#the british monarchy is bullshit anyways

[houseofbrat]

But haven’t they sent out PR saying they’ll both be attending these awards?? If H is there, that effectively means he has shut all BRF doors on himself. It’s exactly the brilliantly COLOSSAL mistake he’ll make. 😭🤣

Originally, they were receiving the award for their “humanitarian” exploits. That’s what I remember hearing when it was first released. 

It’s only been within the last few weeks when Kerry Kennedy made the direct accusations to a Spanish outlet that H&M were receiving the award due to leaving the BRF that it really got heated.

The translated quotes from People magazine: 

"They went to the oldest institution in U.K. history and told them what they were doing wrong, that they couldn't have structural racism within the institution; that they could not maintain a misunderstanding about mental health," she continued, referring to the British monarchy. "They knew that if they did this there would be consequences, that they would be ostracized, they would lose their family, their position within this structure, and that people would blame them for it. They have done it anyway because they believed they couldn't live with themselves if they didn't question this authority. I think they have been heroic in taking this step."

Of course, originally when Harry & Meghan left, they wanted the half-in/half-out deal, so the notion that they left due to racism or mental health is bullshit. 

I think amping the ante on calling the BRF “racist” is purely a Meghan thing at this point. Someone noted that there is an article circulating where Meghan is leaking about planning a “juicier” memoir than Harry. What was the top comment on Reddit? 

“Tell me they are acrimoniously separated without telling me they are acrimoniously separated.“

And as the comment directly below that one noted, Meghan’s negotiations with the BRF probably aren’t going her way. It’s probably the same thing with Kerry Kennedy’s comments. Kerry Kennedy was probably okay with giving them the award for some minor charity work with the Oprah interview just as a notable mention. 

However, things are probably not going great for Meghan behind the scenes. Meghan decided that the big, bad BRF needs to be called out more since she’s not getting her way in these separation negotiations. Her number one strategy is to bully other people, so she’s just attempting to bully the BRF by making a huge statement when she gets her acceptance speech opportunity for this award. It’s purely a “see, look what I can do” strategy.

I highly doubt Harry is going to be there. It’s going to be Meghan solo at this event blasting the BRF on camera because she has no self-awareness. The publicity for the event says they’ll both be there. Rumor circulating around is that Harry absolutely does not want to attend and will not attend. I believe it at this juncture. I highly doubt he’s going to be there. 

This is solely a Meghan thing at this point. Her attempting to lambast the BRF without her husband present is totally something she would do because she expects them to not volley back via pr in the press. In the past, they’ve never fired back to the degree that they could have. 

I suspect Harry is truly at the end of his rope. He’s probably trying to get an amicable separation with her completed privately with custody of the kids sorted out. Meghan is unreasonable and isn’t going to go for it. She can’t give up control and certainly not of her meal tickets. Hence, she got Kerry Kennedy to give the BRF a preview in Spanish media. 

There are three rules of public speaking: stand up, speak up, and shut up. Meghan doesn’t know how to do the third. She’ll probably jump the shark with her acceptance speech. It would not surprise me if that was the outright final straw with Harry to be completely done with her, and we get a separation/divorce announcement almost right after. 

[skippyv20]

The intent to destroy the BRF and her monarchy is just the beginning for a one world government, clearly. So, all the fools believing this narrative of racism, coldness, and feeling pushed out…what of the monarchies around the world? Especially in the Middle East, Eastern Asia, Africa, and circling back to Europe. What of them? What excuse will be used to cancel them? Also, the Harkles much like many other “wealthy” “liberals” aren’t liberal at all, they cry blue but live red, openly too, and idiots lap it up as if their fave famous person would ever live in their neighbourhood, care for their people, lobby for their rights, HA! Anyway, what’s next? Evil never wins, God is never late, He shows up right on time. QEII wasn’t destined to end you, but my god did she light the lint beneath you. Trust and believe Henry & Rachel, you’re about to meet your Waterloo. Oh & as myself & father have always discussed, if you’re going to be a liar, at least be a good one. So much deceit yet so sloppy. Pathetic, all of you (hey backers 👋🏽), 1200 years and counting, try harder, you’ll be dead longer than you’ve been alive. No threat, just facts. Biology, logic, and critical thinking are beautiful things. Oh and I’m black (24/7, 365, 366 in a leap year 😉), British, West Indian, and not here for the bullshit. Bring it the fuck on, (excuse my language friends), you wanted a war, well now you’ve got one. Strap up. Stand up. See you at dawn. Your end is just the beginning. And the beginning has no end. Kisses to you, you precious idiotic darlings. Not so kind but definitely honest regards, HopeAnon✨💐

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19 & 29 for the one ask game pls 🤌🏻

19. the veggie you dislike the most?

hmmmmmmmmmmm honestly I like most veggies, they're just. so yummy. There's a common vegetable in India called karela aka bitter gourd which, as the name suggests, is bitter. I actually don't think I've ever had it, or maybe I just tried it once and that's it cuz I don't like bitter stuff.

a more specific answer is baingan bharta. it's a particular way of cooking baingan aka eggplant (or brinjal as we call it) which quite frankly, is gross. i love eggplant - i like it pan fried or roasted or baked or whatever - just not baingan bharta.

i also just googled it and um. eggplant is a fruit?????? get outta here

29. preferred pasta noodle?

i was hoping you would see this post just for this quastion 🤌 hate to be boring but spaghetti. shit slaps

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literally so embarrassing watching indians make reverential posts for the british monarchy on instagram. have some self respect

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Hello hi yes, the final chapter of my Dhamaka fic is finally up. Thanks to anyone who stuck around for the whole thing, it was a good time! 😄

Also, shout out to @twinkle-toph for helping proofread this thing and giving her inputs, even though she didn’t have to. 

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anyway what’s a cute silly light hearted kdrama i can watch next? because that 2521 ending was bullshit lmao

and not in a ‘wow that was so heartbreaking’ kind of way, in a ‘wow that was some garbage writing in an attempt to manipulate my emotions and it didn’t work because it literally makes no sense for any of the characters’ !!!!!!

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[petvles]

I dont remember our whole ass economy collapsing when our queen stepped down like maybe the stability of your country shouldn't be dependent on de life of one (1) woman

[trecoolsdick]

CHRIST okay I caved and listened to viva las vengeance and now I need to share my Correct opinions on this fucking disaster of an album

let me preference by saying i fucking hate brendon urie:

i was expecting this to sound like, fun, since the title looked somewhat intriguing,, hoo buddy was I wrong

hearing his screeching high notes felt like actual nails on a chalkboard

seriously, it actually gave me anxiety

more on the butchered high notes: I’m a classically trained singer and when I hear people reach for notes I know they don’t have or literally scream to reach them i have a visceral reaction, very similar to what i experienced with his shit ass vocal technique

“sad clown” really just,,, unsettled me in ways I didn’t know i could be unsettled. luciano pavarotti, sweetie, i am so sorry. I am so sorry than an ugly ass bitch like this would DISGRACE the famed italian arias “Nessun dorma” and “Vesti la giubba” like that,, Oh my GOD

the lyrics are just Too Much. i literally can’t decipher the meaning of any one of these songs (except for maybe Don’t Let the Light Go Out). you don’t have to flex your knowledge of the english lexicon and overuse big words to tell a story. very few people in the world can do that and those ppl are freddie mercury billie joe armstrong and roger waters. you (brendon) will never be glamour

the melodies aren’t memorable or special, like I can’t recall a single song on the album because the format is all the fucking same

girl this album was just So Bad. like who was sucking his dick and hyping up this bullshit

anyway fuck the british monarchy and brendon urie

[kangoo]

we've got queen jubilee celebrations happening everywhere rn - tell me some of the bullshit anniversary stuff that blood elves get up to!!

i feel like the blood elves have five major anniversaries:

Anniversary of the founding of Silvermoon. It’s a party! lots of food, public storytelling and flashy practice of arcane magic as a big fuck you to ye olde night elves. Kael’thas finds it incredibly boring, despite his family being at the center of it

The anniversary of the Fall of Silvermoon, probably named something like the Day of Blood or something. A pretty somber full day and night of nation-wide mourning (the loss is recent enough that most sin’dorei still consider themselves in the throe of the mourning period). includes a march from one edge of the dead scar to the sunwell, where people will leave momentos and offerings in the memory of those lost to the Scourge or arcane withdrawal. those offerings will then be set on fire as a way to cleanse the grief, the people and the land

Anniversary of the fall of the Lich King. WAY more of a “they tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat” vibe. People make replicas of arthas out of fabric or wood and throw it in a big bonfire :)

Anniversary of the rejuvenating of the sunwell. Just... a lot of arson. can you tell all sin’dorei are arsonists? ANyway, it’s the day of lit flames. couples will often take the opportunity to propose or have their wedding on this day, as a way to communicate ‘i hope our love lasts forever/as long as the sunwell’

and finally, kael’thas’ favorite anniversary: the royal jubilee :) they live long, LONG lives so there’s a Lot of those. he never actually got to celebrate his own jubilee tho, having ruled less than a decade before dying

because the sin’dorei monarchy is about as useful as the british one, a lot of people find the jubilees annoying and superfluous, but they do have the advantage of being one hell of a party. like, once you reach your thousandth year of reign, you try to do something more fun than a parade, yk?

[theblogtini]

Long rant ahead (sorry!) re: Sussexes and the security thing. I absolutely believe they leaked it. If they didn´t back in September it is because it was of no use to them then. I believe they did their “tour” in NY back then. It would have taken the shine of their “great comeback” if at the same time stories about being denied security in the UK were out. You cannot play both victorious and victim at the same time. So they kept that card for whenever they needed attention on themselves and to throw shade at the family again. And I think the last few weeks with Kate’s concert and then her birthday event, it must have driven them up the wall. There was really nothing bad that could have been made out of any of those events (you know how sometimes the press can find a detail to be negative about). It was basically good press for Kate, therefore the Cambridges and by extension the whole family. And now this Andrew thing? Maybe not great for the family but I believe they couldn´t stand not being mentioned for so long. And since he has this book coming out, he must once again play victim of his family. Otherwise why else would people buy it if they were all getting along and with no expectation of “tea”?

And personally, and maybe this is a bit of wishful thinking since I’m sick and tired of this pair, I believe he has received no fucking invitation at all whatsoever. At the mention that his family had been less than gracious towards Meghan and his future children in the interview, they knew exactly what the accusations would focus on: racism. I don´t believe for a second they were surprised by Oprah, but still airing family disagreements was always going to earn his family the racist tag, which wasn´t going to be hard for the british monarchy to obtain anyway. Why on earth would a family want to invite back the pair that mercilessly put them that tag forever. Yes I know, Charles is a father etc etc. But these people have worked for decades to rehabilitate their image after many embarrassments and really bad public image. And now these racism accusations from the public falling on everyone from the queen to William, they know there’s no way to undo them, those comments will keep coming up forever wrt the sussexes and the brf. Even sending one of their lapdogs the day after the interview to make clear neither EII nor Philip had made the racist comments helped, nor Meghan mentioning how kate was a nice person. That´s it, they are all a bunch of white racist snobs in the mind of a lot of people. Maybe not all over the world, maybe not on most brits, but still. People with no former opinion read this the fastest way. Not to mention, the family would be measuring exactly what to say to these two that couldn´t possibly be “reinterpreted” at another interview.

But what would Harry gain from saying “we weren´t invited”? Their fans wouldn´t be surprised and neither their detractors. They benefit from claiming they want to come back and visit them (despite being horrible to them because M&H are that good you see) but they can´t because they won´t ensure their safety, also implying the family isn´t concerned if anything happens to them, and of course not failing to mention “paps chasing his car” should anyone forget that´s how his mother died (another thing for which his family has been blamed for and H has actively help to bring back).

Sorry this was sooo long. I just don´t believe there’s anything “accidental” about anything these two do. It is all calculated to earn them sympathy press when they can´t release anything positive and constructing about themselves.

I think they likely DID receive invitations. Through all of this the royal family have attempted to remain above the fray, and The Queen especially has tried to keep the "business" side separate from the "family" side. So I believe that even though all of this bullshit is happening The Sussexes were still invited for Christmas and were invited for the Jubilee. But - as with all things - I think that they didn't get their way (security detail, lodging, etc) and so they decided not to come. And they're making a big deal about it so that they can try to get some sympathy before it all kicks off. They know that if the Jubilee celebrations start and they're in the shadows, people will legitimately stop associating them with the royal family and that takes all their shine away. So instead they're going to pull this stunt (threatening to sue the government!!) to garner sympathy so that when they aren't there - by their own choice! - people will say "ugh those poor people, the royal family treats them so terribly."

[lila-rae]

I bet you didn't even know about the BRF before American narcissist meghan markle came along and fucked us over with her hyper-individualist American me me me bullshit that black Americans have latched onto on her behalf. You think she gives a shit about Black Americans? You guys wish you were royalty yasss queen, isn't that the general obsession with Nubian princesses, my African king and all that royal envy that will never be yours? Americans don't understand we're literally fine without your neverending opinions and intervention. Your country's meddling has not gone right for more than half a century. But you still love your opinions and destroying other countries with your fake democracy that's broken anyway. If you're really anti-colonial, which other former colonial powers are you demanding to dismantle their system of governance? Or just the UK because that's all you read about in Us Weekly. Can you even name any others?

It’s hilarious because you know literally nothing about me. I’ve been a major British history fan since middle school. Like I could name all of the British monarchs from Edward III to now (sorry can’t so much pre 1300s). I can tell you when the houses changed over, including how the house went from Saxe- Coburg and Gotha in 1917 to Windsor all cause your precious English monarchy was actually German and with WWI on going that wasn’t a good look. Or how in 1649 y’all murdered your king to install a commonwealth only for y’all to realize you couldn’t handle not having a King so Charles II got to reign 11 years later. We can talk about the affairs, scandals, illegitimate children of Henry VIII, the War of the roses, the Stuarts, or anything you would like.

Seriously the British monarchy was probably one of my first ADHD hyperfixations. I know way too much about that whole system. Including that dismantling the monarchy would have no effect on your system of governance because they hold no power. It’s ceremonial and symbolic.

[thezfc]

Regarding Archie not getting the title of Prince and security; I found this:

“In fact, royal protocol dictates that the great-grandchild of a monarch does not normally become a Prince until their grandparent takes the throne. Later in the interview, Meghan seems belatedly to acknowledge this fact, saying: 'There's a convention . . . I forget if it was a George V or George VI convention, that when you're the grandchild of the monarch — so when Harry's dad becomes king — automatically Archie and our next baby would become Prince or Princess.' However, she then claims plans are afoot to 'change the convention for Archie'. Indeed, Prince Charles is thought to be in favour of a slimmed-down monarchy, with fewer princes and princesses. But this shift pre-dates Harry's marriage and has nothing to do with race.”

There’s also Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, they are daughters of a Prince and do not have security as they are private citizens. Nor do the children of Princess Anne and Prince Edward. It sounds as though Charles wants the British taxpayer to be paying for as few people as possible, so the security bill when he comes King might just cover his direct heirs, ie: William, his wife and children. Not Harry. Anyway, he’s making his supposed millions now, I’m sure he can pay for his own.

I did some googling and it’s also that princess Anne’s children aren’t allowed to be called prince and princess because only the male heirs can I have that, so there still that bullshit rule.

[star-anise]

I would enjoy it greatly if you would rant about the White People Smile thing, because ever since that post, I've noticed how much I do it

Okay this one is gonna be a deep dive.

For the uninitiated, I’m explaining why white people do what they do. This refers less to the actual amalgamated experiences of every person with pale skin and European descent ever, and more the aspirational model of whiteness held up as the cultural ideal in former British colonies.The gap between these two concepts is left for the audience as an instructive lesson on how useful racial stereotypes are in predicting the experiences and behaviour of individual people of that race.

Previously, while explaining why guest towels are often not meant to be used by guests, I dipped into the white propensity to never let someone know when they’re making a mistake–to smile awkwardly and say nothing when a person is being rude or offensive–before going back to talking about the unique properties of linen and terrycloth. This is a further look at the subject.

So, I can’t explain this for every person ever. And I’m gonna take a different tack than I normally would, which would normally be to talk about trauma and the fight/flight/freeze response to stress. Instead, I’m going to talk about my research into the cultural moment centuries ago when this response started to be advocated, and how connecting to long-lost European martial arts helped me unlearn this response.

Tl;dr it emerged as an alternative to stabbing people

I said once that I was a frustrated medievalist, fitting in my history education around other concerns, and therefore ended up studying, more than anything else, how the middle ages disappeared? This is one of those cases–the only vaguely relevant history class I could get into that semester was  Early Modern England, which focused on the Tudor and Stuart dynasties, 1485-1649. That’s the period right after the Middle Ages are said to have “ended” in Britain.

At the time I was also very active in the Society for Creative Anachronism, a living history group. I did rapier fencing, using the long, light swords that were intended specifically for person-to-person combat in civilian settings. They’re duelling swords, at a time the duel was becoming a separate institution from the battlefield. They were used in Spain, Italy, and France earlier, but this time period was about when they became popular in England, so I decided to use the class as a lens to study duelling in England. My prof was very receptive to this, partly because it meant he had one student whose papers weren’t about the political machinations of someone named Thomas and/or Cromwell.

So, duelling is an inherently aristocratic system. To understand it, you have to understand that “privilege” literally means “privi lege”, Latin for “private law”. It meant that the laws that applied to nobles were different from laws that applied to commoners. Commoners were not generally allowed to carry weapons or kill people; if the average commoner killed somebody, he would be tried for murder before a jury of his peers and executed for murder. But the nobility fell under the privilege of the sword; they were the class of society whose job it was to carry weapons and kill people, police and army by hereditary right. Nobles were judged by juries of their peers, other nobles; other nobles accepted that sometimes they were 100% correct in killing people. And if you’re like, “Whoa that’s fucked up, it’s like police deciding if a police officer was right to kill a civilian,” DING GOLD STAR FOR YOU. It’s why Robin Hood, the anti-aristocratic hero whose archenemy was a sheriff, is such a popular folk figure in England.

So nobles could kill commoners without serious consequences, and nobles were also allowed to kill other nobles, so long as they followed a code of combat known as chivalry. That included things like: Don’t attack someone who’s unarmed or defenceless; don’t attack from behind or without warning; bow to him before you begin fighting; blah blah blah blah. They were always more ideals than realities during times of war, but when artillery showed up on northern European battlefields in the 1400s, they became deeply impractical in warfare.  (Redacted: detailed explanation of why this is.) The ideal of a fair fight between matched foes stuck around in the duel, but it became a civil affair, not a military strategy.

Okay okay so. Why did duels happen? More than anything, they were about honour, prestige, and respect. Nobles had a certain way they expected to be treated, a code of politeness and manners with which people had to treat them. A commoner who failed to treat them this way could be punished with limited ability to resist, but other nobles had to be treated according to the same chivalric values of the fair fight. They had to be challenged to a duel.

So duels occurred over all kinds of shit. Failing to give someone precedence or jostling them in the door; having an affair with somebody’s wife; insulting someone’s favourite religious figure; behaving in an unchivalric manner; accusing someone else of behaving in an unchivalric manner; anything. People could make tutting sounds over duels being fought for the stupidest shit, but that didn’t necessarily stop them from being fought.

So the duel and the culture of politeness were really intertwined. You were polite to people because if you weren’t, they could stab you and get away with it. It’s funny how the word “gentle” started out a thousand years ago meaning someone from a particular lineage, how that lineage was the only people with social permission to perpetuate huge amounts of violence, but now means restraint from violence–but that’s what happened. A lot of courtly manners among the nobility were really like… intense high-stakes peace negotiations with everyone, all the time. 

So like, imagine current Tumblr callout culture, except if somebody called you out, you had to let them try to kill you.

Many monarchs of this era HATED duelling culture. Countries like England and France had histories of war between nobles and the Crown, so the Crown hated their nobility being really strong powerful military leaders. Powerful nobility had the pesky tendency of refusing to obey monarchs they didn’t like, or even kicking them off the throne. This pushed those monarchies towards a principle of absolute royal authority over which nothing and no one had precedence. Privilege, so far as these monarchs were concerned, ought to belong to the CROWN, and then people the Crown specifically deputized. You can’t just have people running all over and killing each other whenever they wanted! So the monarchs all started, slowly, to place restrictions on duelling and noble privilege, trying to consolidate that power.

Part of how that was done in Britain specifically was to reach out to the common people. Well, the rich common people. The merchant class. You may also know them as the bourgeoisie. One of the ways the monarchs of this era got extra money their nobles didn’t want them to have was by selling rights to colonial enterprise and writs of nobility. If you had enough money, you could become a baronet! Or own land in Ireland! Or go trade fur in North America! Which led to the social mobility I’ve mentioned before–while the crown was squeezing down the rights of the nobility, it was also opening up to the concept of common people becoming nobles. 

Here’s the thing about European racism: In places where there weren’t as many people of colour around to be racist at? They just narrowed down their concept of race. Nobles genuinely believed they constituted a separate race of people from commoners, and that they were physically different and genetically superior to common people. So this kind of class mobility was an existential threat. How can someone with no noble blood become a marquis?!

(Spoiler: In previous centuries there had been much more class mobility, before the medieval concept of “nobility” fully formed, so it was in fact as bullshit as most other racial constructs. And as the noble/common divide blurred, race had to be defined in more comprehensive ways: English against the inferior Irish, until the Irish could be assimilated into whiteness and defined in opposition to black Africans. When there have in fact been black English people for as long as there has been an England. Really truly honestly, race is constructed bullshit.)

Anyway, when the British Crown prohibited duelling in the 17th century, they tried to justify it by saying to their nobles: Hey look, here are all these commoners dressing and acting like you! And duelling like you! How droll! Don’t they look ridiculous and stupid, fighting over the littlest thing? Wouldn’t you say duelling is a little gauche? A little bourgeois?  You wouldn’t treat them like your equals, as though they deserved to be treated with the rules of chivalry, would you? No, that would be silly.

So in former times, if someone breached the standards of politeness, they’d be called out and expected to apologize or fight. But now, calling someone out would be affording them noble status when they didn’t merit the racial construct of nobility. And also, like I said before–if a commoner who was trying to break into high society made a mistake, and people pointed it out to them, then they’d learn to correct that mistake and fit in better. And then they might MARRY a noble, and DILUTE the BLOODLINES and POLLUTE the shades of PEMBERLY and MASS HYSTERIA, CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER.

So now, the nobility slowly came to believe that ~taking the high road~ was the better response: Refuse to dignify bad manners with a response, just let the awkward silence hang there so everyone can see how badly-behaved they were. Well-bred people will just know the secret unwritten rules of society. Then you can quietly exclude the rubes from your parties without ever letting them know they’re being excluded. And anyway, if you did duel someone, you’d have to do it in dead secret and if you actually did kill them, you might have to flee the country or else the Crown would arrest you and try you for murder and it’s not nice to get your dwindling noble privilege rubbed in your face.

So that’s the birth of the British response of “When someone fucks up, smile, look constipated, and say nothing.” It was especially strong in noblewomen, who wouldn’t be able to duel anyway, so might as well make a brave face of the only option that feels possible. By the time Jane Austen was writing in the late 1700s and early 1800s, society was leaning further and further to “true politeness means never expressing disapproval of someone else’s bad behaviour.” Partly because pointing out someone’s lapse in manners came to mean you thought they were stupid and hadn’t been properly enculturated into your class, which was of course the worst thing ever.

Across the centuries, the threads holding all the pieces together have rotted, so we forget why we define politeness this way; it’s just The Way Things Are Done. It’s just #verybritishproblems. It’s just the lower-class belief that if someone offends or insults you, you should punch them in the nose; it’s just the anxious privileged liberal belief that violence is wrong and we should just wring our hands about it. The most aware I’ve seen people from former colonies be on the topic is Australians, who know that they don’t subscribe as much to British manners and ideals because they were a prison colony, largely settled by poor people who got there by breaking the rules.

My grandmother, born 1929, totally aspired to that level of class and gentility, even though she was raised dirt poor; being a white settler in Canada meant that theoretically, if you worked hard and went to church and improved yourself through cleanliness and education, you could join the new ruling class. She aspired to the heights of Calgarian society, for whatever that was worth. And she has this specific way of sucking her breath in that means “Oh GOD, granddaughter, you have just something TERRIBLY gauche. Think about everything you are doing, wearing, and being at this moment, and magically intuit which of them is incorrect!” She’s also the one who made my mom learn to do pulled-thread embroidery, and taught me how to lay a place setting of silverware for a four-course meal, and basically strove to turn herself into a living model of aspirational whiteness. When my mom and I go into family therapy, we usually end up talking about how much we want to reject her ideals.

How did I unlearn this?

I am not a good fencer. I love the idea of swordfighting, but in addition to my weakness and disability, I have a really timid posture and way of moving. When I was a kid, I made it a game to see if, by turning sideways or flattening myself against a wall, I could navigate through a crowd quickly without ever needing anyone to move or notice I was there.  I really connected with the idea of Arya, in Game of Thrones, learning how to be a silent ghost, learning to catch cats. 

Then, in fencing, I had to learn entirely new responses. I’ve traditionally flinched and frozen when physically threatened; now I had to train myself to assess an incoming threat and fend it off. I had to learn to stand upright, to hold my core strong and solid, to respond to an attack and then to attack in return. It’s really physical, and in turn, really emotional. When I’ve taught teenage girls in turn, I’ve had to ease them through the process of laughing in discomfort when they land a hit on someone, crying when they hit someone out of fear and shame because they’re not supposed to DO that. Those are stages I’ve had to go through as well. I was pretty affected by a book I acquired through SCA channels, The Armored Rose, about the experiences of modern women learning to do historical combat. It’s a feminist analysis and it felt true to me, but now, a few decades later, I think it’s not really about “women” so much as “people who have been socialized to never be violent”–there are a lot of men I’ve taught who have been just as likely to freeze, who needed to overcome emotional hesitation before responding assertively, and women who had no hesitation at all.

But one lesson that really left an impression on me was learning from a doña, an acknowledged master of the form, who was helping me fine-tune the way I held myself when I fought. “Pull in your core,” she said, encouraging me to bunch my muscles up so that when I uncoiled it would be even more powerful and positive. “Hold a little bit of ferocity. You gotta be a little mad at your opponent.”

“Anger gets in the way of clear thinking,” my usual teacher, an older man, said.

“Too much, yeah,” she said. “But in the women I’ve taught, the problem is usually not enough anger, not too much.”

I can still call that feeling up very clearly–legs tense and coiled, body held upright, ready to respond to an attack with a counterattack of my own. IIt felt good. I loved fencing, loved the sense of accomplishment I got learning how to respond to attacks and defeat them.

As a child and teenager I was hideously socially anxious, and had been bullied for most of my life. When people were socially aggressive towards me, it was incredibly hard not to just freeze up. Fighting back was impolite. Resistance was futile. I would either physically or metaphorically tuck myself into a ball and wait for them to stop hitting me, get bored and go away. In my late teens and early twenties I started getting medication and therapy to deal with my problems, and that meant learning to be socially assertive. To say, “No, you didn’t hear me right, what I really meant was–” and “No, I’d rather not go,” and “Excuse me, I’d like to be included in this discussion.” And a lot of the time, when I did that, I could physically feel the scrape of another sword against mine as a ghost in my mind. I’d put my feet into a fencer’s position before difficult conversations, to give me courage.

And after writing my final paper on duelling, I thought a lot about what it would be like to live in a duelling culture. How weird, how foreign would it be, to believe that somebody else deserved to die for treating me badly? How did you summon up enough anger to fight someone for insulting you? What kind of emotion would be necessary to drive a real sword into them, and not a blunted one? 

What would it be like if I treated myself like someone whose feelings and experiences mattered, whose integrity was worth defending?

I mean, it was not a quick, easy, or complete fix. Years after, I’d still do things like get assaulted and take a year before telling anyone about it because the guy who assaulted me was friends with all my friends and I didn’t want to make them choose a side. But as much as I did change, that was how. And that enabled me to have richer relationships with a lot of different people. Before, people would hurt me without knowing it, and never know why I was later too scared of them to talk. I took a long time to trust people, to feel comfortable enough to connect with them. That fragility made it hard for me to help people, to do the kind of jobs that I wanted. The sturdier I got, the better at defending my boundaries and expressing myself, the wider the array of people I could talk with, get to know. 

And since what I really wanted was to be a therapist focused on complex trauma, and a huge proportion of the people with complex trauma in Alberta are First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, that put me in situations where we had to talk about colonization and decolonization, and people started to ask me, “Hey, white girl, why do white people have so much stuff in their houses you’re not allowed to touch or use? Why are white people like this?” and could explain social niceties like “Yeah, this is a weird random thing white people do that seems really rude or stupid to you? But if you’re applying to a job and want a white person to hire you, they’ll judge you for not paying attention to it.”

I also learned, later, as training for a job, another form of martial art. Specifically, nonviolent martial arts–what to use when an impaired or intoxicated person attacks you, and you want to defend yourself without harming them, and how to render them safe if they’re hurting themselves. That job left me alone for 48 hours with teenagers with serious behavioural problems, who would do things like flail their hands in the direction of my face when I was helping them with basic hygiene. 

They didn’t mean to hurt me, and it wasn’t aggressive, but still, their nails would sometimes draw blood and it frequently left me feeling frightened and angry, because I’d been physically hurt. And it’s actually really hard to convince your monkey hindbrain that they didn’t intend to hurt you, to make that adrenaline and fear go away. It made it really hard to care for them when I didn’t feel safe, because it was hard to summon up compassion, gentleness, and empathy with my heart going a hundred miles an hour. So that training helped a lot. After that, I could catch and deflect their hands before I risked getting hurt. We could have a better relationship because I felt confident and safe around them. 

It’s filed in my brain next to the time I was playing with my nephew when he was a toddler, when I discovered that he stopped blithely using me as a climbing post when I said “Ow!” when he stepped on my boob. Once I let myself vocalize pain, he realized that he was causing me pain. He asked me about it, and when I said that it hurt me when he stepped on me, he apologized, gave me a hug to make it better, and played more gently after that. He hadn’t realized he hurt me; letting him know when he was too hard let him know how to be kind to me.

Those two are physical memories I call to mind when I’m dealing with someone who’s really upset and lashing out at me: sometimes the kindest thing you can to for someone else is deny them the ability to hurt you. To let them know the effect they’re having on you, so they can stop.

Okay. Dive’s over. I just felt my ears pop.

[duchessofostergotlands]

Hi Mother Gothel!! (Sorry I couldn't resist it 😅😅) I'm here to tell you that you and your friends should write a book about what facts are correct and what facts are incorrect about the protocols of the British Monarchy like British Monarchy for dummies so people have a reliable source.

Hahaha it’s such an accurate thing though! He was separated from his birth mother (to be fair he was abandoned, not kidnapped), he spends all day in the house doing the same thing over and over to entertain himself, I am allowed to go outside whenever I want and come back with food for him, I sing to him regularly, he is adorable but would probably be capable of hitting intruders with frying pans if he ever got opposable thumbs. The similarities are endless.

Anyway, I think the book would probably just be “IT IS ALL BULLSHIT” and then 100 blank pages. Would people pay for that? Hahaha

[drake-the-incubus]

British empire and UK exists because of a Scottish king, england plays a major part now but for a long time it was scotland

“Scottish King”

He took over for Elizabeth I as the King of Scotland, Ireland and England as King James IV and King James I.

He was the cousin to Elizabeth I.

As mentioned, I hate the Crown.

He’s not “a Scottish king”. He was England’s king too. My goooood this is annoying.

Also you’re just wrong anyways.

Plus, Scotland being under English rule is fucking stupid. Scotland doesn’t want to be there. And historically England has fucked over Scotland.

I want to even push forward, that the “Scottish King” failed to unite England and Scotland even.

You’re also ignoring that succession of throne is not based on nationality but the divine right of rule through blood. He wasn’t a Scottish King. He was the King of Scotland, Ireland and England. This matters as monarchy is not representative of the country and rather works on their own whims.

Also I want to point out this was 300 damn fucking years ago.

Go the fuck away.

I EXPLICITLY said I hate the crown. Why the fuck would my opinion change just because you being up falsehoods in order to say Scotland doesn’t deserve freedom from England.

Fuck England. Fuck the bullshit England has done to every damn country. Fuck the monarchy.

I hate them both with a burning passion equally.

[nebris]

After 300 years of the Romanov dynasty ruling Russia, the family’s fortunes weren’t doing so hot because the commies were taking over and the family was imprisoned. Fearing they might be rescued, which would interfere with their glorious revolution, their enemies herded them all into a basement and shot and stabbed them to death.

--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: July 17, 1918--

Near the end of 1917 the peasants were starving and Russia was bogged down in World War I and a bunch of people led by Vladimir Lenin said fuck this let’s have a revolution. The Red Army was the commies and the White Army was the establishment. The war lasted six years before the reds won, but they got to the business of snuffing out the royalty in the first year.

There had been a small revolution in early 1917 before the big “October” one. Quotations marks cuz different calendar fuckery. Anyway, it was the wimpy “February” revolution that was still enough to say fuck you, Romanovs, you’re now our prisoners. Off to Siberia! Then they were relocated to Yekaterinburg, about a thousand miles east of Moscow.

The commies were in control, but it wasn’t until June of 1918 that the people who liked things the way they were before said fuck your revolution we shall civil war you. The White Army, who supported the monarchy, was advancing on Yekaterinburg with the intent of rescuing the Romanovs. And that’s when Lenin (allegedly) said that ain’t happening. Waste those royal assholes.

Very early on July 17, 1918, Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra, their five children and four servants were awakened and moved to the cellar of the house where they’d been kept prisoner. It was explained that it was to protect them from the chaos about to engulf the city due to the civil war. We have a truck coming to take you to safety, they said. Yeah that was some bullshit.

Then the murder squad came in and revolutionary leader Yakov Yurovsky said, “Yo. Time to die.” Paraphrased. Nikolai said the fuck? Yurovsky repeated: “We’re gonna waste you cuz your family is a dick.” Also paraphrased. Then it was a shoot-fest. There was so much smoke and noise that the squad was then told Jesus Christ cut out the fucking racket and finish them with bayonets. Oh, and Anastasia was one of the victims. The rumors of her escape are false.

The bodies were taken out to the middle of nowhere, dismembered, doused in acid, set on fire, and sealed in a pit with concrete. You know, just to make sure. They were worried about a cult of personality developing around the family, so they had to make sure they were extra dead. The Soviets didn’t admit to the murders until 1926.

Oh, they killed the family dogs too. Except for Alexei’s spaniel, Joy, who was later rescued by a British officer, spending the rest of his life in Windsor, England. So ... happy ending?

[solrosan]

Is Eggsy Prince Gary of Sweden now?

Short answer: Yes, if the king allows it and Eggsy wants to.

Long answer: Pweh, where to start? It’s sort of a weird thing making commoners royalty, historically speaking. Every monarchy, still-existing and otherwise, has their own quirks and stories about this (King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom springs to mind), and even if it’s not as much of an issue today as it once was, the heritage of those issues are still there. So if you stick with me for a condense lesson in recent Swedish royal history, I’m going to lay out three concrete examples for you at the end that might be useful to look into for fic writing purposes at the end.

Before the cut, though, because this is important even for those of you who don’t want to read almost 2000 words on the subject: Eggsy can opt out of being a prince and still marry Princess Tilde.

Before 1976, when King Carl XVI Gustaf (the current King of Sweden) married Silvia Sommerlath, it had only happened once that a reigning monarch married a commoner. This was in 1567, and probably just because the king, Erik XIV, was mentally unstable and didn’t listen to reason and advice.

This wasn’t the first time since the 16th century that someone from the Royal family married a commoner, though. For example, two of our king’s uncles married commoners, but in doing so, they were stripped of their titles and removed from the line of succession due to the fact that their grandfather (King Gustaf V) didn’t find their wives suitable. Our king’s third uncle, Prince Bertil, lived unmarried with a commoner (Lillian Davies, later Princess Lillian of Sweden) until his father had died and his nephew had become king and married himself, just to ensure the line of succession.

So, marrying someone the king doesn’t approve of can lead to you losing your titles and honours, but in having married a commoner himself, our current king couldn’t really forbid any of his children to marry anyone they wanted. This means… for all your fic writing purposes, we have three recent and quite different princess and prince weddings you can model your fic after! Neat, right?

Three things to keep in mind no matter what:

The king still has to approve the marriage (if Princess Tilde is to keep her titles and honours)

The Swedish government has to approve the marriage (if their children are to be part of the line of succession)

It has to be publicly announced to the Swedish people (because they’ll marry on our dime and it would be fucking rude not to! I don’t think there’s a law about this)

Seeing how the wedding took place and all, I think we can assume they got a yes on 1) and 2). If you want Princess Tilde to give up her titles and honours for love, go ahead. This fictional king probably didn’t marry a commoner, because then he wouldn’t have been such a dick to Eggsy, hence it would be a little bit less hypocritical of him than if would have been for the actual Swedish king.

Also, to become a Swedish prince (or princess) you need to be a Swedish citizen.

Other general things to keep in mind: the Swedish royal family is bound by law to be Swedish Lutheran. Their spouse can be whatever, but they can’t convert and their children has to be raised Swedish Lutheran. In Sweden. Or else they lose their right to the Swedish throne.

Moving on to the examples I promised! As I said, we’ve had three princess and prince weddings in the last seven years. All of them involving a commoner and we’re going to focus on the commoners here, since the royal bit is rather boring and not very important to Eggsy’s troubles.

First out, there is the Prince Daniel way of dealing with your sudden rise to nobility. Prince Daniel married the Swedish Crown princess in 2010 after a long courtship and a sixteen months long engagement. Before the marriage he worked as a personal trainer (yes, that’s how they met) and owned his own gym(s), and according to tradition he quit his job and sold his gym(s), to become a fulltime Prince of Sweden and prince consort to the Crown princess. Before his marriage he was drilled in, among other things, table manners and Swedish history, something that was probably just enforced because he married the future monarch, so depending on where you put Princess Tilde in the line of success you can probably do what you want with that. (I thought of Prince Daniel during the breakfast scene.)

Upon marrying the Crown princess Prince Daniel also took his wife’s last name (in the sense royals have last names at all…) and became His Royal Highness, Prince Daniel of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland. He also became a Swedish knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim. He is the third man in Swedish history to receive new titles and ranks through marriage, and the first Swedish commoner to become part of the Royal family since 1567.

As a Swedish prince, Prince Daniel goes around representing Sweden. He has earned the nickname “the Sport Prince” and is very active in getting children and youth to be more interested in sports. He is home with his children more than his wife since she out ranks him in every way, but he’s not a stay-at-home dad. He isn’t in the line of succession and will never, ever become King of Sweden. It’s still not quite decided what his titles and honours will be when his wife becomes Queen of Sweden since it’s only every happened once before and that was in the 18th century, but mostly likely he’ll still just be His Royal Highness, Prince Daniel of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland.

Prince Daniel is the most visible royal spouse after Queen Silvia, but then he also married the next reigning monarch (and is the father of the one after that) so it’s to be expected.

The Prince Daniel route is in Swedish media considered The Right Way of joining the Royal family. If you want to take this route for Eggsy, he will be loved by a nation, have a great life and family, but he won’t be able to stay a Kingsman because being a full-time prince is actually a full-time job. Not to mention that the type of scandal that Eggsy will cause when he fails to show up where he’s booked will not go over well.

Then, there is the Mr Christopher O’Neil take on it. Mr O’Neil (who is actually just called Chris in Sweden because even with all the crap I’ve written above, we’re really bad with titles and honours and don’t use that shit) is a British-American businessman and citizen who married Princess Madeleine in 2013.  They had a short courtship and a short engagement. Chris, who wanted to keep his British and American citizenships, couldn’t become a Swedish citizen and because of that he also couldn’t become a Swedish prince. (In Sweden, you can just hold dual citizen ship. No clue how it is in the rest of the world.) Not being a Swedish prince or an official part of the Royal family has the perk of letting Chris continue working full time with his business and he’s happy about never having to have had to consider quitting. There is no law that prohibits members of the Royal family from working, but tradition bids them not to.

All of his and Princess Madeleine’s children are official parts of the Royal family and part of the line of succession anyway, because the King says so. (A bit of “to hell with traditions!” Good for you, King!) Mr O’Neil is not a Swedish knight, though I don’t remember if he declined the honour or was never offered it.

The Mr Christopher O’Neil way is in Swedish media considered The Wrong Way. If you want Eggsy to remain a Kingsman, this is the way to go! He’ll have a few more dinners he’d need to swim through sewer to get to, but the representation shit is kept to a minimum, and since the press already knows he can do nothing right and everything wrong, he’ll be pretty free to do whatever.

Lastly, and my favourite in terms of how Eggsy becomes a Swedish prince, is the Princess Sofia way. Princess Sofia married Prince Carl Philip (born Crown prince Carl Philip, btw, but EQUALITY!) in 2015 after years of courtship and a one year engagement. She was formally known to the Swedish people through her participation in the scandal TV show Paradise Hotel in 2005 and as a Slitz magazine model (most prominent is a picture where she wears just a bikini bottom and a snake). After that, she built herself a yoga centre in Manhattan, and started a charity organization to help women and children in need. She stopped working for the organization when her engagement to Prince Carl Philip was announced, but remains an honorary board member to this day. (Again, traditions.)

Even if Princess Sofia is the first Swedish female commoner to become part of the Royal family since the 16th century, marrying women into the Royal family comes pretty standard. She had, a long time before her marriage, been unofficially integrated with the Royal family for years. That is, being part of official situations, but never coming or going with Prince Carl Philip. (Which is not standard, just modern and natural.) Upon her wedding she received the titles and honours Her Royal Highness, Princess Sofia of Sweden, Duchess of Värmland. She is also a member of the Royal Order of the Seraphim, but due to gender bullshit she’s not a knight.

After her marriage she’s working fulltime as a Swedish princess and helps with various charities. Unlike Prince Daniel, she hasn’t really found her niche yet, but she is by far the most personal of the new members of the Royal family.

The Princess Sofia take on this is in Swedish media considered The Wooo! That Went Surprisingly Well Way. As I said, this is my favourite way to go when it comes to Eggsy. In part because he and Princess Sofia feel kind of similar (punks with hearts of gold who work their way up and OOOPS! married a royal) but also because it makes it possible to have the cake and eat it too?

Princess Sofia isn’t trusted by the Swedish media due to her background, but the people low-key loves her because she is a little bit of real world fairy tale. That means that if she messes up (which she hasn’t come even close to, ever) the media will go “Well, of course she would do that” and the Swedish people will shrug and go “Well, at least she didn’t run over a cyclist with her car like her father-in-law, and who hasn’t posed naked with a snake, anyway?” Yet, she’s out there being a Princess of Sweden in very formal settings. She’s representing the shit out of everything! Eight months pregnant she was out doing her job.

Which, in Eggsy terms, would give him the leeway to still be a Kingsman “in his time off” from representing the fuck out of his new country as long as he doesn’t go around saying that he still works as a tailor. If he messes up (which he will, because fic!) the media will go “I thought British people were more classy than that. I mean, look at Prince Ha—Er… never mind.” and the public will say “Ha! I’d like to have a beer with that guy.”

Key here, though, is that Prince Carl Philip is bumped so far down the line of succession now (he’s number 4 after his older sister, his niece and his nephew), that his family is not in the main spotlight. That is to say, if Princess Tilde is Crown princess Tilde, you more or less HAVE to go with the Prince Daniel route.

I hope that helped someone. I’d really encourage you to google said royal spouses if you want some more input on the subject. Or just send me an ask, since I assume a lot of this shit is in Swedish.

[notimeliketoday]

bitchbrows replied to your post “bitchbrows replied to your post ““Sakura is a doormat for Sasuke””...”

Bevause your last oost had panels of sakura and sasuke pre timeskip and for karin & sasuke, shippuden. Obviously theres no competition now with the forced ships canon. You know very well Sakura went in like a fool using ONLY a kunai as her weapon. Why even bother with that? She didnt use her strength and pretty much jumped in on q suicide mission literally after an insensitive fake confession to Naruto whom knew she was bullshitting so her plan b was to smokebomb..m 3 trusted comrades to go over to sasuke and AGAIN fake a join up with him kinda deal which horribly backfired to the point where she had to be saved twice by her sensei and naruto. Karin doesnt have that luxury, she only had herself in tat situation and is not friends with anyone. Maybe if she lived a normal life like sakura and the other rookies, she would know whats behavior is morale and know how to proper consider others. Sakura was too self absorbed With her feelings and its sad when even sasuke acknowledges how shit of a reason she has to love him and visa versa. Saying that to her face and team 7. Compared to karin who had more solid reason because lets not forget she was saved by him in a flashback that was done by the bridge which from then her feelings grew. I dont ship neither, its more so sasuke x alone. But some of yall ss shippers are horrible at attempting to glorify ss thats already by degrading karin. Sakura to this day, in boruto has shown no backbone by opposing Sasuke or even confronting. What happened at bridge cant even be oconsidered that because she couldnt even bring herself to do it and its utter foolishness. Karin was even watching half dead hoping he wouodnt kill sakura, a stranger somewhat to karin. If there waant any competition, why feel the need to oppose sasukarin fandom with petty posts to degrade a threat to your ship. Karin isnt made to be a fighter ninja like sakura. Shes purely sensory, she knows what she can and cant do as sakura proven otherwise in her own case. But anyway, stop waating your time and act like a decent ss fan. Go look at ss fanart, rebl9g and whatever. No need to go shitting on smaller fandoms. Its pretty pathetic.

And? It still doesn’t change the fact that she stood up against Sasuke. What on blazes are you talking about? Sakura was even the first person to tell Sasuke to man up and stop acting like a coward against Orochimaru. And yes, there is no competition. You just got it wrong. It’s not forced ship when we already have part 1 to support us while Karin never got any important moment to justify your ship outside a one-sided lust and not really comparable moments of concern to Sakura’s love. Oh? So now you are adding unimportant bits? We are discussing how Sakura stood up to Sasuke, why are you bringing up Sakura’s desperate attempt to save her teammates? And why are you nitpicking the fact that she just went on a suicide mission by herself? Oh that’s right, because you don’t have any real defense for Karin. And so what if Karin was alone? Sasuke wouldn’t descend as badly as he did to darkness if she had the guts to STAND UP TO HIM which she is a coward not to do. So she is in a way responsible why Sasuke got so out of hand. She didn’t stop him. Period. She didn’t stood up against him when he needed it the most. And hon, we are not here for the headcanons. We are here for canon and manga facts. Canon facts dictate Karin is a horrible character even Suigetsu is her victim, period.

So you create a headcanon that Karin may not be as cruel as she is if given the right opportunity to grow up with the Rookie 9 but you demean canon Sakura by calling her self-absorbed? Kishi emphasized Sakura’s selflessness and kindness many times. What drugs are you on? I’m curious. 😂 😂 😂 😂

Aww.... it’s so pathetic that Karin has to have a reason to love Sasuke. By that logic, she really didn’t love him for who he is rather for what he did for her. Her love is fake then. Thanks for confirming! 😂 😂 😂 😂  And stop playing the neutral party. Bitch, you’re clearly a SK fan. Don’t try to deceive people here. I’ve seen you lurking in the SS tag and blogs and bash them at any opportunity. And you dare call yourself neutral? Wew, and I’m a long-lost princess of the British monarchy. 😂 😂 😂 😂 

Besides, we don’t need to degrade a character who’s already degrading herself just fine without our help. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

I can give lots of Sakura moments standing up to Sasuke as far back as part 1 when she was weak and not much of a ninja. Even removing the bridge will still have many others to stand in its place. As far as I’m concerned, the one panel I gave where Sakura stands up to for Naruto against Sasuke also happens in Land of Iron too, the very same bridge you’re so adamant in discrediting.

Sakura tried again to kill him but couldn’t because of her feelings. If she couldn’t stand up to him, she wouldn’t entertain the idea of trying to stop him much less contemplate the idea of killing him to stop his misery once and for all. How many times must I drill that into your thick skull?

Trust me on this hon. We don’t see SK as actual competition. It was never in the running. But it sure is entertaining to debunk your silly misinformation, twisted facts and delusional ramblings with manga and canon facts.

Yeah, thanks for confirming Karin is weak. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂  Thanks for confirming she never stood up against Sasuke. At least you’re consistent on that one. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

Why don’t you try to be a decent SK shipper and stop lurking in the anti tags. Do what you advice and keep them to yourself. I don’t need to read such from a hypocritical, double-crossing wolf in a sheep’s clothing.

I’m calling BS on you.

[ssact1]

The rebirth of this site was set against a force which is now dying, dying, dying. [WHAT IS NEXT?]

I can’t write against a thunderstorm or a hurricane, to prove I’m sane when I’m laughing, as a madwoman anyway.

I’ve found my art, and my good soul, and you don’t have one, now you know. Let’s all move on, end this show, I don’t even like the throne!

I’m American, all the way, you’re the monarchy from the British days, you’ve taken over sacred space, colonising Western ways, missions tell us how to pray -

me, my tribe, we stand against ‘em, we are only made for tension, it isn’t destined, I’m not your kind, don’t wanna be white, not since I was born to die, and now,

we all know I fight, which you don’t like, so this is where I get to write, about every fuck head passing by, in my life, and just know, your story wins first place

in teaching me what I stand against, the social illusion which you all spin, where you can’t even think for yourselves, mean women control your foolish heads,

and you think, I’m not cool? Whatever baby, you’ll always lose, when fitting in only makes you cruel. Get bored and then come back again, I’m not wrapped around your hands,

you think you can slander and head fuck and never remorse? Whatever, what bullshit, what fucking dorks. Bullies are so not who I want, I deserve far better, I’m fucking gone.