Wait i’m gonna get into it today. It’s interesting how hollywood acts as if eastern european and slavic nations are filthy and trashed and just run down bc we’re poor, bc communism, bc what-not, and they also act as if western nations like France and Italy are the height of sophistication and elegance… so why do you have to film a city in Croatia and caption it as Italy? Why not film in that beautiful elegant western nation instead? Why not just caption the scene as set in Croatia, especially if it’s not even important for the narrative where it was (it wasn’t, I can somewhat make sense of it when they filmed on Vis for Mamma Mia 2 bc yeah it’s important for it to be set in Greece, but also film in Greece maybe?) like, what’s up?
Wait i’m gonna get into it today. It’s interesting how hollywood acts as if eastern european and slavic nations are filthy and trashed and just run down bc we’re poor, bc communism, bc what-not, and they also act as if western nations like France and Italy are the height of sophistication and elegance… so why do you have to film a city in Croatia and caption it as Italy? Why not film in that beautiful elegant western nation instead? Why not just caption the scene as set in Croatia, especially if it’s not even important for the narrative where it was (it wasn’t, I can somewhat make sense of it when they filmed on Vis for Mamma Mia 2 bc yeah it’s important for it to be set in Greece, but also film in Greece maybe?) like, what’s up?
seeing women from eastern europe have the american internet space brainworm that makes them want to >go back to being a 1950's housewife is always funny as fuck to me. your female ancestors in the 1950's were forced by the state to work in factories you're larping american history in bumfuck moldova
we shouldnt be mean to usamericans, its not their fault. the first time theyre allowed to see the world map is on a very special day - their 25th birthday, when their parents take them to their old study room and pull out an incredible thing - a dusty old globe. thats the first time an usamerican learns other countries exist. their eye sparkle full of awe as they read names like argentina, laos, nigeria, serbia, croatia, tunis, china, turkey, mexico, finland, etc. however, the spell doesnt last long - their parents quickly put away the globe. they dont want their child to get hurt from this realization of other people living on the earth. from now on, it will be their special birthday tradition - seeing that amazing thing once a year.
there are some funny usamerican reblogs in the notes but i absolutely love people going like "LAOS MENTIONED" "NIGERIA WIN" like yes my friends, i feel the same when i see my country mentioned in wild once a year. we are connected. i will watch movie credits just to see if a person with my-nationality-sounding name is mentioned at the end of it, at least as a coffee-bringer. if somehow a foreign movie includes a trace of my country, the news media here literally make articles about it and share it for the next month. invisible countries lets stick together
I love how a person can say "something is happening in my country that I really dislike" and people are like "well that's happening to everyone nowadays"
why did you think I said in my country
someone talking about their experiences isn't automatically excluding yours jesus christ
the duality of man ("the balkans are a region that has been abused for centuries by foreign forces" and "oh my god so many people here are insufferable bigots when do i get to leave")
as a Balkaner, I have gripes with the concept* of King Ottokar's Sceptre, even if so far I haven't read it yet
because it's fictionalization of real life countries that already do not get much representation as is
(and if we do get it - it's usually just the conflict of "erm, these Balkan people don't LIKE each other")
These thoughts are what I have so far, because while I didn't read it yet, I do plan to, so I can give my FULL thoughts on this
PS. I would appreciate if people didn't tell me that I can't dislike Ottokar's Sceptre if I didn't read it yet. I agree, for now I'm gonna put that on hold.
this is more just so a rant about my dislike for balkans being turned into a fictional setting
the last MCU movie I watched was captain america: the winter soldier so ive got actual whiplash from how Ass this movie was
first of all. So many of the scenes are obviously just the actors projected in front of a green screen. Even for mundane scenes! It looks weird and bad. I genuinely don't think the actors were actually physically together on the same set for most of the movie. During a bunch of the scenes it just switches from "screen showing one character" to "screen showing other character" like their parts are being filmed completely separately and spliced together for the film.
I assumed at first that it was because it had been filmed during covid, but nope! came out in 2019!
second, there were so many fucking references to other MCU movies that it was like product placement for their own franchise. it was genuinely grating
Third. Okay so. The plot of this movie is that tony stark, after he died, gave peter parker a pair of glasses that allow him to see messages and files being sent on other people's computers/phones and additionally give him the ability to call in drone strikes from satellites in space to shoot missiles at any person Peter wants when he just. says that he wants that.
And like I really do mean "when he says that he wants that." In the scene where he opens up the glasses and learns what they do, he misspeaks and labels a guy he is pissed off at as a "target," which calls in a drone strike that almost blows up his entire class. No "confirm," no "are you sure you want to kill everyone on this bus including yourself," just "okay :)"
The main conflict of the movie is incited when Peter doubts himself and his ability to be a superhero, and hands over control of the glasses to the bad guy.
But at the end of the movie, Peter gets the glasses back.
At no point, ever, is it hinted at or considered that maybe the power to kill any person you desire by just. summoning missiles to blow them up (collateral damage be damned) by saying the word is...bad? The fact that the glasses let him spy on the private conversations of others just by looking at them while they're using their phones is bad enough.
Spider-Man is just, not Spider-Man in this movie. He has an assistant to come pick him up in a private jet. He has technology to literally 3D print him a new suit. He has all this super advanced technology and is closer to being Iron Man than Spider-Man.
Also, Nick Fury is there for some fucking reason and he is like. guilt-tripping Peter about wanting to participate in a school trip instead of, being a fucking child soldier or something?
Like, Nick Fury very much talks to this sixteen year old boy like he's selfish and immature for not wanting to be Literally Kidnapped To Go Die Fighting Space Monsters. Fury's dialogue very much comes across like he's knowingly taking advantage of an immature boy's inflated sense of his own maturity and desire to be viewed as an adult, and he is definitely using guilt and emotional manipulation to control Peter. I know Fury is supposed to be a morally gray character, but that isn't morally gray, that is straight up evil. ???
Also the movie had this whole thing about Peter being Iron Man's successor/the next Iron Man, to the point that Iron Man is basically replacing the role that Uncle Ben played in Spider-Man's story, which is. What the fuck.
the plot of captain america: the winter soldier hinged entirely on how surveillance of people's private data and the use of military technology to "hold a gun to everyone on Earth" was part of a plan created by Nazis to wipe out anybody that opposed them.
Now, 5 years later, a 16 year old boy is given the power to do the exact same thing and it's fine?
Like? Is it suddenly fine to violate others' privacy and call drone strikes on people to kill them if you're a "hero?" The fuck do you think "hero" means?
The actual events of the story seem to set Tony Stark up as a horrible villain or at least a fucking idiot, but simultaneously the film treats him like he's fucking Jesus.
I knew i was going to have a bad time but I am actually genuinely pissed off at how bad this movie was.
its like. us military propaganda basically. meant to normalize spying and killer drones and stuff
and now peter parker isn't a regular broke kid anymore he gets handed everything he wants by a billionaire who makes military technology
tom holland spider-man doesn't even save people. He's not really even interested in like. Doing good.
i DID just watch tobey macguire spiderman and like. that's spider-man! the real one! he undergoes character growth, he really cares about the people he loves, he fucks up really bad and he has to learn to do better. he's a regular dorky guy who happens to have superpowers and he has to rise to the responsibilities that come with that. he shows real emotion. i HATE LOCKHEED MARTIN NEPO BABY FRAUD SPIDER MAN
I was sitting in my residence yesterday when four very heavy missiles struck the central Gaza Strip. The ground shook beneath us from the force of the explosion. Indeed, Gaza is witnessing the most documented and most denied genocide in history.
I never imagined that more than three years would pass under the yoke of merciless people, or rather, the Zionist army cannot even be called human; they are beasts devoid of mercy. Yesterday, a nine-year-old girl was killed by an Israeli sniper, just for fun. And these scenes from yesterday, the bombing of an entire residential complex—I never knew I would witness this with my own eyes, and the world remains silent.
I just want a peaceful life with my loved ones in a place that suits me, to study and achieve my dreams. But all of that is destroyed because I'm in Gaza. I beg you to help me. I don't want to remain alone like this. If you can help in any way, it will be a great help to me. Please donate now to save me and those I love.
Help Nader, I am out of a lot of work due to two injuries & intense PT and I wish I could help more but I also beg you guys to help him supplement even the little bit I was able to give.
He needs us. He is going through something I can’t imagine going through in his circumstance.
If you had to navigate the internet in Arabic, could you?
I already do
Yes, easily
I could probably find my way around
It would not be easy, but maybe a little bit
I would have great difficulty
No, I would be entirely lost
Other
Voting ended onJul 17
If you had to navigate the internet in a language you didn't understand and couldn't even read, how would you go about it?
My friend Wesal (@deemagaza) doesn't speak English. The only way she can find her way around the English internet is by using Google Translate or ask others like me for help. It is very difficult for her.
Yet she has no choice but to do so for her daughter Farah, almost sixteen now, who is autistic and has a kidney problem that - without treatment - makes her deficient in potassium, which, if it becomes too severe, can lead to cardiac arrest.
^ Farah spends most of her days like this now, feeling uncomfortable in her body, but not understanding why.
Farah's medication has become unavailable in Gaza, which has endangered her life and means she has to be treated in the hospital, which is costly and where they are running out of resources as well. Farah's case has now been referred to the WHO to be transferred abroad. If the opportunity for evacuation arises, we must make sure the funds are available!
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if a person of color says something is racist then it probably is
if a queer person says something is queerphobic then it probably is
if a disabled person says something is ableist then it probably is
if a jewish person says something is antisemitic then it probably is
if a muslim person says something is islamophobic then it probably is
listen to minorities instead of deciding for yourself what's bigoted
edit: to people saying there's nuance to this, you're correct, but please make your own post. this is about listening to minorities, not questioning their biases.
I normally don't like advertise myself or my art, but I'm in the transition phase of getting a regular student-job in september and being just a full time student and I wan't to work on my artskills and start saving up for a director/dramaturgy course next year (my dream is working in theatre after i get my diploma in psychology) and I would love to make art for others!
I tried not overpricing myself and offer what I know I can create and be satisfied with, so if you are interested please consider it <33
Because I normally get swept under the rug by the algorithm even a reblog or note would help me a lot!
But also, because I've been posting here for so long and I feel like this is the least I can do, if you follow me, you get 1€ off of everything you commission me for the first time!
(For example if you ask for a sketch with colored lineart, the sketch costs 1€ less and the colored lineart is free and so on)
I hope I can make at least one person happy with my art ^^
Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.
the memeification of fascism is a proven method of perpetuating and instilling it in other people. Layers of irony will not protect you once you adopt racist, sexist, ableist, transphobic terminology into your lexicon. you'll be acknowledging and nursing the mindsets and connotations borne of those words.
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