I had a dream last night that ishowspeed was my little brother and we still lived at home, and I took my leftover pad thai out of the fridge and offered it to him in his room while he was streaming. Then he made a huge spectacle on stream of him trying pad thai for the first time and did a pad thai themed backflip for joy
The reality of being Indigenous in so called Canada
• Indigenous women and girls make up 50% of human trafficking victims, while only making up about 2% of the population.¹
•If the territory of Nunavut was an independent country it would have the highest suicide rate in the world (135 per 100,000, which is 10x the canadian average)²
•Despite Calgary having a fairly low crime rate the Calgary Police kill more people than any other police force in Canada. In 2018 CPS killed more people than the police forces of Winnipeg, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto and Edmonton combined. ASIRT, the provincial police watchdog, has never charged an officer for these murders. If you control for population, the rate of civilians killed in Calgary by police is 8 times higher than in New York City. ³
•Between August 30th and December 14th 2024, 15 Indigenous people were killed by police in Canada. 15 people in under 4 months. Because Canada does not collect data on victims of police violence it's difficult to know exact numbers, but it's estimated that Indigenous people make up 16% of police killings, while only making up 4.1% of the population. Indigenous people are killed by police at a rate 10x higher than white canadians.⁴
•28% of people federally incarcerated are Indigenous. This number is as high as 40% in women's prisons. Indigenous women are incarcerated at a rate 12.5x higher than non Indigenous women. ⁵
•29 reserves in Canada are under drinking water advisories. Some of these advisories have been in place for more than 25 years. ⁶
•53.8% of kids in the foster care system are Indigenous. In the province I live in (Alberta) that number is more than 70%. ⁷
• 7% of non Indigenous Canadian children live in poverty. 38% of Indigenous children in Canada live in poverty. ⁷
Canada is not America-lite. Canada is not America's polite northern neighbour. Canada has its own brutal colonial history, and sits on forcibly occupied Indigenous land.
I think the reason the "it was all in a character's head" / "X was in a coma and imagining the plot" is objectively the worst use of human creativity for speculative media analysis, is because every piece of fiction comes from an author's imagination already, and thus any signals or signs indicative of this theory are literally just byproducts of the fact you are consuming a piece of media created by a human being with a brain
No no, see, the main categories are as follows, in approximate order of most to least common:
Wild Cat (generic)
Big Dog (will be specific, but almost always Wolf, Husky, or Bulldog)
Bird of Prey (usually Eagles > Falcons > Hawks)
Some Guy (usually America-themed with the racist ones getting less and less common, thank god, but you will occasionally get Greco-Roman Guy or Pirate-ish Guy)
Big Cat (specific, usually Tigers > Panthers > Jaguars > Other, with Lions being surprisingly much rarer than you would think)
Powerful Animal Misc. (again, Bears are here but weirdly rare? you'll see Mustangs more often)
blakekathryn
dailybridgerton
titsay
vaporwave
gracieabrams
baratheonpilled
prguitarman
pixelskylines
