#maybe it’s a British thing

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[sergle]

WRONG because the purple varietal is more popular now, but there are other colors, and this one used to be more common, the name is JUSTIFIABLE

#aubergine is a better name for the shade of purple yes. maybe. if you like british things. cringe fail #but no i just wanted to say THERE'S A REASON!!! it's got a reason! #sergle.txt

[sanyu-thewitch05]

YA’LL I WAS JUST TRYING TO MAKE A JOKE!

#british royal family #king charles iii #King Charles #the only thing that’s confirmed is the bbc announcement tomorrow #again it was just a joke #though congratulations to the Irish if it’s revealed King Charles died today on the announcement tomorrow #or maybe Kate Middleton is dead #we haven’t seen her in a while either #either that or Charles is abdicating the throne

[big-urchin-energy]

i think my biggest problem with steddie is that they're too hot. like in most fandoms i've been in at least half of a ship is sort of weird looking or not super conventionally attractive, and even if you decide any of them are pretty or hot you usually have to work for it a little bit. steddie is like. you have to work to make them less hot and less charming otherwise it's just watching two guys pretty privilege their way through every situation

#like i came here straight from the tma fandom where it's just some weird british millennials with no canon appearance #stranger things #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #maybe txt

[birdcatt]

watched a friend finish playing portal 2 so obviously i must make my favourite robots from the robot games interact

#art tag #ultrakill #portal 2 #v2 #wheatley #v2 x wheatley #i guess thats their name #the only thing this crackship has in common with the actual ship i like is blue x red #anyways! fun game. i love this british failorb #maybe i will make genuine fanart one day

[marlinspirkhall]

I do think it's possible to watch Red Dwarf at an impressionable age and still turn out normal, but unfortunately that did not happen to me.

#girl you got me tongue tied tongue tied whenever you are near me #gedagy durgle (dagy durgle) whenever you're around #red dwarf #sci fi #british sci fi #i should say this about British sci fi ib general but then we open the can of worms which is: #maybe living on wet island where there is no sun just does strange things to you in general

[lobinilo]

Dear Mr. Hammond,

I am Kate Louise Pemberton. Or Bird - a name your son gave me. Before you throw this letter away, please read it all. It's taken me several months to put pen to paper trying to find the right things to say, but the truth is, I'm still not sure what to say. Yes, I am the one who invited your son to New York and I am the one who was waiting for him at the airport. I thought we were gonna spend the rest of our lives together, not just those few short weeks. Love at first sight as the clichè goes. Luke and I met at a party and after that he was the only person I ever wanted to spend my time with. But I am now left with nothing. I have nothing to hold on to but memories of him. Just like you, I am now confronted with the pain of trying to move on. The truth is, if he hadn't met me, he'd be alive today. I know that. And that is something that I will have to suffer with every day for the rest of my life. For now - and I hope you understand - I wish to mourn alone. Maybe a time will come when I can think back on those precious memories without pain and life can start again.

The Last Photograph, dir. Danny Huston

#maybe i should start a series called “i am obsessed with Jonah Hauer-King and i'm going to make it everyones problem” #things i've watched because Jonah Hauer-King was in them #the last photograph #the last photograph 2017 #jonah hauer king #jonah hauer-king #danny huston #jonahhauerkingedit #jhk the king #jhkedit #the little mermaid 2023 #tlm 2023 #british actors #british film

[mildcicada]

#when i was first coloring him in he was gonna be golden chinchilla colored but then i was like ehhh jonah magnus should be red/orange but #elias should be gray ...so i just desaturated what i already did instead of recoloring lol but #he is now supposed to be shaded silver lol #but thats why his coat pattern is on the darker side compared to what it *should* be #og elias bouchard coming from an important/roch family and while whole thing with thinking he just *deserves* stuff bc of his upbringing. #etc. -> he is purebred and matches the breed standards etc for a scottish fold of his color #obviously the eye color doesn't matter because. ahaha #i thought elias fit the Scottish fold vibes because: Scottish folds are known for looking sort of like owls and having intense eyes #and the cat body/face type (also present in british shorthairs) to me gives off sort of... unnasumming vibes? #like ahaha yes i am a boring boss who loves paperwork look at how unnasumming i am season 1-2 elias y'know #trying to think of what cat breed jonah would be. and also jon gerry etc you know all the other characters i like #would it be boring to have multiple british shorthairs #i mean.. #Michael shelley/distortion is a laperm that's all I know #i didn't particularly care with the personality attributes associated with eliascat because it didn't need to fit his personality on account #of not being his original body. but i do try to keep in mind the best personality/look/etc. cat attributes as a whole for a character #also sometimes get obsessed with jt making historical and geographical sense but then it just limits me greatly to a point im not into it #so i don't care about specific breeds in that respect lol #tma #my art #elias bouchard #the magnus archives #some notes looking back(made it 2 hours ago but still looking back ok..) on it now are that i feel like elias would never choose this breed #for his next bodyhop because of the inherent health issues in scottish folds. I saw the breed was created in like the early 1960s and #assumed that maybe the health issues wouldn't have been common knowledge until later enough for jonah to be unaware of them but actually no #there's legislation about it like 6 years later LOL so jonah would..maybe not make this choice #i guess in the future when drawing i will just make him a British shorthair #my catTMA is simultaneously 'they are just regular cats or like all show cats or something' and 'exact tma plot but as intelligent cats' #LOL its just vague in my mind idk..also maybe jon can be an Abyssinian #ALSO WHAT WAS I THINKING 'jonah may not have been aware about x thing' like did i...did i forget. me 2 hours ago was dumb as rocks

[bumblingbabooshka]

If Uriel said I think too much I'd get a lobotomy

#good omens #Uriel #good omens Uriel #I don't watch the show - literally just picked the prettiest angel and watched some clips #literally the first clip I saw was Uriel and the other two ganging up on Aziraphale like they were all in the mob HEHEH #sometimes Uriel has gold things on her(?) face - sometimes they(?) don't v_v #I drew both bc I thought maybe the 'sans gold' look was part of a human disguise #Michael - special shoutout for your fucked up hair <3 who's your barber king?? Fire them <3 #also that demon isnt any real demon on the show I just doodled whatever #did NOT expect Uriel to be british but its okay - we all have our flaws #bea art tag #good omens art #OH one last thing: the top leftmost Uriel was on a layer called 'bad vibes Uriel' #also I miiight draw Uriel more bc they're very pretty and also I don't feel I got their sleepy eyed you-done-yet-? look down ...

[seventh-district]

i’ve just finished season one of TMA, and being someone who’s okay with spoilers is fun because it means i can peruse the wiki and scroll through the tag and i get to become privy to all sorts of weird, wonderful, halfway-out-of-context information that i get to look forward to understanding in the future

like. what do you mean Leitner’s in the tunnels?

what do you mean Jon eats the extinguished sun??

what do you mean it’s spelled Gerard Keay???

#Jon‚ narrating a statement: '…whose passport had identified him as Gerard Keay.' #Me‚ an American‚ not yet in the habit of following along with the transcripts: 'Ah‚ yes. Jared Key.' #tma spoilers #the magnus archives #gerry keay #gerard keay #tma #i’m sorry but Why do british ppl apparently pronounce Gerard like that how do y’all audibly tell Gerard and Jared apart #anyways based on how i’ve glossed over the other two arguably much more shocking revelations i mentioned #i’m sure you can tell that i’ve latched onto Gerry and everything else is just background noise to me #okay that’s an exaggeration. i Do love the entire show and am invested in the entire cast to varying degrees but. #Gerry… my beloved… his role in Ep. 12 hooked me instantly #it’s bad‚ guys. ive already started making him a playlist. it’s safe to say there’s no hope for me. the fixation train has left the station #Gerry (and Michael) have moved in and will live rent free in my brain indefinitely #listen. you can’t just present to me a cryptic goth man with long poorly dyed black hair and mommy issues who’s covered in eye tattoos- #-and is frequently affiliated with the supernatural and then expect me to Not fall in love with him!!! #*looks at DoorKeay* …and i am also not immune to the opposites attract & human x supernatural entity tropes… #tbh looking at all this DoorKeay fan art has me suddenly remembering my EraserMic days #which is a wild thing to say i know but listen. it’s just the whole long-black-hair x long-blonde-hair similarity #and maybe a bit of the opposite personalities. idk why but i was just admiring one particular DoorKeay fanart and it suddenly hit me #i literally whispered to myself out loud ‘holy shit it’s EraserMic again…’ and it's not Really but also it kinda is and i think it's funny #but then i did More thinking and i think it goes beyond just them. i think i rlly just have a thing for Dark & Light coded character ships #Michael & Gerry… Navia & Chlorinde... Sun & Moon… Mic & Aizawa… #i think i’m learning smthn abt myself now i’ve gotta think if there’s more examples… #i'd almost say Alphonse and Seth but eeehhh not quite. and honestly i think the bigger-brain way to see their relationship through the- #-Dark x Light trope would be to take into account the resurgence of DM!Al and that kinds flips the dynamic #i think that if either of them are Moon-coded it'd be DM!Al. but they honestly just don't quite fit in that trope's box anyways #they're Pink/Black x Brown coded. not Yellow x Black #i do gotta say that i've pulled an Interesting number of songs off Seth's playlist while working on Gerry's... it's the mommy issues innit #i'd almost say PB x Marcy but once again we've got a character that's pink-coded‚ not yellow. i think they fall into a different category

[popsicle-stick]

sumer is icumen in innit

#mayday #beltane #british folklore #english folklore #illustration #you can tell i just really wanted to draw a traditional smock bc they're so underutilised and forgotten about #did you know that different patterns can indicate the county where the smock was made! eg hearts are from oxfordshire #i didnt give her the full morris bells bc that was too much lol #sorry 2 my followers bc this is maybe the most olde engelonde thing i have ever posted. #lottieart #started this in february now it's late april wots all that about

[meatmensch]

Music I think Roy Kent likes and why

Madonna. In season 3, episode 3, Roy said, "[Pre-Madonna] means before Madonna, female vocalists didn't have to work that hard." This implies a great respect for Madonna and her craft. Also, it's an example of a very specific kind of queer guy misogyny that I find very humorous and implicative (of him being queer).

The Sex Pistols (and other punk rock). Two of their songs are in the Ted Lasso soundtrack. One of them specifically plays when Roy is about to do some pundit work for the first time. I think it's meant to be his hype up music. They're also, of course, anti-fascist and anti-monarchy, which I think Roy would vibe with. He's giving punk.

The music of the Muppets. Canonically (not that I necessarily consider this kind of thing canon, lol) a Muppets fan, I think he'd love the soundtracks to the movies, as well as the numbers they do on the original show.

Rap; Salt-n-Pepa, Queen Latifah, and Beyoncé. I just think he would like them. In season 1, episode 6, Keeley mentions that he has rapped, implying at least some interest in the genre.

Leonard Cohen. I think Roy's Jewish, and he's a broody, sensual bitch. It adds up perfectly. Sidenote: while "She's a Rainbow" by the Rolling Stones was a great choice for the song he runs home to football to, I think Cohen's "Ain't No Cure for Love" would've fucking slayyyed..."I loved you for a long, long time / I know this love is real / It don't matter how it all went wrong / That don't change the way I feel / And I can't believe that time is gonna heal / This wound that I'm speaking of" "I've got you like a habit / And I'll never get enough" "I don't need to be forgiven / For loving you so much"

Klezmer. Again, if Roy is Jewish, and we know he loves and misses his grandad...it's simple. He HAS a record player and a dope sound system, and on his shelves there ARE old klezmer records that he remembers dancing around to with his grandad in their old flat.

Amy Winehouse. Again, if Roy is Jewish, and we know he is broody and bitchy, it is a given. "Rehab" is his anthem when his knee gets bad and he is reluctant to treat it.

Disco; Donna Summer and Jessie Ware. It's just great workout music, and it slays, and if he's queer, well, yes, of course he likes disco.

Pop rock; Elton John and Queen. If he's queer...it's a given. I think he particularly likes "I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself" and "Rocket Man", as he is suicidal (I can't find the interview where Goldstein said this) (it's just Word of God anyway), and the most rocket man motherfucker ever.

The music of the people he loves; Led Zeppelin, Cream, Tina Turner, and Stevie Nicks. Phoebe, Keeley, and Jamie like these musicians. He's a caring uncle, boyfriend, and friend. He is listening and learning. Also, I think Phoebe would be into some weird stuff, like outsider music - maybe some Tiny Tim. I think Roy would also enjoy the music of other friends, from plenty of other genres.

#also. i rly disagree w the term outsider music but it gets the point across so yknow. #also i have this hc that he plays the drums bc his sister wanted to play music at some point and he was like ok i will play toys w u fine. #and she plays guitar :) #my posts #ted lasso #i also think he is maybe one of those celebrities who is multidisciplinary. so yes he has released a few eps. under a pseudonym ofc #then again i kinda think he's one of those guys who is really good at one thing and THINKS they suck at everything else. so like he happens #to play music around people every once in a while and they're like whatttt u r amazing? and he's like shut up i'm garbage. yeah #I ALSO THINK ROY IS RLY INTO BASEBALL. why? um. if u ask him he'll say some shit like 'i'm a fucking athlete ofc i follow other sports. no #it's not weird that it's not a very british thing. get the fuck out of my face.' the real answer is he watch a league of their own as a kid #purely for madonna and a special interest was born #inspired #roy kent #also! jamie is a HUGE music snob. i just know this to be true #like. the only musicians we've heard him mention (i think) are tina turner and stevie nicks. whenever roy grabs the aux and bumps madonna o #any music from this century he resists the urge to reach over and strangle him

[slythereen]

yaknow i kind of feel bad for carlos because even if i don't agree with his attitude, he's absolutely getting more hate than others would be if they were acting the same way precisely because his teammate is charles. like. anyone is going to look extra bad compared to a teammate who never says a bad thing about anyone ever in press and seems perpetually in love with ferrari and motivated to help the team as a whole and is also, you know, insanely talented.

in the grand scheme of ferrari, carlos comes out looking even worse because his interviews get followed up with charles's angelic "only complain privately" approach... against others it'd be like oh, racing drivers are just selfish like that, all teammates screw each other over from time to time but still care for the team it's fine, etc. etc., but the problem is that charles isn't selfish like that generally so it just looks extra rude to do it to him 😭

#personally think charles should be more vocal about shit #and carlos less vocal perhaps #maybe they can just transfer some of the vocalness between c2 to produce the dream pr scenario😭 #im ngl im enjoying watching the chaos bc at least it adds entertainment to the ongoing misery #but sometimes carlos says things and im like bro #it's like youre TRYING to piss ppl off #carlos sainz #charles leclerc #f1 #scuderia ferrari #(slightly less derogatory) #british gp 2023 #*delphi

[princessanneftw]

Princess Anne and Sir Tim Laurence prepare to make an offering at the Vajira Pillayar Kovil Hindu temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 12 January 2024 🇱🇰

#I didn’t know you made an offering of fruit at hindu temples! #so interesting #maybe I’m just really ignorant but there you go #this is why royal visits are good to follow #you learn things too #princess anne #princess royal #tim laurence #timothy laurence #sri lanneka #anne does stuff #workanne 9 to 5 #british royal family #brf

[gunkbaby]

sorry but so much of the anti-vegan or climate change debate stuff on this site really just boils down to you guys not wanting to like. Actually change your lived experience or accept that maybe u might be a (albeit small) part of the problem

#*especially anti-vegan rhetoric #like maybe if you don't want to be made to feel bad for exploiting animals...dont eat animals #like ofc there are exceptions. ofc there are people that need plastic straws that need animal products for some thing - obviously #now answer me this : are you one of them? #or are you just trying to make the other side look bad because you can't handle being told you could do better #fuck offf #half vent #queue #british people love to queue #vegan gunk

[shopcat]

can people really not tell the difference between aus and kiwi accents actually hold on

#🐾 #LMFAO to be honest sometimes i need a second if their accent isn't that strong #not even that out there of a take but i think the general accent between us both is closer than like aus to those dicks that sound british #i cannot handle upper class pommy bullshit i can't .... talk normal you creeps #as in upper class australian #for me when i hear it i lock in and go I Know You and then after a second i have to determine which country it is #and sowmtimes south africans get thrown in LMFAO and also same when they're putting ON an accent #like i can always tell when an australian is doing an american accent in a movie it just sounds. australian #or they have an australian laugh or sigh or something i don't know. or the way they say ''um'' #irl i love meeting kiwis though and can always tell maybe it's just a tv people on my phone thing .. #anyway .... I love you guys 🥝 i love you guys #i keep getting tourism ads trying to get me to move there don't threaten me with a good time ..