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piscessunnie · 3 months ago

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#piscessunnie #fashion #it girl #girlblogger #kate moss #kate mess #arctic monkeys #alex turner #cocaine kate #supermodel #brits #british pop culture #rockstar girlfriend

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asdro · 1 year ago

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Mr. Blobby as a human :D

He's just too cute to resist

#mr blobby #british mascot #british culture #british pop culture #mascot #human version #digital illustration #digital art #digital drawing #my art #british #britain #Fanart #Creepy character #meme #meme art #shitpost art

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so-i-did-this-thing · 1 month ago

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Someone just tagged one of my tweedy selfies with "dark academia is problematic" and I'm just dying over here, especially since I associate my look more with riding horses than archiving at the Mütter Museum.

Anyway, "vintage style, not vintage values."

#half of Dark Academia aesthetic posts are of men in waistcoats that make them look like Olive Garden waiters #I am sartorially offended to be confused for that aesthetic lol #this is what happens when an aesthetic movement is built upon pop culture cliches with no understanding of fashion or history #I chuckle at folks who imagine me on some archeological adventure #but what's really in my imagination is being called out to help with lambing season #“dark academia” vibe to me is that shitty couple who cosplay 24/7 as 1920s British Egyptologists #excuse me but I'm larping as a 1930s British country vet

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thebubblesoutlet · 9 months ago

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My twitter feed the last few hours-

-Failed willy wonka experience for kids at Glasgow

-Missing Kate Middleton

-Who yelled at rebecca ferguson?

- Julie ragbeer at the 97 year old diner where they no longer serve coke the old fashioned way

-The weird landing at the top of the stairs

-That tiktok video of swifties crying to exile outside the arena

- Bradley Cooper saying he doesn't love his daughter

- People being surprised that the Mormon tradwife failed to raise the chicken and slaughter it before dinner

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the-cricket-chirps · 6 months ago

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Eduardo Paolozzi, The Sun Dissolves While Man Looks Away From The Unborn Child Mesmerised By The New Technologies, 1988

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ssaalexblake · 2 months ago

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I'm forever astounded at all the Gallifrey/time lord society stanning that goes on in fandom? It's the monkey paw!!!! Read the small print!!!

So much of dw's canon will Entirely pass people by, literally spanning from the earlier years of classic who to the present day, if you can't identify that Gallifreyen society is rotten to the core.

The Doctor couldn't be the hero if they continued to sully themselves in a brutal empire's name.

(it's the british empire. but space. british empire bad. very bad. come on.)

#dw shit #and look okay the doctor is imo #the shittiest hero in pop culture #but they still Are the hero #of the narrative structure of the show #and when you balance that out with the function of the companions #which is to demonstrate equality between this ageless deathless being and regular joe humans #(or not so regular joe humans)#then the underlaying message is that the superiority the empire claims is false #the doctor can be a time lord and a hero and they're still the same as some working class human who can't afford food #anyway empires are Bad and honestly #the show hasn't been bad at showing it #sometimes things you think are cool are Bad #and like sure you could say you don't want to be a part of time lord society you want to be like the doctor who rejects it #i again claim monkey paw and point out how depressed the doctor is So Often #they are quantifiably Not having a good time most of the time #they have to keep humans in their life or the silence will let them think #they either lose everything to won't allow themselves to ever have anything #... i'll stop now but really the space british empire is sooo bad

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starlightseraph · 8 months ago

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it’s been over a month and i’m still not over their cuteness and my own bi panic

#credit to some british pop culture news agency that i can’t remember the name of atm #david tennant #georgia tennant #baftas #baftas 2024 #staged #good omens #doctor who #starlightseraph’s brainrot

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aithusarosekiller · 2 months ago

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Every time someone makes the marauders American a good character withers away and dies

#they're SHAPED by the context of the British socio-political climate what are you doing #'Remus is from Texas' Remus is a perfect example of the struggling *British* working class #the black brothers are THE picture of posh London lads #you cannot have regulus black in America bc he IS a posh Islington prick #you have half of pop culture actually just go away #this is backed up by my American friends 😍🫶#marauders era

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taylorvaughnsaidso · 1 year ago

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So interesting, as an American I just had this conversation not too long ago with a friend from the UK - we were talking about the latest season of You and their depiction of classism of the UK vs US. To put in plainly she explained this exactly, what James is saying.

Michael Gambon seems a little out of touch with that perception if you ask me.

^^^^

#james mcavoy #social issues #british arts #pop culture #gossip #celebrity gossip #the hollywood reporter #classism #equity #equity british trade union #film discussion #theater

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soundslivemagazine · 3 months ago

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In Defence Of Oasis

Exploring the hype behind one of Britain’s most loved and raucous rock n roll bands.

Unless you’ve been living under the most soundproof of rocks this week, you will have heard the news. After a decade and a half of the alluring ‘will-they-won’t-they’ drama, the Gallagher brothers Noel and Liam have rekindled just as suddenly as they’d ended it all backstage at a gig in Paris in 2009.

The rumours abound on social media suddenly began to feel a lot less like fantasies when Oasis, Noel and Liam’s accounts all teased an announcement last Saturday. Oasis had made announcements since their split, usually about anniversaries, merchandise and documentaries, this wasn’t out of the ordinary. In fact, the band would soon be marking 30 years since their era-defining debut album Definitely Maybe came out in August 1994. Singer Liam Gallagher had also threatened to reunite the band on plenty of occasions in the ensuing decade, but never made good on his word. Why should this time have felt different?

In theory, it shouldn’t have. The village eventually loses interest in the boy crying wolf. And yet, when Liam Gallagher stepped onto the Main Stage at Reading festival to perform a headlining set on Sunday and opened with nostalgic on-screen visuals of Oasis, any doubt left in fans’ minds quickly evaporated.

The following Tuesday, the band confirmed what we already knew: Oasis, the biggest Britpop band of the 1990s, were back in action.

The avalanche of articles followed like they hadn’t in over 20 years: Oasis had undoubtedly reignited the fantasies of music magazines and publications that were otherwise scaling down in the face of rising operational costs. We’ve now seen over 20 NME articles, news on the BBC website, a revived radio documentary on BBC 6 Music, countless Rolling Stone thinkpieces, news in SPIN Magazine, the Manchester Evening News, gossip in the rags of the Sun, Mail, Metro. The mural in Manchester. The millions of people that tried to get tickets for the reunion dates that sold out in hours. It’s easy to be sick of it all, to think there wasn’t a band more overrated, overhyped or beloved than Oasis.

But let’s forget the hymns for a moment. Let us re-examine the appeal of the band before the myth: five boys from Manchester who believed in nothing more than the rock ‘n’ roll dream. And certainly, nothing less.

Cast your mind back to 1994, before the success and idolatry, before their songs would be turned into design-for-life anthems, before the band would be permanently woven into the fabric of British music history. Strip all that away and try to imagine hearing a then-relatively unknown Oasis for the first time. Imagine being told that half the band was not yet 22 years old, that they were a new band, releasing their third-ever single? Can you imagine, however simple it may have been lyrically, hearing Live Forever for the first time? In particular, just 4 months after Kurt Cobain’s suicide, after many fans were left feeling like they were staring at the definitive end of an era of honest independent music?

In 1994, Oasis were ’77’s punk all over again. Entering a landscape of artists (a term Liam Gallagher has derided) who internalised their music and recoiled at the notion of explicit success, Oasis were a brash rejection of shoegaze and indie’s philosophies, even going as far as to instruct the presenters of BBC Radio 1’s Evening Sessions to tell the world that Oasis were not an indie band. They were a rock ‘n’ roll band, and a band that dared to aim high, openly and with no apologies (all apologies for the pun).

That was a philosophy they would live by until the bitter end, for better or worse. In a world of falling ambition and no hope, as Britain emerged ravaged by the Thatcher years to find there was nowhere left for its young to go, Oasis were determined to write their own destiny, largely for themselves, but invariably, for their entire generation.

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y2kculture · 2 months ago

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Polaroid Spice Girls “SpiceCam” ad, 1998˙✧˖°📷 ༘ ⋆｡°

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random-brain-dumps · 3 months ago

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POV: You're scrolling through tumblr in 2014 when everyone was obsessed with British pop culture

I have memories of people (especially North Americans) being obsessed with British culture (by British culture I mean English pop culture - nobody cared about the rest of the UK)

I remember seeing pictures of English celebrities and YouTubers, people wanting to move to London, TV shows, BBC, liking the accents, etc.

And of course the Keep Calm and Carry On war posters

There's nothing wrong with liking British culture, of course (I myself like to learn about it and consume the media), but I think it's funny how much people idealized the UK ten years ago and now people are making fun of it all

I feel like people will always idealize a country or culture that isn't their own, like how now people are idealizing Korean pop culture (not hating on Korean culture at all, just an observation)

Anyway, I had this in my head and wanted to share 😃