#things to do vietnam

[normal-people-travel]

5 Best Things To Do When Backpacking North Vietnam

When considering things to do in Northern Vietnam, there are many recommendations online that can guide you in different directions. I spent a month forming my opinions and favorite places; There are 5 things that topped my list: The Ha Giang Loop Explore Ninh Binh by Motorbike Hike in Cat Ba National Park Shop in Hanoi’s Vintage Stores and Secondhand Market Eat at Bakeries in Hanoi City…

[maeamian]

I'm trying to channel it into serious action rather than blind rage, but I cannot tell you how much it pisses me off that Vance and Trump are having a go at refugees, just the evilest motherfuckers on the god damned planet.

[acediscowlng]

okay i do understand that a large part of this is just being how the timeline plays out, i get that, i really do, but sometimes i do think about john winchester being a soldier and training his sons to be soldiers but also john was specifically a soldier in vietnam and whooo boy that man sure did fall into the monster vs human mindset real fast and i think about how military men in the show are repeatedly shown to be uniquely suited to hunting and who did they hunt again? why are they so good at hunting? who did they have experience hunting while they were in the military?

and the show never even comes close to unpacking this and you know what i get that i really do because i do not want to unpack it either but here we fucking are, aren't we?

[eloquentgifs]

I'm so used to being here on tumblr that whenever I mention the (moral) victory of Käärijä on any other site I'm surprised when the "realists" show up to tell me that Loreen is the winner and that she's killing it on the music charts and the juries are necesary to keep the contest serious and blablabla.

Someone just told me that Loreen is already in the same division than "Ariana, Taylor, Dua, Miley..." while he's nowhere to be found and Im like, what do you mean everyone knows he's on the beach with Frank.

[b4kuch1n]

whoever told the writers vietnam uses the US dollar was fully lying btw

[1eos]

it's actually wild learning abt what evil shit us troops do abroad and then have the nerve to come back crying abt ptsd..... so im supposed to feel bad that you took an 8 month tour de sex crime and murder? if you don't KILL YOURSELF

[dixidin]

Studio investigraves should've never made Vince with glasses canon cause I went feral when I found out

@sinnlos-star normally I wouldn't do this, but I added your art to my drawing cause I could not stand the blank space :3

If you repost this on another website, please give credit. Do not put my art in any ai or repost it as your own work. You are free to use this as a pfp as long as you credit. Any like or rebblog is greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading! -dixidin

[deliriousblue]

traveling to southeast asia in a couple weeks and have a Very Long Flight. if anyone has long fics or bingeable shows/movies to recommend please share

(not limited to dramas but mdl here if you want to know what i've seen. how much television do i watch? ummm. don't worry about it.)

[ladywaterfall]

Going to Vietnam in two weeks, so excited 😌

[dragongirluvula]

just found out about the hdg and I definitely don't vibe with it. It almost captures my interest but the hard stance opposition towards exploring the implications that come with a self designated benevolent empire that can solve the inherent problems that come from cultures who are supposedly inferior in some way by nature really like, both rubs me the wrong way and feels like a disservice to the setting itself.

idk just looking at every empire in history it's like, that's literally what they all say and how they justify colonizing others. It's kinda really fucking hard to just take at face value. If imperialist colonizers who just happen to be legimately nicies to the people they colonize is like, ur thing then absolutely jack off to it I'm not here to judge that, just like, own that I guess? But if your argument for them is just that narratively speaking it's just true then my interest in your setting, horny or otherwise just does not exist.

The contradiction of the setting also bothers me, 25-45% of any given species will be domesticated on average but the space between that and rebellion just doesn't seem to be accounted for in the wiki, what is the life of someone not opposed to the empire but also who doesn't volunteer for domestication? How much of their own cultures are retained within the empire? It really seems like the only option for any autonomy in the setting is rebellion but that's also only ever seen as a bad thing.

I just get caught on the whole "affini are imperial" and "affini are benevolent" thing in the axioms section of the hdg wiki. My mixed race ass cannot really look at an invading empire calling itself the good guys without my own personal baggage about it weighing in, ya'feel?

[llycaons]

I love planning trips

[rosewilsonravager]

Just a friendly reminder that Rose and Lillian were originally Khmer, and native to Cambodia (Lili was a princess, in fact!), before Christopher Priest changed their ethnicities to Hmong for really no good reason. As though Lili being a Cambodian princess needing to flee turmoil in her country wasn't "dramatic" enough. Oh, and then he was also shocked when a Khmer fan was disappointed in this.

This is why Rose is and will always be Khmer to me, and Lillian will always be a Cambodian princess.

[sissytobitch10seconds]

I just saw a post complaining that s4 was a slap in the face to Gerard Way and how hard he fought to get his comics on the big screen. Girl, I hate to break it to yo but s4 is the most loyal to the feel of the comics out of all of them. If anything, he had more writing in this season than any other

[slugass]

for the love of god why is the “war flashbacks” meme still a fucking thing to this day

(because people thrive on stereotypes about serious mental illnesses)

[wannaliveattheholidayinn]

had an insane interaction on facebook

[whumpfish]

Now that I've had my antidepressant and some food, as well as some time to think about my Vietnam and Civil War and World War courses....

I think that in addition to my pain and my disabilities in general, part of why I turned to whump and dead dove/extreme fiction more and more is a way to cope with the secondhand trauma of the study of brutality. It's a necessary trauma, and it's one that we volunteer to undergo when we decide on this life course, but that is ultimately what it is. And like any voluntary trauma, you don't know how rough it's going to be on you until that first rough patch hits.

I think some people become flag-wavers after studying military history because they can't cope with that secondhand exposure to brutality, and the only way they can make peace with their bruised psyche is to justify and glorify. I think military families go through the same secondhand trauma, but it's not voluntary in their case. They grab onto the flag faster and harder because they weren't warned, and the only control they have over that secondhand exposure and pain is control of their personal narrative.

Like any trauma, you can choose healthier ways of dealing with it, but this country actively teaches people flag-waving as the best way to deal with any and all trauma from about the age of 5. I think we should all reflect well on this, and the fact that how you approach these folks has an influence on whether and how readily they open their minds to those healthier coping strategies before you decide to open your pie-hole on matters concerning war.