#also fun fact im not american

[dawningfairytale]

Sorry I thought you were one of those people just trying to shove American Christianity into everything, but now I've seen a lot of posts about how people have actually come to terms and been helped by this movie with their religious trauma and helping them not be so afraid like they were taught to be and I'm glad it can help people that way too by them relating to it with religion, sorry for that other anon!

hi anon don’t even stress!! my apologies for getting my wording wrong. when i made that post i was not thinking about the themes or. concept of the film. i was not at all implying that the beliefs of christianity were facts of the shrek universe because they clearly aren't. as you mentioned in the first anon, death puts coins on his eyes as an allusion to greek mythology and each time puss dies, he doesn't remember anything which does not imply a christian death system. the beliefs of christianity, the christian God being real and Jesus being God are not elements of the shrek universe. that's a fact. my post was a fun silly post based on this tumblr post

there's another version of this post with the church screenshot but you get the point.

i literally just heard the mention of the church with the whole puss and kitty drama and went. oh! tumblr post! like a dumb little rat :)

but yeah, apologies for upsetting you anon, i wasn't coming into this movie or the post i made about it with religion as a thought. i was very no thoughts head empty. and thank you for apologising, it takes a real stand-up person to do that!!

#tl;dr christianity exists as a religion in the shrekcu but not as the true religion #this wasn't the post i originally meant i originally meant the damnation post but this works too #im not going to main tag it i dont think anyone cares enough #also fun fact im not american #although. english speaking/anglo so it makes sense as a criticism #but american christianity. from what i've heard. is a very. complicated beast. that i will not try to tackle because it will gore me #tw christianity #the original post also posits shrek destroyed the catholic church between shrek one and shrek 2 which is fascinating #because it exists in puss in boots 2 (obviously) #but that's not necessarily the catholic church?? it. more than likely is since spain. spain is very catholic in its christianity #are they hiding out from shrek? IS THAT WHY THE CHURCH HAS NOTHING AROUND IT #sorry i find these things fascinating

[randomwords247]

Cooking and baking

A small pet peeve of mine with cooking and baking is when recipes say the container rather than the amount

Like, instead of saying "500ml of cream" you say "a pot of cream". Or "a whole can of corn". Like okay which kind of can??? What amount???? Corn comes in more than one size you can't just tell me a can. PLEASE i am begging you tell me the WEIGHT

This is especially a problem with recipes from different countries, for example America. Because your stick of butter is different to our butter. STOP SAYING STICK OF BUTTER TELL ME THE QUANTITY IN GRAMS PLEASE I HAVE A FAMILY

that being said I feel like I see this crop up in like american recipes in particular. Idk if I've ever seen a recipe in one of our cookbooks that does this....

anyway please just tell me the gosh darn weight I am dying here I have a family I JUST NEED TO KNOW THE WEIGHT

#ramble post #randy rambles #recipes #cooking #baking #'a stick of butter' is the worst for repeat offender i see that crap everywhere in american recipes #JUST SAY THE AMOUNT #like even if a recipe here uses 250g of butter (our butter is in 250g idk what size american butter is) IT SAYS USE 250G OF BUTTER #actually tbf i think butter size is not something thats like fully conventional cuz i just googled lurpack and it says that one is 200g #fun fact our butter isnt a long weird stick like americans. why is your butter like that that looks awful to get on a knife to spread #ours is still rectangular its just like more square #ALSO LIKE IDM CUPS. I have measuring cups that have cups AND ml. I WOULD GLADLY TAKE MEASURING IN CUPS OVER 'STICK OF BUTTER' 'CAN OF CORN' #also for the record what spurred this on is i asked someone for their recipe of something and half the stuff is quantified in this way. #'1 box jiffy cornbread mix' what the frick is that please i have a family #like no hate to them lemme be clear but also WHY ARE AMERICAN RECIPES LIKE THIS IM CRYING #i could be wrong that its just american recipes but i SWEAR ive never seen this in any of our british cookbooks but everytime i try and loo #up an american recipe online or ask an american friend for a recipe they give me quantities like this and im over here quietly dying as i #try and decipher what the frick they just told me to use. what is going on why are recipes there like this #(also idk if they do it for cream i just wanted to give an example that wasnt just can of corn or can of soup) #(SOUP AND CORN COME IN MULTIPLE CAN SIZES YOURE HELPING NOBODY SAYING JUST 'A CAN')

[bahoreal]

for interest of space i grouped train+subway. if you're feeling it pls also dunk in the tags where you're from!

#im expecting many americans to say no public transport lol #polls #poll #i had to take the bus today cause th train isnt running and i was like... this is actually very pleasant... lol #also fun fact in london we call the train system the underground/overground bc most lines that end up underground start off as overground #hence grouping the subway + train options

[todayisafridaynight]

OH OH OH OH OH FULL NAME FULL NAME AKANE KISHIDA

I figured she was the one to get in touch first based on Jo knowing she wanted to see her son, but I have SO many questions about that... how does she know her son survived... how does she know Ichiban was her son and not Aoki... how does she know who Jo is and how to contact Jo... (<- tearing my hair out as we speak)

Anyway when you have the opportunity please view the gameplay footage...

obsessed how its addressed to Mr. Jo Sawashiro i dont know why that detail tickles me... thats cute..

chicken-and-egg kinda deal with Who Contacted Who first. like id ASSUME sawashiro'd get in contact with her first if he was feeling guilty enough about The Whole Situation and was willing to dig into arakawa's past imo, esp since akane wouldn't have any reason (or ability to) know who he was until after he joins the yakuza.. and i mean.. shes long gone by then.. tho that's assuming they got in contact early on and they didnt JUST start communicating within the past few years.

BUT EITHER WAY just gotta wait and see for it all to play out.. in three months <- still cant believe its coming out january 26th 👁️💋👁️

IM OBSESSED WITH THE GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE im soooo glad i was right in how they were going to handle the style change aspect (though i guess it wasnt a hard thing to predict but still..). I LOVE HOW KIRYU CAN ACTUALLY ROAM FREE THAT'S SO COOL i remember people kept speculating on how the gameplay was gonna go with how different ichi and kiryu's playstyles are and this is SUUCH a rad way to answer that question. my excitement is immeasurable and im gonna throw up

#snap chats #lest i neglect chitose's fighting style looks SICK. the neck stomp did remind me of juri han sorry im sick in the head EITHER WAY #the ballet skills... explains why she seems so skinny tbh. like maybe im delusional but i feel like her model is Extra slim yk #i hope im right... oh but speaking of diversity i love how they got people speaking english #Typical Westerner Answer Is Typical IM JUST SAYING its a nice immersion aspect. also im nosy let me eavesdrop #-5 points on the immersion aspect for the fact katy didnt immediately apologize after ichi bumps into her #any american would start profusely apologizing excuse you. BUT SPEAKING OF MOVEMENT #maybe its too early to make this assessment but i like how more concise ichi's walking is #back in Y7 one issue i had was just how.. not 'slippery' he was but it certainly felt like his shoes didnt have any traction #but now he seems to walk more precisely. hope im right.... #crazy eats looks so fun... they have no idea who theyre playin with when my dumbass has all these tony hawk and jet set radio hours #im rambling on too much i still have to answer your other ask LMAO thank you for writin in an sendin the gameplay demo :]

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Ngl, while I do get where RTD is coming from that the Disney deal could save Doctor Who from dying if the BBC does essentially die since the tory government are basically killing anything they can, BBC included- I really don't like the idea that the solution is just to give Doctor Who to Disney, given we all know what Disney is like with everything they own and would not hesitate to milk Doctor Who like they do with Marvel, let alone just adding to Disney's monopoly on everything we watch.

#doctor who #im not saying i'll jump ship as soon as i see it becoming marvellised #but as soon as i see 100 spin offs coming out of it #i wont be there for them #and like the fact that the air times are already americanized #but rtd is fine handing over a show that has had its 60+ years of life in the UK to an american company like disney..... #and like yeah i get it higher budgets are fun and all #but also ngl upon rewatching older new who and the SJA #dw was just more fun and such when it had a shitty budget #imma just be honest there #invasion of the bane is a comfort special for me #shitty cgi and all #the same going to alot of old new who #tho i guess this might explain shit like doctor who now just being fully pro-military and shit #we know how disney allows the military to dictate marvel nowadays after all...

[majorshatterandhare]

Hey, look at me! I did it. I listened to a new-me-album. I don’t do that very often.

It took me 2.5 years to listen through all the mechs albums and feel like I have spent a good amount of time with each, feel content with them. Reach for them all equally as much (except maybe TtbT2, which is my favorite).

It has taken me 8 months to decide to listen to a second Jessica Law album. Not because I didn’t like Languid Little Lies, but because I absolutely adore it!

I’m just so happy and content to listen to the same stuff all the time that I don’t ever feel the desire to seek out new stuff. That goes for music, podcasts, tv, movies.

I feel a bit bad for not having more knowledge on the other projects mechs members have done and continue to do. I would like to love everyone’s work, it’s just gonna take me years to get through everything sufficiently. But also that means I don’t have to fucking worry if I do come to a point that I’m desperate for something new because there will be something to reach for.

And like, I didn’t like HNOC for quite a while. I continued to listen to it on occasion because I liked everything else I knew by them; didn’t understand why I didn’t have any enjoyment from it. I think it was mainly because I had almost zero knowledge of Arthurian legend. Had to read Gawain and the Green Knight in high school and listened to a retelling of the story where Merlin gets trapped in a cave forever by a lady on Myths and Legends (podcast); didn’t really care at all. Wanted to care (about Arthurian Legend) because I knew that a lot of Celtic myth got fucked up and put in there. So everytime I listened I’d end up reading more about Arthurian legend because I couldn’t remember who was who until finally I understood it well enough that I could actually enjoy everything smart about it and the music itself and trans Mordred and more and more. I didn’t have that issue with OUaTiS or UDaD or TBI because I had knowledge of European fairytales and Greek myth and enough about Norse myth already. Same reason I usually skip Drop Dead, the first song on my favorite mechs album. I just don’t care about it at all, in an ambivalent way. It doesn’t do anything for me. But I also have no experience with Crypt of the Necrodancer. But I listen to it on occasion because there’s nothing wrong with it and maybe this time will be the time it clicks.

#the mechanisms #jessica law #i also have apd and a general processing disability so that likely exacerbated my inability to follow hnoc without knowledge the legends #like i think very very many people will think its silly that i literally couldnt follow the album before that #but my brain doesnt sort information into memory categories well *and* struggles with auditory info #sorry that i couldnt remember that in legend mordred in the son of arthur and morgause. arthurs sister #or who is gawain and who is galahad #i still get those name mixed up but just the names not the characters #i was very good at remembering that lancelot will only fuck arthurs wife though. thats wild in a morally monogamous society #but its also the whole reason when youre with a bunch of people and your introducing yourself youre supposed to give a fun fact #or your favorite color or something #the more info you have to link together. the easier it is to recall. #anyway not sure why im telling yall this #and i really like hnoc now! #do i have concerns about it regarding the fact its a western and the ‘indians’ are cannibals? #yeah absolutely! #do i think consuming the flesh of a human is inherently morally wrong? #no! #comes down to the negative stereotypes against native americans #obviously saxons arent native americans but they are filling that role in the western setting #im sure theres way more to be analyzed regarding that. but i am not the right person for that. #its 1.45 am and i am crocheting a giant millipede #languid little lies #udad #hnoc #ouatis #tbi #the littlest libertine #i guess i havent spent a lot of time with dttm but thats because it songs from other albums #and the versions ive seen didn’t have all the audio so i didnt even get all the death stories

[hella1975]

id like it to be known that i wholeheartedly support abortion. i support abortion for the person whose pregnancy has become too dangerous to come to term. i support abortion for the victim of rape. i support abortion for those who don't have the financial means to have a child. i support abortion for those underage. i support abortion for someone middle-aged with a stable family and finances and loving partner who quite simply does not want a child. i support abortion for people who sleep around. i support abortion for someone who thought they wanted a child but changed their mind. i support abortion in all its infinitely different situations. if it comes to me picking between a bunch of cells that look like fish eggs and an actual living breathing person with a name and future then babe we're having caviar

#fun fact! 9/10 abortions happen before 12 weeks #and over half happen in the first 8 weeks #at 12 weeks your fetus (bc it's not even a baby yet if u want to be technical) is the size of a lime. a fucking lime #i wasnt going to make a post about this bc i dont like bringing politics onto tumblr #bc after how jaded i got with covid and now Everythign Else i wanted a site that could be safe from real world shit #and also it's very tiring that an American Issue suddenly becomes Everyone's Issue and it can be quite frustrating #when that energy isn't met for literally any other country. and i didnt want to contribute to the en masse posting about roe v wade atm #for those two reasons (at least on tumblr. im not actually spiteful about this and obviously really care about the topic. it's just tiring) #but it's come to my attention that somehow i have pro-lifers in these parts #and i want to make it very fucking clear that i dont want them here #me and this blog are completely wholeheartedly pro-choice in any form it may show itself as #because i have enough critical thinking skills to know two basic facts #1) that people have ALWAYS had abortions. the only thing that's changed is the safety in which they're carried out #you will NEVER get rid of them you will only ever endanger the people and women you're trying so hard to 'protect' #and 2) i have never heard of a single person that was happy to get an abortion. not one. it's not a fun experience #it's incredibly hard and traumatic but oftentimes necessary for whatever personal reason specific to that person #stop fucking making laws about other people's bodies #it really shouldn't be difficult

[loverofallthingssmart]

analyzing a mitski song is going to fix me it will. it has to.

#a cleanse from the fact that our second assignment in this class was to analyze a ts**ft song.......it took up so much of me i did not have #a single drop of energy to care abt her. like that essay was prob my worst work. but now its a song of our choice i have toooo many options #thought of working for the knife but also like my fave song: ur best american girl (but like. isnt that obvious. genius lyrics has me beat! #but ALSO. likeher entire discography. ill have fun w this regardless of which song i choose....ourgh im so excited i love mitski i love her #music. god. i wanna see her live again.

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital painting based on the film They Live. It depicts a bald Eagle infront of a distorted and washed-out American flag. There is a rectangle outline that surrounds the eagle's head, besides the tip of the beak. Inside the rectangle, the head resembles a skull, and all the colours are now black and white. Plus, the stars on the flag are replaced by the word "star", and the stripes have "stripe" repeatedly written across them. All of this has a noise texture.]

Inktober Day 11: Eagle

Film: They Live

#animal death #inktober #they live #inktober 2022 #they live fanart #digital art #skull #skeleton #til that drawing the american flag is the bane of my existence... #but oh well i really enjoyed doing this concept :3 #also just to clarify this is in no way patriotic (im not american and am also a communist lol) #ummmm anyway they live is very fun i love rowdy roddy piper he is awful and amazing bless <3 #um the end scene is great and so is *that* fight scene #and the fact that it originated the chew bubblegum line (which i had previously had attributed to moss from it crowd whoops) #uuuuhhhhh i think u may like this if u like terminator or big trouble in little china? #also this is kinda a curveball but the film nowhere? idc its a classic #idk maybe the endings just feel similar to me (in a very specific way that only makes sense to me)

[xycuro-illuminati]

For my American followers wondering why The Machines We Are being back on Spotify is a big deal this is like if they took off hamburger from the menu and brought it back

#tfw talking #see tbe joke here is that im also american #subscribe for more daily fun facts

[akira-seeya]

problem: uh oh! i'm gonna be an adult real soon and i'm planning on going to a japanese college/university as some point, but my username is my irl first name! this would be relatively ok in the us, but it wouldn't be as safe in japan because it's way easier to find people and i'm also in a way more of a minority!

solution (broke): change my username

solution (woke): change my irl name

#* #*txt #*en #i like the name itself but it never stuck for me as one for my flesh and bone body iykwim #so im gonna go namehunting over the summer #its good timing since im graduating high school which means a mostly fresh start #fun fact i made this my username as a sort of gauge to see whether i like to be called akira #bc name tester sites dont really work for me. and arent in japanese #turns out i like it online and in japanese but not in english #english speakers pronounce it right challenge. but also be fucking normal about getting it slightly wrong challenge. #surprisingly my close friends tend to get the tone right #not the /ɾ/ tho </3 only my linguistics freak bestie can pronounce the alveolar tap #studying my friends under a microscope #(scribbling notes) the ones that get the tone right often pronounce it /l/ (english L) instead of /ɹ/ (american rhotic R)... #you can tell linguistics freak bestie make me a linguistics freak too

[deaf-sakura]

I’m doing something I never thought I could stomach, entering the private sector.

I am a full supporter of public education. I see it as a god given right to all, and it should be a fucking given for any nation that wants to call themselves “free.”

But I’m so burnt out y’all. The public system is broken, its infrastructure (both metaphorically and literally) is cracking under the weight of the mistakes unqualified leaders have made over the past 3 decades. And when I say ‘leaders,’ don’t just think of head honchos like Betsy fucking DeVos or Miguel Cardona or the legislators or the president. 

At the state level with regressive governors, at the city level with money grubbing school boards, and even corrupt, egotistical principals in the schools themselves. Even teachers leading their own classroom are a hit or miss, and many of us play into this fucked up system whether we want to admit it or not.

These mistakes roll down the sides of the pyramid structure and make everyone below them suffer. This year, shitty staffing and poor decision making had me doing the work of three people every single day. The leaders above me could have made it better but they didn’t. They let me suffer. I’ve been assaulted and sent to the ER on more than one occasion, and my pleas for more structure and support were met with implied accusations that I’m a ‘hysterical woman.’ Eventually I gave up actual teaching so I could ensure I got my kids everything else they needed; diaper changes, meals, g-tube feeding, getting out of their wheelchairs, everything they’re entitled to as human beings. And on times where I couldn’t get them what they needed, they went without. On multiple occasions. And because those were the decisions I made as a classroom leader, good, bad, or too much gray area to decide, my students’ education suffered.

I threw my application out into the world, at almost any job with the word “disability” in their description. In June, a recruiter from a private school system offered me an interview. I nailed it.

The school is designed for students with autism and learning disabilities that weren’t succeeding back in the public school system. It has no religious or social class affiliation, which for me, is good. They follow all the same legislation and procedures that public schools need to when it comes to disabled students’ rights and education. The salary is competitive, the benefits are there, and the sign on bonus is...big, to say the least.

It may be better and it may be worse. But the thought of going back into the old classroom makes me feel...lifeless. Like I’m trapped in a loop. I wouldn’t even call it fear or dread. More like I’m just submitting myself to a terrible fate without even trying to fight back. Like learned helplessness.

I want to try. I want to at least try to make a better life for myself. Like I said, it could be a thousand times worse, but I’m strong and capable, with good morals and work ethic. I think I’ll take the offer.

#educhums #special education #autism #autistic teacher #american school system #american schools #teacher #third year teacher #also fun fact: ive literally been at the district im working at now since i was 5 #started kindergarten there and graduated #did all my observations and student teaching there #became a teacher's aide there #and now ive done my first 2 years teaching there #like maybe it REALLY IS FUCKING TIME FOR A CHANGE

[thesewers]

Actually checked out that guys 'kid whose no fun' tiktoks through a youtube comp and, admittedly skipped around because I'm not watching that cocomelon grind- the voice he does is cringe enough, n' if you only watch the first bits I see why'd you think it's just a spoiled kid, and than he pulls out a stuffed animal and declares its name and 'no you cant touch him', which, i guess that's... Unreasonable and to be Laughed at, sure. It's just a really strange mix of things that Could be taken as a 'spoiled' child or bigoted (don't have time to get into why a man making fun of and othering a kid displaying problematic behavior autistic or not instead of, y'know, having a little empathy for a youngin', is just unhelpful.) and something that's completely harmless but a little 'weird' like... Setting a Boundary.

#take this with a massive grain of salt as some youtube commenter said this. dont quote me. #Supposedly he has Said he's researched autistic traits to put into his video. I dont have tiktok I wouldn't fact check it even if I did but #Not the hardest to believe even if it's a little cartoony sounding for someone to do research for there little povs #but i've also Heard he's been called out by autistic creators and either ignored them or actively went against them. key word. Heard #dj crazy times #yeah ill main tag this. the joke sucks the bits over #ive seen people say the broken english is whatever because oh white europeans can take it which. as an american im not getting into that. #but my thoughts are. Poking fun at any language proficiency opens up a can of What else will you make fun of and imitate y'know. #i think it's clear in retrospect there's very little respect for actual eurodance in that tiktok. #not the end of the world but its sad! #tiktokkers having little respect for what they imitate or speak on? noo... Never never #im sure theyre not doing it just for content and views at all #ableism

[prettyuglybfore]

harry truman taurus, cowboy hat, and keeping chickens he is just like me

#also fun fact our birthdays are a day apart #twin peaks #im just like him but british #this is not about rhe american president

[cinnabeat]

omg i was trying to explain to my professor my issue with self portraits especialy ones hat have to have a personal meaning during my critique yesterday and she was like not getting it AT ALL it was so annoying

#its not that theres nothing interesting about me #she was like i have to disagree with you saying its JUST you #theres nothing JUST about you and while that is a very nice philosophical and whatever thought #i meant that like i dont want you to look at a self portrait of myself and be able to glean every aspect lf my identity and personality #i dont make aspects of my identity in real life obvious #why should a self portrait reflect that #im just me #what you see is what you get and if you know me youll know these parts of me that make me #that was a confusing sentence im sorry #but anyways its not even the mortifying ordeal of being known bc thats not it #im not gonna put like chilean culture shit around me in a self portrait bc that gives you the false illusion that this is a huge part of my #identity which its not #first of all bc im american its my PARENTS who are chilean but also its just like. its a fun fact about me something youd find in the trivia #section of my character bio or whatever it snot something jnherently visible about myself #same with being a lesbian like yeah i like women but im not gonna like put a lesbian flag somewhere in the background to let tou know that #bc once you start making that shit obvious its like oh this is a big part of her identity and its NOT #which is not to say that people who DO make their identiy onvious are lying #bc if ur latina and you paint yourself in traditional clothes bc thats what you usually wear and like other stuff #then thats you! thats a big part of your identity! that makes sense to me #i dont have somethinf about myself that is a Big Part of my identity im just me #nothing about me overpowers another aspect about myself #not even an aspect its like. that implies its separate and its NOT its all integrated into who i am #im sorry i keep talking about this but i have SO MANY thoughts about this #i could go on about this for so long omg #like one of my classmates did a self portrait using a blue light and dark room #and you could argue i could do something like that you know? but like #if you ask me to make a self portrait showing who i am if like #exaggerate something its like.......... #i dont want to treat my self portrait like an illustration. the more you exaggerate something the more unintentioned meaning you put into so #something??? man maybe im thinking too hard about this i feel crazy....

[victoryrifle]

as someone who’s native language isn’t english but uses it daily and has developed it mainly through music, movies, tv series and video games hailing from the USA or acted/voiced by americans, i really wonder if some actual american heard me speak what ‘accent’ they’d think i have. i don’t feel like i have an accent, i def don’t have an italian accent (at least not in the very stereotypical way americans think of) but i’d be sooo curious to know if the way i talk could pass as being a genuine american person and if so from where

#this is silly but you know #anna talks #also fun fact my bf got once mistook as an actual american and got asked where in the usa he came from #so he just said boston #which is ironic since i unironically love to go on tours of boston on google maps with street view #because of fallout 4 lol. which yes weakest fo game by far but boi i just love it #and to think the map is so realistic and all just blows my mind #so like. big coincidence there bc at the time i dont even think i played fo4 yet #anyway. im rambling