#of course that's only Europe

[finchfaes]

silly nobamai rivals to lovers college au idea that got out of hand while rambling to my friends about it one night at 2am

[eliounora]

to say people withholding their vote in America aren't 'pragmatic' enough is so dismissive. as a fellow European like idk what I would've done either if I was an American.

Otherwise I would be sorry to be dismissive but in this situation I think it is completely acceptable, if not necessary, to vote for the lesser evil. Voting is not about your inner true values, it is about society, and especially in the American setting where you essentially have only two options, you need to be able to make hard decisions. If you're seriously indicating that on the whole Harris is bad as Trump, you need to take a cold hard look at the reality of the matters at hand. Harris is not ideal, and it hurts to vote for her especially when you think about Gaza, but Trump is a fascist and his supporters in the Republican party are dangerous to democracy and human rights. This is not a situation where you get to opt out. Not voting is a vote for Trump.

[bidonica]

wait can you elaborate on "#not to be european on main but it's one of asoiaf's most tellingly american features to me" because I've never really considered this before

Well, if you look at the time frame of Westeros post Targaryen conquest that's roughly the same distance between the foundation of the USA and when GRRM started writing asoiaf, so there might be a (conscious or subconscious I can't tell, but it wouldn't suprise me if it was intentional) correlation with placing "the birth of this country as we know it" at that specific point in time. Which ties back to that feeling of "the beginning of history" while acknowledging that there has been a history before, but it's a lot more nebulous and badly documented and it involves ethnicities that are considered "native" vs more recent migrations (First Men vs Andals).

And it's something you don't really get to perceive from a European perspective because sometimes you might be living in a country that, in its current form as a nation state, is actually younger than the US (like Italy or Germany), but that state and its identity exists in continuity with what was there before, going back to several centuries. There are cultural and material callbacks to that history in your everyday life, be it the language you speak or still using very ancient buildings that sometimes even maintained their original purpose. I don't want to sound blasé but from that vantage point "300 years ago" is "a long time ago, but not that long". This is not a value judgment, and of course the key reason is colonialism -- I just think there are some contextual elements that might lead to a different perception of history. It's all relative in the end

[hyperfixation-archive]

And I, I wouldn't fare wel. Hozier putting nfwmb on the setlist kind of wouldn't fare well.

[leah2eroes]

"european trans women on this site talking about their petty little problems with "transmisogynists" like. fucking excuse me???? im a TRANS MAN living in AMERICA do you even give a shit about the shit thats happening over here??? you are NOT allowed to voice ANY of your lived experiences if i decide that they make ME look bad!!! this is INFIGHTING! this is MISANDRY!! now is NOT the time for you fucking evil tra- uh.,, trans radfems, to be WHINING about how we 'oppress you'. we don't. now shut up and let the MEN talk."

-actual post i saw on my tl just now (obviously paraphrased with key subtext lol)

[alexanderpearce]

happy longest day! (photos taken around 9:24pm today)

[alpinelogy]

☆ Eric, he/they, early 20s, europe ao3 (attraqtia) || ko-fi (alpinelogy) (<- occasionally sell prints there)

Funny fast car fan, acoustic motorsport enthusiast, accidentally a hockey enjoyer. Funny fast cars of all categories and series to clarify Supposedly a writer, an occasional graphic designer, and an alleged gamer. I attempt some sort of a tagging system for filtering all but F1

graphics tag || writing tag || gif tag f1 driver tierlist

Don't be fooled, cycling is the main point of this blog Incidentally NSFW, proceed at your own caution Header by tan @/brawngp2009, thank you sm <3

[lafcadiosadventures]

i believe it is not constructive to study colonization processes in isolation. For instance, the same aculturation technique that was used in Mexico/Perú, building cathedrals over the foundations of temples, was already designed and sistematized by Pope Gregory the Great, in the VIth century CE for the pagan peoples of Europe.

"don't demolish their places of worship. Destroy their idols, purify the constructions with holy water, lodge relics there, and let them be transformed into temples of the true God. In this way, the people will not have the necessity to change their places of reuinion, and where in the old days they went to sacrifice cattle for the devils, from now on let them continue the practice, but on a day the church has dedicated to a saint, and let them kill their beasts, no more in the way of a sacrifice, but for a social meal in honour of the Lord whom they now adore." (tr. mine)

[leatherbookmark]

I'm trying to monitor the speed with which things sell out in pop-up stores, right, so I looked up "barcelona sold out" on twt, annnnd apparently there was a lucky draw event going on there -- buy a set number of albums, get a set number of bonus ~exclusive~ photocards -- and apparently there was someone who was doing a group order, so they bought a whole suitcase of albums (the limit was like... 30 sets of 8 albums, or 240 albums, per person, so the sellers let them do that) and they ran out of bonus stuff in like 4 and a half hours. Now people on twitter are saying it's okay to film the person who bought all those albums because they're doing "heinous shit in public" (and so they deserve it).

I really like being into kpop ! it's great fun

[kingdomvel]

Uuuuuh music artists are so afraid of europe south of paris

[servuscallidus]

I Need to go to Scotland

[bibleofficial]

legal weed comparisons netherlands to us:

- purchase limit (day): 5g vs 1oz

- available to purchase: bud/hash, brownies vs … name a noun ? 😭😭

- percentages: <25% vs >25%

- price 35€/3.5, 15€ fatty prerolls vs just buy it illegally so u don’t have to pay taxes on the same product 😭😭

overall i mean it runs standard to black market broadly for eu it’s just … legal-ish

[more-like-rocksiu]

everytime i see a new variation of the "haha you call that heatwave you weakling, we have it here all the time-" i lose 30 years.

[isthenapoleoncute]

Not sure if you’ve answered something like this before, but what’s your favourite fictional interpretation of Napoleón?

There are no fictional Napoleons! They are all real, and they all live deep in my heart! What are you implying? That I don't have an army of Napoleons gathered from across all media, ranging from 19th century caricatures to modern video games living in my home?! Perish the thought! Watch your mouth or I'll sic my Attack Napoleons on you!!

I certainly won't be actually answering this question in my tags!

[gringoslur]

gringos: french people are THE revolution agaisnt the goverment!!! its crazy what they do!!!

any calm day somewhere in latam with a minister of security:

[13thpythagoras]