#or like. non-americanisms. etc

[infintyonhigh]

since we're still kinda in the mania zone i feel compelled to make this post but by god i dont wanna attract discourse to this blog! just know im best friends with the block button <3

ive been seeing this come up again, with ppl protesting that disliking an album isnt racist and like, this has already been said much better by other people who got tons of harassment so im not digging up their posts

heres my explanation: when poc say the reaction to mania is racist, we're not saying u personally is a scheming vilain rubing ur hands together going 'mwahaha i hate poc!' i cant be inside ur head, ur feelings are for u to figure out alone. what we are saying is we keep picking up on this pattern everytime ppl talk about this album. its ppl editing burna boy out of sr, its this, its white ppl coming back to bandom out of the blue to make latine fans feel bad for enjoying hmtod, etc.

its not about u personally, its about the general response from a fanbase we know is overwhelmingly white. would i like white fans to examine where their reactions stem from? yes absolutely. but again, i cant be inside ur head. and bc it gets exhausting writing the same novel as a response everytime and we get so tired of hearing how bad this album is, an album that made us feel so seen, we're just like 'yeah pls just stop being racist'

now with that being said...... those white cishet men on yt making careers out of shitting on this album. racists. sorry, theres no 2 ways about it

#im making this post for the well meaning people who are trying to understand #as someone who often takes things at face value and has trouble understanding idioms etc #i can empathize with that but like i said in the beginning #if u come up to me looking for a fight i will block in a sec uwu #also obligatory disclaimer that i have a very complicated history with race as a non american #its not that simple but u know #i doubt any westerners would see me as white lmao #mania #isa.txt

[minglana]

americans when not about them

#im so tiredddd. i literally share my experience and they go 'well actually that wasnt the case for me' ok but it was for me. #how is this contradictory to anything u are sayingggggg oh my god #i feel like many americans on this webbed site look down on non-native english speakers in general and they arent capable of seeing past it #like they put on their 'im talking to a foreigner' glasses and talk to u w that perspective #im not saying i wanna be treated like an american. but for many things i did have/experience an american life. and if i didnt experience it #i KNOW of it bc my friends. whom i went to school with. my classmates. etc. DID have that experience. and ive SEEN it irl. despite me. #idk. not being american #its a stupid thing to get hung over but idk man i had enough in the states of ppl looking down on me and treating me like i was stupid #just bc i wasnt from there or my parents spoke w very heavy accents and i had to translate for them sometimes #and now here. we get treated like this just bc. idk. we talk abt not being american. im jsut sick of it lmao #xarraire

[kurokoros]

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I'm not a patriotic person by any means, but there's no one more insufferable than a european or australian that shit talks america constantly. "your health care sucks" we know. "your education system sucks" we know. "blah blah blah insensitive jab about school shootings"

does that make you feel good, you insufferable, snobby little bitch?

#once again I'm not patriotic at all #I'm aware that america is in a state of utter shit #my issue with other people #usually brits #(not you british mutuals. ily) #talking shit about americans is that it's NEVER aimed at the government or anyone in power #it's always 'haha stupid american citizens don't know xyz' #which is absolutely rich when like 90% of the bullshit I've heard non-americans say when shit talking is just... factually incorrect #or based on a major double standards #like. making fun of someone or calling them ignorant for not knowing european geography is so weird #can YOU name every state. its capital. and also label it all on a map??? #frankly. i bet more americans can label african/european/south american/etc countries than europeans that can label the 50 states #alisha babbles

[casbitchh]

why is fruit so expensive in america 🥲🥲 paid just over $4 for four apples RIDICULOUS

#genuinely i have a much better understanding of why so many americans are overweight/ obese after moving here #i’m buying the exact same food as i did in finland #mainly fruit vegetables beans bread etc - very basic non processed things #and it’s much more expensive #like if i ate total shit and had massively processed food instead of carrots etc i would genuinely save so much money #carrots was a bad example bc those are cheap as balls but i’m not typing that whole tag out again with a better example

[mythologeekwriter]

Sometimes being non-american on tumblr is seeing a post where the first sentence makes you go 👀 and then almost immediately scrolling past because as soon as you read further it’s very american

#Juno talks #not every post has to be about me etc. obviously #But if you’re going to be like. here’s why people are like this! Please acknowledge a non american perspective

[maester-of-spreadsheets]

The analyses of Barbie bombing in Korea…. Like it’s interesting in a vacuum but it would be funny to flip it and write articles like that about movies that kill it overseas and don’t take off in America.

“Gangubai Kathiawadi was a hit in Asia! Why can’t it replicate that success in America?”

#I know it actually did well jn #*in America #but there’s never an expectation for non diaspora Americans to watch the biggest hits in South Asia #or from Nigerian cinema or #the latest hit from Brazil etc etc #part of that is because American pop culture doth bestride the world like a colossus etc etc #but still #this isn’t me go dur hur stupid Americans btw #I think things like rrr and squid game have showed that Americans will watch stuff that’s subbed or dubbed #I’m mostly talking about the media here

[viktoriakomova]

not to passive aggressively be like I JUST THINK ITS FUNNY HOW but i do genuinely think its funny (derogatory) how gymtwt refers to american and chinese (almost exclusively) gymnasts by their initials, and for the former its to protect the athletes' feelings should they take it upon themselves to name search, and for the latter its because nobody can be assed to write their full names lmfao

#im not against using initials for chinese gymnasts btw like. we all use abbreviations etc all the time on casual posts like tumblr and twt #but it is indeed striking to me that nobody does that shit for non-american gymnasts in the anglosphere with a social media presence #and even if they arent proficient in english they all have the translate feature lol

[insomnia-productions]

i have a decent amount of tolerance for when fic writers call ronan “ro” but if i see someone refer to kavinsky as “joey” i start seeing spots

#trc #it might be especially bc ‘joey’ reads as So American to me #it’s like in anime fandoms when people take a japanese name and turn it into an American nickname #which i know isn’t the case here but it Feels the same #also all my personal Non-American Living In America feelings aside it’s just #girl what are you doing does he Look like a joey? #you do you etc etc but Christ Alive #obligatory no hate at all to people who do this it’s just a personal pet peeve #joseph kavinsky

[thschei]

(I screenshoted and then deleted my post so I can disable the reblogs on this post and prevent it from escaping containment ❤)

Like not to ruin your day but will you listen to the chorus of this song (starts at 55 seconds) . bc I want to get in a fist fight with whoever produced the song (for legal reasons this is a joke etc)

#erin talks #photo #to be clear: I've been a (blank) fan since 2008 so this is not me mocking the culture or members of any groups mentioned #(in fact I feel very bad for the members & I know for certain groups they've even expressed that they don't like the songs given to them) #I'm frustrated with the decline of quality & views/popularity -> fans non-stop streaming the most dog shit thing you've ever heard #& looks prioritized over talent -> the death of live singing in (blank) & companies tripping over themselves to win over xenophobic/racist #american fans & the most bland songs written solely to make an eng ver with rushed & generic lyrics . etc etc etc #oh also like the first part of the song linked isn't very bad; it's not Good & I wouldn't listen to a song like that for fun #but I don't hate the kind of cutesy age appropriate songs groups are given early in their career & I like plenty of previous ones like uhhh #I Love pe/pe by c/lc . but the chorus of the linked song makes it unforgivable #I also wanna give the disclaimer that my taste in music is shit I like a lot of songs that most (blank) fans consider to be the worst #1st song a group ever got Ever; this isn't about my taste in music being superior or refined or whatever #an example of a hated song I genuinely listen to for fun is /watch?v=DE8wA64pYNY #anyway if you like me at all plz listen to that annoying ass song and see what the gimmick is <3

[sesamie]

aha i'm seeing it around again so let's please remember that the "there are two wolves inside you, one is evil, one is good" (and every single variation thereupon created for funny internet meme fandom reference purposes, thank you) is a textbook example of native fetishism and half-assed appropriation - it is a false "inuit legend" created by billy graham. yes, that billy graham. originally he said the story was inuit, then upon being called out in the canadian press, he changed it to a "cherokee legend" because he knew the cherokee wouldn't be able to do anything about it due to censorship of native americans in american media. "so what?? i'm not even using it in a way that references the original! it's just a funny phrase / a tiktok audio / etc!" - the reason i personally hate this fake legend so much is because it was invented to support christian beliefs - the idea of inner darkness and original sin versus inner goodness and morality is a christian one entirely, and not a part of inuit or cherokee beliefs. if you know any damn thing about native history both on and off turtle island you should be able to figure out why exactly it's fucking shitty to compare christian ideals to native legend in any way shape or form, or imply that the two are related somehow, or that natives have always believed in christian ideals pre-colonization, even. and by repeating it as a funny phrase it doesn't really actually take any power away from it like so many well meaning non natives seem to think it does. all it does is keep circulating a myth that further pushes real native cultures (cultures!!! never a monolith) out of society's view!!!

#sorry to be the angry native on your dash again #i knowwwww this should be something i don't care about anymore but it really really bothers me #ok to rb!!

[atomicqueer]

need to add to my cool last names list because its gotten so short but none of them are names i really really want :/

#and the main problem is i dont want to be culturally insensitive in any way but idk if i can just like pick a random word to be my new name #so im constantly like ''thats too italian. thats too irish'' etc cause i dont wanna be a stupid american about it #but yeah i cant find random (non-nane) words that would be cool last names #my coworker's last name is [noun. a type of room found in a home] and like. i love the absurdity of that. but thats a real family name #like idk if im brave enough to get that random with something im choosing for myself #and this WHOLE problem is because TWO of my cousins on my moms side married women with my first name #so there's already two women named [My first name][Mom's maiden name] in the family!! otherwise id just take my mom's maiden name! #and my mom's mom's maiden name is sooo antiquated and i think itd sound stupid with my first name :/

[nathaniacolver]

supercorp shippers' obsession with having kara/melissa be swifties is directly correlated with the fact that it's a white x white ship and i won't take any other explanations. like i can't explain it but i also just did like. capisce?

#i swear to goodness that i thought 'capisce' was spelled kapiche. like in italian. GIRL- #i think the fact that they are white x white is ALSO a significant factor that plays into their being the no.1 most written-for wlw ship #on ao3 at least #like there's a lot of factors: 5 season's worth of content; live action; no endgame; etc. #but i think the fact that they are non-poc x non-poc plays into it a lot more than people realize #and to be clear literally no hate towards mel or katie or their characters like it's a good love story no matter what but #this is my Theory and i Assert It #oh i guess you all figured it out by now but obviously i believe that many swifties are white and it's true that she has fans from all over #but to quote my korean friend: “why would i like taylor swift? i'm not american” #so i guess truth justice and the american way after all: taylor swift

[evilminji]

You know how... world leaders can't just? SAY stuff? Because when they DO it's the Offical Stance(tm) of their Country?

That makes their Fuck Ups(tm) all the more serious. It's WHY they have press teams.

But!!!

WHAT IF?

They said something, PUBLICLY, on LIVE TELEVISION, that? Can not be taken back? Full on "masks off, behold the horrors you have payed for" moment?

Sure, they could SAY "that wasn't me" and "I was brainwashed" etc etc. But? If it's BIG enough? UGLY enough? TRUE??? People WILL find it. Dig and dig and dig like termites in the walls. Hunt like bloodhounds.

Riot in the streets.

Because? All it would TAKE? Is ONE half ghost, a few too many long nights trying to balance college classes and his internship, a bigotry filled call from back home, and staring down that empty fridge with just one box of moldering take out, because he's been too busy and stressed to remember to get GROCERIES AND-

Ah.

So this is what "so stressed you feel calm, I have run out of Fucks too give" feels like. Neat. *picks up phone* Hey, Sam? You still at that protest? Outside the presidential speech? Neat. Don't move.

One Phone Line Express later. SAM is telling him to breathe. Maybe... maybe calm down. Think about this. Others around her can see the same "spark of madness" glint in his almost zen like smile.

It Fiiiiine, Sam.

He's just here to Talk.

He disappears. Sam's freaking out. President stumbles but catches himself on the way to the mike. Up in the watch tower, various Magic users choke on their lunches, because a ghost just possessed the United States President.

ON LIVE TELEVISION.

He taps the Mike, smile, leans in real close like he's gonna Tell You Folks A Secret.... Aaaaand~

"The second you Die, you no longer have human rights. Doesn't matter how brief. Heart stops? You're sub-human scum! Non-sentient by American law. We here in the United Stares PROUDLY desecrate the bodies and graves of the dead. Tear apart the immortal souls of the innocent. And condemn you to oblivion crying, begging, and screaming for mercy! Why, obviously, is an act. Because souls don't have the RIGHT to feel fear or pain!

And YES. We do mean EVERYONE'S. Atlantian, Kryptonian, Martian. Canadian, Mexican, Russian, AND Chinese! I could keep going! Once you die? You belong to the United States to experiment on as we see fit! You're PROPERT now! So turn your nonrights having, nonsentient self in to the nearest GIW! For the good of AMERICA. Ectoplasmic Scum!"

*drops mic*

Jaws are on the floor. This was VETERANS DAY. Dead military Heros and smile for the cameras. A cake walk. Do a patriotism, rah rah. There.... there are DIPLOMATS in the crowd. Sure as SHIT, were more then a few foreign nationals WATCHING. Religious leaders looking on in fury, grief, and horror.

Reporters. Oh sweet Jesus the reporters.

The press secretary faints.

PANDEMONIUM. The president, still dazed and confused from being possessed, gets PUNCHED on live television be his VP, a deeply religious if moderately shady man. Take bribes? VP is cool with that. Bootstraps, peasants, and all that. But how DARE you fuck with the Souls of the dead. How DARE you!

Phones are blowing up, questions are being shouted, the JLA Dark FEEL like they should tell somebody about the ghost kid... but also this feels VERY "Call for help-y" so they might throw their weight around instead and pretend they know nothing. World leader are meaningfully staring at their Dear Beloved Dead Grandmother's photos as they send LIVID assistants to hound the American into answering the DAMN PHONE-!

And Danny?

Danny feels calmer now. He has stolen like....700 bucks from secret security's various wallets. He's going to buy himself BOUGIE groceries. Some...some NICE take out. Maybe a little cake. Yeah~ Cake for Danny~

If anyone needs him? No you don't. He needs to go do some shopping, eat, lie on the floor of his shower and just... vibe for a bit under the spray. In the dark maybe. Sleep for a week. Have his food. Yummy little treats.

Or he's gonna fuckin LOSE IT, man.

(Tucker is actively hacking his college schedule as they speak. He KNEW it. Called it! Too many classes! But does Mr "I can handle it" listen? Noooooooo! Now look what happened! Holy SHIT, Danny!)

@hypewinter @hdgnj @ailithnight @nerdpoe @the-witchhunter

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dcxdp #dc x dp prompt

[rebellum]

I ran out of fucking tags in my rant agsbrkglhlhlhlh part 2:

#stress how much its primarily on tumblr that for some reason ppl are prioritizing trans fems over everyone else. like everywhere else #except for r/traa reddit has the opposite problem where transfems are pushed to the side just like other trans ppl are #the only time ive heard of something similar happening was trans meetings and panels etc in the 90s-idk early 2000s? maybe into the early #2010s? it was a weird issue there too #but like. irl in my personal experience its just. not an issue. like the infighting has to do with binary trans ppl ignoring nonbinary ppl #and with perisex trans ppl ignoring intersex ppl #(in trans spaces i mean) #there isnt this weird privileging of trans fems over other trans ppl in other spaces. #its like ppl on tumblr read a headline saying 'please listen to trans fems' and took that as meaning 'only listen to trans fems. but not #all of them. or most of them. just that tiny minority who think other trans ppl have privilege over them. yeah just listen to like these 30 #trans fems and more importantly listen to the non trans fems who support them' #monkeys paw ass situation #its just so WEIRD its like ppl lost critical thinking skills and the whole idea of intersectionality #like if 2 ppl are in front of them and one is a white abled perisex middle class trans woman american and the other is like a cis child #from a wartorn country who cant access education and who has to walk 3 kilometers every morning for water #and they were told to give 5 bucks to one of them #theyd be like you know who needs this? the white middle class american. cause shes trans so she matters more than anyone else. #its so BIZZARE to think that way like jfc just accept that you can care about MULTIPLE groups you dont have to prioritize trans fems in #order to support them and listen to them and protect them #you can care about multiple groups including your own group #anyways tldr transphobic trans ppl on tumblr are weirdly racist

[genderkoolaid]

Very much not my normal posting but since antisemitism is very actively rising, I feel like it's worth it:

Pinely is a Youtuber who's been doing a series on conspiracy theories and antisemitism. He's Jewish himself and his videos do a good job at exploring how people fall down antisemitic rabbit holes and how conspiracy theories relate to antisemitism (he's one of the only people ive seen who, when talking about shane dawson, specifically called out how antisemitism tied in to his shilling of conspiracy theories to kids). He's also just very funny (in my opinion) and a Jewish, non-white, non-American commentary channel, which is rare and refreshing. If you want to learn more about antisemitism, his videos might be something to check out. I rarely ever see people call out antisemitism specifically in commentary videos even when they call out racism, misogyny, etc., which makes watching someone tackle antisemitism so head on very nice.

#m. #antisemitism

[brood-mother]

my two week vacation was a disaster and i have quite literally never been more glad to come home to the grey pissing rain of glasgow

#finally visiting cuba was cool though #extremely eye-opening in the sense of how much american propaganda is pumped out about it #like i went there expecting like...EXTREME poverty #i mean people starving in the streets kinda poverty #and there obviously is a lot of poverty and social issues but it's not even half of what i'd been told to expect (jamaica was SO MUCH worse) #there's wifi and branded shops and normal grocery stores and modern (non american) cars and bars/restaurants... #and i don't just mean in the wealthier parts of havana only either #the 'bad' parts of the island looked p much like the 'bad' areas i've seen in america/england/etc with with nicer houses lmao #xel-ha was also a cool visit #everywhere else was whatever tho