#this feels like an american experience at least

[brightoleander]

you know you’re renting a house in america when there’s painted over tape on the wall

[californiannostalgia]

seems to me like zac oyama is repping some experiences of asian american schoolkids, defined by such hits like 'regulate your anger,' 'communicate clearer to deliberately misunderstanding assholes,' and 'perpetual sense of unbelonging in both the american part and the asian part of your life.'

[milkbreadtoast]

(random) ngl before i started learning korean i felt like the worst failure of a korean but now i feel like the best failure of a korean (/j) HAHA

like im struggling to speak but least im speaking..!! I feel like I've restored an essential piece of myself that was missing...

[tredawakandan]

Forgot I never shared this experience 😅. As y'all know I express Finding out the hidden black history of all lands & also that genealogy is key👌🏿. Regarding the latter normally I generally search American bloodlines but Years ago I told myself I would eventually try one of the few European lineages I knew. We all know American History so there wasn't a conflict of how I would be related to anything in that line. With that said I eventually did so around the beginning of this yr and found most of Europe Royalty+ other lands were apart of that European lineage 😳. Now with me already having researched and read books about the Hidden Black History of Europe I knew that a lot of em were secretly Black/Moorish . My book collection above shows different sources I used to mentally pair info like the Castles & The black Rulership during different periods. As I always say Genealogy I think will provide a better connection in teaching Black folks once again to reclaim their history. If they don't feel a connection then their simply will be no want nor need to reconnect with the lost history. Whether it be concerning Ancestry from Europe, Asia, Africa or America 👍🏿

* Ignore the # with grandparents because if you know European royal genealogy then you know they intermixed Constantly 😫. Charlemagne, King Alfred etc all are grandparents at least 20x -100x 😭

The first statement is definitely true as I've shown many times.. This in contrast to the last pic where after they whitewashed us out of history they would symbolize us by being devils instead which is the opposite of how black in Europe use to be viewed

[6ebe]

James corden coming back now this have we not suffered enough 😞

[vaguely-concerned]

we've had a death in the family (a long expected one, to be clear, but sad nonetheless :( ) and the funeral is across the country on the day after veilguard releases, so my wait now has a few more days added to it. oh well if I've waited ten years I can wait until the monday after launch haha

[13eyond13]

one of the lesser talked about fun things about intentionally reading more books is finding new stuff to be a bit of a hater about tbh

[stabyou]

anyone else's moods fluctuate such an insane amount that you basically shape shift into different people with different ideals and worldviews + personalities or do i have some other shit going on

[carcarrot]

BASEBALL GAMES ARE THREE HOURS?

[allthatdivides2]

every night i ask myself. do i watch a horror movie or do i play minecraft. and the decision is impossible every time

[crab-milk]

just wanted to chime in and say (like the other anon) i also feel funky abt my mixed asian identity as a westerner. idk it’s weird being in the in-between spaces. i appreciate you talking abt it on the blog a little, makes me feel less like i’m the only one who feels that way

i'm glad i could help out, even if it was just a little :3

for real though, it didn't occur to me how much cringe i'd have to get over myself just to get into learning chinese and talking to other chinese people about being too american; i find that other asians who aren't born or raised western don't get it and probably find it weird that there is that guilty sentiment of not being 'asian enough,' but i think that in itself is a pretty unique experience worth discussing

[alexadimistories]

Okay, just for curiosity and sociology purposes, I need to ask this to the Tumblr community XP

(please reblog)

I'm just really curious, because I have a theory that it's mostly gringos and latinamericans in here, but idk, I might be wrong, so answer plis :D

I'm just really curious (and I'm studying a humanities degree, in foreign languages, so, I wanna see, academically and sociologically ig)

[enfinizatics]

dear americans,

as a polish queer woman and human rights activist, i know exactly how you're feeling right now and what to expect from these elections. i lived through the 2015-2023 regime of pis, a right-wing populist party that divided families in the same way trump did. i’ve experienced the rise of fascism in poland, the influence of far-right parties like konfederacja, and their “santa’s little helpers”—ordo iuris, an ultra-conservative catholic organization (banned in many countries, mind you) that helped enforce a near-total abortion ban and runs anti-queer campaigns in public spaces. i supported the black protests in 2016 as a middle schooler when they first tried to ban abortion. as an adult, i actively participated in the 2020 women’s strike, running from police tear gas daily after they finally passed the ban. i supported friends who faced charges.

i’ve lived through intense homophobia in poland as a queer teen and adult. i survived the first pride march in my hometown, where far-right extremists threw stones and glass at us. i endured the anti-queer propaganda spread by the ruling party in state-owned media. i survived the “rainbow night,” poland’s own stonewall moment in summer 2020, when police arrested around 50 queer activists following the arrest of margo, a nonbinary activist. i survived the "lgbt-free zones," the targeted violence, the slurs from strangers on the street, and the protests i held against queerphobia. it was hard as fuck, but i survived.

but just because i survived, it doesn’t mean others did. many women died because of the abortion ban—marta, justyna, izabela, dorota, joanna, maria, and many others who didn’t survive pis’s draconian anti-abortion laws. milo, kacper, michał, zuzia (she was 12), wiktor, and other queer and trans kids and young adults took their own lives because of the relentless queerphobia.

despite all of this, our experience in poland can serve as a guide now. here are some tips for staying safe and how we, polish queers and women, organized under the regime:

safety first, always. if you know someone who’s had an abortion, no you don’t. if you know someone is trans, no you don’t. if you know people who help with safe abortions, no you don’t—at least not until you know it’s 100% safe to share. if you are queer or have had an abortion, only share this with people you trust fully. most importantly, not everyone has to be an activist just because they’re part of a minority. if it feels unsafe to share that you're queer, trans, etc., then don’t. it doesn’t make you any less queer.

use secure, encrypted messaging like signal for conversations on potentially risky topics, such as queerness, abortion, organizing counter-actions, protests—anything that might be used against you.

stay anonymous online. if you want to research or report something without surveillance, do not use regular internet. get a vpn (mullvad is affordable and reliable), download the tor browser (for both onion and standard links), and if you plan to whistleblow, consider using a riseup email account.

organize and build networks. community is everything now. support each other, foster independence, because your government won’t have your back. set up collectives, grassroots movements. create lists of trusted professionals—lawyers, doctors, etc.—who can offer support.

to lawyers and doctors: please consider pro-bono work. this is what got us through poland’s hardest times. your work will be needed now more than ever.

for protests or risky actions: always write a pro-bono lawyer’s number on your arm with a permanent marker.

get to know the anarchist black cross federation and other resources on safety culture: "Starting an anarchist black cross group: A guide"; Still We Rise - A resource pack for transgender and non-gender conforming people in prison; Safe OUTside the system by the Audre Lorde Project;

for safe abortion info or involvement: get familiar with womenhelpwomen.

stay radical, stay strong, stay informed: The Anarchist Library

if i forgot to (or didn't) include something, don't hesitate to reblog this post with other resources.

[thegoosiestlucy]

watching fallout got me immensely thrown off every time someone talked about the great war and didn’t mean wwi

[ceciliathecabinwitch]

Made what my boss calls ‘American spaghetti’ for dinner, which is to say that I made spaghetti but I used canned sauce

But anyway, my partner found out today that one of his favorite coworkers is leaving and was pretty bummed so it was a nice opportunity for me to actually get into the kitchen for the first time in a little bit and I added in some basil (which I use for most home/peace/happiness things) and rosemary (which I use for kind of clearing the air, in this case of that negativity/sadness) and he seems to have pepped up quite a bit

That probably has more to do with the fact that spaghetti is so delicious it’s hard to be sad after you eat it than anything about the love and intention and stirring technique used and all that, but hey, why not both?

Also pro tip that may seem super obvious to people but some people don’t know this:

If you’re making spaghetti after you boil the noodles, first of all you should drain them, and then you should add them to the sauce and mix them in there (a little at a time makes this work better/more easily but you can just dump them all in if you want) because that gets the noodles sauced up a Lot better than just adding sauce to the top of the noodles when you serve it does, even if you mix it once you have your portion

[vesvosmozhno]

On my flight to and from Florida Oddinary was all I had downloaded on Spotify so for the hour to the airport, hour waiting, two hour flight, hour layover, additional four hour flight + two hours in baggage claim I listened to that 22 minute album on repeat. Now whenever I listen to it I'm on that adventure again and also none of the songs feel real so whenever I listen to Maniac or Charmer I just kind of go to a different place. Not here, not anywhere, just ✨Somewhere✨

Also I do the thing where when I listen to one song on a different playlist I start hearing the song after it. Just listened to Maniac and suddenly I'm dun dundundun dun dundundun Dun DunDunDun Du Dudu DuDu NO MORE CHARMER IM THE CHARMER