#im from northern virginia

[mythicalthing]

If yes, please tell me where ur from in the tags! This was done as a prank and there was no shame quite like having your backpack nuggeted in high school. For everyone asking I am from Virginia

#my polls #polls #im from northern virginia #we call it nuggeting #but my boyfriend is from Virginia beach and calls it turtling

[frida-kahl-of-the-rocky-horror]

I saw this back when I used to use Reddit (for animal crossing and trans+ stuff mostly), and I felt so honoured that they used my Florida flag redesign in this that I screenshotted it. But when I looked to find the original poster, they had deleted the post (likely because of negative replies, vexillology Reddit is scary).

They recreated the state flags to be more about symbolism and individuality rather than about aesthetics (which is the problem I see with a lot of over simplified state flags). All while keeping the flags that actually carry deep meaning and are beloved by the residents.

I’m not the biggest fan of Nebraska’s, Virginia’s, and Wisconsin’s, but all the others are wonderful (especially Florida’s… I will not apologize for being biased lol)

The original Reddit person’s caption:

“I kept some flags which I believe are currently great. Most of them are all over State merchandise, and people of these states carry a lot of state pride for these flags. They are:

1. Alabama

2. Alaska

3. Arizona

4. Arkansas

5. California

6. Colorado

7. lowa

8. Maryland

9. Mississippi

10. Missouri

11. New Mexico

12. Ohio, my home state! [not mine, OPs]

13. Rhode Island

14. South Carolina

15. Tennessee

16. Texas

17. Utah

18. Wyoming

19. District of Columbia [I believe you mean the Douglass Commonwealth]

20. Guam

21. The Northern Mariana Islands

22. Puerto Rico

I've switched some State’s boring Seal on a Bedsheet flags into their more popular historical ones. They are:

23. Conecticut ~ New England Flag

24. Hawaii ~ Kanaka Maoli

25. Maine ~ Original State Flag

26. Vermont ~ Green Mountain Boys Flag

27. Virginia ~ Gadsden Flag

28. West Virginia ~ Original State Flag

I've made a few tweaks to some existing flags so they look more unique / are more easily recognizable. They are:

29. Indiana ~ Golden Frame

30. New Jersey ~ Added Stripes

31. North Carolina ~ Un-Tex-ified

32. Oklahoma ~ Added Stripes

33. American Samoa ~ Added Southern Cross

I designed some using the Pan Cascade colours for the Pacific Northwest (BC will have the tree one). They are:

34. Idaho

35. Oregon

36. Washington

I borrowed some other designs which I found on here which I found beautiful. I mostly looked for flags which were designed by locals from the states that they are redesigning or included state symbols on their old flags. They are:

37. Florida [omg they chose mine!!!]

38. Georgia

39. Kansas

40. Kentucky

41. Louisiana

42. Michigan

43. Montana

44. Nevada

45. New Hampshire

46. New York

47. North Dakota [I prefer my communist flag better wajajaja]

48. Pennsylvania

49. South Dakota

50. Wisconsin

51. Virgin Islands

I left the flags currently in the process of a redesign blank, for, given the recent track record, any new flags are probably going to look amazing like Utah’s and Mississippi’s. They are:

52. Illinois [this is your reminder to vote for your new state flag if you’re from this state!!!]

53. Massachusetts [this is your reminder to vote for your new state flag if you’re from this state!!!]

54. Minnesota [this is your reminder to vote for your new state flag if you’re from this state!!!]

I kept one Seal on a Bedsheet flag to honour this horrid time in American vexillological history. That is:

55. Delaware

And lastly

56. Nebraska (idk)”

While I agree with most of the OP’s opinions, I think Nebraska’s flag would look better if it looked something like this:

Better designed of course, I made this on Pic Collage in like 5 minutes

Im not sure about Wisconsin and Virginia, I just know I’m not the biggest fan of either (since Virginia’s flag has a separate meaning and Wisconsin’s is just bland.

Let me know what you think!

And if you’re the OP of this, please let me know, I like your choices!!

#usa #united states #state flags #alabama #alaska #arizona #arkansas #california #colorado #conecticut #delaware #florida #georgia #hawaii #idaho #illinois #indiana #iowa #kansas #kentucky #lousiana #maine #maryland #massachusetts #michigan #minnesota #mississippi #missouri #montana #nebraska

[burningcrab]

little bits of regional solidarity and memes are so heartwarming 2 me……. im from northern virginia and even when im hundreds of miles away ill sometimes meet someone from the same region and we will laugh abt tysons corner and the hellish experience of going up to bethesda and all sorts of DMV things. my dad grew up all over new england and one time he met someone who stayed on the same tiny maine island he lived on for a while and they talked abt it for an hour. i have friends and family in washington and maine and new york and wisconsin and missouri and texas and colorado and they all have little bits of the country that they remember like the backs of their hands. love is having four roads that run through your heart and finding someone else who knows the restaurant you went to when you were little

#chatter

[menalez]

Never mind the question if you don't wanna answer it but can i ask what ultimately helped you get better psychologically wise? Like a certain kind of therapy or a though process you adopted that made it easier? Elaborate as much as you like

sure, i’m quite open about this and if anyone wants to learn more about that pls feel free to ask me. :) so my therapy history is quite… extensive to say the least. in bahrain, i saw a male psychiatrist who i couldn’t even talk to myself (i was too scared) & so my mom told him my story like im a rape victim etc and he immediately prescribed me with cipralex & seroquel within the first session in one hour. despite hearing all about my trauma he simply diagnosed me with major depression or sth. anyways, i didn’t go to him again and after my mom found out i got stitches, she asked my uncle who’s a doctor and he connected us to a female psychiatrist in one of the main public hospitals in bahrain. she immediately diagnosed me with BPD & PTSD and referred me to the children’s psychiatric ward in bahrain (there’s only one in the country & it’s garbage. the criminally insane and just deeply mentally ill are both hospitalised there). the women who evaluated me also diagnosed me with the same stuff but were fixated on the BPD. at this point i must’ve been no older than 15. perhaps still 14 even but i think i was 15. one of the women who evaluated me became my therapist & i saw her for an hour per week for like a year. she would try to point things out to me and make me aware of my situation, she knew all about it and i started to open up to her more which was hard on me (before seeing her individually, my mom basically talked on my behalf to all the therapists bc i couldn’t say what happened to me out loud). i think she tried her best but our therapists are just not good at all honestly. she even would criticise my parents for how negligent they were etc. it was not any particular type of therapy besides like.. just regular talking therapy. i think her goal was to make me somewhat self-aware bc i completely lacked any self-awareness in terms of my feelings & situation etc.

after that my mom took us to the US bc there was no improvement in my situation. i was still 15 but nearing 16 at this point. at that point i was still on cipralex & seroquel, 50mg each i think. my mom basically took me to one of the big name hospitals near northern virginia and they had this very extensive evaluation where they’d ask family history etc. they said i show the symptoms of BPD but that they don’t like diagnosing kids with personality disorders so they diagnosed me with like 500 things instead. i thought it was kinda dumb but whatever. the therapy they decided i needed was CBT. i did. CBT for 6 months and they saw progress in me. the next therapy in line was some sort of trauma therapy, i’m not sure its exact name but i can describe it for u n maybe you’ll know. i never finished it tho ftr. it was basically split into three parts: life before the trauma, life after the trauma, and then the trauma itself. i only got through 2 weeks of it and barely started the life after the trauma section of the therapy. it was too much for me and i stopped going bc of it, my mom didn’t mind that bc they were ripping us off majorly (making us pay for a translator we didn’t need nor see) and she was running out of money at that point.

soon after i overdosed again & my mom found me & called the ambulance. i was taken to the emergency room, fed charcoal and they put this tube up my nose bc i threw up the charcoal etc it was a very traumatic experience honestly esp when they forcefully put some thingy up my urethra bc they needed to evaluate my pee. anyways i was taken from there to some hospital where i was placed on 42 hour suicide watch. the doctor there said i needed to be placed in a psych ward so i was put in a children’s inpatient ward more south of virginia. i was there like 2 weeks? and they basically had all kinds of therapy in there 24/7. i was considered high risk so i wasnt allowed the privacy a lot of my ward had. anyways we had a little school in there and we’d basically have art therapy, group therapy, therapy for addiction, individual therapy, psychiatric visits, PE therapy, etc. wildly enough, one night in this ward cost us less than the 1 hour sessions with the previous american hospital i got a lot of therapy from which showed just how badly they were ripping us off. they referred me to some kind of girls home where it’d be more constant therapy etc but i couldnt actually stay there bc it’s only for the citizens of virginia on paper (which i was not. we were illegal immigrants at this point). they referred me to a trauma centre and i basically went thru some sort of expressive therapy? i wasn’t given much more detail than that but we’d work with a sand box & id be given a prompt and told to try to show how i feel in the sand box using a bunch of figures to try to illustrate the situation. besides that we did expressive art therapy where i think i had to paint sth or draw sth but i don’t remember it well. we also did some sort of meditative therapy, focused on learning how to breathe bc i had a lot of panic attacks & anxiety-induced nausea etc so that was meant to help me in such cases. i remember we did sth called the i think 478. breathe in 4 seconds, hold 7 seconds, breathe out 8 seconds. do it at least 6 times and count in ur head bc it helps. it’s meant to trigger ur parasympathetic nervous system and calm down ur body. overall my time in america was a year & a half.

after that i had to go back to bahrain for a year and then i got into uni in the UK. i immediately asked to be put into therapy & was again considered high risk & high priority due to my history w suicidality & self harming behaviours. despite that, it took 3 years to even get me anywhere with that process. i was evaluated and the therapist thought i’d benefit most from DBT. i only managed to start DBT on my 4th year in the U.K., ie the end of my time there. i must’ve done like idk 4 months of DBT? maybe even less. and the program is meant to be a minimum of one year. if i recall correctly it was 3 hours per week, 2 hours group therapy & 1 hour individual therapy. it was really helpful and great but i had to leave bc my residence permit was expiring and it was a v sad moment.

i haven’t been able to get back into therapy since which has been hard but i’ve managed to control my self-harming behaviours esp after DBT. sorry this was rly long but i wasn’t sure what aspect would benefit u or not so i thought might as well go in depth

[pinotaur]

If anyone is in northern virginia i NEED friends please consider

[lobotomygender]

moving to North Carolina sounds so fun. getting a job, getting a car and licence, hell i could drive all the way to where axe lives and even where airy lives. i could drive to disney world for whenever i have the money. mf i could literally visit my sister and TAKE HER to disney world. I'll save her from my fucking mom. I'll do it. test me motherfucker.

i will meet so many cool people and have so many cool friends i swear I'm gonna be so happy there. and if not that's okay. ill just make the most of it because it sounds so amazing there regardless despite the low level of lgbtq tolerance.

which is why I really wanna move to Virginia or Maryland instead. i was BORN in Maryland i wanna go home bruv. ppl there and in Virginia are so nice and open minded from what I've seen. northern countries sound so fun wtf. even if they're cold 1 . im a snow leopard therian so idc and 2. it's so worth it bro

im just rambling i apologize

[pencilscratchins]

as a new yorker i am SO sorry you live in jersey you don't seem like the kind of person to deserve something like that

enjoy your piss city

#not a NEW YORKER COMING ON MY BLOG AND ACTING BETTER THAN ME #also i live in virginia rn but i’d rather live in fucking trenton then nyc #(people from the south this is all in good faith i promise this ain’t real beef) #(i know when the northerners fight yall get scared mommy and daddy are fine) #ask #anon #DONT YOU SAY SHIT ABOUT JERSEY WHAT SRE YOU GONNA DO #PLAY BILLY JOEL AT ME???????? #BITCH IM SOUTH JERSEY YOU THINK I HAVE ANY KIND OF LOVE FOR NYC??? #IM WITH PHILLY #someone just sent me an ask like don’t pull billy joel into this #billy joel tied me to the back of his motorbike and drove my body into a family pizzeria he was already a part of this #at least he’s from long island WHICH I RESPECT #can we all agree that staten island sucks

[heirloommtomatoes]

i looked up ‘virginia mountains’ the other day and when i saw ‘blue ridge mountains’ i gasped so hard i thought he was just like. describing mountains in the song i didn’t know they wERE REAL???

#i feel so stupid ajdfkl #im not from north america!!!!!!!!! don't @ me!!!! #i was like :o oh my god #almost heaven............west virginia....bLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS...... #shENANDOAH RIVERRRRRR.... #why did i not know that i knOW shenandoah river is real i was born by it!!!!! #in small town northern ohio baybbeee ajkdsfl #i moved when i was young so i dont remember literally any of it #but. Cursed place! congrats ohio xx #hm. it has come to my attention that the shenandoah river does not reach ohio whatsoever #shenandoah IS a place in northern ohio however #so what we've learned tonight is that i should keep american geography out my goddamn mouth xoxo #ellie yodels

[mizeliza]

I’ve discovered that I like seeing mountains on the horizon

#im sure that a lot of you would call them hills but i am from northern virginia #else speaks

[benevolentbirdgal]

“Thirteen” Tips on Writing Jewish Characters / Some  Jewish Identity Stuff Explained

So you want to write a Jewish character, but don’t want to write a caricature? Or are worried they won’t register as Jewish to readers, or something will be off or wrong? Well I, friendly (virtual) neighborhood Jewish professional, am here to help! 

Note: The Jewish community is made up of roughly 14 million people worldwide with all sorts of backgrounds, practices, life circumstances, and beliefs. I’m just one American Jew, but I’ve had exposure to Jewishness in many forms after living in 3.5 states (at several different population densities/layouts), attending Jewish day school and youth groups, doing Jewish college stuff, and landing a job at a Jewish non-profit. I’m speaking specifically in an American or Americanish context, though some of this will apply elsewhere as well. 

Let’s start with the word “Jew.” It’s not inherently a slur, but can absolutely be used as one. I am a Jew. You can call me a Jew, just not a Jew. Like most minority groups, there are slurs against us, but Jew is the proper demonym. It can be used disrespectfully as a noun, but isn’t inherently disrespectful. Think “Chava is a Jew” versus “You’re being such a Jew.” 1a. Any use of Jew as a verb by gentiles (non-Jews) is not okay. Your Jewish characters should be horrified by someone telling them they “Jewed down the price.” 1b. Any use of Jewess by gentiles is not okay and your Jewish character should not be cool with it.  1c. Many Jews would actively prefer to be called such because that’s what we are and “Jewish person” is stepping away from our Jewishness. But I get that not everybody is going to be comfortable calling us Jews. That’s okay, and “Jewish person/people” or “X is Jewish” is TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE.  1d. With that said, Jewish people refers to ourselves as Jews. If Sarah is Jewish but is squicked about referring to herself as a Jew, your Jewish readers will immediately know she’s written by a gentile.  1e. Actual slurs against Jews is a post for another time (did you know K*ke literally means circle?). 

Your Jewish-American character likely does not speak Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, or any other Judeo-Language (languages that are a mix of Hebrew and at least one other language, typically written in the Hebrew abjad). Three notes on this, however: 2a. If your character is an immigrant or the child of an immigrant, they might speak the Judeo-language of the old country. The most common will be Israeli-Americans speaking Hebrew, but families still speaking Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and other families do still exist. The children of Jewish immigrants might also speak another language that isn’t a Jewish one, like Russian or Spanish.  2b. If they are in a VERY religious Ashkenazi community, they might speak Yiddish at home and in the community.  2c. Odds are decent, however, that your American Jew can read but not understand Hebrew. If your character went to Jewish Day School or Yeshiva, they definitely read Hebrew, and will have some understanding of it (but likely not fluency). 

Despite what I just said above, your Jewish-American character likely drops a lot of Yiddish words and phrases into their day-to-day speech. Which words/phrases in probably a list for another time, but the most common will be foods, family names (i.e. “Zayde” instead of Grandpa), and sassy expressions. They may incorporate some Hebrew to a lesser extent. 

There’s not just one version of kosher. There’s kosher, kosher-style, Halav Yisrael, glatt kosher, etc. Depending on your character’s level of kosher, they’ve need a hecksher (kosher mark) on any given item or only eat at kosher restaurants, although not all Jews keep kosher and many keep “kosher-style” (i.e. only eat theoretically kosher things).

Your Jewish character should be a whole character, both in general and in relation to their Jewishness. This means, among other things, that they aren’t obsessed with Israel and I/P discourse one way or the other and that while writing you remember that not all Israelis are Jews and not all Jews are Israelis. Your Jewish character is not constantly agonizing over the I/P situation, has a life outside of their Jewishness, and shouldn’t be a cardboard stand-in for your desire to discuss the middle east. 

The Jewish experience varies dramatically with geography. Jews living in Omaha, Richmond, Philly, Kansas City, Boca Raton, and New York City are all American Jews. They will have drastically different Jewish experiences. I strongly recommend doing research on the Jews in the specific place your story takes places, but generally:  6a. The closer you are to the northeast coast and NYC (except south Florida) the better and more varied your Jewish resources.  6b. NYC has the highest Jewish population of any city on the planet. Big cities like Boston, Chicago, and L.A., as well as just outside of NYC in NJ and NYS, and suburban/exburb south Florida will have lots of Jewish resources: day schools (Jewish + secular education mix), maybe Yeshivas (Jewish focus), multiple synagogues, a Jewish Community Center, Jewish dating services, social stuff, Jewish charities, and youth activities. Your character will have other Jewish friends and their gentile friends will likely know other Jews. Antisemitism is still a problem and usually takes the form of excluding Jews from activism, thinly-veiled stereotyping or excusing antisemitism from people from other oppressed groups, but it’s usually not as overt as elsewhere. Almost always safe to disclose Jewishness.  6c. Small and mid-size cities Denver, Virginia Beach, Charleston, and Harrisburg will have a JCC or Jewish federation, multiple synagogues, and maybe a Jewish day school. Your character is not the only Jew their gentile peers have met, but the bagels are meh. They will have other Jews to bond and commiserate with. Antisemitism here is mostly like that in big cities with occasional burst of overt incidents and attacks. It is generally physically safe for them to disclose Jewishness.  6d. Big towns and small cities in the south or mid-west will have maybe one synagogue - probably reform or Chabad. Your character will have to seek out Jewish spaces, but they will be easy to find. They will not be everybody’s First Jew, but it will be unusual. Antisemitism here is mostly overt - most of the antisemites your character deals with will be very obvious and many will be violent. Jews in such situations will not hide their Jewishness per se, but will be more selective in choosing to disclose it.  6e. Rural areas and small-small towns will not have a synagogue. Your character and their family may be the only Jews or there might be a small group that meets on occasion or carpools to the nearest synagogue. They will have to actively seek out the others Jews and they will be difficult to find. Disclosing their Jewishness is a serious consideration and not always safe. Odds are they are many people’s First Jew, which gets really weird real fast. Beyond the harmless ignorant-but-trying-to-learn-from-their-first-Jew types your character will interact with, there’s also violent and overt antisemitism here.  6f. If your character is in college, they will likely have a Chabad and/or a Hillel on campus if they are at a large school or a school with a significant Jewish population. 

Related: when Jews meet each other for the first time, a game of “Jewish geography” ensues as they try and trace people they know in the other person’s state/city/community. 

Jews come in all shapes, colors, sizes, genders, sexualities, politics, and religious beliefs. There are all sorts of Jewish people with tons of different intersecting identities. Don’t box yourself in to writing one kind of Jew. Just research a ton on the particular subsection of the Jewish community your character is a part of - a Mizrachi-Jewish Persian-American bisexual woman is going to have a different experience than a straight Ethiopian-American Jewish man who is going to have different experience from a queer Ashkenazi-Jewish-American girl with non-Jewish family.  8a. Jews with Ashkenazi (eastern/northern European) ancestry and customs are the biggest group in the U.S., but by no means the only group or representative of every Jew. Sephardi (Spanish/southern European/north Africa), and Mizrachi (north Africa and the middle east) are the next biggest groups. It would not be unusual for your character to have Polish-Jewish, Iraqi-Jewish, Moroccan-Jewish, or Russian Jewish ancestry or a mix.  8b. Each of these groups have their own customs, Judeo-languages, local holidays, and local historic tragedies. Generally, historic Sephardi communities were linked between themselves, historic Ashkenazi communities were linked between themselves, and historic Mizarchi communities were linked between themselves. The three had some, but limited contact. Additionally, all three major groups have subdivisions within them.  8c. There are also smaller groups that don’t fall within the three traditional categories, like the Ethiopian Jews, the Cochin Jews (India), Chinese Jews, Gruzim (Georgian), and more. Most of these smaller groups were not in contact with the wider Jewish world.  8d. All Jewish groups start from the same base texts (the written Torah), and the majority include the oral Torah as well. Local interpretations and traditions develop, these are referred to as minhag(im) (customs). For example, the biblical commandment is to not boil a baby goat in its mother’s milk. Some communities extend this to mean no chicken and milk, others reason that chickens don’t produce milk so the mixture is acceptable. Both are equally valid interpretations rooted in tradition, but they are different.  8e. Marrying between Jewish subgroups in the U.S. is super common and outside of extreme or really intense groups is not frowned upon. Traditionally, the father’s minhagim are followed, i.e. a Syrian-Jewish father and a Spanish-Jewish mother would follow the Syrian-Jewish minhagim with their children. Many modern couples choose the mother’s traditions or mix them up, but that’s the traditional route. 

Unless they are VERY religious, your character’s family is unlikely to be particularly wound up about them being LGBTQ the way a comparably Christian family might, at least not because they’re Jewish. Samuel’s Jewish mother is likely unconcerned he likes boys and is much more empathetic than he must marry a Jewish boy and raise any kids Jewish. 

There are so many Jewish holidays, and they are not all celebrated the same or with the same intensity. Probably enough material for its own post, but the ones most likely celebrated by your character: 10a. Shabbat and/or Havdalah. Shabbat starts Friday nights with candles, wine/grape juice and challah bread, Havdalah ends Shabbat with a braided candle, wine, and aromatic spices. Shabbat dinner is usually a meat meal and it is common to invite guests or eat with friends and family (in normal times).  10b. The “High Holidays” - Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. Jewish students often skip school for these. Yom Kippur is a 25 hour fast with services all day, Rosh HaShanah has services in the evening and morning.  10c. Passover - arguably the most important holiday. Celebrated with two sometimes agonizingly long Seders (ritual meals), family gatherings, and abstaining from leavened bread for 7/8 days.  10d. Hanukkah - Not actually that spiritually important, but culturally important for American Jews. Typically celebrated with candle lighting, presents, visits to family members, and greasy food. 

There’s a lot of wine involved in Jewish ritual, so it’s unlikely your character’s Jewish family are teetotalers. 

Jewish families tend to be very intense, loud, opinioned, caring, and involved, compared to many other assimilated American families. Shabbat dinner is not quiet. Dissent is a Jewish value - differing opinions are allowed (and expected in many circles), as is the ability to argue/defend competently. 

Jewishness can mean ethnic identity, cultural identity, and/or religion. There are several major denominations religiously, although that needs to be its own post in detail. The noteworthy movements at this point are Orthodox (further subdivided into Ultraorthodox and Modern Orthodox), Conservative (middle of the road, no relation to conservative politics), Reform, and Reconstructionist (both very “choose your own/your community’s adventure).

Probably will write more parts in the future, but this is heinously long already! Hope this is helpful!

#jewish #jewish writing #jewishwriting #jewblr #writeblr #writing advice #jewish identity #jews #jewishidentity #super long post sorry not sorry #writing jewish characters #writing jews #jewish writing help #jumblr

[gothicprep]

ive tried and failed to get into the xfiles twice since I was a teenager, and I guess there are a few reasons why that i haven’t been able to get into it. even though I’ve always thought “rationally I should love this. all the right ingredients are there. why don’t I?” and I guess I’m starting to figure out why I can’t fully get into it

two case of the week procedural style that we recommended to me were the familiar (the mr chuckleteeth one) in the revival series and home from the original

i liked the first and the second was just.. um… alright well we’re going to do “good news first”

so my main thing that I liked with the familiar is how the “creepy thing for kids” trope works better in the post elsagate world, although people weren’t super aware of that happening on youtube. but when kids will be hooked up to their ipads and watching shit like this:

It’s a lot easier for me to be take it at face value when parents aren’t even surprised anymore when they may have grown up with a sibling who watched the boobahs or whatever and now legitimate kids shows look like this:

A lot of what holds back the effectiveness “creepy doll” related things is that the supernatural object is usually understood by the characters in the film to be, like, a weird Victorian antique ,and that always makes it by default one of those incomprehensible horror character decisions like “why do u even have that”. vs I’m sure my parents thought the teletubbies were unsettling, but I remember my brother having teletubbies toys when we were young. “this is weird, but my kid likes it. I’ll buy him the creepy doll.”

plus the doll not being a supernatural object either was a fun thing to do with it.

im also a sucker for using the “we’re protective of our own” small town attitude as a parallel for when the police departments do this shit. there’s definitely a similar judge/jury/executioner thing that exists on a social level in small towns. good eye. good shit.

with something like home on the other hand, incidentally also a small town – for one thing, having people in pennsylvania talk & behave like that and have this general aversion to modernization is dead on. I could easily see people in Potter county acting like that in the 90s. If you camp in cherry springs, it’s still basically impossible to get cell service in a lot of the towns that are near the park. and the people there are… they definitely have that conservative flavored redneck thing going on.

but what just absolutely ruins the episode for me is that the dialogue is so clunky lmfao. it’s like the writers watched dukes of hazard episodes and was like “yeah, this is accurate.” and it geographically does not look like rural PA. nor is “War of Northern Aggression” something you’d realistically have someone say there, even though confederate flags aren’t uncommon. these are such little nitpicks but they really take you out of it when you notice them. If you set this a few miles south in West Virginia, you could have at least avoided the last two.

and I guess it’s the thing about it for me. when you don’t have those little goofs, it works incredibly well, but when they’re there, they feel impossible to notice

[transgenderer]

What areas of the world would u want Pokémon to base a region on?

omg thank you for this question i have so many answers to this question okay okay so

i know this is self centered but i actually think the delmarva region would be pretty cool, weve got like, a big penninsula, and a big bay, and a flat area and a hilly area and a super mountainouse area, and like, there’s the mining-themed far west of virginia, you could even include all the battlefields (maybe gauche, idk there might be a way to do it tastefully) plus there are arguably like 3 or 4 cool cities in the delmarva area (baltimore, DC, richmond, like, newport news or something) PLUS theres all the spy/fbi/pentagon shit around here which could be really cool, plus theres a bunch of rivers. actually living here is boring but the general area does have a lot of stuff. maybe have...three branches of govt legendaries? would that be too cheesy

this is obvious but like. i cant believe they havent done italy or greece yet. like, come on. maybe do them both at the same time with a sort of like, johto/kanto connection....obv so much potential here

okay so i dont know enough abt africa for this but i actually think a pan-african pokemon game could be really cool, esp if they did a BW style thing and had a wholly new pokedex. i mean like, geographically a lot of africa is really homogenous and it doesnt even have any big penninsulas (WHAT IS THE POINT OF GEOGRAPHY W/O PENNINSULAS.....) but yeah i think this could be cool, not that gamefreak should actually do it (absolutely do not trust them to do it in a way that isnt super racist)

any sort of high mountain area would be great, maybe the alps or the himalayas? i mean, if youve been here a while you know i love ice types and i think mountains give a lot of potential for ice types, plus like, you could have isolated valleys and secret passages and tons of caves its just. its all good.

AUSTRALIA....mostly because uluru seems like such a pokemon-ish thing. like just a giant rock in the middle of nowhere. maybe have a region that’s heavy on the ground types, also, again they could do a BW thing with a bunch of unique animals cuz marsupials

okay so i dont think this would ever go over but i feel like china could be really good, tbh i think gamefreak excels when it does asian aesthetics cuz theres just a lot more personal familiarity, plus you get the himalayas, a big desert, a bunch of cities, a bunch of history, rivers, etc.

here’s a hot take: great lakes region! okay so first of all it has a national border right in the middle and like. i HAVE to know if theyd include that. but also like, i think the geography of the great lakes is really weird, and lets you like, backtrack in a way thats still interesting (like, go around a lake one way, then unlock a route back the other way, sort of like how sinnoh did), plus you could have a hoenn-ish emphasis on water types, its just, all very good

okay so sort of like africa i think any one area of south america is too geographically homogenous to be a region on its own (like, its basically either jungle or mountain (or shore)) so i think a pan-south-american region would be good, epscially because like, it could be cold at the bottom but super lush at the top, a giant jungle could be cool, maybe the legendaries could be the andes and the amazon?

okay so this is super obscure but i think doing nunavut+greenland as a sort of like...northern counterpart to hoenn could be really cool. i just love the geography of that region and i think pokemon could benefit from more tiny islands, i love tiny islands. theyd have to take a ton of liberties because that area is mostly empty but like, they do that anyway so

okay this got super long but ive decided im also gonna complain about the regions we do have. i cant believe we go both a france AND uk region, like, theyre both so homogenous, what the fuck is the point, is it ANY coincidence that gens 6 and 8 were....bad

#Anonymous

[dcftones]

YOU'RE in virginia too? fucked up i'm in northern va

im from sw near roanoke🧍‍♂️i hate it here

[crimeronan]

ive driven up and down the east coast many times and every time i cross from DC to virginia it fucks with me because i swear to god you can stop for lunch at the edge of DC and be surrounded by vaguely undefined northern accents but then you take a piss twenty miles into virginia and suddenly everyone in the world has a casual southern drawl. like the regional north-south split is right there (DC is considered “north,” virginia is “south”) but even so, the IMMEDIATE VASTNESS in the accent difference Always gets me. i think part of why i dont know how to react is because i have heavy traces of a boston accent despite living a state away 60 to 70 minutes outside boston so im like. hello whats happening. please dont take this post as a definitive cultural factoid sheet about how geographical accents work in DC and virginia because i am probably incorrect about the noticeability of the divide. it just Feels different

#this post doesnt mean anything im just thinkin bout it bc of when i #made rafi lose their mind by informing them how close virginia and dc are

[targsdaenerys]

People in District of Columbia really did vote 93.3% for Biden, like west coast and east coast, starting from virginia and northern states , saved the elections

ohhhh yes. i mean far west and far east coats are really mainly democratic, but this election it was completely through the roof. like im from new jersey and they were only 85% done counting ballots before calling it because it was so overwhelmingly democratic. its rally really telling lol. we cant thank them enough tbh.

#Anonymous

[agrothereutes]

So, I’m working on a human Scavengers thing, and as usual, I am obligated to overthink everything. This is part 1/3. I started to organize it but gave up. Everything else is completely unedited, including speech mannerisms, redundant content, etc.

Crankcase - He's from the southern-central US, somewhere like Texas. He has a gravelly voice with a southern accent. He *always* wears flannels. If it's too hot outside, he'll wear a plain tank top with a flannel tied around his waist. He's a bit on the chunky side, which makes him great for the hugs and cuddles he pretends he doesn't like. He complains a lot, but is secretly very soft. Has frown lines, most likely. He curses the most, out of the group.

Krok - Either an albino or has vitiligo; always wears a hat and facemask because of it. Wears nothing but hoodies and sweatpants.

Spinister - A native american (remember to decide from what region!) with very long hair, which reaches down to about his waist.

spinister is... a native american. not sure which tribe. i will have to do research on that because im... i know nothing about native americans, i will be honest. um, he's got long, black hair like... down to his fucking waist long. you know, that man has some long hair. and itll be tied up, in, like, a ponytail or a bun or something, right? so, you know, its not always in the way. he also looks very intimidating, like, it's kinda like how someone has a resting bitch face, instead of expressions coming to a rest on "i wanna fucking murder you", its more like "i have the ability to murder you". but he's actually very cheerful! smiles a lot, but, you know, if you first see him, you're like "holy shit that man can and will murder me", right?

misfire is either, like, central east-coast american frat boy, or an australian. one of those two. hes like alpacalamamama's, um, human misfire. very messy hair, he's supposed to wear glasses because he cant see for fucking shit. uh, but, he doesnt. they don't [unintelligible] they're not cool.

fulcrum... so this apparently is sorta different from the way others see fulcrum, but i see fulcrum as a black man. and, you know, he's... whats the word... understandably skeptical. he's like, a war veteran or something, who deserted from whatever army. um, [unintelligible] a group of five random fucking people, one of which almost immediately dies, who are all dating, like [noise of disbelief] what kind of fucking world does he live in? right?

oh, they all need fashion senses.

misfire wears anything neon/bright. like, classic gays' fashion except nothing with flowers, and nothing plaid. eyeburning geometric patterns? absolutely. solid bright pink tshirt? fuck yeah! 80s synthwave shit? fuck it, why not.

the only dark things misfire will wear is like a full fucking adidas tracksuit. he just thinks its cool.

i dont fucking know what spinister would wear. something. he wears clothes.

now, flywheels' is, okay so fulcrum doesnt know him very well. and, of course, hes not really the focus or whatever. but ill still develop him cause im a nice person! he grew up in, im gonna say a very religious town in... i wanna say northern virginia but that would make him extremely racist, so! we're not doing that. further north than virginia. i dont know, a town in, like, the suburbs of new york state or something. pretty far north, maybe canada. small religious town. he wanted to go to college so that he could, um, study theology or whatever the fuck, and like, become a priest or some shit. but that didnt work out cause he didnt have the money. uh, so instead he got himself a bunch of boyfriends.

he and crankcase, [unintelligible] never had a very good relationship. crankcase is... an athiest. not the type of athiest thats like, "god is not real and if you think so, i will actively refute you". more like "i just dont think god is a thing" kind of athiest, and doesnt force it on others. isnt actually too cynical about it, believe it or not. hes like okay, fuck it, believe what you wanna believe, right? um, but he also curses a lot and. dirty jokes are crankcase's thing. those, and, like, cynical jokes are the *only* ones hell make. and flywheels does not like that, understandably.

flywheels is also one of those people whos like gay and homophobic. usually people dont quite understand how that works. its like you are attracted to men but grew up in a society that doesnt allow being attracted to men. hes like that, cause you know, he sorta learns to accept himself just about the time he fucking dies. you know, he was raised in a town where you were going to marry a woman from the next town over and, you know, who was also gonna go to church with you on sundays, you would have one to three kids, and you would all go to church on sundays, and you would only have sex once youre married, and things like that. um, so, especially living... south, cause these guys are living in central america. i dont know west or east, but, like, straight down fucking center. like no north, no south. west and east i dont really know, ive only ever been to the coasts. i cant really talk about, like, central us states. i dont know what the fuck their deal is. so, yeah.

god, how do they all fucking meet?

ok, so, krok's about the only one with money. either he was actually sensible enough to like, start saving up as soon as he got a job, and like, never went to college, or something, or like, he was born into the upper middle class or somewhere around that range and just, like, inherited money. so hes the one that pays for the house. absolutely. he is the one that goes grocery shopping, he is the one that deals with anything related to finance.

crankcase has... a job. its either something on the night shift or he works from home.

flywheels is either *going* to college, and has a part-time job at a restaurant or something, or is *not* going to college and has a part-time job at a restaurant or something.

misfire has no job currently. dont know if that will ever change.

krok probably has, like, two jobs. um, probably some, like, stay-at-home thing and then one where he goes in and actually does shit.

spinister, of course, works as a surgeon, and is the only person to have actually gone fully to college and graduated, so, like, he's an actual doctor. right? he's got a whole-ass phd. right? or like whatever the fuck. so hes a surgeon. right? of course, still has hella adhd.

misfire probably has adhd too, but to a lesser extent, and with differing symptoms, than spinister, and undiagnosed.

krok has depression. flywheels probably has depression. fulcum almost definitely has depression. yeah.

so, fulcrum, hmm... especially if were doing a modern setting with like, 2020 in america, and this horrible fucking situation, like, minus pandemic maybe, i dont know. fulcrum was too poor to go to college, which is what he wanted to do, something like [unintelligible] or something, i dont know. i dont know what he would fucking do! he was, working on, like, cyberforming a world, so i guess, like, some technical career. scientist or something. but he was too poor, so he was like, fuck it! ill go to military school. ill join the military. so he joined the military, and ended up being like, probably doing border duty for like, mexico or something. he was like wow! my country really treats people like fucking shit! and you know, especially when, um, police start getting violent in riots and stuff. he's like, fuck this shit, and deserts. um, and, like travels with like stolen rations, up into, like central us, where he finds a house full of gay motherfuckers who decide to take him in.

#please ignore this thanks <3 #these vibes are rancid i KNOW they are