#the colonised personality

[justinefrischmanngf]

i do think everyone should read black skin, white masks by frantz fanon !!! it is a rly good resource on postcolonialism , particularly antiblackness and the impact of colonisation on Black people

#linking a pdf here if you're not sure where to find it !! #i think it is valuable in v different ways depending on what nationality/ethnicity you are #i can only speak from a mixed asian/white perspective and ik that it was hard to read but also in some way comforting to see someone put #into words so eloquently the impacts of colonisation which r obviously different for me than for a Black person (and particularly a #Martinican person (frantz fanon)) #so there was a lot for me 2 learn from that perspective :^)

[dougielombax]

My own country is discouraged from celebrating its own inventions and innovators.

“BuT thEY WEre bRiTisH¡ thEY DOn’t cOunT!”

It’s been drilled into the heads of many Irish people that we’re somehow inherently inept and can’t do anything right. (The British would be SO proud!)

And they believe that shite like it’s holy writ!

Sickening stuff.

It doesn’t help that a lot of stupid British people believe it too thanks to the stereotypes.

“YoU CAN’t inVent ANYthinG eXcEpT exPLOSives aND ALcohoL¿!” Oh do shit off.

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #vent post #ireland #fucking hell #decolonization #mental colonisation #colonised mind #leftism #anti imperialism #political crap #fucking morons #inventions #punching down #alcohol #explosives

[feyyyd]

i finished reading the book and, no offence, i truly do not understand what people hated to much about zendaya's chani compared to book chani. i'm sorry but the entire time she was giving go girl give us nothing. it was like...paul had some visions > they met and get to know each other for like three 3 seconds > she kisses his cheek > [time skip] > they now have a son but we do not get any info beyond a name > she miracously knows whats wrong with him and revives him from the water of life > their son is killed andthe only thing she thinks of is how this might negatively impact paul > she's super understanding and fine with the fact that paul is gonna marry another woman

#dune #idk theres just no substance to her #nothing that makes me like her as a person bc imo shes just there as a prop almost #like what does she even want except be some sort of pet wife to paul #and from his pov it makes more sense ig bc of his visions and whatever it is he knows #but from hers? hes just some random coloniser dude that seems kinda psychotic but is nice enough and wants to help them defeat their enemie #and homegirl is like yo i have nothing at all to do in my life so why not bag that man #genuinely i thought zendayas chani was so cool and i was really curious to learn more about her. but there was nothing to learn lol #even that the planetologist was her dad was not really relevant. she was sad for one sentence and then it was never mentioned again

[djsherriff-responses]

No actually, was anyone gonna say that Zionism is a primarily Jewish movement that started because of how deeply hated Jewish people have been throughout history or was I , a white British woman, meant to just not raise eyebrows at everyone comparing it to Nazism?

(I’m talking about non Jewish people making that comparison to Jewish people and the Zionist movement, not how Israel’s treatment of Palestine is so horrific that holocaust survivors are calling it out to be clear)

#Rambles #again idk what to tag this because I do not want to clod tags #BUT as a white person it’s actually really concerning how much people seem to compare Zionist to Nazis #Considering most people doing it are not Jewish #Like before I looked more into it I genuinely thought it WAS just another hate movement like nazis and the kkk #But idk man I think we can point out that Israel is too thrilled to wipe out Palestine #While NOT comparing the movement meant to support Jewish people to nazis #ESPECIALLY IF YOURE NOT JEWISH YOURSELF?! #Again as a white woman from the UK it’d be so weird to be “oh yeah I’m anti Zionist!” #As if my country didn’t literally colonise a majority of the planet and be a massive hater to minority groups #Tw Nazis #anti semitism

[thedreadvampy]

so me and Sam FINALLY watched the last season of Capaldi's Who

and tell me how, after literally over a decade and for perhaps the first time in his fucking career, Steven Moffat wrote a not just tolerable but really actually good two-parter and fully stuck the landing. like the editing and pacing were still a bit off but the storyline was original, fun, interesting and emotionally invested, and most importantly, rather than ending on a damp fart or the most furious autofellatio in history, the final part didn't fumble it and ended in a way that felt emotionally satisfying and like it made sense for the characters. like the last time he successfully wrapped up a multiparter in a way that didn't feel cheap and hollowly disappointing to me was literally The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, and a) that was in 2005 and b) tbh The Doctor Dances is about a tenth as compelling and memorable as The Empty Child.

so after 12 years of either hackery or great ideas that fall apart in the second act, Steven Moffat writes what I would genuinely consider to be a memorable Good Doctor Who serial. it ends with bittersweet pathos, a solid closer for all the main characters, and sends Moffat's showrunning career out on a genuine high despite failing ratings and budget cuts (and the fact Doctor Who hasn't been consistently good since about 2009). good job Steve. with grudging respect I admit you pulled it out of the bag on this one.

wait what's this there's one more episode left? and it stars Mark Gatiss? and you literally spend the whole episode inexplicably just shitting all over the legacy of Doctor Who by inventing a version of the First Doctor that bears literally no resemblance to the character that William Hartnell actually played, just so you can spend the whole episode saying misogynistic things to run yourself off to how much more Totally Feminist your version was than the version you made up in your head of what Doctor Who was like in the 60s? and it added literally nothing to the season except to take all the wind out of the sails of the actually good finale you already wrote?

even when he writes a good episode this fucker still finds ways to disappoint me.

#red said #as I remembered it is by a LONG shot the best that Doctor Who has been under Moffat and I do think giving Capaldi more creative control #helped a lot. cause he's a massive nerd and also he approximately knows how to construct a story. #bill is the first female companion Moffat has ever written with an actual fucking personality #(even if being mean that personality is maybe kind of just what you'd get if you put rose Martha and Donna in a blender) #(at least she's not a blank slate with the words SASSY. SEXY. written on it) #matt Lucas is genuinely surprising bc despite hating the man it's kind of impossible to not like Nardole by the end?? #michelle gomez finally gets some room to get her Anthony Ainley on and be the Master PROPERLY #i was hooting and clapping my hands at the John Sim Master's dumb disguise #like the cast is GREAT #(and while he still can't shut the fuck up about her at least Moffat isn't shoving River fucking Song down my throat 24/7) #buuuuuuuut uhhhh the politics are. incoherent and the vibes are rancid in a lot of the episode plots. #they clearly WANT to do Social Commentary but weirdly keep bringing up colonialism and capitalism and then taking the side of the baddies? #how are you doing to do a piece about the British Empire colonising Mars with a posh villain and a whole comparison to the British Raj #then come down on the side of the British state? same with the ninth legion piece? and the zombie spacesuit one is fun #but it wraps up with 'and then they complained to upper management and capitalism ended forever the end' #uhhhhh in the one with the microbot colony again we conclude the Morally Correct Answer is colonialism #don't get me started on the monks plot which is a) literally just ripping off the Year That Never Was but without the emotional impact #but also b) has some really weird and genuinely fucked up ideas about both geopolitics and uhhhh consent???? #so yeah the philosophical core is either incoherent or Fucking Horrendous in almost every episode #it's frequently derivative but tbh that's often to its benefit bc it vibes like trying to figure out what actually makes episodes memorable #and the budget is clearly cut to the bone bc the visual effects look worse than 2005 and the post edits are really weird and janky #like the pacing and ordering is weirdly off and a lot of the shot to shot transitions are awkward or confusing. #plus the sound design in the first few eps is. unhinged. it sounds like offbrand versions of standard stings it's all just Slightly Wrong #but for real i liked it more than I've liked any other season of Moffat Who. it's messy incoherent and often politically INFURIATING #but it has some actual heart and energy. and it feels like doctor who. and i would say moffat is spending like 10% as much time #wanking over his own past triumphs (and Alex Kingston) #and a lot more time like. trying to write something which works. he's not like successful 100% of the time. or even 50%. #but there's a lot more warmth and creativity. mackie capaldi and lucas have actual chemistry as a core cast #and i think it helps that everyone in the core cast is SO PSYCHED TO BE THERE. like it just wasn't a slog like all Moffat's other seasons.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so there was this pub, the crooked house or the siden house, where im from that was kinda famous for being the "wonkiest pub in britain". its been there since 1765 (it was originally a farmhouse) and let me tell you, the inside was some of the coolest shit ive seen. it was fucking bostin.

but four days ago, it burnt down. now its nothing but rubble, and its being treated as an arson for the investigation.

and just,,, im so gutted. i have that kind of sadness where you feel empty inside because this was our pub. we're an impoverished area and a lot of our country laughs at us for the way we speak, but we're proud of our local culture and history.

honestly the siden house represented us; we're a little wonky bunch with our dialect the most close to old english and banding together like misfits in a movie.

but now its just gone. its one of the few tranklements of our history we get to hold and its just fucking gone, at someones hand. it was probably new developer who just bought it because its the cheapest way to clear a lot.

and i ay even angry at whoever it was, im just sad. as a brit, i hold no pride for my country and the history of it. but i am a proud yam yam, and right now, it just hurts.

#kai rambles #personal #delete later #probably #i just need to vent #because just #i day feel good rn #like ive been to the crooked house and it was so cool and i fucking loved it so much #and it was so unique and it was ours #it just feels like someones took part of my heart away #like i can be proud of my local history because it was the yam yams who dug the canals and mined the coal and built the factories #and transported the coal via canal and built the railroad tracks and built up all our little towns #and obviously there was exploitation happening and you know weve always been a working class area #we got our name the black country from how much dust and coal and steam was in the air round here #theres an entire story where apparently victoria came round in a carriage to visit an area very essential to industrialisation and she #refused to open the curtain on her carriage window because she was so disgusted with us #it was all local folks making the steel and the cars and the chains and the trains and all the rest #obviously we benefited from colonisation like any area of britain but we were also being oppressed and exploited by rich brits ourselves #but so much of our local architecture was built by us and the culture was built by us and the dialect came from us #and the siden house was part of that #and now its simply gone most likely because some fucking clarnet developer decided oh ill do some light arson to cut corners #who cares about our local culture or history? instead you can just laugh at our accents and our dialect and rewatch benefit street! #because weem all backerds roun' here day yow think? eatin faggots and fittle wommucking it down an' gooin to the foot of our stairs? #ar weem right gawbys in yo eyes. goo on gawp at us tek notes if yo want. just doe dither abou' it an' weem haven no more cotter with yow #ye im probably gonna delete this later #i fully just went yam yam slang there #im just upset and a little bit maddened

[cruelsister-moved2]

That brendan dipshit always treats geopolitical events as a joke and never shuts the fuck up. I remember him having to leave tumblr for a bit after getting major backlash for linking a rickroll and saying it's a livecam of Russia invading Ukraine because he believed the invasion wouldn't happen. He's a white boy way too obsessed with smugly owning the libs.

what a stupid asshole i honestly just cant imagine how it feels to be an indigenous american right now watching the people who settled YOUR land being so smug and self-righteous because i guess they think what happened to your people is over now and its fine. tbh ive always been saying horseshoe theory isnt real but it is real exclusively for white men lol if youre a white man whose politics are motivated largely by the pursuit of the righteous rush you get from feeling like you have the moral upper hand then whats the difference between u and any other man like that

#ask #anon #i have a lot of thoughts rn on the behaviour of this type of person #but im trying to keep it to myself bc i just dont want to be involved #but i love someone in my notes saying 'literally no one is saying all israelis need to return(??) to europe' when ive heard that exact #sentiment like 6x in the last 48h #like ideologically that may not be what decolonisation is about #still doesnt exempt you from taking out ur own trash. #this is my problem like because of bad faith accusations #the vast majority of these ppl basicallly dont care abt antisemitism at all now #like i know YOU know indigeneity is about a relationship to colonisation #but is that your comrade tweeting about how jews are rootless cosmopolitans who cant be trusted to steward the land??

[trossards]

i’m on a teambuilding with work and argued with two co-workers about palestine and isr*** and it was so fucked up i was shaking so bad i almost spilled my tea AND started crying so if anyone can give advice on how to discuss this topic without getting so emotional and wanting to slap people in the face i’d gladly take it

#they were so pro isr*** it was soooooo awful what they said #and everything they said was soooo wrong #i will always defend palestine #but i have never reacted so emotional #i just didn’t know how to act #like what do you say to ppl who defend and justify what the zionist #colonisers do #and blame palestinians for everything #and like i was giving arguments etc #but they have their opinion and its just not worth it to discuss it #anyway I know i haven’t been on tumblr for a while #but i need to get this off my chest #and also after that argument i had to listen to a presentation #for another two hours #and i kept looking outside so i wouldn’t cry #personal #might delete later who knows #if anyone has advice pls share it with me

[weedle-testaburger]

i just walked in on my mum ripping up a british museum guidebook she found. pretty based of her

#personal crap #tbh even if you disagree it's wrong to hoard all those artifacts we ransacked from countries we colonised (which you shouldn't) #it really doesn't reflect well on us that that's what we put in the 'british' museum #do we just not have any artifacts of our own to display?

[000marie198]

Hey hey you guys. Did you know that many Egyptians have the genes of blonde hair and blue eyes? Did you know other people in the world from completely different races and continents have blue eyes? Or blonde hair? Did you know associating very specific features to a thing you hate and calling it ugly is mean to not just every person who has it but also every fan who could be looking forward to something exciting?

#didn't wanna say it but some people can be so stupid when they have to criticize something they didn't agree with #like the blatant disregard of diversity #leave the eye color alone man. not everyone who has blue eyes is evil #Call Tails and Maria ugly i dare you #done with this nonsense #sonic the hedgehog #sonic frontiers #& before anyone start disregarding ny opinions as 'someone whi doesn't hate whites' or 'falling 4 propaganda or whtevr #no I'm not. I'm an Asian and I am from one of those countries which got invaded & colonised & broken by Brittian #everyday i dtill see the leftovers effects of what they did in people & places & it makes me boil with anger at times #but disregarded every single person due to two features? that is just mean #returning to the Egyptian's point. DID YOU KNOW u can associate this with Sonic's ancestral race being from Egypt in 1 of the canon verses? #instead of jumping to the most worst case scenario conclusions

[mightydyke]

The Vizier 🤝 Rainu

agents of imperialism with sad backstories that makes us feel slightly sympathetic towards them

#sorry you're trapped in a gender you don't like in order to be the soldier of a slave-capturing army and can't be with the person you love #sorry you're trapped in a country you don't like because you're colonising it and can't go home #Shaperaverse #Janissary #The black beyond #Puppetshade chronicles

[rebellum]

Me trying to explain to white trans people from america/canada that even if they experience marginalization and oppression from a variety of sources that they still have some privilege because no one is The Most Oppressed Person Ever

Insert meme

#poor white disabled trans person from canada: i am literslly the most oppressed person ever #the indigenous person living in a colonised dystopia: 🤨 #the disabled queer philipino person watching canada illegally dump garbage onto their lawn: 🤨 #the child soldier in the DRC: 🤨

[neerasrealm]

@allstrangekreachers "the commonwealth is a force for good" Okay explain this picture from 2012 then lol

I am begging you to learn about your own country's history. I don't care if the royals don't have political power (they do. They absolutely do. Queen lizzie had over 160 immunities from various laws including anti-discrimination), they still profit from colonisation and haven't returned any of the art, jewels or artefacts from other countries that they PRIVATELY own. If they are going to happily profit off of blood money and let themselves be carried aloft by subjects of a country they have no right to - they are colonisers. And just shitty in general. Unlearn your country's brainwashing.

#i am blocking you after this so just like the post to let me know you've seen it lol #as an irish person i can attest that english media does sweep the crimes of the royals under the rug #and makes the horrible history of colonisation seem squeaky clean when it was so much worse #you are not immune to propoganda!

[grishaverse-chaos]

im so sorry to vaguepost but im in a salty mood today so. saw someone saying that ravka colonised novyi zem in canon and im so fucking confused like. that did not happen. what are you talking about. you made that up.

#this person was using it as a reason to be anti nikolai which. ?????? #there are valid reasons to hate him but shit you literally made up isnt one of them????? #anyways. novyi zem was never colonised and if you cant see a fantasy country based on africa without assuming it was colonised - #then thats a you problem and you need to think about why you assume that?? #im mostly just SO confused though bc where did people get that idea?? its just. not true??? that didnt happen!! #anyways ignore me i just had to get this vent out of my system lmao #grishaverse #mayhem.txt #mayhem rambles #mayhem grishaverse originals

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

my post about the new protest laws in the uk is now at like 6k notes and some things ive noticed from all the notes:

a lot of americans seem to think that theyre the only people who have even thought about revolting against an english/british monarch; the amount of "take notes from us" tags is baffling. please look up bonfire night my guy.

many people seem to think it is only about the coronation and charles; it is not and i state that in the post. its even in italics

many people seem to think i also think that; again, i point out that its not exclusive to the monarchy in the post

there are some interesting people who want to gotcha my informative post by being like "well the technical definition of x is" when its like okay dude youre not wrong, but maybe you should go talk to people irl more djskkdwld

a lot of peoples first reference to successfully overthrowing a monarchy is the french revolution

theres a couple of people who equate the british government with all british people which yeah, theres always that, but its kinda weird to see it on an informative post about laws suppressing the rights of british people?

my definition of long post is very different to many people

to the like three people who tagged stuff like ''throw petrol bombs at him'' ''in minecraft'' or ''as a joke''. you dont need the second part, youre on tumblr, you can just say you want to lob a molotov cocktail at charles.

i want to lob a molotov cocktail at charles.

#kai rambles #personal #delete later #im so baffled by the ''take notes from america'' tags as if theyre the only country that successfully revolted against the monarchy #theyre very much not #and thst like #our history is full of people revolting against the king and deposing them #like william the conqueror is often referred to as the first english king and he literally invaded england and overthrew harold something #like guys weve done it ourselves many times and also #colonisation was a thing like a lot of other countries overthrew british monarchs