#ARE NOT WESTERN EUROPEAN.

[queenburd]

Every day I think about Stanleys big nose and the fact the other employees draw it as a big hooked nose and I go “yeah that guys not a white dude”

[mactiir]

in HEMA (aka historical european fencing), much of the sport is done with fencing masks on, so identifying your clubmates during sparring or tourneys is just based on gear. you know, what color their jacket and pants are, what patches they have on it, how is their mask painted. If someone borrows someone else's jacket it's legitimately jarring, like having someone with an entirely different body type and way of moving stealing your friend's face.

Once i read about historical fishermen in the north sea and how they each had a specific hat pattern that their buddies would use to identity them while they were bundled up. It was so much part of their identity that they were often buried wearing those hats. The gear is like your name, a visual identifier of YOU when you do not have a face.

anyway, back when I was buying gear i got my pants in ELECTRIC blue. I figured i was gonna get a black or grey jacket. but HEMA gear is kind of expensive because it's all custom- or handmade, so instead of spending $400 on a new jacket I picked up one secondhand for like 20. Except the only jacket that fit me was bright, SCARLET red. And I already had my expensive, new, custom, BLUE pants. I look like a damn rocket pop or like, a mixed Icee. I was like, shit! I should switch my jacket before i become the rocket pop guy!!!

Long story short, not only am I now the rocket pop guy, the color scheme has bled into my entire wardrobe. Every-fucking-thing I own is red and blue. I look like a french revolutionary. I look like a founding father in a school play. I have become a northern fisherman in my stripey hat. Now, even if I DO get a new jacket, I feel like I GOTTA buy it in red, yk? Otherwise they won't recognize me. Maybe I won't recognize me. I'm the rocket pop guy!!!

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Vlaho Bukovac (Croatian, 1855-1922) Andromeda, n.d. National Gallery of Slovenia

[jesterpunk]

hello western tumblr user

for every 9/11 joke you make today put your money where ur mouth is and donate to a Palestinian family. u dont get to make light of one of the biggest catalysts of islamaphobia and then turn a blind eye at the genocide . click for a random vetted gaza gfm

[captain-price-unofficially]

Museum display of a British WWI-era pigeon parachute device

[birdblues]

Western Jackdaw & European Fallow Deer

[beescake]

Is it just me or is your solkat giving Good Omens vibes? specifically the way you draw them

goddamn

you're exactly right actually hshajha i did indeed have an old headcanon about this

i think it's cool how homestuck and good omens have had some overlapping fans even in the past!!

the dvkt fic mentioned is To Defy Gods and Devils by amaranthinecanicular (2013) - it was written before the tv show (2019) so i found it quite fun that the author wrote it based on their book perception of gomens

tho i did say slkt so. solkat omens!

[canisalbus]

While they're certainly no dogs, I saw this art and knew instantly who it looked like:

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[kurumeki]

One thing that rubs me so wrong is that Ukraine won last year and UK has "graciously" agreed to host the event, since it cannot happen in Ukraine for obvious reasons, but rather than celebrating Ukraine and their culture and heritage (because Eurovision wants to be impartial), they shove UK heritage down our throats instead. Like... didn't we get enough of that this week with your silly monarchy thing. Give us a break. Celebrate Eastern Europe!

[willthespy]

Nico kissing his loves ones (forehead kisses, etc.) is so European of him yet all the fandom could focus on esp back in the day was if he could handle pasta breaking or not. meanwhile my brother in christ literally went to tartarus twice… go focus on the subtle TRUE stereotypes gang!!

[cfserkgk]

I had a thought --- You know how Conan and Haibara are also the "same age" as Anya and the Eden kids in spy x family? So hence here's Conan and Haibara in the Eden uniforms since I can allow myself to fantasise.

I don't know if this has been done before, but I like coai a very lot, they're my childhood. There's just something about their camaraderie and mutual trust that makes me so happy.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Rafael Romero Barros (Spanish, 1832-1895) Still life with oranges, 1863

[svulkcreature]

impaled mystique 🩸🥀🍄

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[captain-price-unofficially]

Soldier of the 9th Division using two salvaged sewing machines as a writing desk. Fampoux, 21 July 1917.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[actualbird]

one underrated thing i love about tot is how nobody is american. thank god. like, duh, because it's a chinese game and all the characters have varying amounts of inherent chinese elements in their stories (with marius being the Most irrevocably chinese of them all) (sidenote: very funny how obviously chinese marius and his family is, but their eng surname is fuckin VON HAGEN KSBFJ) and they live in a fictional country also. but like idk it's just such a breath of fresh air to me, who used to be in primarily western fandoms. i hated researching about american places and american high schools. i hated having to learn things about new jersey or seattle. thankfully i dont have to do any of that ridiculousness anymore for tot. theyre not american, im safe....im finally safe......

[leaves this text post in the grass and frolicks in the field]