#for a book that like every American kid

[s-s-painland]

SpaEng WIP I either won’t finish or redraw from the beginning.

Bad anatomy=no motivation

Oh there’s also another version with them in their usual uniforms…if anyone is interested. It ain’t good tho.

#aph england #hetalia #aph spain #fanart #spaeng #spain x england #art wip #my motivation #got shot out back #like old yeller #spoilers #? #for a book that like every American kid #in fourth grade read?

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

#the visual depictions are lovely #but what really gets me every time are the little cultural details in the music #music that tells the story of the Nativity while placing it in a world that's familiar to the listener #fur robed moujiks on snowboard plateaus in place of middle eastern shepherds #bark lodges instead of stables and rabbit skin in place of swaddling clothes #wandering hunter and chiefs from far off places instead of shepherds and wise men (man i love the Huron Carol) #and little french girls running to gather the village to come see Jesus #it's easy for an excess of historical concern to make Jesus feel distant and far off #/I know/ that Jesus was born in the ancient near east and have had my fill of books and sermons and the like unpacking the implications #I've laughed with my friends and family at the wild inaccuracies of Nativity sets and tellings #the crazy blonde mary in the kids nativity set at Walmart #what is that alpaca doing at the living Nativity don't they know those are south American? #yada yada #and then i look at these carols and think. it's okay not to get mired in the history. good even #yes Jesus entered into time and space in a very specific manner #but he also came for all of us #as another carol says: we see him come and know him ours #i just think this practice is lovely #that the impact of the Incarnation was such that it send little french girls running to their villages #and drew algonquin hunters and russian peasants to the manger to see him #it's the great crowd of witnesses in a way #all of us together preparing him room throughout all the corners of the earth #in Bethlehem that night it was only the shepherds who got to see him #but in spirit it was all of us #because it's just like the angel said: #good news of great joy which will be to all people #to all people #starting with the shepherds and going out to all the earth #unto us a child is born #intertextuality

[uncanny-tranny]

Something kind of funny I never anticipated about crocheting with longer hair was pulling out a piece of my own hair out of my project that I somehow crocheted into it

#art #fiber art #crochet #most likely that strand fell out mid-stitch and i just... crocheted it in #love in every stitch? no. HAIR in every stitch #also i'm watching a video about knitting (war-time knitting specifically) and it's sparking memories #i forgot the sheer effort that was getting women to knit for soldiers (understandably because i wasn't alive during those wars but still) #molly was my favourite american girl book and i think that's where i first learned about that as a kid???? #but those books weren't mine they were just family books and i LOVED reading fiction back then #and i really liked the historical aspect to those books in the sense that they were about girls in specific historical periods #and they incorporated actual history in it - to the full extent i'm not sure because i haven't read them in close to ten years (idk) #and it's interesting to see just how many people - not even just women! - knit for soldiers #i'm learning now from this video the sheer number of other people who started in knitting #anyway this is why i'm begging men to also do fiber arts (watching a reel of a guy crochet a blanket and HELL YEAH BROTHER)

[badolmen]

Everyone talking about adopting Palestinian kids needs to read Scott Carney’s The Red Market and a brief definition of genocide outside of the physical destruction of lives.

#ra speaks #personal #adoption #palestine #the red market #it’s been years since I read that book #but the sections about the trafficked kids has always stuck with me #about the family who had their son stolen. who tracked him down in America. who asked the family to see him #not to take him home not to be a part of his life but simply to speak with a now young teenager #and tell him how much they loved him and missed him and were happy he was safe #only for the family to deny them. #like Jesus fucking Christ man that shit has fucked me up #idk maybe it’s just cause my countin died recently #and she was adopted and her graduate psychology work was with adopted kids because she was passionate #about the flaws and dangers of the system she grew up in #but every person who talks about saving the children when they mean taking them away from everything and everyone they’ve ever known #it makes my skin crawl #we should be putting effort into keeping track of families. of finding family friends and connections for these kids. #not throwing them into a new country full of racists who will give them shit for where they were born no matter how American they’re raised

[esoraluco]

i found this palette and used its colors for a pic. Inspired from this as well

#o #do you see now? how much i wasnt kidding every time i said Blue loves cars #i used various refs for the car pics in the bg- from my American cars of the 1950s book. some models are from the late 50s #but let's just say. That in this 50s au. Certain things aren't the same to say the least (besides the mosquito people pictured above). #and that includes making car models come out earlier bc i need them and they are cool. The end #this is the most pastel thing i drew in like. years. But love them 50s specific colors #also first time im drawing spamt's 8^O face #from toby's doodles. it's so weird to me that he can- in fact- do the O mouth. but it's funny #blue addison #spamton #spamton g spamton #dltr #ua s05

[nomaishuttle]

btw in my theoretical peculiar rewrite that Will not ever happen bc im not a writer anymore i left that life behind in 2017. but in my theoretical one its rly mostly just a rewrite of likee. maybe a bit of book 3 and then Completely rewriting books 4-6

#i like some of the stuff from the 2nd trilogy. mainly the stuff that was brought up in the first book that seemed rly interesting thar they #then forgot abt in the 2nd book and/ #or solved off screen or came up with some other reason for it to not matter. like. the american conflict wouldve been so cool. but then #they just decide its the noor story and r like Oh yeah rhe ymbrynes solved all the american stuff so don't even worry abt it 👍 #having the kids like. take modern normal lessons and have jacob trying to like. teach them while also trying 2 hide that hes trying to #follow jn abes footsteps. thats so fun . but i stead he just like straight up leaves and the kids r basically gone the entre time... #and the like. Omg theres like a group of normals that r hunting peculiars and have been for centuries. thats rly rly interesting. and then #theyre judt like Nah it was wights the whole time. #Like. i like noor i think shes rly cool i just think the prophecy is So stupid #im never gonna get over the way that the entire prophecy was pointless. like trying to find the other kids was pointless. bc the prophecy #didnt need 7 it needed 1 and the others were just spares. so it literlaly xouldve been like. Finished as soon as it started. and it was #just so generic and boring like... the first trilogy was very unique and like interesting and different #and then in the 2jd theyre like Omg this is the chosen one and shes one of the chosen jn this prophecy where 7 kids etc #i also think its rly stupid that theyre all light eaters.. #if we Have to have the stupid 7 prophecy like were every other book on this planet can at least be like. Omg... and theyre all very very #powerful peculiars from some of the peculiar subcategories. but whatever... #but ya. the main things id change abt book 3 is like. the weird like... Omg all peculiars Used to be hollows ???? thats why jacob can ??? #understand them ??? bc hes part hollow ????? Thats so fucking stupid. #its weird. and also in my au i would have emma and jacob break up bc i think that makes sense and emma is my everything girl but i feel #like in the actual books they broke up and then havob was immediately like Noor is my everything shes the reason i live im nothing without #her . and its been 2 hours since they met. and emma is right fhere and they broke up 2 days ago. yk... #i also think id just have the series be like. #a bitttt more spread out ?? like a little bit at least.. bc it takes place over the span of 6 months #roughly. which for the first trilogy i get why itd be very quick succession bc those kids were on a mission #idk. i just think its kinda silly that jacob was So into emma like Omg well never be apart she completes me etc within like. 3 months. and #then is the same with noor after like 2 days. Ik teenagers r like that Fucking trust me im so insanely aware that teenagers will fall #deeply deeply deeply in love with somebody very quickly even when tht relationship isnt rly good for either party . trust me im so insanely #fucking aware . LMAO. but it was just a bit annoying esp bc emma was just completely written out basically... it sucked :( it sucks that al #of the peculiar chuldren bssicslly werent there like. idk. it rly just felt like jacob was like Ok done with them NOOR TIMEEE #and like i said i love noor shes great im sooo down with her i judt wiuldnt make her literally the chosen one snd specialest girl on earth

[mjrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

yes thank you @ancientlamentationmusic for the tag. it’s funny how you forget everything you’ve ever watched the moment someone asks for your "favorite" lol. unlike my sis, i watch movies more than tv shows but i could not recall a single recent thing i've watched that i would like to watch over and over again so i guess they don't count as a fave? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i wanted a mixture of childhood/teen favs that had me by the neck mixed with my grown-up go-tos of today. hardest part was not picking all 9 ghibli or all 9 pre-cgi disney (even tho meet the robinsons was very very close...)

i'm not on letterboxd and my netflix dvd history is long gone so i couldn't cheat and pick anything "better" lol. THESE PICS CAME STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART (/ω＼*)……… (/ω•＼*)♡

#runners up were disney's robin hood & peter pan & aristocats & alice in wonderland but again...variety #all disney lol #movies #baring my soul here #i wanted daphne's AND carmen's AND anna's wardrobes #midriff bbs #kim possible movie has straight up 1/3 of jesse mccartney's beautiful soul album on its soundtrack #also did not know until a rewatch last month that BARRY MANILOW WROTE THE MUSIC FOR THUMBELLINA #MUSIC AND LYRICS AND EVERYTHING #was in the opening credits and everything didnt matter as a kid i only cared about charro lol #but yuh i fainted #memoriessssssssss #used to watch ww 2009 every valentine's day might bring that back #sucker punch is the most recent watch as in late last year but i've wanted to watch it forever and as soon is i did i was like...yes. #AND CINDERELLA AND KIKI ARE CINDERELLA AND KIKI WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME #i think that covers all 9 lol #i own the cinderella platinum dvd bc it came with a tiny mary blair art book and had a mary blair featurette #damn i miss featurettes... #i have kiki on bluray but no longer have a bluray player so we streaminggg #the japanese closing track is better than the american one but i still like ghibli dubs as much as subs #the only exception #ok NOW i'm done & crying to the kiki soundtrack #if you made it down here you get to see my hottest take... #SPIRITED AWAY IS OVERRATED #but now all these internet creators are comparing their burnout to kiki's and it's kinda getting annoying too... #50kajilion video essays on SHES JUST LIKE ME FR!!! #like yuh its true but like...shut up #*victoria justice voice* i think we ALL experience burnout #ok NOW NOW i'm really really done

[metaphysicae]

understand that classic literature is, in fact, widely available, and that it is a huge part of the usamerican public school education system, AND ALSO you're not better than other people for reading classic lit, AND ALSO pretension and elitism very much exists within groups of people who do read these books and it's a very big issue.

understand you can emphasis the importance of the classics without trivializing and devaluing some of the greatest works of our modern age.

in fact, it is the very fact that classic literature is so prevalent and universal that contributes to the declining rates of people who enjoy reading! when you're brought up in a school system that almost exclusively shoves classic literature down your throat in an inherently analytical form, of course people aren't going to enjoy it. it's honestly an injustice that we use classic literature to teach the nuances of writing and comprehension because it is so hard for people to enjoy a work of art when you have to pick it apart over and over again.

if, instead, people were allowed to read what they want, and enjoy those books without some smug person going "oh, you read that instead of this?", they may suddenly find the act of reading - oh, i don't know, enjoyable? and when you enjoy a book (because yes you are supposed to ENJOY books - even that make you uncomfortable, there is a joy in confronting those parts of yourself and seeing what it means to be uncomfortable) you'll find it easier to understand, to notice themes and character development and how the structure of the story functions.

so, no, classic literature is neither classist nor elitist. however, the individual who flaunts reading classic literature over "lower forms" of literature and writing is. you're not better for reading lolita instead of the priory of the orange tree, or for reading the picture of dorian grey instead of the dark tide.

reading a book isn't a flex. let people enjoy the books they want.

my question is, why has the conversation been steered to "these people have superiority complexes based off aestheticized books, and they don't even read them!", and not "people shouldn't develop superiority complexes based on what books they read"?

#for transparency i was such an obnoxious little shit about the books i read. #'ohh i read a big book real fast that means i'm SMART'; ex-gifted kid; college courses in hs ect ect #I Have Been The Pretensions Elitist Dickbag. but i was also a child who grew out of that lmao #there's no reason to be an adult acting like you're better than everyone because you read the odyssey at sixteen. guess what! so did (+) #every other american teenager! #i can't speak on the education system beyond the usa obvi

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i see a post talking doom and gloom about how we'll never escape toxic masculinity. i think about back in 2017 when american girl released their first boy doll, and a review for him went viral in the collecting community. the review was written by a mom, who said they went into the store to get their daughter a doll, only to see their son's eyes light up like fire when he saw a doll that looked like him, and now every night he puts his doll in pajamas and rocks him to sleep. i think about the toddler in my daycare room a few years back who was obsessed with baby dolls, carrying them everywhere, and his mom proudly told us he uses his sisters' old baby dolls and wants to be just like them. that toddler saw another toddler crying one day and gave her the doll he had to cheer her up. i think about the eight-year-old boy i saw a few years back, excitedly waving around raya's sword in a target checkout line like all his dreams were coming true. there was a video on my instagram the other day of a little boy at disneyworld crying with joy upon meeting his hero, mulan. i think about the voice actor for bow in the she-ra reboot saying his nephews only wanted adora action figures. celebrity men are wearing dresses on tv now. last halloween i saw a little boy dressed as elsa. i went to go see spiderverse over the summer, and in the line ahead of me was a boy who couldn't be older than twelve or thirteen, bouncing and beaming, giddy with excitement over getting to see the female-led romance movie elemental. i think about the five-year-old boy at my library who breathlessly asked me where the pinkalicious books were, eyes widening when i had more on my cart, his mom explaining that he is all about pinkalicious and fancy nancy. i saw so many pictures online of boys and men dressed in pink to see barbie. teenage boys are gonna open their phones and see the man who wrote fucking game of thrones dressed in pink to see barbie. when i was a kid, a boy dressing in pink was practically a social death sentence. there are boys running around in pink on my street right now.

#mine

[goddessofthedawn]

honoring the pretension inherent in me by having a commonplace book but the first entry is lyrics from cobra starship's "prostitution is the world's oldest profession (and i, dear madam, am a professional)"

#just ramblings of aurora #read: i was an english major but there are several books on goodreads that only i and grady hendrix have read #him because he wrote paperbacks from hell #me because my taste is trash #i was ane nglish major but DID write an essay about 3oh3 for my college's lit journal #i was an english major but my favorite “literary” author is bret easton ellis #AND HE'S A FUCKING HORROR AUTHOR AND I WILL FIGHT YOU ON THAT #every agrees about american psycho but have you READ the shards??? #have you READ glamorama???? #do we forget what happened to that poor asian kid??? #in glamorama??? #less than zero's literary but like come ON #come ON remember GLAMORAMA or at least PRETEND YOU GOT THROUGH THE FIRST SIXYT PAGES OF NAMEDROPS

[monsterblogging]

"I know JK Rowing is a terrible person but her books are so good-"

You sure about that?

I mean, just for a start, have you taken a good look at her fantasy creatures lately? A whole bunch of them are straight-up based on malicious and dehumanizing stereotypes about actual people.

Remember the werewolves? And being a werewolf was made into a kind of metaphor for having AIDS?

And you know how AIDS was first associated with gay men? And how conservatives back in the day were claiming gay men were preying on children in order to convert them to gayness?

Remember how Fenrir Greyback preyed on children in particular? Yeah, she put that subtext in there. She was an adult in the 90's. She knew damn well what she was doing.

Remember the house elves? Remember how most of them loved to serve and needed to have a home and a master or else they just wouldn't know what to do with themselves?

Did you know that's literally what slavers in the American South said about the Black people they kept enslaved? Go look up the happy slave myth.

Do I even need to get into the goblins and the antisemitic tropes they're based on? No, folkloric goblins were not gold-hoarding bankers waiting for their chance to stab humanity in the back.

"But the characters are so good!"

Are you kidding me?

Most of her characters are pretty one-dimensional, including Harry. Her idea of making a morally complicated character is giving a tragic past to a bully. Numerous characters are little more than stereotypes. (Looking at Fleur right now.) Literally anybody, including you, can easily make dozens of characters just as good, if not better. (It doesn't exactly take a lot of character designing skill to go, "hey, actually, having a sad backstory doesn't make it okay to bully children" or "hey, maybe I should not base a character on the first stereotype that pops into my head.")

"But the rest of the worldbuilding!"

Sorry, but her worldbuilding is just as basic as her characters. Magical castles and secret passages are stock tropes. Magical people who keep their true nature secret from humanity is the premise of pretty much every White Wolf TTRPG. Most of her fantasy creatures are just common European fairy tale and folklore creatures with shitty stereotypes projected onto them.

I'm not saying "basic worldbuilding bad." I'm saying, you could do just as good, if not better, with minimal effort.

Also there's her magical bioessentialism, where only Harry's abusive blood relatives could provide him with supernatural protection from Voldemort. Rowling thus effectively declared that non-biological family isn't quite real family, and that abusive biofamily can give you some essential thing that a loving, supportive family that isn't related to you just can't.

The Hogwarts houses are one of the most insidious elements of her worldbuilding. The idea of being sorted gives you a little dopamine hit because wow now you have a li'l niche where you belong!

But the actual function of the houses and sorting system and the House Cup is teaching children to see each other as rivals, and ensure that the most toxic views of the upper class get passed on to every new batch of kids sorted into Slytherin.

Hogwarts effectively prepares children for a dystopia where magic serves to distract its citizens from how nightmarishly awful it is. Economic inequality is so bad that people like Arthur and Molly Weasley can barely afford to put their kids through school, casual sadism is just an accepted norm in everyday society, and non-humans are second class citizens. Rowling sorta acts like she thinks this is a bad thing with certain lines she gave to Dumbledore, but in the end, her special boy protagonist becomes an auror; IE, a defender of the status quo. So.

If you've never seen it, Lily Simpson's video goes into even more detail on how the worldbuilding of Harry Potter is actually incredibly fucked up, and how it betrays small-minded attitudes on Rowling's part. There's no separating the art from this artist, because Rowling's rotten values pour out of nearly every page.

Yes, there are many things in Harry Potter that evoke feelings and inspire people, but there's absolutely nothing in it that this series has a monopoly on. You can find those same experiences in much, much better media.

#harry potter #jk rowling #Youtube

[theniftycat]

What other Neil Gaiman work might you like?

The biggest thing to know about Neil Gaiman is that each work of his is a mixture of horror, fantasy, and subtle comedy.

That being said, each of his projects is pretty distinct from one another and there might be some that are more up to your tastes than others.

I haven't read some of his newer stuff (because I largely stopped reading as much since the early 2010s), but I'll do my best to remember what matters in other works.

Horror

The Sandman is a great work for horror fans. It's also great for mythology fans and other nerds, but horror is a major push and pull factors.

The comic is probably the greatest body of work Gaiman produced and it's recommended if you're a goth at heart and are comfortable with themes of death and humans being gods' toys.

The Sandman (TV) is a great adaptation, but it's very short so far and doesn't cover the best stories.

Coraline is a horror story for children. It doesn't have anything that's not suitable for kids, but it can be viscerally scary to some people. Both the book and the film are great.

Mirrormask is my personal favourite, it's a low budget film with mindblowing surreal imagery and one of the best soundtracks ever.

It's about a teenage girl who has troubles with her parents (who run a circus, btw) and who gets swiped up by her imagination into a bizarre world that is being eaten by her depression. Not a scary film, per se, but it's disturbing. However, it's a very warm film and it always makes me feel better.

Fantasy

Neverwhere is set in a dimension of twisted London Underground where everything that's straightforward in our world becomes weird and too real.

It really tickled my imagination, I highly recommend the book.

Stardust is set in a more high fantasy setting.

It features kings, witches, ghosts, and a star that fell to the Earth. It has a young protagonist who's not exactly the best or the brightest person, so if you hate such things, stick to the adaptation. In my opinion, the book is just lovely.

American Gods is a darker fantasy that asks the questions: "What if every god people ever believed in became real through the power of their worship? And then what if that worship started fading?"

It's set in the USA and because that country is such a melting pot, there are many gods. And not all of them are happy. This is the book that gave Neil Gaiman his reputation of a writer who loves weird sex scenes.

Humour

Stardust the film is often compared to Princess Bride. It's lighthearted, funny, full of imaginative adventures.

Just a very nice film with an all-star cast.

Anansi Boys is a spin off of American Gods, but it's a lot more lighthearted.

Anansi is a trickster god, so you know things will get funky.

I haven't read The Graveyard Book and The Ocean at the End of the Lane yet, but I hear they're very good as well.

Also, short story collections or Norse Mythology might be a good place to start if you want to get a feel of Neil Gaiman as an author first.

#neil gaiman #book recommendations #neverwhere #stardust #mirrormask #anansi boys #coraline #the sandman #american gods

[cheekedupwhiteboy]

For decades, reading instruction in American schools has been rooted in a flawed theory about how reading works, a theory that was debunked decades ago by cognitive scientists, yet remains deeply embedded in teaching practices and curriculum materials. As a result, the strategies that struggling readers use to get by — memorizing words, using context to guess words, skipping words they don't know — are the strategies that many beginning readers are taught in school. This makes it harder for many kids to learn how to read, and children who don't get off to a good start in reading find it difficult to ever master the process.

[...]

Phonics is challenging for many kids. The cueing strategies seem quicker and easier at first. And by using context and memorizing a bunch of words, many children can look like good readers — until they get to about third grade, when their books begin to have more words, longer words, and fewer pictures. Then they're stuck. They haven't developed their sounding-out skills. Their bank of known words is limited. Reading is slow and laborious and they don't like it, so they don't do it if they don't have to. While their peers who mastered decoding early are reading and teaching themselves new words every day, the kids who clung to the cueing approach are falling further and further behind.

#thinking about miette pronounced ''mighty''

[astrolotte]

have i ever mentioned that my Charlie Emily is part native btw :]

#it's 1/8th if u were wondering #i myself am 1/16th but i based the percentage off of my dad who is 1/8th and has dark curly hair like charlie #just character design rambles. #i know it's like. not that much. to be 1/16th native american. but it's always been the most important part of my identity to me eheh #like growing up i was just always more interested in it #when native american history came up in social studies classes i would pay way more attention #i'd actively look for books in the library about the Cherokee people or the Trail of Tears #as i'm ancestrally Cherokee #there was like a. ~special club~ at my elementary school thatd meet every so often #for all the native american kids in school. and we'd discuss native american history during lunch #that i got to be in. that was fun #im just rambling at this point. its a part of me that's important to me even if it's so little #and to my dad too. ive learned quite a bit of stuff from him

[sunshine-tattoo]

ok let's make something very clear: Taylor Swift is not a baddie.

she a spoiled white woman who grew up very wealthy and who's individual carbon footprint is larger than the entirety of some small nations.

you know who is a southern baddie? Dolly Parton.

grew up in absolute poverty in a shack with dirt floors

(TS has a rich family and spent every Xmas in NYC)

modeled her style after the town trollop, who she thought was the most beautiful woman in the world, and embraced her sexuality.

(TS retains the image of the young innocent virgin white girl despite being 35 years old and every one of her songs is about a man)

wrote a song about the stupidity of the American work system

(TS is a billionaire with two private jets)

has supported the queer community for decades even through some of its darkest times like the AIDS crisis

(TS uses the queer community like a prop)

started a scientific organization to help cure viruses like AIDS and that even helped develop the Covid vaccine

(TS made the last superbowl all about her becauses she was dating one of the players)

has run a charity since 1995 that sends millions of books to children in poverty, particularly the rural south where she grew up

(TS has done nothing for the south and its problems despite her southern belle persona)

"But she told off Trump! Thats something!"

Honey thats the absolute bare minimum.

That's telling someone 'bless you' after they sneeze.

That's holding the door open for someone in a wheelchair.

Thats waving back to a little kid when they wave at you.

It takes 0 risk and 0 effort and should not be a point of praise.

"Well her southern fans and sponsors didn't like it."

So? Woman is a billionaire with connections all over the world. She literally doesn't need them.

Bottom line: Taylor Swift remains an egotistical bourgeoisie white cunt who should be known for her pollution levels instead of her mid music.

While Dolly remains the bad bitch she's been since the 1970s.

#anti taylor swift #dolly parton #socialist #social justice #lgbt

[nofr1lls]

girl who has never seen an american tv show

#recently discovered i have no idea what riverdale is #i was mixing it up with something but i cant fucking remember what that was #stranger things??? idk #not 100% true i watched umbrella academy at my friends house #it was weird i really liked it while i was watching it and now every time i think about it it seems like it fucking sucked #u could hold a knife to my throat and i would not pay for a streaming service sorry im just clearly stronger than some of u #but apart from umbrella academy i am desperately trying to recall american tv shows i have seen #ive seen clips of the office and b99 #the office looks great b99 looks ok #hmm............ #idk i only remember seeing british and australian shows on tv as a kid #maybe the occasional irish or canadian #like i never ever saw spongebob or dora or phineas and ferb or the magic school bus #idk if the deltora quest dub had american accents but it was based on australian books #i love u obscure australian tv shows i remember one called ocean girl that fucking slapped ASS #oh i forgot ive watched all six hours of the mikes mic pretty little liars summary so that counts i think #i think this explains a lot about me as a person #room temp