#Cultural Intrigue

[tibli]

i have been trying to figure out why the whole 'fae god' and katniss everdeen things with kendrick lamar on here were bothering me, and i think i finally put it into words.

most posts like that are probably coming from well-meaning white people (i am also partially a White People, to be clear), who otherwise dont really listen to rap. they cannot find a way to 'relate' to this black man who sings largely about issues that affect the black community– and rather than try and meet him where he is, they have to fit him into these little tumblr cultural boxes before he can be 'palatable' to them.

they have to shave off the rougher/more abrasive aspects of his work and activism because it makes them uncomfortable, that way they can pigeonhole him into something that allows them to enjoy his work without the critical analysis that MUST come with it

he is not your fae god, he is not a YA protagonist, he is not a little gremlin or a cinnamon roll or a blorbo. He is a human being with opinions and beliefs that deeply permeate his work, and to ignore that truth is to ignore the entire point. PLEASE try to engage with artists' work outside of the lens of tumblr fandom, and i mean that as nicely as possible. you are doing YOURSELF a disservice

[mxystan]

taiwan travelogue by yang shuangzi tr. lin king is indeed an award-winning banger and perhaps the first time in my life i've ever felt vindicated for dual-wielding a novel with its english translation because the act of translation itself is such a big theme in the novel. big win for metafiction-obsessed himejin everywhere!!

[fereldanwench]

i was pretty sure i was gonna like emmrich but i can't get over how charming he is

i'm really fighting to finish my first run before i make another rook to smooch him :3

[stupidnicknamehere]

On Senna and the grooming allegations.

Half Brazilian here too! Although I have never been to Brazil, I am from another Latin American country. I find that many foreigners don't understand the Latin American context, especially in the 70s/80s.

It took a lot of courage to touch on this controversial topic. Please read at your own risk.

Our countries, to this day, are considered emerging zones. Poverty, violence, crisis and political instability are something we have had to learn to live with.

Sadly, age was not taken into account as much as convenience and economic security. Families, especially wealthy ones, sought to ensure economic well-being rather than healthy and happy relationships. Marriage is an agreement to protect the spouses, ignoring whether they were mentally or physically prepared for what it meant. These are practices that still continue to this day in some parts, therefore, the perception of moral standards was extremely different; this is told to you by someone whose grandmother married a man in his twenties at 14.

Was that wrong? Of course it was, many things were wrong at that time.

When Ayrton Senna mentioned in that interview for Playboy that he lost his virginity at 13 when his cousin took him to an adult prostitute (and as this was already considered late for his culture) it doesn't seem to have raised many outraged voices, not even to this day, which honestly worries me. Adriane Yamin was already 18 (legal age of consent in many countries) when she had intimacy with Senna, as told by herself. Senna was only 13, THIRTEEN, not even the age of consent in Brazil, which is 14. I don't think you understand how much this shit marks you, how much it traumatizes and affects your life.

The truth is, Senna's family was extremely controlling, and they needed to approve (choose) their girlfriends. Ayrton's marriage to Lilian was basically an arranged marriage. The same happened with Adriane Yamin, whose relationship was cultivated and strictly controlled by both families. An engagement was arranged for 1989, but Senna broke it off. He did not want to get married.

Perhaps this is, at least in part, the reason why this man was so keen to have control in his life as a public figure and as a driver, he wanted everything to go his way. It does not seem that many things in his early life were his decision, but it seems that deciding to return to England after announcing his retirement as a racing driver in 1981 was the incentive he needed. Well, here I am already falling into the territory of speculation, but I think I have made my point.

Say whatever about Ayton Senna, hate him or love him, the man is no longer with us to defend himself or speak for himself. However, I believe that judging him under current social values, ignoring the cultural and historical context in which he lived is unfair. It is unfair to all the people of Brazil and to the rest of Latin America. We're striving to change for the better.

[flour-is-a-spice]

The potential friendship between Connor and North is something that really interests me. Would she ever trust truly him? And if she did, what would their dynamic be?

[phoenixtakaramono]

Hi I just wanted to say I absolutely love your fic The Untold Tale so far. The way our favorite emperor is already obsessed with our favorite oblivious idiot is just perfection. You’re an incredible writing and all your fics are amazing. I can’t wait to see what you write next!

This is in reference to The Untold Tale (AO3 🔗).

Thank you very much for reading, anon! 🫶 I’m very happy there are still readers who are waiting for the next update and I’m very excited to return after I finish writing Truce ch3. 🥰 Honestly, after reading the Bingge vs Bingmei extra after SVSSS, my heart broke reading the passage where Bingge entreats Shen Qingqiu (Shen Yuan) to come with him and obviously gets rejected because Luo Binghe (Bingmei) won’t have his husband bride-napped even if it’s the PIDW version of himself and wanted to try my hand at writing a bingyuan story where our blackened Luo Binghe does get a version of Shen Yuan that’s tailor-made just for him. It also presented me an excuse to play around with a C-novel style of writing and granted me a small opportunity to write about my culture :) which is very rare for a writer. And I love it 💞 we also get to play with C-novel & C-drama stereotypes that I can playfully poke fun at and hope y’all find as subtly funny as I do . Playing with meta is very much aligned with the spirit of SVSSS, and this story was always intended to be a love letter to the novel series that got me through the pandemic and introduced me to the danmei genre.

I’m very excited when we return! I’ve got a lotta fun things planned. :) For the next chapter, we’re meeting the Jade Emperor. With SY being a celestial fortuneteller, we’re also meeting Shen Yuan’s PIDW equivalent family. After that chapter is the Moshang introduction chapter I’m most excited about because it’s the reveal of ✈️’s identity (and my illustration of him embedded in the chapter itself). It’s technically been foreshadowed already who he might be but you will never be able to guess who Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky transmigrated into in this new setting in PIDW in The Untold Tale. ✈️ can only blame his fellow novelist SY for this. He’s both lucky and unlucky. 😔😂

[ledetlore]

Explaining

Okay so this is very fair (all of the people not native to the UK I am so sorry) so let me explain!

So, first thing you need to know is that Brighton is the gayest city in the UK - it's a coastal city with more gay clubs and cafes than sense. I love going to visit, and it's the exact place Kremy would go - so much culture and vibes.

Hertfordshire is where I am from (doxxing myself I know) and we tend to say we're north of London because rightfully, the UK mocks Hertfordshire. But then, the UK mocks everywhere, so we aren't even special there. This is the most boring place on earth but we are in the green belt, meaning we have a lot of farmland and greenery around the towns.

So this is a mix of Received Pronunciation and more Casual Pronunciation - which I will explain now.

RP is also known as 'Queen's English' (fuck the monarchy, I am not talking about the fuckin' king rn) - it's posh. It's the English used in Bridgerton and in Pride and Prejudice - the high class accent, if you will. Very proper. You might code switch to RP in an important meeting or when presenting something; it's seen as high class and intelligent. Don't let me get into the classism please I am slightly tipsy. Hertfordshire people (again, basing this on the shrinking middle class) tend to use RP in almost a more casual way - using slang and dropping occasional letters, but mostly staying on course with the register.

So Kremy speaks like this to appear more intelligent and more personable.

Now, on to Sheffield - home of the Arctic Monkeys, who I suggest having a listen to for the accent. Northern Accents are a point of contention - a lot of southerners tend to both mock and sexualise them in equal measure.

Charity Shops are like thrift shops but all donations go to the charity - it's second hand stuff pretty much.

Unikorn is a punk/goth shop in the UK. Yes I go. No I can't afford anything.

WHSmith is a bookshop, and so is Waterstones, but Waterstones is a bit more high-end, and is liked a lot more too. Mmmm Waterstones cafe.

Some other bits that may help:

Thatcher - worst woman on earth. Grave is a public bathroom because she fucking sucks. I hate her. Like Reagan but in the UK and also a woman. #feminism

Gammy - just means fucked up really. Bad knee and stuff.

Cambridge is harder to get into than Oxford but Oxford has the more famous Alumni.

Societies - like clubs in Uni but like. Worse.

Bedford - where I attend Uni. Oh my perfect little shithole. <3

Tesco Meal Deal - oh brother, it used to be so good, but it just got upped to £3.60 (with a clubcard) and I can FEEL the recession hitting. Sandwich Drink Snack.

Man United and Man City - the two big football teams from Manchester. They HATE each other violently. God never ask a Man City supporter about Man United because you will be EVISCERATED. Or do it for a laugh why not.

Football/Footie - the nation's beloved. Everyone loves it, you can't escape it. If you don't get it, like me, you're an outsider. It's okay - cheer when the crowd does and the chants come pretty naturally, no one will ever know. I swap the team I support and keep it fucking quiet. Best way is to wait for World Cup and just shout 'COME ON ENGERLAAAAAND'. It has worked well for me :3

Pink velvet tracksuit - normally the sign of a spoiled kid, but Gricko buys these things without her asking because she hates shopping.

Pound coins for the sweet machine - its a machine where you can get shitty tubs of shitty sweets for a pound. Very delicious. Not worth a pound.

J2O - just a fruit drink in a glass bottle. Yummie <3

Jeremy Kyle - Like Dr Phil but he doesn't fix them, he makes the issues worse and puts them on TV. Morally awful but it's the thing you get sucked into watching - just trashy trashy TV. Only picks on working class people because he fucking sucks.

[thatsparrow]

giving psych another go after having watched the first season and a bit a couple years ago before stopping because I hadn't really been feeling it

only like six or seven eps in this time, and I am enjoying it, and I would like to stick with it this time, but god, now I do remember why I gave up on it in the first place. for all the show has going for it (which is a lot!) so much of the tone (and shawn is usually the biggest offender) falls back on those really insufferable attitudes from the mid ’00s of like. hit on every woman you see, getting laid is always the biggest priority. kneejerk disdain for anything nerdy or "uncool." I'm a guy and that means I care about porn and sports and that's it

[princeofhags]

Yrliet's conversation early on where she complains of a crew member propositioning her got me thinking. The level of disgust she leveled at the idea of being intimate with a mon-keigh...Marazhai does not show that same reluctance.

Which is not at all due to him believing humans are equal to Aeldari in any way. Rather, I think it's more that the Drukhari revel in the profane and taboo. Several times he does things and then explicitly looks for a reaction, hoping to disgust or disturb. I put forth that (at least his initial) ease at the idea of sleeping with humans is because of how 'low' it is. 'Look, I'm fornicating with the mon-keigh. Isn't that gross? Are you going to cry and throw up about it? Please at least feel a modicum of disgust so I can feed off of it. Please.'

...does this make the Lord Captain his fetish? Asking for the class.

[jakeperalta]

I'm sorry to this author who is probably just trying very hard to promote something they worked hard on but my god nothing has ever made me want to read a book less than this advert

[aphverse-confessions]

I don't think rewriters are bad people for not writing every single character as a good person. The canon series doesn't even make them all good. Including the uncomfortable and dark content doesn't make people bad or mean they support it.

With the recent influx of cannibalism, do we seriously believe those people support eating folks? No. Why do we think or assume people are evil or bad for writing other similarly dark themes? A lot of people include themes of abuse, like making parents bad, because it's an outlet for themselves, do we just hate venting and victims? It's weird.

( not "proship". just think it's weird to shun or attack people for writing abusive garte or keeping the whole ein thing)

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[batw1nggg]

we all agree that hajime is mixed brown + japanese but what specific country do u guys think the brown is from !! i love to see all the different headcanons

[yappacadaver]

broooooooooooo i really really REALLY prefer a non-MW rook + emmrich i just really do T_T

[galactic-rhea]

i'm willing to give disney each and every penny of my savings to make them let u make a show on padme

Thank you for your trust in me 😔🙌

Disney won't even have to pay a plane ticket, i could hide in a box along with the luggage

[mariocki]

The Black Room (1982)

"I just want to know one thing up front: are there any restrictions?"

"Restrictions? No, none. This isn't the YMCA."

[fiercestpurpose]

The “Marauders fandom” is bizarre to me bc

a) many of them are babies (teens on TikTok) so this isn’t even the Harry Potter generation (for the most part, obviously there are adults in it) and also I don’t even have any idea how you make fandom content on TikTok bc I am the crypt keeper

b) their “canon” is based around one particular fanfic and other fanon interpretations as well as and often more than the original books/movies, so the relationship between the Marauders fandom and the rest of Harry Potter fandom is pretty nonexistent (and you would not believe some of the characters they have chosen to focus on)

c) many of them see absolutely no moral issue with engaging with JKR’s work, probably as a result of the two previous points, like they don’t remember JKR’s fall from grace, to them she’s always been an internet crazy, but they also don’t consider themselves to actually be engaging with her work