#my name is an adjective thats not v common for a name

[captorsicallfriends]

From what I have seen it was the triggered liberal woke warriors who even put a "nazi" adjective next to that salute. I've literally seen Jewish creators talk about this on tiktok and say it is not a nazi salute. My friend who is Jewish has said the same.

You can't say it doesn't matter that it wasn't done with right arm straight up extended and lifted (which IS the nazi salute).

That's in the same fucking zone as people being Niger (the country) is problematic bcs thats v similar to n-word. Or when someone on tiktok said montenegro was a bad country name bcs of the "negro" portion of the name.

Like connect two dots and accept that context matters. I am not even defending Matty Healy anymore, I am defending common sense (specifically with regard to the whole nazi salute and antisemitism accusations).

i would like to preface this by saying that my first reaction to seeing this ask was full-on laughter because i had made a post yesterday criticising people for saying 'context matters' when talking about acts of bigotry. so thanks for that anon.

since you love the idea of context so much, let's talk about it!

*trigger warning for mentions of antisemitism and nazism, read under your own discretion*

in the same week as holocaust remembrance day, matty healy is performing his song 'love it if we made it' in which there is a lyric that says 'Thank you Kanye, very cool' (recall that kanye west is infamously someone who holds nazi ideologies). now at this exact line referencing a famous neo-nazi, matty marches on the spot, puts his left arm at his head, and extends it all the way out. now you can come at me and say "diya, it's the wrong arm and the salute doesn't start at the head, he was doing a military salute". two things:

military salutes do not stretch the arm out all the way like the nazi salute does, and it's not held for an extended amount of time like the nazi salute.

let's go back to the mantra you're chanting at me: context matters. it's a lyric about kanye west, someone famously antisemitic. now this is the first time he's done the salute to this lyric, so it's not a fucking act or whatever. and it's most definitely NOT mocking kanye or as satire. this is an action that represents severe danger for jewish people and is BANNED in germany for what it represents.

ok but let's say you still don't agree with me that matty did the nazi salute and that my accusations of him being antisemitic are outlandish. that's fine, he's done quite a bit of other antisemitic stuff we can go off of!

let's take the time where matty posted on his instagram story a screenshot of a link to a wikipedia page entitled 'lists of jews'

now if you don't know what this means, it's a reference to the fact that nazis used extensive records and lists to keep track of jewish people and to hunt them down during the holocaust. this was posted in the same month matty allegedly did the nazi salute, a time when antisemitism around the world was on the rise. unfortunately, that's not it. take a look at an excerpt of a video i saw on a jewish creator's tiktok criticising matty healy:

notice how a joke about jewish people prefaces a song about death? and he seemed to point that out as clearly as he could. now maybe that wasn't his intention but the timing of it is very off and out of touch.

(also i recommend you go check out danielle if you can, they have extensive videos on matty healy's antisemitism and how harmful it is)

what i hate most about your ask is how you're comparing this situation to stupid internet discourse. it is anything but that. many jewish people have been hurt over his actions and even if you still can't believe matty is an antisemite, he has done heaps of other shit to other marginalised communities that is not worth excusing.

#diya answers #anon #tw antisemitism #matty healy #i'm not going to entertain any debate on this after this btw #if any asks about matty healy in this nature come into my inbox after this i'm deleting them idc #so don't waste your energy #sorry if that offends you but idc block me ffs

[saintarmand]

15 Questions 15 Mutuals

for once i am actually answering one of these things! tagged by @medusadeux

1. Are you named after anyone?

-nah they just thought it fit my vibes or something. they were planning on naming me helena but when i was born my mom was like this bitch looks like a saara. (it looks weird to foreigners with the double a but it's v boring & common in finland. (yes the "saera" in my bio is just targification))

2. When was the last time you cried?

- a couple days ago lol i was trying to explain to my mom that something she did really upset me and she kinda made fun of me. she apologized it's fine lol

3. Do you have kids?

- no, i might like to but i don't think i ever will cause i cant even handle my own shit let alone a whole other person's lmao

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

- only every other sentence

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

- i don't. i did modern dance for a couple years in elementary school and thats it as far as voluntarily moving my body

6. What's the first thing you notice about people?

- idk???? whether they seem chill or not ig

7. What's your eye color?

-im going to too many adjectives to describe eye color jail but dark greyish muddled blue-green. it's just that blue-green on its own sounds to me like some sort of bright anime eye i dont have those

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

- depends on the mood

9. Any special talents?

- special? no. i have a good eye for all kinds of visual stuff & allegedly have a brain if only i could get it to focus on anything useful. also ppl are like mindblown i read books and stuff in english despite it not being my native language

10. Where were you born?

- finland & lived here my whole life

11. What are your hobbies?

- tv & movies, reading, video editing (yes i still do this! i just dont finish things.) very rarely i knit

12. Do you have pets?

- i have a black cat named milla she's the light of my life

13. How tall are you?

- 162cm. if you dont know what that means google it yourself ive had to do it too many times

14. Favorite subject in school?

- english (as a foreign language) and also finnish i guess. i liked psychology too

15. Dream job?

- oh god. tv/film director or editor or writer/showrunner. shut up

tagging @saurongirlboss @maniacpixiedreamgirl @marycrawfords @cannibalshiv @brightfelon @blaqueswanza @indifferentvincent @indelicateink @blueiight @lestatslestits @thefairylights @myrskytuuli

#s #tag game

[667-darkavenue]

my pals on the lancecord asked me for some tips on cuban spanish so i thought i’d share them here too for all you lance writers. i’m a cuban voltron fan who doesnt want to live in fear of bad spanish in nearly every damn fic and im trying to be the change i want to see in the world. so feel free to message me if you have any questions about lance’s culture bc this is nowhere near being comprehensive at all.

lets get into the stuff google translate can’t teach u!

i don’t know anyone under the age of 60 who says “dios mio.” lance definitely would not, unless he is doing an impression of his abuela.

things that sound more natural than dios mio: ave maria, ay dios, por dios, AY POR DIOS

more commonly we exclaim “coño!” for anything. shock/anger/awe/etc. if the reaction is negative, it’s just coño. if the reaction is positive, we drop the first syllable and draw it out like “‘ñoooooo”

we exclaim “pinga!” or “cojone!” or “pinga cojone!” as a negative reaction more commonly than any translations of omg too

“de madre” is something we usually exclaim as a negative reaction. it can be yelled or sighed or grumbled. usually has a frustrated or incredulous connotation

“wepa!” is a sound we make as a positive exclamation.

we say “‘ueno” like the verbal embodiment of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (it’s bueno with the b dropped)

other things that sound really stiff for cubans to say is like, “hola, como estas?” i mean, you say it to people you’re not on a casual level with. to friends/family these sound more natural:

“que bola asere” is how we greet our close friends

“que bola” or “que vuelta” is how we say hey

“oye” is hey! but not as a greeting, as an exclamation. something you would say before a greeting or on its own when surprised/offended/trying to get someone’s attention/etc

common insults: cabron/cabrona, mojon, comepinga, comemierda

common pet names for anyone: flaco, nena, mojon, mi socio, corazon

“asere” is our word for “bro” that no other country uses (1000% what lance calls hunk)

we also have a tendency to call our family members by their relation+their name, such as “my Tio Jimmy called” or “Abuela Carmen is making food.” i think this is when we have big ol families and just saying tio or abuela isnt specific enough

also this isnt spanish but i s2g so many bilingual cubans i know use the word “fire” almost constantly to describe something awesome. so i think thats a small cultural thing that communicates lance is cuban without having him speak spanish. (ex. “omg that’s fire” “hunk makes fire tacos” “pidge is fire at fixing stuff” “can you play that fire song?”)

now here’s a bunch of stuff that’s just my opinion

I think it’s most in character for Lance to drop Spanish words only one or two at a time into English phrases, since that’s how he uses it in canon (“Hasta la later, Keith!”). A couple of quick examples off the top of my head -

tremendo/tremenda - an adjective for huge. “You’re being tremendo sore loser, but okay.”

todito/todo - means everything. you can use them one after the other for extra drama. “I forgot todito, todo, about calculus immediately after passing it.”

These sound like really natural ways to drop Spanish into conversation without being forced if you keep it to a minimum. I aint here to tell u how to write your lance but i beg you - Please show restraint and don’t try to use all of these tips at the same time!!

I recommend following latin internet personalities (like jaxxgarcia or mr. red) to pick up their Spanglish phrasing if you’re really into that. please don’t try to make up your own. it’s never as cute as you thought.

if you’re writing full on spanish for more than a word or two, please do not ever make Lance speak it “accidentally” (or even worse, on purpose) to someone he knows doesn’t understand the language. that’s really rude and alienating and it’s so against lance’s character to isolate himself from others like that when he speaks fluent english. 

other times Lance can toss a spanish word in without sounding forced is if he’s namedropping cuban things! Try looking up some of our 

food (ropa vieja, pan con lechon, arroz con leche)

drinks (materva, iron beer, malta), 

films (juan of the dead, azucar amarga)

or music (celia cruz, marc anthony, juanes*) and have lance mention them by their spanish name if the topic comes up. 

*not all of these musicians are cuban, but they’re some of the most popular amongst us. i’m simply naming artists i think lance is most likely to enjoy considering his age and personality.

speaking of music, we have very specific dance styles that are pretty cool and almost mandatory to learn at a young age. cubans in general love to party, and to host large family gatherings which easily morph into parties, and basically any social event seems awkward if there’s no one dancing at any point. 

what I’m trying to say is Lance definitely knows salsa or merengue moves.

I don’t love to party and I’m not a good dancer and I don’t like dancing, but I know salsa anyway because I had to be in the environment my whole life. always exceptions, but the majority of cubans grow up knowing how to dance and it looks more or less like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEq54f1q0Xs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHP8hl7GfM

(no offense, but you’re a fool if u wrote a dance au and didn’t have lance whip this out. i purposely looked for videos that reflect what average people dance like, but professional salsa is insanely cool)

and one last opinion for the road:

Voltron takes place in the future, so I like to dream of Lance being born in a world where Cuba’s free from communism. If you’re doing a Voltron AU that takes place nowadays, please don’t write about Lance’s experience in Cuba if you aren’t familiar with what it’s like to live under a regime like that. It’s very bleak and textbooks don’t cover half of the fucked up things that those who live there actually have to go through.

Lance could have been born in Cuba, but raised somewhere else. Miami would be my recommendation because it’s our second homeland and it means he would have been raised surrounded by Cuban culture without the governmental oppression. But Cubans are absolutely everywhere, so it’s equally believable that Lance’s family could have immigrated to Pawnee, Indiana. Even in Voltron canon, I think it’s likely Lance moved to America at a young age because he clearly has a native fluency in English.

edit: I have a cuban things tag now if you’re interested in finding out more cultural details!

#voltron #vld #voltron legendary defender #vld lance #cuban things

[lokbobpop]

Concern

adjective. interested or affected: concerned citizens. troubled or anxious: a concerned look. having a connection or involvement; participating: They arrested all those concerned in the kidnapping.

1300, meninge, "sense, that which is intended to be expressed," also "act of remembering" (a sense now obsolete), verbal noun from mean (v.). Sense of "significance, import" is from 1680s

Concern con cern conc ern con sir

Writing the word concern

Thoughts of being heavy with concern for something like something i cant handle and dont know what to do about thoughts of two sick dogs at home one with a disease the other with what looks like bone cancer in her foot am i doing whats best fro them pips lump is getting bigger and enki has only put on a small amount of weight

Reading the word concern

Ive been very concerned about planetary conditions with covid fear of being manipulated by the powers that be to the point of having a thyroid issue weight issues so ive not taken control of myself within my self of this of saying i am stable i am calm i am here i am life which i feel has made process

Being concerned is a feeling off powerlessness of not being able to control a situation and the feeling of being out of control brings up fear within you and this is also a concern lol so i see its a circle of concern which is a good way to put it the circle of concern and stepping out of the concern and being the best i can be in any given moments allowing myself to release myself from my created energy points within life i hereby allow myself to step out of my minds energy when in a concern for something and use common sense be practical and find solutions for my concerns

Im also concerned about whether i should get home to be with the girls but i see they are good they are handling things even though the dogs seem not so good health wise but i will do my best to find solutions fro them.

Its of no concern to you my business come up wanting to be private wanting others to not know whats going on because i might be embarrassed about something or ashamed about something or hide something that i think might be taken away from me.

When your concerned are you really concerned when its about another person or are you only ever concerned about yourself ?

Saying concern out loud

Im always concerned about the girls and there well being physically and mentally i see i blame myself for anything that happens t them because it’s because of me and how i brought them up to who they are write now so i need to take responsibility for them because i created them as it were all there points good and bad so i should i feel take responsibility for everything that goes wrong or right i see i feel. Why? As i said i created them in my name they are who they are because of there upbringing why well look at trin all angry all the time it’s only my shit i didnt handle and is being passed on to another generation and i see fully that she will pass it on to her children because i didnt manage to stop it how will she? I see i failed here why/ well i should of got my shit together i new i had an anger problem but i did try it just wasn’t in time i see it was t late so i blame myself for being to late why because o see this is all i wanted was to be free of this anger but didnt do it and i hope i can make changes now.

Wanting people ie my husband to be concern about me well enough to be affectionate to me lol

Sf

Does this definition support me no my concern within energy has to stop i see realize and understand that living in concern is living within energy and that i need to stop the concern of an energy level and turn my concerns into solutions and thats it to get out of my mind of energetic thoughts

Concern can turn

Concern

To have a situation that needs practical solutions what best for me and all

How will I live this word? I will live this word with can turn my energetic concerns into solutions for whats best for me and all to step out of the energy of concern and live solutions instead

With living words of self love self perfection self persistences