#specifically the ones from the usa

[bwbawa]

i wish gringos would stop thinking they're the only country and every other country is just a carbon copy of theirs 🙄 you guys are annoying

#fuck gringos #gringos #specifically the ones from the usa #ken hates gringos

[redtail-lol]

Hey

If you're Jewish, this post is about you

I know it's gotta be shit right now. Antisemitism is on the rise. People are using Israel's genocide as an excuse to perpetuate antisemitic ideas. If you acknowledge that you're Jewish, someone will take that as an excuse to accuse you of Zionism and supporting the genocide. Celebrating your holidays? Same result.

And then on the other side, if you try to speak out against the genocide, to stick up for and show your support of the Palestinian people, your own people label you as an Enemy, and an antisemite. Your own Jewish identity is ignored or denied.

If you say nothing because you've realized nothing you say seems to be the right thing, you're accused by everyone of not caring, or secretly supporting one side - any maybe you do, but you can't say anything because you can't win no matter what side you're on.

The entire world has been equating Judaism with Israel on both sides and it isn't fair. It isn't fair when Jewish people are being arrested for antisemitic crimes in Germany - making up 37% of arrests despite making up a significantly smaller part of the population - because they weren't going to be quiet about genocide after their own people were met with silence during the Holocaust. It isn't fair when Jewish people are vocally denouncing the actions of Israel and calling for an end to the ruthless bombing. It isn't fair when even some Israelis risk everything to speak out against the state and their horrible crimes. It isn't fair when Jewish people are simply existing as Jewish people, either. Even when they aren't "proving" their support, it's still unfair to make such assumptions about someone because they're Jewish

And if you're one of these people who's shown hostility towards Jewish people over Palestine when they hadn't indicated they supported Israel at all, fuck you.

#to specifically address one idea: #the jews control the media is bullshit and israel-palestine doesn't “prove” it #y'know who controls the media? The West. Especially America #the USA benefits from Israel's existence. the UK benefits from Israel's existence. Most major Western nations do #That's who controls the media #They're pushing Israel's propaganda #there is no secret top jewish society that controls everything #israel just asks the usa for help and we do so as a fellow imperialist state #jewish #judaism #israel #anti israel #palestine #free palestine #anti zionisim #jewish antizionism #antisemetism #if you're making leftist spaces hostile to Jewish people I'm biting you. don't do that

[yourtipsygrandma]

I saw the Northern Lights and I’m having an extreme emotional reaction excuse me

#I always planned on going somewhere else to see them #never in a million years thought I’d see them at home #it was like when I went to the Grand Canyon #I went because everyone hyped it up and it was on my way home #then I got to the grandview point #I climbed out to a pillar I really shouldn’t have #one lady was yelling about it the entire time #but then other people joined me #it was probably one of the most peaceful moments in my life #that’s what tonight was #profound peace #pure awe and wonder #a desperate wish that I also am part of those colors and swirls that inspire so much #I might not be much #but maybe the collection tells these stories #please don’t ruin them. #northern lights #aurora borealis #EDIT: I live in the east coast of the USA & I was roadtripping back from the west coast #which is why I mention stopping at the Grand Canyon #my sister and I roadtripped to get me there but we got snowed in at flagstaff and couldn’t go to the canyon #so I went on my way back #I had a whole national park tour planned #and I arrived 3 days later than intended specifically because of the Grand Canyon and Grabd Teton

[lgbtlunaverse]

The thing is: there's actually absolutely nothing wrong with modern/university/highschool or whatever AUs that take characters originally from japan or china or korea or any other country and plop them in america. There's a huge and varied disapora population in the us, and if the (usually usa) author wants to write about characters in a setting familiar to them that's perfectly normal and fine.

But what gets really jarring is when a fic clearly takes place in the united states but it doesn't know it takes place in the united states. Characters are just going to us-style schools and colleges and eating fluffy pancakes with maple syrup but they're also still using honorifics like -ge or -hyung or -kun and names are said last name – first name so you think ok they live in the usa but speak their native tongue around each other. That makes sense. Except it's never actually mentioned or talked about and no one ever switches to english in public, no one is relieved to have friends from the same ethnicity, no one has family that still lives overseas, no one talks about not being able to get certain ingredients at the grocery store to cook their favorote childhood dishes, and no one in general seems to be even be aware that they're diaspora. As if the fic isn't even meant to be in the us.

It's like the reverse of ace attorney's japanifornia, instead of a los angeles with an incredible amount of japanese cultural influence they live in a japan where everything just happens to be usamerican.

#fanfiction #fandom #complaining and whining about fandom #fandom racism #they... it's like they become white. that's the only way i can describe it. #i didn't mention 'nobody has ever expeirenced racism' in the post #because characters of color don't *need* to experience racism in every fic #but like... they'd know what it is. and they'd know it was a risk. #i don't need them to he hatecrimed on the page #i'm just asking for any awareness at all that the characters are part of a diaspora #or if they're NOT. and this fic is NOT in the us. the barest hint of research into what usa-specific things shouldn't be there #this can happen with any country not just east asian ones but there's a lot of big western fandoms for various media from those 3 #so you see it a lot with korea japan and china especially

[gertritude-art]

a change in heart?  local youtuber who has never shown interest in fat people now very vocal about (the dangers of) the body positivity movement

#doodle #diet tw #obvious disclaimer that no one should be shamed for how they look skinny or fat #hopefully you all can understand this is about a very specific type of phenomenon. thank you #also sorry for appropriating the down with cis joke. my excuse is that i thought it would be funny #also obvious disclaimer that i am from the USA so this is about these topics as they exist in the USA

[not-poignant]

hiiii! have you considered releasing tradewinds as a single purchase through a site like gumroad?

Hi anon!

So the reason Tradewinds was shelved and not published like 8 years ago, is because I couldn't find an Aboriginal sensitivity reader willing to read m/m with disturbing themes. I had sensitivity readers for the other side of things (like Matan and his heritage), but I kept either not finding anyone, or the one person I found took my $200 USD deposit and vanished and never spoke to me / responded to any of my emails.

As a result, I was uncomfortable distributing it anywhere broadly, even though I was relatively confident the novel isn't offensive, because I just don't know 100%.

I am a lot more confident releasing it via subscription as an exclusive novel, because the people who pay for subscription are often folks who are a) already used to my style of writing and b) generally know what to expect from me, vs. cold audiences who don't. I'm kind of kicking myself that I didn't realise that Tradewinds would make a great exclusive/paywalled release for subscription, because it means it's only ever going to find a very narrow bandwidth of readers.

Basically if I could release it for single purchase - as basically an ebook - I would have released it like 8 years ago, anon. And the reason I have actually released it this specific way is down to the fact that I'm just not really confident offering it for broader distribution.

That might change one day, if I happen to stumble across a sensitivity reader who is okay with my style of writing, who is reputable + has references (i.e. so I know I won't lose a fair chunk of money in the process, because that burned me pretty badly, not gonna lie). But until then, having Tradewinds be limited is the only way I'm comfortable releasing it at all.

Folks are more than welcome to sign up for one month, download the book (and read any other early access they want) and then leave. They can even just put 'I only wanted one thing and now I have it' in the exit survey so I know what they were there for if they want. Then it's still a single purchase (with some early access extras), and they still access the downloadable file. :)

#asks and answers #tradewinds #merchantverse #tradewinds was shelved not because i think it's a bad book #but because i wasn't comfortable going to broad distribution without a very specific kind of sensitivity reader #it was actually meant to be the series i started publishing with #long before perth shifters existed #and then i realised that through writing a highly diverse cast #i might have actually really hurt the future of the series #and had to shelve the whole thing and all the worldbuilding #i really don't regret tradewinds at all #i like the book and i love the characters #but yeah it was complicated #what i thought would be an 'easy' problem to solve was really difficult in part because #'sensitivity readers' is a very USA concept and certainly was back then #and a lot of the folks i enquired with who did offer sensitivity reading on Aboriginal Australian matters #didn't read m/m or didn't want to read anything problematic / with any disturbing themes #which i can understand #but literally reduced my pool to '0 plus that one person who took $200 USD from me at a time when i had to skip medical appts because of it #i'm sure it would be better now #but i'm also happy to offer a novel to folks who sign up to the patreon / ream account #since that is my main and primary income

[roseverdict]

when you've been rotating the Perfect birthday gift for somebody in your mind for Literal Years but you can't bring yourself to make it bc you know that this person's temper will end up making them break it if it doesn't act perfectly 100% of the time, then blame it for not being sturdy enough to take it. regardless of how much heart and soul you put into it.

#portal #rosie rambles #i Need to make a portal radio with little easter eggs in it So Bad orz #best idea for armor i have so far is making the internal machinery as self-contained and small as possible #and then making a radio plushie around it (with spots for the actual interface to still peek through) #but then that runs the risk of overheating and possibly a fire hazard if i do the wiring poorly enough #augh. it could have a little software doohickey that would check if it got tuned below legal usa FM and switch over to a thing that would #let it 'tune in' to the actual frequency shown in-game with just a loop of the music for forever. #unless within the vicinity of a specific NFC chip at which point it would activate a script to override the tune with the SSTV files from #the pre-portal-2 update. or custom ones i am (metaphorically) BEATING MY FACE iNTO THE WALL IT WOULD BE PREFECT BUT BE SO BREAKABLE #then again. there are a few things that have survived longer than i'd ever expected them to. idk. i just. AARARARARAARGH #then again again. i'm broke as balls and still need to somehow scrounge up bike money

[moregraceful]

Heavenly father, can I call you daddy?

#behaving normally abt arkells coming to san francisco!!!!! #i was gonna fly to VANCOUVER last year to see them at rogers arena and then my passport got fucked due to the name change #so i just gave away my ticket for free on twitter lol. they should play ''all roads'' for me specifically for being nice #big conversation in the leafs gc about what to wear. ''i have a hyman leafs jersey and dermott leafs shirsey. which do i wear?'' #''does he even like the leafs anymore? max was a traitor at the asg. dermott shirsey'' #''HYMAN JERSEY!!'' #''too bad i don't have a raptors his jersey'' ''I MEAN THEY FIRED HIS BOYFRIEND THERE TOO'' #''mlse hates max'' #''the fact that his boyfriends were fired in the offseason ;('' #are you normal or do you and your friends have an intricate au in which max from arkells is dating kyle dubas and nick nurse #''intricate au'' it's not an au it's just a fact #the running joke is that is bc nick nurse ended up with the 76ers and kyle is in pitt bro is just moving to pennslyvania #is it a joke....we don't know.... #the amount of kyle dubas/max arkells twt fic i've written should get me put in a home i think. there was more than one #dark days...i think my friends are glad i am off twitter frankly #i'm missing the cuda homeopener which sucks but i see the cuda 500 times a year. this is the first time the arkells have come to sf #in like. SEVERAL years. they never come to the usa west coast they only ever go to new york when they come to the us #biggest band in canada that no one has ever heard of in the usa lol. i'm not missing this shit #posting too much bc i. do not want to edit my fic #beryl gave me their beta edit notes and i melted into a puddle and rolled into the sewer drain and floated out to sea #me: ''this fic SUCKS i need HELP'' beryl: ''here are my beta notes so you can edit'' me: 😨😨😨😨 #fuck around (write a bad fic and send it to your trusted beta for help) find out (receive beta notes and now i have to edit) #(in two days)(help)(it needs so much editing) #they said i could go up tot 12-15k if i needed. small mercies. ''10k limit was so you don't write 30k again'' ok fair!!!! #fresno oilers.txt

[philsmeatylegss]

The hardest lesson you will learn if you are interested in learning about Nazi Germany: so may people posting content about it are actual Nazis

No seriously if anyone is starting to get into WWII/Third Reich history, it is so easy to be indoctrinated because the main message a lot of Nazis spit now is that Hitler was bad and the SS were bad, but everyone else was chill.

And it’s hard to realize the narrative they’re spitting is wrong unless you know a lot going into it.

I have been watching a dude called “TIKhistory” the last few days on youtube and something felt off about his takes, but a lot of them had at least some plausible deniability and enough factual information that I thought it was still worthwhile.

I just start watching another video from this dude with the title “The REAL Reason why Hitler HAD to start WW2” which is an insane title and caught my attention. And then my answer was given by the first five mins of his video when I realized this dude was, at the least, a wehraboo, and at most, an actual Nazi.

Pretty much any non-Nazi historian agrees that Hitler started WWII because 1) he wanted to conquer Europe 2) he wanted “Lebensraum,” aka living space for “Aryans.” Where German people, with no Jewish or Roma people present, can have ample space to live.

You know why most non-Nazi historians agree on this? Because Hitler fucking said this. In his literal book. That everyone read.

WWII was declared by the Allies when Germany invaded Poland for LeBeNsRaUm. Yes, Germany never wanted to fight Britain. You know why? 1) they were white enough 2) a fucking ocean kept them apart. They wanted all of Europe + Soviet Union. That is why WWII started.

See how quick it was to get to that point? Fucking TIKhistory’s video is forty five minutes long. That’ll happen when your point is horeshit and also not true.

Hitler started WWII. All of the generals and higher ups at least knew of the Holocaust and most perpetrated their own massacres for shits and giggles. The Nazi army wasn’t really that great, they just knew how to play the cards in the circumstances they were in (they used horses a fuck ton. You don’t see it because a lot of documentaries use footage from Nazi propaganda in which they weren’t recorded). These are all basic facts for non-Nazis. So warning that if anyone you meet challenges those three facts, they probably are a Nazi

#I know no one cares but I was just gobsmacked when I watched the video #there’s a substantial amount of dislikes but a lot more likes #and it’s because those who aren’t familiar with Nazi history #which I know I got a lot of my own education from higher education #and to those who know only basic facts about WWII #a white balding guy speaking confidently in a polo seems quite trustworthy #nazism nowadays is less obvious than it used to be #lying or downplaying nazi history is such a big red flag #a lot of western education #specifically american #has been tainted because the USA hired a lot of Nazis after WWII to help fight the Soviets so a lot of #white lies #to put it lightly #were made up #that’s where popular beliefs like that it was just Hitler’s fault they lost or that generals were just following orders come from #so claims like that are more justifiable as it’s usually the education system that taught them wrong #but to claim that Hitler and his comrades started WWII for anything other than hatred and a need to kill Jews and Roma especially and also #disabled people gay trans people and so on #and modern Nazis justify this because it sounds bad #which you know #it is #so they need to justify it to themselves #all Nazis are liars it’s in the description #that’s the nicest word I can use to describe them btw #I feel like this shouldn’t be new news but fuck off if you’re a Nazi or a Nazi apologist #rae’s rambles #tw Nazism

[finexbright]

make it make sense. and this is not even taking into fact the residencies and how "asia" never got a fine line tour

#no do NOT come at me i WILL not hesitate before annihilating you #yeah i know fucking logistics but he veryyy easily could've gone to ''asia'' before doing the usa residencies #and usa is literally ONE country as opposed to what 48??? countries in asia? #and like. india alone is such a big country with a population of 1.8 billion and he'd have to tour at least 4 major metropolitan #cities to cover half of it #and he's doing SIX shows in a whole entire continent #when we KNOW how much he loves asia and japan specifically??? #free him from the usa TRULY free him

[wachi-delectrico]

Spent all of yesterday studying on the problem of Nationality and the creation of a National Identity and ngl I haven't stopped thinking and trying to figure out how yankee's modern idea of nationality came to be, specifically thinking of white American people who say they're of a nationality based on "ancestry" with no personal cultural ties to it

#rambling #Not meaning to swing at the hornet's nest lol #But i think as a latinamerican guy in latinoamérica i think i can say with confidence this is something none of us understand about the USA #I think it's probably at least partially influenced by nazi ideas of nationality which evoked Nations as biologically inherent #And all nations having one singular race and language which bound them together from birth and gave them the right to their own land #somewhere along the way this also morphed into white americans claiming to be of national identities they have little to no contact with #based on their bloodlines and family history #it could be the american State's inability to create a national identity that matches the historical characteristics of its territory #Trying to build a national identity around nazi-like ideas of a white christian ethnostate in a place where the cultural diversity does not #allow such a plan to ever come into fruition unless they were to take on totalitarist strategies #Coupled with thw USA's history of slavery and open discrimination against non-white peoples creating the phenomenon of white guilt #So white people who dont agree with the ethnocentric facets of their national identity feel the need to ''flee'' their race and nationality #But since their construct of nationality is blood-based to say it in a way the only escape they can think of is escaping to a reality based #on a past and present they have never experienced themselves in hopes to be ''absolved'' of blame and freed of guilt #... But that's my guess lol #Also again specifically talking about white USA people with no or only tangential ties to the identity they claim

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

imo everyone on earth should be talking about Him (don't want this showing up in the tag even though it's not a diss) but everytime i go to the tag and there's only like 3 new posts i'm like. oh yeah almost no one cares except me and like 5 other ppl on here

i ran out of tags KFHSJENNXN i don't think that's literally ever happened to me before anyways don't read them because it's just me being insane as per usual

#most of his indirects on twitter are from people in diff asian countries as well and ik he's doing an asia tour soon(?) #bruh he's never coming back to the usa is he 😭😭😭 i need him in chicago i miss him so bad #i feel very ugly emotionally rn still bc i was reading all of the rando ass dating rumors of him last night LMAO and it pissed me off #i know i have no right to get mad and i'm being irrational but at the same time like. everyone is just like 'omg he's so in love rn' #bc his music has been very angsty and like. idk... conflicted? but his new song was very happy and sweet and very In Love Sounding #and i already know all his music is about one person bc he always talks about the same shit (he's very predictable i see right thru him) #and he's putting out a new song called 'shining' and he has been talking abt a person being his light/shining on him for the last 7yrs atp #so like. that's how i know it's about one specific person and i don't think he has moved on LMAOOO so unless he was dating the same random #7yrs ago i don't think he's dating any of the people they bring up tbh... i pay attention to these things not to brag or anything but like #being attentive to the people i love and noticing inconsistincies in their behavior and when they act diff is like. the only skill i have #at least irt other people LMAO like honestly i wrote all the lyrics he ever wrote down in a google doc and it shows a clear trajectory #that starts like... innocently and just gets more fucked up and toxic as it goes. and ppl say he's one of the most sane ppl they know #meanwhile he's been writing songs about 1 person for nearly 10 years and they get progressively more desperate and insane #I'M JUST SAYING. i completely forgot what my original point was but i guess it was most likely that. no one pays attention to him like i do #the songs started being about this person at the same time i started liking him and having dreams about meeting him btw #and they got progessively more uh. spiteful and desperate and weird as the years went on. did i mention i cast a spell on him 😐 #and he literally says shit like 'it's impossible for me to move on' 'i don't care about anyone else' 'it's like i'm possessed' etc #and after we met at his concert he got really into saying shit like 'that one night wasn't enough' and 'the spotlight between us' #&the ever-famous 'i like the way you look at me' 'my eyes are on you' 'focus on me just look at me' when all i did was look at him all night #if you're reading this right now and thinking 'celeste do you seriously believe a kpop guy has been writing songs about you for 7 years?' #you should remember who i am and how i reacted to ***** having a gf (that i guessed exactly right months before he revealed it) #i'm schizophrenic 🤷‍♀️ but the guy i'm into was the one who started my fascination with soulmates and destiny and fate and shit like that #you know it's funny i mention that because he also started writing about that!!!!! in his songs!!! crazy #and he talks about the person making it hard for him to sleep and wanting to meet them in his dreams again and whathaveyou #i mean even in his two newest title tracks he says 'i'm frustrated in the studio the only melody that comes out is for you' and #'i want to turn everything about you into a song' in the newest one... hm. #and btw he announced his album right when i admitted i was in love with him again to my family (they know my insanity LMAO) #and he releases a song about being happy and in love and listening for someone's voice from far away to reach him/vice versa????? #right when i get back into him??? #it's my fave color & his fave color & he's releasing it in my birth month like. i know billions of coincidences are a thing but it's crazy

[sleepdepravity]

The thing I like about sondheim’s assassins is that it really does a good job of taking these people and telling the story “from their perspective” without falling into the trap of making them sympathetic, the way plenty of other stories do for “historical villains.” Like. The audience still understands their reasons, but the understanding doesn’t elicit compassion exactly, it makes this subtle sense of fear, I think. Understanding them is scary. Relating to them is scary. Assassins is the horror story of the American Way.

#assassins #stephen sondheim #‘let them cry ‘dirty traitor’/they will understand it later’ #one of my favorite lyrics #many songs from the characters that lay bare their hopes and dreams and motivations #without the intention to make you feel *for* them #not exactly anyways #watching it last night with someone and he mentioned that #it really drove home to him how many assassinations and attempted assassinations happened here too #the show specifically being about USA presidential assassinations is really important to the tone and message #personal malkylife

[ttaibhse]

had some incredibly detailed and realistic feeling dreams but waking up they didnt really go together like in one i was emptying the hoover and then i was in jail and being presented with the jail food options and having to pretend that the food looked really good for some reason an then ummm i got turned into a swan or possibly a goose i cant remember. lol

#there was so much other stuff too and at one point the like #story of my life was being presented as a beautiful animation #but not my actual life just part of my fictional life in this dream #specifically what seemed to be my emigration from ireland to the usa. which obviously has not happened to me

[gokartkid]

is it true that when you go to college in america ur family will put out a sign on their front lawn with like where u r going

#i just watcheda video of things that someone from nz found crazy moving to usa and this particular one has floored me idk why #and the no sidewalks #or is this a specific michigan thing ? shes in michigan

[synonymroll648]

Bestie your excitement is making me excited and I made sokeefitz week. I really don't have anything to offer you, but please, take some close-ups of the stuffed animals:

ASEDRFGTHGFTDEGHJGFDSERGHJM MR. SNUGGLES' LITTLE T-REX ARMS THE PERFECTION OF THE SHIRT MRS. STINKBOTTOM'S SMILE AWSEDRTFYREWASDFGHJGFTDRESDFGHJNGFDRE THEY'RE P R E C I O U S ILYSM /p <333333333

#the roadtrip prompt keeps bouncing around my brain #and i can tell that it'd be a oneshot that'd be somewhere from 4k-10k words #but my brain keeps telling me i should write a human au fic where keefe and fitz go to the same/a nearby school as sophie in cali #and they missed their flights to go back home for winter break #which is great for keefe because keefe fucking hates his family (no dadwin in this one. he's a sencen ;-;) #but fitz is super distraught because he and biana had literally been counting down the days to seeing each other again #(the vackers live in florida) #(idk where keefe lives specifically since i can't remember where candleshade is on the unlocked map #but my brain keeps telling me to make him australian even though i can't remember if it's shores of solace or candleshade #that's in australia. i'll have to check the map and see. but no matter what i know it's not near cali and taking a flight would be faster #than any other method of transportation) #keefe proposes that they get a rental van or something and just. haul ass over to florida #and fitz goes 'fuck it we both have money and we live together already anyway. let's do it' #so they go to tell sophie about their new plans and sophie goes #'wait that sounds fun. let me check with my parents if i can join. i'm sure they'll let me since i have regular contact with them #and they want me to go have fun college experiences instead of holing up in my room all the time' #so ofc her parents say yes #(the ruewens btw) #and they set out to haul ass across the entire fucking usa in a concerningly short amount of time #and there's lots of shenanigans inbetween because c'mon. it's supposed to be an unhinged roadtrip fic. and keefe's there #my brains focusing on this one a lot because it's got a central conflict and tension that i can actually work with #and it also sounds shorter than the soulmates au i have in mind lol #ok let's. let's shut up now lmao #ask #rainbow-frog-earrings #kotlc #kotlc fanart #mr. snuggles #ella kotlc #mrs. stinkbottom