#Festival of Politics

[markagorman]

Edinburgh Festival and Fringe and Festival of Politics: Day 22 - 23

Oh I’m tired mate. It’s really had to keep up and with this final long weekend push ahead I hope I make it to Tuesday and normality. Someone said to me yesterday that it’s been an unremarkable Festival but I beg to differ. There’s gold out there but you need to look carefully. This is where research pays off. Thursday I was a guest at the Amplify Festival where Mihalis hit the back of the net…

[egophiliac]

IT'S BUNNY TIME EVERYBODY

(feat. Dilla)

(bugle accompaniment by Yuu)

[tiana-martinez]

[ohheyaghost]

learning there was another assassination attempt on trump while the squid sisters sing in the background is certainly something I will remember

[an-american-teen-against-crime]

Wanted to include a link to @kit-foley ‘s post here about Josiah Crowley and how Nancy Drew games have and always will be political whether people want them to be or not.

@papenniesandbentoboxes also made a really good point about this on Instagram a few days back as well. Rae mentions the books, and why the games were created, including the different games with political issues in them.

Rae mentions SSH, but I just want to re-iterate how important that game is. I grew up in an extremely Christian, conservative, homeschooled household. I didn’t really meet people different from me. I grew up believing a lot of ignorant things. I didn’t play SSH fully until my teens, but I had played part of it at my cousin’s house when I was really young, maybe like 7 or 8, maybe even before that. I remember being worried, because Alejandro seemed too extreme to me, and was “spreading lies” about the US. I knew if my parents knew about it, they’d say something like ���you shouldn’t be playing that game” and then I’d get it taken away, and if my parents thought something was bad, I should think it was bad too. And also, I thought I was suppose to agree with Nancy.

Later on when I actually played the game, I’d been exposed to more things and agreed with Alejandro, and was annoyed at how dumb they made Nancy sound. But later I realized that was on purpose; Nancy is wrong on purpose, she has an arc in that game and it’s purposefully trying to teach young players- players like me. Despite me initially not being receptive to the messaging, I think it stuck with me, and same for the other games.

Despite not always doing everything correctly, HeR always tried. They always tried to give you different perspectives and I am so so grateful to them for that, and I think I truly do owe a lot of who I am to Nancy and the games.

Anyways this got longer than expected and I always have more thoughts haha but if you guys have any specific moments/plots in the games that really resonated with you or taught you something as a kid I’d love to hear them!!!!!

[wahroh]

It's a political thing.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Remember George's outline notes that had "joy of giving" and "mercy at the gate" for Arya? Mercy is crossed out and we obviously have that as her sample chapter, so what if Arya's next alias is "Joy"? Over-thinking the significance of that phrase and how it could apply to the rest of her Braavos arc🤔

[toruandmidori]

34 counts. 2 words.

Grab the only shirt you need this US election season. 

Available online here.

[dopefoxflower]

Sugarcane è un documentario diretto da Julian Brave NoiseCat ed Emily Kassie, incentrato sulle indagini sugli abusi e sulla scomparsa di bambini in una scuola residenziale in Canada; questo film mette in luce la resilienza delle comunità indigene mentre affrontano traumi storici e cercano giustizia; è stato presentato in anteprima al Sundance ed è stato descritto come un'esplorazione toccante degli impatti intergenerazionali sui popoli nativi.

A partire dal 1894, il governo canadese costrinse i bambini indigeni a frequentare collegi segregati.

Le scuole furono progettate per "liberarsi del problema indiano"; la maggior parte erano gestite dalla chiesa cattolica.

Per anni, gli studenti riferirono di abusi e di compagni scomparsi.

[dreamings-free]

"We were told that BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in"

by Max Pilley | January 1st 2025

Neil Young has said that he has decided to pull out of Glastonbury 2025 as he feels it has become “a corporate turn-off”.

[..]

Writing on his website Neil Young Archives on Tuesday (December 31), he said: “The Chrome Hearts and I were looking forward to playing Glastonbury, one of my all time favorite outdoor gigs. We were told that BBC was now a partner in Glastonbury and wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in.”

“It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way I remember it being,” he continued. “Thanks for coming to see us the last time!”

“We will not be playing Glastonbury on this tour because it is a corporate turn-off, and not for me like it used to be. Hope to see you at one of the other venues on the tour.”

Glastonbury have not yet commented on Young’s comments, and it is not clear what requests the BBC had made to Young. NME have contacted Glastonbury for a response.

-> full article here at nme.com

[omegaspeed]

I just had a player on my team with “TRUMP 2024” as their username and I felt physically sick. Like girl why are you promoting the homophobe transphobe on the gay trans squid game.

[pushing500]

It's the Sims Anon from awhile back, we keep checking your blog for updates and giggled a bit at poor Mechi and his ugly sweater. Thanks for brightening our day by drawing the two boys. XD

I'm glad you liked the ugly sweaters more than Mechi did! 😆

Have some Christmas t-shirts (they are in a desert, after all) and XiaoLiang being his weird self. He's got both the bisexual and the polyamorous traits, and he's always sad because he's not in a relationship.

I like to imagine he's probably got a bit of a crush on the Jones boys (who doesn't? I know I do) and would seize the opportunity to twist Christmas traditions in his favour.

Howdy Holidays, y'all! 🤠❤️🎄

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Sense and Sensibility (1995, Ang Lee)

26/09/2024

[i-merani]

"The Antique" is a Georgian film depicting the mass deportation of Georgians from Russia by Russian government. It is set in 2006, when Russia deported thousands of Georgians from the country. Two years later, in 2008, Russia invaded Georgia.

Today the film about this event is being censored by Russia at the Venice Film Festival. Russia is still fighting against Georgia and tries to conceal the truth about its crimes.

[secretly-a-catamount]

Trying to write fanfic for star wars is hard, because what do you mean the only cultural thing that the wiki has listed for Naboo that they have clothing?? what do you mean??