It's probably fine

cherry-blossom-nats during baseball season, Jod13Whittaker during Dr Who season/off-season. She/her. Adult. West Indian. Queer. Been here before, classic Who & Chibs era fan. Izzypilled for OFMD and not entirely proud of it. Don't really follow back, just haunt tags.

[jod13whittaker]

some DW meta links for a new pinned post:

Chibnall era meta posts on imperialism (like, a bunch of posts)

Ryan’s dad being the thing in S11

Ryan, the greatest character you should probably revisit

the motif of the house in Flux, & memory

Bel and Vinder being normal random people is a feature not a bug

some Our Flag etc (lbr, mostly Izzy) meta links

izzy likes clever, which both Stede and Ed are, but he can’t see shit

con o’neill decided to play izzy as touch starved with a praise kink and that shit hurted

Celluloid Closet case study dropped into a Logo TV original

oh he’s a freak freak

On Izzy losing himself over the course of season 1 (slightly derailed)

No matter what I write, I'm an izzy enjoyer first and a person second

S2: Stede's connection to the crew & how that connection became Izzy

And to round it out, why I, as a person of color who is also West Indian, can't really talk about racism in Our Flag Means Death unless they get into Stede's background a little more directly. christ whatever fine, posts about whiteness in OFMD. Standard disclaimer: these are personal views & I don't think they're the only valid views, they're just my own, & with one exception (an addition to a post) they are all about s1:

why so far I like what they’re doing with Izzy’s whiteness, but it makes what they’re not doing with Stede’s stand out weirdly to me. - UPDATED for S2E1-3: Why I think S2 cements that they weren't trying to do anything with Izzy's whiteness & it was all just imprecise writing/framing

I was vibing with Stede’s arc wrt race til the very end, when I got worried that was it.

The capstan workers, the piano hoisters, and a bit about framing/visual distance

I kind of totally hate "colonizer coded" takes because of what I think they say about other characters

the funniest thing happened: I realized i was completely misreading the anchor-raising scene, per Alex Sherman

[werewolf-transgenderism]

rip king, truly nobody was doing it for weird sci-fi and fantasy obsessed nerds like you 💔

[lighthouse-on-the-sea]

Anthony Head and his pink Nintendo DS

[yetanotherthriftblog]

Today's unrealistic beauty standard.

[zoesupreme]

we're for real gonna be telling stories about this man for centuries

[zoesupreme]

yall I feel like I'm floating right now

[dykescully]

me trying to remember what newfoundlands are called earlier: big dog he's an island

[dykescully]

big dog he's an island :)

[hellkitepriest]

fascinated by this quora thread positing the bruce springsteen gay multiverse

[honey-daisies]

sports will be sponsored by anything why is jamie lee rattray presented by canadian beef

[aropride]

[harrypilled]

bad cop / good dog

[therizinosaurus--cheloniformis]

Happy 20th Anniversary of Neil Banging Out The Tunes!!!!!

More rarer images of Neil, my beloved:

20 years.

I find it so beautiful that this little rat's life has been remembered with love for 20 years and will be hopefully for decades to come. Truly a marvel of the internet.

<3 love you Neil!!!!

[crowecreates]

Happy Neil banging out the tunes day!!!

[sequestering]

Winter Sports: Poems by Priscila Uppal, poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games

[top-cheese]

[desolationlesbian]

remember when Elementary adapted the holmes stories and made Watson a woman which removed the gay subtext but then made Moriarty also a woman and gave them weird lesbian subtext. masterful technique. the never-before-seen uno yuri reverse

[mistbjorn]

totally normal 10ft tall portrait of your nemesis’ coworker

[desolationlesbian]

remember when Elementary adapted the holmes stories and made Watson a woman which removed the gay subtext but then made Moriarty also a woman and gave them weird lesbian subtext. masterful technique. the never-before-seen uno yuri reverse

[comvi]

[neovagina-penisis-evangelion]

When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.

[brehaaorgana]

Also it just overlooks the fact that large parts of the United States literally used to be Mexico. Like yeah, chinese-american food is a diaspora cuisine and it's awesome.

But Mexican-american food is "regional cuisine that often began developing in what used to be part of Mexico/Mexican territory and continued to develop after the borders changed."

Some of it isn't "striving to recreate the flavors of home." Sure, maybe like, Mexican food in Chicago is about that. But I'm from Arizona. My family is from Tucson by way of (Tucson being annexed) and then Sonora & Chihuahua. We're not trying to recreate anything — because Tucson is still in the Sonoran desert.

This is a map of the Sonoran desert region:

I've helpfully marked Tucson.

Just to be clear, it takes an hour and 20 minutes nowadays to drive to the Mexican side of Nogales. You could walk the journey in a little over 27 hours. So obviously less than a week on horseback.

What I'm saying here is that the "diaspora" is maybe implying that Mexican-american cuisine largely developed with huge geographical distances or lack of access to Mexican cultivars or something but like.

Here's a map of New Spain in 1819:

Here's a map of the War:

I'm just saying that a lot of Mexican-American food is literally just food and culinary traditions that Mexicans were eating in northern parts of Mexico/New Spain.

It might shock people to learn, but there were Mexicans living in Mexico. And parts of Mexico are now the United States. And those Mexicans, if they stayed, are now Mexican Americans, and our culinary traditions have undergone normal growth and innovations over time. Mexico-mexicans also had normal innovations and growth in their regional cuisines as well! That's just how time and increased access with faster transport works. I have met a lot of people from Mexico who seem to think the second they're in San Diego instead of Tijuana, that the food is no longer authentic Mexican food and...it is baffling to me. It's an invisible line in the sand.

The border is not actually an impenetrable wall. The food doesn't become inauthentic at border patrol checkpoints. Those didn't even exist not that long ago.

It's authentic to something that isn't strictly about citizenship and documented nationality.

[neovagina-penisis-evangelion]

Of course! This is a great addition. It's crucial to remember that not all 'ethnic' food in a country comes from diaspora. Some of it is simply the native cuisine of land that was annexed.