#new colossus

[but-a-humble-goon]

I categorically refuse to use stealth in the Wolfenstein games. Not just because I'm bad at stealth (although I am) and not just because stealth really doesn't belong in a Wolfenstein game at all (although it doesn't). I refuse to use stealth because nazis don't deserve to die clean and quiet.

[les-fleur]

[axesandohs]

They came encouraged by your flattery

Now all those dreams lay wasted

Once looking forward at the clear skies

Now only smug chokes them

You proudly boost your melting pot of culture

Yet strip it of those who walk through you door

You take the hopeful masses and make tired and poor huddled crammed in your factories

You hang the chance of victory in the air

You beat disobedience out with false hope

Is this the brave new world you wanted?

[pixoplanet]

It's October 28th, US National Immigrants Day. On this day in 1886, US President Grover Cleveland dedicated the 🗽 Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, proclaiming that on that day, "Liberty" would "magnify France beyond the seas." The dedication was followed by a fireworks display and the city's first every ticker-tape parade.

The copper statue of Libertas, the Roman goddess of Liberty, was a gift from the French people to the American people. It was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of America, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants.

The US prides itself on being a nation of immigrants. One of the most oft-repeated quotes in American history, from poet Emma Lazarus's sonnet "The New Colossus," is written in bronze and is on display inside the statue's pedestal: "Give my your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

The past five years in America, however, have been marked by all-too-frequent demonizations of immigrants. Today is a good day to reflect upon the countless contributions generations of immigrants have made to our nation and recommit ourselves to our values as a welcoming melting pot. ☮️Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet

[ecc-poetry]

nuevo coloso / public charge (al modo de emma lazarus y ken cuccinelli)

Mi nombre es madre de exiliades. Levanto la lámpara al lado de la puerta dorada.

Soy el relámpago aprisionado. La mano lo acuna gentilmente, y los ojos ciegos se fijan al mar— porque no se sabe ni el día ni la hora.

Vengan, mis amores: cansades, pobres, y desdichades. Les lavo las pies y beso a sus niñes. Les unjo a ustedes con óleo. Pueden suspirar aquí.

Bring me your tried and your pale who can stand on the shoulders of huddled

masses. Bring me a statue hollow of need, something for tourists to climb astride and behold the sea.

How can you say that's not suffering? Have you counted those stairs? Bring me your chargeless, your unsoiled. Bring me conquering limbs and brazen giants.

-elisa chavez

The Miss Translated poems are a meditation on identity, language, and the things that get lost in translation. If you like my work, you can tip me on Ko-Fi or support me on Patreon.

[digital-magus]

I’ve been trying for hours (AGAIN) to get my copy of New Colossus to work, to no avail.

I am so tired of it not working.

I JUST WANT TO SHOOT KLANSMEN IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK?!

[xdddre]

[iglovequotes]

“New Colossus” Sunshine Nights (Official music video)