#country fucker

[flannelepicurean]

Here are 2 things I love in Daima:

1. I'm watching it with subtitles, and they captured Goku's hayseed realness in a chef's kiss way. "Ain't nothin' out here" or some shit. Boy bout to drop a "Yeehaw, y'all!" any goddamn minute. He's not just a himbo, he's a Country Fucker. A Wild Mountain Boi. Makes his behavior make 100000% more sense. He's been in A Society for like 50 years, but you can't un-bump this bumpkin.

2. He legit told Panzy, "Naw, I can't push my hair down, it just goes boing." The boi has FRONDS. Like a palm tree. Confirmed.

[scltbvrns]

homogenising something that has always been inherently diverse will kill us all one day.

[brainrotcharacters]

If I knew "Hey Hugh, you wanna play Wolverine one more time?" "Yeah. Sure, Ryan." Would lead to this I would've jumped on the bandwagon sooner

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Wow, your writing is incredible! The way you handle the romantic moments and the humor it’s all so lively! There's something that really stood out to me though, and I’ve been meaning to ask. It feels like Alfred is always there, even when he’s not. even when he's not in a scene, his presence seems to linger, subtly shaping events, even in moments that don’t seem to be about him at all. Was that intentional?

I'm about two months later for this comment. Apologies, but oh, very much on purpose. But only after a long time of realizing it would happen a lot of the time, even if I didn't mean to.

Alfred is just so overwhelming in so many ways. Americans and American culture are so intense and powerful that it's inescapable. Part of the reason I enjoy writing Jack and Zee in their early lives is that they are an ocean away and know little of Alfred or Americans.

This phenomenon of Alfred haunting the narrative is particularly bad when I'm writing from Matt's pov, but it kind of seeps in no matter what perspective I'm trying to if its related in any way to the US. It's just the most intense for him. It's just how loud and forceful American culture is. American culture stands heavily on a strong foundation. A lot of people overseas will say things akin to "Americans have no culture" or at home, "I have no culture," while just drowning in American media. In opposition, Anglo-Canadians have often been commented upon as building their identity upon not being Americans. An identity often constructed as an Anglo void of "I am not" rather than the French shield of "I am."

And in that void, Americans can still project themselves onto and inside of Anglo-Canadians. Matt has an anchor in French Canadians, especially Quebec, but no shield on earth can keep Alfred out. My Alfred tends to be a New Englander but less in a cultural sense and more in the Lovecraftian sense. Cthulhu-esque. He is so overwhelming. Ten times the population, untold more cultural influence. Something like a Golden Retriever with too many teeth and far too much strength or intelligence and even more power. They are all some kind of eldritch, but Alfred's shows more. It exerts itself on his neighbours and the world. Most can look upon him, hold him, love him, and know him without madness. But live on the edge of that immensity? To not know one's innermost self without the pressure of that which Alfred is? To be so used to that form shaping the world its like gravity vanishing when its presence is gone? Yeah. Alfred is going to haunt the fucken narrative no matter what I do.

But if Alfred's body is more intensely eldritch than normal, his personality is also, in some ways, more intensely human. Isolationism cut him off from many of his own kind of beings. Being hung as a child by his own people for that eldritch nature made him crave the safety of seeing himself in another, in sensing that another sees themselves in him. He's charming and (usually) the gentlest kind of manipulative, the kind who can not only believe his own bullshit but forget its bullshit. He laughs and smiles and exists largely genuinely, that power and confidence born of belief.

He's Matt's brother and the bane of his existence. His nearest neighbour and worst nightmare. He lays damage on Matt and is then the one most likely to drop in to check in on him later. Cthulhu but if Cthulhu was a golden retriever. The void that screams back is also usually rather sweet. The emerging insanity is also the affectionate, indulgent elder brother. If a hurricane could be a hugger.

All that to say, yes. Alfred haunts the narrative the way gravity and American pop culture and soft power haunt the world.

[ganondoodle]

seeing the video of palestinians tearing down the apartheid wall and i cant help but feel a similar kind of joy as when seeing the pictures from when the wall seperating germany fell, with masses of people storming it and helping each other climb qwq

[rotting-inkblot]

I wanna write a stalker!barry or stalker!rafe fic and i cant decide which one i want lol- do i wanna write stalker!barry following after Rafe and being my fav horny bastard creep, or do i wanna write stalker!rafe watching Sofia through cameras and tapping her phone to watch her screen activity? decisions decisions.

[fireflysugarpie]

I can't believe that we're gonna have a Convicted Rapist Felon and Couch Fucker McGee in office 😞

[crabussy]

MULTIPLE people thought I was australian on that poll.... head in hands

[nyaskitten]

Originally I was gonna make some post calling out how ridiculous Her behavior is, vandalizing the Chima Wiki and straight up lying about shit, and just being a very rude and toxic person, but I think at this point everyone knows she is in fact not a nice person.

[sweetfirebird]

When is Mitch McConnell going to die anyway?

[storm-of-feathers]

yikes

[morangoowada]

This app is so American focused, I keep getting ads about American politics and election stuff but. I'm a Brazilian. I really don't give a fuck....

[octavianacidicbreastmilk]

funniest thing abt the targ wig literally making u look octogenarian when u are barely in ur 50s being juxtaposed w grrm describing the targs as these beautiful & elfin & stunning ppl is that it makes westeros the most pro-peepaw and pro-meemaw fucking continent ever created. rejoice

[leviraaaaaa]

Can't stop listening to this one song. It goes something like this-

কারার ঐ লৌহকপাট ভেঙে ফেল কর রে লোপাট রক্ত-জমাট শিকল পূজার পাষাণ-বেদী

ওরে ও তরুণ ঈশান বাজা তোর প্রলয় বিষাণ ধ্বংস নিশান উড়ুক প্রাচীর প্রাচীর ভেদি Rough Translation:

Those iron bars of prison Break them down, strike them out Bloodied chains, the stone-alter to worship Oh you! The youths! Blow out your horns of doom Let the flag of carnage soar, through wall to wall

To you. To the people of my country. To every single person who's out there now, fighting against an unjust system. You bleed and you ache, yet you do not kneel. You run through the streets and scream for justice. You pick up your sticks and stones and stand against guns and bullets. You do not cower, you do not fear. It's extraordinary. It's extraordinary what you do. It's extraordinary the courage you possess, the bravery, the spirit. I am proud. I am proud that I speak the tongue you do. I am proud that I have shared the same soil as yours. I am proud. I see it on the news. Everyday. More dead. More injured. More arrested. I see it again the next day. And the day after that. And I am shocked, I am speechless, I am filled with utter pride and respect because I know you will not stop. You will not stop until every drop of blood is paid for, every last corpse answered for. How arrantly foolish our Government is. How witless do you have to be to not learn your lesson? They think violence is the solution for everything. They think if they can just drop a couple bodies, spill a little blood, send a few behind the bars, it'll all calm down. That we're just a couple of defenseless kids. And that does work. Fear is great. Fear will pump through your blood and incapacitate you. You can use fear to break an entire nation. But only for so long. Fear is great. But rage is greater. 1952, 1969, 1971.

History testifies.

Justice will prevail.

[merevide]

happy 18th birthday to me i guess. fuck this country

[nebulastarss]

You know how wild it is to see comments on YouTube of children going "i subed. im 7"

I did not interact with the YouTube comments until I was a teenager. I have made a grand total of less than 5 comments. Because I'm a pussy who was scared of saying something stupid and having the internet show up at my door to shank me. Yknow. Exactly what I was taught would happen.

And I stare at these comments and I think to myself

'If you knew your address, you would've posted it.'