#the british are coming

[yogodyolive]

bro, the tumblr users go from being one of the most top 10 endangered species, to this now being overrun with invasive species

we are literally repeating history.... Reddit: Americans Twitter: The British Tumblrinas (here before the migration): natives

we're being colonised

#i was here before the tumblr migration #the british are coming #shitpost #reddit shutdown #mentally handicapped landwhale #reddit #reddit migration #reddit blackout #reddit refugee #reddit exodus #reddit protest #redditors #reddit drama #reddit memes #twitter #twitterpocalypse #tumblr meta #redditpocalypse #today on tumblr #tumblr migration #hellsite #i love tumblr #blog #tumblrpost #tumblr culture #funny tumblr #tumblr humor #og tumblr #196 migration

[coolio-doolio]

I think he deserves it a bit

#huhu art #digital art #fanart #mlp #art #my art #gojo saturo #jjk gojo #jjk #twilight sparkle #the british are coming #what if i made this a keychain #or stickers #google how do you make keychains

[waffleslashermaster]

Fnaf art dump

#the british are coming #fnaf #michael afton #charlotte emily #sb vanny #fnaf vanny #the crying child #drawing #doodle #fanart #five nights at freddy's #fnaf fanart #art

[grim-has-issues]

how much tea do brits actually drink?

@piffany666 resident brit, i need a number

#i drink about 12oz a day #every day in the work week #pretty much #tea #the british are coming

[ace-moon-dog]

I’m writing a FirstPrince fic

Alex wears a dress

Henry reacts completely normally

#rwrb #rwrb movie #henry fox mountchristen windsor #alex x henry #prince henry rwrb #henry hanover stuart fox #alex claremont diaz #red white and royal blue #rwrb fic #firstprince #Alex wears a dress #the British are coming

[robotfightingisgay]

this post is literally just my favourite team monsoon pictures:

#THE BRITISH ARE COMING #battlebots #robot combat #robot fighting #MONSOOON #monsoon #team monsoon #🛸

[authenticgaymer]

Garret: Fuck the….and I can’t stress this enough…British

Irina: Fuck the French!

#twilight #twilight incorrect quotes #the british are coming

[anchy2006]

I know the british love to queue but dear lord

#queen elisabeth #the british are coming #very veeeeery slowly #the queen #uk politics

[froof-of-the-loof]

Why are the English trending so aggressively today?

The British are coming

#lmfao #uk politics #doctor who #jodie whittaker #13th doctor #the beatles #lmao #doctor who season finale #liz truss #the english #the british are coming

[emma-hahn]

If you didn’t already know, I am a bit silly and weird, and I thought I would share some of my silliness with you (because why not ?).

In Downton Abbey a New Era, there’s a line that always makes me laugh (well actually there are a dozen but I don’t remember seing someone talking about this one in particular). It’s when Carson says “They better be warned, the British are coming”.

So there’s an old French expression that says “Les anglais ont débarqué”, literally “The English have landed” (or have shown up) that means “having your period”.

So yeah, I know it’s a bit stupid but that’s the first thing I thought about when I heard Carson saying that for the first time in the trailer and since then I can’t help but laugh.

#i told you it was silly #i think i have shared enough of my silliness for one day #don't mind me i'm a weirdo #the british are coming #downton abbey a new era

[wonderpizzza]

i just saw someone scared of losing twitter as a safe space for adhd. wait until they hear about tum— *gunshot*

#twitter refugees #twitter #elon musk #elon twitter #the british are coming #here they come #oh god oh fukck ohoogd #adhd

[bopiezz]

if hellen keller was real explain 9/11 🤔🤔🤔

#the british are coming

[pbnmj]

THE NOIR-HOBIE INTERACTIONS THAT I MADE UP IN MY MIND ARE VERY REAL TO ME. SONY PLEASE PICK UP WHAT I’M PUTTING DOWN!!!

#atsv spoilers #atsv #across the spiderverse #across the spider-verse #left the theatre knowing my gf is coming back immediately ofc had to draw this . #written hobie's dialogue here as though someone might incidentally forget he's british. LOL #sorray brits i will never be good at ur slang. i think bruv is a liiiittle old but he also said mandem so whatever #wanker/geezer is rly not used anymore but im sorry . i refuse to keep looking up british slang. its too hard #hobie brown #peter parker #spider-man noir #spider-punk #spiderman noir #spider punk #itsv #spiderman #into the spiderverse #my art

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[confusedevilwitch]

the british are

what?

#paul revere #the american revolution #american history #history jokes #the british are coming

[wr1tersbl0ckofcheese]

my civilisation speaks to me most

not when

the language my people fought to speak, rolls freely from my tongue like honeyed milk;

nor when

i am surrounded by a kaleidoscope of silks, mesmerised by the cornucopia of unimaginable hues;

not when

i enter the kitchen, overwhelmed by an aroma of roasted foreign spices and wood-fire;

nor when

my body knows the way my people dance, celebrating centuries of a thriving culture.

no.

instead, i remember where i come from when i smell petrol in an underground carpark

8627 km away

from the graves of my people

#poem #poetry #india #the british are coming #i shouldn’t be awake but here i am