#culture participative

[cheekinpermission]

wdym it's not real

[nyancrimew]

stop sending me fucking callout posts of random people as anon asks "because [i] have a big platform" i dont fucking care i aint posting allat

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

you open yourself up to the devil by celebrating Halloween in the same way you open yourself up to the devil by celebrating St. Paddy's or Mardi Gras.

if you play ouija or try voodoo, you open yourself up to the devil. if you dress in a slutty costume or take psychedelics in a cemetery, you open yourself up to the devil.

likewise, if you get wasted on Guinness in downtown Savannah, you open yourself up to the devil.

if you twerk half-naked for plastic beads on Bourbon Street, you open yourself up to the devil.

these kinds of bacchanalia are by no means inherent to the holidays in question, and in fact, are extremely recent perversions of traditions which go back centuries. Centuries of Christian history.

[trueloveandotherscificoncepts]

BOOP rejected

BOOP rejected

BOOP ACCEPTED!

[bucksboobs]

Yes yes Daddy Kink and all but “[Gerrard] didn’t make me a better person.” Is such a direct confirmation that Tommy has changed and developed in the years since Bobby Begins Again and he’s aware of that! It’s such a good note to add if we’re going to see Tommy more next season and explore how he’s changed especially with the backdrop of Gerrard back at the 118.

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

one of the best parts about being a Catholic is that Halloween is a Catholic holiday <3

[royalarchivist]

The official trailer for Squidcraft 3 just dropped, and it features some of our favorite Spanish-speaking creators from the QSMP!

(Please keep in mind that cameos aren't necessarily an indication of confirmed participants!)

[serpentface]

This was going to be a panel of a little comic but I got too invested in drawing minute background details so, here.

[halfspunthreads-crafts]

Anybody else get weirdly defensive when people are confused why you have a non-monetized crafting hobby? Like, maybe I want to connect to my ancestry, or create unique gifts for my friends, or challenge myself to learn a skill. Or I want to maintain the thousands of years of tradition passed from teacher to student, and in every movement I am mirroring countless crafters throughout time. With every dropped stitch or tangled spool or crooked seam, I can share the same feeling as the generations that came before me and remember that we are not so different.

Or maybe, I don't know, I just like doing it and I don't need to justify my fucking hobbies.

[mortalityplays]

petty bitch moment, but of all the many many many disco elysium fandomisms I despise, kim-as-saviour is one of the interpretations that winds me up the most. he does not save harry. he has no interest in saving harry. it is neither his job nor his personal inclination to save harry. there is no version of events in which harry is 'saved' by the end because the ENTIRE THESIS of his arc, upward or downward, is that he is the only one who can change his own behaviour. A single rpg's worth of straight and narrow neither absolves him of his past nor assures him of a better future, and more to the point, harry is the only person narrativising his actions that way.

the thing kim does that has the potential to change harry's habits, depending on the way you-as-harry choose to react, is offer an opportunity for him to scrap his existing self-narrative and explore a relationship based on a different pattern of behaviour. blowing that internal process up and projecting it onto kim, like kim is special in exactly the right way to transform harry at the moment he needs it most, is exactly the type of pathological, histrionic view of others that typifies harry's past relationships. it's the reason he's still rolling around in self indulgent masochism over Dora. It has very little to do with who she was as a person, it's all about the quasi mythological madonna/whore figure he's turned her into as a supporting character in his own fiction. and that's what I keep seeing fandom interpretation do to kim!!!

tbc I'm not talking about explorations of how any given harry might see kim. I don't care about that, play with the material, mine your own neuroses, go nuts. I'm talking about the strain of fandom brain that narratively casts kim as a healing figure, a vessel of divine intervention, a uniquely patient and forgiving soul, the miracle that brings harry back from the brink. it's an insanely unhealthy and presumptuous way to view relationships, but I'm not even here to give a shit about that! what really annoys me is that it runs entirely counter to one of the core points made by the game itself: that kim is just some guy. harry has never been helpless to change under his own power. you can get kim shot and still end the game resolved to get your shit together!!!

like how is anyone playing the game and then turning around and saying hey I have a great idea, what if all of harry's delusions were justified. I swear to god it feels like transmasc jesse pinkman level fanon in here sometimes.

[lifelesscomplains]

As an autistic person I FUCKING HATED P.E:

Getting chosen last for team games, my lack of coordination making our team lose, BEING OBLIGED TO EXPOSE A GAME OR A TRAINING SESSION IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS WHEN I'M OBVIOUSLY BAD AT IT.

I hated it when I was 4. I hated it when I was 16. Now that I'm 17 and this is the first year I don't have P.E, even though this is supposed to be the most stressful year of my education, I can feel such a weight being taken off of me. I don't cry on Sunday nights anymore and I don't feel ashamed all the time anymore either. AND YET I WAS CALLED SENSITIVE

[ihhfhonao3]

shoutout to everyone who wants to contribute to and participate in fandom events like theme weeks or promptober or zines or exchanges/secret santas but is just too tired or too busy or the fandom is too small or they can't finish on time with deadlines or is too forgetful or doesn't have enough money to help fund it or is too shy or too nervous or is too controversial or has bad memories from fandom events in the past or has any other reason as to why they might not participate. I see you I hear you I am you and hope someday you can conquer all evil and join in like you've always wanted to

[the-nettle-knight]

To other English people, stop saying "England has no culture", it is actively harming us. There is a reason the Tories defunded the arts and heritage sectors whilst scapegoating immigrants. The fear that immigrants will come and destroy Englishness is only working as the government is literally trying to actively wipe it out. If we a) recognise the things that are distinctly cultural (eg architecture styles) and b) actively participate in the traditions you're always told are silly (Morris and Molly dancing, scarecrow competitions and folk songs), it will actually make us better as a country and more difficult to divide via classism, racism and xenophobia

To be extra clear, these traditions are for everyone, queer people, imagrants and anyone of any faith (including Islam).

The deliberate eroding of our folklore/traditions by conservatives (both big and little c) is allowing for the insecurities weaponised by the types of Tommy Robinson against imagrants. These traditions and folklore do still need challenging from a modern critical lense (like how blackface has been removed from Morris dancing). Nor should they be preserved exactly how they used to be, because folklore and customs have always changed with the times. Having a good understanding of our past, critically understanding and accepting of the problems in it will absolutely contribute to decolonisation. Hopefully, having a solid grasp of our own traditions and folklore in a meaningful positive way will allow us to step back from clinging desperately to the parts of Welsh, Scottish and Irish culture we cling to because we don't think we have our own. Doing so will also hopefully allow for more support of the Welsh, Scottish and Irish independence movements. Also, it will hopefully stop the rampant cultural appropriation of other sacred traditions - it's ridiculous that modern wiccans believe that smudging with a non native plant (white sage) that's being driven to extinction by over harvesting will clear any sort of bad luck.

[platossoulmates]

my favorite thing about advanced gay is jeff’s reaction to pierce’s switch up on gay people like how are you to tell me that is not EXACTLY how a closeted person who knows they’re closeted (im looking at you troy barnes) would react in that situation. everyone else just thinks it’s a little silly and fun to be momentarily involved in gay culture but he is offended because he gets it 😭 there is literally no way to watch advanced gay and not come out of it knowing that is the most bisexual character ever presented on television

[twolovelyberries]

three clicks and i’m home (MAWS/i know the end)

[hephaestuscrew]

Renée Minkowski is extremely into the abstract concept of Crew Bonding in such a way that it impairs her ability to actually bond with the particular crew that she has.

She wants them to have Christmas dinner together and give each other Christmas gifts, but she's not made an effort to learn Eiffel's feelings about December 25th and to think about what he might like to do that day.

She wants them to each say what they are thankful for at Thanksgiving, but when she says she's "thankful to have such a great crew on this mission", it sounds extremely unconvincing, as if she's just saying what she thinks a Commander ought to say at a Thanksgiving dinner on a space station, rather than expressing any genuine sentiments or revealing anything personal about herself.

She wants them all to participate in the talent show "to boost morale... bond as a crew, and... have a great time doing it", but Hilbert and Eiffel's reactions make it clear that talent shows do the opposite of improving crew morale for them.

Christmas celebrations and thanksgiving dinners and talent shows are all things that could potentially have a positive impact on morale and bonding for some hypothetical space crews, but in the way Minkowski approaches them, none of these things are particularly helpful for the morale and bonding of the people who are actually in her crew. Minkowski puts real effort into group bonding activities for her crew, but they are always based on general ideas about crew bonding, rather than on thinking about the individuals around her and what she can do to connect with those people in particular.