocks the byzantine art palette u know what I’m saying #deep blue and gold…

[bitchwholikesshitposting]

Headcannon that Wheatley doesn't actually know what British is. He just gets called it all the time so he assumes that it's another insult

Which leads to a conversation with someone at some point that ends with him saying "I'M not British, YOU'RE BRITISH!"

#i mean he was built and kept around in a facility located in america #and i don't think they'd teach their specifically stupid core what accents and different countries are. so #portal #portal 2 #wheatley

[skeletalheartattack]

What if i went back in time and smashed your gamecube. What would your childhood game collection look like then?

#ask #anon #anon i grew up with the n64 #so like. not much different? i wouldnt have TTYD or Sunshine or Luigis Mansion #but like. around the time of the gamecube. my family had the n64. ps1. ps2. #id still have played battle for bikini bottom because i had it on PS2 first #we also had a few other consoles but i dont have a proper memory of which my brothers owned. were sold. or were borrowed #because we had a dreamcast. i played sonic adventure 1 (appearently got to the casino. i remember the ring shaker) #we had an SNES at one point. played mario world and donkey kong country 1 #we had a sega genesis momentarily before we moved around the time i was 5 #i remember playing aladin. mortal kombat (dont know which one) and a garfield 2D platformer that had a haunted mansion level #or something #but the dreamcast. genesis and... maybe the snes. we had those before the gamecube #with the n64 my main games were mario 64. banjo kazooie. and banjo tooie. and mario kart and mario party 2 #ive still got almost all of my old n64 games. im missing my copy of toy story 2 and smash 64 #my brothers owned metroid prime 1 & 2 for the gamecube so. i wouldnt have had that i guess. #iirc i got the gamecube for easter one year. i say iirc because i remember specifically getting Mario Sunshine #and the gamecube mightve been paired with it but i was specifically excited for mario sunshine #i woke up to follow like. a trail of starburst into the basement (its our secondary living room) to find the game and console... i think #so i forever associate Sunshine with starburst. idk if it was intentional or not. #starburst fits really well for the few times that colourful goop pattern is used. like at the very start of the game #anyway anon you couldve just asked what wouldve happened if i didnt have a gamecube. no need for the violence. #also the gamecube itself plays a very small role in my childhood. like in comparison to the PS2 games that came and went in my household #anyway. thank you anon for the ask. i think.

[countess-of-edessa]

maria khoreva: has been posting on Instagram about how she'll be performing at the YAGP New York gala for a while now, obviously not keeping it a secret at all and lots of ballet people have been discussing it

some stupid representative in albany: you kept this a SECRET from us so we couldn't protest because you were trying to sneak in the Russians under the radar how dare you they're representatives of Putin >:(

#well if they were real good people they would have lost everything in their lives to speak out against a tyrannical government and end up #changing nothing obviously #I guess some people think differently but yes I understand the Mariinsky is a state sponsored theatre and I understand not having the #theatre over here to perform as a company. but not allowing individual dancers over here to perform as individuals who happen to work #for the theater is so stupid to me #yes the state funds the theater. American tax dollars contribute to various arts funds here #I don't want to be called Biden's representative when I go to other countries for work #ok sounds good you first #2/3 of the 'Russian' dancers invited are May Nagahisa and Kimin Kim who are not even Russian #and trust me I literally wrote the book (thesis) on Russian ballet as propaganda I literally did do exactly that #I still find this moronic. No one is out here doing Spartak or the Red Poppy or Taras Bulba or anything like that #stupid stupid stupid

[sneakydraws]

@dennorweek day 4: royalty

let's not kid ourselves this is a very tedious connection but i took it as an excuse to word dump a bit about the kind of dynamic i sometimes like to imagine with historical canonverse dennor. poorly backed up musings under the cut

based on like .05 seconds of research i did at some point i got the impression that historically, even when they formed a united country, d.enmark had more power over n.orway (or at the very least, more power than n.orway) than vice versa, and it got me thinking about power dynamics. this is just my own headcanon but i could see it like... nor knows full well that their relationship is unequal and den could at any point mistreat him with little repercussion but at the same time nor knows he never would. cocky and arrogant and power hungry though he may be, the affection or even love den has for nor is genuine and he would never think of treating nor with anything less than full respect. then again, a situation where one person has considerable power over the other is no foundation for a fully comfortable and normally functional relationship, and their weird romance has that undercurrent of instability built in. although i think for countries this kind of messed up relationship is kind of the norm since at any given time there's usually some kind of power imbalance going on, not to mention inherently clashing political interests... anyway, dubiously historically accurate musings aside, i couldn't resist putting them in vaguely viking era clothes even though the situation i was going for could be slightly more believably connected to their 16th century union ahahaaaa

#dennor #hetalia #aph denmark #aph norway #dennor week 2022 #i have actually SO many headcanons about how different nations would react to being powerful at any given point in history... #how characters handle having power is basically my favourite theme to ponder lol #now that i think about it the prompt 'country' for day 2 might have fit slightly better lmfaooo #i guess i picked royalty to dump this headcanon because like... kingship. ownership. political marriage. power imbalances between spouses #maybe even that trope of the king obviously having more political power than his queen but respecting her opinion and agency to the point #their relationship may seem 'equal' but then theres always the indisputable fact that its not /really/ #idk

[doctorwhoisadhd]

so wait, since i was just reminded of the recorder thing donna talked about in the giggle, i now have a question for uk ppl: do yall learn the recorder in school? like in a music class? and like how much do yall have music class over there?

#this is a very interesting topic for me as a music educator from the us #ik a guy from ireland and he said there was no music class in schools for him and like not the same country BUT same island #(as northern ireland. not the others in the uk but still) #and its so wild and fascinating music education is a fascinating field and the way we do it in the us seems to be largely vvv unique to us #for clarification on how things are different so ppl have a better idea on how to answer my question lol: #in the us music class is standard in elementary schools and most places have general music until abt 5th/6th grade (year 6/7) #(general music = basics- music games learn recorder SOME notation-reading; often classroom instruments eg boomwhackers claves maracas #orff instruments if you're lucky/from a school district that isnt poor. also some world music) #its less standardized after that and not every school will have music after middle school but concert bands and choirs are both huge here #choirs start right on the heels of general music classes (sometimes start earlier + students elect to be in choir instead of general music) #bands USUALLY start in 4th grade (year 5) but sometimes can be later 5th/6th (year 6/7) or even 7th (year 8) (WAY less common) #depends on the state generally 4th is most common i think (choirs start at around the same time i think so probs 4th but choir isnt my area #orchestras are weird bc theyre a lot less common but can commonly start younger bc of one of the big approaches to music ed (suzuki method) #so like maybe 3rd grade (year 4) maybe 4th w/ band (year 5) but i have a friend who teaches at a private school #& said they have 1st/2nd graders (year 2/3)!! orchestra is also not my area though #also marching bands: vv common! usually just in hs (starting 9th grade / year 10) bc it supports the football team at games #but starting in 8th grade (year 9) is also common (sometimes even 7th / year 8) #theres two different styles: collegiate/show band and competition. former is very rah rah pop music etc; competition is more abstract #show bands are clearly designed to entertain whereas competition is designed to be more impressive and tell a story #so more impact moments abstract shapes/lines on the field and has movements - opener ballad closer (fast-slow-fast)

[wantbytaemin]

how i look not buying skz tickets bc im waiting for shinee to announce a europe tour

#i can’t do what i did last time 2 concerts in 2 days in 2 different countries that was just too much im too scared of them overlapping #HOWEVER. as time goes by i realise i prob should’ve gone to both skz shows -_________-