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wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….

trickstertime

“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”

This was in place till 1973.

commie-cosmo

Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy

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prokopetz

The ultimate power move in a vampire/fairy rivalry would be the fairy inviting the vampire over for tea. The vampire has natural dominion over anyone who invites them into their home, the fairy has natural dominion over anyone who violates the laws of hospitality, and neither can refuse the appointment without showing weakness, so it’d just be a constant headgame of the vampire trying to manoueuvre the fairy into a position where the obligations of hospitality allow the vampire to eat them, and the fairy trying to trick the vampire into doing something that would allow the fairy to declare them a poor guest.

lynati

You know EVENTUALLY they’re going to get hit with the magical equivalent of being snowed in together, right?

guardiankarenterrier

is that not the point

brunhiddensmusings

next paradox -faeries have power over those who eat fey food -vampires have power over those they feed on even should the vampire successfully bite the faerie theyre still at square one

krystal-prisms

Schrodinger’s hospitality rules

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not only do americans not share but they also impose their "culture." like what american things do we have? mcdonald's?? starbucks? walmart? they're just spreading monopolies because they have nothing of cultural value to offer to the rest of humanity. anyways

the not sharing thing is very interesting

take brazil. we have several states and each has its culture to an extent that they could legit be little nations, so different those cultures are

so take the state of bahia, for example. they make acarajé. it’s a very specific food that is strongly linked to the state. i am not from bahia. would i say that acarajé, in a cultural sense, belongs to me? not usually. it’s not my state’s culture.

HOWEVER. on a hypothetical situation where I meet a foreigner and they go “oh, brazil, there’s acarajé right?”, would I say that in this situation, in a cultural sense, the acarajé belongs to me? Absolutely.

and this is because when it comes down to building a national identity, bahia does not mind sharing the acarajé with the whole, just like other states will add the chimarrão, the pão de queijo and the frevo and the carioca funk. quite the opposite - if I’m talking about brazilian cuisine, then I SHOULD include acarajé and if I’m talking brazilian dance then I SHOULD include the frevo and this is regardless of whether I’m personally from those states because those differences are domestic but the brazilian identity that belongs to us all allow us to go “yes, all of this is also mine”

but with the USA it’s like. Are cowboys american? Do cowboys culturally belong to a new yorker? I’ve never seen people claim that, to a point where I associate cowboys not with the USA but specifically with like. Texas or whatever.

and this is… Yet anoter piece of beliefs that are based on possession and capitalism. not sharing. consuming but not sharing.

And the way this ties in with the whole “50% mexican” debate, well, it has to do with the concept of incorporation. As far as I know I have 0% mexican blood. It is immensely easy for me to be incorporated into mexican culture however, immensely easy for me to reach a point where people go “oh that one? She’s essentially mexican” , it’s easy for me to be incorporated

because, paradoxically, what I need to be incorporated is merely to be the most brazilian I can be, around a mexican. That’s it. That’s all it takes. I’ll be brazilian around a mexican and they’ll look at me and go “hey this is kinda cool. wanna share??? wanna swap???” and I’ll say yes absolutely and now they’ve taught me to do tacos and I’ve taught them to dance forró and we’ve mutually incorporated and now those guys are pretty much brazilian to me and the reverse is true.

and the problem with the USA is that they wanna be a thing without being the thing, like, they’ll go “I wanna be a mexican because I descend from them” and the mexicans will go “ok we absolutely can incorporate you, what do you have to share?”

and it’s nothing. they don’t know how to share. THAT is the issue, that’s the real violence, that’s what makes us so uncomfortable. Because if there’s no sharing there’s no exchange, and if there’s no exchange then you’re not joining, you’re taking, and that’s why we react so negatively to it, because you didn’t have to take on first place, we would offer this culture to you if only you were openly yourself and offered us your culture back

but that’s the thing, isn’t it

this very process which will have me saying “this mexican is pretty much brazilian” is also the process that will have them saying “this brazilian is pretty much mexican” and you can’t have one without the other

you can’t have me go “you’re brazilian now” without going “you’re american now” in return

but ah

the USA truly does not want the latter

truly does not want to share. only take.

so that’s the heart of the matter

mesmeraculous-deactivated202111

You know, US-ians like me are really lucky that you make posts like these because they dig at the root of what makes us, collectively, so capitalistic and possessive as a society.

I’m a minority, Black to be specific, and even from a minority’s standpoint this rings true in the USA.

I have no idea where in Africa my ancestors came from. I know they were slaves. I know they didn’t want to come here. But now after hundreds of years, here I am. And I’m completely separated from my African roots.

Black diaspora in the USA has created our own culture, yes, but even now we are African-American. Were I to discover I have Nigerian ancestry, for instance, I would have nothing to offer Nigerians because I have lost all connection to them.

Yet, you see Americans taking DNA tests all over the place so we can do everything in our power to throw away the “American” label, for whatever reason, and fit into our ancestries when those countries do not even see us as theirs, but as Americans.

And I don’t blame them. We all know an American who slaps a Mexican or Russian or Egyptian flag on their bio and is woefully unconnected to these places and tries to take these cultures as their own. We know the white people who will go and buy a bunch of fake cultural things off Amazon the second they find out they’re 10% Lebanese or whatever and proceed to consume and take from Lebanese people without ever doing the work of connecting and exchanging with them. There is no sharing of knowledge and histories and cultures. Americans always take, and demand, and then gate-keep what isn’t even ours most times.

And Buttons, when you write: “because if there’s no sharing there’s no exchange, and if there’s no exchange then you’re not joining, you’re taking, and that’s why we react so negatively to it, because you didn’t have to take on first place, we would offer this culture to you if only you were openly yourself and offered us your culture back” this is the crux of the issue!

Most Americans don’t have an actual American culture to offer you. And behind the great façade of American exceptionalism and manifest destiny… there is a great void of nothingness.

I’m lucky in that I can offer you jazz, rap music, blues, and Harlem Renaissance poetry. But… most Americans can’t say the same.

I think the point here is that as a society, we do need to figure out how to collectively identify and what is something we can offer Brazilians or Mexicans and etc, before we can be incorporated into anything else.

educatedsavage

There are a lot of good points here and I agree with most of them! But something that I have worked hard on for DECADES is working against this idea that Americans don’t have a culture - in particular, white Americans. And this perception is WHOLLY white Americans’ fault because we treat our culture as the “default,” the “norm,” the “expected” and everything else is “weird,” an “exception” or… (ugh) “exotic.” We aboslutely commodify, steal, and covet other peoples’ cultures because we don’t see our own and we don’t see our own because of all this imperialism and defaultness that we, ourselves, created and perpetuate. But our culture is made up of things like our moral/ethical norms, so this “rugged individualism” that we praise, this Christian-adjacent moral leanings (I’m neoPagan and I absolutely cringe at it but it’s built in to the fabric of our American culture and it’s an aspect I want to change so so badly), our attachment to “freedom” and liberty. Culture is expressed in the way we tell stories - there’s a distinct difference between American movies and English movies or Chinese movies or Mexican movies, and that difference is because of culture and cultural language. Music (and all of art) is part of culture - and while, yes, African Americans are responsible for Jazz and Hip Hop and Blues, those are still American things more broadly, and then, love it or hate it, Rock and Roll, Heavy Metal, Grunge (may it rest in peace), Punk, and so much more came from America, too. And fair enough, we shared them - willingly or not (because we’re greedy but also imperialist, so…) with other countries and cultures and then they did BRILLIANT things with them, too!

It may seem like I’m nit-picking here, and maybe I am, but I feel like it’s important for Americans in particular to recognize that we DO have culture because we REALLY need to recognize that we aren’t the default, we aren’t the way that humans “naturally evolve” and assuming other cultures are some weird offshooting deviation of that, and we need to QUESTION it. Thinking we don’t have a culture keeps us from recognizing the one we DO have and I think that’s pretty unhealthy and causes us to be toxically ethno-centric (and the toxic ethno-centricity is what was being discussed in the original post, so….)

mesmeraculous-deactivated202111

I agree, @educatedsavage

I don’t mind the nitpicking. It’s helpful. This is a nebulous and abstract discussion. And for me, it’s so much easier when people outside of the USA bring it up because it’s hard to pinpoint when you live in it, and I never would have connected some of these points or framed them in that way.

I think the only thing that I wonder about is the part where you said “Music (and all of art) is part of culture - and while, yes, African Americans are responsible for Jazz and Hip Hop and Blues, those are still American things more broadly…”

I think we’re not necessarily there yet. Because African-American people have never had a space here, we haven’t really learned how to share well as a country overall, because white Americans do the capitalism and taking and stealing thing from minorities.

Like in Brazil, they have capoeira that originated from Black people and then became integrated into all of Brazilian culture and shared.

I would not say that rap or jazz or Harlem Renaissance poetry has been integrated into all of American culture, because white Americans have never been good about sharing things, LOL. That’s a whole different conversation and can of worms though.

But otherwise, great points & I am very much appreciating this respectful dialogue

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thenatsdorf

Wait for it.

wordsaremylife

WAIT. Sound ON and WAIT

newtgeiszler

this is not an ordinary cat petting video, this is advanced

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thetomska

tumblr i’m begging you please let me reblog the big tiddy coffin

racingbarakarts

I used to have geese so here’s a tip for everyone:

If a goose is attacking you, don’t run. No matter what, stand your ground. They can fly but when they’re mad, they don’t usually try to fly. Hold your hands in front of you, ready to grasp. When the goose gets close, grab it by the neck bit closest to the head and squeeze. Not tight enough to choke the goose, but tight enough so they can’t break free. You can hold them until they calm down or just do the next step right away. The next step is literally just to chuck them as far as possible and run for your life. It makes the goose know you’re in charge and you have a better chance of getting away. Trust me I’ve done this so many times that I’ve lost count

myblogisnotinteresting

I can’t tell if this is a shitpost or actual advice. But I do know geese are the fucking worst.

racingbarakarts

Actual advice! Just yeet a goose

61below

Yeet the geese

racingbarakarts

I’ve been reading the replies to this so here’s an update!

DO NOT KICK A GOOSE. Geese are very important for nature as they maintain insect populations and they help pick weeds that try to kill useful plants! Geese are good, they’re just grumpy. Never kick one because you could fatally injure them. They do not have the bone structure to survive a strong kick.

I had to deal with this a lot because my family bred geese. Geese are not happy about their eggs being taken so after you take one, they remember for their whole lives. We had a farm, we did what we had to do in order to survive. We loved our geese and our geese loved us, just not when we were taking their babies.

Do not kill Geese just because they’re mean. Please

Yes you could crawl towards them, but that only works if it’s one goose. If it’s more than one attacking you, you can yeet them as they get close.

This post was about white geese, which is what we bred, but you can do this for Canadian geese too! Because attacking a Canadian goose can get you a fine and even jail time, this is a much nicer approach to being attacked by a goose.

Also for some reason a lot of replies are saying this can break a goose’s neck???? It can’t??? Don’t spread lies. Geese are built to be picked up by the neck and they have tons of muscles in their necks to support being thrown. This is how they fight each other. It doesn’t hurt them. Just stuns them.

DO NOT DO THIS TO SWANS!!!!!!! SWANS ARE EVIL IF YOU ARE BEING ATTACKED BY A SWAN JUST ACCEPT YOUR DEATH. THEY WILL NOT BE STUNNED. THEY WILL NOT FORGET. THEY WILL FOLLOW YOU HOME AND MURDER YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. SWANS ARE DEMONS

askfordoodles

Actually, I have picked up a swan by just, slotting in under my arm; once their wings are held in place they just sorta hiss a bit and accept their fate. It’s how wildlife centres and rspca deal with them. They just use swan-bags, I’M NOT kidding, that completely neutralizes them. LOOK AT ALL THESE DEMONIC BULLIES BEING DEFEATED BY BEING CHIHUAHUA-HANDBBAGGED.

In fairness, in MY CASE, this was a juvenile male, but old enough that the dad had evicted it from the lake. He was in my way, hissing and refusing to move; and if you hiss at me, that’s a challenge, baby!

kedreeva

Most birds will accept their date once you have their wings (geese will, in my experience, chill once you have them under an arm too, I pick them up like that). They transport peafowl in sacks like that too:

magellan-88

This post is a journey

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bird straitjackets

so--many-fandoms

Birdritos

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Gen z icon

sadclowncentral

ah yes the 15 fears. goal oriented furries. music that makes you go apeshit. fucking off to sea. moisturized clowns. extreme home makeover: door edition. nihilistic hentai. singing and the rain. academic truth or dare. the bee movie extended universe. yeeting people. the power of vore and friendship. simon says: spider edition. a parents guide to arson. the sun but evil. and of course: cringe umbrellas.

holdoncallfailed

i think belle and sebastian's general themes of naïveté and anxiety (especially regarding sex/relationships, especially from an adolescent perspective) and feeling ill at ease with yourself in the world lend a lot of their songs to gay interpretations—more interesting to me, though, is the plainspoken nature with which stuart murdoch refers to non-cishet characters: it's not exactly subtle ("the girls go with girls and the boys with boys" in she's losing it), but it's nondescript enough that listening to these lyrics as a repressed gay 12 year old didn't inspire any kind of panic in me, just a simple identification, the way i also identified with the title character of sukie in the graveyard for hating school or the subject of la pastie de la bourgeoisie for being too tall and having split ends. it's sort of like how i didn't panic when i caught myself fantasizing about women when i was very very young because i genuinely thought all girls did that, and plus there were no boys in my life so i simply didn't have the facilities to daydream about them, especially in a presexual way. the frankness that characterizes all of belle and sebastian's songs is particularly striking in that context i think, because it makes songs like seeing other people ("we lay on the bed there / kissing just for practice" ... "you're going to have to change/or you're going to have to go with girls") and lord anthony feel genuine in their melancholy as opposed to pitying or condescending.

nonbinarypastels

happy pride month to all the straight trans men & women who have to constantly see posts saying that straight people don’t belong in pride. you have every right to celebrate pride month, too, just as much as anyone else does. 🌈💖

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sameboot

This is such an important and genuinely terrifying post. I could completely go off on the rise of anti-science, but for now I’ll just add: it isn’t just boomers that get deceived. This is a warning to all of us.

Pay ATTENTION to what you are being told. If you think you cannot be deceived, you leave yourself open to deception. Question, doubt, research research research. Learn about your personal biases, dig up any subconscious cognitive dissonance. Keep an eye on your mind.