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The Happy Independence Day Importance goes beyond just celebrating a national holiday; it's a day that marks the sacrifices, struggles, and triumphs of countless heroes who fought for India's freedom. In this we'll delve into why Independence Day holds such profound significance in the hearts of every Indian. From the historical context to the contemporary relevance, we explore how this day is a reminder of the responsibilities and duties we carry as citizens of a free nation. Whether you’re reflecting on the past or looking towards the future, understanding the true meaning of Independence Day can inspire a deeper sense of patriotism and pride. Join us as we uncover the hidden layers of this important day and celebrate it with the respect and honor it deserves.

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[hamstersnamedmarinette]

Happy anniversary of the day the Powerpuff Girls broke everything

[squeakadeeks]

You draw amazing art, make some of the most detailed cosplays, AND ur a physicist? Bro how many hats do you wear? Every single one of those is years of hard work

i owwn 10 billion hats

but shucks ty ;-; to be fair i worked on all three of those things simultaneously and the time just passed _(:3 」∠ )_ so its like sure it might take 10 years to get a physics phd, 10 years to draw the way you want to, and 10 years to learn how to craft stuff but those 10 years passed at the same time all mashed together

[messangerforthestars]

“We need more morally gray characters” you guys can barely handle topaz and jade.

[megpricephotography]

Beach Boy! Barney, jumping for joy during a trip to the beach in July of 2012.

[formulaireone]

felix día de la independencia de méxico!! :D

happy mexican independence day!! :D

here’s some cool doodles of some very cool historical figures who kicked ass one way or another 🔥

wow, no santa anna for once

[barbrububble]

Mouthwashing spoilers

I really like how the game makes the player feel when playing Curly and still thinking he crushed the ship. I kept looking for signs that he is unwell enough to decide on murder-suicide. He is dishonest on his psych eval. He has a lot of trouble sleeping. He complains a lot. The stairs to the cockpit stretch almost to infinity - does he not want to be there? Does he not trust himself in there? (What's with the sea of blood?) Oh he does want a change of career... but is also wary of it. Now they're all fired. "I just want to be in a place I don't want to fucking escape from! "

And then no, Jimmy did it. All the inner turmoils of Curly were just that and were only "telltale signs leading to the tragedy" in my eyes because I already "knew" what was going to happen. Now it feels both like a play on my expectations as a player and a portrayal of rich inner troubles still being within normalcy.

And also why I dislike people blaming Curly for not recognizing Jimmy's potential to fly off the rails. The clear signs are only clear postfactum. A person can even be toxic, can be capable of harm and assault (which yeah, Curly didn't properly recognize) and still snap in a way that surprises you - or never snap that hard after all.

[fizzie-frog]

K k but consider this: Asmodeus taking care of Fizz when his health acts up and struggles to take care of himself (and we know Fizz is a stubborn little gremlin who most likely would try to take care by himself unless he's literally like dying or something).

[dreamcatcherphenomenon]

Xiao Bao asking Su Yin how he got the Emperor to pardon his family, and Su Yin being like, haha yeah.

Bitch, don’t you dare take recognition for Huai En’s work of telling both his dads to fuck off and leave him and Xiao Bao alone.

[gideonisms]

THE number one most irritating thing about life is deciding when you're meant to speak or make eye contact and when you're not, and for how long and how many phrases you're meant to say at a time

[wingsofthesun]

So something interesting I noted on Virmire, when you meet Kirrahe and Wrex gets upset about having to destroy a possible cure for the genophage:

Garrus, Ashley, and Kaidan, while suspicious of what Wrex will do, all call him Wrex in every bit of dialogue if you speak with them.

Liara and Tali both have a line calling him "the krogan," though they both still have another line calling him Wrex.

After talking Wrex down, Liara continues to only call him "the krogan," while Tali only calls him Wrex. The other three continue to only use Wrex as well.

I wonder if this means Liara and Wrex aren't close at all. Considering how isolated Liara is from the rest of the squad on the Normandy, this would actually make a lot of sense.

[aeolianblues]

Can’t believe we got Green Day live in India within my lifetime

The way the international music industry is only now discovering that there is a market for music—and recordbreaking crowds—in India and no one realised there was money to be made until the year of our lord 2023 when we’ve been screaming ‘come to India!’ in bands’ comment sections for 2 decades is so wild to us all, but the dam gates are finally open and my mum’s been saying that the last few months feel like when Europe last realised that there were jewels and spices in India in the 1500s, she’s like ‘they’re discovering there’s money here and there’ll be an entertainment East India Company here soon’ bless her razor tongue. She’s right though, it’s been Dua Lipa, Bryan Adams, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and now everyone who played Lollapalooza in its third edition. I do think Coldplay themselves paved the way because I felt the shift after their first show in Mumbai in 2017 (well. Everyone in the world and their dog seemed to have somehow mysteriously known a friend of a friend of a friend and got a ticket that didn’t involve selling off a kidney but I was doing site clean up the morning after. Which is fine. I don’t care that much about Coldplay, and I went barrier at some of the bands who have defined my very being so I’m fine with being The Only Person On The Planet Not At Coldplay 2017).

It was a charity show, one hosted by Global Citizen, and that’s how it came about at all, because if you weren’t an established metal act, you didn’t know there was an appetite for music in India. I don’t know why people didn’t think there was, but I imagine it’s something to do with how people saw India. We couldn’t say from the inside, but an old comment from a Snapchat CEO maybe gave us some insight into their thought process: “This app is only for rich people… I don’t want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain.”

Now, fellas. I think that Evan dude was just exquisitely bad at geography because Spain?? But anyway, it’s a misinformed worldview people in the west have had for decades as India quietly rebuilt without the spotlight on them. God. Alone. Knows. The less America knows about you, the better, right?

But the first Coldplay show was for the city, a test run on the scale of events: setting up stages, finding appropriate sites, security (!) and ensuring things at this scale can run smoothly. For artists, it was a taste of the dizzying heights that otherwise only international cricketers seem to now about.

So when the first edition of Lollapalooza was to come to India in 2023, not with tired names but some interesting variety on the lineup and artists like The Strokes mixing with the very DIY and underground artists who have been percolating in mini-scenes for years, it was a very good sign for a beginning. They also chose the right months to be hosting: winter is basically the only time we can justify making white people jump around under hot stage lights. 26° is as good as Mumbai can offer you (Delhi can be colder but if someone’s doing one night only, it’s going to be Mumbai. That’s changing in 2024, but 23 was the start). December and Jan are lighter in Europe and North American tour schedules compared to April onwards, I find, and Jan-Feb tends to be when artists from the northern hemisphere head towards Australia/NZ. India would be well poised to be a stopover en route Down Under.

I’m happy to see it grow. I can never ever take gigs for granted because there were a sum total of three I went for in the first 18 years of my life. But o want the next generation of Indian kids to think boring of it. I also want them to think nothing of picking up instruments, playing together and thinking that could possibly be a career. We’re not yet at that stage.

As the money pours in shows attended by anywhere from 50,000 to 1,30,000 people, as tourists fly in from all over the world to watch their favourite artists, both Indian and non Indian play at Indian venues, I want the emerging music industry to have developing Indian talent in mind. And not at Indian Idol and things like that as they’ve done for years. We already have the pipelines that will create Bollywood’s next great creators.

What I want is for the industry to create space and opportunities for independent music. Make those independent venues. Have those bars and restaurants where the music isn’t just loud, it’s live and local. Pay artists properly. Indian independent artists have to chase promoters and venues for months afterwards to get paid for their performing work.

Have spaces where kids can borrow instruments and learn. Many developed nations have music programmes as part of their schooling, and that’s where the kids are first exposed to music. A lot of young Indian kids will spend years convincing their parents to buy them an instrument. Their parents say, how do I know that you’ll stick with it? That’s a fair reason from a parent, but kids should be able to experiment without fear. Easier access to resources and instruments when they’re younger will help reduce the class barrier to music. It’s all about private lessons and your own instruments in India, and that robs kids of that crucial early period where your instrument becomes a lifelong companion. And if it doesn’t stick and they never develop a further inclination for it? That’s fine. Now they know, and reduced barriers mean that for the two kids in twenty that do stick with their instruments, this has just ensured that a future superstar was able to enter their field at all.

I want grants and schemes for artists. I wantan artist to be able to afford to live in Mumbai while they’re making music there. Create opportunities that allow musicians to pay rent while also having the time to create. Mumbai rents are not dipping below the lakhs anytime soon. Every musician already accepts they will be working full time somewhere else. If you work until 7 pm, where do you have time to write an album? I want rehearsal spaces. Band members living 50 minutes away from each other shouldn’t run out of options when it comes to practising. I want more spaces for full band practice. I want more recording studios. Sure, you can use Logic Pro on your laptop, but we can provide artists with better, surely? And you employ audio engineers and producers this way too, who do an extremely important job.

Consider live music when making noise laws. Leave space for musical events ands allow dedicated music venues to emerge without fear of losing their licenses. Incentivise restaurants having live local music. How the fuck does Goa have a healthier live music scene than Mumbai? Incentivise restaurants and bars playing local artists on their speakers rather than hearing Shape of You for the 30th time. Have a royalties system like they do in other countries. The music license a restaurant has that allows them to play music is used to pay out the registered artists they play, pouring money back into artists so they can grow.

Give Indian artists that support role. They should be opening for everyone from Dua Lipa to Bryan Adams. That’s how you create a future Lollapalooza headliner, and you know what? I don’t even mean Lollapalooza Mumbai. There’s no reason why Indian artist shouldn’t headline an international music festival in a few years’ time.

Make it easier for musicians to tour. Metal band Falgun toured Europe in 2021. They said they had played more shows there in two months than they’d played in over five years in India. Once you’ve played AntiSocial in Mumbai fifteen times, what else is there to do? Driving to shows in the next city? Pune is three hours away, but Goa is 14. If someone finds there’s an appetite for their music in another metro city, they would have to fly. We need to do something about what a headache it is to get your equipment on a flight at the moment. We also need to have more venues in neighbouring cities, so that it’s not just ‘Mumbai -> Bangalore -> Chennai -> Hyderabad -> ???? -> Kolkata -> Delhi’. Those cities are a thousand kilometres from each other, are you kidding me.

Anyway. 13 year old me is jumping up and down her teenage bedroom with her guitar slung way too low, wrist hurting from palm muting to play Basket Case, but 25 year old wants to see better. I want us to not just be an attractive and passive venue for international acts to come and put on a show. I want us to pick up some long overdue pieces. Come on, India. It’s high time we built our own independent music industry.

[michellecosine]

Do you ever spend the morning thinking about how the enshittification of the internet combined with the rapid consolidation of media corporations in the 20teens destroyed so many good shows

Do you ever remember how Warner Brothers shuttered rooster teeth and killed rwby

[todayisafridaynight]

Just realized if akane’s hawaiian theres a .5% chance ichiban can be of filipino descent

[birdyverdie]

School is starting soon!! I can't believe I'm excited for the stressors of classes OURGH...

[thousand-winters]

It has always bothered me, but after watching Arcane I keep thinking more and more about how much the framing of the narrative in Fire Emblem Fates bothers me.

Because the thing is we have very similar situations: Hoshido and Piltover as the privileged parts of these societies, with Nohr and Zaun struggling to get by. But where this unbalance is very clear in Arcane, it's framed SO differently in Fates.

Nohr is in the wrong for doing whatever they can to survive, despite the fact (iirc) they did ask Hoshido for help because they get no damn sunlight in Nohr because of the light and dark dragons or whatever and there's only so much cattle and crops you can get like that. People are dying everyday over there and Hoshido doesn't give a damn, but Nohr is in the wrong for being desperate enough to try and get territory on their side of the continent because they need to feed themselves.

It's insane. The retainers of the royal siblings in Hoshido are all children of nobles. The retainers of the royal siblings in Nohr are all like "oh, this was an assassin trying to kill me to get money to survive so I ended up taking her in", "this boy was trying to rob us to be able to eat and he was going to get executed so I took him under my wing", "I saved her from a gladiator wing and took her under my care", like ???. The difference in conditions is just insane.

Even the royal siblings aren't escaping this because despite being the ones who get the best standing, they had to murder a whole lot of their half siblings because of the sheer amount of women who became Garon's concubines in order to try and ensure themselves and their children a better life. And then they had to kill each other in order to have a chance. THEY WERE CHILDREN. THEY HAD TO KILL THEIR HALF SIBLINGS AS CHILDREN.

Meanwhile in Hoshido the biggest problems the siblings had was that they were insecure or shy or whatever.

And you're expected to go "you're right, Nohr is evil, Hoshido is good". Like... I don't even know, man. What were the writers on, it's insane. And the amount of stuff about Nohr that got censored in localization because it was too heavy due to how dark it got is also like... jesus fucking christ, these people were living in misery and you want to blame them for trying to get themselves a better life since Hoshido won't help? Be for real...

Fates, you would be so good if you were good 😞