#british invader

[aphemera]

everyone’s reaction to the kate middleton disappearance is exactly how i imagined the people of sparta reacting to helen’s kidnapping

[faulerro]

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As requested, here’s a subtitled version of my “Urusei Yatsura/Lum the Invader Girl, BBC Dub (2022)” video!

[deathskrang]

hideous new girl

[dvtchie]

Massive swap AU doodle dump post, going from decent quality to lower as you go on learning to draw my swap Zim was kind of a painful experience, as you can see i could NOT keep his face the same help

Some of these were posted to insta, but not all! so consider yourselves lucky

i forgot i already posted the 1st one rip

Do not get heavily inspired by my designs/use them as your own! still adding the date of the ones that were on insta: 2 october 2022

[askdacast]

A friendly reminder that The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is currently 60% off on Steam!

Until August the 6th you can purchase The Great(est) Ace Attorney installment in the franchise for twenty bucks RIGHT NOW!

[txttletale]

victoria 3's economic and internal political gameplay is so good but its diplomacy is inexplicably the worst a paradox game has ever been. just widlly ill-conceived and full of problems they already solved in other games

[hedgehog-moss]

“How was it large enough to fit in one direction but too narrow in the other…??” Well, it's easy! As was demonstrated by Prof. Shadoko in his Shadok Logic (or Logique des Passoires), you only need for the circumference of the hole that the PVC surrounds to be both larger in one direction and smaller in the other than Pirlouit's leg. Hope that helps.

I love you for randomly bringing up Shadok logic! I actually dug up my old Shadok VHS tapes a few years ago and added English subtitles to a bunch of episodes, so my English-speaking kid cousins could discover the series...

For people who don't know this monument of French culture, the Shadoks is an absurdist anti-educational children's programme about bird-shaped aliens whose logic is too evolved to be understood by mere humans.

[coconut530]

SISSY FIGHT

[hermajestytak]

Behold, my worst Invader Zim characterization habit:

Writing Tak as a sophisticated Irken when she's just as chaotic as everyone else in this show✨️

[bluntsam]

i find characters that have distinct ways of talking whether it’s their behavior/dialect or inflection extremely interesting

like i can tell it’s them by the dialog or inflection alone even if it’s not their voice

like it’s the guy! it’s you! i can’t see you but you’re the guy!

[royalberryriku]

The more I learn about the history of the middle east in general, the more I realise that the "Israel-Palestine conflict" is actually just a group killing their own fellow shared ethnic group who are "too brown".

Hebrews and Arabs both originate from Phoenicians, aka "Abraham's descendents" according to their respective oral stories and passed on histories. They are from the same place and people. However, there is a narrative that twists this and claims that Arabs were "always an outside force that invaded", when the various groups within that ethnicity always had their share of cooperation and conflict in various stages of history. Just like, say, the various groups in France. They were of the same group and no particular ethnicity had no more of a "claim" to the land than the other, they just had their beef and eventually integrated.

So when I see "but the Arabs are colonisers" I can't help but ask; what is a colonisers to you? Seriously. If colonisation means "any conflict in the past between a shared group from the same place" every single group would be colonisers. There's no such thing as "an innocent conflict" where atrocities weren't committed by either side. So please get that out of your head if you want to say "but the Arabs did X, Y, Z to the Hebrews so it's colonisation and they don't belong in A, B or C areas". That's just not how colonisation works. It's like calling TERF or cis a slur when they're not. Conflict between the same people from the same area is, yeah, a conflict hit not colonisation. However, a people who are from a completely different place who want to erase an ethnic group and take over their culture, erase their history and get rid of their physical features? Yeah, that's what colonisation is. It's genocide with the aim to erase a specific group or culture and take it and the land over. For example, the British in the Middle East.

The problem with calling Arabs "colonisers" is not only is it completely historically wrong, they're from the same place and have the same origins as the Hebrews, but they (like Palestinian Jews) have been their since before the British came. Compared to European Jews who came later on after having lived in Europe (and became European as that is genuinely a part of their culture and ethnicity as well and shouldn't be erased or forgotten, that's also cultural erasure of Germanic, Polish, etc traditions passed on) and, sure, do have origins there *as well* but it needs to be understood that they, specifically Zionists, are a part of the British colonial project aimed at killing *both* Arabs and Jews. The point isn't to help Jews against a colonisers from the first few centuries (sorry to tell you everyone, but no, the Ottoman Empire, Baylon and the Pharaohs literally do not exist anymore, like how Italy isn't the Roman Empire by default because that's where Rome is), but a group of people who've just been living there for the past few centuries and generations who just want to live. The problem is, they haven't been allowed that and propaganda keeps being pushed that completely jumps around historical facts like, for example, Jews (ethnically speaking) were not always Jews but the Ancient Hebrews, aka, Phoenicians, aka where Arabs came from ethically. They are the same people, just who moved to different areas and developed different cultures and languages. Sort of like, you know, every other nation with specific dialects for specific regions and different cultures and folk stories depending on where you go.

The point is, so much of Jewish history is actively being erased to "protect the Jews" by...commuting cultural genocide of the Jews and Arabs. It ignores the actual impact of Nazism within Israel's formation and history, how much it influenced policy, how Jews who were "too visibly Phoenicians" aka appeared too Jewish or arabic or middle eastern in appearance were deemed as "weaker" and "lesser" for my surviving the holocaust and used as a reason to deny rights to both Jews and Arabs who were too visibly Semitic. It ignores how antisemetic Israel is towards Jewishness and how utterly antisemetic Islamophobia is because they are literally from the same origin and, yes, hatred and fear of one does carry into hatred and fear of the other. So much of the propaganda and denialism of history happening right now is a direct response to dear and hatred of "big noses", "brown skin" and people deemed as too middle eastern because they, just like in World War II, World War I and beforehand, antisemetism is the backbone of British imperialism and conquest of the middle east (yes, this also means a targeting of Arabs and Jews as people who look a specific way). And yes I'm annoyed and yes this is a ramble that's probably not very coherent, but damn I'm so sick and tired of misinformation and the twisting of everything to suit this narrative of "Arabs versus Jews" as if they aren't both just Semites who are being collectively oppressed, erased and reinvented by the west to suit western ends.

[idontknowijuststartedsomething]

doodle from yesterday I spent way to much time on.

I think they would get along very well

[faulerro]

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Urusei Yatsura/Lum the Invader Girl: The Yellow Ribbon, BBC Dub (2022).

FEATURING: @Jabbajacks as Lum @DemonTomatoDave as Megane @AlasdairTurgoo1 as Chibi @eira_ch as Shinobu

[fizzyghosts]

Lrb: the vampire one saying its a fear of sexuality isn't necessarily wrong but I think its not a great thing that peoples knowledge of vampire horror doesnt include the xenophobia

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

Day 778

What if you were trying to be serious and emo and then Santa beat you up

[glockmonkey]

shoutout to the norton anthologies of english literature for actually telling me more about the origin of arthuriana