#( so like the mention about the uk )
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For anyone who is not on Twitter, multiple members of the iwtv Fandom (inkyblotposts, amarawombat and two others) went to the real actual slave plantation they filmed iwtv 1994 at while touring nola and took pictures with a funko pop of movie!Louis (a slave owner), calling it their top priority, rather than yknow, honoring the enslaved black people who lived, were tortured, and died there. They also toured a "haunted plantation" and took loustat ship pictures in st Augustine's, the oldest black catholic church in America (which is currently decommissioned bc the catholic church doesn't want to fix it up but different story) and made the entire history of that church about loustat/the show instead of the over 200 years of history and the enslaved people who built it. So just keep that in mind when interacting with people in this Fandom.
Here is one of the people who went on the trip and took the funko pop pictures
Here are the mentioned apologies
Inky's
Amara's 1st apology
Amara's 2nd apology
#like genuinely how crass#and then to give nonapologies saying you didnt know it was ok cus ur british as if the uk doesnt tech about the slave trade/wasnt involved#DURING THE UKS BHM#like it is so genuinely nasty you dont care about blck people if you do stuff like this and amc has allowed these people to flourish#in this fandom. given them hella opportunities when they are acting like that at slave plantations like how gross#iwtv#interview with the vampire#fandom racism#iwtv racism#st augustins has the same pews the original enslaved parishoners of the church made and you focus on loustat????#this fandom has such a serious antiblack racism problem its awful#no mention of the tomb of the unknown slave no mention of the history just ship location
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Have you thought about collabing with the creators of Clangen?
It would be cool? But from what I know, Clangen really tries to stick close to canon, moreso than I do. They wouldn't be looking to add my clan culture expansions or spirituality overhauls.
So like, sure, if they/a mod maker approached me with an idea or request. Otherwise I'm not sure what we'd collaborate about?
#I want to translate the name file into Clanmew at some point#But another large difference between BB and Clangen is ecological accuracy#Which is something I very intentionally set out to fix#Clangen takes place in a bizarro world mix of the us and uk like canon#The United Statedoms of Englerica#And more specifically canon takes place in the... California/Appalachia/Pennines.#Mostly Appalachia but they mentioned a 'Mountain Vole' in DOTC which is from Cali-fucken-Fornia iirc#Unless it was an accident and they meant ALPINE vole or pygmy vole...#Digressing please do not take any of this as a dig or insult about the ecology stuff. I 10000% understand why they don't do what I do#More than anyone in the world I understand why they would not be super obsessed with ecology#There's absolutely no replacement for coyotes in England. And there is no Gar.#So you can't even do The Garfield Joke if you do what I do#I reintroduced boars so there would be some accurate danger that isn't just offleash dogs#I'm proud of the research I do but it is a lot of work! Work they're already doing on coding a workable game.#Bone babble
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working in an art gallery and talking to a lot of full time artists has given me CRAZY imposter syndrome btw lmao
#i went to a local gallery today (not the one i work in)#and i was looking at this one artists work#and she used a lot of patterns but didnt go up to her#she came up to me as i was looking at her work like ' hi i see youre looking at my work which one do u like most' like okay#i had my headphones on at the time so it did scare me#anyway im really stuck thinking about her work#like shes got this lovely cluttered and messy and chaotic style with still life in one dimension#and she uses pattern and quilt-like grids and so much colour#and the chaos of her work is by far the best part#how nothing stays in their boxes andeverythings falling#its homely and DRAMATIC. which is a mix that doesnt always go together but is held together by the chaos of her work#AND THEN SHE PUTS COLLAGE QUOTES ON IT 'fly high in the sky like a butterfly'#AUUUGGGHHH it pisses me off so much. REALLY? THATS THE BEST QUOTE? no song lyrics no deepp meaning nothing to express the narrative? bitch#love her style but its KITCH shes KITCH her quotes are KITCH her subjects are KITCH <- lives in kitch central of the uk but WHATEVER#by the way im not exagerrating with fly high like a butterfly she really thought that was the quote to describe this chaotic scene like she#eight years old like what the hell. there ere others too the pissed me off#and then i talked to her and she was like. WEIRDLY insistant tht even though she used stencils and that her dughter and husbnd drew anythin#mildly complicated that she had still done a lot of work I HADNT SAID ANYTHING#but she was just BRUSHING OVER whenever i mentioned her patterns and stencils like she was ASHAMED#like what the hell im all for having fun with what you draw but youre three times my age and i can draw a bird better than our adult daught#also i spoke to her turns out she knows my stepdad so that was an odd link but whatever#anyway artists that give me imostersyndrome are my boss who does realism in WATERCOLOUR#oh the woman in the gallery also gave me a printed card whcih was cool since i was going to buy one just to be mad at
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so i'm writing an 8th year fic and h&d are taking a muggle studies class together in which they read one of shakespeare's plays, and i'm trying to write a final project (for which they are partners) but like. hogwarts academics don't seem all that uhhhhh rigorous to me (like we see the students complaining about having to write a foot of parchment which is essentially ONE PAGE HANDWRITTEN) and i'm a little worried that my assignment is too rigorous.
it involves a lot of like. thinking analytically and using your imagination wrt the motivations of people unlike yourself, and that's not rlly something they do much at hogwarts as far as i can see. BUT it is muggle studies, and like. they could definitely all use some practice at those skills, following the recent implosion of their society.
#i showed it to my spouse who is a hs teacher#'where are they getting the books for this research? are there wizarding books about macbeth?' no there are not#the professor chose macbeth bc it has these concepts that will be familiar to them like witchcraft and prophesy#but presented from a muggle perspective#and also bc shakespeare is foundational to english literature and culture and it's good to be familiar with his work#and also bc they don't have a lot of experience with art esp language arts which is so so so sad and this will broaden their world#and ALSO bc shakespeare wrote before the statute of secrecy was signed which hopefully sparks their imaginations#to what extent might shakespeare's work have been impacted by ambient magic? or rumors of magic?#and if they had like a regular english literature education#they could talk about like the role of outcasts in shakespeare's work and whether magical people fit into that role#but they do not so we have to be a bit more literal#for the students that are prepared to like dig into this stuff it could be a very engaging experience#but most of them will prob be a bit lazy with it right? and maybe just resent the assignment and not get much out of it#and like!!!!#this assignment is literally just an excuse to have H&D putting their heads together in the library#and bring their relationship/the fact that they've been warming up to each other and spending time together out into the open#in a plausible deniability sort of way#a friendship soft launch if you will#i get a little carried away about these details sometimes#like if i mention the characters getting sandwiches i will look up menus for places they could plausibly have gotten sandwiches in that are#to make sure the sandwiches i mention are reasonable sandwiches#i heard some dumb story about meghan markle freaking out about not being able to get avocado when she was in the uk#and i remembered a fic i had written where aziraphale and crowley eat egg and avocado sandwiches#and i felt ashamed#an implausible sandwich!!!!
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censored tweets because it's too horrible for me to casually put here but it's so infuriating how people on twitter who build their entire brand on usamerican trans issues literally have 0 empathy for trans people in other countries. these two accounts have hundreds of thousands of followers and erin reed is major source on trans news in the us. so disrespectful and flippant to be using this case (and this thread. which contains graphic details of the murder of a trans teenager. the censored tweet contained slurs.) to make a stupid point about how you think another country's legal system is stupid and wrong because it's different to yours.
#erin reed has been very uscentric before so if this was anything other than this particular case itd just be an eyeroll moment#but seriously? you read the contents of that thread and still have it in you to complain about having to think before you tweet for#5 minutes?#makes me genuinely so mad.#'we had a revolution over this' literally shut UPPP stop doing stupid quips under a tweet about something this serious#not to mention erin reed should absolutely know better than to have originally quoted with her opinion because the original thread#(by a uk trans journalist)#said SO many times that doing that could potentially disrupt the case.#like i try not to get mad online. but come on. come the fuck onnnn.#transphobia /#brianna ghey#tagging because reading about the case made me feel so sick earlier ill understand if people have filtered her name
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Conservative leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has faced criticism after a report she endorsed suggested people with autism get “economic advantages and protections” and “better treatment or equipment at school”.
Genuinely evil woman
#saw this on the i obvs#it’s on the guardian as well#not bbc. curious#ableism#I mean straight up mask off ableism#kemi badenoch#uk politics#economic advantages jfc#like just look at the statistics for unemployed autistic people and you can see how absurd it is#the job market is shit as is but it’s SO FUCKING HARD when part of the barrier to entry is this weird social dance that involves kind of#lying but only the right amount and saying the right things that may or may not be the whole truth#not to mention the increased stress of Going to a New Place to do a New Thing#I’m trying to move out of my parents’ so everything I’m applying for is all across the country#which means I’ll be travelling by public transport (SUPER HARD COS SENSORY ISSUES) to get to any interviews in the first place#and while I hesitate to say I’m “high functioning” cos I’m really not I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 20 and I functioned fine in school#except socially but hey who cares about THAT right it was probably my own fault for being a bit weird
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Love how it took a TikTok to a Gigi Perez song for me to even realise that never, NOT EVEN ONCE, in my Christian Primary School, did I ever learn that gay people exist
#like genuinely lgbtq+ was never even mentioned at all#i didn't even realise that being gay was like an actual thing until i went to secondary school and met a bunch of queer people#people are always like “oh yeah no i've known there was something different since i was really young”#meanwhile it took me years to even realise even though there were obvious signs#(I'M NOT EVEN RELIGIOUS IT'S JUST THAT I WENT TO A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SO NOTHING ABOUT IT WAS EVEN TAUGHT)#lgbtq#lgbtqia+#lgbt#lesbian#demisexual#demiromantic#queer#uk#england#gigi perez
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meronia fauxcest discourse is so fascinating to me as a former member of the spn fandom. like what do you mean they’re problematic because they have vague implications of brotherhood.
#‘kyo is this a vaguepost’ no its not bc im pretty sure everyone who engages in it has me blocked#every so often i just see mentions of the matter#so many people have me blocked i actually live a very peaceful existence in which i only see discourse i wish to see#this is why u should all tag every thought you’ve ever had then make a joking poll about seme/uke discourse that people take too seriously#i went in the tag logged out once and was like oh wow what the fuck#if we are not mutually blocked then ig you are engaging in it in the morally righteous and pure way#which is to say: the way that caters to me personally. the main character
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58. How many hobbies have they attempted to have over their lifetime? Is there a common theme?
For whomever you please! Multiples of 'em if you like! Give us the hobby lore!
>:3!!!!!! Rolling this ask around my enclosure like a pumpkin full of ground beef! So I actually covered Mochiie’s hobbies earlier today- [Here] so I’ll cover some others ùwú! (Full of mischief)
Ishi’li’s hobbies are messy because of his origins: they enjoyed solving Sudoku’s, and playing games, which I’d count as hobbies, but in Eorzea his old hobbies don’t hold up, cos…. Nobody makes Sudoku puzzles… and Games straight up don’t exist, to my knowledge. But he DOES learn to haggle and trade and help run business numbers. He actually genuinely enjoys math (it’s why he picks up Arcanist XD) ….. hm.. He picks up painting, after visiting the First, and subsequently Elpis, and possibly photography (Me and Zombiesock are toying with creation magic making essentially a Sheikah Slate, because due to how we shook out events Ishi is the only one of the cadre of WoL’s to actually be able to go to Elpis and they get frustrated at an inability to show it to everyone else, lmao.) … There’s not much of a common theme, they just like Learning stuff, especially if it can be applied to helping the team, (like Astrology, which is picked up, but kind of as a side gig to everything else that’s going on.) … and honestly it leans heavily into Magic, because it’s unique and interesting even if there’s a constant battle to keep up enough Mana to use it lmfao.
Tuesday likes reading (History, Cookbooks, Travel Guides, YA Short Story Romance), and cooking, even if he can’t like… taste the food he makes for some time (not sure when he gets taste but ah! He shall someday :) ) which means he’s always in need of taste testers- but not Chuu. Who is a walking nightmare for food. (If it’s not easily eaten one handed in some fashion she’s not eating it. She’s been TRYING to care more about what her food tastes like but mostly the fact that she’s gaining weight and eating 3x a day + snacks is an improvement. She LIKES archon loaf. Anyways-) he likes experimenting with textures and smells and spices, so finding people that will eat it and provide feedback is. Nice. He also finds lots of joy in little repeating tasks like, spinning/weaving, and learning to make his own fabrics and garments opens up a whole other world. He’s already out gathering stuff, or shopping, so. Making clothes is it’s own sort of rewarding (and it makes Keathan. So excited, actually. That Tuesday is creating something. For himself???) … I think most of his hobbies stem from a desire to. Find? He’s grasping for what it means to be an Individual and trying stuff and customizing himself in little ways.
🤔 Hobby lore… I’m tryna think if I got anything else interesting knocking around up here. Oh!
Tangy used to have a hobby doing whittling, nothing too crazy, cos she was v small, but it was practice using a knife so she could be more confident later in life when she’d need to skin+ clean game, y’know. …. aaaand then it got lost in the haze of everything Pre 1.0, so she hasn’t done it since, but I like to think if she picked up a little knife in NOT kitchen settings she’d feel some muscle memory kick in for it. Nowadays she likes bird watching, and sooometimes fishing, though there’s not much to catch outside the waking sands that’s suuuper worth eating, she catches lots of small fry… and sometimes a sunburn. Right across the bridge of her snout. Dreadful. I like to think sometime between ARR and Heavensward she starts making little woven jewelry pieces- bracelets and hair ties mostly, but, it keeps her hands occupied and she can always unravel them again and do it over later. So long as she doesn’t give it to someone- if she catches someone leaving she’ll tie a woven bracelet around their wrist and very seriously tell them to come back in one piece. (🤔 Training in hand-to-hand doesn’t really feel like a hobby in Eorzea, where it can be your whole job…. And sorta IS, her job… it’s her main class anyways ahaha. So I’m gonna leave that one off.) …. I don’t think there’s a common theme here aside from being time-fillers that a person can do anywhere without a lot of stuff to do it with 🤔
[Oddly Specific ?’s for if you wanna take a crack at it!]
#ask game#ffxiv Ishi’li#ffxiv Tuesday#ffxiv Tangy#thinkin about hobbies is sooo interesting @uk#Ishi also picks up fashion as a sort of hobby but I don’t have a lot of meat for that so I didn’t. mention it.#it’s mostly about the expression of gender which makes it really wildin when the ancients are like ok but wear this assimilating Robe instea#and they’re like :s ok#…. anyways! excellent distraction from joint pains thank you for he ask ‼️🌸🥰
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this year i really had a module called "british culture" &i got my best grade on it out of all of them this semester
#wooed the corrector/maybe my professor if he was the one doing the correction bu laying out my Television Interest faxxxxx#that were in the textbook we had to read now i know so much about those Isles & i hate the english so much#& i am scotland & ireland biggest fan#i also found the contents of my textbook in some chinese learning(?) website that looked a million years old#like for chinese people who were probably going to the UK to learn about it & its history ETC#the reason why i even retained so much is because i got hooked by the mentions of my TV Interest sprinkled in & it developed from there#like cheese in a mouse trap#shockingly the most i retained is the history bit starting from the iron age to like now ( well the late 90s/2000s anyway )#my professor was probably like wow she really did read the textbook. which i did but only because of the Mentions here & there#otherwise i would not really GAF as much as i did#i am physically incapable of caring about anything unless it is tangentially related to whatever my interest is#which is why i graduated highschool by a miracle from the Heavens last year because i literally had nothing but my Interest#in my mind no matter what i tried especially during prep days. i graduated with a 10/20 flat BTW that is 10.00 ... Trve Miracle
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i hate americans actually
#some idiot on reddit is indignant that i said that i ‘think michael jordan has a shoe brand’ in the context of me listing what I know about#him as a non-american non-basketball fan#on a post discussing who counts as A List in terms of celebrities#like. sorry i don’t know about sneakers or whatever the fuck???#ALSO i got the most patronising reply of my life#in the form of someone else being like it’s so CUTE that you ‘think he has a shoe brand’ it’s ADORABLE#man shut the fuck up#i know about jordans i just wasn’t sure they were associated w michael jordan#but also. do they know anything about any country’s pop culture outside of the us/uk ???? like genuinely ????#in the same thread I had mentioned don bradman and of course americans who aren’t into cricket don’t know who he is !! i wouldn’t expect#them to !!!#but he’s like statistically one of the best athletes of all time so#if you’re mad at me for not knowing much about tom brady or michael jordan#because they’re Great Sportspeople or whatever#come ONNNN
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trying so hard not to be overly optimistic for the general election after the local elections 😵😵😵
#if the election is in october or later like people are predicting then itll be my first time voting as well!!#my mum and i were talking about how amazing itd be for my first time voting to coincide with a labour win similar to 97#my politics teacher has mentioned that she isnt massively optimistic (she wonders if there'll be a coalition)#so im trying to keep my hopes down bc i trust her thoughts on this#but stilllll..... the local elections are making me SO hopeful#uk politics
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some people really do act like gay marriage wasn't only legalized in the US 9 years ago.
#dook dook#11 years ago in the uk and 7 years ago in aus. and so on and so forth#like..i know a lot of kweers on tiktok werent fkn born yet but i am also talking about 30 somethings#i mention us specifically in my post because i mostly only see usamericans talk abt stupid shit like this but it is not just us#it is also other major white & english speaking countries
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be ready for a newsies uk review post hopefully tomorrow because ummm….
pov u are in london for four months and saw newsies today and sat there in utter disbelief and excitement for two hours and fifteen mins
#i feel like a lot have compared this production to live/bway which yeah i’ll mention#but what’s great about this production is that it has literally nothing to do with those ones#also jack is black so that’s already a point to uksies#fizz freaks#newsies#newsies uk#west endsies
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Oooooh cool band you wanna come tour a place and time I can access and also be good amount of money, you want to do that sooo badddd
#THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS. WHRN YOU'RE A FAN. OF UK BANDS. AND NOT IN EUROPE OR USA#pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease#I JUST WANNA SEE BANDS I LIKE LIVE#this is kinda redundand cause im going to a concert in like 2 days but this is specifically about 2 bands i feel i dont need to name#cause i mention them so often#cawcaw motherfucker#music songs
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Listened to the podcast series 'Eight years hard Labour' which is about the Corbyn years of Labour, and they talk a lot about the Labour party internal divide- there was the internal right wing, who were more like centrists, and the internal left wing, which was the Corbyn side. To tell you where I stand on this man: I voted for Labour, and therefore Corbyn, in both the 2017 and 2019 elections but was absolutely not part of his cult of personality, and I found it disturbing how devoted people got so quickly. Mainly the leftist queer people section of my social circle were doing a LOT of facebook meme posting in the run up to particularly the 2019 election. I could literally look down my feed and see a very long, very detailed defense of how Corbyn could not possibly be even the teeniest bit antisemitic, and below that a different Corbyn devotee would be proclaiming that the only reason Jewish Brits would not vote for Corbyn was because they were all too wealthy. I mean....what more conclusion could I possibly draw from that?? I do not care to get caught in the weeds of whether Corbyn knew what was in the fucking mural or not before saying it shouldn't have been removed, and I know the tabloids really did do plenty of smear jobs on him, but the fact that I could see his devoted supporters becoming antisemitic before my eyes was incredibly damning and was all I needed really. Anyway, obviously Corbyn lost the 2019 election by a massive amount and it was a surprise to literally no one except Corbyn's fans who had been in social media meme echo chambers the whole time. Corbyn left the Labour party and now we have Starmer who leaves a lot to be desired, but is still the head of the most left wing mainstream party. But it made me think- what hope is there for left wing politics in the UK? Can we ever hope for a hard left of the left leaning party that doesn't go off in these weird antisemitic, Putin defending directions? (Oh god...imagine Corbyn being PM during the Ukraine war. :S) Do we always have to settle for centrism just to be on the left of the Tories? We have had leftist governments in our history that brought in genuine social change, the formation of the NHS being the biggest example, so it is possible, but why are things so right wing now, and for so long, especially while things are so objectively shitty for so many people? I don't expect anyone has any answers but I want to hope for better. There are massive limitations to party politics, but I'm not an anarchist and I do think running the country is a job someone has to do. I don't know how to make things better, I just know that genuine compassion for all people is needed in order to do it, not just some people, and I don't know if hard left conspiracy types can ever feel that for people they consider their enemy.
#uk politics#i'm just rambling#btw i did comment on both the corbyn defense screed and the 'jews are all rich' screed (2nd one unfriended also)#1st one i said maybe with the same effort someone made in making this long defense corbyn should put that effort into#meeting Jewish populations in the uk and reassuring them! The person posting it was even like '...oh yeah he probably should shouldn't he'#the corbyn campaign in 2019 was a mess anyway which the podcast goes into in more detail#btw the putin defending part comes from Corbyn's response to the poisoning of the Skripals#he said there was no reason to think it was russia and also said we should send the nerve agent to russia for testing#i'm not saying we should be like 'omg red scare russia is attacking!!!!' but there was evidence to suggest it was putin#which only became more clear- not to mention the accidental death of Dawn Sturgess which happened not long after as a consequence#genuinely so fucked up! this all happened in my hometown and the surrounding area so it's particularly close to home#Corbyn just reacted super weirdly to the whole thing- he was the leader of the labour party but behaving like an online commentator#which i assume is a plus for some and a minus for most#i've tried joining a local socialist group twice now and they are pushing for a socialist party in government#but it's all super corbyn-y vibes with them- i swear it takes very little for them to start ranting about how corbyn was smeared or w/e#like...can we move on from this please!!!#and lessons learned- forget it!#anyway i'm done rambling now.
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