#that big cultural appropriation

[risingsouls]

" Additionally, that Ginyu wannabe, Goku Black, it not a damn Saiyan. He's an imposter. A body snatcher who doesn't know the first thing about how to be a Saiyan, let alone fight like one, he deserved little more than to be erased from existence. If you dare celebrate that worm as such, know that you'll be answering to me. "

#.:dash commentary:. #// vegeta ♅ #damn this saiyan day business got him cranky #but man nothing ruffles his jimmies like goku black claiming saiyan heritage #that big cultural appropriation #ah man vegeta's speech on that in that arc? probably his best moment in super

[weldnas]

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#Seeing the dune part 2 american centric red carpet and as a devoted aficionado of the books and yk a moroccan person here are my 2 cents #Dune was one of the few Western works inspired by MENA culture that that felt genuine and respectful #But ofc despite the profound symbiosis with Middle Eastern and North African culture evident within the pages of the novels #the movie adaptation lack of substantive representation from these communities both in on-screen portrayals and within production roles was #very much disappointing in part 1 and i doubt there are any change now #While drawing inspiration from the Amazigh peoples of Algeria and Morocco #the film barely skims the surface of its MENA influences leaving substantial potential untapped #Herbert openly acknowledged the profound impact of Islam and MENA culture on his noveIs #from the metaphorical representation of Spice as oil #to the allegorical parallels drawn between the occupation of Arrakis and real-world MENA geopolitics #By marginalizing Arabs from the narrative fabric of Dune the essence of the story is being undermined particularly its anti-colonial core #the irony of this is kiIIing me because this was a direct resuIt of us impérialism on the middIe east #But the reality is that Dune is an American production tailored for an American audience so it makes sense for it to be what it is now #a big production running from its original essence #What adds to my disappointment is the fact that I liked Villeneuve's adaptation of Incendies and I had what you call foolish hope hfhg #Dune feIt Iike a squandered opportunity to authentically depict the cultural milieu that inspired it #Given the narrative's inherent anti-colonial themes #the omission of Arab and North African voices dilute its message if any of it is even left #without representation from Arabs and Amazigh people the cultural essence becomes another appropriated resource watered down to an aestheti #rather than serving as a critique of the destructive actions of colonialists seeking power and dominance #the narrative becomes susceptible to distortion and co-option by the very entities it was intended to condemn and hold accountable

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Hmm

#i talk #I want to be excited about this but it kinda also feels... I dunno #as much as we love joking about a beach episode it just doesn't feel like a super appropriate time for a big server-wide event #(assuming this is an event since you know. ''Festival'' and all that) #I'm sure things are still being worked on behind the scenes and yeah a lot of that stuff takes time #and I know they did that whole previous stream to give an excuse for the eggs being MIA #and I do still want to see creators interacting and stuff and doing cultural exchanges and all that since that's the point of the server #But I dunno. as long as the admin thing is in limbo I'm not really sure how to feel about event stuff #discourse #I'm interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this #negative #ish #I also just straight up don't think any members will log in either #except for like Bad maybe and one or two others but that's it #qsmp talk #Sorry for the repost Tumblr keeps breaking and leaving reblogs on

[doedipus]

a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.

it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.

#I wrote a short story from her perspective over the holidays and then didn't know how to continue it #and then I got distracted by real life stuff for a few months #I forget if I posted about that #and then I've been picking through archive dot org for the last few weeks looking at this stuff #the last big rabbit hole was trying to get a better feel for era appropriate ts/tv subculture #the current one I'm looking at is how she would've gotten into language learning and how that would've worked #nettle has been prodding me about the setting thing lately so I've been thinking about that more too #probably the biggest hurdle by far is figuring out how I want to play that #and how I want the thing to be divided up #since the original coc scenario I'm developing this out of is centered on a flight from LA to honolulu #and the airport dungeon was definitely meant to be a hook for a larger campaign #some amount of it is going to cover protag lady's failed life in LA and some of it is going to be worse things happening in hawaii #but it's like. how much do I want to balance it one way or the other #and realistically how much does the aesthetics of 20th century air travel add to the story #besides me personally thinking it's compelling ofc #a lot of what I find compelling about hawaii is that it's an east/west cultural crossroads and realistically that's also true of socal #and I can wax poetic about socal as much as I want without worrying all that much about mishandling something #and there's also a lot of socal specific history along similar parallels to pull from that I'm more familiar with #I guess it comes down to whether curiosity re: 'doing it right' is enough of a motivator to do the increased amount of research #which I guess it has so far with the above character details. so hopefully that will continue #but it also feels like using machine translation a bit yknow. it's hard to know how effectively I'll be able to sanity check #although depending on where this goes I might be able to get other people involved to sensitivity read down the line #with most of the creative things I do I just have a tendency to always rely really heavily on figuring things out myself #I also want protag lady to have a Cool Car and idk how to get that from point a to point b narratively #this is like an entire second or third post's worth of tags but I don't feel like unfucking this so whatever. suffer. I guess.

[witchcraftingboop]

Hey sounds like you experienced a very christian experience where you judged someone for who they worship. When jews have opened the door to lilith and she’s free to be worshipped by all who choose to freely. Peace and wisdom be upon you. Spread love

This is one of the dumbest things I've read in a while, so it makes sense why you needed to be anonymous to say it.

Judaism is a closed religion so let's just start there you trollop

#boop's asks #witchblr #gotta be a butt hurt cultural appropriating person #big words are hard I get it you'll get there #let's start with: stop #lilith worship

[gemsofgreece]

Option 1: Woke Americans and Europeans considering Classical Greece as the direct heritage of the “Western Civilisation” and therefore feeling free to reimagine, revise and adjust it in order to mandatorily reflect the norms of their own current societies

Option 2: Rightwing western white men considering the Roman Empire the epitome and the utter proof of western white supremacy, initially bummed to find out that the East Roman / Byzantine Empire had merits of its own, but now deciding to use this to their advantage by claiming that the Byzantine Empire was the seamless and smooth continuation of Rome and thus it is another part of the true heritage of the descendants of the Romans, and the West Europeans, and if they left nothing behind for them, it is because it was less stellar than West Rome, and not because it left plenty of things behind for the actual ethnicities that inhabited and ruled it instead, such as the Greeks, Armenians, Illyrian-Albanians, Assyrians, Egyptians and others, and indirectly to those who interacted with it a lot, such as the Slavs.

#I am going for the white Rome lovers now because heck #saw some videos that made me mad the other day #greece #cultural appropriation #Byzantium is going to become the big new victim let me tell you #woke #white suprematists

[sadieshavingsex]

aaaaaaa so many years of my life secretly overrun by the private fear of everyone hating me if I revealed at all that I was a sexual being!!!! love the memories😀

#mine #exvangelical #sex therapy #sexually repressed #religious trauma #purity culture #ex fundie #ex christian #christian purity culture #relationship anxiety #man idk I was just thinking about this in the car like it’s crazy how many years of your life you were so anxious so often #in the back of your mind #and nobody knew and nobody helped and you just. had a huge ass secret that you constantly tried to confess appropriately #godddddd what is wrong with the world!!!!! #the way I imagine THRIVING if I had learned about sex in an age appropriate way with an accepting environment #holy shit like I just want to go back in time and shake myself and say ITS OKAY!!!!!! THIS THING THAT SEEMS SO BIG AND BAD. IS SO NORMAL. #YOURE OKAY!!!!!!!

[ccarrot]

"I'm not a white girl, i'm *italian*" BANANAS

#sorry wait this is really REALLY funny... #don't appropriate my culture by wearing that big fur coat!

[mishafletcher]

#fanfic #fanfiction.net #pour one or for a site no one has used in years #i had to make this to tell my wife #it's important that we share big news in culturally appropriate ways

[echidnana]

maybe this is just us but. as a system of color. we don't think it's inherently appropriative to use names from different cultures. obviously there ARE ppl who do it disrespectfully or disregard the importance of names in cultures and stuff but it's always felt weird to see white systems especially say u can't use any names from different cultures ever

#like weve seen white ppl say its racist for white ppl to have chinese names when theyre like. in china. #in our experience. ppl in other countries will just give u a name in their language. at least that seems common w our chinese family #its chill. its not inherently appropiative #tberes a difference between a yt person giving themself a japanese name and a system member using their source name #bc going to be honest. a lot of the time u will not even know someones a system. #like a headmates name... isnt the same thing as the name a person goes by w the body. u know? #like. headmates can and often are different ethnicities/from different cultures than the body. its ok #as long as u acknowledge the body's experiences and not claim experiences u dont have #its not a big deal for anheadmate to have a cultural name u arent connected to #also understand ppl being uncomfortable w that #but like. were uncomfortable w white ppl wearing qipaos. but generally think they can + can do it respectfully #idk. just sort of complicated but also it feels weird to see white ppl saying like any interaction w different cultures is appropriative #hàorán.txt

[duelbraids]

my red flag is that i dont know how to rate things. i do NOT know what changes ratings and what changes age appropriate-ness

#the cassandra truth #i. i am studying to be a teacher. #i think its b/c i was allowed to read. whatever i wanted as a kid #and like. age appropriateness is very much culturally defined and also dependent on the kid #and also ao3 is a website for 13+ iirc anyways #so like. Big Ass Shrug

[kraniumet]

"cultural analysis" youtubers read something that isn't a medium/vouge/vox op-ed as research challange

#creating a new aesthetic called echo chamber core #edit. started thinking about it and actually i think my head died during the aesthetics vs subculture vid why did i watch that. #the bizzare way it ostensibly sets out to critique subcultures reduction to “fashion” or whatever while entirely reducing the concept of #subculture to fashion throughout the video. the seemingly willful misunderstanding of subculture studies origins to make a cheap crack #about 1920s cultural studies “not being interested in women” (also: not true). #the fact that its a 40 minute long video on aesthetics that never once mentions nazism but has a shout out to cottagecore being a positive #new subcultural group. #the annoyance at calling light blue nails “blueberry milk nails” as a “trendy signifier” when that type of naming is exactly like whats #on an actual nail polish bottle. just. the level of internet brain that is unble to fathom subcultures still existing outside the internet #or the idea that fashion isn't always the primary expression of subculture. #the circular fashion brained argument that “how you dress can no longer be counter cultural or revolutionary because everyone can buy a #shein dupe miu miu skirt now" #while acknowledging that working class brittish people's participation in subculture (for instance) #did not improve their financial or social situation #but at the same time not mentioning the arguably inherent fashion marketing origins of punk fashion. #the insistence on constantly citing one single person of origin for internet trends. #the reoccurring narrative of claimed “deeper capitalist critiquing“ fashion movements being ”co-opted“ and appropriated as #”less deep“ fashion marketing trends by big fashion inc. as if that kind of #posture of anticapitalist agenda and confusing pseudo intellectualism (health goth manifesto) isn't commonly occuring in fashion marketing. #like people dont walk down fashion week runways wearing tulle maxi dresses spelling “fuck capitalism”. #or žižek didn't write copy for an a&f mag #recuperation 101

[cuethediscoandthedrinks]

If Tonowari actually did the full Haka the sky people would’ve fucked off fast. He would be so scary doing it… (but scary in a good way 🥵)

AH omg. i literally was binging haka videos online bc of all the māori/polynesian elements within the metkayina clan

and yesss i kinda wish they did that; the facial expressions and noises were cool, but it would've been interesting and fkin hOT to see a full-on haka

although ngl having kate winslet channel her inner māori was lowkey funny like..did mr cameron just be like, "yeah kate, just, ah...yk, follow along. like...get that NZ energy yk? forget aaaalll abt the white woman vibes for a sec." bc lmAO i'd have been mortified like no i'm NOT a NZ bitch so no i'm not pseudo/half-in-half-outing the haka for ur white ass ESP in front of an actual māori dudeeeeeeee nahh

#i mean kudos to her ngl takes some big balls #bigger than mine #kate got em bIG ass almost-but-not-quite-cultural-appropriation balls lmao #discomusings🥂 #cuethequestions

[livinonaflyingcarpet]

i don’t think i truly understood cultural appropriation till i saw s5 of the vampire diaries

the season’s evil there are “the travellers” who abduct people’s bodies, are witches (or a variant of witches, idk) and are group-chanting spells in “czech”. now, fistly, for all the comprehension there is they could literally be chanting in ancient greek with zero difference. all their speeches are literally unintelligible. once a main guy dramatically screamed “viď!” to turn a guy into the bodysnatcher traveller and i was honestly impressed by his acting, this was the only time i distinguished a czech word. dude must’ve actually practiced with the google translate reading function - i refuse to believe there was more effort into their “czech” than a random google translate.

also, and this annoys me the most. the leader of the evil bunch is called markos. Markos. the czech version of the name marc is marek. THIS IS NOWHERE NEAR. NOWHERE. it only plays into my ancient greek theory.

#don’t judge me for bingeing tvd i broke my big toe and sprained an ankle on the other foot #i have been on home arrest for a month and a week #also jk i experienced first hand culture appropriation when i tried reading the book lights of prague #it scarred me #moje kecy #me? coming to my long dead tumblr just to rant about a 10 yr old show i am rewatching? more likeoy than you’d think #or rather watching bc last time i stopped watching way earlier than s5

[emdotcom]

Call me aquarius the way I'm always carrying these huge jugs around.

#gale chatter #chat emerald is appropriating big booba culture I'm a c cup #that's mid. #notsfw text

[tariah23]

And what a time this was

#cultural appropriation #I don’t even hate Miley but I never like forgot about any of this for obvious reasons lmfao #like black ppl embraced her during this time for whatever reason (she had bangers) but most ppl didn’t take her seriously either and #were mostly making fun of her white ass again for OBVIOUS reasons #and then after her family and man started getting embarrassed by her she quickly jumped off the ‘I wanna act like a nigga all of a sudden #despite being white as fuck and antiblack for my behavior for clout 😁!’ #she remembered that she was a white girl and has even called this whole… whatver tf it was era of hers ‘embarrassing’ #nbs and especially whites will never beat the cultural appropriation allegations omg #they take what they can completely making a mockery out of what is important to black folks and our culture and then run once they’ve #gotten the attention and hype they’ve been looking for #it’s always a huge eye roller for me whenever I see big time black artists especially entertain these snow fleas #black ppl have always been too easily accepting of everyone despite others never extending the same hand and this will always be #one of our major flaws #I don’t even think she’s ever apologized for the shit either and whenever ppl talk about this they’re told to stfu #as if we all didn’t see this shit go down in real time lmfao #insane