#to any non-american

[quinloki]

I'm reminded of a story I saw some years ago, about a young girl whose parents were both Native American.

However, her great-grandmother was not.

This poor girl was the spitting image of that great-grandmother. Blonde hair, blue eyes, freckles like a Norman Rockwell painting. White as fucking wonder bread.

But her mom, dad, aunts, uncles, and siblings - to whom she was biologically related to - were all very much Native American.

That -

That's complicated. But if I was her, I'da voted No, cause you know she has spent her life fighting for her identity.

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[flashhwing]

there's this sentiment of "maybe we americans do deserve trump" and i gotta say you're wrong. america is more than the people who voted for him, and there's a lot of good here. those of us who voted for harris, or third party, or refrained from voting -- none of us deserve him. a despot for a leader isn't recompense for the grave sin of failing to stop him

[animentality]

I have always wanted to believe in ignorance over malice, but in the 2024 us elections...

I think it's both.

and I'm not sure if I can see Trump supporters as human beings anymore.

[moonsun2010]

Dracula Daily guy recorded and posted one of his IRL lectures :DDD !!!!!!!!!!!

[aahsoka]

one thing i think is very funny about severance is them redoing famous paintings to fit into their whole founder cult thing.

like them stealing the pose from “Wanderer Above a Sea Of Mist” . Also Irving and the O&D guy having an almost…… obvious reaction to the ‘sublime’ (as in they found it beautiful but terrifying) which was a big theme of Caspar David Friedrich’s art and especiqlly evident in this piece. but also it is unlike Friedrich’s work because it turns his rükenfigur (a figure facing away from the viewer which is also a recurring theme in his works) into a figure that Does indeed look back at you.

German Romanticism was also very focused on finding God in nature (it was a kind of attempt at reigniting christian religious fervor) so its apt to include it in the way that Lumon’s whole deal seems to draw very heavily from christianity.

No idea if the background is taken from somewhere else (they look like the great lakes to me?) I just really love Caspar David Friedrich.

also the mussolini facade vs that big relief sculpture. maybe theres a better analogue but this was my first thought.

anyways I think its fun in the way that the symbolism is kinda heavy handed lol. Or maybe I only feel that way as an art history student idk. But I do enjoy when a show can give me a little of that kind of reference …… IF they do it well.

also disclaimer: I am only on season 1 episode episode 5 as of this post! Please do not discuss beyond that episode with me until I catch up thanks <3

[marzipanandminutiae]

was just watching a deep dive on why the 90s AG characters suck and

the American Girl twins of 1999, age 9: we're going to do a cool Spice Girls dance for the New Millenium celebration! it'll be da bomb!

me on December 31, 1999, age 6: MOTHER I MUST RESEARCH THE LOCH NESS MONSTER ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB RIGHT NOW

[st5lker]

not to get fake deep or anything but does anyone else feel like these last few months and heading into this year is weirdly punctuated by like… grief. it feels like a lot of things we kind of assumed would be here forever are going away and its a really strange feeling. and its weird bc it applies to big things everyone is aware of like los angeles or the us tiktok ban but its also been applying to a lot of things in my personal life and the life of a lot of other people i know. or i guess id say its more broadly change than grief because its not like im really that attached to every one of them like it feels dramatic to call reacting to tiktok being banned in the us “grief” but like ive spent more nights than usual recently kind of looking back to even just like fall 2023 and feeling like that was forever ago because so much has changed so quickly. and some of that change is good (like luigi and everything he spawned) and some of it is bad but its all kind of scary. and i know that happens literally all the time and every year but idk something in my gut just makes this all feel like its a bit more. like 2025 will end up feeling more like a divider between eras than most of us anticipated

[wowa-bublord]

FUCK MY AMERICAN LIFE LOL AS IF THIS YEAR COULDN'T GET WORSE

[canisalbus]

Vasco seems like a honeycomb (candy) type of guy tbh

Never heard of it before, but it looks nice. Apparently it's really easy to make at home as well? Is it good?? The texture seems interesting.

[sanyu-thewitch05]

These election stats are so funny!

Source:

Edit: This is for the Native American voting stats

More updates:

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/native-news-online-post-election-survey-shows-trump-harris-split-reservation-divide

[golden-girl-daisy]

America please just be nice to me for one fucking day Jesus Christ.

[captainjonnitkessler]

There's a very specific feeling when you come to tumblr to doomscroll but the bad news apparently hasn't hit tumblr yet. Like I'm a soothsayer in a town about to be doomed but no one else knows it yet.

[bookskittychad]

yesterday i fell into a little rabbithole. so, i only whatched one khaled abol naga movie in all my life, that being "habibi naeman" and i basically knew nothing about him. so i was looking through the list of movies he acted in and found a foreign one, and turns out that he left egypt and is now considered an egyptian american actor? people used to call him the new omar el shirf? (undeserved), and he supports gay rights and that caused controversies? what? also his new cool american movie star name is kal naga

[leah2eroes]

"european trans women on this site talking about their petty little problems with "transmisogynists" like. fucking excuse me???? im a TRANS MAN living in AMERICA do you even give a shit about the shit thats happening over here??? you are NOT allowed to voice ANY of your lived experiences if i decide that they make ME look bad!!! this is INFIGHTING! this is MISANDRY!! now is NOT the time for you fucking evil tra- uh.,, trans radfems, to be WHINING about how we 'oppress you'. we don't. now shut up and let the MEN talk."

-actual post i saw on my tl just now (obviously paraphrased with key subtext lol)

[triangle-strategy-notes]

You know sometimes I think about Aesfrost and how inconvenient it sounds to live in and I go "WHY would anyone in their right minds go live in the icy mountains with only rapids to travel through and no access whatsoever to salt and it seems like farming and livestock rearing would be made really difficult also,"

and then I think about how I grew up in Arizona and. you know what I can't say it makes SENSE but there is definitely historical precedence for people living in places that make zero sense simply because they think they probably can

[anistarrose]

I was going to wait to talk about this until Disability Pride Month, and instead will probably just talk about it a second time then, because food allergies are extremely underrecognized as a disability. But did you know that if you live in the US and have a sufficiently severe corn allergy, you can't safely be prescribed about 95% percent of pills because they all have fucking cornstarch in them as a binding agent? And the corn-free alternatives obviously cost more — if they even exist at all?

I'm just saying, there's an entirely unique emotion that over 99% of humans have never even felt. And it's called "realizing that you're allergic to your own lifelong allergy medication."