#the whole country was onto it

[myauditionfordrphil]

You can guess the intensity of the match when random vendor of a disposable shop starts to chat with your silent self about scores out of nowhere while your mom is busy trying to move the shopkeeper's attention away from the match and onto the products she want. Every fricking rickshaw driver was watching the match and every shop had the match playing on the tv.

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

[arebirthingofsorts]

my fave cuties

[humming-fly]

This 4th of July I’m stealing the patriotism euphoria that’s usually associated with assholes idolizing the worst attributes of this country because fuck ‘em I live here too and remembering the things this country actually got Right is an important exercise when trying to rally anyone to want to defend it in November SO putting my money where my mouth is I’ll start easy and say I really like National Parks!! It’s rad how many of them there are and how they’re actual set up to preserve some of the most beautiful wild areas in our country while still letting people visit to enjoy and experience nature!! (Less important but I love how they put national parks on the quarters I think that’s real fun)

Feel free to add on if something speaks to ya!

[samijey]

any excuse is a good excuse to touch hands

[introspectivememories]

if you're writing a charles fic, it must have some aspect of boyking. he must lean a little on the childgod side. he has to be revered a little bit, adored even. if people aren't talking about him like they wouldn't wash his feet and adorn it with perfume like mary magdalene washed and adorned jesus' feet, you're doing it wrong.

[itstokkii]

(aimed at the anons) going rabid. just googling Turkey already says "country in the middle east"

looking up if it's part of MENA also confirms it immediately. I mean it's literally so easy. this doesn't require much time of effort. sorry if this is annoying but this stupid website's habit of never knowing anything about countries outside of North America makes me so mad

and like. idk it feels so freaking white to then devolve the argument into "ummmm technically he's NOT a poc so it's ok if I fetishize the foreign man 👍" cuz do you hear yourself rn. If instead of turkey it was like georgia or armenia or chechen eyebrows would still be raised. oftentimes Caucasian men are grouped in with mena men as "ethnically ambiguous" and suffer many of the same hypermasculine stereotypes especially muslim caucasian men(BIIG emphasis on chechen men)

TLDR: whether or not turkey is caucasian or MENA, either way he is ultimately An Oriental, a exotic foreigner, the focus of many racist and fetishistic and sexualized stereotypes and tropes and beliefs

[46hasu]

I'm not the biggest Kaveh fan out there but the fact that his "No Mora" character aspect being caused from his flamboyance and naivety seems like a huge missed opportunity. Sumeru as we know is a nation where the pursuit and even the enjoyment of art is seen as secondary to knowledge and education.

So Hoyo could have wrote that Kaveh, despite literally graduating from the Akademiya at the top of his class and being the head architect of the most iconic building in the country, is still struggling to make a living wage all because he is seen as ~~just the designer who drew on paper~~ . They also could have used this as the reason why he has to rent a room from Alhaitham to further build onto Nilou's story aspect of how artists struggle to gain recognition and compensation for their hard work no matter their background or chosen career path. Instead of you know keeping it limited to 4 scenes in the Archon Quest that is never brought up again.

[heylinfanclub]

Someone. Someone draw the LOTR cast in dungeon meshi universe. Please. Please. Don’t make me do it myself hfjfkskshshshdh

[nyasialiveshere]

Idk who needs to hear this. But if you hate "white woman feminism" or rich woman feminism or any type of feminism like you probably just don't like feminism be honest. Cause men of every creed believe in male supremacy and uphold it. The poorest of men will hype up a millionaire athlete. It's garbage separation that is why the lowest of society is still the lowest of society. It's trash cause as a woman admit it, when do women truly with an all female brigade just bring down pain and suffering. If you have to look hard for an example then that proves the point. It's uncommon. If females worked together and stopped the clownery the world could be changed in an instant it's this hatred and jealousy that is the reason why we keep enduring all this suffering. It's this crab barrel mentality and believing men are prizes or something to emulate

[aberooski]

The problem with my brain having been obsessed with knowing what fictional characters' singing voices sound like since I was a little kid, and especially now that I'm a vocalist as an adult, is that I can't listen to hardly anything without that voice in the back of my head being like "oh this sound. This specific moment in this specific verse or chorus or whatever. That's specifically what xyz character(s) would sound like!" And I hyperfixate on that for the rest of my life and I craft so many headcanons 😭

That being said, when he's singing seriously Atticus has an incredible voice argue with the wall. Atty has a very wide range but his voice really lives and thrives in the mid range. But he likes to sing higher pitches whenever he gets the chance and is very good at harmonizing. When he gets Chazz to sing with him he always let's Chazz take the melody as often as possible and harmonizes over him. He also plays like every fuckin stringed instrument and hosts weekly campfire jams for the J-Squad to unwind and hang out and de-stress ☺ he always schedules them around his and Chazz's Saturday night sleepovers so they never miss one 😌

Chazz can also sing but doesn't discover it until Atticus gets him to sing with him during like a campfire jam session or one of their regular hangouts. His voice is best suited for more mellow, slower songs like me wow wonder why I headcanon that 🙄. and everyone is very impressed by his vocals, but he gets huffy and embarrassed whenever anyone compliments his voice. In my head his vocal range is on the lower to mid range side and has a very nice rasp to it, especially on the lower pitches where it's a little more prevalent and compliments Atty's voice so they blend very well.

Jaden has the perfect pop punk voice. Just the perfect tone and range, perfectly unrefined sound for it too. But if anyone asked he would shrug and say he couldn't sing. Of course he can, but he doesn't particularly think he's all that good and doesn't really care if he can or not, it's not that important to him like card games are so he'd rather not call attention to it askskskks. His ego is reserved for card games and card games alone 🤭. But he always hypes up the others during Atty's campfire jams and he participates fairly often because he thinks it's fun and everyone else seems to enjoy it when he does so he's down for it. He also lives in the mid range but has a pretty strong upper register for belting out those pop punk classics 😌 Dear Maria is his now Alex

Alexis is an alto, she lives in the mid to lower register, she does have a little bit of an upper register too but she lives on the lower side. Her voice is very warm and soothing and mature and just nice af. But she's self conscious about it so she doesn't sing very much and almost never around other people. Leading to the theory that when the subject could come up she, like Jay, would says she couldn't sing but unlike Jay, she just isn't confident in her voice even though it's very good. Atty likes to nudge her to try and get her to sing with him at his campfire jams, but she always declines. He keeps trying though 🤭

Hassleberry has a surprisingly good voice, very warm like Alexis's and lives in the mid to lower register like her. If she sang, they would blend very well I think. He's private about his voice too, but he'd be fine if the crew find out about it. His southern drawl is still quite prevalent when he sings and it really elevates the gentle warmth of his voice. His vocals are unrefined and amateurish but they're still very strong. He prefers songs with simpler melodies and really thrives in softer, more melodious country/bluegrass music which isn't a surprise to anyone but the fact that his voice is so warm and gentle despite his rough exterior makes people view him in a different light. But in a good way 🙂 he's embarrassed at first when the J-Squad finds out he can sing, but he comes around quickly and has participated in a couple campfire jams himself every once in a while.

Syrus's isn't very different from his regular speaking voice at all I don't think. He has a very young sounding voice and he hates it. It's not bad by any means, he just feels self conscious about it like Alexis but also like he's self conscious about literally everything. Same my guy. That being said, he's a tenor. He has almost no lower register but he has enough of one 👍. His voice is very light, which he's also self conscious about. And he tends to stick to humming, he feels less embarrassed and self conscious that way and wouldn't die on the spot if anyone heard him. Also like me, if he is actually singing along to a song and it gets too low or he just feels like it's too low, he sings it up the octave.

And unsurprisingly at least to me, I feel like Bastion has the most old fashioned type of voice. His range is also very wide like Atty's is. He knows he can sing and is confident about it around strangers, but if anyone he knew heard him or complimented his voice he'd blush and get very embarrassed in an adorable way. Honestly he enjoys the compliments but he doesn't really know how to handle getting them for something not having to do with how smart he is, so he gets flustered when people compliment his voice, to varying degrees depending on how well he knows the person complimenting him or not. That being said, if you want anyone singing the old school classics at the Christmas party or some golden age musicals, you want Bastion.

[velvetbunniie-archive]

gotta grab my soapbox. okay, 1) you guys really don’t get the meaning of “enemies to lovers” because i see some recs where they jst don’t get along before they fall in love. they aren’t enemies until they are actively working against each other to bring abt each other’s downfall. this can be done w varying stakes, but simply jst finding a person annoying doesn’t make them your enemy. and 2) it’s not even a good trope because nobody can write it properly 😭

[ambiguousdisorderken]

do not compare your life journey to that of others do not compare your life journey to that of others do not compare your life journey to that of others do not compare your life journey to that of others do not compare your life journey to that of others do not compare your life journey to that of others do not compare your life journey to that of others do not compare your life journey to that of others do not compare your life journey to that of others

[taichissu]

ok but i can't handle black coffee drinkers bc like

while i dislike both coffee and tea, tea drinkers just feel so Out Of It when talking about real tea and proper brewing and shit i can't really take it all that seriously

coffee drinkers are always those dude bros who actually only drink one kind of coffee ever and god forbid you add any cream or sugar to it it's this puritan who has been dating his girlfriend since high school and they don't love each other anymore they both know they cheat on each other but they don't want to break up because they don't want the change

[miesozernacma]

Sometimes it comes up in conversation between me and my sister how we were in our childhood (5-11 yrs old) and i go through the memories of being in primary and middle school and how my mother told me i wasnt ever talking about things going on inside my head – until like one day in 7th grade when i broke through and started opening up about everything; yet at the same time through all of this previous radio silence at home i was playing Guardian Of The Classroom Silence™ -> screaming at everyone else to stfu during class because i could Not let that stand as a child at all. (highly sensitive to noise to a point of aggression? perchance autism? i still am not sure to this day)

at one point when the teacher left and it immediately got so loud and rowdy i even broke down after yelling at the other kids "SHUT UP - IVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU" and the teacher came back into the classroom and yelled at Me for that scream. as teachers do

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so in retrospect ive always been a little bit of a freak

[exopelagic]

yknow i thought the whole ‘personal connection’ thing to politicians was kinda bullshit but my dad just told me the only reason he’s voting labour is bc keir starmer said he wasn’t working after 6pm on fridays to spend time with his kids and he respects that