#and why are you british

[wolfythewitch]

Jon is funny because he acts so grumpy and shit and then he begins his statement and decides to do a little voice

#tma liveposting #hes making me eepy #sir why are you british #and why do you hate martin

[sentient-stove]

“Over there is Drake, he’s with us because JL Light kept saying no to the teenage group so now they made him my and JLD’s problem. Also he kept trying to raise the dead. And kept succeeding.”

“It’s not my fault it’s so easy,” Drake muttered without looking away from his project. “And Batman wasn’t dead the last time. You bring back three people and suddenly everyone thinks you’re a budding necromancer. It shouldn’t be my fault I’m using the available resources for the best solution.”

Constantine somehow looked even more dead than Elle as he pointed to the teenager that had taken up residence on the counter, the rest of the space covered with no less than four laptops. “Do not see him as a role model. He broke reality that first time.”

Man, she already knew they were going to get along like a house on fire. Elle waved cheerfully at Drake. “Quack.” She said. Constantine just sighed and went for his lighter.

Drake looked at her in befuddlement. “Quack?”

“A drake is a duck yeah? So, quack.”

“I prefer the drakes being dragons route.” He said. “More mysterious and powerful.”

“Ah. Rawr then.” The lesser of the two options. Drake had clearly never met a true duck. Maybe Elle could sneak one in one of these days and introduce Drake to a better namesake.

#fanfic #wip hell #JL: hey Constantine can you babysit potential threat to the world #Constantine: I’m literally not a babysitter #he’s right he’s a father of two unholy terrors now #john constantine #tim drake #dani phantom #dc x dp #dpxdc #dc comics #danny phantom #‘why doesn’t Constantine talk British’ I hate brits next question

[incredubious]

a sabo from when i was tryna get the hang of him

#one piece #sabo #ourugeh #I always draw him with this sorta teeth it feels right to me #also even tho british sabos very funny I get excited when I see ppl hc him as argentinian bc idk why but that was my first thought for him #also you dont know this but on this canvas there are 2 very insane disturbing and bloody creatures right next to him. cropped out slightly #just thought that should be on the record

[ginevrapng]

imagine spending months flirting with remus and he reciprocates but there is a slight age gap, not big enough for you to even think about or other people to think about but he overthinks it and worries he's too old for you, that you're 'wasting your youth' and you should be 'spending time with people your own age'. obviously you think it's rubbish but the thing about remus is he can be hypocritical, he says all this stuff but flirts with you anyway, it's very confusing.

one day he just snaps at you, you've been spending the night at 12 grimmauld place and everyone else has gone to bed, it's just you two and you flirt a bit, no more than usual and that's what shocks you so much at his outburst. "I'm not your boyfriend," he says coldly, in a tone that you've never heard him use directed at you before.

a shiver runs down your spine and you feel like all the warmth leave your body, you hated the way he just talked to you, dismissed you like that. after a moments silence you reply to him quietly, "i never thought you were."

"i never said it was your mistake," he mumbles back softer than before. he gets up from his chair and leaves the room without saying another word.

#remus lupin x reader #remus lupin #remus lupin x reader angst #THIS IS ANGSTY OH MY GOD. I NEVER THOUGHT I'D WRITE ANGST #marauders x reader #marauders angst #marauders x reader angst #remus lupin x you #remus lupin x y/n #older remus lupin x reader #♡ mine / writing #♡ remus #remus lupin angst #hp x reader #harry potter x reader #hp x reader angst #harry potter x reader angst #remus lupin fic #this is kind of a quote from doctor who btw <3 why not combine two british staples that i adore

[ijustthinkhesneat]

I’m an Alfred/Martha/Thomas truther. Like Alfred is a baddie in his 80s you all know he must have been a slice back in the day. And it is canon Martha and Thomas were smoke shows.

Like let hot people get it. Let hot men kiss while their wife turns mobsters kneecaps into flour with a baseball bat.

#I feel like with all those portraits in the manor teenage Bruce must have had that weird moment when he was like #‘why were my parents hotter than me at 16?’ #y’all know what I mean you find a photo of like your grandparents when they were young and you have to know why your so crusty #but like nope apparently grandpa was an absolute chad #Bruce Wayne #Martha Wayne #Thomas Wayne #alfred pennyworth #I bet Martha was dog walking those men #her British Twink and Italian Bodybuilder #batman #batfam #like and imagine the kids reaction #they find a candid shot of young Alfred making out with Grandpa Tom? #they can’t handle the idea of Alfred getting so much play #rip to Martha and Thomas they are eating ass and smoking grass with the angels now #it’s for the best #the Gotham rogues would be found scalped if they were still kicking #gotham #jason todd #dick grayson #damian wayne #tim drake #dc batman

[badolmen]

RIP to all of the British people who have to deal with the BBC/national officials shutting the country down the next few weeks that’s gonna be rough.

#ra speaks #personal #british royal family #queen elizabeth #having like the entire office nation put a hold on your life just bc some old broad died has got to suck #here in the states we can celebrate and joke but y’allre gonna be seeing articles and it’s gonna b all over the radio for months I bet #‘why are you talking likes they’ve officially announced her death?’ I found a four leaf clover yesterday she’ll be dead by weeks end #one way or another #edit: jfc yallre in a recession too?? and the gov is gonna splurge on ceremonies??? and they say the states is a hell country #good luck out there brits o7 #edit 2: I’m American and I made this post before they even announced she was dead how was I supposed to know the details of who would #and would not be required to work in these circumstances? #‘shut down the country’ in an American ‘they shut down the government’ kinda of way. everything just gets a lil noticeably shittier. #this was a personal diary entry that’s been reprinted on pamphlets and thrown off a building balcony idk you people

[brokenbackmountain]

in 1947, india voted against the partition of palestine to form israel. in 2024, they sent their first batch of workers to replace palestinian labour in israel.

reminder that india-israel relations were formally established only in 1992, after they were criticised for barring israeli players from getting visas during the davis cup (1987).

in 2003, when israeli prime minister ariel sharon visited, large crowds protested. oppositions even called him "the leader of one of the most racist, colonial regimes in existence today."

note: nehru (the first indian prime minister) was semi-open to relations with israel, which he didn't persue at the behest of arab nations and indonesia; he recognised israel in 1950.

+ please listen to brownhistory's podcast on india and israel's history, which highlights what was said on this post + a lot more info

ok editing this post really quickly because it was pointed out that the phrasing makes it sound like the davis cup was the only reason (wrong). india and israel did have relations, since india used to ask for aid and tell them not to put the israeli flag while sending it so the arab nations wouldn't realise it's israeli

#india #palestine #nehru did say smth like israel was always there!!! we just didn't want to piss off our arab friends!!! #but he also said that zionism is a child of british colonialism #note: you can access brownhistory's full website thru their ig it's an extension of what they post #reason why i say formally was because they had some back-door relations before that #history

[elbiotipo]

Argentine Leftists are not immune to Argentine nationalist propaganda... how are islands 300 miles from your coast rightfully yours, just because you want them ? just because you've nurtured a grievance over the fact you didn't get hold of them during your colonialist state formation? how can you miss something that was never yours? why do you think it's more important than the people who live there for nearly 200 years ? ???????????

get over it.

#COLONIALIST STATE FORMATION SAYS THE ANON WHO IS SUPPORTING THE FUCKING BRITISH EMPIRE #WHY DON'T YOU COME AND SING GOD SAVE THE QUEEN WHILE YOU'RE AT IT

[bluebirbbb]

little arthur malevolent lester portrait because my brain is full of him

#WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME I MISSPELLED ARTHUR (edited now) #I KNOW THAT'S AN ESSAY IN THE TAGS BUT I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS #i love him #i need to make him look more pathethic and sad next time #and more scrawny maybe #he's just too presentable #i dont have time for more art recently so have this at least as my little break from uni work #i actually like how it turned out tho #i need to paint more loosely like this in the future #also ive been staring at leyendecker when drawing this can you tell by the shading on the cheek #and yes he has white hairs!!!! #and eyebags and a little bit of wrinkles in the corners of his eyes #i need to draw it better next time but that's how i see the guy #i really want to draw his lighter too because i've been thinking too much about its design and also i want to render some objects #arthur lester #arthur malevolent #malevolent podcast #malevolent fanart #poor sad british man #myartstuff

[bertoyana]

i don't even have a smart or funny caption for this one because what the fuck does these looks from erik even mean. why is he looking at charles like he wants to climb him like a tree. why does he look so painfully fond. i'm convinced this man got his ass taken over by erik lehnsherr's real spirit in this scene and he was being puppetered around like ratatouille or venom. what were even simon kimberg's indications here i'm so confused

#yearning so bad he's not even blinking #cherik #gifset #mine* #xmenuniverse #xmenedit #x-men #marveledit #otp: i want you by my side #erik lehnsherr #charles xavier #this scene is still so strange to me overall why are they in the city of love why are they surrounded by couples and flowers what is going #imagine doing allat for a british bald man damn

[the-princess-and-the-admiral]

From tomorrow’s Telegraph front page🥺😢

#QEII putting duty above comfort to the very end😢 #also love Anne being the only member of the family to be interviewed for the doc #do you think Charles just thought why have multiple family members saying the same things when you can just have Anne🤣 #the og chaotic duo #princess anne #princess royal #british royal family

[britbixch]

Happy Birthday America, and America and America and the real America. I'm British so I've got no clue what you lot do on Independence other then like blow things up haha x Personal headcanon here but I like to assume both Amelia and Alfred are about as dim as each-other but don't realise it, so often they tease each-other for being daft when honestly they've got the equal intelligence of a beetle flipped on their back xx Anyways take this little drawing of Amelia not realising she's got a drink on top of her head and Alfred snickering about it

#art #artwork #hetalia #hetalia fanart #hetalia art #aph #fanart #aph america #hetalia america #nyo america #neko america #not a ship #i swear #i think they're lovely as siblings #happy birthday #the lot of you #why did my british come out so hard on this #it's 6am #im incredibly tired

[wetsocksinbed]

my favourite trope is when a clone randomly has a different accent than everyone else

#tech why are you british #droidbait why are you irish #Boss why are you American #Star wars #the bad batch #the clone wars #republic commando #swtbb #tbb #clone wars #lucasfilm #star wars the bad batch #delta squad

[lonelysa1lor]

If I read another TMA fic where Martin goes to make tea and brings out some shit like Chai or Mocha. I will not be held accountable for my actions I'm not actually that mad about it but GIVE THAT MAN HIS PG TIPS AND TETLEY. It's his god given right as a British man to serve the most dogshit tea and you will respect that!

#HE'S BRITISH WHY IS HE SERVING THE ARCHIVES CAPPUCINOS??? #You're going to look me in the eye as you say that Jon would drink some chai DAILY?? #nuh uh #not my bland office man #If you go to some cafe and they get their fancy drinks there then that's fine BUT FROM MARTIN???? #the magnus archives #tma #tma podcast #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #martin k blackwood

[evankinard]

bro I don't even want buddie canon anymore it's not worth the price of the blood pressure medication

#EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP IM TRYING TO HAVE A NICE PEACEFUL DAY HERE #ESPECIALLY YOU RYAN GUZMAN IF THAT IS EVEN YOUR REAL NAME #AND OLIVER STARK. WHY HAVE WE FORGOTTEN OUR LESSONS AND LET THE BRITISH OPEN THEIR MOUTH #weewoo brainrot #buddie #911 abc

[ingravinoveritas]

So al was asking ppl to ask her questions as her Fridays are so dull while her partner doing a play. Doesn't she find when she wiv michael it dull cos usually shows it or the other way round and then the bird one I found interesting cos since when have we seen Ms be protective over Al we haven't seen him speak or defend his relationship of what the journalists or ppl say about his relationship of what was said on weds where she defended it and and put a insta story about it we all know he loud but protective I think if he had to choose to protect or save someone it would be david hands down not al

What ur thoughts love to hear ur take on this

(Grouping together for ease of answering. @hyperfixating-rn-brb's Ask is referring to the last screenshot.)

So, I saw this as it was happening on Friday, and...yeah. I'm not sure what the impetus behind this random Insta AMA was (perhaps PR suggesting that Anna do something to counter her rash of recent off-putting social media posts?), but whatever the reason, choices™ were definitely made with some of (well, most of) her answers.

I think what struck me about the ones in these screenshots is how they’re lowkey insulting to Michael, but all in different ways (and not overtly, but passive-aggressively, as hyperfixating-rn-brb mentioned). It also seems odd that AL is currently in London, one of the most dynamic and attraction-filled cities imaginable, yet acting as if there is nothing to do on a Friday night. (Because Michael (and/or Georgia) aren't there to entertain her, I guess?)

Leaving that aside, the entire way this happened was just strange. A lot of the questions felt very boilerplate ("Are you currently reading anything?" "Who is your biggest inspiration?") and almost like they were planned in advance (I think at least one actually was from someone AL knows personally, IIRC), yet interspersed with enough "wacky" questions to give the impression of it being this spontaneous Q&A thing.

As for the answers in the screenshots above, I saw people on Twitter getting outraged over the "girly" question on Saturday, but predictably for all the wrong reasons. In particular, I noticed people once again blaming Michael/David shippers for it, but just from the wording alone, my feeling was that whoever sent in this question did not seem to be a shipper at all. "Girly" has a very specific, borderline homophobic connotation to it (akin to someone asking Anna if she "acts dykey" around Georgia), and while I know English is not her first language, I don't think that meaning is something AL would have missed.

So, no, it's certainly not a great or appropriate question by any means. But the bigger issue, at least in my opinion, wasn't so much "Why would someone ask this?", but rather "Why would she post this?" Because Anna is a grown woman who could have very easily just ignored this question altogether. Instead, she chose to draw attention to it, and to react in much the same way as her "vagueblogging" from the other day. It was as if the purpose in sharing it was to show people what she has to "put up with"--either from the fans or from Michael or both.

That's the other piece of this--that she shared this question with seemingly no regard for how it makes Michael look, or whether it would or could be embarrassing to him. It immediately made me think of this tweet from Michael two years ago, where he chose to answer a question in such a way as to deliberately not embarrass David (further explanation can be found here). It's something that seems so small but means so much, and that you'd think would happen effortlessly for someone you love. So the contrast of that to Anna posting this was striking to me, and it was further compounded by her answer to the "favorite bird" question.

Again, it's almost unsurprising at this point. Anna has previously made unflattering comparisons between Michael and Cousin Itt, a Hobbit, and Hagrid--among others--and now we can add a cockatiel to this list. What’s weird is that the question itself had nothing to do with Michael, so there was absolutely no reason to bring him into it...and yet. It felt like name dropping for the sake of name dropping, which just seems like a weird thing to do when she's been dating him for five years now. Did she think we forgot? That we needed a reminder? Whatever the reason, this definitely seemed like such a strange choice, and another instance of passive-aggressively putting him down under the pretense of a compliment.

(A note about the "protective" part, as I noticed that was particularly mentioned in this Ask. I would agree that there are a lot more overt/visible instances of Michael being protective of David--many of which I have talked about on my blog--than of Anna. That does not mean I don't think he is protective of her, however, but that there is a distinction between the two. It is possible to be protective of someone out of a sense of responsibility and obligation, and those are not necessarily bad things. But it's very different to being protective of someone not because you feel like you have to be protective, but because you want to be. Interpret that how you will...)

Finally, I just need to mention that one of the questions AL was asked was about Georgia ("Is Georgia secretly holding you hostage?"), and what I have hardly seen anyone talking about is that Georgia reshared that Insta story a short while later...and added a song called "I'm Trapped"...

I just...was this meant to be shady on Georgia's part? Who, exactly, is "trapped" here? The subtext and potential implications can go in so many directions here that it's hard to know where to start, but...yeah. The optics of Georgia resharing this story and adding that song in the middle of AL's Insta Q&A were and are questionable/cringey/unintentionally hilarious on multiple levels.

So yes, that is my take on the events of Friday night. As I've said before and will again, I know I could be totally off the mark here, so I'd love to hear from my followers as to what you think. Thank you for writing in! x

#angel19924 #hyperfixating-rn-brb #reply post #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #trying to provide a balanced perspective #but what's the old saying: when someone shows you who they are believe them the first time #at this point i honestly do not understand why she is even still with him #there was also a question about 'Who was your 1st celeb crush?' and she mentioned a Swedish boy band #but then said she 'couldn't say' who her British crush was but that it's 'not who you think' #and i'm not sure what the purpose of that was either #but i will leave it to my followers to make up their own minds #georgia tennant #anna lundberg #relationships #discourse