#i know it's uk -not england

[brightokyolights]

Hello UK peeps 📢🇵🇸📢🇵🇸

Parliament is going to be voting on a ceasefire again on Wednesday 21st February 2024!

Please email your MP to ask them to join in voting for a ceasefire (template in link) and there will also be a demonstration that you should attend if you can!

More info available on the *Palestine Solidarity Campaign website.*

Keep speaking up, keep donating and keep educating yourself ❤️💚🖤🤍

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

(Pic from PSC)

#uk #uk politics #free palestine #palestine #idk what other tags to post i havent really done this before lmao just saw it on another platform and wanted to spread the word <3 #signal boost #england #scotland #wales #northern ireland #labour #snp #tories #conservatives #green party #if anyone knows any good tags to add please let me know DX #le mine #gaza

[crepegosette]

the furry madness continues

#i figured i haven't posted those here #yeah i know the rabbit in that pic is a cottontail and arthur's a lop rabbit #but the sizes are similar so #preferibly don't tag as us/uk thank you #hetalia world stars #hetalia fanart #hetalia fan art #my art #hetalia #hws russia #aph america #aph england #aph north italy #hws america #hws north italy #hws england #rusame #amerus #alfred f jones #arthur kirkland #ivan braginsky #feliciano vargas

[funkylittledemon]

With the introduction of polls Tumblr is now officially more democratic than the United Kingdom

#uk #uk politics #tumblr polls #Scotland #i know i said no jokes but *i* am allowed as i am a trans person dealing with this shit irl #also mines funny #England #gender recognition bill

[fireonolympus]

so there’s a thing you can do with Wikipedia where you can get a simplified, sorta dumbed-down version for people who don’t want to read through it all. And I looked to the British royal family because I was confused about who’s next in line and I found this?!!!!! 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

#if this isn’t the funniest shit wiki has ever pulled I don’t know what is #wikipedia #royal family #uk #england #britain #queen elizabeth

[bonefall]

the "strange place" could be a private wildlife collector? i know the buying and selling of wild animals as pets can be pretty bad in the uk (or at least it is w/ birds of prey? that's abt what i know)

OH that's a good idea, that's going to be one of my top choices for if I DO end up needing to change the "twoleg den" in the upcoming super edition. Private wildlife collectors are a HUGE problem because the laws on simply owning exotic animals (as long as they're not covered by the Dangerous Wild Animals Act) are suuuuper lax in the UK, and the Zoo Licensing Act only applies if you accept general admission.

(and even then, specifically, you can take admission a limited amount of times a year. James Wellington's Animal Welfare Nightmare Extravaganza, beloved winter tradition, £25 each, kiddies of edible height get in free)

Birds in particular are a huuuge issue because there's big oversights in the laws surrounding the keeping of birds of prey. You don't actually need a license to own any birds except ostriches and cassowaries, or one of the five destructive invasive birds. Your pet eagle just needs to be registered so they know you didn't snatch it from the wild. Licenses will only apply if you're breeding, selling, or using it for falconry.

Maybe I could even tie this hypothetical antagonist guy to Sharptooth/One Eye/The God of Summer's previous human incarnation, on some off-chance the series ends up using this villain again. That could be kinda neat.

#for a country that jabs at america for our birdsona a lot. brits suuuuure have some lax laws regarding eagle ownership #I love ragging on my country but we really went ham with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act #UK you want to enter the MBTA with the US Canada Mexico Russia and Japan. You want to do it sooooooo bad #also side note one of those Five Destructive Birds is a close relative of the Dreaded Australian Bin Chicken #Thing you do NOT need a license to own in England: an EAGLE #Thing you DO need a license to own: big-nose seagull #WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF THINGS YOU DIDN'T THINK YOUD LEARN FROM A CAT BLOG #Last time I taught you that we need to destroy sitka plantations to protect an unique and endangered biome #Today I teach you of eagle ownership #next time? who knows #bone babble #ecological updates

[olympeline]

You know, I like the idea that one of the first real bonding moments Alasdair and Arthur ever had was in the wreckage of 1776. That widely held headcanon that Arthur hit the bottle reeeally hard and was a rum soaked mess for a good few years after Alfred left. And of course Alasdair would have been around to witness it since their joining in 1707

And it’s quite the uncomfortable surprise, too. Arthur was always such a ferocious little shit - such a thorn in Scottie’s side - that in the end he had to propose a union before they tore each other to bits and sunk Britain’s bright future with their endless wars. Much as he hated to admit it, Arthur was tough. Arthur was strong. But now Arthur’s first born son first colony has up and left, and Arthur isn’t the fire breathing vengeance machine Alasdair expected. Instead of coming up with plots to use their growing empire’s might to beat Alfred to a pulp and drag him back kicking and screaming, Arthur has spiralled into a depressive funk, is going through three bottles a day, and would have already killed himself with alcohol poisoning if he were human. Or maybe he did a few times and just regenerated, idk. Either way it seems Alasdair didn’t know Arthur half so well as he thought he did. He never predicted a reaction like this

Alasdair watches Arthur’s collapse with confusion, followed by disbelief, then open disgust. He tries to ignore it, not wanting to deal with his sibling’s antics. Even when the king and officials beg Alasdair to step in and do something, he brusquely brushes them off. He’s not Arthur’s fucking nursemaid for God’s sake! Until one day they’re due to sail together on the kingdom’s flagship and his little brother holds them up. Alasdair gets the message that the former terror of the waves is once again too shitfaced to stand up, let alone captain a ship. Now the important voyage will have to be delayed

And Scot has just hAD ENOUGH of Arthur embarrassing and inconveniencing them all like this. He swears his brother was less trouble as a mortal enemy! Alasdair storms into Arthur’s room to drag the addlepated sot out of bed and talk some sense into him. With his fists if necessary. Not that it comes to that with Arthur as drunk as he is. Alasdair has to drag him up then hold him up to yell at him. And when Arthur tries to punch him, he would have gone down like a sack of spuds without big bro’s bruising grip. It’s awkward for all involved when Arthur’s pathetic attempts at a scuffle and Alasdair shaking and yelling at him, end with Arthur suddenly crumbling and sobbing on his shoulder. Shocking Alasdair again. He doesn’t know what to do, so he just holds Arthur and haltingly rubs his back, muttering soothing nonsense. Most mortifying moment of Alasdair’s millenia+ life.

He doesn’t push Arthur away as he clings to him, though. As much as Arthur drives him insane like no one else, he’s still Scot’s little brother. So he let’s him cry and just keeps supporting him. Listening in silence as Arthur rants and sobs about Alfred: alternating between professing deepest loathing for the “traitor,” and weeping about how much he misses him and how there’s still time to fix everything and they have to try and get him back, etc. etc. It’s a fool’s hope, but Alasdair always knew Arthur was a fool

But what can he say? A smug, confrontational, fiery, normal Arthur makes Alasdair long for their old days of striking swords and border wars. A pathetic, drunk, weeping, vulnerable Arthur brings out Alasdair’s long dormant brotherly instinct. A feeling usually reserved for Wales and the Ireland twins. But, for the first time since he was a wee bairn, the instinct comes out for Arthur. It’s been so long since he saw him cry, he’d almost forgotten Arthur was capable of it

Alasdair lets Arthur cry himself to exhaustion, then helps him back into bed. Takes off Arthur’s coat, pulls off his boots, drags the blankets up over him. Arthur catches his arm, hands trembling, when Alasdair goes to straighten up and begs him not to leave him too. Alasdair rolls his eyes, cuffs Arthur - gently - and tells him to sleep it off. Then promises gruffly to be there when he wakes up, so stop being a drunk fool and go to sleep

Arthur obeys and Alasdair he keeps his word. Wales and Ireland fill in sailing duty and Alasdair stays with Arthur: king and parliament’s ranting be damned. Planning to help his little brother get himself back on track once he wakes up, starting with getting him off the booze. Or at least getting it back down to royal navy functional alcoholic levels. They can worry about everything else later

Thankfully for both their sanities, Arthur remembers very little of this when he wakes up lol. Alasdair makes sure to thank God extra hard that week at church for big mercies

#hetalia #hws england #hws scotland #aph scotland #aph england #hws uk bros #aph uk bros #my posts #i still don’t know if his name is really alasdair #alistair? allistair? allasdair?? #idk 😂 #face family

[recently-reanimated]

How's everyone's morning going

#queen elizabeth i of england #united kingdom #the queen #this is mostly for America followers #i know its not morning in the UK #left at london

[violetjbtaylor]

What I *love* about being English is you are brought up with the idea we are a ‘Christian’ country that is almost too soft for its own good. That we treat everybody with kindness, and our only problem is that we are just so fucking kind that everybody takes advantage of us 😢. Womp womp.

Of course, you grow up and realise that, actually, the people who are the recipients of that good, Christian treatment are rich, heinous pieces of doo who couldn’t give two shits about anyone who isn’t of their socioeconomic background. Everyone outside of that gilet-shagging bubble is, of course, scum.

And then you leave school and find what you've learned about your country's history is absolute bullshit. Our military didn't go into countries to free people from oppressive regimes but rather to make the rich men who told them to go and kill people they deem as their enemies even richer. Oh, and then there are the civilian rapes and murders. But we are the good guys, see! We may have colonized your country, but we occasionally send an old man with sausage fingers over there to wave at you and ignore your requests for your stuff back!

I thought being British was loving Robbie Williams a bit too much... oh how I was wrong.

The 'kindness' that proud folk misplaced as being an English trait is essentially mass silence regarding rich men and how they want to live while being a cunt to everybody else. English people are very vocal about immigrants, the working class, the disabled and anybody who simply doesn’t live like Sid James in a fucking Carry On film. From tall poppy syndrome, the middle-class people who interchange their politics like a y2k Depop fit to flag shaggers… this country is a joke, and I would like to leave, please, sir xoxo.

Over 4 million children are living in poverty, but please tell me why I should give a shit about a flag on the collar of an England shirt and why Angela Rayner is a slag because she sold her council house. Meanwhile... how much money was spunked up a wall on PPE you paid for through your mate's imaginary companies? How much money did Priti Patel spend in a nail salon again?

P.S. Of course, I can’t just leave because I’m agoraphobic, poor and objectively useless. I have a degree in Music Business, thou lads, if the world's most useless degree is appealing to any EU country, that would be sehr schön xoxo

#england #britain #british #english #uk politics #do you know how far i went into our ancestry for a whiff of hope #only to find out my family have a long history of keeping donkeys #where the fuck are the donkeys now?

[pfhwrittes]

Hi I’m so sorry if this sounds stupid but what do you mean that there’s more than one country in the UK? I’m on anon because I don’t want to get hate 😭😭😭

hi anon! don't feel bad about asking questions, and if anyone is rude to you in the replies to this i will be having stern words with them privately. or publicly. we'll see where my tolerance for rudeness takes me.

this is your warning, other people that read this, you will be nice to this anon or i will take your kneecaps out with my makita drill. and remember, ymmv.

(also, i was kicked out of my history classes at 14 for being a little shit so my understanding of uk history and politics is pretty shaky, so if i get something horrifically wrong, do let me know - politely.)

okay, so. tl;dr version: the UK or united kingdom is comprised of four nations which are: england, scotland, wales and nothern ireland. they all have their own flags, their own culture, their own governments and their own laws. some people that are welsh, scottish, northern irish or english may refer to themselves as british or they may refer to themselves as their particular national identity. (wales = welsh, scotland = scottish, england = english, northern ireland = northern irish or irish*)

each nation in that makes up the uk are VERY proud of their national identities (and rightfully so), so you will get people that refuse to be called british and would rather use their national identifier instead. for example, a scottish person will most likely prefer to be called scottish rather than british. (why? easy peasy: politics and colonialism.)

anecdotally, i've found it's usually english people that are more comfortable with using british rather than scottish, welsh or northern irish people. i think this can cause a false equivalence that every british person must be english, which is wrong. you will get an absolute bollocking if you call a welsh or scottish person english so just don't do it.

(*a quick but very important sidenote: northern ireland and ireland are different countries for political reasons that basically boil down to: the united kingdom colonised ireland, fucked shit up, ireland rightfully were completely pissed off by this and broke away from the united kingdom. i think six (6) counties in the north of ireland decided to stay as part of the uk and so there's a soft border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland. that's the short answer that glosses over some truly horrendous things that the united kingdom did to ireland and northern ireland and still continues to do even now. as the result of this, some people in northern ireland will refer to themselves as irish, some refer to themselves as northern irish, some as british. the reasons for this are bit complicated but can be boiled down to (you guessed it) political, colonial and religious reasons.)

anyway, i hope my answer helped you anon!

#pfh answers #pfh talks about england #(but not really) #also to any irish followers i may have - i am so very sorry if i've fucked this up or i've got something wrong #but just know that i know that you're irish and not british (unless you're from northern ireland and want to be called british) #basically treat the national identities of the uk like pronouns: when someone corrects you on their national identity don't be a dick #and continue to call them by the wrong label. apologise and correct yourself

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

This is for British people ONLY

*if u've moved around a lot just go with the place you hav the strongest affinity with lol

#polls #poll #the uk #britain #idk what to tag lol #i also wanna do a poll w/ like regions (so... north/south/etc) but that might be a bit complicated so... #sticking w/ this for now pfft #im imagining this is gonna b OVERWHELMINGLY england based (as someone from england myself) #but it will b interesting to see the percentages on tumblr.com u know lol?

[fergus-cousland]

thinking about modern stories set in the medieval era and wondering if anyone has written Anything about bbc’s robin hood (2006) and how it may or may not hold up a mirror to the times it was made

#look i'm not good at this stuff. anything after 1450 i tend to zone out #but! i think that it's certainly inch resting that 3 years after the invasion of iraq #the uk gets a series featuring an english folk hero who is traumatised by his experiences of a war in the middle east #and if i'm recalling the show correctly. king richard's war isn't shown to have much Point except for those who remain in england #maintaining their influence and power in his absence #something about corruption of english politics and the use of a foreign war as a tool to support the ruling class's goal of you know. ruling #idk man i just Think there is something to be said about the use of medieval stories to reflect contemporary concerns

[bunny-bun-draws]

✨ The UK brothers ✨

#bunny draws #hetalia #aph #hws #hws england #hws scotland #hws wales #hws northern ireland #hws ireland #hetalia uk #hws uk #here the boys that cause the entire fandom to have a crisis because we mixed them up #still love them so much #my beloveds #i know i only had four first but felt fitting to make a little england too #and the outfits are cool #so i hope you like them!

[fallen-elytrian]

DING DONG THE QUEEN IS DEAD

#she’s actually dead #the menace herself #I’m not sorry if this is how you find out #uk politics #queen Elizabeth #crab rave #celebration #bye sis #current events #i don’t know how to tag real world events help #Queen Elizabeth II #England #United Kingdom #the queen is dead

[thebashfulbotanist]

A beautiful and striking hart’s tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, at Dimmingsdale Wood in Stoke-on-Trent. According to the Woodland Trust, it’s an indicator of ancient woodlands. This species grows all over the world, but is increasingly rare in a number of places, particularly in North America, due to habitat loss. It also experiences infection with Milesina scolopendrii, hart’s tongue rust, which has an unusual lifecycle similar to better-known juniper-apple rust, Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, in that it can alternate between infecting the hart’s tongue fern and fir trees. 

Hart’s tongue fern used to be considered a medicinal “cure all”, said to help with anything from dysentery to coughs. Other ferns in its genus were called spleenworts in Europe and said to cure ailments related to the spleen, but this was just because they had spleen-shaped sori. Sympathetic magic and the doctrine of signatures, in which people believed plants would help cure ailments associated with body parts that they looked like, were popular for centuries, especially thanks to Paracelsus. Those are now recognized as pseudoscience, fortunately - many of the plants purported to have medicinal benefits due to the doctrine of signatures are toxic and/or carcinogenic. These days, hart’s tongue is used mostly as an ornamental plant, a purpose for which it is much better suited.  

#Asplenium scolopendrium #hart's tongue fern #Plants of the UK #Plants of England #ethnobotany #doctrine of signatures #the doctrine of signatures was EXTREMELY dangerous and I am so glad we know better now #Plants of the United Kingdom

[unhonestlymirror]

Many of you, guys, perceive Lithuania the same way English colonizers perceived Indian women in sari. Shall I tell you this story?

#it's not like I mind ships or national clothes but i wish there were more different perspectives on actual history and actual culture #for example people who draw India or Kazakhstan #every time it's just their national clothes. which is okay but #i wish they drew India as a YT mathematician because yk #Indians are veeeery famous for explaining difficult problems easily #India is not their folk clothes only and perceiving it as such is no different from imperialistic thinking #same with Qazaqstan. you guys know they don't dress like that on daily basis right? #you guys know they're the richest Asian country right? #I've never seen people drawing e.g. Lithuania just interacting with any other country except the popular ships #where are my jokes about India being a second great grandparent to Lithuania??? #Lithuanian language is considered to be the closest to Sanskrit. also Lithuania loves Krishnaits #come on man use your imagination and ability to read news and connect the dots it's not that hard and it's not forbidden #where is Lithuania interacting with England?? they have lots of business together. #where is Lithuania listening to USA complaining about UK?? it's such a wide space for jokes and funny jokes #which i don't draw because i have studies #where is Lithuania interacting with Italy? google Bona Sforza #you guys perceive Lithuania like some kind of isolated colony. and you do the same shit with Ukraine and Belarus and Latvia and-

[aphaskengland-bitter-tea-drinker]

Arthur is probably one of the most generous people at Christmas so all his friends know he’ll cave if they ask him for stuff because he’ll always say “Well, it IS Christmas, what can I get you?”

Plus he’s probably super prepared, like he’s always got a gift on him in case he gets one from someone who he wasn’t expecting to get something from.

#I Love that idea (: #like really specific gifts people don’t even know will make them cry #he is emotionally closed off the rest of the year but this reveals he pays incredibly close attention and is a lot more sensitive #aph hetalia #aph #aph england #aph fanart #aph hetalia fanart #aph britain #hetalia #aph uk #arthur kirkland