#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

[sunfire-shield]

Miyana’s appeal to Karim is so fascinating and heartbreaking when you think about how much she gave up to try and realise Karim’s dream. Like, she was one of the Six Horns: a general, trusted and respected by all, and whilst she shared some of Karim’s attitudes, she wouldn’t have acted in the rash way he did and didn’t quite share his zeal, but she brought him the Sunseed anyway and lost all that she had to her name. Then she’s telling him, my dreams have changed: my dream is that our child should grow healthy and happy and loved. And she wanted him to support her in that dream, share that dream. After all she had done and given up for him, she wanted him to do this for her, to support her and their child, stay alive for them; accept a simple dream. he doesn’t. instead he pursues his legend, to his final detriment

[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!)

[ftmscar]

Hi, yumes!! Remember it’s okay to be unashamedly selfish and “cringe” when it comes to selfshipping. Block doubles, talk about your f/o 24/7, mention them at any chance U get. At the end of the day, they are YOUR f/o and you’re allowed to do whatever U want with them— even if others may not like it. As long as nobody is being harmed, curating your online experience and having fun isn’t a crime <3

[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

[theycallme-ook]

Chat should I be annoying and make a post about how Hyrule's religious practices are more in line with Shinto ones than Christian ones and people should stop depicting worship of the Golden Three and Hylia as a 1=1 with Christianity or should I shut up and be normal (for context I am agnostic but was raised in a Christian household but a Shinto country)

[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.