A Joyous Sound

Filmmaker, costumer, crazed artist

[xclowniex]

Have you actually unpacked the right wing rhetoric you grew up around, or do you just think it's bad when done to groups you like?

[kurhanchyk]

never underestimate the number of people who very obviously never read persepolis

[jaydenskyle]

You know, as much as I would love to have Doug Jones back as Governor, I do have to acknowledge that pretty much the only reason he won in 2017 was because the oppo research on his opponent was so uniquely devastating even that a even a deep, deep Red state like Alabama couldn’t bring itself to vote for him despite the R next to his name. Had any other Republican gotten the nomination instead back then, it would have been a very standard race with very little national attention, as evidenced by his uneventful defeat by an assistant football coach less than two years later. The allegations against Moore were just so overwhelmingly bad that it swung a R+15 state into a D+2 election.

Not relevant to any other topics, I was just thinking recently about how those truly horrific allegations of misconduct towards women led to a 17 point swing in an election that would have probably gone with the Partisan Voting Index otherwise. No reason.

[notaplaceofhonour]

[notaplaceofhonour]

A small additional detail about Platner’s waffen ss totenkopf tattoo is that he replaced it with a celtic knot in the shape of a dog or wolf.

which… is certainly less inherently problematic—if it weren’t covering a totenkopf I wouldn’t think twice about it—but knowing how Celtic culture is fetishized by White Supremacists, it doesn’t really detract from the original problem as much as one would hope.

[poorrichardjr]

Let me tell you something about young, angry, military men. They are in a culture of violence, and many of us got tattoo's, especially of skulls. The cooler the better.

I'm not attributing a good reason for a bad tattoo, but not everyone knows the meaning behind every tattoo. I would suggest looking at the Russian mob tattoo's or the Yakuza. I knew a ton about the Nazi's and fascism when I was in the service, but I had no idea what this particular tattoo meant until I was twenty years older.

I know a lot of people are complaining about it and now complaining about how he covered it with another tattoo from another culture. He could have covered it with flowers and you'd be mad about that too, especially if those flowers were done in the Japanese style. Some people would likely associate that with war era Japan.

Have you never been young? Have you never made a mistake? Are you serious? Or are you someone who simply wants Collins to win because you didn't get your favored candidate? Or maybe you're a republican operative trying to piss off all the young people into skipping the vote? I am not sure which many people are anymore, but if I had the choice between Platner and Collins, I'd choose Platner for the time being. There is another election in six years. Which of these two people isn't part of a political party trying to destroy the nation?

[notaplaceofhonour]

Shut the fuck up

[inlowearthorbit]

I am dead fucking sick of people saying shit like oh I knew a ton about Nazis but I didn't know what that symbol meant and it's normal for young angry men to get fascist tattoos, it doesn't mean anything

Do you think I'm stupid, or are you admitting that you are unforgivably stupid? Is it both? It feels like both

[inlowearthorbit]

Like quite frankly the repeated insistence that it is normal and forgivable dohoho you youthful scamps behavior for young men in the military to get nazi tattoos is actually a deeply, profoundly offensive insult to the countless numbers of veterans and active duty military personnel who, like, AREN'T hateful nazi scum and/or brainless shameless idiots and it it's infuriating to see this lie repeated again and again and again

[spockwithacat]

White populist men can really do anything and people will defend them

[femalegothic]

men have such an unbelievable and unshakable victim complex.

[afurioushawk]

Wild in 2026 we're still seeing takes that the left lost young men because of "misandry", not that the right won men because it gives them an open grievance permission structure for misogyny.

We've just seen what happens when the left tries to court chuds with Graham Platner.

[computer-voiced-by-majel-barrett]

Shoutout to my favorite genre of TOS episode:

[genericpuff]

husband just reminded me of that time years ago when we were running a co-op farm in stardew valley

after we got married in-game it did the thing it does and asked us if we wanted to have a baby

we were like yeah sure why not, we're not having kids irl so may as well have a cute lil' virtual baby that costs us nothing and we can turn into a dove at any time

like the very next day we got that super rare 0.8% chance event that we had NO CLUE ABOUT where a freaking alien capsule drops on your farm in the middle of the night and the next day it's like shattered and whatever was inside is running loose

and we just froze and looked at each other like "??? is this our baby???" 😭😔

[onyxbird]

#congratulations mrs and mr kent [tag by @gremlinbehaviour]

[theowlseye-deactivated20240403]

Obsessed with how some people get so attached to their own headcanons that they get mad when they see a character presented as they are in canon

[poetikat]

via @ourlordapollo

[squeeful]

current fight going down is apparently people being mad they can’t get high production tutorials for niche information for free

yeah dude you have to pay for access to a specialist’s information. that’s a lot of labor you’re demanding

you can absolutely get high quality online lessons on things like menswear drafting and couture tailoring. just not for free

if you don’t want to go the paid labor route, try books on exactly that from a library. there are free recommendation lists

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[stephendann]

(nods in thyme) (nods to the beet)

[fragilepromise]

there's something so freeing about saying "i hope they die" and just moving on

[tearlessrain]

having anxiety is like being given permanent unwanted custody of a halter arabian. like okay buddy is it panic time again. cool you probably need more exercise and an apple and then maybe you'll calm down.

[tearlessrain]

taking my stupid walks for my stupid mental health with my stupid hypervigilant brain horse

[tearlessrain]

thoroughly enjoying the notes on this post because it's equal parts people with anxiety going "yeah that's what it's like" and people with arabians going "yeah that's what they're like"

[afurioushawk]

The sooner people realize Arabs are the proverbial white people of the Middle East and learn what "Arabization" is, the sooner the Middle East "experts" on Tumblr will stop making clowns of themselves.

You can't appropriate Arabic anymore than you can appropriate English because guess which language was forced on other ethnic cultures in MENA, habibi?

Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or apologists for Arab colonialism why Morocco speaks Arabic.

[afurioushawk]

So-called "anti-colonialism" "progressives" be like, "Don't worry about it."

[tuulikki]

I once said “thank you” in Arabic to a chef at a restaurant I was at, because I knew he was from Morocco. He reprimanded me about as sharply as anyone ever has, saying he didn’t care to be thanked in the language of his oppressor. Because he was an indigenous Amazigh person.

For anyone who’s confused that one of the Amazigh gentlemen featured in this video is a redhead, note that red hair shows up in indigenous North African populations. And ofc he’s speaking French because the French colonised Morocco—obviously centuries after the Muslim Arab conquests and migrations.

So, in Morocco, you get ethnic Arabs being oppressed by French colonisers, but they themselves were colonisers and settlers. Because history is messy.

[monkeyislandtwo]

i think "[sic]" is one of the funniest things of literature. like yeah this guy really wrote it out like that

[legendaryvermin]

For the uninitiated, you write [sic]—literally "this" or "so" in latin—to indicate that you haven't altered the wording or spelling. While it can be used to preserve a joke misspelling (aminals) or indicate that you know it looks weird (the Toronto Maple Leafs), it is also the most biting three letters that you can throw at a motherfucker who should know better.

[marlynnofmany]

Somebody made an error here and it sure wasn't me (derogatory)