#that are quintessentially american

[poxei]

new business card featuring my ocs for 2023-2024! where are they going...?

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#my stuff #oc #eleventh hour diner #original art #artists on tumblr #original character #original #my friend was so surprised that avery drives and has a car #i was like. no he has to have a car #i need to be able to draw all the melancholy car scenes #that are quintessentially american

[sivavakkiyar]

#Frank Zappa #Zappa #old legends #a quintessentially middle class immigrant/ethnic American story I think #“My dad bailed me out” lol

[daisychainsandbowties]

Saturday asks: what is your favorite poem/poet and yeah

i don’t have a favourite poem because i think they’re like the prescription slips you get from the doctor and keep pressed between the pages of a book, taking it out to permit yourself sleep, or relief, or breath. waiting until it expires to go and beg for another, another, another. hoping one will eventually fix you and make the doctor something you can sneer at instead.

you, perfectly healthy.

my favourite poet is probably anne sexton. i know that’s a little un-gauche of me, but her collections are what i reread when i want to remember why poetry at all? why bleed so loudly? i read her first after a very bad time in my life, which didn’t kill me. & she’s a survivor too.

she writes very beautifully about everything. here’s one of my favourites

#i love the way she writes actually. there’s an element to it i think you only know #if you have been close to death #anne sexton #ask #she’s my favourite but i also adore danez smith and ocean vuong and chen chen and natalie diaz and plath and dickinson and elliot #i think margaret atwood writes good poetry and i’m not so familiar with your quintessential american ones but getting there #have come to love mary oliver #louise glück and also constantly finding beautiful original poems on here #and dulce et decorum est was what made me fall for poetry #but yes #sexton i always come back to

[ameliafuckinjones]

Amelia will dress like each one, depending on her current mood

#the quintessential 21st century American girl drip #ranging from depressed fit (rue n cassie) to baddie (kat n maddy) #jules and faye are somewhere in between #amelia f jones #nyo america #nyotalia #notice how they're all wearing some blue #that was in purpose #i think blue is basically America's color

[ultrabananapudding]

Managed to clean up the doodles from yesterday and I've come to the realization that drawing eye wrinkles is very fun, or just smiling in general lol

Once done, I can move on to designing their kids (●´ϖ`●)

#My goal is to make Baby Zain is the cutest mf #And Jason is the quintessential American #art #hoa #jalim #my art #house of ashes #the dark pictures anthology #dalim #salim othman #zain othman #family au #au #doodlemania #doodles #wip

[chicago-geniza]

Nowy Dziennik really went "we hate you and your dad for not supporting your uncle Solomon's Hebrew school initiative and your cousin Maks's Zionist Sejm campaign so we're going to say more racial slurs about you than the Endek press" and I think that is both insane and worthy of historical analysis especially in light of contemporary Zionist rhetorical tactics lol

#stefania tag #when I say the Kraków JCC is both quintessentially American and a legacy of local Zionist orgs I am being hateful in the extreme #Stefania lived rent-free in Maurycy Berensztejn's head

[sbnkalny]

You can be gay if you want to, Kalny.

Sniper joe is the quintessential American hero. he can shoot bullseye through five barrels of whiskey while blindfolded. all women love him 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 it wouldnt be gay please be gay if a cute guy kissed me lol

#ANSWER #DAY 8 #goldenbonnies #11TH #Sniper Joe is the quintessential American hero. he can Shoot bullseye through five barrels of whiskey while blindfolded. all women love him

[squeezemylemon]

Jack Nicholson singing (yes, it's actually him singing) in "Tommy" (1975, K. Russell).

#He had decent chops #he's also got a strange quasi-English accent which does my head in #because he's so quintessentially American irl #Jack Nicholson #Ann-Margret #Oliver Reed #Roger Daltrey #The Who #Tommy #Ken Russell

[crashification]

what if I was writing spn meta comparing it to the godfather. What then

#supernatural #someone has probably done this before #but #look. if you get past the initial cringe factor. it’s perfect. #the world of the supernatural essentially functions as a parallel society #where men are violent and volatile so that the ‘other side’ can continue to function as it is #of course don’t make me say it but yes john is vito corleone #sam is the quintessentially American son #the one who is supposed to escape the cycle of intergenerational violence and abuse #but who is inevitably pulled back in because his experience of the normal world is inescapably tainted by his otherness #spn could’ve been a fascinating deconstruction of the american dream #if it actually knew how to handle its allegory #and was smart enough to separate the logic of its characters from the logic of the show

[thesokovianaccords]

I haven’t had the chance to see the full episode yet but I am DYING at this whole Steve Rogers virginity thing in she-hulk. Like, the whole concept of it is absolutely hilarious. I’m obsessed with the way this contributes to The Legend of Steve Rogers ™ in the MCU

#livia speaks #marvel #she hulk #she hulk spoilers #like obviously there are two great options: the first is that his first time was peggy and #there’s lots to unpack with this re: how her mythology is so different than his #ALSO ALSO so much of what she was doing in the war is probably classified so how would anyone know when she was with Steve or not #this also allows for the possibility that she went undercover with the star spangled show which opens up a host of new ideas #quintessentially British Peggy carter vs the American patriotism war machine? ripe for comedy t b h #or this means that Steve met a girl on the tour and had a good time and you know what good for him #OR maybe he lied about the whole thing and is a better spy than he’s given credit for bc he wanted to protect his relationship with Peggy #maybe bc they were keeping it on the DL during the war #I’m just saying there’s lots of options and all of them are great

[bidoofenergy]

just got a shit ton of chocolate for under $20 god bless america

#halloween feels do quintessentially american to me and i lvoe getting chocolate basically half off on nov 1 #between this and the FORTY EIGHT cans of dr pepper my roommate got half off. im living good #bidoof thinks #halloween #posts that were originally messages to friends

[wingsandpetals]

extremely interested in how there are at least five different uploads of extremely low quality spongebob amvs from 12-15 years ago on youtube set to american idiot by green day

#absolutely fascinating. #our post comrade. #spongebob #one of them has such a high pitched ringing in the back of the audio it's almost unwatchable. #it also has unregistered hypercam 2 in the corner and has about 15 pixels on screen at any given time. interesting #is this because spongebob is the quintessential american idiot. or perhaps the faggot america

[ontologicalmoki]

heres the thing about independence day (not the movie). it really is okay to love your own country. the fact that your country is screwed up and that many people love it badly doesnt mean that you cant love it.

When your friend is making self-deprecating jokes, you stop them, mostly because its bad for them to do that, but also because you cant insult yourself without insulting other people. thats why we dont call bad guys ugly.

in the same way, americans not being able to love their country because its screwy is the same as telling ukranians or the chinese that they arent allowed to love their country because of crazy people and the government. to say otherwise is american exceptionalism.

i do love america. i love freedom from tyranny, courage and honor and honesty. i love kindness and strawberries and family dinners. i love diversity, how fervently americans believe that anyone can be american without giving up their own culture. i love our history of fighting for each other and fighting to make this country a place of diversity, freedom, and honor, even though we so rarely succeeded. i know that none of these things are exclusively american, and that makes them all the better. and because i love america im determined to help her be brave and free and honor-loving and honest. because she isnt, but i want her to be.

#Independence Day #4th of july #i KNOW she’s messed up #I like Independence Day because I want her to be better! #we are a country that fights for everyone to be included and I love that #Don’t “no true Scotsman” me that’s not what I’m saying #I’m saying that we can celebrate what is best #and that we do that by being brave and fighting against tyrrany #black lives matter IS a struggle for freedom #and is quintessentially American

[tincansamurai]

re: lrb

i hate how scary the idea of travel is in the us right now. like seriously, seeing flags is such a relief. lots of people i talk to want to do crazy road trips and visit national parks, and i do too. but i need to either pass 100% (which i don’t even want) or for the entire political climate to change to feel safe doing that. the idea of doing a vanlife rv road trip was intimidating with mild levels of danger as a small woman, doing that as an obviously trans little guy who is gonna make whatever partner they travel with look gay? nightmare difficulty

#i'm really sad about this like truly #maybe flying to tourist spots would be fine #but i really liked driving to tennessee and seeing the environments and the weather and making pit stops #just feels like a quintessential american experience has been closed off to me i guess

[lesamis]

How are you dear?

hi anon, i'm very well! i'm currently roaming around boston like a stray cat, exploring the US one shock to my system at a time. one of my closest and oldest friends is here, and i'm wearing her scarves and following her around into libraries and offices and churches. it's an incredible relief to be away from work and home for a bit :')

#v much here to experience 1. my friend's everyday life and 2. quintessentially american things like #box mac & cheese and Going To Church In Just A Random House #having an absurdly cheap absurdly good absurdy large meal in a sports bar #watching jeopardy with a 70 year old man with the kindest soul on the planet #those i've all checked off the list; planning another one for today: going to the goodwill #(church was good. they were a queer congregation & not evil. i didn't know you could be a church that's not evil. maybe cried like a baby) #anon you're probably always the same person checking in now and then. and i wanted to say thank you & ily #asks #anon

[milfbro]

bro that last post is hilarious. Apparently anglophone people are taught a mnemonic device for remembering 'north south east and west' which is already kinda funny on its own right since it's the equivalent of idk learning a mnemonic device for the hours of the day, but its harmless ig

but the funny thing is op said 'tell me where you grew up' and american fuckers will literally almost give you a postcode but not specify country, meanwhile other people are like 'australia'

#quintessential american post