#they're so offensively German lmao

[adulthumanproblem]

BABYMETAL X ELECTRIC CALLBOY ??? BRUH

The way she says "Callboy-san" 😭😂

[folcanta]

this is nothing, i'm just wishcasting! okay!

in my wildest fantasies/emergent fanfiction, Folken's name would be the Irish folcán— a diminutive version of flood/downpour— or folcánta— ocean waves/creatures of the sea rushing with great force. i'll happily take the Turkish name furkan— from Arabic فُرقَان, adopted from the surāh of the same name which says "there is no sin, however great, that cannot be forgiven if sincerely repented, showing faith and working with righteous deeds."

etymologically,

The term furqan is etymologically derived from the root “faraqa” meaning differentiation and discrimination of two things to the extent they are rendered separable (Farahidi 1988, 2:47). It also refers to the separation of two words or two persons from one another (Fayumi 1993, 2:470).

The root “faraqa” means separation and isolation, and at the same time, it is also close in meaning to “falaq” meaning cleavage. So, “faraqa” basically means separation and “falaqa” basically means splitting. This same purport has also been used in the holy Quran by the praised God (Quran 44:4) (Raghib al-Isfahani 1991, 632). Notwithstanding, it should be noted that the word "furqan" is more articulate than "faraqa" (Hosseini Zabidi 1993, 13:391). Originally, furqan is an infinitive term meaning "to differentiate”; then it was used with the meaning of “fariq” (agent noun or participial adjective), in the way that everything that distinguishes right and wrong is called “furqan.”

Even morning is referred to as furqan, because it tears apart darkness (Ibn Faris 1983, 4:494).

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that feels thematically on point, i'll say. plus, in Japanese his name is written (and pronounced) with the o/ou sound, フォ, something like fō/fwo/[ɸo̞] which imo rules out any possibility of something like falcon or how volcano* is pronounced in American English. (o̞ is the mid-back rounded vowel.

* I won't rule out a connection to vulcan, that makes sense phonetically, but i don't see a big connection theme-wise. he seems like more of a Prometheus, lol.

i know Escaflowne is a mishmash and a fantasy. i just like can't have these Nepali/whatever boys be German. it's no offense whatsoever to Germans and ofc you can be Asian with a German name, obviously, it would be absolutely insane for me to claim otherwise lol, i really don't want to be taken in bad faith here. i just don't know why he, in Thee Vision of Escaflowne, would. he's wearing emperor clothes, he's. a dragon., he lived in what is pretty much literally Potala palace, everywhere is influenced by the Timurid... their dad is brown... and Balgus Ganesha is there, lmao... idk 😒 like i've said before, i think they realised it was a weird move because in the film it's a name he adopts for war. and iirc, surnames don't appear in the film? with warring clans instead of toponyms/patronyms, they don't refer to one another with surnames and i don't think they're in the credits or in the film artbooks. only on wikipedia. am i wrong? i'm flagrantly bullshitting here: Allen has an undeniably Persian or Arabic surname that matches his 1001 Nights mech, so why can't Folken have the same but as a first name. if they're foils, it should be allowed 🙂‍↕️

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in specifically OTTOMAN Turkish (which would be quite time period/location appropriate for Escaflowne!) the word fulgān/fulqān translates to "dell; a small valley surrounded by trees." oh.......... you mean like where he LIIIIIIIVEDDDDD????!!!!???!!!??!!?? and van's name hypothetically associated with lush green forests? PLEASE. LORD.

[papirouge]

I'm the anon that sent you the message about hating the term PoC. Yeah, I pretty much agreee with everything you say. I don't believe much in POC solidarity because our struggles are very different between each other, and trying to paint everything as us vs whites does not really work. Perhaps for americans it does, since they have a very diverse population, but it's more difficult when talking about other countries.

Like latin americans do not have the best relationships between each other, they might share language but have very different cultures. Like the other day I was reading about this cartoon named "Oye primos" that was going to premiere and it was made by a second gen latina, where she looked to represent her growing up in a latin community in the USA, but she was clowned by pretty much every latino leaving outside of America. First, because the name of the cartoon is gramatically wrong (it should be "OIGAN primos, not OYE primos), second, because she used the word "LATINX", which latinos hate, and third, because she named the town the characters live in "Terremoto (Earthquake) Heights" or something like that (people though it was offensive because Mexico and Chile have suffered through a lot of earthquakes). And there's other stuff, like people saying the animation is ugly (very calart) and so on. Some people even started praising Los Casagrande, a spin off of The Loud House with a main mexican family thats not even made by latinos, but its considered far superior.

Sorry, I got a little carried away with that, what I wanted to say it's that its pretty common for latinos to kinda tear each other up, but they unite if they want to clown a "gringo" or something (and yes, they pointed out that the author basically being a 2nd gen makes her a gringa... I guess). Plus a lot of latinos dont like anything that looks "woke", and they considered that show does, so it was doomed from the start. The creator of the show felt pretty overwhelmed by the negative reception, received a lot of backlash and it apparently affected her a lot. I feel pretty bad for her actually.

And yeah, argentinians are actually pretty white, not only because a lot of italians and germans migrated there (if you ever read the names of their national soccer team, you'll notice many names are of italian origin), but because they're at the very south. Chile is also pretty white. But yeah, argentinians have always been pinned as being pretty arrogant and full of themselves, so it doesnt surprise me that they feel they're superior because their team is white. I remember that argentinians and fans of Messi in general were clowning Mbappe for allegedly being in a relationship with a transwoman, so they invented some pretty homophobic chants... soccer fans be like that

Ugh, this got so long,... I was gonna mention asians and their own issues too, but i think it's enough. I did wanted to ask you something though: is France a racist country?? How has your experience being impacted by being black?

Don't be sorry anon, I love these loooong asks where I get to know more my followers 🧡

It's pretty ironic you're talking about Asians because in one of my post where I'm talking about White conservative weaponizing minorities against each other somehow triggered A LOT of people. I even got a comment saying "put the reblogs back I have to give my perspective as someone with Asian/japanese ancestry" and I got like..... "Hm no?" LMAO This girl REALLY thought her opinion was remotely relevant when this was my perspective as Black person and I am not interested about some random Asian take on that issue. Sis really thought my post was a diss against Asians success (I mean every single person who interacted with that post had a negative IQ and entirely missed the post that's why I muted the reblogs) and got like "the cOnsErVatiVes aRe jUst acKnoLedgiNg oUr sUcCesS uwu"...... There's no wonder East Asians are looked down as White people's cucks 💀 IDK, if my community was being weaponized by racist scrotes to dogpile on other I wouldn't go uwuwhy do you mean?uwu about it. How can people have so little self awareness? ...That's why I don't believe in POC and that some communities will actually be more than willing this silence us. Sis really tried to all lives matter my take and I have no patience for that.

And soccer is brain disease tbh. Case in point : the racist Argentinians players dragging Mbappé... Which is a shame bc Messi and him seem to be very cool. Fans are the worst. I think I realized how racist these people were when they said ANTOINE GRIEZMANN (France NT player) wasn't White enough just because his mom was...... Portuguese (when his dad is German)💀

Imagine thinking this man is not White enough when them Argentians be looking like tragic mulattos themselves 💀💀 HE'S LITERALLY THE ARYAN PROTOTYPE 💀💀his name is ANTOINE. THAT'S THE WHITEST FRENCHIEST NAME EVER!! NEVER IN MY LIFE DID I MEET SOMEONE CALLED ANTOINE THAT WASN'T WHIIIIITE 💀💀💀💀

Argentinians living up their nazi heritage ; Portugal ain't white enough lmao...

What's funny with Latins is that they have this thinly veiled superiority complex with Black people.....but highkey are envious of the cultural impact of Black culture worldwide. Latin culture has a load of influence on music, but its impact is not as multifaceted as Black culture (beside music, fashion, hairstyles, make up, slang, etc.). I saw some Latins seethe about Black Panther and the hype the Black community was having from this movie, and Black twitter, in its usual shadiness got like "hmmm don't you have Rio? 🤔" LMAOOOO (it was before Encanto though)

And is France racist? hm... I mean, it's a European country 🥴🥴 but it's definitely one of the least racist one for sure. Non french netizens will do the most about how islamophobic France is, but Islam isn't a race so the problem our country has with Islam isn't much related to race. Because of colonization, France has many territories oversea where its natives are Black, so France is inherently already multiracial, and that's something that many French people acknowledge. I feel like french are more worried about culture than race (ln many aspects, I, as a Christian Black woman, have to bear much less prejudice than a Muslim male, for example). That's why our country is very defensive against Islam (which comes with a whole cultural set) rather than race.

We consider assimilation as a staple and reject self IDing communities (whether they might be sexual, racial, religious). Any stats trying to quantity race, religion or sexuality are ILLEGAL, here. That's why when I see foreign rightoids be like "France is already 25% Muslim!! #greatreplacement" I just know they are full of shit, because such stats are technically illegal...

To give you an example, France leader of the far-FAR right is a Jew...(Eric Zemmour) and a significant amount of people from North Africa/muslim are in the (far) right too.. (many of them change their names to make them sound more french/less Arab such as Jean Messiha lmao)

France itself is a mixed nation between Romans invader and Galicians (basically France indigenous) also some viking mingling in the north(?) That's why french people can be very phenotypically diverse. If you look Griezman (France North type) and Kenji Girac (Southern France type - he's also a gypsy) who are both White french while looking quite different.

Unfortunately nationalism is on the rise, there's an actual revival of neo Nazi (which is hilarious bc France has been invaded/defeated by Nazi and that actual self respecting French rightoids hate Nazism because of that 💀) so I feel like France is getting less sale for foreigners/non Whites. I think France is the best place to live in Europe if you're afraid of racism but yeah, it's getting quite heated here....

[plasticfreckles]

ok nvm im coming back to this

lucanis dellamorte the snooker player

illario is also one

there's a whole thing about lucanis being better (=ranking higher) that makes illario salty af (honestly tho maybe Lucanis is just better at compartmentalizing the baize and the game only as opposed to the whole competition/championship thing. Skillset-wise, they have different points of focus, but them playing pvp is actually always really close (and really long!) matches. High-breaks and centuries left right and center but also the "i will lightly slap the cushion to show my respect for the shot you just made" A LOT.

there's a lot of post-game slander that is very not gentlemen's sport

but they also love each other

lucanis is like "i mean illario has some MEAN offensive game and I'm more on the safeties sort of side. Incredible break-building."

and illario's like "man's is so SLOW it really takes me out of my flow >:(" [but deep down he admires that lucanis can and will take as long as he needs to leave the baize with the most incredible snooker played to date] [i need this bc I need to believe in the good in ppl and that ronnie o'sullivan isn't just a maladjusted entity >:(]

but when they're both in the World Championship finale it's the singular most watched snooker event ever, they will talk about it for years to come. Jan Verhaas will return from retirement specifically to referee this match. Michaela Tabb will also return to snooker to watch the computer part of it [like the one that supervises from a distance so support Jan in resetting the table after complicated situations].

Rolf Kalb will ALSO return from retirement to provide legendary live commentary for German-speaking audiences.

They will spawn an entire new generation of snooker players who, when asked what made them want to become professional, be like "the 9:64 Dragon Thedas Championship finale between the Dellamortes."

The little fancy commentary room they have in the Crucible for the BBC that is like entirely retired pro players at this point will have a field day. They will find a nickname for that match. Something outrageous like "Dellamorte Deathmatch" or "Combat of the Cousins"

and bc players also have nicknames in snooker

Lucanis "The Demon" Dellamorte [I thought of going Mage Killer and then make Illario The Mage but that's a little too far and there's already like 50 mage-adjacent nicknames on the main tour, so] His walk-in music would either be My Demons by Starset (bc I'm hilarious) or some tacky instrumental tune from a lovesong OR Michal's Kein Bock

Illario "Mage Killer" Dellamorte [bc he's a killer who's learnt magic lmao. no I just ran out of juice for this. I just wanted to see if I got any feedback on my thesis yet :(] Walk-in music: Scream by Bronnie or Scarecrow by Lordi

If they're healed anough to joke about it after the Thedas Championship final they will call each other "The Heir" and "The Spare", dependent on who won lmao.

kthxbye

if you have a niche sport/job/hobby it’s your sacred duty to make the most specific incomprehensible AUs with the characters you like. no more coffeeshop aus no more college aus you have to put those guys in a microbial lab. your fave is a high school english teacher. that show is about bowling now sorry. THIS IS MANDATORY!!!

[littlegoldfinchh]

genuine question why is your family 1, a bag of dicks 2, such a mess (no offense)

I WISH I FUCKING KNEW like holy shit you don't know the half of the stuff that's going on. But you know what!:) I have the time and im bored so get comfortable because im gonna tell you soooo many shit about my family

So first of all, my aunt texted me that i should stop being jealous and passive agressive about the fact that my grandma gave my cousin her car. But my brother in christ WHY would i be jealous? I can't even fucking drive.

But not only did my grandma give my cousin her car! She completely cut me out of her will (just for funsies!!!) and she's going to leave everything (her house and every other possession she has) to my cousins.

And i have NEVER said anything about this. My parents (especially my dad lol) raised me to be respectful yknow especially towards the elderly, so i have never EVER expressed how fucking bad that felt. Instead i have sacrificed my free time everytime my grandma needed me to translate stuff when her german friends came to visit. And i did!

I'm gonna be 23 in 3 months but she has never invited me over for dinner, she sends me (usually spoiled and straight up moldy) food like once a year. Because you know, I'm already fat, i don't need to eat more food right?

And look, my part of the family isn't rich. We're not poor either, but that money could have paid off some debts, including my student loan. But no, let's leave everything to my cousins who are literally millionaires.

This whole thing broke out because i told my grandma that i really like a painting she has (i have always loved it and it's genuinely beautiful, i don't want to sell it at all, it has sentimental value for me and i would hate if my cousins just straight up sold it because that's EXACTLY what they're planning to do) and i asked her to leave that one painting to me. Instead of my cousins. But apparently i overstepped some invisible boundaries with this lol

And this is literally just the tip of the iceberg but im not going to bore everyone to death with my shitty family. So yeah it just sucks because I've never been jealous or MEAN even though i had every right to do so, and this is what i get for all the help during these years lol. Getting called a passive agressive jealous bitch. Me. Lmao

[trickster-whim]

So, my sister and I had kind of an amazing trip to Goodwill!!

(Kind of long, so I'm gonna put it under a readmore. Also nothing at all explicit, but slightly adult for doujinshi and body pillow covers)

I'm going to go out of order but in the order I took pictures, so first up are these two Dungeon Tiles Master Set boxes! They're really cool, especially since we've been playing dungeons and dragons more lately. Also there were some people's printouts of dnd books, which is adorable. The only thing is that the sets were kinda mixed up, and they were the most expensive single items we got ($6.49, I think?), so we left one behind at the store and who knows what was in that one??

But I definitely want to try to use these sometime, and the boxes themselves are really cute, so ✅

The thing that drew us in and convinced us pretty quickly this was going to be a wild trip, though, was a stack of Japanese novels and doujinshi! This was the same goodwill that I once found a gay space furry retelling of Beauty and the Beast (which turned out to be v good, btw), so there's precedent for some choice smut, but I've never found doujinshi before!

Mostly it's things I'm not super familiar with, and it all appears to be in Japanese, so we can't completely read it (although my sister's kinda learning it in her free time), but it's still awesome.

The non-comic books were these three Gankutsuou novels. Of course I've never seen it, but I did read Count of Monte Cristo in high school! (I remember reading it during my welding class lmao. And I had the teacher who tested us when we got to school over minutia that wasn't in the abridged versions, so yes I read the whole book.)

Can't read it, still cool.

The doujinshi/fanbooks I'm having a harder time finding info about, despite the fact that most of them list an author/illustrator and date. Again, they're in Japanese, but these have (more) pictures 😎. And they're quite nice pictures too lmao.

Three of the books are fanbooks from Magi (I'm not sure if that's Magi the Labyrinth of Magic, but I've been reading that, so I guess I'll see within ~300 chapters), two are from Tiger and Bunny (which I wanted to watch but just haven't gotten around to it), and one from Heat Guy J (which I've never heard of, but it looks kind of great, but it's not available for streaming right now).

Again, I haven't seen any of the anime these are from, and they're in Japanese, so I've been using an online translator to translate (and the pictures help ngl), but I fucking love them. Some aren't 100% my style (I was literally talking the day before about how many fetish-y amputee mods there are for Fallout, and one book is about a character with amputated limbs in a way I'm not sure isn't fetish-y, but it's not, like, offensive I don't think), but I'm a big fan of smut idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Also! I forgot to add that the art is very good. I'm going to keep looking up the artists to see if they've done anything else I might also like :p )

(I do have to say: these books are mostly censored [that is, no explicit shots of genitals without censor bars], but they are very adult, and they were just sitting out there for anyone to stumble on. Like when I found a Torchwood book in the kids section of Bookmans. Idk.)

Anyway! The next stuff is not smutty (sadly): Daisuki Magazine!

I hadn't heard of this magazine, but it's a mid-2000s German-language manga mag, so almost exactly a one-to-one match for my interests lol. My German is rusty, and some of the words are specific, so it's slow going reading it, but look! Fruits Basket! Which we called Frubba when we were kids because we had a million inside jokes!

(I also went back later and got Juni 2007. Also heatstroke because it is hot as all hell here.)

And lastly was another impulse purchase but also amazing: a Nightwing body pillow cover by soltian!!

Sorry for the terrible shot lmao. I wanted to put it on my pillowcase-less pillow immediately, so I had to wash it quickly.

I love this art (༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ)

I don't follow comics, but I read almost every DC (especially Batman) comic in our city's library system when I was in high school, so yeah. Also I really do like the art; it's very cute.

(Side note, all of soltion's art is cute. They have charms, and the digidestined are absolutely perfect and I love them. They also have the pillowcases in stock right now so, you know, support the artists! I'm really eyeing those keychains honestly!)

A better(?) picture of the pillowcase which also shows off the last thing I got while we were out: new bedclothes!

We stopped at Walmart because my mom had a gift card, and they had a nine-piece sheets and stuff set for $9, and I've been looking for a new blanket and pillowcases, so score! It was full size, and my bed's a twin, so it's very large, but who cares? I get almost all my bedclothes at goodwill, so I'm pleased :p

Anyway back to the goodwill trip. It was expensive, ha. Everything we got cost between $2 and $7, which is amazing but adds up, and I am so, so grateful that goodwill has a 20% off $20+ coupon and also that my sister who has a job bought this lot UwU

So it cost about $37 for a stack of doujinshi, manga mags, light novels, dnd tile sets, and a body pillow cover. So, um. Yeah. My sister and I were freaking out lmao. I don't know if we'll find such a good haul again, but I'm super happy with all this. Now I just need to make room on my packed shelves.

[aeneia-art]

#new fear unlocked: people who think Poland spawned on the map of Europe somewhere around 30s or 40s#begging begging begging people to like dip their toes in stuff that is not the good ole easy to digest western European culture#ancient Greece doesnt count because thats where most of this stuff come from anyway#never letting go of Slavic/Eastern European Anderfels#these are also not synonyms btw#y'all have no idea how much cool stuff you're missing#how much inspiration is so easily dismissed in favour of overused aesthetics and tropes when it comes to “inspired by Europe” settings

The fucking sound I just made thinking about Poland just SPAWNING IN just in time for the WW. But then,,,,, you see you mentioned ancient greece. and ,,,, as we all know greece ceases to exist after the ancient world, there is no medieval or renaissance greece, they had to despawn it to make sure there was enough room for the poland wwii drop. just like there are no more romans,,,, there ARE NO MORE ROMANS OKAY, WHEN THE WESTERN EMPIRE FELL, THERE WAS NO MORE ROMANS,,,,,,,, especially not the romans living in rome in italy where rome is - MEDIEVAL ITALY has NO ROMANS, OKAY-

But just for you please let me give you my full Anderfels Is The Baltics drop (feat. Poland Guitar Solo) ( im aussie tho, just a huge history nerd so imma miss shit i am sure please correct & add as you see fit)

Anderfels is.... swamp. some good farmland, but lots of swamp. Latvia Lithuania and Finland? Mostly swamp with ALSO some good farmland.

(General Eastern Europe Vibe) No One Smiles Here. Gross, no. What kind of weirdo freak are you? Trying to be cheerful in public is a punishable offense how dare you -

Aw this folk song is catchy! WHY DOES IT END IN MURDER?

As of writing this, the Anderfels dont have a King or singular ruler mentioned as their own, only Tevinter for awhile. Lithuania only ever really had one recognised King, and Latvia only had a few rising out of the early tribes that formed the proto-nation until the 1200s when they were deposed by Germany and then were just under German rule. SENSING A THEME. Lithuania ensured its independence sans king with Poland, but we'll come back to that. Anderfels got abandoned by Tevinter and seem to just have been left to their own devices???

This one is VIBES but hear me out, so like you know how Lithuania especially, but also to some extent Latvia and Finland, were the last countries to convert to christanity by the goddamn 1400s??? and it was literally so like, SLAP A JESUS ON IT ok germany stopped looking go back to whatever we were doing, never really did it properly and it makes them have a vastly far more chill relationship to other euro countries about the supernatural??? well, the way all the NPCs you meet in the Anderfels unlike the half the other countries arent even like AHHH, SPIRITS they're like ffs, we told everyone not to talk to the fucking thing in the well. oh shit i cut this tree down and there was a spirit inside of it??? ah, shit ....... but waste not want not. just like SHOCKINGLY mild for what is largely terrifying to everyone else just gave me that THAT SAME FEEL.

Terrible shit keeps happening to the people there but no one ever remembers it exists half the time and everyone there just gets the fuck on with it, because oh sure that happened this week, what else is new?

FULLY SICK POLAND GUITAR SOLO because oh did you think I would forget the presence of the Wardens? And man the Wardens just LOVE that winged motif don't they, just.... real into wings. I wonder if - YOU BET THATS A REAL THING AND ITS ACTUALLY EVEN MORE NUTS. Poland-Lithuania was a commonwealth for ages during the renassiance, and one of the things they had were THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN WINGED HUSSARS that were the top notch fighters force. So yeah, right down to the Wing Heraldry of the predominate fighting force in the area??? Also just in case anyone ever wants to argue about weird designs of armour, lmao. Its often the weirdest shit that you least expect that is way more historically accurate, but I digress.

WAIT! I hear you say! But the names are all really German! Yeahhhhhhhhh do you know who just could not go ten minutes without invading Latvia? That'd be Germany. It left a bunch of German names all over the place as well. Though in the case of Dragon Age it'd technically be Tevinter that does that??? But yeah lmao. You find german naming conventions in the area a lot. Also gestures up to the wings. GERMANY< ALSO, REALLY LIKES WINGED MOTIFS.

And thank yu for coming to my TED talk, the Anderfels are the Baltics, I hope you enjoyed,,,, like this is why I am 100% sure this is the intention, IT FITS. WAY. TOO. WELL. From landscape to cultural make up, to history, to general behaviour. But then like no direction team ever followed up on it but yeah.

This isnt a dragon age only problem but it is always so amusing how series set in like this is EUROPE but in FANTASY and has like, versions of each fantasy region (which I am not even AGAINST blurring I want to just be clear, European borders blur so hard it is impossible to make them distinct, like, hey remember when half of France belonged to England? Yeah that was under Richard the Lionheart. Who didnt even like England, he was really French. )

Just cannOT for the life of them include so much as medieval Greece or ANY Eastern European country and who are the Byzantines let alONE the Ottomans, we dont KNOW EM. Poland?!!? The fuck is POLAND?!? THAT clearly doesn't exist until WWII obviously. It's like the world building brains just short out when it comes to hitting anything further than the Italy & Germany line. it just ceases to be.

Anyway the Anderfels should be Latvia Lithuania Poland, I am js.

though i am pretty sure it was SUPPOSED to be but literally from ORIGINS they artistically & linguistically dropped that fucking ball.

[language-obsession]

I have a question. My skin is white and I am a mix of French, German, Italian, Spanish... the usual white trans boy. I'm also Cherokee according to my father's side, his grandfather was a tribe leader or something like that, but apparently a lot of white people on the east coast say they're cherokee??? Anyways I was wondering if it's offensive to take pride in something I am obviously very little of. Like I understand white pride = racist, but French pride? Even if it's so little is it ok?

OMG !!!!! pls pls pls pls take pride in your own heritage; being proud of being french, or german, or italian, or cherokee is not problematic or racist. learning about ur ancestors, learning their language, and experiencing their culture is really deeply touching and i encourage you to learn more about your familys past !!!!it pisses me off when ppl say europeans have no culture or that theres nothing to be proud of, go and learn more about yourself, my friend. wanting to learn about your identity does not and should not involve a competition of percentages, so don't let ppl invalidate you trying to learn more about your ancestry bc youre not [insert whatever] enough. HOWEVER what IS problematic is if you use that to shut out the experiences of minorities in the us (in this case native americans) just bc you havent experienced the same, but thats a slightly different issue i feel LMAo

[joeydaccord]

why you rooting for the rockies don't you think they're more likely to beat the Dbacks in the WC? shit gets weird within the division

1. i hate the brewers tbh

2. i think that the dbacks could still beat the rockies esp at home (and tbh i think the brewers might give us more trouble)

3. if the dbacks lose to their opponent, out of possible opponents i believe that the rockies are more likely to beat the dodgers than the brewers 

4. a lot of it does come down to presumable pitching match ups versus possible lineups. this is made more complicated by the fact that in order for MIL to play in the WC game they would need to win a game v COL on monday. I do not know their pitching staff well enough to know who would start this game. so, in light of that, i believe that chase anderson would pitch for MIL for the WC game (both bc of his success and the way the schedule lines up) and while CA is 1-1 this season against the dbacks his ERA is 0.69 and only lost that game because we scored 1 run against him, and i believe we won that game 1-0. Gray is the presumed WC starter for COL, baring a need for a game on monday night, and while he is 2-0 against the dbacks this season our offense is way more active against him. 

“This season, Arizona won 11 of the 19 games against the Rockies, outscoring Colorado 101-69 in the process. The 11 losses were the most suffered by the Rockies at the hands of any other team.” 

tbh for me the most preferable scenario would be that MIL forces a game monday night, that COL wins, forcing them to put up a second pitcher, who im not sure who it would be, based on schedule, chad bettis would be coming off regular rest, but the dbacks have had recent success against him. german marquez has struggled against the dbacks heavily and would be coming off short rest so he’s probably out anyway. tyler anderson would probably be the starter and he is 2-0 against the dbacks this year but he will have been inactive for more than a week, an awkward length. out of all the pitchers the dbacks could face i think TA makes me the most nervous tbh. but anyway since the odds of this happening are so miniscule, i would just rather see MIL lose and fall out of contention so yeah [shrugging emoji]

okay this was a lot more of an answer than was probably necessary for this question lmao no one will read this whole thing, i hope tbh, but yeah!

TL;DR: would rather face gray than anderson when it comes down 2 it