Nocte aeternae

Argentina, 22, she/her :)

[elodieunderglass]

[elodieunderglass]

A little visit

[unthrifty--loveliness-deactivat]

Just so we’re clear, if I point out that you did something racist, that’s not the same as me thinking you’re irremediably terrible. You did a racist thing.

[unthrifty--loveliness-deactivat]

You think you don’t do racist things, homophobic things, etc? You do. I caught myself in fat phobic and homophobic lines of thinking/speech just this morning. I’m fucking gay married. Nothing disqualifies you from acting in a way that reflects the society you exist in. We are obliged to fight it. Why not fight it in honesty and with camaraderie?

[nothingbutloveforyou]

i love how the most mundane things suddenly become fun and enjoyable when you do them with someone you care about

[spidersinmysoup]

Encontraste al gato con 200 pesos, reblog para manifestar 200 pesos

[manu-script]

"you see i hate racism so in order to fight against it I am going to be ruthlessly xenophobic against a south american country based on propaganda and deny their indigenous and black populations exist, I am so Woke"

[knightofleo]

😾

[jackdawsfavorite]

bonus

[woefully-devoted]

One more thing then I'm done.

What people don't understand is that Argentinians are mostly content with losing to Spain. They're content with admitting that Spain outplayed their team. They're also still celebrating in the streets, grateful for making it to the finals. Thanking the team and coach. People don't realize the resilience of Argentinians after everything they've had to endure. And that's how I know that the hate campaign is full of people who have zero knowledge of the country's history or of the people who live there. It also shows how little people know about what's happening in the country now - economically and within the government. As much as everyone wanted it to, this one game wasn't going to break them.

And that's not to say everyone there is great and it's all rainbows and Narnia. Of course there are shitty people there but news flash, there are shitty people everywhere. This shouldn't be news to anyone. But the hate that's been thrown towards this one Latin American country wasn't about being 'woke'. It was always about having an excuse to be racist and xenophobic. You all saw the green light on social media and ran through it like an animal that's been caged and muzzled for years. For that, I'll never forgive how this site acted.

[televisionenjoyer]

Sorry for loving Argentina it will happen again

[sokoe-chan]

[unomasdellugar]

Qué lindo es ser Argentino 💙🤍

[argentinainlondon]

MALVINAS ARGENTINAS

[mirthalegrandd]

There’s an entire literary genre built around the cosmopolitan who loves the Global South—as long as the Global South loses with elegance and dignity. Ishaan Tharoor has written a masterpiece in that genre.

He makes a list of the World Cup’s "charming countries": the Japanese cleaning the stadium, the kind Koreans, Vozinha, the noble loser. All lovable, endearing, unforgettable. All eliminated.

The truth is that this kind of picturesque admiration comes with conditions. The "other" is worth celebrating only as long as they remain endearing. And more often than not, they’re considered endearing because they lose and pose no threat to power.

Tharoor built his "love" for Argentina around its decline: hyperinflation, chaos, a team supposedly suffering from injustice. That’s an aesthetic relationship with the periphery. The moment the periphery stops being picturesque and starts winning, the toy breaks.

His use of Eduardo Galeano’s quote about Maradona and Napoli makes the point obvious: it celebrates a dark South humiliating the white North that had despised it. Then he uses that same quote to argue that Argentina is now the North. That’s where the unspoken assumption slips in: the South American who "looks" European somehow no longer counts as a victory for the Global South.

Argentina is part of the Global South whether he likes it or not. That isn’t something he gets to decide based on whether he finds the country sympathetic. On top of that, he argues that Argentina has become part of the establishment because Milei was supposedly going to be sitting next to Trump in the stands (which now doesn't even appear to be true). It’s exactly the opposite.

An Argentine invited to a stadium in New Jersey, sitting beside the people who hold power, is about as peripheral a scene as you can imagine.

Mistaking proximity for power is a basic analytical error. We were never less sovereign than when we were at our friendliest with those in power. The embrace is submission without friction—a surrender. The problem isn't that Argentina somehow became "bad." The reality is much simpler: Tharoor liked an Argentina that lost.

That says far more about him than it does about Argentina.

[maybankslover]

ojala algún dia tengan la fortuna de amar a su tierra de la forma en la que la amamos nosotros

ojala algún día tengan la fortuna de amar a su bandera como la amamos nosotros

ojala algún día tengan la fortuna de ver al otro como un hermano y no como un enemigo dentro de su patria

ojala algún día tengan la fortuna de tener tipos adentro de una cancha que ganaron todo y mas e igualmente piensan que le fallaron a su gente

ojala algún día tengan la fortuna de sentirse argentinos

te amo selección. te amo lionel. te amo argentina.

son eternos.

[i hope someday y'all have the fortune to love your land the way we love our

i hope someday y'all hace the fortune to love your flag the way we love ours

i hope someday y'all have the fortune to look to the one beside you like a brother and not an enemy in your own country

i hope someday y'all have the fortune to have guys inside a football field that even when they have already won everything and more, they still think they failed their people

i hope someday y'all have the fortune to be argentinos

te amo seleccion. te amo lionel. te amo argentina

eternal legends]

[sambuchito]

la gente afuera celebrando a pesar del frio de la lluvia y haber perdido te amo argentina nunca te voy a dejar de defender no me van a hacer odiarte me diste muchas alegrias a pesar de todo

[sudaca-swag]

the mexicans are conducting a siege against the English that this continent hadn't seen since the 1890s

[roguedeer]

Being asexual and racist is embarassing as fuck. Being racist at all is obviously embarassing as fuck but the amount of racism and especially antiblackness i have been seeing from asexuals recently is obscene.

One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.

Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism

[sanyu-thewitch05]

No hate to OP, there are other Black asexual activists besides Yasmin Benoit.

Marshall Blount: https://www.instagram.com/marshall_blount?

Ace in Grace/Ashabi: https://www.instagram.com/_aceingrace_?

Yagirllici: https://www.instagram.com/yagirllici?

This one is more of a group but there’s Black Ace Culture: https://www.instagram.com/blackaceculture?

Asexual/AroaceBarbie: https://www.tiktok.com/@asexualbarbie?_r=1&_t=ZT-97gFM9iWa3a

Kim Riottt: https://www.instagram.com/kimriottt?

Jacques Jacky: https://www.instagram.com/jacguesjacky?

[crispy-ghee]

There's a book that we had in our house growing up that I was obsessed with as a kid. It was just called "PAKISTAN: PAINTINGS BY LIN YONG AND SU HUA" and it was an art book of 100+ paintings/sketches by two Chinese artists who travelled thru Pakistan in 1978 and 1981, a sort of travelogue of their trip, and to little-kid me, it was some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I have no idea why we had that book, but I would stare at it for hours, and it made me wish I could draw/paint/do whatever it was that these artists had managed to do.

Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha

I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages:

[crispy-ghee]

Sure! Have some more portraits from the book