this is going to sound like such a little sibling ass take but i genuinely believe that being a little bit annoying is actually a greater sign of maturity and self awareness than being universally likeable and on good terms with everyone
if some people find me annoying and can't stand me because of how i think and act then that means i'm a fully realized human being with my own personality and opinions and free will and not just a reflective surface for other people's desires, which is in fact a good thing despite what people who want you to just be a reflection of their own opinions and desires will tell you, and why being considered "cringe" or whatever doesn't bother me at all
also it's really funny when you're confident enough in yourself to know that people not liking you isn't always a sign that you're the problem. like there's something undeniably hilarious about being aware your mere existence has the power to piss someone off and ruin their day and i recommend embracing it.
I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job. There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept. The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.
Even in the house it was LOUD. Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval. You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off. It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.
At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks. People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.
One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit. It did. Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that. People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.
That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days
I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help
It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.
The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.
This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.
Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.
This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.
In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.
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When you’re doomed yuri, you explicitly parallel patrochilles and you’re a daughter of Aphrodite dating a son of Hephaestus but who likes a daughter of Ares
there are things I like about the new Enola Holmes movie, markedly that it addressed British colonialism and imperialism by criticizing it openly, and making an attempt to "correct" it... but in my opinion that attempt was poorly considered, specially because it tears down Tewkesbury characterization and past built up between him and Enola by him "wokely" giving up his title.
In truth, that "solves" the problems that Enola doesn't want to be a Lady while also making him superficially "good" for not wanting to associate with the Tewkesbury surname that was tarnished by his father's actions, but that is a band-aid solution that does not hold if you think a minute about it.
Firstly, it denies accountability, since he gave up his title and probably his riches (land & whatnot that came w it) he cannot compensate whoever needs compensation, and most importantly, he cannot push for change as he has been doing from the inside of the system. I've seen someone say that the movie "tears the system down" but that is not true, it only alludes to Maltas' liberation. The Great British Empire continues intact, and now presumably more conservative since the one person pushing for real change in politics gave up his title and thus lost his place in the House of Lords. That's incredibly stupid. Tewkesbury was supposed to be not just any nobleman with a cute hobby (gardening), but a young, outspoken Lord giving voice to progressive ideas most other nobles didn't want to address. This is literally SO relevant in the past two movies and they chose to so carelessly throw that built up away for literally no good reason. How does it contribute to the colonized countries & the minorities within Great Britain if there're less people in power to push for their protection? It doesn't. It just makes Tewkesbury look "good" for a moment, while literally doing nothing, neither for the story, nor for his characterization, nor for the people he was supposed to make amends with. And worst of all, as a character he's been all but stripped of his importance. He's now just Enola's husband, nothing more.
Secondly, giving up his title doesn't mean that the social pressure Enola withstood will disappear. Sure, it'll be easier to be married to commoner Tewkesbury rather than Marquis Tewkesbury, but she's already an infamous figure in society and as a woman taking on the role of a man, a lot of people have been looking down on her and judging her for her choices anyway. Not to mention, Tewkesbury judgy & rude family won't disappear just because he gave up his title. She'll still have to deal with them for as long as they stay married.
Finally, giving up his title actually gives Enola less freedom & less protection. Since it's a monarchical society, she'd have more importance and thus more leeway as the wife of a well-known nobleman rather than a powerless commoner, and Tewkesbury's riches would have made plenty of things easier in her life, including not having to depend on Sherlock anymore. When she was negatively involved with powerful figures, the one that came to her rescue using his power as a noble to influence her release was Tewkesbury; this happened in all three movies, btw. And now she does not have that. She won't have his connections to nobility anymore, so if high profile cases involving powerful people arise, she has no way of being involved. No matter how "bad" being a Marchioness would be for its duties and expectations, it'd be far more advantageous for Enola specifically, given the high risk career she chose to pursue. Not to mention the fact she lives in a still highly misogynistic society that has very little regard for powerless women (as shown in previous movies!) Gosh, it's so silly to pretend otherwise.
Anyway, Enola Holmes 3 is the weakest of all movies, with a predictable plot, but most importantly with a clearly thoughtless development and awful ending that all but destroys what has been previously built by the franchise. Genuinely disappointing.
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