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I love memetic communication when it gets to the point of being incomprehensible because can you imagine showing someone this picture

And asking them what Greek god it represents

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https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3007

#88% #european #i messed up the balkans #the 1919 map was easier lmao #can’t believe I mislaid Montenegro #of all of them that’s the one I should’ve known for sure

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This was shared as a "bad" joke but I was so charmed by it I've been thinking about it for days.

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though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

#yuri on ice #I feel a strong urge to rewatch #unfortunately I don’t have my dvd here

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there's something about the way people talk about john gaius (incl the way the author writes him) that is like. so absent of any connection to te ao māori that it's really discomforting. like even in posts that acknowledge him as not being white, they still talk about him like a white, american leftist guy in a way that makes it clear people just AREN'T perceiving him as a māori man from aotearoa.

and it's just really serves to hammer home how powerful and pervasive whiteness and american hegemony is. because TLT is probably the single most Kiwi series in years to explode on the global stage, and all the things i find fraught about it as a pākehā woman reading a series by a pākehā author are illegible to a greater fandom of americans discoursing about whether or not memes are a valid way of portraying queer love.

idk the part of my brain that lights up every time i see a capital Z printed somewhere because of the New Zealand Mentioned??? instinct will always be proud of these books and muir. but i find myself caught in this midpoint of excitement and validation over my culture finding a place on the global stage, frustration at how kiwi humour and means of conveying emotion is misinterpreted or declared facile by an international audience, frustrated also by how that international audience runs the characters in this book through a filter of american whiteness before it bothers to interpret them, and ESPECIALLY frustrated by how muir has done a pretty middling job of portraying te ao māori and the māoriness of her characters, but tht conversation doesn't circulate in the same way* because a big part of the audience doesn't even realise the conversation is there to be had.

which is not to say that muir has done a huge glaring racism that non-kiwis haven't noticed or anything, but rather that there are very definitely things that she has done well, things that she has done poorly, things that she didn't think about in the first book that she has tacked on or expanded upon in the later books, that are all worthy of discussion and critique that can't happen when the popular posts that float past my dash are about how this indigenous man is 'guy who won't shut up about having gone to oxford'

*to be clear here, i'm not saying these conversations have never happened, just that in terms of like, ambient posts that float round my very dykey dash, the discussions and meta that circulate on this the lesbian social media, are overwhelmingly stripped of any connection to aotearoa in general, let alone te ao māori in specific. and because of the nature of american internet hegemony this just,,,isn't noticed, because how does a fish know it's in the ocean u know? i have seen discussions along these lines come up, and it's there if i specifically go looking for it, but it's not present in the bulk of tlt content that has its own circulatory life and i jut find that grim and a part of why the fandom is difficult to engage with.

#I have not read these books but as a somebody who does work in publishing I recognise the publishing part of this all too well #I don’t want to doxx myself but like. I work for a company (in the UK) that has an Australian division #and as a result of that my team represent Australian books #and guys. the books are….unsellable #as soon as we tell a potential customer that something is Australian it’s an immediate ‘no thank you we’re not interested’ #we have some books by an Aussie author who are absolutely incredible and even though those books are placeless #I read them and couldn’t work out whether they were meant to be set #they still aren’t selling JUST because the author is Australian #it’s so infuriating! the content is placeless! you can imagine whatever!! #just fucking buy it! #the ONE book we actually had success with leaned very heavily into the setting and culture etc #but in order to sell it we had to play that up even more #I think that author was actually from NZ but: it want the Australian division that published him #it was the UK division #and we put Māori markings on the cover (made by a Māori artist) and really hammed #hammed it all up to the point where I was wondering if we were exotifying the book #(it is a genuinely good book and taika waititi bought the tv option for it though idk if it’ll come to anything) #I don’t have a point here other than: op you are so right the publishing of Australian and NZ authors whether Māori or white is uh. #*gestures vaguely* #Like That #it shouldn’t be like that but here we fucking are

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Who’s to say he doesn’t live in Ballerup or Frederikssund though? Or Solrød Strand? 😂

i am perhaps several years (and books*) late to this but I've been wondering where the hell does Carl live. I put him in Brøndby in my latest fic** based on nothing but the vibes of his terraced house as seen in the films - a common type of house in suburbs of Copenhagen and considering the colour of the wood and bricks inside the house it's probably one of those solidly built mid-century brick houses rather than a modern one with cement and cladding - and for some reason I couldn't put my finger on, this particular one gave me a Vestegnen vibe rather than a, say, Amager vibe or Nordsjælland vibe idk. so I went with Brøndby

and now I think? I might have been right??

I was rewatching Kvinden i Buret again, as you do, and at the start of he film as the intro credits roll, we see Carl commute in on the S-train. as the train pulls away we see it's a Linje B train (that green square on the back of the train is the Linje B marker). (Copenhagen central station, KBH H, is a mere 6 minute walk from politigården.)

the interior view of the train, which I do not have a screenshot of because I kept getting a black screen for some stupid reason, shows the stops in the background but it's too blurry to make out where on the line he is so he could be coming in from the north rather than the west, but I'm choosing to believe he came from the west. he could be as far out as Albertslund but I think Brøndby is a better fit for like...his general vibe. he just doesn't seem like somebody who'd enjoy living in a snobby area, lol.

depending on where he lives in Brøndby his stop would either be Glostrup, Brøndbyøster (both Linje B) or Brøndby Strand (Linje A), but since he came in on Linje B and not Linje A (blue) and since Brøndby Strand is more of a villakvarter type area I think somewhere along the west end of Linje B makes sense. i mean he could also have been dissociating on the platform for long enough that his Linje A train has left and the next Linje B train has pulled in instead, but I don't think that's very likely

*haven't read them

**for those who don't know: Assad's argument that it's easier to get to work from Nørrebro is absolute garbage, or at least it was up until 2019! the s-train commute from Glostrup to KBH H is like 20 minutes direct but from Nørrebro you had to take 1-2 buses to get into KBH H and either way it would take you at least 30 minutes. unless you cycle, in which case you can make it in like 15 minutes, but neither Carl nor Assad strike me as cycle commuters so moot point, and driving to work when you live and work that centrally is just fucking stupid, neither of them seems to have a car either (the car they are using in the film seems to be a 'company car' even though it doesn't have yellow plates). in September 2019 the new Metro ring (Cityringen) opened which does have a direct line through Nørrebro and into KBH H and also takes about 20 minutes. in-fic by the time Assad makes that argument, I am reckoning the timeline of him convincing Carl to move in with him is in the second half of 2019, so he's right, but he also had to time his argument very very carefully lmao

#I think a solid argument can be made for Solrød Strand actually #I have a couple of old schoolmates from there and their parents houses look exactly like Carl’s #afdeling q

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MAPPA finally cancelled the Yuri on Ice film after allegedly being in production for what, 7 years???

With 4 different release window pushbacks?

what godawful handling.

#yuri on ice #oh no :(

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I decided to come back to this because something about that short moment on the S-train platform has been bugging me for months and I finally figured it out!! and also! it's proof that Carl lives somewhere on the western ends of either the A, B or E lines!

the background is a bit too blurry that one can be one hundred per cent certain which direction you're looking along the platform - I feel like it's towards the train station based on simple gut feeling because, well, I lived in Copenhagen ten years, I have lost count of how many times I've been through this station with the S-train. but the one thing that I think really cinches it is that the train pulls away from the camera POV and when Carl finally looks up and starts moving, he moves towards the camera. now that could just be a cinematic choice....however:

there is no good reason for Carl to exit the platform by going through the train station - the fastest way to get to Politigården is by taking the stairs to the bridge over the tracks (circled in blue) and following the yellow line I drew on this google maps screenshot. He might have been dissociating on that platform for a bit but once he gets moving? Efficient. and since the B train visible on the platform is moving in the other direction? Carl is standing on the platform with all the north-bound S-trains. If he'd really come in on the A line from Allerød, he'd be standing on a different platform and the trains on that platform would also be moving towards the camera.

So anyway I still think Carl lives in Brøndby.

i am perhaps several years (and books*) late to this but I've been wondering where the hell does Carl live. I put him in Brøndby in my latest fic** based on nothing but the vibes of his terraced house as seen in the films - a common type of house in suburbs of Copenhagen and considering the colour of the wood and bricks inside the house it's probably one of those solidly built mid-century brick houses rather than a modern one with cement and cladding - and for some reason I couldn't put my finger on, this particular one gave me a Vestegnen vibe rather than a, say, Amager vibe or Nordsjælland vibe idk. so I went with Brøndby

and now I think? I might have been right??

I was rewatching Kvinden i Buret again, as you do, and at the start of he film as the intro credits roll, we see Carl commute in on the S-train. as the train pulls away we see it's a Linje B train (that green square on the back of the train is the Linje B marker). (Copenhagen central station, KBH H, is a mere 6 minute walk from politigården.)

the interior view of the train, which I do not have a screenshot of because I kept getting a black screen for some stupid reason, shows the stops in the background but it's too blurry to make out where on the line he is so he could be coming in from the north rather than the west, but I'm choosing to believe he came from the west. he could be as far out as Albertslund but I think Brøndby is a better fit for like...his general vibe. he just doesn't seem like somebody who'd enjoy living in a snobby area, lol.

depending on where he lives in Brøndby his stop would either be Glostrup, Brøndbyøster (both Linje B) or Brøndby Strand (Linje A), but since he came in on Linje B and not Linje A (blue) and since Brøndby Strand is more of a villakvarter type area I think somewhere along the west end of Linje B makes sense. i mean he could also have been dissociating on the platform for long enough that his Linje A train has left and the next Linje B train has pulled in instead, but I don't think that's very likely

*haven't read them

**for those who don't know: Assad's argument that it's easier to get to work from Nørrebro is absolute garbage, or at least it was up until 2019! the s-train commute from Glostrup to KBH H is like 20 minutes direct but from Nørrebro you had to take 1-2 buses to get into KBH H and either way it would take you at least 30 minutes. unless you cycle, in which case you can make it in like 15 minutes, but neither Carl nor Assad strike me as cycle commuters so moot point, and driving to work when you live and work that centrally is just fucking stupid, neither of them seems to have a car either (the car they are using in the film seems to be a 'company car' even though it doesn't have yellow plates). in September 2019 the new Metro ring (Cityringen) opened which does have a direct line through Nørrebro and into KBH H and also takes about 20 minutes. in-fic by the time Assad makes that argument, I am reckoning the timeline of him convincing Carl to move in with him is in the second half of 2019, so he's right, but he also had to time his argument very very carefully lmao

#why am I over-analysing about five seconds of a ten year old film #it's not even important I've just committed to Carl living in Brøndby now #afdeling q

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Population: 50,488

#unfortunately no but I’d love to go sometime

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You can’t cut soft cheese in thin slices or wedges because it just gets squished, but you can with hard cheese, cause the protein holds it together. Casein point:

#get out

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Was the internet a thing throughout your whole life?

Yes

No

#kinda? #I started using it in 1996 #when I was 9

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#le tired

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16161 ord 🫠

#jeg er langtfra færdig hjælp #jeg går i seng nu #hvis nogen gider sende mig forslag til titler kan det være jeg poster kapitel 1 i weekenden #afdeling q

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ppl are always writing characters doing dumb shit like roasting a fresh-caught rabbit over an open flame instead of making a stew with that thing. great now you’re letting all the fat drip down into the fire as it cooks, wasting calories and flavor as well as causing the flame to flare up = inconsistent heat source,… when you could be maximizing the nutritional value of small game by making a soup or stew. Come on

#especially with rabbits that have very little fat to begin with #or was that hares? #I have eaten neither

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Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.

Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!

Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn't make more than last year!

Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you're profitable!

Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn't make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!

If you're not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!

Absolute degenerate LUNACY

#this #I hate the growth mindset so much #the company I work for keeps telling us we need to sell x % more every year than the year before #meaning that this year my team specifically is struggling to make the projected forecast because the market hasn’t changed #it fucking sucks because all the extra sales for pennies the rest of the team is making in an effort to scrape more money into the budget #means my workload has doubled #but because our profit margin isn’t where it ‘should’ be #there’s no money to hire more help or anything #like Jesus fucking Christ just let us sell the same amount as last year for the love of good.

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[the intimate scene in the fanfiction where my lover kisses each of my scars as I whisper what each is from]

"Fell down the stairs. Mosquito bite I scratched too much. Cardboard box cut. Burned on a tiki-themed appetizer tray. Mosquito bite I scratched too much. Oven rack. Mosquito bite I scratched too much. Mosquito bite I scratched too much. Mosquito b - "

#TRULY THOUGH #I do not have traumatic scars I have dumbass scars #also pox scars

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cemeteries aren’t creepy they’re actually devoted to memory and rest and love and humanity