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Surprise! It's not Hazbin Hotel, shock horror... but happy pride month! I like this Mordecai headcanon (edit: I've since been told that it's canon!)
#sorry if he ended up sounding british here#i don't know if garish is an american term let alone a prohibition-era one#but I do what I want /j#also I'm painfully aware that the composition in the full image is terrible but I wanted to include my Very Funny Dialogue#lackadaisy#lackadaisy cats#lackadaisy fanart#lackadaisy mordecai#mordecai heller#pride month#ace pride#asexual#boozecats#<- i love that tag#jeri's art tag for convenience purposes
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I was watching a youtube video and the subject of this food came up and there was a heated debate about it so I want to know:

#foodstuffs#food#puppy chow#muddy buddies#monkey munch#chex mix#I'm sorry if this is a painfully American poll#I live in America and do not know if anyone outside of America knows what it is.#if you know what this is and *don't* live in America I would be especially curious to know your answer tho
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I MEAN but wouldn't that be an incredible isekai series??
a modern princess whose job is basically just being a beautiful figurehead
grows bored with her vapid role in life and withdraws from society, riddled with ennui
only to fall into a fantasy realm where princesses have real political power
as well as important responsibilities that her subjects depend upon
and at first it's a comedy of errors as she realizes that none of her training prepared her for this
but then she grows as a person and applies herself to learning how to guide and guard this kingdom
and becomes the powerful and just princess she was always meant to be
...so I guess apparently my new favorite conspiracy theory is that kate's shoujo manga just underwent a MASSIVE genre switch.
#realistic royal meet-cutes are OUT fantasy realms in need of strong leadership are IN#I don't know what the hell is in WOW I've never played it I just made up a fantasy realm in my head#I'm an American so being anti-monarchist is in my blood#but along with the magic and mythical creatures part of the fantasy is that monarchies are cool here#so that's all right#kategate#kate middleton
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last part! 3/3
Ran would like it very much if random detectives stopped dropping in to steal her detectives away
Context | Girl's Side
#dcmk#detective conan#mouri ran#sera masumi#hakuba saguru#my art#sera canonically speaks the queen's english apparently#and i know she only “slips up” pretending to be american when she wants conan to notice#but i also 100% believe the only reason she has gotten away with it so far is bc she's in japan#rip to conan who took 5 years to work it out but professional brit hakuba saguru is built different#also in that red woman case- sera was like 'isn't this bat too thin?' to imply that she's only seen cricket bats#what are you on about sera you grew up in japan you lived there for 13 years you know what baseball is#and in fact if she was an english high school girl she probably played more rounders than cricket but that's ok#i don't expect gosho to do that much research about the uk
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i love that viktor is czech i love everything about it. my favourtie is when jayvik people make him call jayce a "dobrý chlapec" because they used google translate i love you so much everybody.....
a little guide on calling jayce a "good boy" in czech: "dobrý chlapec" is kinda like calling him a "sensible young man" skjdfh. "dobrý" is a very literal translation of "good", its use is like "good day, everybody", not like "a well-behaved dog". "chlapec" is super formal, it's like how heimerdinger calls people "my boy", not like anything familial or intimate.
you might want to probably use "hodný kluk", literally translating to "kind boy" or "nice boy", closer to what we use for praise. (a more casual version is "hodnej kluk", as i can't imagine they'd use formal czech in the lanes.) he could even just say "hodný"/"hodnej", as we often use just the adjective for nicknames and such. (if you ever see a slavic character call someone "hey, [adjective] one!" that's what that is, english is weird with this aslkh)
that being said: there is nothing wrong with using google translate!!! it's incredibly sweet nonetheless, i really don't mind any mistakes ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ i grew up learning english in fandom so i know first hand how hard it is :]
#i'm writing a fic with his czech heritage centered and it's like. healing my inner child sldkfjg#what was that? a european kid forced to assimilate into american culture to spend time in online fandom spaces?#eventually learning to find their culture and heritage alien to them and cringe?#never seen that happen before#it's amazing that so much of the fandom has embraced his czech-ness and it's incredible that i get to feel welcomed in a space like this.#i'm queer‚ i know english‚ i never felt like i Wasn't welcome. but i have never felt This celebrated#i love you everybody ♡♡♡♡♡♡#jayvik#jayce#viktor#viktor arcane#jayce talis#jayce x viktor#arcane#league of legends#czech viktor#i Will make an infographic on czech petnames i just don't know how to format it yet lmao
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Hello everyone here's a comic that was spontaneous and definitely not planned in advance for @is-nino-actually-luka to avoid having to draw anybody!!! Also @is-nino-actually-luka had nothing to do with this comic what are you talking about!!!!!!!
#is-nino-actually-luka#<- whoops don't know why i tagged that!!!#мой рисунок#мой пост#is-nino-actually-luka got to witness me speaking russian today actually. i mean haha what#ml#ml comic#miraculous#miraculous ladybug#ladynoir#is-nino-actually-luka also got to witness me furiously drawing and erasing over and over again#i mean hahahahaha what!!!!!!!#Hamsternamedmarinette's Great American Tumblr Mutual Road Trip
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hello kids i haven't done a controversial post in a while but i am filled with rage so here goes. louis' coming to india next week and i have already seen way too many pointed comments towards that and let me say this plain and straight: you're fucking racist. this is the first time ever in 15 years that we are getting a 1d member to come to india and yes we're enthusiastic about it and we're going to be loud and going to bring out our desiness to show louis how much we love him and to give him a glimpse of our culture. if any non-asian people can't understand that vigour then you can fuck off because it's not your country nor your culture. we love loudly and we want him to see that just as much as we've waited for him, it was definitely worth a visit for him as well. i know there's main non-asian people coming to the show, which honestly is a whole other rant, but hey if you have money and wanna spend it who am i to say anything. all i'm saying is come here as a guest and leave as one. do not for one fucking second compare or comment about how us desis are different from you whites because of course we are. different cultures, remember? also to those people who have made comments like "i hate that louis might debut a new song at a show that's not mine and is in fucking india" suck my fucking dick. why can't you just accept that we deserve it too? why can't you let go of your superiority and accept that not everything needs to happen in a first world country? that is plain racist and i hope you get your privilege under check before tuning into the instagram live of louis' set next sunday.
#there's so many things that white people do that baffle our desi minds too but we don't comment on it or throw vile unnecessary comments#why can't you fucking just do the same?#there's still so much i wanted to add but i am not coherent right now and it'll just be unnecessary swearing so i'll shut up for now#latin americans i love u because i know u'll understand exactly what we'll be going through next week#at this point i'm so pissed i might actually reveal the url of who made that fucking comment
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Adaine and Aelwyn: Bite the Hand
#fantasy high#d20 fantasy high#fantasy high sophomore year#fantasy high junior year#fantasy high freshman year#i actually don't know what years this is idk American education system sorry#dimension 20#adaine abernant#adaine o'shaughnessey#aelwyn abernant#siobhan thompson#brennan lee mulligan#dimension 20 edit#d20 edit#d20 fhsy#dimension 20 fhjy#dimension 20 fhsy#fhsy#colouring this was impossible because Brennan is so fucking pale wtf man go get some sun#boygenius#my edits
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Incorrect, the fact that Biden has dropped out and a candidate with history of supporting medicare for all and being more receptive to a ceasefire in the I/P conflict has made me go from "I cannot morally support the Democratic nominee" to "I am voting for the Democratic nominee despite the fact she isn't perfect in every respect." I'm really happy this played out. The Dems for the most part abandoned the old Obama platform and it feels like its possible an actual progressive agenda could come to pass in my lifetime.
Kamala 2024!
If you weren't going to vote Democratic in this election before Biden dropped out you're a dorkass loser who does not care about any of the issues you're yammering about here and also a fundamentally bad person, and I hope you get run over by a bus.
But you got one thing right in all of this gibberish, Kamala 2024.
#personal#answered#anonymous#i mean let's be clear here no president is gonna attempt to be progressive ever again within my lifetime#because joe biden tried to do like 25% of that and got ZERO fucking credit#he did so much on healthcare on reform on loans on so many social issues and for all his litany of failings on i/p#he has been distinctly harsher on netanyahu than a good chunk of dems and certainly the entire republican party#for the first time since i was four we are not involved in any wars as americans and that is thanks to joe biden#but the thing is that he gets no credit for any of it!#him pulling out of afghanistan caused his approvals to tank in a way that never recovered#and leftists gave him FUCK ALL for it#they gave him nothing they just continued whining that even tho he cancelled a bajillion in student loans#he didn't actually cancel a QUADRILLION dollars so both parties are the same and voting is the most arduous task known to man#no democrat who is running is going to forget that catering to leftist/progressive policies gets them zero leeway with those supporters#that it not only tanks numbers but you still get constant haranguing about it anyway#so they're not gonna do it#we are gonna get fuckall for at least a good fifty years#and anything we get will be utterly in SPITE of people like you anon it will happen in spite of everything you've done#mostly because of people like me and mine who understand that voting is the bare minimum#and that for the democratic process to work the way you want it to you need to participate and not pitch a fucking fit#like a four year old who was told they can't go to disney this weekend#like i know you ratfuckers are happy this played out because this is all a game to you and you don't actually care#but that's why i've got zero faith in you people and why i'm glad it's my kind of folks#actual die hard democrats who have always been hardliners for supporting democrats in every possible election#who are picking up the slack and donating to harris and supporting her agenda#which is the exact same as biden's because she's his vice president and they share they same platform#because that's what they were both running on! twice!#anyway fuck you please feel free to find a necktie and test how tall your doorframe is
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Does anybody else wishes that one time Jaskier would just loose it and go apeshit instead of doing his usual coping mechanism joke
#jaskier#the witcher#the witcher netflix#twn#twn spoilers#spoilers#the witcher netflix spoilers#american series#she says it like its geralt who writes the songs and jaskier steals it or smth#yeah inspiration from witnessing stuff first hand is important#but when you take into the account risk that goes along with it for a weak human like jask#you cannot reduce what he is doing just to self interest#even if you don't know him
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A true and 100% historically accurate account of Hamilton's first meeting with Andre
+ Bonus Lafayette
#No idea what my deal is this week#wahoo#alexander hamilton#john andre#amrev#art tag#now expand the post or these tags wont make sense#excuse me while I use these weird little sketches to vent some wildly complex feelings about American identity#theres something to be said about the way Lafayette and Hamilton express opposing views of humanity#in a way that is deeply connected to both how they view their “americanness”#and also the fact that only one of them was insanely fucking wealthy#theres cynicism born from poverty and a pervasive sense of otherness#vs a sort of naive hopefulness coming from wealth that isolated in an entirely different way#and they're brothers#I don't know what Im cooking but its something#marquis de lafayette#might as well tag him at this point#this was supposed to be a shitpost how did I get here
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[ID: A digital illustration of Orym from Critical Role. He is visible from the waist up, wearing modern style clothing, including a green crop top with a simple design of clouds on it and dangly sword earrings. He is also wearing a friendship bracelet that is blue and two different shades of green. He is eating a blue ice lolly and his nails are painted the same green as his shirt. End description.]
It's been legitimately warm where I live lately so it's time for deeply self indulgent seasonal art of my favourite guy
#orym#orym of the air ashari#my art#critical role#critical role fanart#bell's hells#bells hells#food#please do not come for me for calling it an ice lolly i don't know what americans call them
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Trans dude whose favourite NFL team are the Packers
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#nonbinary#trans meme#do NOT talk NFL with me though because i don't care for american football#i know how the game generally goes but i was a band kid#my friend was an angel for reminding me about this#im now a Packers fan just because of how meta this is holy shit#ngl though wisconsin does not feel like a real state and i always forget it exists#actually anything too north or deep in the midwest just doesn't seem real to me#actually this is goving me an existential crisis because what do you MEAN these states are actually real#(yes i know these states are real and i have always known they exist. i just never hear shit from them so i always forgor they exist)#i wonder if people do that with my state (insert [REDACTED] state)
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The world if people stopped applying their understanding of "conservatism" and "religion/christianity" through a very modern, deeply American view onto Death Note (a manga from the Early-mid 2000s which is very much set in the cultural and societal context of early-mid 2000s Japan and all that entails):

#death note#fandom wank#i just be ramblin#listen I get it there's christian imagery#it's not bad to go over what that entails and whatnot. fun even#but beyond some potential parallels and symbols you have to understand that this is a japanese story set in japan in the early-mid 2000s#(and later an imagined 'future' from there)#you are not understanding the story if you're placing the characters on a political spectrum of beliefs based on what conservatism looks#like to you#you're superimposing your personal modern experiences and your country's societal/cultural state onto Death Note and it's characters and#calling it 'a reading'#I genuinely don't know how many more times I can endure people acting like Soichiro Yagami and Teru Mikami have the exact same set of#beliefs and religion and standards as a Southern USA republican/ultra conservative super christian#Or hell. People assuming that Light Yagami can't ever be relatable because someone like Light looks to them like a teacher's wet dream of a#perfect student who is always working hard and studying#when the truth is that while Light is the top student in Japan at one point‚ everything he is doing is within the realm of expectation for#'good' Japanese students. Not exceptional or supernatural or beyond dedicated. Good.#This is a manga where the time period and the setting and society at the time are deeply important#And you will never hope to have an understanding by forcing it to conform to what 'normal' society looks like to you#relating to character's experiences can go beyond relating and end up in territory where you're superimposing your experiences onto their#fictional reality and calling it canon#edit (because people put some good tags on this post): even though I was kind of vague about it this also goes for assuming that#christianity is the only possible religion any characters could be into#the options aren't either athiesm or christianity. there are other big religions in Japan#and in the same way Christianity colors American society and experiences even for people who have never practiced‚ so goes the way society#and people's general beliefs are influenced by Japan's major religions#the person in the tags who mentioned Shinto gets a cookie
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Y'all I was praying a handsome, dark haired, swol, bisexual man would come into my life and god really said "🥺 sorry we had other plans".
#luigi mangione#I'm not even Christian but if that's not divine intervention I don't know what is#I know I keep posting about this but I'm sorry I'm American and after 3 failed epidurals I got slapped with a 6k bill#after years and years of gun violence against children it is literally a godsend that this happened#I was so down about the future after the election but now I actually genuinely feel hopeful#united states
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I understand now. I understand all of it.
All those times politicians claimed something was "too complicated" "not that simple" "we don't have the money" it's all lies to keep us complacent.
They did it about the situation is Israel. "It's too complicated" everyone said. It didn't look complicated when I did my own research, away from those shitty think pieces talking down to me. Israel was a state built off the blood of Palestinians, and they simply do not want you to think about it. Because there is oil in the middle east and Israel is our only "Ally"
Wow, so complicated! The complicated part being that our media is tricking us into thinking this is so complex so they can be evil in plain sight: yes, so complicated of a situation!!
And today I wake up to find that the House of Representatives (the lowest level of US government) has passed a bill offering 14 billion to Israel! It will go to the Senate to vote. Wow, billion with a B huh? I got a question for you.
Where the fuck did we get enough money to fund genocide? Where the hell was all this money when it comes to supporting the Americans you politicians claim to be representing? Where was this money for free college, universal Healthcare, covid precautions, the climate crisis??
"It's just too complicated! You'll make us do cuts on other programs! You'll make us raise taxes!! Think of the taxes!!!"
Then where did this money come from? Oh, the IRS, the fucking company that handles our taxes??? Yeah????? That was an option? Why wasn't it an option before but it is now? Were they over funded and we just didn't notice until now? Or are you taking advantage of the situation to cut funding to another service you hate?? The point being: if they really want something, they can find the fucking money. They haven't because they don't want to.
It's never been complicated. It's their job to move money around. It's their fucking job to raise our taxes and provide for us, but the only people they truly represent are the ones filling their pockets with lobby money. They could have done this long ago, given us what we've been demanding, but they coddled us and said it was too complicated and our baby brains couldn't handle it. And God forbid you be a woman!! That means you're double unable to understand!
Enough. Fucking enough. Every year congress votes to increase their wages and refuses to raise our minimum wage. Every year they take advantage of their medical insurance and benefits they get for "representing" us when nearly every adult I know is left to suffer with their conditions: untreated sicknesses, chronic conditions, the depression that looms over us because we live in the most wealthy country in the world but we can't make ends meet and our government is more concern with funding armies that feeding and housing us
Politics was never complicated. They just told us it was. To shut us up. To make us feel young and idealistic and stupid. And we fell for it. And now evil is moving through the wills of our leaders IN OUR FUCKING NAMES to support a genocide in the middle east. Their only crime was being born on that land. Their only crime is being Arab. That's not a fucking crime.
Our system isn't complicated. It's working as intended. Keep the people blind and claim that it's too hard, leave all the details to them. But we are smarter than they are. We are informed. The world is connected like never before and I refuse to let their propaganda ever reach me again.
Hold them accountable. Know their names. Write it in the history books. Let their legacy be known to the end of times.
Be loud about your anger. Go to protests. Write your reps to tell them your vote is on the line. And for God's sake vote in the damned elections!
THE IDEA THAT YOUR VOTE DOESN'T MATTER IS PROPOGANDA. THEY WANT YOU TO FEEL USELESS. THEY WANT YOU TO GIVE UP SO THEY STAY IN POWER.
They want you to think it's complicated. It never has been. Be loud. Vote. Use your right to protest. Use your right to free speech. Use your right to petition. Next Tuesday is election day. Make it fucking count.
#american politics#free palestine#Rika rants#Don't tell me to calm down it's freaking me out that you're not freaking out#social justice#What else can I put here?? That I'm tired? That I'm pissed? That I'm wanting to yell to Biden's face that he's a murderer???#My therapist told me to stop looking at the news for my mental health and I don't feel I get that luxury due to you know#Don't stop talking about Palestine
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