#plastickitten

[swampmermaids]

plastickitten replied to your post: it grosses me out how people draw thes...

This is why I’m adamantly against a potential brony esque takeover of Sailor Moon this time around. I’m tired of girls stumbling upon porn pictures when looking up fotos in google/ having people swear the show is porn

that's my biggest fear too like it's so upsetting what happened to the MLP fandom when adults took over the fan content and sexualised it and it's just worrying to think that nothing is safe for children

[aloofshahbanou]

Yo, Farah. I don't know how knowledgable you are re: Greek politics, but I'm interested in your take re: the rise of a Golden Dawn. Fascist groups tend to grow popular in times of economic hardship, so I can understand their popularity in that sense. But wrt to their racial politics: do many Greeks align themselves with whiteness, or only when to contrast themselves against darker groups?

I am not an expert in this field. Evelyn — former tumblr user spittingonhegel/thestolencaryatid — is, and you can still find a lot of her posts and resources in my Greece tag.

In fact, I would urge anyone who wants to learn more about Greece, its history, and, to address the first part of your ask, the rise of Golden Dawn to read Evelyn’s latest article. 

Here’s what I do know, both from my own findings and from following Evelyn’s research for such a long time: Greeks have always been in a precarious and misunderstood position, in that no one knows how to categorize them or quite understands where Greece fits in. My mother’s college textbook from the late ’70s included Greece in a map of the Middle East; it wasn’t until 1981 that Greece was forced to join the European Union. We have a very warped view of Western Civilization™  because Germanic scholars have appropriated Greekness for centuries, effectively bleaching and antiquating it to benefit their own Eurocentric (read: Aryan) enterprises.

As far as the racialization of Greeks goes — Germans and other Western Europeans enjoy othering Greeks. My mother’s side of the family is Greek, and I’ve witnessed a lot of compulsory assimilation, namely in the form of anglicizing surnames, giving up on the mother tongue and Eastern orthodoxies, and identifying as “Western European.” My grandfather is often mistaken for being Mexican, but he still thinks he’s connected to Western Europe. As someone who’s also Iranian, I actually see a lot of similarities between Greeks and Iranians (“Persians”), especially in their willingness to align themselves with Western Europeans, whom many of them have been brainwashed to believe are “superior” to the Strange Oriental Peoples of the East™.

We must stop placating these manipulative, neoimperial regimes. We must decolonize ourselves and end these insidious, cancerous allegiances to white-supremacist projects. 

I hope this helps. 

[ecstasybread]

I was tagged by imcastortroy (I'm using Last.fm though I mostly listen through Spotify which I don't think is possible to shuffle)

You can tell a lot about someone by the type of music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your iPod, phone, iTunes, whatever it is you listen to music on and then write down the first 20 songs that come up. Tag up to 10 people that you want to do it too.

One Rule: NO SKIPPING

"Birth in Reverse" - St. Vincent

"I Was Gonna Cancel" - Kylie Minogue

"Se telefonado" - Mina

"Looking For A Fight" - Bleached

"Running Up That Hill" - Chromatics

"Separate and Ever Deadly" - The Last Shadow Puppets

"Everyday Robots" - Damon Albarn

"Sink the Seine" - of Montreal

"Hot Mess" - Chromeo

"Hellabuster" - Box Codax

"Three Decades" - The Horrors

"Because We Can" - Fatboy Slim

"Take My Hand" - Charli XCX

"When I Went Back" - Toy

"Birth in Reverse" - St. Vincent (l o l)

"Black and White" - The Raincoats

"Jacob's Ladder" - The Monochrome Set

"The Day The World Turned Day-Glo" - X-Ray Spex

"Monstrous" - Metronymy

"Told You So" - Depeche Mode

"Wrap You Arms Around Me" - The Knife

did one more because last.fm went backspace on me and then "birth in reverse" shuffled again

TAGGING: woolfhall, plastickitten, czaaritsa, blastingradio, exeggcute, offbeatorbit, tentwistedtongues, smilingblackmoon, instantclubhit, pauvremelodynelson, judyjetsons

[aloofshahbanou]

plastickitten replied to your post: cryotes replied to your post: it’s a shame...

girl, their name is warpaint tho

[ecstasybread]

Once you get this you have to say 5 nice things about yourself publicly, and then send it to ten of your favourite followers.

I am very tolerant (and I don't mean of, like, other groups of people because I expect better from myself, i mean of behaviors and pain... maybe this is not so gr8)

I'm cute as heck all-around

I think I've mastered the French art of l'omlette. But that's about it when it comes to cooking (ok I can chop a salad and make a sandwich and use the pan for things but I'm not a chef)

You will probably never catch me do something life-threateningly stupid because I'm not a risk-taker because anxiety

I think I'd make a good aunt. I mean i technically am, 3 times now, but i"m not close to any of my family members. I want to indoctrinate some children!!!!!1! Mini-mes!!!!1!

[nokiabae]

plastickitten replied to your post “rococobutter replied to your post: plastickitten replied to your post...”

I got into Isobel first, but did not listen to Post until after Medulla (Post was checked out at the library). Do you like Medulla? It was my first Bjork album.

aah that's really interesting cuz Isobel and Hyperballad were my firsts and I stuck to Post for a long time before exploring anything else. 

Medulla is really fun, the production I think is her most unique especially on Oceania. Did you like Volta? I only really bump to Earth Intruders

[nokiabae]

plastickitten replied to your post “Favorite bjork album?”

Post will always be the album I come back to. It was fundamental in my teen years!

Same! I still remember seeing Hyperballad and thinking 'what is this!?' She leaves such an impression 

[hellothisissade]

plastickitten replied to your post:that ONTD post on singer is a black hole

Link?

HERE! T____T