#'for people who don't have polish citizenship' no really

[helianskies]

i... i mean you're not wrong...

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Hi, I'm not here for this misinformation.

I got this comment in my post 2 days ago. Pissed me off. You know who you are.

While I'm not gonna fight, I am gonna debate.

I'm gonna break down the points one by one and respond to each individually. This is because while I don't know if this person being purposefully racist, there are several statements I read as very harmful. (And just? Wrong??)

1. "Don't draw Ludwig with a dark skin tone."

I'm the artist. I can draw him however I want, so long as it is not harmful to other communities. I do not see how drawing him black is harmful to POC. Telling someone how to draw a character (if they're not being harmful) is disrespectful.

Not to mention: after a near full year of drawing him black (the post this comment was on was from APRIL) to suddenly draw my design white WILL get me in some deep shit. For whitewashing. No thanks.

2. "Germans aren't Black."

My version of Ludwig is NOT GERMAN???

And yes they are? Literally anybody from ANYWHERE can be??? Mixed people exist????

2 1/2. "Germans who are born of African descent are not fully German."

??????

Being German is not just a matter of who's in your bloodline. German is both an ethnicity and a nationality, similar to others (American, Hispanic, Asian, the like.)

If you're born in Germany... You're still German, no matter how much blood you have. To say otherwise reeks of outdated racist ideology. (E.g: "You're not a real [insert ethnicity here] bc you're black")

Gross.

Hell, you don't have to be German at all to be considered German.

(You can still have citizenship by:

Being born there - making you a German citizen

Either of your parents being born there - making you a German citizen

Or, through the process of naturalization, immigration.

In the eyes of the law, you'd still be a German citizen.

3. "Ludwig, from the accent alone very much is (German), therefore cannot be dark."

Ludwig is as German as Wario.

Ludwig used to have that accent before the 2000s, back when he was still canonically Bowser's eldest son.

Around the same time, Wario, too was canonically German, due to the portrayal of his voice actor prior to Charles Martinet.

Both things have since been retconned, and are no longer canon.

Ludwig being German is a popular headcanon now (meaning anyone can consider him whatever ethnicity or nationality they'd like. British, German, Polish, even.)

But the point still stands:

To my knowledge,

Ludwig hasn't had that German accent canonically in over thirty years.

DiC Cartoons (1990-1991) Around the same period he was canonically Bowser's son. No accent.

Mario is Missing (1992-1993) - German Accent, voice actor Rob Wallace. (It ages... badly today, I fear.)

Superstar Saga (2003) - No accent.

Paper Jam (2015) - No accent.

Paper Mario: Color Splash (2016) - No accent.

Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser's Minions (2017) - No accent.

Bowser Jr's Journey (2018) - No accent.

Mario and Sonic at the Tokyo Olympics (2020) - No accent.

"But Lian!" I hear you say, "Most of his more recent appearances are text alone! You can't tell if he has an accent or not.*

FALSE.

Alphadream (before their bankruptcy, in charge of ALL the RPGs before ending at Paper Jam) had at least two characters with a noticeable accent, and they adjusted the text accordingly.

One is Monsieur Broque, the other is Antasma.

Broque has a heavy French accent,. occasionally slipping back into his native tongue while communicating with the player.

Antasma has a heavy accent as well. Of what?

GERMAN.

If Ludwig had an accent at all, Alphadream (RIP) or Nintendo would have found a way to make it noticable in text.

It's not. There is no accent to speak of.

Stop using the idea Ludwig is German to tell people how to draw him. At the end of the day, nothing is confirmed until the day Nintendo gives them human forms, or makes it REALLY damn clear where they're from. (Which, at this rate... Not likely.)

[rockofeye]

I think you receive this type of ask often so I will try to give you a little perspective, but my family previously used to serve(?) lwas pretty long ago and at some point they simultaneously started going to legliz until I think my grandma gave up on the practice and became a protestant like the rest of the family.

My mom a few years ago, got back in touch with her spirituality if I can say it like that and I find myself at ease with the practice as well, but I'm only a teenager and I feel like I'm more out of touch than I should be. I don't know how I will grow up as a sèvitè or if it's even truly for me, because despite being raised as one, I am not fully haitian and might not just be black enough since it's a closed practice. Can I learn? How do I?

Hi there,

A couple things right off:

Haiti, Haitians, and the lwa do not hold to a blood quorum. There is no percentage Haitian you need to be to be considered Haitian; you have a Haitian parent, so you are Haitian.

Haiti is called the first Black republic as a reminder of the first successful revolt of enslaved individuals. It is not a label of exclusivity, and the complex history of Haiti reflects the reality that Haitians come in many shades and family histories and the idea of 'Black enough' in either lineage or skin tone doesn't really have a part in Haitian culture. Colorism certainly exists as a holdover of colonialism and reality of the state of the world, but it doesn't create a system where folks with a mixed lineage or lighter skin are labeled not Haitian/Haitian enough.

Haitian is a lineage and ancestral identity, but it is also an identity of affiliation. The post-revolution constitution reflected the complexity of identity in Haiti and rejected origin and parentage as the sole defining factor in Haitianness; those who allied themselves to the revolutionary struggle of enslaved Haitians were given the designation of Black and full citizenship. There are still communities that have that as realities; sprinkled throughout the country are communities of Haitians with light skin and blue eyes, descended from Polish soldiers who fought on the side of liberation. They aren't the only ones, and they are Haitian without reservation.

So, as a Haitian, the lwa are your birthright and literally are in your blood. You carry the legacy and memory of revolution, liberation, and the spirits who supported that. Haitian Vodou is yours.

'Closed practice' is a Western label that doesn't fit Haitian Vodou. Haitian Vodou is based on affinity; if you have a reason to be there, like you are Haitian or you have been invited, then you are supposed to be there. What is secret vs publicly visible in Vodou is HEAVILY waited towards publicly available; the secrets in Vodou in general are small, versus what anyone can see while walking down the street (literally, especially in Haiti).

In Haiti, if there is a ceremony happening in a temple and the doors are open, you can walk right in. It doesn't matter if you are personally invited or not, because Vodou is birthright, culture, and a way of living in Haiti. If you are not Haitian, you can still come in and see. People will certainly be curious about a stranger but it happens regularly.

Legba does not lock the gate, he simply guards it in a watchful manner.

Your situation is not unusual. More and more Haitians who have a generational break in serving the lwa are reconnecting, which is great. It's even better than your mom has decided to reconnect as it would be hard to navigate as a teenager since most folks understandably won't speak to someone underage without explicit parental consent.

My suggestion would be to talk with her about your desire, if you have not. You want to reconnect to your roots and your family history, and (if it applies) you'd like to do it with her. Maybe she has already been in contact with people who can help, or maybe she would be interested in doing so if you are expressing interest.

For an adult, I would suggest seeking out a houngan/manbo for a reading; that's something you could chat about with your mom. She would ideally be the one to get one to determine a path forward and what your ancestral lwa may need or want and make a starting point. If you really wanted one, an ethical manbo/houngan would want explicit permission from her (like talking to her) before doing one.

You can do simple things on your own. You can light a white candle and talk to your ancestors and your lwa, even though you don't know their names. Tell them what is on your heart and how you want to build a relationship with them. You can talk to them about helping your mom build a relationship, which ultimately helps you. You could talk about them softening your grandma's heart, if she is still living, and you are your mom talking to her about family practices.

The lwa are with you no matter what, and I would not worry about not being able to serve the lwa because you have not yet started and/or don't have a way to access community or information and practice. I do a lot of readings for and work with Haitians, and all of them are older than you. Lots are reconnecting for the first time...there's no issue if you haven't connected as a young person.

Hang in there. Even if it's not something you can access right away, the lwa will be waiting for you and will celebrate your homecoming when the time is right.

[agentoffangirling]

I hope this doesn’t come off as arguing because that isn’t my intention- I’m genuinely looking to have a conversation. Ashkenazi Jews (which make up the majority of American Jews and developed as a group in Europe) are STILL indigenous to the Levant. If Ashkenazim take a DNA test, it will not display Polish, German, etc etc. Instead, it will say Ashkenazi Jewish and go on to detail ancestry from the Middle East. Why? Because Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews aren’t just run of the mill white people. We ARE descended from the Jews kicked out of the Middle East. There are historical posters from the 1930s in European countries telling Jews to go back to Israel. Why? Because we’re not white and never were. But as for the the last paragraph of your response, we agree for the most part.

I'll lump in your other anon with this one, as well as including a couple of replies by my mutual

Yes, converting to Judaism takes an extremely long time. I don't deny that. What again my post was saying someone like me, who is not Palestinian, if I converted to Judaism (over the period, obviously not immediately) it would not be hard for me to claim Israeli citizenship bc I am considered to have an "ancestral connection to the land".

Even though I have no connection whatsoever. I'm Iranian, sure, but I have nothing planting me in the Levant region, whereas a Palestinian who really does that connection cannot do the same. That is what I am trying to say, that someone with absolutely 0 ancestry or knowledge on Israel can become a citizen bc they are Jewish. To my knowledge, there is no other country like this. You don't get Iraqi citizenship bc you're Muslim, you get Iraqi citizenship bc you're Iraqi. That is the core problem with the state of Israel, that it denies and pushes out the indigenous people for the people who never once stepped foot in the Middle East

DNA tests are not an end all be all. I'm not saying that many Jewish peoples have not had some sort of connection to the Levant region, but so have Palestinians. In fact, we could be in a very different situation today had the founders of Zionism chose somewhere in Africa to be Israel

Bc Palestine was not their first choice. Uganda, Argentina, were all on the table. Would we have people deny Ugandans as being indigenous and claim that Jewish people have a right to that land instead? Correct me if I'm wrong, seriously, if I assumed something wrong about you, please correct me, but I doubt you have Ugandan heritage

Ashkenazi Jewish peoples may have some distant connection to the Levant, but like I said above, the very said could be stated about Argentina had they chosen there instead. And even so, that does not give them the right to drive out the other native population like Zionism claims it does. I have some distant Pakistani ancestry, does that mean I can go ahead and take over Pakistan? My grandmother is Muslim, does that mean I can claim I have a right to Saudi Arabia even though we are very much not from Saudi Arabia?

No

[beta-lactam-allergic]

The baby in the oven bit is probably propaganda but the rest is accurate. Hamas did kill babies, there's just no independent verification of a baby being burned in an oven.

The rest of this is true. Every other claim in here about Hamas & in general is true. It's only the baby being cooked in oven part that's probably misinfo. And really, you don't need the extra mile for propaganda, when just killing babies & children is already bad.

Jews were ethnically cleansed from the rest of the Middle East. Indeed the largest Jewish group in Israel aren't Ashkenazim (East European) or Sephardic (Hispanic) Jews, but the surviving Mizrahi (Middle East).

When people call for Israel to end (under the ridiculous misnomer of "decolonisation"), they don't consider that the Mizrahi don't have anywhere else to go. Nor do the Beta Israel from Ethiopia, nor do most of the others. Even amongst the Ashkenazim, there was literally a pogrom in Russia not even a month ago, Ukraine is a war zone, the descendants of Polish Jews are legally barred from ever claiming Polish citizenship & that's just off the top of my head.

Nor do they consider that all of these Jewish groups have some genetic descent from the ancient Israelites. The archaeology, genetics & history agree, ancient Israelites predate Arabs in the Southern Levant & the modern Jews are the descendants of the ancient Israelites. The Arabs who now call themselves "Palestinians" are the colonisers, not the Jews. Hamas claiming ancestral connection to the land is as laughable as an American Neo-Nazi screaming "blood & soil" in complete disregard for Native American history.

Do people fr not realize that if Israel rolled over to Hamas that a genuine ethnic cleansing and genocide would take place? Do people fr not realize this? That the middle east has been ethnically cleansing itself of Jewish people for literal fucking decades? But there's no cries of land back for the Egyptian Jews, for the Iranian Jews, the Moroccan Jews, the Algerian Jews, the Iraqi Jews, the Syrian Jews. There wasn't any cries of injustice when these Jewish communities were slaughtered and forced to flee. I have people in my community who are as least as young as in their fifties who remember having to escape some of these places.

This whole issue has been turned into an outcry for innocents, but the only way to save the most people is to wipe Hamas out first and foremost. Palestine deserves its right to self actualization/realization, but so does Israel. And I'm so fucking tired of people pretending like the actual victims of ethnic cleansing are "colonizers". There's irrefutable proof that the Jewish people have ALWAYS been in the land of Israel. The Palestinians are part of the Arabic world, who colonized the majority of the Middle East. The Jewish people having Israel is the most fucking successful land back story.

I know folks are going to sit here and say "well Israel has committed war crimes!" and tbh? Yeah, they SHOULD be condemned for that.

But Hamas has committed more. And I don't see any of y'all calling them out. No, instead y'all fucking defend them, claiming propaganda, ai, or any other kind of bs.

But they HAVE beheaded people. They open fired at a music festival filled with approximately zero IDF soliders --- aka innocents. They've raped. They baked a fucking BABY in an oven. Let me repeat that. THEY FUCKING BAKED A FUCKING BABY IN A FUCKING OVEN. Hamas are TERRORISTS. Full stop.

Either my post will go largely ignored, or it'll bring a wave of hate. Either way, that speaks fucking volumes for how much folks actually value all life. Specifically Jewish life.

[empressofevil]

Race is such a weird thing. I've never met mixed people who look like me, just ones who look like my brothers: more black or more white. My oldest brother gets mistaken for Jewish consistently, bits of Germanic features overlaying black ones. I get mistaken for all kinds of things, but usually Jewish or secular Arab. There's always a strange mixture of doubt and confusion: "you're from x, right?" I'm used to being stared at, wrinkle resting on the brow of my inquirer. So much so that I've had managers have to ask customers to leave almost every job I've ever had, because they wouldn't stop following and asking me. "Where are you from then?"

It sounds more malicious than it is. It is scary, though, people desperately asking "where are you from? What languages do you speak?" Or suddenly grab your hand, your hair, and speak to you in a foreign tongue. I was briefly adopted by a Polish family at a trade fair. They saw me in the crowd, ushered me over like an old friend, and said "you're family, eat." They fixed me two big plates and some soup and ignored my then-boyfriend. It warmed my heart so much. It was the first and last time I had someone make guesses and assumptions about my race without... Well, wanting anything from me. Without trying to cause me paranoia and pain, these people fed me. It was the first time I was mistaken for... Well, white.

Is Polish that white? They had thick, dark curls like mine, and wide dark eyes. The wife had beautiful shocks of natural dark red, like I did as a baby. You know, I am the tiniest bit Polish. My family has fucked across the globe for centuries: they were pirates and administrators; bookkeepers and ne'er-do-wells. I wondered a little if they were related to my great grandfather who had runaway, descendants of a sibling maybe. She looked nothing like me in the face, it was just... Something. Something that will haunt me forever, I'm sure. But I don't take after my great grandfather at all, everyone knows I'm the spitting image of his wife's mother.

People say I look like my mom, but she wasn't even related to my doppelganger. Maybe every woman with wide, dark eyes looks the same. Maybe we're all family.

If you're asking me, I don't look like anyone. My skin is greyer or greener or yellower. My nose is wider, flatter. My eyes are bigger, so big. "Are they pushed forward or sunken in? I can't tell," to my classmate in the 9th grade: they are both.

If it ended at "where are you from" it wouldn't be a big deal. Annoying, but not a big deal. People have strange reactions, though. They hate you for being from here, for being not from here, for not speaking the right languages, for "lying" to them. "Don't lie to me, respect your elders and speak to me!" A woman yelled this at my first job, McDonald's cashier. I could not understand her mother tongue, but she thought I should. They make odd inferences or start telling odd stories: "ah, so you must be really into x right? I had a second cousin who got married there and-" then it's just racism from there. "Your parents aren't from there, though? You were born here, right?" No, I am fully foreign, a victim of colonialism transplanted and displaced as capitalism and tourism continue to wreck the home I never really knew. I will never go back, not really, not as anything other than an Americanized tourist. I will never go home. I would carry my jacket off the plane and be mocked for my vowels, my sunless skin. When I take my return ticket, I will be stuck im customs and immigration for hours, the way it has always been my entire life. Two countries, two citizenships, one apparently upsetting passport. I will put my jacket on, leave the airport, and get asked where I'm from before I can hail a cab. I will never go home.

[wouldnt-it-be-hilarious-if-i]

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I'm not doing an official Polish update post just yet since I've only done a little bit of actual practicing with Polish in the last week. But I did start researching!

First off, I want to go into detail to explain my connection to WW2 and why it is one of my special interests. As you may know from one of my posts on this blog, half of my family is from Germany.

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My Oma came from a very tiny farming community (Voitsberg) probably less than seven hours away from the Polish border. My entire life, I've known that I am German and grew up eating German food and hearing stories about Germany.

My mom was born here in the US. But my aunts and uncles were born in Germany, and some still have German citizenship. The first time I learned anything about Germany that I truly remembered was when I was six or seven.

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We were at the scholastic book fair. The scholastic book fair is the hallmark of any early 2000s public school childhood, at least in the US. Scholastic, an popular publishing company, would set up book faires for a week in the spring in school libraries. The books were usually never cheap, and they always had fun toys as well as interesting books. It was my favorite time of year, and you were very lucky if your parents came because then they might pay for something. My parents always somehow sent me with just enough money to afford an eraser or something. Never any of the good books lmao

That year, my mom stopped me from running around and pulled out this one book. It was a children's book on Anne Frank. She said, "You should really read this, sweetheart. It's important that you do." And I was very much a "if the cover doesn't look pretty or have fairies on it, I'm not interested" kind of kid so I was like um, thanks, and promptly forgot about it entirely. She did explain it all to me, but I honestly don't remember fully hearing her.

Anyway, years later, I learned about the Holocaust in school. And as someone who was originally quite proud of being German, this hit me hard. I was a super sensitive child, and I am still a sensitive person.

As a child, and this is so fucking morbid, I used to watch a lot of murder shows with my mom and research kidnappings and disappearances of other kids. I'd watch YouTube videos about kids who died in car crashes and just super gruesome and violent ways. And I did this because I took everything extremely personally. I thought it was my job to carry the weight of every bad thing that ever happened to anyone, and so id sit there and watch videos like that specifically so I could remember their stories.

So, when I say learning about the Holocaust hit me hard, I mean that. I actually became lowkey obsessive with it. I thought that if my ancestors could do that to other people, that had to mean that I was where that violence ended. I'd go on Holocaust memorial websites when I was eleven, and research the missing people online. I'd try to match up missing and displaced children to people on Facebook, I'd read books on this stuff constantly, and I'd pay extra attention in school when they taught us about it.

It hit me even harder when I realized how personal Anne Frank actually is to me. Anne Frank was born on June 12th, which is my mother's birthday. And she and her family were taken in by the Nazis on August 4th, which is my birthday. She lived in a city not far from where my grandmother grew up and in a city like maybe thirty minutes to an hour out from where my great aunt worked.

Reading her diary as a kid, I felt immensely close to her and guilty for what my ancestors out her and her family through. Even more so now that I know she was likely bisexual as well. If I could talk to anyone famous today, I'd talk to her.

Anyway, I carried a lot of shame for most of my life because of my German ancestry. This unit in school always came with crying and guilt on my part. It made me genuinely sick to know that this was in my bloodline.

Fortunately, my mom (or maybe my older sister?) told me when I was fourteen, just like super casually mentioned it, that my family helped protect a Jewish family during the Holocaust. She told me that my Oma was only five years old at the time, so she didn't know a lot. We don't know who the family was. But we know that our family either hid them, or provided them with food often.

I don't think y'all understand the relief I felt upon hearing this. Remember I carried this weight on my shoulders for years, like at like four or five years. But I still had a lifelong interest in Jewish history, WW2 and the Holocaust. As a direct result of my ancestry, I decided to study European history in college and plan to get my masters in something to do with Jewish history or human rights.

As I said before, I grew up with extreme guilt about being German. But also with an intense passion for human rights. As a child, I lived in Hawaii. In school, we learned American history and we learned Hawaiian history. And for those of you who don't know, Hawaiian history is SAD.

It's upsetting and I'll never not fully agree that they shouldn't even be a fucking state. In short, their sovereignty was ripped out from beneath them by a country that should have been an fucking ally. When European settlers came to Hawaii, 1/3 of the population was wiped out from disease. 1/3 was forced to become more "civilized". And 1/3 died from other factors. I learned all this as a ten year old, and I was horrified. I also learned that Hawaii is still continuously abused. They truly deserve their kingdom back. If you go to Oahu, you can visit the palace. It's beautiful. It's the only state that was once a kingdom.

Currently, I'm feeling the same horror about the partitions of Poland. I tend to take extreme violence upon others statehood and cultures very personally because of everything stated above, and this just made me really angry. It's probably one of the saddest histories I've ever read, and I just told y'all about Hawaii.

Anyway, the map at the beginning of this post was Poland before the partitions.

And this is Poland five years after the last partition.

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The green territory is Austria, the yellow is Prussia, and Russia is beige. The former Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth boundary lines are highlighted in red.

Apparently, the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth was, in the 16th and 17th centuries, one of the most powerful empires in Europe. In the late eighteenth century, however, the country was picked apart by it's imperialist neighbors, Russia, Prussia and Austria, until it began to disappear completely.

Except an entire landmass with people and customs and history cannot just disappear, no matter how badly Mother (insert one of the neighboring country's names) wants it to. It's still there.

Some eighteenth century authors wrote about it, and many satirists had opinions on the partitioning.

"All contemporary social crimes have their origin in the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which all present political outrages are the corollaries."

VICTOR HUGO, Les Misérables, 1862

Another person, a foreigner, wrote that:

"Thus on the very frontier itself we got the feeling that from this point we were outside the precincts of real European civilisation."

GEORG BRANDES, Polen, 1888

By the end of the 18th century, Poland was struggling to maintain it's national identity underneath the boot of russification in those parts of the partition and germanization in other parts. In the Prussian and Russian partitions, Catholic churches changed to Orthodox churches, for example. This is not a small thing, by the way. Poland is largely a Catholic country. This must have been not only extremely insulting, but also so enraging.

Warsaw became a fortress meant to ensure there would never be any fighting back on the part of the Polish people. Soldiers manned the streets, and Tsar Nicholas even told the Polish people what would happen if they dared to dream of an independent Poland.

"I ordered for this Citadel to be built and I declare that with the slightest attempt to rebel, I will order the city to be bombarded, I will ruin it, and be sure that I will not allow it to rise from the rubble." Fucking dick.

By the 1860s, Polish was banned in schools. Well, it was being erased from every aspect of social life. But especially in schools. "The Poles call this period the 'Apukhtin night', after a Russian school superintendent whose dream it was to hear Polish mothers singing Russian lullabies to their children. The fate of the Poles in Prussia is similar." I'm sorry, but that literally sounds like some kind of fucking fetish because what the actual hell? Like that's strangely specific. Just say you have a mommy kink and move on. You don't have to traumatize a whole country. That fact really gives me the ick. But I digress.

The cool thing about Polish people is they're pretty much all baddies. I've never met one that wasn't. I say this because of course they tried to find ways around this shitty arrangement. As that one guy from Jurassic park said, "Life will find a way."

One of my favorite examples that I read about on the page I found was Wojciech Drzymała. "He was a Polish peasant from the Grand Duchy of Poznań, who for almost four years fought a legal dispute with the Prussian authorities over permission to build a house on a plot of land he had bought." Basically, he wasn't able to build his house even though he should have been able to despite all the red tape. So, he cleverly decided to sit his wagon on the land and move it a little bit every day so that he could argue that "a mobile vehicle was not subject to the building regulations." Which is proof alone that even people in the 18th century were fucking hilarious. That's literally so clever 😂

There was a lot of censorship as well. Not just with the Polish language. Of literature, newspapers, magazines, you name it. Even printing words like "feeling of unity" or "freedom" was not allowed because it might give the Polish people hope, and God knows we can't risk the establishment crumbling under the weight of its own bullshit.

No talking about Polish music or culture or national dress. You like polish romanticism? Not allowed, dumbass. Go sit with your dunce cap on and think about what you just suggested. No enjoying your own culture in your own country for you. 😐

I have a lot more research to do. But this is what I've got so far. Sorry if my tone at any point was disrespectful to anyone except Austria and Russia. It actually really pisses me off when I read about things like this, and that's why I'm so passionate about human rights. I won't lie when I say I cried a little reading about this. It just makes me genuinely upset to read about it. I'm so grateful to the kind anon who directed my research! 💖💞 You are an angel.

Also, if anyone is curious as to where I got the overview of most of my research, I'll direct you to this super cool and interactive website! I really like it, and it's given me a lot of places to look for further research.

Until next time! ☺️

[iwach4n]

thanks for the tag darling 💞💞💞

name: glitter on here. i don't even care that much about people finding out my real name anymore i just want you to keep calling me glitter so i'm not saying it

gender: female

sexuality: bisexual babey

height: 168cm (5'6") and i really wanna get to 170 but i haven't grown in years

languages: english, polish, learnt latin for five years and french and german for three, planning on trying to learn italian or japanese

nationality: polish but i'm working on a british citizenship

current time: 3:08am oops

favourite season: spring!! coz flowers and some rain and warm but not too warm!!! even though i have hayfever!!!!!!

favourite flower: lavender for smell and probably something like bluebells for aesthetic

favourite scent: this one conditioner that i use that's supposed to smell like coffee but is more like caramel or something

favourite colour: pinkpinkpinkpinkpink

favourite animal: cats!! but i also really like narwhals (y'all been knew) and unicorns (even though they aren't real)

favourite fictional character: i love bokuto with all my heart but piper mclean is a comfort character and idek why

average sleep: up to 8 hours. i wake up at 9:30 and i can't remember the last time i went to sleep before 1am but the range is way too big from there

coffee, tea or hot chocolate: tea as a hot drink but nesquik choccy milk beats all of them hands down

number of blankets you sleep with: ,,,,one duvet. i only sleep under a blanket if its boiling (or add one when its extra cold). even then i usually go for having the duvet on my feet and fan full blast. apparently sleeping under blankets is an american thing

cats or dogs: CATS

dream job: established many times but i want to open a bakery so bad

followers: 1390ish?? last time i checked? close to a milestone oop

blog established: first post was on 24th february and i only remember that coz its the day after my birthday

reason for url: tendou + tho rhymes and like,,, tendou tho. love him

random fact: i'm a human radiator. i'm always the go-to for hugs in cold weather coz I'm constantly warm

tags (if y'all want to, also and anyone who wants to do it): @noya-senpai-imagines @hqmakkitrash @azrimmaxwell @doughnuts-5ever @thisaccountisstupiddontfollowme @airybby @haikyuuuu-imagines

Get to Know Me

Tagged by  @moongaera ♥︎ Thank you for the tag dear!

Rules: Answer some questions and tag some bloggers you want to know better.

NAME: On here, I prefer to be known as Flo NICKNAMES: Flo is an old nickname of mine, the only nickname that doesn’t directly relate to my actual name. GENDER: Female SEXUALITY: Straight HEIGHT: 5’4 LANGUAGES: English with very minimal Spanish NATIONALITY: American CURRENT TIME: 10:22 PM FAVORITE SEASON: The very start of Fall before it gets to cold. FAVORITE FLOWER: Peony FAVORITE SCENT: The scent of the salty air at a beach or woody smell of a campfire. FAVORITE COLOR: Blue FAVORITE ANIMAL: Orcas and horses. FAVORITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER: Haru from Free! AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: A good week, 5 hours a night. Though it’s normal for me to go several nights with 2-3 hours. COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Tea. I LOVE tea.  NUMBER OF BLANKETS YOU SLEEP WITH: Recently, 3. DOGS OR CATS: I have 2 dogs and 2 cats, so both. DREAM TRIP: Ireland or Australia  DREAM JOB: Teaching and training riding lessons, or photographer. FOLLOWERS: 731 BLOG ESTABLISHED: I started writing a year ago in July of 2019, but kept everything private and with friends only until December of 2019. REASON FOR MY URL: I picked my old nickname, Flo to keep my real name private but wanted something identifying. Then this blog is focused on MX and I just liked the sound of mxflo better than monbebeflo, which was another option. plus I like that mxflo is short. RANDOM FACT: I am INFJ.

Tagging: @monbebe26-monstax @mxillusion @mx-sfthrs @pillowfluffs (Also whoever else wants to!)