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  ☆ mango ☆ twenty ☆ she/her ☆ your regular gaymer and niche media enjoyer 

[mariacallous]

[propalahramota]

Teens with Korean idols on their profile photos posting high-key Nazi apologetics gotta be the most cursed content on Twitter 

[thesoundofmusic1965-deactivated]

Mitski for Pitchfork // Richard Siken for TinHouse

[thelonelywell-deactivated202002]

- extract from a christine and the queens interview that I saved in my journal

[soozspov]

Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

[radishnt]

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

[mothman-misato]

y- you were putting it in cold water?????

[boimgfrog]

Radish. Answer the question radish.

[radishnt]

yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

[boimgfrog]

You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

[catsnraincoats]

[ID: Tags reading “u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ?????” /End ID]

why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it

[boimgfrog]

Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove

[catsnraincoats]

Its takes less than a minute

[boimgfrog]

Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun

[catsnraincoats]

How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove

[boimgfrog]

Like seven minutes

[catsnraincoats]

Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…

[boimgfrog]

Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted

[pidoop]

Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic

[silverjirachi]

Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief

[wizardlyghost]

(Enter RADISHN’T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS'N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.)

RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell

Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act

Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?

MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!

FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.

RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?

Without the guide of others I assumed

That heat was merely added for the sake

Of expediting this solution’s brewing!

Half a decade I have spent, or more,

Not questioning this worldview I had made.

In fact, I am myself a bit surprised

That you might think that I, your dearest friend,

Might have a patience of sufficient stock

To wait until a pot of water boils.

FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?

The microwave will beep when it is done!

CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!

Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!

FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know

That I have not the patience, like our Root,

To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?

CATS'N: It takes less than a minute!

FROG: On what plate?

Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?

CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task

Of boiling but a single cup alone?

FROG: In minutes?

CATS'N: Yes!

FROG: I counted seven, once.

CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!

If on a middle heat you place the cup

You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.

Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate

Or even less, if you should have a pot.

FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?

You place upon the iron stove a mug?

A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?

How do these flames, though medium in height,

Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?

Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched

With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!

(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)

KING: Ev'ry single person in this group must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.

[elodieunderglass]

[dustyxoverture]

I’m sorry but the THOUGHT that has been put into this, I actually CAN’T—

The fact that nearly every line is so metrically considered- near perfect iambic pentameter witb the occasional trochee for emphasis, but usually retaining a strong sense of rhythm nonetheless. And then the king comes in at the end, so wound in his disbelief that his response is reduced to prose.

And the even better thing about this is how easy it would have been to structure the king’s line into iambic pentameter: it is effectively already said as such because of the way wizardlyghost has phrased it, yet they haven’t!! They did not break the line, rendering what, by all typically of both Shakespearean canon and other periods context should be the character with the most command and authority in the whole play. If there was ever a more effective way to convey a genuine “what the fuck??”, I know of it not.

But it gets better!! Shakespeare regularly uses meter in order to represent class divide; the nobility usually speak in iambic pentameter, save for a few particularly chosen moments (e.g. Lady Macbeth’s descent into madness, Othello’s realisation of Desdemona’s “betrayal”) or just lines where Shakespeare needs to suggest high emotion or when a character is lost in thought. Supernatural characters like the fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Witches in Macbeth usually speak in trochaic tetrameter, an inversion of iambic pentameter. Lower class characters, particularly those used for comic relief (usually under the influence of alcohol), speak with no structure at all: their language is plain prose. Therefore, if this is a conversation between these types of characters, as the prompt from silvergirachi suggests, why the hell are the characters speaking so eloquently???

Now, this is Tumblr. It is subsequently logical to assume that this may have merely been a humorous recreation (and a very good one at that) of the Shakespearean style in a way that is widely recognisable to an audience that may or may not have read a great deal of Shakespeare, which is understandable. However, logic is boring so I’m going to probe further into this to the point where future historians will look to this as an example of overanalysing.

The inherent eloquence of the characters here suggests an unusual subversion of the roles typically assumed in Shakespearean comedy. This could be interpreted along two major avenues: firstly, that the rhetoric displayed by the speakers is fundamentally representative of how truth can be expected even from the most seemingly pointless or ludicrous discussions. Furthermore, it could suggest that it matters not how well constructed your speeches are: if you talk bullshit, it’s going to sound that way despite your attempts to hide it.

This is similar but not identical to the second avenue of interpretation: there is the implication that the noblemen in the play are in fact the comic relief characters, therefore implying that the “common people” of the play are the ones whose influence, though not expressed in such a highly spoken manner, makes a lot more sense than whatever the hell this is. If this was a real Shakespeare play, I would call it a subtle exploration into the innate corruption of the rich and powerful. Well done, op.

Now, I doubt any of this is actually grounded analysis in any way, shape or form, but if someone else can take this to the extremes of writing a Shakespearean scene, why can I not analyse it as such? And where else to do so than Tumblr?

[wizardlyghost]

im in tears i didnt think anyone would put this much analysis into this‚ thank you so much

[vigilantsycamore]

“I don’t support Russia, I just uncritically spread information from Russian-sources, claim any support of Ukraine is inherently fascist, openly ridicule the concept of Ukrainians as a distinct group, portray a Ukrainian defeat as the best outcome - supposedly because it would mean a quick end to the war - and regularly repeat Russian propaganda word-for-word” - what some of you assholes sound like

[snovyda]

@staff you need to revise your advertisement policy. At the very least check if the advertiser is not a terrorist.

Why am I, as a Ukrainian, CONSTANTLY seeing an ad from "The brothers of russia in DNR"????

"DNR", or "Donetsk People's Republic", is a firmation created by russia in Ukrainian city of Donetsk, after russia invaded it in 2014. Their forces (along with the regular russian army units) are responsible for downing the MH17 Boeing. THEY ARE LITERALLY TERRORIST MILITANTS. WHO TAKE PART IN LITERAL GENOCIDE RIGHT NOW.

GET IT SORTED OUT.

[ohsalome]

bloody money don't smell huh @staff? what's next? isis? kkk?

[cannibal-rainbow]

How to recognize tankies?

I’ve seen many ignorant people reblogging from tankies since the war in Ukraine begun so I thought to make a simple info so you know what you are dealing with.

What is a tankie?

“Tankie” is a label for Stalinists, who supports the authoritarian tendencies of Marxism-Leninism, also called red fascists. A Tankie is an apologist for the crimes against humanity perpetrated by Marxist-Leninist regimes, particularly the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. More broadly, the term may refer to any leftist who is perceived to defend authoritarian regimes on the basis that they are enemies of the United States. This can include regimes that are not and do not claim to be communist such as those of Vladimir Putin in Russia. More detailed info of the history and the definition here.

What tankies blog about?

Basically one of the reasons tankies get more visibility now is that they can hide behind being against the US imperialism which resonates with other leftists. One big difference between other leftists and the tankies is the genocide denial and basically prioritizing “destroying” the US or other enemy over actual human lives like in current situation in Ukraine. Example:

They also talk about “succesful revolutions” but deny or trivialize any bloodshed or famine that has been part of the outcome.

One quite common trait for tumblr tankies is that they are from Americas, whether from the US etc. or South-America, and therefore far removed from anything that happened under Stalin’s regime or what happens right now in Ukraine.

Misinformation?

One other quality of the tankies is that they use mainly sources curated by their parties or other tankies. This is why they have even different definitions of commonly used words such as imperialism:

And for a lazy conclusion, go figure it out and be critical of your sources, this post included.

[mywitchcultblr]

Also if they try to defend North Korea as well, you spotted a tankie

[floxy-offical]

(UNMUTE YOU WON'T REGRET IT)

(Source)

[cannibal-rainbow]

as a leftist tumblr my most upsetting encounters here have been with tankies/stalinists who have down right denied the mass murder of many ethnic minorities during the great purges. don’t cry about “usa propaganda” to us when the censorship in our countries was done by the soviet union. the fucking nerve of these people who have never lived in ex-russian or ex-soviet countries. do you have any idea how much research it has taken to even find these mass graves or do the actual identification of the victims? it’s still on-going progress and there are still many whose families haven’t gotten the closure.

[cannibal-rainbow]

“it’s so funny when people have intergenerational trauma bc of genocides and war, let me demostrate how many eastern europeans I have met in my life (0) as an american stalinist. I know how it treally is, I was there when the great purges happened, unlike your dead family members.”

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

[cannibal-rainbow]

not to repeat myself but i'm sick and tired of you all putting this red fash on my dash:

like remember this?

[espionageshitposts]

you: stalin is right and his idea of communism is the best way forward me, an intellectual: [in my unmarked mass grave where i was shot during the purges, and therefore cannot respond]

[crocogatordile]

whoever invented chess wasn’t fucking around when they made knights. everything moves in straight lines different ways. simple enough. now there’s a horse that jumps over people in an L shape. thrill ride for the 16th century gamer

[cannibal-rainbow]

as a leftist tumblr my most upsetting encounters here have been with tankies/stalinists who have down right denied the mass murder of many ethnic minorities during the great purges. don’t cry about “usa propaganda” to us when the censorship in our countries was done by the soviet union. the fucking nerve of these people who have never lived in ex-russian or ex-soviet countries. do you have any idea how much research it has taken to even find these mass graves or do the actual identification of the victims? it’s still on-going progress and there are still many whose families haven’t gotten the closure.

[cannibal-rainbow]

“it’s so funny when people have intergenerational trauma bc of genocides and war, let me demostrate how many eastern europeans I have met in my life (0) as an american stalinist. I know how it treally is, I was there when the great purges happened, unlike your dead family members.”

[ohmystarsy]

it’s not like the only thing usually passed from generation to generation in Eastern Europe is not family hairloom or family business - as it might be in the West - but stories of horrors of war or Siberia or opression under communist rule 🤷‍♀️

[mewlabu]

Ukranians: Russia is committing genocide ( and not for the first time)

Genocide researchers: what Russia is doing in Ukraine is genocide.

Several countries: we recognize what's being done by Russia in Ukraine as genocide.

Group of experts from all over the world who study this stuff and analyse conflict to determine if it falls under the definition of genocide: Russia is committing genocide on Ukraine.

Russia: we must erase the very idea of Ukraine, reeducate the children we stole, scatter millions across remote camps and make them work for food till they die. Make mass graves for the civilians we kill. Khokols aren't even people really.

Some fucking tankie on a socmed: "Russia has a right to defend itself. There's no genocide. #notallrussians"

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

Why Azov is not a “neo-nazi battalion”

A volunteer battalion for several months in 2014 and later a part of the National Guard, Azov has become a neo-Nazi bogeyman thanks to Russi

[kendallspussy]

the love-hate relationship between you and your fucked-up eastern european home country is indescribable

[ok-dingo]

ppl will be like "I'm too smart to believe american propaganda" and then just fall for another country's propaganda instead lol

[iamthetruenhaz]

Orders of magnitude more bullshit propaganda too