#i live in such a pretty country

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

I thought you lived in Japan? Sorry if not, my memories might be a bit jumbled.

I do! 👍🏻

#chekhov answers #my chronology always confuses the fuck outta people #but yeah no i have lived in three separate countries for pretty much a decade each #and now speak three languages

[hiwataris-bitch]

Idk who watches Foundation (I don't) but apparently in the 3rd season they are going to run around naked on a rooftop.

I only know this because for months I've been hearing about the Americans going to record some film at my mum's workplace and now that they're finally shooting, apparently it's for this series.

#foundation apple tv #literally nothing interesting ever happens where i live so it's a pretty big deal #well apart from various gropus of people protesting but this happens in our entire country #personal

[saturngalore]

taíssa soares 🌺

outfits inspired by paloma elsesser’s off duty looks, named after eliza soares and taís araújo, and nose by @kashisun <3

#ts4 #sims 4 #the sims 4 #black simblr #black simmer #ts4 edit #🪐 #ts4 lookbook #taíssa soares #🪐 lookbook #since everyone is releasing beach themed cc and the summer is coming to an end…why not make a sim who lives on the beach 24/7?! #she reminds me of an off duty model/influencer that’s in a new country every month and does crazy shit cause she dgaf #i love her so much <333 she’s so pretty in game #i was gonna attached a playlist of brazilian songs she listens to and a selfie but it didn’t fit the theme #💔💔 #but we love you taíssa!!! she’s my nb2 legacy gen 1 heir but i will definitely use her outside of that tho #created her in 5 hours give or take

[uncanny-tranny]

The idea that trans people in "safe states" shouldn't still fight for their rights isn't the right thing to do, I think. In fact, I'd caution against complacency. We have to ensure that safe states stay safe states. You cannot assume your rights when they are being taken away in many other states

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #also the idea that safe states are immune from being *unsafe* for trans people is pretty wild #like sure in the USA at least there *are* worse states to be trans in #but i don't think assuming you have rights and will continue to have them in safe states will be the right move #i feel lucky to live where i do and i am grateful that i was fortunate enough to have been forced to move here... #...but i also do not feel *safe* here. hell one of the cities i wanted to study in had a huge fucking hate crime occur... #...and that's what we're calling safe. so be careful out there. there is a lot of fighting left to do and it's complex and messy... #...if you're able to foght for that then be careful and safe... #...and if you aren't able to fight don't feel guilty. just rest. it's fucking hard enough out there and you have nothing to apologize for #this post was US-centric because that is where i live but it may apply to non-US countries

[dailymanners]

Don't make fun of any accents, ever, for any reason.

The person on the receiving end will most likely fall in at least one of three categories:

Second language

Regional accent

Speech impediment

1. Second language

This person is probably speaking in this language to you because either you don't speak their mother tongue or you speak it worse than they speak the language you are speaking. They are making an effort for you. An accent doesn't make you dumb.

Making fun of someone for attempting to communicate in another language is the height of assholery.

2. Regional accent

Half the time you make fun of regional accents, you make fun of historically disenfranchised accents.

Southern accents? Congrats you're making fun of the way rural, usually poor, people speak. Their speech was highly influenced by black people.

Don't even get me started on making fun of AAE.

Again, an accent doesn't make you any less intelligent.

3. Speech impediment

They know they have a speech impediment. They are probably trying very hard not to sound like that. It is literally not their fault. They have had to deal with people making fun of it their whole life.

A speech impediment doesn't make you less intelligent either.

#submission #manners #good manners #etiquette #politeness #courtesy #nationalism and xenophobia plays a pretty big role in the first one too #In the country I live in a lot of the nationalism and xenophobia specifically centers around language #For foreigners it's a lose / lose situation #If they speak the local language then locals will be rude to them for having an accent #But if they don't use the local language (since most locals born here are actually pretty multi-lingual) they get yelled at #and generally treated like garbage #@ nationalistic people in the country I live in: please choose #Either be patient and kind to people with an accent #or be willing to use English or Spanish or other languages #you can't just yell at foreigners who speak to you at all either with an accent or in a different language #and get mad that they just don't appear here with perfect native speaking abilities

[alatismeni-theitsa]

To live in Greece means to be surprised when politicians resign after a tragedy (more than 50 dead) their corrupted system caused.

Some Greeks I was around at the time were so shocked Karamanlis resigned that they congratulated him through the screen..... Congratulate a man because he did the bare minimum and took the responsibility that was his in the first place. A responsibility about something VERY basic that should have existed in our train system for DECADES. (Others are also responsible for it but the current one was currently in a position to prevent this)

Bottom line, the system is so corrupted and so deep in the influence of criminal rings that the higher-ups getting inconvenienced when people die is a first for us. A thing to be commended.

The tragedy could have been a human error solely - the accused also claimed he tried to move the rail but it didn't budge - but a human shouldn't be given that much responsibility to begin with! In 2023, instead of warning traffic lights and electronic systems, we have mostly humans communicating through wireless comms about the position of the trains throughout the country! They might as well text each other on Viber and be like "the train reached Kalamata, we are fine"

That's obviously not the whole picture but I am too pissed off rn to give a damn

--- Don't start with "it's basically the same here" if you are from an Anglophone or NW European country because 99% of the times I read such comments, turns out the speaker has no measure of comparison. You already have the most basic decorum, safety measures, and policies in place we can only dream of and beg for decades to have here. While no country is perfect or without problems, we've been asking for years to reach your level because down here at our level it's even shittier.

#also that's one of the reasons i am very wary when foreigners from wealthier countries want to live here because it's pretty #and they dont think about how they will get nothing from the state - even the most basic things they consider a given in their country #and ofc they may also die because of that negligence #rant #news #Tempi

[pickled-flowers]

The blue jays have started building a nest that's right next to my balcony and I see them perfectly from my usual seat!

#i hope ill get to see some babies blue jay #but anyways its a blessing whenever they come on my balcony or when i can just see them #the back alley of my appartment is basically my backyard ok ive decided that #anyways theres a bunch of trees (AND MORE IMPORTANTLY RIGHT ACROSS FROM MY BEDROOMS WINDOW IS A LILAC TREE) #i cant even begin to explain how awesome that is to me #anyways ive been feeding the birds sporadically since living here and my downstairs neighbours have as well #so theres lots of city wild life #also the water is pretty close by i suppose that helps! #i forget i live in a “green” part of the city #le saint laurent est juste a côté #cant wait to go smoke by the fleuve during the summer #also fun Winter lore : when i was a kid i used to always call Montreal “pays pas beau” (ugly country) #i would say that everywhere i went that had no/little trees 😭😭😭😭

[fivefeetfangirl]

oh email answering gods please let editor of 15x18 donald l koch answer me soon 😭🙏

#if he had lived in my country i wouldve tracked him down and called him by now. but unfortunately i do not know the non-social media #stalking ways in other countries except mine 😭 #i mean. i could try 😗 #actually had to stalk a dead guy today at work. pretty proud of managing to find him. wasnt that hard tho just had to he creative lol #anyways. im on it 🫡 #we'll see if i actually end up calling him cause its super expensive calling to the us

[br1ghtestlight]

my doctor asked if she could refer me to a neurologist bcuz of my lifelong problems & symptoms etc and I was like sure whatever but it turns out the waitlist for the only neurologist is TWO YEARS LONG like whats even the point then. WHY EVEN REFER ME!!!!! who is like yeah i have neurological problems and my brain is broken but its not biggie i can totally wait two years :). then again this is the same healthcare system that makes people wait 6+ months for cancer treatment or appointments while they are slowly dying so im not shocked

#I love living in a country with a dysfunctional healthcare system on an island with maybe three doctors total #NEVER annoying ever (lying) #it's fine i dont really care about going to a neurologist anyway. i went to one a few years ago & there wasn't really a conclusion #ive had the symptoms and disorders pretty much as long as i can remember so i dont think its a major problem lmao #they also wanna give me an mri but idk if that's ever gonna happen either. tbh my brain is not my biggest issue rn #i have my special little pills and thats all that matters <3 #txt

[eth3real-ess3nce]

any of you has ever felt extremely drawn to a particular place, country, culture? Like a piece of you somehow belongs there

#I feel this way about a specific country and I pretty much feel like I'll end up living there in the future

[winter-seance]

#poll #polls #christmas #christmas trees #i live in the pacific northwest so we have a pretty massive supply of real fir trees #my family has always gotten real trees #but in other areas of the country (or world) i'd assume artificial trees are more typical...?

[lunasilvis]

City woman at heart, country gal deep down into my spirit 👩‍🌾🌇

#This makes me half rotten-half pure lol #Born + raised in an urban area and blessed with that. Expanded the social horizon before living amid pretty country field horizons 🤝🌾🌅 #I know soon I get to live cramped up in some city space again for work. But I'll always have a touch of country anywhere I go on me #personal

[felizusnavidad]

polish production of fucking RENT in my beautiful city of kraków THIS DECEMBER

#how is this real??? #i literally manifested this for myself #jonathan larson is living in my walls & he's laughing at me now because i am genuinely screaming #you have no idea how exciting this is for someone who lives in the shittiest country where you can see pretty much nothing interesting #CAN YOU HEAR ME SCREAMING #LET'S FUCKING GOOOO #but sincerely can you hear me?*

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#its sort of funny. i think my medication is working pretty well. i feel stable in a way i never really have before #is it the dopamine stablizer or is it my ion channels? whos to say. it doesn't matter. but it also doesnt change some things #the ways i think and react negativly to change. but it makes it easier to deal with. i still experience this strange dispaire on the #weekends or anytime im not working. i think the oddest thing is thst i dont think ive ever been this consistenly sad #not in a depressed sort of way. just a passing thoughts make me tear up sort of way. it doesnt feel out of control. it just feels like a #prelude to grief i guess. bc my mum is still in the hospital and its so hard to kno what that means from halfway across the country #my sisters are both home right now. they both live within 3hrs of where we grew up. one sister lives in the city my mom goes to for #treatment. so they have the opportunity to see her more than me. i dunno if they do tho. we dont really talk. i dont kno if they're as sad #as i am. if im overreacting bc i cant physically see what's happening. what the feeling is in the room. not that she would probably complain #shes the suffer in silence type. my dad keeps texting us pics of our shitty lil sunroom that hes redoing #to make my mum a lil sanctuary. he must be sad too. its his wife. hes staying with her in the hospital rn. i dunno its so weird #when i talk to my counselor she assumes i find out info thru calls or talk to my sisters abt it and i gotta b like nah we dont really talk #i get my info thru text. i havent talked to my parents on the phone in like a month. i dunno we just dont talk. so i dont kno how to reach #out and be like yo so whats up? shoulf i plan on coming home this summer for a bit?? like??? #this is the disadvantage of leaving thr place where you grew up. probably when i finish my phd i should move closer to home #somewhere in the Appalachian mountains maybe. somewere in the eastern deciduous forrest. somewhere with thunderstorms. #but thats years from now. who knows what ill b doing. for now im just sad and tired and i dont quite kno what to do in the short or long #term bc im feeling the weight of my mental limitations rather intensely. but maybe im just being self limiting #whatever. i dont have a dead mum yet. shes not even on hospice care. things are just uncertain and dont look so hot #i just dont see how it can get better from here when chemo gave her secondary blood cancer and shes still full of tumors #i dont think im being that dramatic. it just objectively seems not great for survival #unrelated

[merakiui]

this dialogue made me think about rook drugging darling just so that he can 'admire' their beauty in a more natural/unobstructed state;;

this new book has made me fall into brainrot for him aaa like his determination!!! his preparedness!!! i adore him sm 😭💗

The moment I read it I was shocked, but then I realized that this is Rook and I should not be so surprised... ^^;;; he would absolutely drug his darling just to see them at their most vulnerable and peaceful! He finds it so naturally beautiful. It's like admiring the subject in a portrait. Silence and stillness are just as beautiful as energetic movement and sound! He absolutely watches you for each hour that you remain unconscious, so wrapped up in your beauty that time doesn't matter.

I have become even more of a Rook fan with book six omg!!!! Every time he chuckles, it feels like my heart is pierced with an arrow... such a charming laugh he has!! I like how he was so ready to journey to find Vil, even if the main reason was to deliver skincare products lol;;; his unique magic is also so wonderful. He claims it isn't very powerful, but that sort of magic is a stalker's dream.＼(º □ º l|l)/ and he gave the player a Pomefiore uniform to combat the windy chill of a long flight!!!! A gentleman, that Rook!!!! Always so prepared and never one to give up in his travel pursuits!

#twisted chit chat #h2o2-and-baking-soda #rook is so interesting #as talkative as he is i still don't know much about him #he is so mysterious!!!! >0< #i want to know more about him and how his family is so rich #and the villas... aaaaa rook i would gladly let you kidnap me if you let me live in a pretty villa orz #but also rook... our means of flirting could be always running from the other <3 #an endless game of chase hehe #escaping through the villas aaaaa and no matter how far you go or to which country you arrive he will still find you #he really is your shadow!!!

[pansyfemme]

the truth is im not sure if any other towns with ivy leagues in them tend to have the hatred and resentment for the school that ppl from new haven often have for yale. id love to just sit down and chat with someone from another ivy league town bc like. is it just the combo of a school full of very rich prep school kids in one of the poorest areas in the state where our public schools literally does not have the funding or curriculum for a lot of students to qualify for the college in their own fucking town or is this a wider issue in other places

#a childhood friend of mine just started at yale and im happy for her #but it makes me want to scream bc her mom works at yale she’s from new haven and there is literally a program here that is supposed to #give severly reduced or free tuition to new haven residents but apperantly they stopped doing that shit in her lifetime #so she has to pay full price and theyre making her live on campus despite living pretty much on campus already #hhhh im so fucking tired of this shit #her mom sent my mom this letter they got about how they should be careful about their kids being in new haven because its so dangerous and #scary and theres homeless people here oh my god!! there was literally a skull and crossbones on it #im so tired of this culture of yaleies being like ‘we want to reduce the distance between yale students and new haven residents!!’ but we’re #not the fucking problem. im thrilled about how much money yale brings in. we get an ikea and nice resteraunts bc of it #and nice museums and theatres and shit #but still our school system is on the list of the poorest in the country #my mom’s school literally cannot afford a school nurse or a counceler #i feel like maybe if yale wants to bridge the gap they should make it possible for people from this city to attend there #like. maybe they could start a program where kids from new haven could get reduced yale tuition? wait they already did that and they fucking #got rid of it for no reason