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cannedsoupcansoup · 1 month

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Growing up I heard Americans describe 'gatorade' and was later dissapointed to find out that it does not, in fact, have a quirky picture of an aligator on it. C'mon it's called GATORade, where's the cool aligator with sunglasses?? You do that for all other products, but not the one literally called GATORADE?

#Gatorade #america #why america why #nonamerican cultural shock #western world confuses me #anyways #aligators #meme #lmfao #tumblr

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cyanomys · 10 months

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#polls #polls and research #pointless poll #united states #midwest #hell #location #moving #america #look im sorry if youre insulted by me grouping some states but there are 12 Midwestern states and only 10 options allowed #i just took a trip across the country and my limited perspective is that Ohio is Not So Bad #i grew up in Missouri 🫠#why yes i am blazing this post #i enjoy whoring my ideas to the masses to satisfy my curiosity

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ask-spiderpool · 4 months

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#ask-spiderpool #main #captain america #iron man #steve rogers #tony stark #ms marvel #kamala khan #miles morales #tony why are you so homophobic. huh.

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bixels · 5 months

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Always an experience watching the leftism leave FNAF fans when someone mentions that Scott Cawthon financially backed fascist politicians.

The switch from posting hardline leftist tweets about boycotts and signal boosts and critical takedowns of politicians and celebrities to ‘ohhh, well. everyone makes mistakes. who can blame him, listen he. he donated money to gay charities too. that makes it ok! a millionaire in his forties is allowed to have political beliefs. does it even matter? just let it go!’ is whiplash inducing. The antivaxxer celebrities have got to go, but this one horror dev who quietly handed wads of cash to antivax lawmakers? He’s chill, he can stay.

The charity thing is so funny too because suddenly utilitarian positive-negative point counting is the way to go. Maybe an abacus would help calculate the net good of donating to the Trevor Project minus donating thousands of dollars to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. -10 points if I push a kid in a lake but +11 points if I help an old lady across the street, so I’m chill. You can’t judge me. Hey, maybe. Just don’t push a kid in the lake period. How fucking low is the bar when we’re excusing maxing out the possible dollar amount of donations to Mitch fucking McConnell. That should be like. Default you’re a bad person.

#delete later #personal #not art #rant #you can still be a fan of fnaf 100% but god you’re not obligated to defend its creator #don’t pretend like Scott is cool #“’Scott likes gay people he only voted for trump for his fiscal and defense policies in defendi america from terrorists!’#kid. that’s not good either.#fiscal conservatism kills people too.#the whole thing exposes how weak some leftists are to the image of the ‘well-mannered right wing republican.’ the type who would #respectfully disagree with your right to exist with a kind top of the hat #‘as long as you silently hate me and force a nice smile while shaking my hand it’s ok’#this is why jk Rowling is hated while Scott gets a free pass. just have to hide your hate well enough and liberals will excuse you ig

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vader-anakin · 27 days

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SEBASTIAN STAN as SERGEANT JAMES BUCHANAN BARNES

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

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puppetmaster13u · 4 months

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Prompt 152

A child has interrupted a Gala in Gotham, which wouldn’t be too much of a note except the fact that they’re obviously not human and they have an armful of scrolls. And look incredibly frazzled and exhausted.

Which, who wouldn’t be confused and curious about such a situation? Except asking the child what they’re doing here only causes more questions.

“So some dimensions’ governments are deeming undead and ecto-contaminated living as non-sentient, so uhm, we’re getting sent to send out these warnings to people in places that are in danger of that. As like a warning in case their government does the same? I-I don’t know I’m just the messenger :(“

#prompts #dcxdp #dpxdc #Danny is Not the Ghost King #Danny & his siblings (& clones) are technically high in the Zone tho #But their mere presence isn’t as inherently destructive to the living world so #they’re acting like messengers & delivery persons at the moment #Bruce is suspicious but also incredibly concerned #Why yes DC america does have an equivalent of the anti-ecto acts in their laws #Not helped by the fact that No Man’s Land might be planned soon as part of it #Gotham at least got a warning that their government would probably turn against them so they were more prepared

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stuckytoyoulikeglue · 3 months

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I know it's been said a million times before, but holy shit, Captain America: The Winter Soldier really does have one of the most epic romances of all time.

I mean, the twist

And the inevitable heartbreak...

The part where everything's all f-ed up and it seems like nothing's gonna work out

And don't even get me started on the declaration of love/'I'd literally rather die right this second than live without you'/marriage vow...

Then there's the pure artistry of the parallel they draw with The First Avenger, only this time it's Bucky watching Steve fall

Only for them to finally (sort of, almost, if you squint a bit, shut up, I need this) reunite at the end...

They really did deserve so much better 💔

#stucky #bucky barnes #steve rogers #captain america #winter soldier #right in the feels #this is why you don't rewatch the end of CATWS just for 'research' purposes

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centaurianthropology · 10 months

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One thing that I think a lot of Disco Elysium meta misses (likely because a lot of it is very clearly written by young Americans writing from an intensely American-centric cultural perspective without even really realizing it) is that one of the singular and central themes of the game is massive-scale generational trauma in a home that is economically collapsing as its resources and people are being drained by an occupation. People have noted that no one tries to help Harry, despite the fact his mental illness is incredibly obvious to everyone around him. He tells Kim that he completely lost his memory, and Kim politely asks him to focus on the work. He tells Gottlieb that he had a heart attack, and Gottlieb tells him that if he’s still alive it couldn’t have been that bad. That he’ll drop dead sooner or later, but then so does everyone.

And that’s the most important thing: so does everyone. Look at Martinaise. Look at the world in which Harry lives. It is not our own, but it is adjacent to ours. More specifically, it is clearly adjacent to the states of the Eastern Bloc: overtaken and occupied by a faraway government that clearly doesn’t care about Revachol or its people. And that is obvious in every tired face, every defeated citizen, everyone trying to eke out a little happiness or meaning in spite of the overwhelming trauma and damage around them. The buildings are still half-destroyed. The bullet holes are still in the walls. The revolution was decades before, but it still feels to the people there like a fresh wound. The number of men of Harry’s generation who are not alcoholic or otherwise deeply fucked up are very few. Some, like Kim, hide it better, but the deeper you dig into his history, the more you realize how damaged Kim is. He’s more than a little trigger happy, and hates that about himself, but he is a product of his environment: Kim’s entire life is seeing people he cared about shot and killed, so his instinct now is to shoot first himself, to protect those few people left who still matter to him.

Harry is not unique in his trauma. He is a distillation of an entire culture of people who tried to rise up and make something beautiful, and were instead routed and occupied. He is trapped between the occupation and the people on the ground, along with all the rest of the RCM. Their authority comes from the occupying government, but it is implied that they were formed out of the remnants of the citizens militia which sprung up from Revachol itself as a way to try to mitigate some of the horrors being committed on its streets. The Moralintern sure as hell wasn’t going to get their hands dirty, so they happily conscripted (and therefore could better control) this group, who are only recognized in certain places, and whose authority mostly amounts to giving out fines. The RCM is corrupt, but it is corrupt in the same way its culture is. Bribes are considered standard with them, not a moral failing, but a necessity, so long as those bribes are correctly logged as ‘donations’. It’s how the RCM stays afloat, and the rest of Revachol completely understands that. Everyone would take a bribe if it meant they kept eating. Everyone would take a little under-the-table money if it meant keeping a roof over their heads. The officersof the RCM certainly don’t make enough to see a doctor. They have an in-house lazarus, and if he can’t fix them they just die. Mental health care? What mental health care? Harry doesn’t get it for the same reason no one else does: it doesn’t really seem to exist. There are no counselors, no psychologists, no psychiatrists. How would they even start? If the world is what is broken, if everyone is suffering a similar catastrophic amount, it makes sense that Harry’s trauma would simply get rolled up with all the rest. Kim asks him to get on with the job because Harry’s suffering is not remarkable in Revachol. He is one of an entire generation who have an astronomical number of orphans from the revolution, and so many younger people are left more or less orphans as their parents drink themselves into oblivion like Cuno’s father. So Harry’s truly unique attribute is embodying all that trauma, having it all inside of him, filling him to bursting.

To really engage with the themes of the game, engaging first and foremost with the reality of Revachol is imperative. Imposing our own reality onto Revachol, particularly if coming from an American perspective (which tend to have the habit of both viewing the world through an American lens and not realizing they’re doing it because they’ve never experienced a different lens), will always feel shallow to me because of this.

All that is to say, I would love to hear some more explicitly European meta about this game, and especially Eastern European meta. If anyone can point me to some good, juicy essays from that perspective, I would be grateful!

#Disco Elysium #is such a good game #but I found a lot of the meta around it frustratingly shallow #and very VERY American #which is also frustrating #given how clearly Eastern European the roots of this game are #I have no problem with people using a game or other work of fiction to inform their own lives and experiences #but I find it strange when people engage with the game #as though it was coming from an American perspective #asking why certain things happen or didn't #based on how they would play out or have played out in America #anyway this a rambly way to request some meta from other cultural perspectives #I am very interested in reading it!#Disco Elysium meta

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acowardinmordor · 4 months

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Everyone knows that Wayne knows about and supports his nephew in his various flavors of queer across all fics and headcanons. But I especially enjoy it when Wayne knows and supports him, while Eddie is completely oblivious to the fact that he's not straight.

#not in the closet #not confused and questioning #out of the closet but entirely unaware of it #this is also why Wayne went gray #his beloved idiot nephew is accidentally visibly queer in small town america #and even when Wayne has tried to bring it up #Eddie talks about how he also thinks Reagan sucks #he's so close to getting it #but he never does #man now im picturing Wayne being Scary(tm) around town #so everyone knows not to mess with Eddie #and Eddie thinks he's the scary one #wrong kid #you are a goofball made of marshmallows

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stil-lindigo · 6 months

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when people talk about educating yourself on the origins of ideologies like zionism, it isn’t to ask for sympathy but to show that fascism always hinges on the same rules - dehumanisation and other-ing of scapegoat populations in the pursuit of power.

fascism is, at the end of the day, uncreative and there is value in recognising the signs. When an entire ideology is dependent on the inherent depravity of a certain identity, it is worth some scrutiny.

#we are all susceptible to propaganda and because of that there is value in learning the signs of when you should start asking questions #why exactly is Israel’s identity completely dependent on the eradication of Palestinians?#is it perhaps because the fact that Palestine was its own nation interferes with the concept of Jews being indigenous to Israel?#this is the same dehumanising logic you’ll have seen in every settler’s rhetoric #in America in Australia in all of the colonised world #remember that any freedom we now enjoy was fought for tooth and claw #Israel is not unique. it is just the current example of settler colonialism #and in recognising this has happened before we can recognise the same propaganda techniques being used to villlainise Palestinians #believe in the possibility of a free Palestine #it will happen #from the river to the sea #Palestine #israel #free palestine

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bbyboybucket · 14 days

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