#sorry for being european

[splatreference]

Testing E-Liter 3K (Splatoon 1)

#e-liter 3k #chargers #weapons #s1 #sorry for being european

[vestboyfriends]

gaten saying dustin wouldn't pick between eddie and steve bc they both mean so much to him in different ways while also saying he doesn't understand the need to separate them since steve and eddie get along well and he thought that eddie and dustin would convince steve to join in a DnD campaign with them since it would be "his dream" while also saying that dustin likes that eddie is unashamedly himself and he thinks that steve likes it too and i. i need a moment

#i cant take this im so weak #steve eddie and dustin man they just. they make me cry they're THE family #steddie #henderfamily #dustin henderson #eddie munson #steve harrington #gaten matarazzo #we could have had it all #duffers sleep with both eyes open im coming for u. #video #added tag: sorry for not commenting about dustin being from jersey but as an european i literally do not know what it entails #good for u all though!! im celebrating with u!!

[mynqzo]

Why do you like vampires specifically, what do you like of them?

the sucking and fucking

#ask #also many several deep complex reasons #and if i were to divulge into them i would actually never shut up #its the. vampyrisim being a metaphore for otherness. for queerness #them being originally created (in europe at least) to be cruel representations of jewish people - immigrants and eastern europeans - and #these people reclaiming them. the reclamation of vampires to be the 'others' the ones that are ostracized by society #and people finding solidarity in that. vampires are queer their entire mythology is inherently queer as well so its beautiful in its own wa #vampires were transformed from cruel caricatures with intent to portray the fears of xenophobic english men to #complex deeply thought-out characters that embrace their differences from 'humanity' and live in their true identity #remember when i said “i cant delve into this otherwise i wont stop talking” yeah sorry it happened anyway

[cinnamonsikwate]

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

#dungeon meshi #shuro #toshiro nakamoto #look you can hate him for other things but this is very clearly a case of cultures (& personalities influenced by these cultures) clashing #shuro is japanese/east asian-coded and laios is european white boy #i am not japanese but i also come from a collectivistic society #pakikisama is a filipino value both prized and abhorred #it relies heavily on being able to read social cues and prior knowledge of societal norms #shuro being from a different country/culture is important to his character #his repressed nature is meant to contrast with laios' open one like that's the point #they both had similar upbringings but different coping mechanisms #shuro explicitly admits that he's jealous of laios being able to live life sincerely #anyway the point is they were operating on different expectations entirely and neither had healthy enough communication skills #to hash things out before they got too bad #re his attraction to falin i personally believe he unfortunately mpdg-ed her #she represented something new & different. a fresh drink of water for his parched repressed self #alas not meant to be #i'll be honest the way ryoko kui handles both fantasy & regular racism in dm is more miss than hit for me #i don't doubt that a lot of the shuro hate is based off of marcille's pov of him #marcille famously racist 😭 #characters' racist views don't often get (too) challenged #practically everyone is casually racist at some point #anyway. again if you're gonna hate shuro at least hate him for being complicit in human trafficking & slavery #he couldn't help falling for the wrong woman goddamn 😭 #calemonsito notes #edit: upon further reflection i take back what i said about toshiro mpdg-ing falin! #i'm sorry toshiro 😭

[neversetyoufree]

The funniest thing about the Marquis Machina identity reveal is that it recontextualizes the shoes in her current outfit from "quirky Mochijun design choice" to "Francis Varney is a Japanophile."

Ye olde weeabeau.

#I mean it makes sense. there's definitely a precedent for weird old rich europeans getting obsessed with Japanese aesthetics #even setting aside the fact that this is a joke being made by a japanese author lol #I bet Francis is the reason Veronica comes to the bal masqué dressed Like That #also sorry I've been so inactive friends #I've been deep in the brainworm dimension for something else lmao #it's been so long I nearly combined franny's two names and tagged her as 'francis machina' just now lmao #vnc #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #marquis machina #francis varney #vnc spoilers #vnc 62.5 #marquis machina my beloved #ID in alt text

[alwayshappyhoursomewhere]

Deniss Vasiljevs and coach Stéphane Lambiel in the mixed zone after the SP at the 2024 European Championships | 2024.01.10

#figure skating #deniss vasiljevs #stephane lambiel #european championships 2024 #pov: your parent is recalling an awkward episode of when you were a baby in front of everyone and you want to slink away but can't #also really cute though steph is so proud ;; #brought to you by twitter being a sour bitch and not letting me show stuff to my friends not on there #(gkhdfsvs sorry it's obviously 2024 not 2023 still living in the past)

[unopenablebox]

i admit that i find it a little bit frustrating how Wildly Astonished other antizionist jews act when i tell them my israeli jewish family have lived in the region since [some unknown length of time before 1800 when there start being records about it]

#and then they're like ''ohhh they're mizrahi!'' [connotation nonwhite‚ virtuously indigenous] #and i have to be like. no. it's just that‚ as palestine was in fact ottoman-administered greater syria for most of the last 600 years‚ #you could get there from other parts of the ottoman empire. such as the part of now-ukraine your ashkenazi family is also from. #it wasn't actually a hermetically sealed arab-only ethnostate that evaporated immigrants on sight. it was a pretty decent place to live as #a jew by at least some accounts. or better than the front of the hapsburg-ottoman war anyway which is where they were coming from. #i'm not sure who you think it's serving exactly to believe that there were literally no ashkenazim in the middle east before the 1st aliyah #however there were some. and this information does not actually threaten a modern anti-state of israel position like at all. #but since apparently you've constructed your new Diaspora-Centric Identity around the idea that 'palestine' and 'diaspora' #are the two mutually exclusive nonoverlapping regions and the former is ontologically a no-european-jews-allowed zone #i guess i can give you a minute to try to figure it out. #ugh sorry this is nothing it isn't anything. for one thing it's fantastically unimportant #and for another thing i don't know how to like talk about it in a way that doesn't make me sound at least kind of like im trying to justify #myself as being somehow less complicit or something. i mean i think my complicity as an american dwarfs the rest of it honestly but. #i just feel really insanely alienated where the rhetoric of my theoretically most closely politically aligned group is not really built to #like. accommodate the facts of my family history. #sorry. i have honestly no idea why im so obsessed with articulating this concept ive just been chewing on it pointlessly for days #box opener

[shalexandejj]

i'm so very normal about this

#don't smoke kids its bad for ya #shane madej #watcher #<3 #im so sorry for how i am about this man #thinking smoking is hot is a symptom of being an eastern european millennial #fanart.jpeg

[rakkuntoast]

really hoping for the last debate to let the international members to be able to talk in their mother language cuz admit it or not, its a HUGE handicap that they're not able to get themselves across as they'd like to cuz of the language barrier. they're trying their best and im glad the team is working to better the translator but my god, even if its more convenient for them to talk english its def affecting some of the candidates

this is mostly directed @ insaneduo cuz holy shit im so tired of people that keep missinterpreting them, they wont start a dictatorship go and actually watch their povs

#qsmp #qsmp liveblog #listen i am all fuck the government and the federation but insaneduo got a point #there's some stuff that the only way to do them is with help of the federation (aka the actual admins) #and i feel like bag and bbh sometimes forget that they'll need the feds approval to do whatever they want. it doesnt feel like #they have a b plan in case the council is rejected. and of course the worry that someone will become a fed puppet #idk its just audhfuahfe i fucking hate politics ong #i def agree that us latinos see politics differently than americans and europeans. we're used to being screwed over by our own goverment #and i like what insaneduo is proposing but idk man. atp idk who to vote. i could do the funniest thing and vote gegg i guess LOL #sorry for the rant in tags

[anartificialsatellite]

Confession: the satisfaction I get out of blocking smarmy Europeans who think they know everything about my country and our politics is unreasonable.

#sorry i know a lot of americans on the internet have a complex about being american #and so they'll immediately prostrate themselves in front of any european who acts like they know anything #but unfortunately that does not mean you ACTUALLY know things #political stuff #if you dont do this it does not apply to you #of course

[note-boom]

Something something a child and her immortal, all powerful eldritch being who only cares about her and listens to no one else

#ITS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE DYNAMICS OKAY #im sorry i know everyone is focused on everything else but.... #i love aya and bram??? i love their friendship so much?? #i love the heartwarming gesture of him swearing loyalty to her because of all her kindness and spunk?? #and i love the potential humour of the dynamic #aya gets herself a good older figure who will not hesitate to bite anyone who messes with his daughter #its so funny imagine theres this all powerful eldritch monster who is probably immortal and kickstarted the apocalypse #and hes being dragged around a 12 year old whose showing him music cds #its so CUTE #bsd #bsd manga spoilers #manga things #bsd bram #bsd aya #spitting nonsense #stars i hope we'll see more of them as the manga goes on #also...i'll say it now #this might be the first time in bsd where i see a guy swear loyalty to a female #and its incredibly funny to me that its an 11 year old japanese girl and an immortal european

[ziggystarling]

Bowie gets comfy on my wrist

#birds #pet bird #birb #birblr #starling #european starling #sturnus vulgaris #bowie #video #loud #ziggy being loud in the background sorry

[cerise-on-top]

So I’m curious, is the exam you took like a permit exam? I’m not sure how it works at your DMV, but for me it was the permit test, then the road test. Either way, your getting there and that’s awesome dude!!!

I don't know what that means, sorry ^^; I just know that I had to attend a school for two weeks! There I was given everything I needed for the theoretical exam, where I just answered questions about driving and cars! Now I'll be using up my practice hours with the driving teachers and then I'll get a permit that allows me to drive with an experienced driver! So it'll still be a while until I get my proper license, or will even try the practical exam, but I'll get there! And thank you! :D I'm also really happy with how far I've come! I was pretty close to giving up a few times already! But now I am determined yet again to get that driver's license!!!

#cherry chats #again I'm really sorry for not knowing what that means! #sometimes it's silly being European and not knowing what the Americans are talking about! #but thank you for checking in! hope you're also doing well :>

[irawhiti]

just a sidenote about nuclear testing in australia that i felt was too off topic for that post but it feels important in context since i'm really fucking annoyed about it actually lmfao

like. i'm uncomfortable talking on the colonial aspect of nuclear testing in australia as i'm not Aboriginal so i'm not gonna talk about that, this isn't some well researched post that i want spread around, etc etc. but speaking personally i can say a few things on the topic so. guess i will!

the nukes dropped in australia weren't somehow like. isolated from society. the racist terra nullius myth thought process needed to justify that idea aside, most of my extended family has cancer from nuclear waste being dumped in their towns, that's if they aren't dead from it yet (most of them are.) irradiated wood and iron was used for housing which is still actively being lived in, abandoned trains would sit full of scrap metal contaminated with plutonium waste in the middle of the towns (which would be scavenged by scrappers, melted down, and reused. fuck knows where it went). the rest of the wood would be burned into the atmosphere on cooking fires. like, my grandad has no more living immediate family, they're all dead from the (literal) fallout of nuclear testing. this isn't a fuck off country town, this is a town about an hour away from a capital city. the only reason i even know about this is because i have/had family there and it's um! alarming!

and it's like even if we aren't talking about testing specifically, australia has a shitload of uranium and a shitload of uranium mines. i lived pretty damn close to a dried up uranium mine for awhile and i personally know of several secret uranium mines within a few hours of me through what i'll call word of mouth, all of which are obviously on unceded Aboriginal land. there's entire ghost towns that have been locked up behind fences and removed from maps because they were depending on uranium mining for money and, when the uranium dried out and the people all got sick, people moved away. guess where all that excess waste went? i'll give you a hint, it wasn't disposed of. the towns are locked off because they're fucking radioactive.

like, this is a fucking horrendous part of australia's history that isn't spoken about or even known about by most people for some reason. even in australia! the most aussies really do is joke about shit like "yeah those south aussies are a little fucked up and ~weird~ from all those nukes dropped on them haha. why do people shit on the east coast btw" like... haha yeah that's so fucking funny mate, now can we talk about the absolute fucking devastation inherent in the jokes you're making orrrr.

like there are many people who could speak way more eloquently on this in way more detail like this isn't some fucking psa but uh yeah i'm Pretty Fucking Annoyed! at white europeans/brits on that post acting like the usa is somehow uniquely terrible about this topic. like you realise you guys fucking nuked my country right? you know you guys killed a decent chunk of my family with your own nuclear testing, right? i'd hope so! i really would, since you're calling americans as a whole ignorant! bit fuckin ironic ay mate! like, you're not in the gallows here! you aren't even in the sidelines! your government is directly involved in this! and despite your own ignorance on show, i'd hope that people would give you the kindness you refuse other people in understanding that individual citizens in a country aren't somehow responsible for fucking NUKES being dropped by their government. continue to shift the blame, i guess. fuuuck meee.

#nuclear imperialism #sorry for being a little fucking pissy about this! bit annoyed at europeans tonight! i think i have good fucking reason to be lol! #like are you shitting me. me when the guy who lives in a monarchy calls a country's citizens ignorant for their govt committing warcrimes

[appsa]

I feel like such a shithead for it sometimes but like i hate it when yall start being like oh our language has SO much regional variations haha no one does it like us as if no one here has ever heard of dialects before or smth. And its always some europeans patting themselves on the back

#its like..... yeah..... we all do that........ #but whatever its not like im worked up about it or anything (<- lying) #sorry just today we were talking abt how many different variations of the word 'what' is used at my native place #and shdkdkdjdkd it made me even more annoyed kshrjfjr #like. WHY does this even matter like the europeans are just having fun im just being a killjoy ajrhdjd

[phoenixkaptain]

I saw someone call Legally Blonde sexist and it makes me honestly wonder if they even watched it???

Maybe the movie is wildly different, but the entire point of the musical is accepting yourself and being as feminine as you want because stereotypical femininity doesn’t make you any less intelligent or capable.

Elle’s entire story arc is going from thinking that she has to wait for Warner to propose to her, thinking that she can’t look too desparate to get married because that will make Warner look bad, to proposing to her boyfriend at the end of her graduation speech. She learns that she doesn’t have to wait for a man, she doesn’t have to make life decisions based on a man, she can make changes to her life and circumstances entirely of her own volition.

The entire point of the musical is staying true to oneself. Callahan, the literal villain, tells his students that they have to change themselves to be taken seriously. They have to change their moral compass, and they have to win every case by any means possible. He mocks them for thinking compassionately. He doesn’t even entertain the idea that a woman who teaches self defense didn’t murder her own husband. He teaches Elle that she has to change herself to be taken seriously in any context, but no matter how much she changes, she’ll still just be viewed by him as eye candy.

Meanwhile, the actual mentor figure is Emmett (at least when it comes to law). Emmett’s song is the antithesis of Blood in the Water. Chip on Your Shoulder is about sticking to your guns. Emmett tells Elle all about his motivations to be at Harvard law, and his motivations and backstory fuel his entire character. He grew up with just his mom and the men his mom dated, not very good men, and he became protective of his mom. He’s there to make his mom proud, he’s there to make his mom happy, he’s there because he made this chance for himself and he’s taking it.

Unlike Callahan’s point of changing yourself to be taken more seriously, Emmett’s is entirely about how Elle doesn’t have to change herself, she just has to actually start putting effort into studying. He doesn’t expect her to change anything about herself except for the amount of work she’s doing. He teases her, but he’s completely accepting of her interests.

Emmett is the one who inspires and teaches Elle to be passionate about school, not Callahan, and it’s because Emmett’s teaching methods involve staying true to your morals. Staying true to yourself.

More than that, the entire musical is built on Elle’s relationship with her female friends. The “Greek choir,” the female students, Paulette, Brook Wyndham, etc. Enid is one of my favourite examples, since she has this line: “I used to pray for the day you’d leave, swore and down you did not belong. But when I’m wrong, then I say I’m wrong, and I was wrong about you. So listen up! I see no end to what you’ll achieve, that’s only if you don’t turn and run. You proved it to me, now show everyone what you can do.”

Enid is a feminist and generally, in the beginning, is snide about Elle, but she learns from Elle that she doesn’t have to be afraid of showing her own femininity. Enid is in a highly male-dominated field and she’s a lesbian; she acts more masculine and tries to fit in with the boys, and she does this because she wants desperately to be taken seriously. Elle shows her that she doesn’t have to pretend. She goes from looking down on Elle to looking up to her, and the character arc is just super sweet.

Legally Blonde is about as far from sexist as it’s possible to be. Just because a few characters (who are literally antagonists or are misguided and grow and change over the course of the story) are sexist, that doesn’t make the core of the musical misogynistic. It’s not, and to look at it that way is incredibly diminutive.

#legally blonde #legally blonde musical #elle woods #sorry i had to get this off my chest #legally blonde is fundamentally about accepting yourself #for more proof just look at gay or european #the song is about a man admitting and accepting that he’s gay #and that he doesn’t have to hide the fact #the whole story is about accepting yourself #it is so far from being sexist it’s not even funny #just because the romance is straight does not make a property bad #the inane ramblings of a madman #story analysis