#this but extremely british

[naitsu]

tom and matt r like this to me

#this but extremely british

[earthdoves]

#not this extremely canonical and accurate image of george russell resulting in a block.... being a george russell fan on twitter is so hard #truly... not only is your fave posting british propagandisms and blocking ppl who make fun of the queen he's also blocking fanartists 😔

[mossy-mariel]

I am truly enamored of Jimmy's developing Life-series relationship pattern of alternating between "adorably domestic but ultimately doomed lovers" in seasons 1 & 3 and Extremely British Schoolboy Gang in seasons 2 & 4.

#jimmy solidarity #impulse i'm sorry for calling you an extremely british schoolboy #limited life smp #limited life spoilers

[squea]

@literalite said human! Cornelius i say being a vampire is all he HAS!!

#if i saw this man i would cross the street he is extremely unnaproachable and offensive to me idk bad vibes #he looks somehow MORE like a piece of shit than when hes a literal bloodsucking vampire and I Don't Trust It. #ts4 #the sims 4 #mine #cornelius kidney #NO WAIT HE LOOKS LIKE DANNY GONZALEZ NO NO #A BRITISH VERSION oh no!

[beebisbeeble]

#miles edgeworth #kay faraday #sebastian debeste #aai #I HATE HIM!!!!!!!! BRITISH MAN!!!!! EW!!!!!!!! #/j ofc 😊😊 (saying this so my extremely british friend doesn't kill me)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Advocates are calling for more regulation around maximum temperatures in rental housing units. Some municipalities in B.C. have mandated minimum temperatures in rental homes but there are no existing rules for maximum heat levels. Following the heat dome in 2021, when more than 600 people died, extreme heat events have become a health issue as well as a housing one. Emily Rogers, the director of operations with Together Against Poverty, said it is time to look at how hot it has to be before a landlord must install something to keep the heat down. “The burden of action should be on the landlord in terms of equal temperatures,” she said, adding that could mean providing an air conditioner or fans. “At the end of the day, it’s the landlord’s responsibility to provide a home that ‘s safe — and that includes extreme heat.”

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#british columbia #Extreme Heat #Heat waves #climate crisis #cdnpoli #canadian politics

[buck2eddie]

★ buddie college au moodboard ★

in which, eddie keeps sleeping with the british exchange student called buck, who might be a bit of a fuck boy, but they keep hanging out more and more until they inevitably falls for each other <3

#this came to me after everyone on that post i made with the buck pic said that he looked extremely british in it akdhdjd #buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie moodboard #911 moodboard #911 #911 abc #m*mbs

[princessanneftw]

Sir Tim Laurence’s black eye is from gardening incident, says palace

The Princess Royal’s husband was seen sporting the injury at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution 200th anniversary

By Victoria Ward for the Daily Telegraph

Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the Princess Royal’s husband, was sporting a black eye at a charity event at Westminster Abbey on Monday.

The 69-year-old sustained the injury in a gardening incident involving some fencing at the weekend, according to royal sources.

Sir Tim did not let the shiner put him off attending the service marking the 200th anniversary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), for which he is a vice president.

The ceremony was also attended by the Duke of Kent, 88, the president of the RNLI, who signed the charity’s 200th pledge scroll alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean of Westminster.

The Archbishop hailed RNLI staff as “models for everyone” who “risk their lives for those who are not known to them”.

The charity’s lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved more than 144,000 lives since its formation in 1824.

#oh timmy #a gardening incident #we should’ve known #how do they both hand black eyes at the same time lmao #taking doing the matchy matchy to the extreme #tim laurence #timothy laurence #tim does stuff #british royal family #brf #princess anne #princess royal

[huariqueje]

Heatwave   -   Alexander Goudie

British, 1933-2004

oil on linen,  86 x 107  cm.   34 x 42 in.

#Alexander Goudie #british artist #extreme heat scene #interior scene

[idlesuperstar]

Conrad Veidt as Captain Hardt in The Spy In Black [Powell & Pressburger, 1939]

#conrad veidt #powell and pressburger #BUTTER #adventures in cinemagoing #so I got to see this on the big screen last night for the first time #thanks to the bfi sending their P&P stuff round the country #not watched it for AGES and had forgotten loads #my pals who came with enjoyed very much which was pleasing #I have never fancied connie but I do love him #and the swagging through the doors entrance is extremELY COOL #also had forgot what boyfriends he and marius are #very interesting to note that in the more histrionic moments he reminds me of anton when he's being histrionic #also him creeping around the boat at the end is just one great audition for a british made dracula with connie as the count #I mean why did that not happen #my wee gifs #look at me actually making gifsets

[nightmareinfloral]

british ppl will be like ‘americans are so uncultured’ like at least i know how to pronounce pico de gallo and guacamole. at least i know how to make a taco.

#i watched the gbbo episode and good lord it was worse than i thought #like extremely offensive to mexican culture and food #great british bake off

[kaladinkholins]

Seeing fan discussions about Blue Eye Samurai and especially Mizu's identity is so annoying sometimes. So let me just talk about it real quick.

First off, I have to emphasise that different interpretations of the text are always important when discussing fiction. That's how the whole branch of literary studies came to be, and what literary criticism and analysis is all about: people would each have their own interpretation of what the text is saying, each person applying a different lens or theory through which to approach the text (ie. queer theory, feminist theory, reader response theory, postcolonial theory, etc) when analysing it. And while yes, you can just take everything the authors say as gospel, strictly doing so would leave little room for further analysis and subjective interpretation, and both of these are absolutely necessary when having any meaningful discussion about a piece of media.

With that being said, when discussing Blue Eye Samurai, and Mizu's character in particular, I always see people only ever interpret her through a queer lens. Because when discussing themes of identity, yes, a queer reading can definitely apply, and in Mizu's story, queer themes are definitely present. Mizu has to hide her body and do her best to pass in a cisheteronormative society; she presents as a man 99% of the time and is shown to be more comfortable in men's spaces (sword-fighting) than in female spaces (homemaking). Thus, there's nothing wrong with a queer reading at all. Hell, some queer theorists interpret Jo March from Little Women as transmasc and that's totally valid, because like all analyses, they are subjective and argumentative; you have the choice to agree with an interpretation or you can oppose it and form your own.

To that end, I know many are equally adamant that Mizu is strictly a woman, and that's also also a completely valid reading of the text, and aligns with the canon "Word of God", as the creators' intention was to make her a woman. And certainly, feminist themes in the show are undeniably present and greatly colour the narrative, and Episode 4 & 5 are the clearest demonstrations of this: Mizu's protectiveness of Madame Kaji and her girls, Mizu's trauma after killing Kinuyo, her line to Akemi about how little options women have in life, and the way her husband had scorned her for being more capable than him in battle.

I myself personally fall into the camp of Mizu leaning towards womanhood, so i tend to prefer to use she/her pronouns for her, though I don't think she's strictly a cis woman, so I do still interpret her under the non-binary umbrella. But that's besides my point.

My gripe here, and the thing that spurred me to write this post, is that rarely does this fandom even touch upon the more predominant themes of colonialism and postcolonial identities within the story. So it definitely irks me when people say that the show presenting Mizu being cishet is "boring." While it's completely fine to have your opinion and to want queer rep, a statement like that just feels dismissive of the rest of the representation that the show has to offer. And it's frustrating because I know why this is a prevalent sentiment; because fandom culture is usually very white, so of course a majority of the fandom places greater value on a queer narrative (that aligns only with Western ideas of queerness) over a postcolonial, non-Western narrative.

And that relates to how, I feel, people tend to forget, or perhaps just downplay, that the crux of Mizu's internal conflict and her struggle to survive is due to her being mixed-race.

Because while she can blend in rather seamlessly into male society by binding and dressing in men's clothing and lowering her voice and being the best goddamn swordsman there is, she cannot hide her blue eyes. Even with her glasses, you can still see the colour of her eyes from her side profile, and her glasses are constantly thrown off her face in battle. Her blue eyes are the central point to her marginalisation and Otherness within a hegemonic society. It's why everyone calls her ugly or a monster or a demon or deformed; just because she looks different. She is both white and Japanese but accepted in neither societies. Her deepest hatred of herself stems primarily from this hybridised and alienated identity. It's the whole reason why she's so intent on revenge and started learning the way of the sword in the first place; not to fit in better as a man, but to kill the white men who made her this way. These things are intrinsic to her character and to her arc.

Thus, to refuse to engage with these themes and dismiss the importance of how the representation of her racial Otherness speaks to themes of colonialism and racial oppression just feels tone-deaf to the show's message. Because even if Mizu is a cishet woman in canon, that doesn't make her story any less important, because while you as a white queer person living in the West may feel unrepresented, it is still giving a voice to the stories of people of colour, mixed-race folks, and the myriad of marginalised racial/ethnic/cultural groups in non-Western societies.

#blue eye samurai #mizu blue eye samurai #fandom critical #blue eye samurai meta #wank.mp3 #shut up haydar #fandom.rtf #this is a bit of rant but the prevalent whiteness of fandom in general just gets on my nerves i'm sorry #giving me flashbacks to a:tla fandom fr cuz it's the same shit! people love to devalue the stories of non-white non-western identities #also to be clear i am a southeast asian living in southeast asia and similar to mizu i am often alienated for having mixed ethnic ancestry #and even for speaking english (bcs my granddad served the fuckin. british colonials. so my fam speaks mostly in english) #cuz where im from it's still extremely hegemonic racist patriarchal misogynistic homophobic like the setting in the show #so like even though the story is set in historical japan and may seem far-removed from the experiences of a US or european audience #those of us outside the west and in the global south still face a lot of the struggles that mizu goes through till this very day #so please dont just dismiss that. it feels incredibly tone-deaf #okay rant over

[kotedemarchive]

kind of an old quick redraw of one of the surf n turf wars pt 2 scenes

#surf n turf wars #ew fanart #ew tom #ew edd #ive gotten so many comments about them looking extremely british #i have never seen a british person in my life #tom does look an awful lot like gordon ramsay here #ig its fair

[lewishamiltonstuff]

George saying that Oscar was the deserving podium finisher?? Your teammate EARNED THAT PODIUM AFTER DROPPING TO P9 in the beginning wtf?

#Georgie boy stop being a sore loser #this is extremely disrespectful and distasteful #anti george russell #formula 1 #f1 #lewis hamilton #lewis #formula one #f1blr #team lh44 #mercedes amg f1 #mercedes f1 #oscar piastri #george russell #2023 british gp #british gp 2023 #silverstone gp 2023 #lh44

[mistspinner]

canonically, Year of the Dragon occurs during Napoleon’s invasion of England, but let’s imagine a happier world where Temeraire and friends are in China and watching fireworks/eating dumplings/getting red envelopes full of shiny things like the royal guests they are

#temeraire #happy lunar new year if there’s anyone in the fandom celebrating #I am tempted to maybe do a micro-fic if I can find time #Laurence WILL be forced into the fancy robes for chun jie #historically there’s no real British Chinese diaspora until the 1850s or so but let’s pretend otherwise #all these immigrants are extremely excited about their local prince of China #Laurence can defeat napoleon but he cannot defeat a contingent of eager Asian grandmothers

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Patrick Michell has had his trailer packed and ready to go all week.

If he and his family have to flee the path of encroaching wildfires in British Columbia, it will be the second time in three years.

“Here’s where I’m at today,” Michell wrote to The Breach on Monday, attaching a photo of his utility trailer under a smoke-filled sky. 

His family has owned the trailer since a record-breaking wildfire in 2021 burned their house down, along with the entire town of Lytton, B.C. 

The day of the fire, Michell realized he wasn’t a mere evacuee.

“I was a refugee because I did not have a home to go back to,” the former chief of the Nlaka’pamux community Kanaka Bar said in an interview. “I want people to understand there’s a difference.”

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #climate refugees #climate injustice #Indigenous #First Nations #wildfires #fires #fire tw #Nlaka'pamux #kanaka bar #climate crisis #climate change #extreme weather #BC #british columbia