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#my random stuff#british#british memes#currently in london and missing the wonderful water of [redacted] where i live#london water tastes like someone dissolved chalk in piss#water from the scottish highlands is so good though#but uh. since coming to london I've been living off juice and drinks from restaurants/cafes#because i can only take a couple mouthfuls of london water before spitting it back out#my dad brought a bottle of [redacted] water that he packed for the journey down and i have never been more grateful#southerners how do you live.#i mean. yeah the south gets all the government funding and the tourism and the infrastructure#but at least we have banger water
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Not 2 be a hater on here but can we please start discerning between Prot angst and that old Tumblr catchall of Catholic Guilt.....Eugene Sledge does not have Catholic guilt that boy has never done the sign of the cross in his life. He thinks communion is symbolic. He believes the Bible has 66 books. Come on now if faith is a source of contention for him it's because he's worried about whether the church elders are going to split over installing a water fountain in the fellowship hall or the scripture selection being used for VBS....if he's a hardline Calvinist maybe he's scared of damnation. Maybe a little bit. If he's feeling particularly mentally ill at a given moment. Probably he's already sure he's either part of the elect or (if he's feeling progressive) he's in the One True Church. But boy he certainly doesn't know what charism means and he never will
#eugene sledge YOU. are a southern baptist#tbf i dont think tom hanks really knows what the difference is either since he has leckie complaining about predestination.....oh well#we need more boring af mainline prots getting peeved over someone else's pimento cheese recipe at the church potluck#the gothic drama of transubstantiation and confession and catholic hierarchy is sooooooo overplayed#joke kinda but also not really do you know how many normal catholics are out there with jobs and lives and stuff. its crazy#eugene roe etc. charming little st francis prayer and you're good to go!!#the pacific#hbo war#eugene sledge#personal
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*voice of boy who just experienced romantic/sexual attraction for the first time* did you guys see that. that was insane. wdym you live like this
#um?????#i've had “crushes” before but that was just guessing#it wasn't until *checks calendar* two days ago that i discovered what y'all are talking about#that was legit insane#also very proud of my initiative. underneath it all i'm quite bold. got his number (re: asked him if he wanted my number which is much more#fun. also he later told me that it made him blush which is cute) and he danced with me.#and it was such a vibe???#like. i've been flirted with before#specifically a guy asked to dance with me (we were at a dance) and like. i did but it was really not it. i'm very enthusiastic when dancing#and there to have as much fun as i can and he was doing that awkward shuffle step thing and i could tell he wasn't really into dancing and#it felt he was bringing me down. dampening the vibe.#but with this guy we were vibing like crazy. he liked dancing! there was energy! he twirled me! it was insane you guys#also he has the cutest little southern accent#i didn't notice at first but my friend pointed it out to me and y'all it's adorable#got his spotify and we like a lot of the same music too#unfortunately he lives 2-3 states over (depending how you count)#we've been texting though#i met him at my competition so if we both win again i'll see him next year lol#finn says shit
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Northern hemisphere centrism is my ENEMY. The earth is a G L O B E. just because its winter in your country does not mean the entire world is also in winter babe. THE EARTH! IS! A GLOBE!
#it’s the shocked pikachu face every single time someone remembers that people exist in the southern hemisphere#and therefore…. things are Different#like I get that majority of people live in the northern hemisphere but HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW SEASONS WORK#anyway shoutout to all my southern hemisphere besties. we are out here……#hattie talks#alright sorry I’ll shut up#misc: unrelated
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my nanny kid just walked up to me and said "hi, you!" and that's what i always say to her and i am afhskfieijio i love this toddler with my entire soul
#she's also my niece but i have to mentally separate that out when i'm nannying because otherwise i go into auntie mode and forget i'm like#supposed to be enforcing some basic rules and not being a pushover#the traits that make an amazing aunt make a terrible nanny it turns out#yeah no she's spoiled#this morning she woke up & immediately hopped in my lap and jammed her freezing cold popsicle hands into my neck#“i cold” girl me too tf#it's 43 degrees f outside#if you're from the north don't come into my notes talking about how 43 isn't cold okay i know i grew up in alaska#but i'm a weakass now i've lived in the southern us for the past like ten years#(you can absolutely bully me in the notes btw that tag was a joke i do acknowledge my weakassery)#abby's feral liveblog
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I really fucking hate it here man.
I keep seeing commercials BEGGING for support and aid and donations for the wildfire victims.
But... why us? Why are WE called on to provide aid? We, who can barely take care of ourselves, are begged to help when there's TONS of money at the top in the government. And all those blessed celebrities? Why aren't they doing anything? These people with all this money are doing jack shit with it, and they believe they deserve praise when they "promise" to donate... Fuck that.
#hey guys#btw uhm...#NORTH CAROLINA IS STILL RECOVERING FROM THAT HURRICANE!!! JUST SO YOU KNOW#bc NOBODY and I MEAN NOBODY gives a single FUCK about us over here on the east coast#fuck those inbred uneducated hillbilly rednecks right!? they're all backwards and phobic and racist and not worthy of living right?!#things are going to shit out here and NONE OF YOU FUCKING CARE BC IT'S THE SOUTH#where is the activism for us southerners? we are not our government. we're out here fighting alone to make change#Missouri needs help fighting a new immigration bill! The Appalachian people still need houses. and Idk what else is happening here bc no one#no one cares about us. I can hear it in some of these activism posts 'fuck the south! let them die!' I've seen it said#from these very people who hate stereotypes and fight against them. amazing how they would fall to stereotyping a whole region of people#how are you going to tell us southern queers that we should just move? many of us love our home in the south. why don't yoi help us#help us make a change. we shouldn't have to leave. we should come together and fight for change (america lol)#idk man#im just fucking sick of it right now#hating the south and her people is racist and classist y'all know that right? most civil rights battles were fought and won down here....#you know..... because of all the POC who call the south home... who gave the south it's culture. would you forsake them?#the racists are EVERYWHERE not just down here. EVERY REGION HAS HATEFUL BIGOTS not just us#gods im so fucking mad#just because we were children when all the assholes were voted in by dead or dying racists doesn't mean we have to suffer now#im sorry#i didn't vote for Bitch McConnell but he's still in office. When I was finally able to I did vote for Beshear... and I voted for Biden like#most of us younger folk did like.... man i dont fucking know! fuck man!#why do I have to donate what money i dont have? why isn't the government or celebrities helping?#btw... I expect nothing but apathy from this website when that big ass earthquake hits KY at some point... You've already shown how you feel#bruh#idk#long post#like#bro
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hey gang the city of houston and other surrounding south east areas of texas are expecting a major snow storm once again. When we inevitably lose power and probably a good amount of people lose their lives to the freezing cold you northerners are going to be really chill and polite right? Especially considering the city is barely recovering from two other major disasters this past year right? We all want this to stop happening but gerrymandering makes it incredibly difficult for voters to succeed we all know that right?
#eren.txt#if i hear one lick of how all us southern hicks should die ill show you what a true texan can do#idk what dallas or austin will be like i just live in inner city houston
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I should stop pretending I’m not southern
#post brought to you by an old cd of country music my grandma sent me#(she’s clearing out her house cuz she’s moving and she thought I might like it it’s an old burned cd of songs she and my grandpa liked#that I would always ask to listen when we went anywhere in their old pickup truck and I’ve been listening to it#it’s mostly Johnny cash Dolly Parton and various bluegrass and it’s like. yeah. I actually loved this music)#I should get back into a lot of the country artists I used to listen to#and then stopped when I started pretending I hated country cuz I didn’t wanna be associated with it or the south or being a fucking redneck#like damn did you know I used to wanna learn to play the banjo? maybe I should look into that…..#I’ve mentioned my rodeos n shit and I still have my cowboy boots and spurs and hats n stuff from when I rode horses#maybe I should stop consciously getting rid of my southern accent….#I mean I’ve never been able to completely shake it so most ppl can’t really notice#but if I tell them where I’m from they’re like ooohhhh that makes sense#but yeah if I don’t focus on it when I talk I have a much thicker accent than it sounds like#I should stop doing that…..#idk the older I get the more I miss the south and the culture and stuff#and also it pisses me off how ppl talk about the south#both in general and where I live now#actually had someone once tell me I didn’t ‘sound dumb enough’ to be southern#like man fuck you#anyways the point is I missed country music and I think I’m gonna start listening to it a lot more <3#cuz what point is there in pretending I don’t like it#and who cares if every person I’ve ever been close with fucking hates country music and would make fun of me if I ever even BEGAN to say#I liked it so anyways#kaz rambles
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hey yall can we stop with the "homophobic (or otherwise bigoted) southern family" trope and have more "not-quite-knowledgeable-about-[minority group] but well-meaning southern family" representation? kthanks
signed, a queer arkansan who's fucking tired of cishet southerners being always painted as bigoted assholes and us queer southerners being perceived as "trapped" in our homes
#does arkansas's government fucking suck balls? yes. but it's still my home#everyone i love lives here and i love arkansas. it's the only true home ive ever known; ive lived here my whole life#and i'd like to think that things are getting better for queer people here (at least on a societal level. not gonna talk about governmental#-cuz huckabee-sanders pisses me off)#one of the biggest **baptist** churches in little rock is progressive and has multiple queer and female pastoral staff#a BAPTIST CHURCH#do you understand how wild that is?#i promise we're not all trump-loving fascists okay#athena rambles#queer#lgbtq#lgbtqia+#queer southerner#and i dont mean to diminish the struggles of those who do deal with homophobic southern families. i wish you all the best <3#but i dont want that to be the only thing that people think of when they think of the US south (esp in relation to queer people living here
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I hate the attitude people have of “oh this group I don’t care about at all/as much as others is speaking up about their oppression and the problems they face, I can’t believe they think they’re the most oppressed people in the world 🙄” like speaking about about the issues we face isn’t claiming we suffer more than jesus or some shit, especially when those issues largely go ignored by the same people who consider themselves progressives! People in the southern U.S. are oppressed actually! There is so much racism and classism weaponized against those from the south, and the people who are hit hardest by that will always be those in marginalized communities, southern people of color, southern queer people, southern disabled people, you get the fucking picture! And yeah I think we should be allowed to speak up about this, because self righteous liberals up north will lock their car doors when a person of color walks by and then preach to southerners online that we’re all just too poor and stupid to be as good as them! They’ll blame us for our own oppression and tell us to just pack up and abandon our homes and everything we know otherwise we aren’t worthy of their sympathy. Of course I ain’t saying that southerners are the most oppressed group in the whole world but we should still be allowed to talk about the problems we do face, not just from our governments and our neighbors but from people elsewhere who would rather blame us and mock us and leave us behind than DARE to associate with us.
#I saw a post and it pissed me off but I’m trying so hard not to argue online with people#almost all of the highest poverty rates in the country are in the south#transgender people are rapidly having our rights stripped away by our state governments#we’re losing access to basic medical care and they’re trying to criminalize leaving the state for it too#and we don’t get. help or solidarity or sympathy from people up north#we get told it’s what we deserve because OTHER people voted for some guy and he won#but we live here so we deserve it#I ain’t forgotten how people acted when we got hit with that blizzard#how people said we deserved it as a red state. how people said they would care if some Texans hadn’t voted for trump#people were dying. who do you think that effected the most?#it certainly wasn’t the most wealthy among us#it was the homeless. the poor. the disabled. primarily people and families of color. immigrants#and people were just so cruel about it#don’t call yourself a progressive or whatever if you can’t stand with southerners#if you’d rather paint us all as racist white trump supporters than take even a moment#to look at our communities and our culture and how being from the south interacts with our other identities#you don’t get to just throw us away because we don’t look good enough for you
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Friends, ya bitch did it again. We got yet another random man in love with me, and this time, he was the camera operator for an interview I was doing.
#He was weirdly nervous putting my mic on#He had to move my hair out of the way and commented about how soft it was#He's a Black man so allowed to touch my hair#don't worry#THEN during the ENTIRE ONE HOUR interview he was just cheesing behind that camera#And when we cut he commented on my southern twang#then he personally escorted me to this ofher area and I don't think he was supposed to because the people were like where are you going???#asking me all kinds of questions#opening doors and shit#He outwright smitten#then I strutted to my car like yes#ya bitch still got it#also he really perked up when someone asked me if I lived in the area and I said relatively close#now time will tell#how long til he slides in my DMs?#I mean#I ain't looking#still too traumatized#but I do love free dinner
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watching fan commentary on the lotr filming process is so hard because every five seconds they make it so painfully obvious that the only thing they know about nz is that it's where lotr was filmed
#they hear 'island nation' and think that means there are no people and no infrastructure#which is just... i don't know where to begin to unpack it#do they think island and southern hemisphere = underdevelopment?#and thus bring all the imperialist and racist assumptions attached to that without understanding what nz is?#(not that such thinking would be acceptable in any situation)#just no concept of what a country with a smaller population looks like or how it magically manages to function despite not being us-sized?#remember when theonering fansite got into a beef with a journalist on twitter#because they were (incorrectly) claiming that the tax on pj's wealth would fund our covid programme?#cause i do#like that is genuine misinformation at that point all so you can clap your fave guy on the back#talking about how amazon was able to build full-scale sets or whatever and keep them hidden because we had strict border controls for covid#and there's 'not a lot of people living there'#it's embarassing guys please stop#el's ramblings
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Where does one acquire a squirrel or two to eat
#….#how do you get one#do you like#pick it off of the road#like roadkill#or do you hunt ir down#im too stupid to live in small southern towns#<- yeah vampy we can tell#that trip to tahoe had you in tears bc there was no stores or like anything they have in the city#I HATE SMALL TOWNS
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'god took him so the devil wouldn't do more damage' and other things my mother says about her potentially murdered boyfriend.
#sometimes when I am in Canada I talk about the fact that Southern people are on some shit re:#like the way they puzzle piece meaning and lives together#but this... this is both a reminder of that and the next level#Really Really Really- this is what we're doing?#this is what we're saying? this is how we're grieving?#I'd say I'm not judging but I clearly am#my mother started this sentence by the way with 'I don't want you to think I've become a holy roller'#my heart aches for my mama and for the reaches she must make#to make sense of the senseles
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at some point in the future:
*non vegan reading about a new vegan leather*: psh. bet it has plastic in it tho.
*scrolls down and finds out theres 0 plastic. the non vegan gets angry since now theres finally a vegan leather they dont get to complain about*: psh, bet it doesnt feel like real leather tho.
*scrolls down to find out the creators of this leather spent a lot of time to make it more "like real leather*: psh, bet they exploit their workers tho
just say you want to use animal leather and you were never going to consider an alternative in the first place, bud
#bc ik for a damn fact plenty a yall are gonna do this.#excuses excuses#ooo but im sure all that leather you buy is totally not from exploited workers either#im sure you take Great Care making sure its not 😒#and if you do. great for you! why do you think human lives and comfort is more important than animal lives and comfort btw?#you'll do anything to avoid hurting exploited workers yes? but having anything vegan now and then is just. off the table. am i right?#am i correct? have i read you for filth?#and then you'll tell me 'no ethical consumption under capitalism' yet you still try to avoid buying from exploited workers-#so seems like more or less you just say that to avoid feeling any guilt about eating or contributing to the harm of animals?#just say you value human lives more and move on.#'no ethical consumption' to some people means 'i get to say this to excuse any behaviors i do that exploit others and to justify#why im only considerate about 1 (one) thing when it comes to buying stuff'#but what if you could do more than that though- clearly you only buy from places that dont exploit their workers bc of your morals and#not bc you think it actually changes things if you believe in the 'no ethical consumption' argument#so why cant you ever acknowledge that you're harming animals or try to make excuses for why its fine? ik deep down it conflicts with#your moral outlook too. you're selective about what you think you can change because theres some stuff you're unwilling to change.#be real. its not because of capitalism. you think meat tastes good and you like how leather makes you feel Cool and Badass or whatever#you feel Punk and Rock And Roll for wearing dead animals. never mind that that fascination is hard to distinguish from southern right#wingers who love their snakeskin cowboy boots and hunt for sport.#they also feel Very Cool for wearing dead animals 😒 bb girl you're not as counter culture and punk as you think you're coming off as#at least native ppl dont generally do it to Feel Cool
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the funniest thing about the appalachian post is every single person from appalachia arguing about which is the correct pronunciation in the tags
like. the appalachian mountains stretch from fucking maine all the way to alabama. the officially recognized appalachian region stretches from new york to mississippi. going through both carolinas, tennessee, georgia, alabama, mississippi, kentucky and virginia (and i guess west virginia if i’m forced to count it ugh)
half those states can’t agree on the pronunciation of the word “pen” most of the time. you think they all pronounce appalachia the same way??
#i'm sorry it's just funny as hell#born and raised in pa#spent a few years in tennessee#and like.#do you know how many accent differences there are between pa and tn because the answer is a LOT#a: the 'southern' accent is actually technically the appalachian accent#source: my southern-sounding aunt from central pa#b: i'm not even kidding i heard no less than three different ways to somehow pronounce pen while living in tennessee#it's stupid
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