#culture tag: sweden

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100 Days of Duolingo !

100 days! last year i hit 155 days and then lost my streak while away without wifi or mobile data and i hope to reach that and more !

if anyone knows of any swedish workbooks or other resources available for free online then please message them to me ! tack så mycket !

[rationalisms]

could you recommend an indie game that does disco elysium or its kind of game better? (/genuine)

i'd be happy to recommend some games to you for sure!

but i would like to preface this by saying that my point (which is hard to explain in a pithy tag aside to be fair lol) isn't necessarily that these will be "better" than disco elysium. that's incredibly hard to quantify anyway since so much of this is based on taste. e.g. i disliked some things about DE other people loved (like the pacing) even though i overall had a good time with the game.

it's more that the way people were talking about disco elysium, especially in terms of like... "professional video game journalism" but also definitely on this site and the other formerly blue side, was tinged with this tone that DE is somehow unique or groundbreaking in its attempt to treat a video game like an artform or a serious vehicle for storytelling. which is insulting especially to the games DE clearly draws from.

a lot of people who don't usually play video games played DE based on recommendations, which is great! but a huge part of the response from those people didn't seem to be "wow, clearly i can have a good time with video games if they're like this, i should seek out more". it instead seemed to be "well folks, pack it up, this is the one video game i will enjoy because it's Deep unlike everything else out there". which is incredibly disappointing.

anyway. whether these recommendations will hit for you will primarily depend on what you're looking for when you say "its kind of game", but here's some games that gave me the same general feeling.

planescape: torment is the game that heavily inspired disco elysium. it's a similarly combat-light crpg with a focus on exploration and story and set in a weird, technologically discongruent setting. i would also recommend its sequel, torment: tides of numenera. i didn't enjoy that one as much but it was still pretty good.

kentucky road zero is a game about a truck driver who has to cross the titular road zero and the many people he meets on the way. it's also magical realism so if you enjoyed the genre of disco elysium this might be up your alley.

beautiful desolation is another game which is based on real world culture/history with sci-fi world building on top. in this case south africa. it's really beautiful and rewards exploration in a similar way.

return of the obra dinn is also an atmospheric detective game set on a ship lost in 1803. it's by the same creator who made papers, please (which is also excellent by the way).

hypnospace outlaw has a similar half absurd, half earnest tone. it also felt similarly nostalgic to me. it's incredibly easy to sink a lot of time into this one though so watch out lol.

orwell, and its sequel, orwell: ignorance is strength, are similar "internet" simulators like HO with a much more overt political tone (if you couldn't tell by the name lol). you play as an employee for a government surveillance program.

stasis if you're looking for more isometric point and click games with a strong atmosphere and great voice acting.

sunless sea, and its sequel, sunless skies, are exploration/roguelike games about a weird, fantastical world. if you've ever played fallen london, they're set in the same universe.

what remains of edith finch is also magical realism and dark comedy, so if you enjoyed the tone of DE you might enjoy that.

some say it has always been here also has a surreal and sometimes oppressive atmosphere. i wish this game was longer, i loved it so much.

i miss the sea of japan is another wonderful bitsy game i got reminded of when i thought about SSIHABH. it's wistful and sweet.

i have no mouth and i must scream is a psychological thriller about five people and their dark pasts trying to outwit an AI. it's very atmospheric and also has variously fucked up (by life) protagonists.

whispers of a machine is another detective game with more of a sci-fi slant, though it's set in a world inspired by sweden and other nordic countries. it's also very atmospheric and has some great voice acting.

buddy simulator 1984 gave me a lot of the same feelings disco elysium did (wistfulness, nostalgia, anxiety, etc lol). i really loved the first half of the game but wasn't as into the second half, would absolutely still recommend it though.

and if we're talking just straight up great crpgs with a heavily political tone, i will always always always recommend harebrained schemes shadowrun trilogy (especially dragonfall and hong kong, both incredible games. returns is... fine lol but definitely not on the level of the sequels) and fallout 1 and 2.

plus, no rec list about magical realism would be complete without life is strange. :') i haven't played any of the sequels and it's been a long time since i played it, but i remember loving it at the time.

games i haven't played yet but that are on my to play list and which look like they could scratch the same itch:

citizen sleeper, also a dice based game which is very narrative and exploration based.

norco, which several of my friends love a lot.

where the water tastes like wine, which is set in the great depression era of the US and about collecting stories and sharing them.

pentiment, another detective game set in a real world approximation. i love everything obsidian touches so i'm sure it's great, but i haven't gotten round to it yet.

night in the woods seems to be popular with people who like DE so it might be up your alley. i'm pretty sure it's also magical realism?

roadwarden is another isometric point and click game about exploration and friends have said it has a great atmosphere.

i hope those are a good starting point for you! i would also genuinely recommend just hopping on itch.io and typing in a random prompt and seeing what you get. i've discovered sooo many wonderful games (many of them completely free, though i will always advocate for tipping the creators) by just noodling around on there. tons and tons of incredible indie games who don't have the luxury of publisher funding made by people who could really use the support.

enjoy and have a lovely day ^__^

[chut-je-dors]

Now I'm curious cause of your tag. What did Swedish media say about the eurovision thing?

Oof yeah, here's a post detailing it ... here another... Basically they've absolutely flipped over the fact that Finnish public didn't give Loreen points at all (which I find absolutely hilarious) and suddenly started wielding such rhetoric as "the former eastern part of our kingdom" referring to Finland, which is???? like??? do I even need to say how Not Okay that is?

It might seem to some that the Finnish people are reacting to Sweden's (unfair) win and them being sore winners (which, points to them, I didn't know was possible!) with too much drama, but it's all tied to our history together. Finland has traditionally seen itself, and has been seen by other countries (Sweden included) as the sort of "little brother" to the more advanced, better-faring, glorious Sweden. While Sweden to my knowledge doesn't much care about what Finland gets up to (perhaps overlooking/ignoring us and our merits), Finland is always comparing itself to Sweden and trying to live up to it. It's a very common rhetoric and sort of, the atmosphere over here. We know more about Sweden than Sweden knows about us; we're constantly conscious that Sweden exists. Sweden gets talked about in international news; Finland, if mentioned, is often tied to - you guessed it - being Sweden's neighboring country.

We used to be part of Sweden for 600 years. During that time, Swedish was implemented as the language of the culture and the "civilised" whereas the finns living in the eAstErn pArT oF tHe kiNgDoM were seen as "wild" and "uncivilised" and just, generally a lesser people to the Swedish speaking population. We haven't been under Sweden's rule for some 200 years and STILL we can't seem to shake their influence on us. Swedish is still a mandatory language to learn at school (and I have many opinions on that, but that'd be another post). Finnish as a language has been disregarded for its whole existence. Our leading national thinkers and poets in the 19th century, who were the first ones to really push for the Finnish identity instead of us seeing ourselves as part of Sweden or Russia, wrote in Swedish. The first novel in Finnish was published in 1870.

So this is monumental to us, to have the whole word watching Finland and not Sweden. Finland has a lot of merits, especially considering how small a people we are (just 5,5mil). To have a song in our language, in Finnish be this popular, is something we couldn't have imagined. We as a people are humble to the extreme, so much that we might easily scorn anyone who is too successful (not a good thing!), and this is the first time in my life that I'm seeing the whole country rally behind someone like this. When we say "Our Jere" we mean it with our whole hearts. We're so so proud of him, everyone is, and for once Finnish people seem to think in unison that someone deserves all the praise and the success.

SO, to have Sweden in this UNIQUE moment of Finland raising its head and being "we're so amazing", with the rest of Europe going "yes you're so amazing!!", spew rhetoric like this, is just, unbelievable to me. Like I can't just believe that in the 21st century there are people in Sweden who hold up 200 year old thought patterns of our country. It's been shocking 'cos though there's always been rivalry, it's felt more... tongue in cheek. We "love to hate" Sweden over here. It's been "I hate Sweden (affectionate)". But now we find this unbelievably condescending and belittling attitude towards us raising its head, and we wonder, we thought we two were okay?? But have they always held these beliefs???

So there's a sense of betrayal in the air as well. And just, full on disbelief. And maybe we're starting to see that it has been like this all along, but we've decided to turn a blind eye to it? True colours shining through? Perhaps not... but yeah.

Sweden not looking good here!

(here's one more post that says the same that i did but was better at making it SHORT oops)

[penny-anna]

In response to your tag on the Mexico states quiz:

Pretty much all countries have subdivisions (I must assume) but not all of them have states, so the surprise of which countries do and do not have states is fair, I think, bc not all types of subdivision are equal.

Like a country with states is more like several smaller countries grouped together wearing the hat of a bigger country, it’s a stronger division.

On my Austrian side, where we have states, the states play a real relevance both politically and culturally, all of these act semi-independent of each other. On my Swedish side, where there are no states, but which can be divided into 25 provinces culturally or 21 counties administratively, these subdivisions are much less relevant. So in my head, Sweden is one lump and Austria is nine lumps tied together.

ig coming from a country that doesn't have states the distinction seems pretty arbitrary so being surprised to hear that a country has them doesn't really compute? like didn't know austria has states but im not surprised to hear it.

its like. a tone thing also? like i was mildly surprised a little while ago to find out that some european countries have states but it was just like 'huh i didn't know that and now i do' not 'WAIT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES HAVE STATES?'

[loftec]

🎄Weekly Tag Wednesday - Holidays 🎄

This week we are going to talk about your Holiday Traditions! Thank you for the tag @deedala <3

Name:  loftec

Where in the world are you?  Sweden

What holiday do you and/or your family celebrate at this time of year?  We celebrate christmas, but honestly I hate calling it that so I will call it yule in this post (jul, in swedish). It's obviously a pagan-turned-christian holiday here too, but I've never been religious so my brain does this every time I have to refer to it as "christmas":

Does your family get together to celebrate?  Yes, just my parents and brothers, it used to be that we'd celebrate on our own on the 23rd and maybe have one or two grandparents over for the 24th (the main day here) and then go see extended family on the 25th and 26th, but these days my brothers, their SOs and I just go hang out at our parents' three days in a row. It's very nice and low-key.

Are there any traditional foods for the holiday?  Julbord, a yule smörgåsbord. Ham, meatballs, kale, pickled herring, salmon, janssons, etc etc. We usually get to demand one thing each for the table, and mine is always kale. There's a culture war in sweden re: which type of cabbage is correct for julbord – brown, green or red – and I'm controversially team green (geographically, I should be team brown) (no-one is team brown).

Do you typically decorate for your holiday?  I have a little box I bring out; I've got a star light for my bedroom (an orange paper lantern I've had since I was a kid) and a brass star light for the kitchen (it used to be the family kitchen light before my parents moved out of my childhood home). I also have a very small tree for the Boy (so I can put his presents under it), and this year I added a new guy to the box:

I've had the version on the left for as long as I can remember (he's in the family box at my parents'), and found the lad to the right at a second hand shop the other day. Obviously he had to come home with me, and one day he will be reunited with his long lost pal (gay).

Tell me about your favorite holiday memory:  For decades, one of the most important traditions in my family was to go to an indoor pool on the 23rd. It started when my brother and I were little and I think our mum was sick one yule and dad wanted to give her some peace and quiet, so we went to a public bath nearby. Turns out not a lot of people do this, most people are probably running around getting ready for the 24th, so we had a grand old time swimming and playing in a basically empty bath. So this became a beloved tradition, and we went for almost every year until the pandemic. One specifically memorable time was when they visited me in Japan and we went to an onsen, and it started snowing.

What is the significance of the holiday you are celebrating?  Spend time with family (people you want to spend time with) and eat good food (knowing that you're halfway through winter and that the food will last) and appease the natural forces (yule gnomes) with bribes (porridge) so they'll give you a little gift and not fuck up your life. Also Jesus and Brian of nazareth were both born at some point.

If there was one thing you could change about this holiday, what would it be? My dad came home with a persistent cold, I'm hoping for him to feel completely recovered by next week.

Anything else you want to tell me about your holiday? Please enjoy my top 5 yule albums (proceeds to recommend you five aggressively christmassy albums lol listen!! the bops transcend religion):

tagging @the-rat-wins @mittimellan (in case you want to procrastinate the stress week!!) @wideblueskies @beckyharvey29 @thisfeebleheart and anyone who wants to yap about their holidays!

[francicide]

Desirdutch A desirdae term for when one yearns / desires / wants to be Dutch , whether partially or mostly , it ' s up for the user to decide . Reasons may include : atypical dysphoria , alter who is Dutch , and / or having family who is Dutch .

Tips : Try to learn the language if you can ! As well as learning about the cultures , like the foods or traditions ! Bookstores sometimes might have these travel books / pamphlets , which you can look at recommended places in Sweden as well . Copy and pasted from my desirswedish post .

Coined by the final man . Tags : @radiomogai, @smilepilled, @desirdae-archive Requested by anon

Pt under cut, help with IDs appreciated !

[PT: Desirdutch A desirdae (link) term for when one yearns/desires/wants to be Dutch, whether partially or fully, it's up for the user to decide. Reasons may include: Atypical dysphoria, alter who is Dutch, and/or having family whos Dutch. Tips: Try to learn the language if you can! As well as learning about the culture there, like the foods or traditions! Bookstores sometimes might have travel books/pamphlets, which you can look at recommended places in Sweden as well. Copy and pasted from my desirswedish post.

Coined by the final man. Tags: radiomogai, smilepilled, desirdae-archive Requested by anon. / end PT]

[bluedalahorse]

Hi! I hope everyone is doing well. I am popping up to let you know that I’m alive, that there’s a lot going on, that I still love YR, and that I’m thinking about boundaries and priorities.

I loved Young Royals season three. I especially love how it engaged with the legacy of Erik and the systems of Hillerska. I love that it took the idea of the legal system providing catharsis and that it threw that out the window. I love the way characters got words for what they were going through, how Felice got to name the racism happening to her and August got words to name his disordered eating. Most of all I loved the way Lisa wrote Sara’s relationship with her father and her reconciliation with Simon. That meant so much to me, and I can’t wait to imagine a future for the Eriksson siblings.

Here is a brief list of things I loved about the finale. They were all written in the afterglow of seeing the episode. I stand by them. Especially how much I loved Wille’s ending, and what happened there.

In the coming weeks, I’m sure there’ll be stuff I’m more critical of or don’t feel as strongly about. I especially have mixed feelings about the way Lisa seemed to structure 3.5 in a way that mimics the emotional roller coaster of trauma. I’m not really focusing on that stuff here or now, because I don’t want to. But it’s on my mind, and I don’t know if I’ll end up posting about it here and elsewhere.

At present this post isn’t rebloggable or tagged with much of anything. That’s because I’m trying to figure out the best way moving forward with tumblr. I don’t know if I want to delete this blog and abandon it entirely, but the pressure to present a curated version of myself is too much, and is a pretty big trigger for things like rejection sensitivity and anxiety. The pace here is also too fast and there is no way to keep up with everything, and (forgive me for this cardinal sin in tumblr-land) I wish I had some easier way to not see the same sets of gifs a hundred times with the same commentary. I’m experimenting with slower ways of doing fandom, where I can enjoy myself more.

I do, however, want a way to get the cultural footnotes for Young Royals, especially when they help me write better fic and create better fanworks. I know there’s some pretty darn useful posts about how lines get translated and various holidays and traditions (and looking forward I would like to know more about universities in Sweden, and how the monarchy works and such.) So I want to be able to find the stuff I need without having to spend as much time on what I don’t need. The resource posts people make are truly helpful.

And I also have some other fannish things I want to see here, like Les Mis and Interview with the Vampire. And the memes are nice. I miss the memes.

Before I make the decision about how I engage, I think it will be useful for me to know my priorities. So I’ve thought about them a bit, and I want to make the decisions that align with my priorities. Here’s what I want to focus on moving forward:

I want to spend more time creating. The thing that has always brought me the most genuine joy in this fandom is writing fic. YRS3 ended in a place of possibility for so many characters, and I want to keep writing about them and learning about them that way. (I won’t even lie, of course most of my ideas are about August—August and Kristina working on their intergenerational cousin relationship, August getting pulled into weekly DND sessions with Wille and Simon so they can all get better at being human together while pretending to be elves or something, August doing the personal and liberatory work that allows him and Sara to one day have a Second Chance Romance with they’re older, even August/Nils because oh boy did that season give me ideas about them I never knew I had.) One of my goals is to cut down on browsing time significantly so that I spend more time writing, especially so I can finish Heart and Homeland. I think it’ll make me happier.

I want to spend more time helping others create. Some of the most meaningful experiences I had in this fandom involved being a beta reader or hearing out another person’s fic ideas, and getting to live in that space of creation and collaboration. For that reason, I’d like to still make new YR connections on occasion, especially with people who wanna share their writing process with me. Tumblr may or may not be a place to do that. I’m still figuring out where stuff should happen.

I want analysis to be something I do as part of my creative process, and that’s it. I don’t know if this is fully true, but it felt like ten years ago there was more fandom meta focused on what fans wanted to write in their fanfics, and how their interpretations of canon led to them creating cool art. There was some meta that was about how to interpret canon “correctly” but that wasn’t the priority. Now, it feels like—and this is true even outside of YR fandom, so this is no reflection on YR specifically—there is more emphasis on having the “correct” interpretation of canon. About getting it right, and having the right predictions and interpretations. It feels competitive in a way that wears me down. From this point forward, when posting analysis, I’m going to ask myself, is this furthering my creative pursuits and my understanding of the writing process more generally, or am I just trying to win an argument? If the answer is just to win, then I’m not going to post my argument. That runs counter to my goals.

I don’t want to engage in any space where anonymous discourse flourishes. Even when well-intentioned. Being away for a while was clarifying for me on that point. Turns out one of the biggest triggers for my anxiety and shame are extensive, heated conversations where I don’t know who is saying what and who I can trust. Spaces where there’s a lot of anon conversation are probably going to be ones I block and unfollow first moving forward. It just seems like a good baseline for how I engage.

So this is where I am as of now. I’ll probably continue to hold off on doing much posting in the coming days, but I did want to poke my head up for air for a second to let people know what the state of everything is.

Here’s one picture of the plushes for the road:

And here’s a picture of the waffles I ate on finale day:

Oh, to have cloudberry jam and time spent with friends. These things are truly joyous.

[thespiritofvexation]

Saw @glorious-blackout posting about seeing Kaizers Orchestra which reminded me I should too. Thought I'd look up how I went about posting about the 2022 Deep Purple show and had to laugh when I saw the tags!:

Sooo, what show are we seeing next?😆

Anyway, back to Kaizers Orchestra!

Backstory: Sweden isn't as good at recognising music from Norway as the reverse, but we used to have ZTV, sort of a swedish MTV only more pretentious meaning they didn't air only the most popular hits but also the old, the new, the obscure and even the norwegian. Here I first heard "Kontroll på kontinentet" by Kaizers Orchestra when I was idk 18, 19?

I downloaded it and put it on a mix CD that has been played at many a party in my family over the years

I haven't encountered a single person who knows Kaizers Orchestra so I remember being thrilled finding out that @glorious-blackout knew about them a few years back! It sparked renewed interest for me!

When I heard they were coming to Stockholm late February this year I started a little brainwashing campaign, sneaking a lot of Kaizers into the playlist at family gatherings. And since "Kontroll..." already is on the family soundtrack it wasn't a very hard sell - my mom, dad and bro wanted to go with me✌️

On to the show:

Felt big satisfaction that the show was sold out and evidently not being the only swede who knew about them (although there seemed to be quite a few norwegians there)

When the speakers at the venue greeted everyone welcome to tonight's show with "Keezers Orchestra" there was a collective "noooo!" and indignant scoffing from the crowd. I felt at home:)

Wise from experience I got me a band shirt before the show instead of saying I'll do it after and then... not.

Debated if I should look up any live stuff beforehand but decided to go in blind, a good choice!

Seeing a double bass on stage naturally got me all fired up (you know me!) Expected it to be switched out for a conventional bass after the first song but NO, double bass STAYED!��❤❤

I don't know what to say about the stage show, it had oil barrels and gas masks, everything I'd expected to see and they killed it!

KONTROLL PÅ KONTINENTET!!!

Double bass solo in the solo-section was of course the best solo. He can marry me

"Hjerteknuser"❤💔

Somehow I have never heard "Die Polizei"? Or it just didn't stick with me. But it sure stuck now! The crowd singing in this final song brought tears in my eyes. And since it went on forever it wasn't hard to join in!

Couldn't help but thinking Die Polizei has major Die Mauer (Ebba Grön)-vibes, but make it norwegian with a happy ending! <-a compliment of course..

My glasses are admittedly very Thåström-tinted at the moment but after having started the day at the cinema watching the documentary about Imperiet, and then visited the swedish punk exhibition at the city museum, it was the perfect ending!

Family was also happy and thanking me for this very music-cultural day. Dad is currently posting Kaizer-videos on facebook...

The only video I filmed (because my filming suck as you can see) was the end of Die Politzei, the crowd had been singing like this for a good while!

[asatroende]

thinking about the lack of gods in asatro

i was checking through tags and someone was mentioning that in greek mythos if youre using the gods for fiction then instead of radically changing a god into something they arent then maybe look for some other god that better fits

theres a certain... in pagan tumblr... moral question to be asked about the birth of new gods or the changing of already existing gods

as before mentioned; having personal interpretation must usually follow with a sort of "proof" like "this god told me that this is true" or "i divined this" or else you risk sounding like a fandom person which is generally looked down upon like treating our gods as fiction is a christian sin for which we must ask repentance or be excommunicated for our heresies

i like fire, hearths arent common anymore and no one sane in sweden uses a gas burner over an electric stove in our homes unless its a fireplace and you are a home owner

there is

no god of the hearth

in asatro

when i go out grilling and build a fire and look within, there is no god for me to find nor thank

people theorize that loki might have fit that role but we Do Not Know

then theres things that just couldnt be applicable to the people who practiced the faith when it was alive

public transport (something we frequently have to pray is on time), IT (something we frequently have to pray will Work), weather conditions that even the vikings who travelled the furthest from scandinavia would never have fucking seen (tornado)

there are

so few gods

i will go into this in further depth in a later post that isnt this lament but the birth of a god has to come through Someone, someone has to be the first person to speak their name and advertise their existence

and we kind of need to repopulate the faith

ragnarök already happened to the gods in a way, most of the gods must have died when the faith did and no one saw fit to tell their stories and thus they were forgotten, a great purge, a great plague

i think a lot of my posts end up on the same note where i worry about the state of our community and the culture of paganism on tumblr

and i think that wont stop any time soon

i turned too hard from gatekeeper to fuck it we ball

i think there should be a god responsible for traffic jams so we can curse him

i think Wifi should be the name of a vana

i think we shouldnt shame the divine right of creation where we can birth a new god

[dhr-ao3]

Dark Blood

Dark Blood https://ift.tt/1jUcKWa by Mablir17 Su sangre es oscura, ellos son demonios en cuerpo de hombres y mujeres de gran belleza sobrenatural, se saciaran de la sangre de insolentes e inocentes cada noche de luna de sangre, veneno tiene en sus venas igual que oscuridad, el infierno está en la tierra y ellos son los demonios. Ellos no amaban como los humanos, cazaban a sus presas, a sus futuras parejas y los tentaban hasta hacer morder la manzana de la tentación, ellos eran la élite del mundo mágico y a nivel mundial, cualquiera que se rebelara en contra de ellos, muerto acabaría. *** Quien diría por un accidente tras una pelea entre una comadreja y la primera dama de Rusia haría que viajaran hasta 1996, una fecha tensa debido al estallido de la inmimente guerra provocada por la luz contra los oscuros queines desean retomar el control del mundo mágico a nivel mundial y recuperar el orden mágico mundial que estaba a manos de ellos ante de la llegada de la luz. Mentiras, traiciones, secretos salen a la luz, asesinatos, amenazas, etc. Deberán contar toda la verdad ante los presentes, soltar verdades y no solo eso, acabar desde la raíz con los luminosos, la blasfemia y lo peor del mundo mágico. Eran bestias sedientas de sangre. Words: 103, Chapters: 1/?, Language: Español Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Hetalia: Axis Powers Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi Characters: Harry Potter, Original Potter Family Characters (Harry Potter), Original Black Family Characters (Harry Potter), Original Hogwarts Professors, Original Weasley Characters (Harry Potter), Original Longbottom Characters (Harry Potter), Neville Longbottom, Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Charlie Weasley, Percy Weasley, Victoire Weasley, Fred Weasley II, Audrey Weasley, Theodore Nott, Draco Malfoy, Daphne Greengrass, Astoria Greengrass, Remus Lupin, America (Hetalia), Romania (Hetalia), Latin Hetalia Esemble, Female Ireland (Hetalia), France (Hetalia), Female Norway (Hetalia), Russia (Hetalia), South Italy (Hetalia), South Korea (Hetalia), North Italy (Hetalia), Germany (Hetalia), Female Sweden (Hetalia), Tom Riddle | Voldemort Relationships: Pansy Parkinson/Harry Potter, Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Luna Lovegood/Theodore Nott, Daphne Greengrass/Neville Longbottom, Remus Lupin/Nymphadora Tonks, Sirius Black/Original Female Character(s), Bill Weasley/Original Female Character(s), Charlie Weasley/Original Female Character(s), Angelina Johnson/George Weasley, Fred Weasley/Original Female Character(s), Ginny Weasley/Blaise Zabini, America (Hetalia)/Original Female Character(s), Canada (Hetalia)/Original Female Character(s), Argentina (Hetalia)/Original Character(s), China (Hetalia)/Original Female Character(s), Female Ireland (Hetalia)/Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Dark Magic, Dark Harry Potter, Pureblood Culture (Harry Potter), Blood Adoption (Harry Potter), Blood Drinking, Blood Magic, Harry Potter Next Generation, Hetalia Countries Using Human Names, Time Turners (Harry Potter), Albus Dumbledore Bashing, Ron Weasley Bashing, Brutal Murder, Murder Kink, Human & Country Names Used (Hetalia), Demonic Possession, Demon/Human Relationships, Possession, Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Canon-Typical Violence, Implied/Referenced Abortion, Hell, Italian Mafia, Russian Mafia via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/YPb8Ga7 July 13, 2024 at 08:03PM

[terranautica]

welcome!

this blog loves planet earth and the people in it.

some notes:

I generally try to identify places + groups

I try to make conscious decisions about tags that respect cultural identities, consider historical context and reject imperialism. I realize this is impossible and messy and doomed to be inconsistent. choices I've made include one Korea, one Ireland, and multiple tags for separatist states, i.e. Scotland, Catalan Countries.

I am currently unsure when or if it makes sense to tag the "bigger" nation in a post about an autonomous region, ex. China and Tibet, Faroe Islands and Denmark. I want to respect widespread independence movements, but also not become bloated with regional tags. Tibet deserves to be free of China but I have to laugh at modern Texas separatism.

Israel does not get a tag. Jewish diaspora, Free Palestine, genocide, USA, or anti imperialism are used.

I am not always sure when to use the indigenous peoples tag. if I am unsure I will probably leave it out.

except the history and prehistory tag, I currently am not tagging things that no longer exist, ex. Soviet Union, Roman Empire. I may instead tag with related tags, ex. Russia, Greece

Tags like EU, UK, Africa, Asia, Latin American, Polynesian, etc. are used in posts that refer to many places/groups collectively ex. Lunar New Year in Asia

I try to tag the country/group that an artist/writer/creator belongs to, ex. a post featuring Baldwin tagged with USA, literature, black diaspora

tags are ever-evolving!

country/place tags:

Africa, Albania, Angolia, Argentina, Armenia, Asia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Catalan Countries, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Emirates, Estonia, Ethiopia, EU, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawai'i, Hungary, Iberia, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, free Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, free Tibet, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Wales, West Papau, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

diaspora + ethnic group + cultural group tags:

Ainu, Apache, Bahá'í, Basque, Black diaspora, Chechen, Choctaw, Chulym, Dakota, Dharumbal, Dolgan, Galician, Gavião, Guarani-Kaiowá, Hui, Igbo, immigrants, Ingorot, Inuit, Ixil, Jewish diaspora, Karakalpak, Kashmir, Kazakh, Ket, Khakas, Lakota, Latin American, Lezgin, Mah Meri, Maka, Makonda, Mari, Mohegan, Ojibwe, Pataxo, Polynesian, Pueblo peoples, Purepecha, Q'eqchi', Rapa Nui, Rohingya, Romani, Rukai, Ryukyuan, Sakapultek, Samburu, Sámi, Selkup, Sioux, Tamil, Tatar, Tigray, Tlingit, Tokalau, Uyghur, Yazidi

culture + other tags:

agriculture, airports, animals and wildlife, architecture, art, children, clothing and textiles, dance, ecology and environmentalism, festivals and holidays, film and tv, food, geopolitics, history, infrastructure, language, literature, maps, music, myth and legend, my posts, nature, prehistory, postcards and stamps, public transportation, religions and belief systems, solidarity, sports and games, traditions and customs, true spirit of the blog, urban landscape, water and boats, women

ugly tags:

acab, anti capitalism, anti imperialism, anti misogyny, anti xenophobia, genocide

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Stone Island: ‘Hooligans’ to ‘High-Fashion’

via @ musterfuck on IG, 2022-04-18

In the 80s, British football teams began to experience consistent success in European tournaments, which led crowds of diehard young fans to regularly travel to exotic European destinations, where they would come across different styles donned by the youth of those countries and discover foreign brands yet to make it to the terraces of England. The earliest Stone Island enthusiasts were a style-conscious 80s youth tribe known as the ‘Paninaro’, who took their name from the panini bars they rallied around in their home city of Milan. Their style was inspired by a mix of 50s Americana and 60s Mod, complemented with sporty Italian designer labels. It was the “Paninaro look” that British football fans brought back to the UK and appropriated to build their own subculture around, which became known as the ‘terrace casuals’ movement. Stone Island became the most integral brand in the terrace casual style in 1992, after England was eliminated from the group stages of the European Championship in Sweden. Fans looted a Swedish clothing outlet called “Genius” and brought a bounty of shoplifted ‘Stoney’ back home, which is said to be the event that cemented its place as a pillar of casual culture. As time went on and subcultures shifted, Stone Island stayed exactly where it was through movements like the Acid House and Rave scenes — but it was a 2014 collaboration with American streetwear giant, Supreme, that catapulted the brand’s popularity across the pond and into the mainstream. Rappers like Drake, Travis Scott and Jay-Z wore garments with the iconic compass tag on the left sleeve, moving Stone Island from the fringe to the limelight — and with the rise of UK grime music, the brand’s importance became even more amplified. Stone Island's universal appreciation and ability to adapt with culture sets it apart as one of the most coveted fashion brands across the world, as it continues to signify a practice of material experimentation, a subculture of diehard football supporters, and foremost, a high-end luxury Italian fashion label.

[no-nightingales-iwanttodie]

I'd like to tell you about the first time I went to an ikea alone.

I've only been in an ikea a few times in my life (even tho I'm kinda Swedish) and that was when I was like 4 or smth with my mom. When I moved out last year i moved really close to an ikea and planned a little outing for myself to just explore ikea. See what they had to offer and if it really was as confusing as the internet people say.

I went in, and was already confused. How did I enter the actual store? Oh apparently some weird escelators that was just there in the middle of everything. Alright then.

I go up and I just start walking. Looking around, but not too much cause I don't actually need anything, just scoping out anything I could potentially buy when I had the money for it.

I was texting my best friend the whole time, she was a regular so she knew her way around the store. I did not.

There's toilets on the wall, beds floating and random rooms just constructed in the store.

After I got over cultural shock after cultural shock and almost an hour of walking, I found the cafeteria. I have a lot of family in Sweden so all the food was very familiar to me and I bought something to eat and sat down while pondering how to get out.

I finished the good food and started my quest: get out

How young and naive I was thinking it would be easy. This is when my agony truly started.

I found the elevators and descended, the doors opened and-

Lo and behold there was more fucking stuff.

Here I started panicking a bit. Would I ever get out?

When I got to the light room - literally a room full of lamps and nightlights and whatever your heart desires of illumination - my head started hurting and I got dizzy. Could it be the lights? Or was I turning into an employee. Was that how you got to work for ikea? You get lost and slowly start sprouting uniforms and name tags and the Swedish language seeped into you? If that's the case, it wasn't comforting because I already speak Swedish. My transformation process was slower. I had to get out, now.

Finally I found myself in a calming room. The plant section. It was vast and I wanted every single plant in that room and to take it home and care for it but alas, I am poor.

At this point i had been in there for almost 3 hours and was starting to lose all sense of time, space and self.

I was getting ready to fight some motherfuckers to claim one of the rooms upstairs.

After another half hour, I found the storage room. It was a room fit for the gods of Valhalla. But I am no god, the sight of the place alone was frightening to a common person like me. I was sure my eyes were gonna explode in a rain of blue and yellow.

The relief was visible on my face when I finally found the check out stand. I walked past as I had not bought anything, but my troubles didn't end there. More food. Oh god. Lord please show mercy and let me escape this building before it is too late.

I swallowed my pride and shyly approached a fellow employee. I say fellow, because I knew my time was almost up - I only had minutes left.

They pointed to some doors a long way away from me, I thanked them and hurried over there.

I walked past the doors, hoping to see daylight. Or moonlight. I didn't care as long as I was out.

I wasn't.

The were several doors behind the door I entered. Where did I go? Where was I? Who was I?

I was in a fully panicked state by now and was looking around erratically - in a frenzy.

I ran out of the doors that my gut told me to run out of. I saw the escelators. I saw the doors.

Back at the beginning.

I took cautious steps, I had learned by now that not everything was as it seemed.

The doors opened and the smell of fresh air and cars flooded me.

I was out.

My legs were shaking as I almost ran from the place without looking back. I made it home.

I thought my nightmares were over but no... My aunt wanted me to buy some shoehorns for her.

I timed my experience as I ran through the store the second time, all I had to do was follow the arrows.

The first time took me 4 hours.

The second time took me an hour.

My friend found joy in my suffering.

But the teddy bears were really cute

[francicide]

Desirswedish A desirdae term for when one yearns / desires / wants to be Swedish , whether partially or fully , it ' s up for the user to decide . Reasons may include : atypical dysphoria , alter who is Swedish , and / or having family who is Swedish .

Tips : Try to learn the language if you can ! As well as learning about the cultures , like the foods or traditions ! Bookstores sometimes might have these travel books / pamphlets , which you can look at reccomended places in Sweden as well . Kinda struggled to think of anything , but anyone is free to add on to this !

Coined by the final man . Tags : @radiomogai, @smilepilled, @desirdae-archive Self - indulgent

Pt under cut, help with IDs appreciated !

[PT: Desirswedish A desirdae (link) term for when one yearns/desires/wants to be Swedish, whether partially or fully, it's up for the user to decide. Reasons may include: Atypical dysphoria, alter who is Swedish, and/or having family whos Swedish. Tips: Try to learn the language if you can! As well as learning about the culture there, like the foods or traditions! Bookstores sometimes might have travel books/pamphlets, which you can look at reccomended places in Sweden as well. Kinda struggled to think of anything, but anyone is free to add on!

Coined by the final man. Tags: radiomogai, smilepilled, desirdae-archive self - indulgent / end PT]