#the anglo question

[historyartthings]

This just filled me with such rage. Like 2011??!! 2011?

Anyone who wasn’t English was just an uncouth, uncultured munter apparently. The people were more ‘shaggy looking’? what do you even base that on? What research has resulted in that conclusion?

And then “Celtic peoples”, “Celtic neighbours”, as if that makes those three countries uniform and inherently the same

#fuck you pal honestly #both of my parents are Scottish so I am biased #but even so id say this is… Not Great #however you spin it #genuinely floored this is such a late publishing date for that kinda perspective #but it comes up a lot not just for #ordinary people but see also #Henry VII #also brings up the question of the ‘Celticness’ of England #would how much it theoretically is or isn’t even be consistent? #the Anglo-Saxon separatism and exceptionalism is tiring and I want it obliterated #how do you classify these things. what do those terms even really mean #English history #Scottish history #Welsh history #Irish history #history #medieval #early modern #Scotland #Ireland #Wales #england

[honey-beebo]

i got the okay from my professor to write historically accurate fanfiction about witches in the 1500s for an assignment and i’m trying to figure out a way to write about the Wittebane brothers without making it too obvious or based too much/little in toh universe…….

#like i can’t just state that there’s a whole different joyous dimension that witches come from cause that’s not how it acctually happened #unless you mean Hell but that’s still not really correct #in the Middle Ages in Central and Anglo Europe there was definitely some belief of an Other World where magical beings can come from #but humans practicing magic goes back and forth of being tolerable to executable #and the time period i’m dealing with here is not so happy go lucky hehe fun witches #if Evalene didn’t have a portal to go back to or weaponry magical powers then she would’ve been caught and hanged lol #‘real’ witches were accused of playing offence rather than defense #what we see as objectively defensive acts (resisting torture or not answering questions) #were taken as offensive attacks on God and community #Phillip Wittebane would have a blast as an inquisitor and scribe in court. he loooved manipulation and torture #toh #i should post my previous writing assignment cause apparently (according to my friends who i read it aloud to) it’s really well written lol #it’s about a gay woman falling in love with a feminine spirit and using magic to call upon her and run away with her #anyways

[apersonwholikeslotus]

Canada: My life is a little too much panic and not enough disco

Australia: My life is a little too much fall and not enough boy

USA: My life is a little too much chemical and not enough romance

New Zealand: My life is a little too much imagination and not nearly enough dragons.

#aph canada #hws canada #aph australia #hws australia #aph america #hws america #aph new zealand #hws new zealand #hetalia #hetalia incorrect quotes #question #is the #pacific siblings #tag a communal tag or does it only belong to @stirringwinds #anglo family

[whats-in-a-sentence]

'Can you cook dinner?' shouted a heckler. 'Yes! Can you drive a coach and four?' replied Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) on her campaign for women's votes driving her carriage with four matched grey horses. The daughter of an Arctic explorer in an Anglo-Irish family, she fought against the British occupation of Ireland and was sentenced to death, though released in 1917 under a general amnesty. Arrested again the following year for protesting conscription in the First World War, she stood for Sinn Féin and took 66 per cent of the vote from prison, and refused to take her seat – then she was in any case, still imprisoned.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quotes #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #questions #dinner #heckler #stagecoach #carriage #constance markievicz #anglo irish #british occupation #ireland #death sentence #capital punishment #10s #1910s #20th century #amnesty #protesting #conscription #ww1 #wwi #world war one #world war 1 #first world war #sinn fein #imprisoned #gray horse #campaigning

[shih-coulda-had-it]

my sister and i made a book bingo for 2024 and one of the categories she chose was romantasy and i rarely, rarely do this, but i MUST tell you that my pick for romantasy (a far wilder magic by allison saft) has me looking up one-star reviews on goodreads to validate my feelings.

#shihpost #how do you write a book about teenage romance #and think 'you know what i can give a primer in? settler-colonialism' #except it's not even about colonists vs indigenous population #oh no. the indigenous population simply never exists #instead it's about the fantasy anglo-saxon protestants (new albian katharists) #grumping and hate criming fantasy irish catholics (sumic banvishmen) and fantasy ethnic jews (yu'adir) #and then they KILLED THE INDIGENOUS SPIRIT #FOR PRAGMATIC REASONS YES OKAY BUT ALSO. WHAT A STATEMENT??? #people have described it as a royai (fma) fic with a facelift #because the setting borrows largely from fma down to the technology available to its people #but it's wild to me that nowhere in allison saft's worldbuilding inspiration was bipoc #queer relationships exist without question here!! you couldn't distill fantasy asia or fantasy africa??

[snail-speed]

Just clicked out of a video that’s called “Twitter and anti-intelectualism” because at like the two minute mark the dude brought up a batshit insane example.

He was like “you’ll see people on twitter ask whether or not eating meat is as bad as bestiality. you might be inclined to say no, bestiality is worse, but why? (…) but think about it, eating meat is harmful to the animal”

I am going insane why are Anglo leftists always like this. There’s a clear answer to that fucking question clearly done in bad faith.

#why the hell are we pondering whether or not sodomizing an animal is worse than killing it before eating it #when anglo leftists say veganism is ‘’the correct moral choice’’ they’re pondering fucking dumb questions like those in earnest #the answer to anti-intellectualism isn’t analyzing each and every single weird prompt clearly done in bad faith

[strangerthingspolls]

#polls #stranger things #stranger things polls #this has to have been done but it’s also a very important question in this fandom! #steve harrington #harringroves come get y’all juice! #in case u don’t know wasp stands for white anglo-saxon protestant and is a catch-all phrase used to refer to #basic white middle to upper class suburban ppl in america who don’t have any especially close ties to their pre-american ethnic background #anyways no third option you MUST choose

[sanstropfremir]

OMGGG the backhanded art comment 💀🤡 I wanted to say thank you sooo much for adding your input because comments like that are the reason why I have the urge to rip my hair out everytime I enter the comment section of an MV/Dance Practice like wdym "it's not dance, it's art" ?? what did you think dance was??? How little do you care about dance then?? You're literally the first person I know to address it which was kind of unexpected but very much needed (Sorry if you can feel the frustration radiating of this ask, but that's how much I despise it)

kljlkjflkjflksda well i did go to a very prestigious art school so i do have the experience to back up my backhandedness. i have to thank @exo-s-victory-lap first bc if they hadn't posted that comment on the birthday dance practice i wouldn't have said anything, bc i never read the comments on any kpop-related videos as i don't need the headache. but you're right it is a thing that very few people talk about, mostly because like i said, there's a mass lack of education around the different types of 'art' beyond painting and sculpture, and what even is 'qualified' to be called art in the first place. to be honest dance gets the most of this pseudo-'complimentary' offensive garbage because the average person in the west just does not interact with dance as an artform like, at all. the most common types of dance at the moment are street dance based/whatever shows up on tiktok and they've become so ubiquitous that people have ceased to see it as a skill and connect it to being worthy of being called 'art'. the convention of what constitutes 'art' in a lot of the general public's eyes is western eurocentric forms that have 'historical' backing, but only those that have been approved by the 'elite' as the ones acceptable. and very very few forms of dance have made that cut, so relatively few people recognize it as such.

#no one is calling pantos art and those things are old as fucking time lol. well not that old. but they are a very old form of anglo theatre #the other thing about street dance is that it was invented by black people! and god forbid anything black people do is artistic!!!!! #as someone who went to an art school where they do high concept contemporary art/the stuff that you see in contemporary galleries/museums: #the whole industry moves like fucking white supremacy and relies on the supression of 'lesser' forms in order to keep the industry running #sometimes there's actual white supremacy. sometimes there isn't. but the structure is exactly the same #there's always artists that say they want to 'deconstruct the white cube space' etc etc etc but very rarely do they actually make an effort #to cross disciplinary boundaries or go into the community/do educational outreach to ACTUALLY deconstruct those spaces #because if they actually did that it would make the entire concept of their practice pointless #the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house!!!!!!!! #n e ways. dont go to art school #text #kpop questions #answers #also there's a bias against kpop in general bc of the branding that's been pushed by western media that it's 'manufactured' #and idols themselves aren't artists bc theyre not 'making the work themselves' #which is a further pushing of the monolith artist narrative #also kr media is super guilty of this too. idols are on a really low rung on the 'artistic' ladder #so a lot of these types of comments from fans come from the desire to 'prove' that idols are worthy of making art #but they end up being insults bc kpoppies are dreadfully offensively and tragically uninformed #jokes on them the whole industry's been making art this whole time! just most of it is bad!

[fumblingmusings]

Thinking about pearls and England and

"It was not only Britain's mineral resources or her pretty slaves that had persuaded Caesar to make his military move across the Channel that summer: according to his biographer Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus it was something quite different. It was her pearls."

And the Bible you have

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it."

And then the fact that in Britain pearls are the jewellery of mourning and grief and then in the translations of the 14th Century poem The Pearl which is explicitly about grief and comparing a lost girl to heaven itself you have stuff like this

"Beautiful pearl that would please a prince, fit to be mounted in finest gold, I say for certain that in all the East her precious equal I never found. So radiant and round, however revealed, so small, her skin so very smooth, of all the gems I judged and prized I set her apart, unparalleled. But I lost my pearl in a garden of herbs; she slipped from me through grass to ground, and I mourn now, with a broken heart, for that priceless pearl without a spot."

And the fact that pearl farming has not been a thing in Britain for a very, very, very long time as we poisoned all of our water supplies pursuing other riches...

This will make sense in a couple of weeks.

#op #headcanon #it will make sense I'm just going URGHNDJDSH about England and pearls and heaven and grief and how the four are inextricably interconnected #i want to find a way to get pope Gregory's dumb fucking pun about seeing angle slaves in the market in Rome and being like #Angles you say? Nay they are Angels! #Hohoho... Thanks for giving the Anglo-Saxon *that* ego boost #I'm doing this for AsaKiku purposes bear with me #Eva's mentioned wearing pearls once a chapter and the only time she's not is when she meets Ludwig #does that mean anything??? uh. good question. BUT #for future chapters... who's a big supplier or pearls #esp to the UK? Oz. Who is *famous* for their pearls? Japan #oh yeah... fight over who's wearing pearls she'll wear on yeaaaaaahhhh

[chasing-givenchy]

i need to blacklist the words “book” “library” and “piracy”’on tumblr i swear to god

every. single. time. this issue comes up the conversation goes:

1. don’t pirate books, it has tangibly harmful effects on the author

2. ok but what if i can’t afford to buy all the books i want to read?

3. UM HAS EVERYONE FORGOTTEN THAT LIBRARIES EXIST [copy + paste into 500 successive iterations]

4. also kindle unlimited and FREE books on Project Gutenberg!!!

5. what if i’m from a non-us country with no public libraries and new books are expensive

6. UM HAS EVERYONE FORGOTTEN THAT LIBRARIES EXIST??? read fanfiction, that’s free! some websites have FREE books! Libraries actually exist to solve this exact probl

usamericans will see the words “book” and “piracy” and jump on it like sharks to blood in the water. but instead of teeth, they just have the one common response that they’ve memoried by rote.

#also what about people who want to read new releases just like everyone else in the first world countries #what is this second class citizenship where they should get only books put on kindle unlimited or whose copyrights have lapsed #i’m not saying ‘some people have a god-given right to pirate while others don’t’ #i’m just saying i’m so fucking exhausted of this same stupid library debate #only the us perspective gets talked about and the us perspective has only one answer #so i am genuinely tired of saying the same answer get repeated in fifty identical ways in quick succession #by people who all think they’re being original #the publishing industry is very fraught and messed up #but i think there’s a reason that the only people who talk about book piracy are usamericans #not because people outside the us don’t have opinions but because non-anglos KNOW their questions are literally glossed over

[encyclop3dia]

if i had a nickel for every time the CIA has helped boot a well-loved and supported politician out of office in another country (where said politician was either democratically elected or fairly appointed to their position) because some company didn't like that the politician was looking out for human rights, i would have AT LEAST two nickels. there may be more.

#max.txt #uhh #politics #studying history is. crazy! #for reference i am referring to the 1954 guatemalan coup and the 1953 iranian coup #the companies in question were the united fruit corporation (now known as chiquita) who didn't like that jacobo arbenz hated slavery and th #Anglo-Iranian Oil Company which is like. the granddaddy of BP

[tenth-sentence]

'Ru white tho?;)' asks Aldritch, who himself is Anglo-Bulgarian with some German, Scottish and Croatian ancestry on the maternal side.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

#book quote #going dark #julia ebner #nonfiction #questions #chat room #neonazi #white #anglo #bulgarian #german #scottish #croatian #ancestry

[apersonwholikeslotus]

We love brains like yeah let’s think about the migration period at 3 am that’s a normal thing to think about

#so uh the vandals how did they uh #Get to Africa #Did they have a boat or did they go around..???? #I have questions #too much time looking at the Anglo Saxons and franks and I don’t have an answer for this and it’s driving me insane

[anglosky]

Little side rant with searching for certain gifs

I find it HIGHLY disturbing that when I try to find a certain gif to go along with my silly fanfics, the search does not give me what I ask for; causing me to become traumatized with the amount of unrelated gifs that I did not want to see, nor was it close to anything of what I just searched 🙂

#anglo thoughts #non tickles #sometimes this app makes me question why I have it 🙂

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

fuck yeah, New Mexico Tea Company finally restocked my favorites

#homestuck #tea #stealth grendelposting #trollkin(anglo-saxon) #Questionable Uses Of Space In My First Apartment #tea drinker

[williamkergroach55]

The Unspoken prominence of Western Civilization

In an ever-evolving world, where the boundaries between cultures blur and global connectivity shapes our narrative, it's crucial to reflect on the profound impact that Western Civilization has had on our collective human journey. "The Western Civilization" by William Kergroach stands as a testament to the enduring influence of the Western culture, offering a profound exploration of its contributions to the global tapestry.

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A Global Perspective

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The Western Civilization has shaped the world civilization. it's about time to say White is beautiful

#WesternInfluence #CulturalLegacy #White #Philosophy #ArtisticExpression #Innovation #CulturalWest 📚🌍

#Western Civilization #The Western Civilization #Default (GPT-3.5) #User #Rédige un article sérieux et universitaire en anglais sur le livre “The Western Civilization” #by William Kergroach. Ajoute des #à la fin de l'article. L'ambition du livre est de rappeler aux Occidentaux et au monde l'importance de la civilisation occidentale pour l'h #plunge into the heart of the key moments in history that have forged our modern society. Explore the twists and turns of philosophy and int #and discover how they have shaped our understanding of the world. #From the great discoveries to the Renaissance periods #follow the evolution of mankind through the ages #and observe the technological revolutions that have turned our way of life upside down. Immerse yourself in the influence of Western arts a #Explore the Western way of life #from food to relationships #and question the evolution of our ethical values over the centuries. Immerse yourself in the history of the Western World states #from the stories of European religions to Europe's golden cultural periods. #Decipher the complex chronology of political dominance #explore the influence of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants and plunge into the era of the American Empire's domination of Europe. Dive into #explore the great achievements of European civilization and question the impact of technological advances on our daily lives. #From economics to cultural and political relations #from demographics to ecology #from the shadows of corrupt leaders to the challenges of the Patriot Act and large-scale surveillance #“Western Civilization” plunges into the depths of our society. #Discover the vibrant panorama of Western literature #from Slavic literatures to North American #Australian #New Zealand and Scandinavian creations. Explore the chords and dissonances of classical music #folk #rock 'n' roll and rock. Explore the architectural streets of the West #from the automobile to fashion