#incorrect motherland

[cantotallyeven]

I don't care if she commits atrocities, bro, she's justified by the narrative

[reallytinylaura]

Raelle: You've killed people! Scylla: It was a misunderstanding. Raelle: You killed people because of a misunderstanding or it's a misunderstanding that you killed people? Scylla: Scylla: Yes?

[chaliceni]

Bellatrix: I've got nothing to do

Narcissa: You've got nothing to do?

Narcissa: Now can you have nothing to do? How dare you have nothing to do?

Narcissa: I'd LOVE to have nothing to do

[marykk1990]

It seems like there's a few accounts out there who appreciate my posts in support of Ukraine, which I will be doing another one later this evening. I still need to look up what I want to post about today.

I just want to say that I am not Ukrainian myself, and I didn't really know much about Ukraine before the full-scale invasion by muscovy started. But I was absolutely horrified when terrorist muscovy attacked, and that very day, I started a Twitter thread about Ukraine.

I have been doing cultural heritage threads on Twitter ever since the orange mango (donald trumpf) threatened to bomb ancient cultural heritage sites in Iran, which really pissed me off. Iran's ancient cultural heritage sites are not just important to Iran. They're important to world archaeology. I am fascinated by ancient history. It's the first thing I ever geeked out about in my life. After the Iran thread, I started a new thread on countries that trumpf called "shithole" countries. Obviously, I'm definitely not a trumpf supporter at all. After he lost in 2020, I continued my threads as they were a little popular on Twitter, but I opened it up to different countries, not just ones the orange mango threatened or insulted.

So, I am not an expert on Ukraine or any of the countries I've visited in any of my threads. I get all my pics off of Google, so I don't own them, and I get all of my information off of sites like Wikipedia and other sites. For Ukraine, I do like the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. If I post anything incorrect, my apologies for that. I am learning as I go, and after almost two years of posting about the amazing country of Ukraine, I have absolutely fallen in love with Ukraine and Ukrainians.

I am very happy that my Ukraine thread seems to be appreciated, and I will continue doing it for as long as it takes. Ukraine will win!

And, if anyone is interested, I had as my lock screen an awesome edit someone made of President Zelenskyy with the Ukrainian Motherland Monument in the background, but it was before the soviet symbol was removed. Since that has now been removed and the Ukrainian Tryzub has taken its place, I wanted a new updated lock screen, but still with President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian Motherland Monument. I couldn't find one I liked, so I made my own. I'm going to share it here, and if anyone else likes it, please feel free to use it as your lock screen or wallpaper.

[freelystrangenight]

Rating every Eurovision final performance until I get bored (tw: opinions):

1) Austria : 9/10 not the greatest thing since sliced bread but a solid vibe, my kinda weird and pleasant musically, like the "ghostly" harmonies, scrarch my brain pleasantly, and as English lit student I appreciate poe.

2) Portugal: 5/10 not bad but legit don't remember anything and it just finished; piano riff sounded like I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor

3) Switzerland: 4,5/10 feels very general-pop; good lyrics but the arrangement/melody makes me kinda too bored to really listen; formal line sounded like "Sk8ter boy" by Avril Lavigne

4) Poland (motherland, I'm so not proud, WHY): 4/10 song is generic summer radio pop, nothing original but honestly not the worst I've heard, tho I'm pretty sure I have heard a Latino/Spanish pop song at least very similar; also unfortunately heard fragments of this before and this performance is not too bad for her, at least she worked on it; why the dance solo (pun intended hehe) exists tho

5) Serbia: 6/10 man, the boi is pretty, but can he sing? Apparently not really 😬 visually interesting performance, auditorily not so much 😭 (dunno if it's a word). Points for originality tho, but will not stream.

6) France: 8/10 Strong vocals. Song is definitely not what I initially expected, which makes it more interesting. Really vibing. Honestly didn't find anything I didn't like aside from the length of her nails but their hers not my business. Maybe not "Eurovision crazy" enough to win but still love it

7) Cyprus: 3,5/10 pleasant voice but nothing special yet; song feels ESC-generic, don't like the falsetto high notes. Lyrics feel like AI generated broken heart song

8) Spain: 8/10 kinda arabic vibes? Great vibes, song very original, not my personal fave, but still amazing quality-wise imo.

9) Sweden 7/10 Loreen my girl this isn't Euphoria -level :( not bad, but nothing special, tho the singing is mostly amazing. Her nails are a safety hazard, sorry to the French lady.

10) Albania: 5,5/10 very Eastern vibe. Original enough, the main lady sings great, but the song doesn't really resonate with me so far. Don't like the dude.

11) Italy: 9.5/10 sounds like a generic pop but in Italian, and I like his bedazzled top. Ok, nvm, song is not groundbreaking but his voice makes up for it. Not sure if win material but "add to playlist material" for sure. Im pretty sure I've just heard "calzone" in there, prolly incorrect but don't care, extra point

12) Estonia: 9/10 not the most innovative but has 'something', like it so far. Would fit a fantasy soundtrack, maybe that's what has me hooked. The auto-playing piano cracks me up tho, same with the wrist-belts, but those take nothing from the performance.

13) Finland: 6/10 heard it all over Tiktok through last week and am fed up with it😬 is a vibe, but after too many times imo plain annoying. Points for the outfit, personally hate it but is already iconic. Unfortunately song is even more irritating live :/ but also frustratingly catchy, gonna be stuck in my head

14) Czechia: 7/10 was loving the slavicness, wish it didn't switch to English, ruins the vibe, also Female Power points. The performance doesn't give much to watch, but nice to listen to.

15) Australia: 8/10 yeah, never saw a dude in a car on stage before. I like the song very much, but not the most original in the genre. But, might be on of the best ones tonight.

16) Belgium 4/10 generic EDM pop, gives the same vibe as Be My Lover by La Bouche but worse and with Positive Message™️

17) Armenia: 6,5/10 pretty but? Im gonna forget about it in 5 mins or make it my personality for the next 10 days, but option 1 is more probable.

18) Moldova: 9/10 don't know what's going on but in a good way. I think this song may be doing to me what Chachacha was supposed to, tho it's not the greatest thing. (Got a bit bored in the edm interlude)

19) Ukraine: 3/10 feels like they knew what they wanted to say but unfortunately needed to make it into a song. Don't like it at all tbh, but organs in the background are cool.

20) Norway: 10/10 my fave!!!!! Haven't heard the beginning yet! Sounds like she has stage fright:( love tho pls win? Love how she looks like she's enjoying herself

21) Germany: 6/10 why is their leader cosplaying Vecna from ST???? Song stands out but, feels generic at the same time?

22) Lithuania: 6,5/10 life story but make it Disney soundtrack. Nothing we haven't heard on ESC before, but not bad. Pretty visual display .

23) Israel: 3/10 ummm no. Shame it isn't in a language I don't know, would like it much better. Like the voice, and the instrumentals at the beginning, but that's it. No, I didn't wanna see you dance. Choreo is nice tho.

24) Slovenia: 9,5/10 sounds like something I usually would like (i think(on second thought no, not really)) but I do. Guy has a good voice, love their energy, somehow they look friendly.

25) Croatia: 10/10 gay sailors who's mother bought a tractor? Eurovision at it's finest 😂 this one stands out like nothing else

26) UK: 2/10 don't be boring pls!!! Ok, you are ;( the intro was promising, then she started to sing... Nothing criminally bad, would bear it on the radio, but boring af

Disclaimer: I now nothing or next to nothing about the artists, their backgrounds etc. Also my ratings don't reflect any predictions as to who may win.

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this Week #129 (Year 3/Week 25):

A few months ago I discovered the early films of Alice Guy-Blaché, the first ever female filmmaker, and history's first director of narrative cinema. An enormously important figure, who was erased and forgotten until her recent resurgence.

The documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché shows how central she was to the development of all of cinema. A most fascinating and moving detective story laying open the amazing life of this pioneering heroine, who helped define its crafts and systems.

Narrated by (another prodigy) Jodie Foster. Like 'The Méliès Mystery' biography, these two are a must-see for any film lover.

Best film of the week! 10/10.

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The short film essay Celebration Sequences gives some excellent examples of “Storytelling's Most Useful Type of Scene”: Weddings, funerals, birthdays, parties, balls (and orgies). Celebrations give a story the chance to gather every important character and let them interact for a while under the auspice of important themes such as love and death.

Because of it, I watched Kurosawa's Hamlet-inspired The bad sleep well. Coppola listed The bad sleep well as one of his favorite films, citing the wedding ceremony of the first thirty minutes "as perfect as any film I've ever seen". He then used it as inspiration for the wedding sequence in The Godfather.

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The devil and Miss Jones [Not to be confused with the 1973 'The Devil IN Miss Jones...] was an unusual 1941 Capra'esque comedy, with a pro-labor bent. It dealt with some real labor, wealth inequality and capitalism issues. And, it did not paint them outright as 'communist' agenda!

The 'richest man in the world' goes underground in order to root out 'agitators' and union leaders, who cause trouble at one of his department stores. However, after working as a regular shoe salesman down in the weeds, he learns to sympathize with the cause of his new working class comrades (after falling in love with one of them, of course).

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3 by French director Nicolas Bedos:

🍿 Masquerade is a sleek caper, like Jim Thompson's 'The Grifters' but on the glitzy part of the French riviera. A young gigolo specializing in seducing rich, older woman falls for a beautiful young con-artist and together they devise a long-con to bilk high-maintenance diva Isabelle Adjani and wealthy real estate broker François Cluzet. Lots of erotic twists and thrilling turns. 6/10.

🍿 In his previous, genial comedy La Belle Époque, Daniel Auteuil is allowed to participate in an immersive reenactment of any historical period of his choice. After being kicked out by his wife, he decides to re-live a week in 1974 when he met her, the love of his life, at the La Belle Époque café in Lyon. A mix of Fincher's "The Game', with 'The Truman show' but with an imaginative heart. Better than Charlie Kaufman. 9/10.

🍿 OSS 117 was a French series about a fictional secret agent, a-la-James Bond, featured in 11 films and parodies. OSS 117: From Africa with Love is a stupid spoof of the EuroSpy genre of the 60's and 70's. and the third starring comedian Jean Dujardin (from ”The artist”). He plays a self-important idiot, politically-incorrect who can't get it up, more Peter Sellers than Sean Connery. Tintin was much deeper. 2/10.

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Because I don’t usually watch such low-brow low-budget trashy sub-genres, I enjoyed the crowd-funded Swiss exploitation Mad Heidi much more that I would under normal circumstances. The absurd story deals with a fascist cheese-based dictator, and a zaftig mountain girl who must escape Stalag-type prison in order to save the motherland and prevent a tainted cheese apocalypse.

As Joe Bob Briggs used to write in his early reviews "Cheese Nazis, cheese zombies, edelweiss throwing stars, and goat cheese hustlers. Mustard covered sausages inserted up the ass. About 10 exploding heads and torsos. Every Swiss cliché in the book, from 'Sounds of Music' and Toblerone to Alp horns, cuckoo clocks, cheese fondue, watches, and pocket knives - dialed up to 11. Women's prison-fu. Gladiator-Fu. Lesbo Fu. One Black Goat Peter. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Casper Van Dien as the megalomaniacal president of Switzerland. Check it out.” 4/10.

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Pierrot le Fou, my 8th New Wave stream of consciousness improvised exploration by JL Godard. Without a screenplay, and Everything Goes attitude, it's one long Pop Art of random allusions, aphorism, literary riddles and intellectual bon mots. Actually, apart from his brilliant debut 'À bout de souffle' (Breathless), I was bored by most of his films.

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The Novice, another remarkable first feature by a young female director (Lauren Hadaway, who doesn't even have a Wikipedia page yet). An obsessive freshman joins her university's rowing team and is so driven to compete that she destroys everything in her path, especially herself.

Hadaway's frantic use of film language is thrilling. Also her blending of music by Brenda Lee and Patsy Klein.

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As a teenager I admired Knut Hamsun, read and collected all his books. My pride and joy, and the oldest book I owned was the rare Hebrew translation of 'Hunger', published in Poland in 1889. So I stopped everything to watch Jan Troell's lionizing drama Hamsun about his final and dying years.

Hamsun was a towering Norwegian hero who later turned Nazi-sympathizer traitor and supported Hitler & Germany even as it occupied Norway. Max von Sydow plays him as a venerable 'Great Man', complex, selfish, stubborn and conflicted, and Danish diva Ghita Nørby plays his wife, who was even more pro-German than him. 3/10

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Another re-watch, Edgar Wright final installment of his Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. Immature alcoholic Simon Pegg brings his 4 childhood friends back together to recreate the greatest achievement of their youth, a legendary 12-station pub crawl. Massive drinking & mayhem mixed with an alien invasion by blue-blooded androids.

Like the new 'Demon 79' it culminates with an unexpected apocalyptic Götterdämmerung. Yeah, 'The world's end' is not only the name of the last drinking hole. Plus points for the beautiful Rosamund Pike.

With every re-watch of any Edgar Wright movie, I go back to 'Every frame a picture' showing his visual comedy style, or other essays explaining his unique editing techniques.

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Instead of watching Jason Reitman's 'Up in the air' for the 5th time, I picked up his Front Runner. A bland 2018 Political drama about the fall from grace of Senator Gary Hart, caught with his fly open aboard a yacht called 'Monkey Business' while running for president.

I saw Gary Hart at a political rah-rah at UCLA the first week I came to the US in 1984. But the film itself added no new wrinkle to the usual cliches of election campaigns, newspaper editorial rooms, media ethics or the hypocrisies of public figures. 3/10.

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(My complete movie list is here).

[reallytinylaura]

Raelle: On this day two years ago, I married my best friend.

Raelle: Scylla and Adil were both really pissed about it but Abigail and I were drunk and we thought it was funny.

[bellxcollar]

Gregorio: Hi :)

Tally: Sorry I already have a partner

Gregorio: You deserve two

Tally: I have nine

[destiel-news-channel]

hey, it's perfectly alright if you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information but i want to thank you for your willingness to listen to Jewish people (I am also not Jewish myself but I had the same thoughts after seeing a big part of the left celebrate the atrocities that happened on October 7th and the way they talk about the conflict).

if you ever feel up to reading this (im trying to correct some of the misinformation in signedseal's posts):

signelseal is definitely repeating a lot of propaganda and the first sentence alone lets a lot of alarm bells ring in my head. the observation that a lot of leftist views are antisemitic stereotypes rebranded as "anti-zionist" by exchanging "Jews" for "Zionist" in the wording is entirely correct.

the answer to that that signedseal gave is in my opinion already incredibly antisemitic. saying that not only all the antisemitic stereotypes of blood libel are real but that israel is using the fact that antisemitism exists to their own advantage is like doubly antisemitic. instead of confronting her own antisemitic biases, signedseal is covering its belief in blood libel by more antisemitic conspiracies saying that Jews are using antisemitism to "get away" with their crimes.

Then for some fact-checking. First of all, yes all Jews are indigenous to the Levant. Just because Jews have been expelled from their homeland, leading to them fleeing to Eastern Europe (Ashkenazim) for example does not mean that they are not indigenous.

Which brings me to this sentence:

"Many of the settlers there who hold Isreal as their country, home, and motherland (around 74%) are ashkenazi Jews, as in Eastern European."

By settlers, signedseal means Jews, which is plain incorrect because 1. Jews are indigenous to the Levant, 2. Many Jews did not come to Israel of their own free will but as fugitives as they had been expelled from the countries they lived in.

Secondly the numbers signedseal mentions are misleading. Around 73% of the Israeli population is Jewish. There are no official government statistics categorizing Israeli Jews as "Ashkenazim", "Mizrahi", etc. but in a study there was estimated that about 31.8% of Israeli Jews are Ashkenazim (as in having grandparents born in Europe, the Americas, Oceania and South Africa).

We can note that 1. This is not the majority of Israeli Jews, not even a third, which makes signedseal's "many of" a bit misleading, 2. Calling Ashkenazim "Eastern European" is incredibly misleading, the origin of Ashkenazi Jews in Israel is much much broader, it includes roughly three and a half continents, instead of the eastern region of the continent of Europe as signedseal claimed it to be.

I’m not Jewish so feel free to call me out if I’m overstepping but the antisemitism that a lot of our more “leftist”/anti-israel friends hold is super concerning to us, I don’t really know how to call it out, but sometimes I just feel like if you replaced the words Zionist/Israeli (we really hate the implication that all Israeli’s are “bad people” or in support of the war just because they live in Israel so it really bugs us when they say Israeli to mean that) with Jewish you’d get a 1 for 1 regurgitation of propaganda and stereotypes and it’s really concerning from people who claim to be socially progressive and in support of minorities. It’s like really disturbing to see this happen to people that I thought I knew.

[blackindiaink]

[auggator]

Raelle: Anacostia, Abigail called me the b word

Abigail: Motherfucker doesn't start with a b

[dumpsterfire-artz]

Raelle: Who the fuck-

Abigail: Language.

Raelle: Whom the fuck-

Abigail: *sighs*

[brunnetessimp]

Petra: I thought you two were dating Alder: What, no! Why would you think that? Abi: Actually, I thought you were dating as well Alder: Raelle: Raise your hand if you thought Tally and General were dating Everyone: *Raises their hand* Alder: Alder: Craven, put your hand down.

[jaxthepigeon]

Motherland incorrect quotes!

Raelle:Just reassure me again, do you actually love me?

Scylla:Rae, we’re married. I can proudly say I love you

Raelle:Deadass?

Scylla:Raelle please-

~~~~~~~~~~~

Anacostia:I know she doesn’t look it, but she is one of the most dangerous witches in existence!

Raelle:*Proceeds to spill several cups of tea by tripping over air*

~~~~~~~~~~~

*Season 1 vibes*

Tally:Abigail I think there’s an ugly scary monster under my bed

Raelle:*From the bottom bunk* Okay first of all, fuck you-

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Raelle:What’s the word when your hands are bisexual?

Tally:…

Abigail:…

Scylla:*Without questioning how her wife’s brain works* You mean ambidextrous

Raelle:Thank you

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Nicte:I’m a creative person

Tally:What do you create?

Nicte:Choas

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Abigail:I’m a woman of action. You have to act first and apologize later

Raelle:You never apologize

Abigail:I would if I was wrong

[regalshenanigans]

Tally: I think I have a crush on Alder.

Abigail: *gasps*

Abigail: Why am I gasping? I already knew that.