#for Americans to interact with people

[ryukisgod]

How TikTok is gonna be once all the Americans get banned

#on the one hand it’s healthy #for Americans to interact with people #from other countries #but on the other hand #as one of those people from other countries #they are so obnoxious and unpleasant and stupid #so from a selfish Aussie perspective #I hope they do get banned

[moreaugriffins]

IDK who needs to hear this, but Egon and Ray aren't the only autistic og ghostbusters

Peter is too

Your telling me this man with two PhDs related to psychology, who always has the exact right thing to say to manipulate a situation to his favour (when it's a planned/known situation), but cocks up massively when it's an unknown situation, who has a massive reaction to getting slimed (more so than the others), who would rather joke all the time than take a situation seriously because wtf should he say

you're telling me this man is neurotypical?

nah

Winston's the only NT in this group (idk how he deals with these weirdos (affectionate))

#rambles #ghostbusters #the real ghostbusters #to be specific i guess #peter venkman #egon spengler #ray stantz #winston zeddemore #i've encountered a few autistic people like peter #it's mainly the focus on business and the intense interest in studying people and behaviour and the mind #but he gets so irritated and angry when he gets slimed #the same way i feel when oil or glue gets stuck on my skin #“but he's so good at social situations-” but that's just it! #he is! #because he studies people - studies their reactions - their interactions #a business chat always goes the same way so he can plan what to say to get the best thing out of it #when he flirts with women it seems to be the same way each time - like he's planned it - because he thinks it'll get a reaction he wants #and i dare say that Peter masks a lot more than Ray and Egon. i mean he was a probably more of a cool slacker type at uni and got on well #with more popular students (sorority house students? idk im not american) and yknow it was the 70s! couldnt exactly be fully himself #idk where im going with this - ive lost my train of thought #but yeah #peter is autistic as well and i'll die on this hill

[imu-chan]

Mu Qing, someone who has been steamrolling his deepest emotions for nearly a millennia, tormented by a class system in which he has been labeled as fundamentally untrustworthy, someone whose every mildly positive intention has been twisted into malevolence due to his personality, and whose literal actual name means ‘one who yearns for affection’: alright let’s help dianxia in disguise, what’s one more mask to wear, what’s one more attempted good deed that will ultimately blow up in my face

Xie Lian, a prince of an extremely extravagant and ludicrously wealthy kingdom, who didn’t recognize Mu Qing as a deity (or even a person lmao) and not a servant: *legit takes every opportunity to throw shade at Mu Qing and badmouth him to his face, and then later reveals he ‘knew’ Fu Yao was Mu Qing all along* yeah duh of course I knew it was him, his name is ‘one who rises above their station’, plus we grew up together lmao of COURSE I’d recognize him (:

#sorry guys #I don’t hate Xie Lian but I can’t stand how he interacts with Mu Qing #i haven’t finished it yet #so idk if things get better #but jesus fucking christ #remember how after Xianle fell and they were fugitives mu Qing was still a servant to four people #cooking and washing and cleaning and mending for everyone #and ASKED to leave to take care of his mother #and Xie Lian lost his damn mind and acted like this was the betrayal of a lifetime #posts that put me on Hua Cheng’s List #mu qing #xie lian #tgcf #tgcf spoilers #mu qing my beloved #does xl have a savior complex or a hero complex? #discourse #is this take influenced by me being American #perhaps #is it because the concept of nobility and nepotism being obtained with morality infuriates me and is blatantly untrue #it’s ok if u like him I get it /srs #also I don’t think XL would have recognized him (at least not as quickly) if fuckin feng xin wasn’t there #being STUPID #with his fake name

[deathdefyinggarlic]

spent my entire summer job as a hostess reading neil gaiman books at the stand and it was so common that regulars would notice when i started a new one and ask if i liked it

#it led to such great interactions #even got to give people recommendations #my manager was an og for letting me read #neil gaiman #good omens #american gods #neverwhere #coraline #the ocean at the end of the lane

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

too much discourse about whether it’s realistic for mina to distance herself from the New Woman, not enough discourse about whether it’s realistic for mina, an assistant schoolmistress in england in a novel published in 1897, to have much of an opinion on the new woman, a phrase [probably] coined by a series of dueling essays in a north american literary magazine in 1894, the latter of which, while we’re here - the one that actually used the capitalized phrase New Woman - was written by a financially successful female novelist who was using the concept disparagingly and didn’t think women should be able to vote

#i will defend bram on this i think people are underestimating how inherently radical women’s rights as a concept has often been #a smart woman with ambition and agency disclaiming any interest in the politics of gender is a tale as old as fucking time #i feel like maybe people who find it contradictory are younger than i am? #and do not remember the 90s aka the great era of I’m Not A Feminist But #to me it is the most normal and believable thing in the world #based on: interactions i have had my entire life #and also susan faludi’s ‘backlash’ #but also i am curious about where mina would have encountered the phrase and how it entered her culture #was she a big fan of the north american review #did she see the anti-NW piece in punch #dracula daily

[aro-culture-is]

Fandom aro culture is wanting to be obnoxious about your arospec headcanons but the idea of anyone coming after you for them makes you want to scream

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#citnamora #aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod alexander #honestly i just don't understand getting mad at ppl for hcs #it's literally just. having fun with ur blorbos??? #and it's so easy to just. follow the old YKINMKATO (kink tomato) type of policy with anything (not just kink) #(for those who may not know: Your Kink Is Not My Kink And That's Okay) #(meaning: you like your thing - and it's not for me! - and that's fine.) #(this is not a moral failing. this is not a personality flaw. this is just called 'we are not the exact same person.') #also especially with queer headcannons like???? bruh. #if we're totally real 90+% of gender/orientation types of hcs are self projection #and mayyyyybe 10% have more textual evidence if i'm super generous #and even then!!! look. people are COMPLICATED. we are not some sort of monolithic group. we have interconnected identities #what reads to one person as 'oh that's a Bi person behavior' is entirely informed by their specific interactions with bi-ness #and - for example - white american culture around bi-ness is almost certainly not the same as han chinese culture around bi-ness

[comradekarin]

Black people (specifically African Americans) will never win… if we wear braids/afros /dreads, have long nails, big earrings, obnoxious makeup, wigs/weave, or durags, we’re ghetto and ratchet and hood, but other nonblack groups should be able to “represent” our culture and make it trendy and beautiful and hip and popular while AA men and women are shamed? Black people listening to rap/drill music is seen as uncultured and aggressive and worse than the systemic effects of racism (???), but other nonblack groups can use aave and be HEAVILY inspired off of black artists’ music, swag and style, and they aren’t shamed like black folk are? Black culture has now become synonymous with pop/gen z culture, and it’s absolutely sickening. Black people express discomfort over nonblack ppl wearing box braids? Gaslighted and bullied and shamed for “gatekeeping”. Black people express discomfort over anti blackness rampant in other communities that still miraculously love their culture? Told they aren’t the only group to experience racism and shouldn’t be that mad. Black people express their personal experiences with racism, colorism, police brutality, weariness over whight people, or any type of experience showing how they’re still suffering from this country’s issues of systemic injustice, dehumanization, and brutality, and they’re told their experiences aren’t valid, to get over it, and to just be accepting. And if we DO get support, it’s a trend and a hashtag you can just put in your bio and forget about the next day. Black people are NOT costumes you can put on and choose when to hang up in your closet. Black people should NOT be expected to carry the plight of other nonblack groups’ trauma especially when other groups will never do the same for us. Black people should be able to be treated with respect and dignity without you erasing our black skin. Black people should be able to talk about our own issues without being bullied for not speaking on others (no one would dare do this to another community). We can’t win. And I’m tired.

#anti blackness #African American #black culture #black people #cultural appropriation #I’m just so annoyed bc I’m tired at the end of the day #I know this post won’t get any notes or get the interactions I’m hoping for but I just needed to vent #black people are valued for what they can offer but never as human first and I’m TIRED #the hair the fashion the aave the music the dancing they love ALL that but they can’t STAND a black person doing it

[cornrowsandcornbread]

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH AKA BEST MONTH OF THE YEAR! black people we up 10000

#black history month #black people #non blacks don't interact #african american

[impulsivedecisionsat3am]

It is so fucking easy to dissociate yourself from what's happening in other parts of the world, such as Palestine and Lebanon and Congo and even Russia, especially if you're white and live in the west and suburbs like me, where nobody talks about this shit. It's so easy to focus on your own life and your own joys and sorrows and ignore the countless people being murdered and mistreated on a regular basis. No matter who your ancestors were, where you're from, etc, we have never known what it's like to live under constant threat of being killed and bombed everywhere you go. We have never known what it's like to face excruciating labor daily, along with being constantly harassed and assaulted. And a lot of us have never had to fear real, legal punishments for something as simple as wearing a pride pin. It's terrifying thinking of what it must be like for people living under these conditions, but I know it's even more terrifying for those people. But please. Don't ignore what's going on in the world. Reblog, make a poster, talk about it with someone, I don't care. But please, I'm literally begging you. Don't let these people go unheard.

#this is mainly aimed at the American youth #because they're the people i interact with the most #especially irl #nobody i know is talking about anything palestine related #much less anything going on in other parts of the world #i hate it so much #so please just fucking do something #reblog a post or whatever #follow a tag #just do something #free palestine #free gaza #stop israel #ceasefire now

[pansyboybloom]

unstoppable force (my desire to share my original writing) vs immovable object (my fear it is too niche and too confusing and just plain bad)

#it has LOTS of czech folklore included and for an American audience that gets confusing fast #and the fairytale it is based on isn't well known so i worry people wont be interested #also. am i even a good writer? #my fanfics get major interaction but that is /fanfiction/ that is totally different #ahhhHHHHHH

[moralesmilesanhour]

This is such a late complaint but looking back you can tell how many people in this fandom fetishize latinos because I have never in my life read so many fics where a kid from literal Brooklyn having a faint Puerto Rican accent and knowing Spanish was *so* consequential. Like it really and truly was never that serious 💀 I know like ten different niggas that talk just like him relax

#and i still aint forget the shitty spanglish please for the love of god interact with more people 🙏🏾 #i dont pretend to know the ins and outs of the latino american experience but #i know for a fact nobody in my neck of the woods talks like that 💀 #but anyways i just wanted to say that carry on #blabbering #earth 42 miles morales #complaining tag

[aeolianblues]

one last thing I will say on that topic. Americans getting upset about you calling out Zionism. When you're not talking about Judaism or in fact, about religion at all. When you're talking about a national military funded by a country that has been dropping bombs on the middle east since the 1980s. But then I suppose when people who are so so so comfortable with equating a whole religion, or further a whole entire group of multiple ethnicities, with simply 'terrorism', are criticised on any aspect of their wrongdoings of course they must think we're talking about their whole religion. Literally every word is a projection.

#I lost all respect for that person honestly. I used to think they were quite cool. I put up with a lot of blatantly horrendous shit thinking #'surely it's only a defensive thing. Surely they're only talking about the sadness within their community rather than actively supporting #the mass killings of thousands of people. Surely they're a teacher they've got to have that empathy with kids being murdered' #No! The fucking full clownshow. And now I've been feeling like an idiot all day— like why did I go 'let it slide' x 100 #why should *they* walk away feeling like they've got some sort of moral superiority here and why should I feel like I've been struck down? #Why am I the idiot that didn't block them four months ago #Anyway sorry to everyone who's had to watch me spam about one (1) negative interaction *all day long* it will subside soon #I'm just stinging from the fucking. Utter blindness. #We've always said someone's comfort doesn't override someone else's right to survival #as a literal genderqueer person they KNEW that. They'd uttered the same fucking sentence #but alas the pinkwashing that makes me so frustrated with Americans sometimes. It magically doesn't apply where racism is concerned ✨😃 #The US really is bombs dropped by rainbow-painted aircrafts; that meme should not be this accurate #anyway I'm glad that person is not in my life anymore. I'm glad my dash has one less abomination to repeatedly show up on it #and I have every right to be angry and I will be. I just won't bother you lovely folks with it

[ignitesthestxrs]

are you a kiwi? I'm american myself, but honestly feel like I haven't seen enough kiwis talk about the locked tomb (though i think im partly just missing most of the discourse anyway somehow??)..

if you ever feel like layin out some more thoughts ab tlt id love to read em! <3

i am a kiwi! there is a small but thriving kiwi sf/f community, but overall people are not...terribly online, or terribly into fiction lol. i definitely know there are kiwi fans of the series out there but in general i can imagine most of them simply not wanting to get into it. i don't really want to get into it! i just saw a reply on a post i reblogged and lost my mind about it for a couple of seconds.

as a pākehā/white kiwi i am like, both protective of these books, critical of them, and kind of ill-equipped to be the person criticising how māori characters and māoritanga/māori culture is depicted in them.

tamsyn muir is a pākehā author writing māori characters that she didn't initially identify as such getting like,,,increasingly more māori in depiction as the books go on and she learns more about the general consensus on how white people should write characters of colour. and those māori characters are involved in instituting, recreating, participating in a uh....very roman? sort of societal structure? and in the latest book there's this further māorification of Jod while also depicting him as a radical under fire from the government in a compound, and act which has both deep historical and very recent (2007!!)roots in aotearoa nz culture.

this māorification of gideon too with the prince kiriona stuff is also: something. what is it? i don't know. i don't think it's Cancellable Offense Bad, or even bad at all. but there's an overall freedom of mishmashing aspects of kiwi and māori culture into a broader sf/f context that muir has kind of taken it upon herself to perform, when ultimately it's not her who should have been the person who got to do it, you know? the structural racism of the global publishing industry means that a pākehā writer can step up onto that stage with an ease and popularity that a māori writer is going to have institutional difficulty accessing in the same way. do i think carl tor editor picks up these books if they're written by a brown author? idk man

and then on the flip side - this is a part of her lived experience too. as a pākehā writer, choosing to write, do you include your pākehā-ness? your kiwi-ness? choosing to do that, do you include your knowledge and understanding of te ao māori/the māori world? are you stealing or are you sharing? what is yours to share in the first place?

these are questions that i think every pākehā writer should ask themselves as they're writing and they're also questions that i don't think have a Correct Answer, or even an answer full stop. they're things that i think muir started asking around book 3 lol which is a very better late than never kind of thing, but it's also clear as the books go on that she's laying down her road as she runs on it, so to speak.

i think muir is Trying In Public, which is a deeply vulnerable thing to do, but also, she is right now a very popular pākehā writer introducing māori character and culture to a broader audience, many who have not encountered any of this before, in an environment where very few māori writers have an opportunity to do the same.

so when that broader american audience comes and picks up what muir has put down and then unthinkingly applies their own american cultural lens to what they have in their hands - it's weird, right? it's weird in ways that many (i generalise - not all, obviously, there are also many americans who do have global context) americans can't understand, because those americans don't live in a world where they are outsiders on the global stage. even americans who understand that the rest of the world is not america have not necessarily experienced that in a way that is intrinsic, intuitive.

the world is shaped by america, either by its presence or by its absence. so when a pākehā writer creates māori characters and uses te reo māori/the māori language in her work, which then gets read and used and consumed by an american audience as though it is a creation that belongs in their worldview - it becomes disconnected entirely from the source muir borrowed, or stole from, or grew up with. it forces the conversation into this place of whether or not the americans playing with this particular doll know what they're doing or where the doll came from or why it's a doll anyway, instead of like, why has muir made this doll and should she have and are there other people making dolls, or are other people making different things entirely.

links to some sf/f by māori writers:

THE DAWNHOUNDS by Sascha Stronach

LEGACY by Whiti Hereaka

WATCHED by Tihema Baker

PŪRAKAU, ed. Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereka

GUARDIAN MAIA

#this is a conversation i like #am not an expert on #and should not be responded to as though it's the gospel truth about how to consume gideon or tlt or any of muir's work #or any pakeha author at all #if you should take anything away from this as an american reader it's that the rest of the world has learned how to create content #that is juuuuuust close enough to america's exported culture #that american's don't get too weird about it when they encounter it #but there is always like #way fucking more roiling under the surface than you are going to be aware of as an outsider #and that as an act of curiosity and discover and learning about the world #it really behooves people to like #tug on that thread and see where it leads to #(institutional racism) #but you know #cultures that seem very similar because they are white dominated have many common themes #but very different histories and interactions and manifestations #don't assume that because a story is being told to you in words that you recognise that you are getting the whole picture

[morsmoon]

Tumblr would be so much better if it wasn't US centric there I said it

#american mutuals ily but holy fucking shit i need to interact with people from the rest of the world

[ran-orimoto]

What I like from your fics is that i can learn italian stuff everytime you write. I'm happy you are doing this for J.P. Can I give a suggestion? Can you write something about Junpie liking italian cinema because you say he fantasizes about being an actor in his detective tv series. I wanna know if he collects olld italian films and if he has favs he watches with Izumi and the kids, something like that.

Ahhhh so beautiful to hear, Anon💕. I’m glad you like knowing more about my country (maybe you are the one who’s learning italian? Since you all are mostly anons I can’t always recognize you). I will give more Italy in the following chapters ,then, ahahaha.

Your suggestion is brilliant. Indeed, I do headcanon Junpei will eventually become a cinephile someday, especially when it comes to old detective films and italian ones, thanks to Izumi of course ahaha. I can see him as a grown a$$ adult collecting VHS of black and white films…You know a bit of Fellini, Visconti, all those films featuring Mastroianni and Sophia Loren🤣. And I’m not sure Izumi will love this passion of his? What a curse having taught him about italian cinema history will become. I think she’d get pretty bored and annoyed, especially if he will start blabbing about the films as fast as a train, eventually making her snap a “Are you sure you want to watch this film???”. I believe she would be the kind of person loving romantic scenes ,though, iconic ones like the one in the Fontana dei Trevi from “La Dolce Vita”.

As far as concerns a favourite film I think Junpei would love a lot, I can’t help it, I can’t help picking Benigni’s “La Vita è bella” (1997). “Love a lot” is not even a term I should use here, to be honest. I think it’s more correct to say, “he would feel so connected to it / so emotional about it”. “La Vita è bella” is a…Tough film, despite it being a comedy. It is set in Italy during Second World War and it tells the story of a family that gets separated, dilaniated due to the immane horrors of the persecution of the Jews.

You might ask me why I would pick such a film as a favourite for Junpei. Well, this is a forbidden hc that I’ve been holding onto for years, since the first time I watched the library episode from Frontier. The scene featuring Junpei cheering up Tomoki because he is terrorized of what is coming next hit my head like a lightning. Junpei is the character that offers himself to lighten up the darkest hours the kids are living through with his magical tricks. The flowers shower he dedicates to Tomoki to make him laugh were initially dedicated to a little show he wanted to pull up in front of Izumi, so he really cared about brightening her mood as well.

“La vita è bella” ’s father ending up in that disgraceful situation with his kid is just the same. He tries making the kid believe it’s all a game, he comforts him with tricks and all the most disparate stuff when the day seems to never want to come. I could be k1ll3d over this but I can’t see why Junpei being a tenor should make him lose that side of personality of his. First of all, let me say you have got a very narrow perspective of opera singers; secondly, nothing would keep him from mixing his singing, theatrical and magical skills to bring light to unlucky children in hospitals.

This is what I can absolutely see an older Junpei like. Maybe his Light has always resided in his magical tricks.

#junpei shibayama #izumi orimoto #junzumi #digimon frontier #ehhhh Anon I hope this was a satisfying way to apologize for being late #I’m late with everyone but let’s pretend it’s not true #getting cancelled over this but la vita è bella would be ADORED by Junpei #and I recommend it to you as well because it’s a film purifying your soul #that kind of comedy that hides so much depth and makes you look at life differently once you finish watching it #junpei interacting with baby digimon in frontier is precious #I know people want him to be a famous wizard or something but I can just see him getting out of his tenor shit through simple things #being a simple man with SIMPLE gestures of his hands making kids laugh delightfully #(​btw it’s fine to use american names with me) #asks #headcanons