ViciousLand

A colorful and proud Colombian. Queer. She/her. NOT spoiler free. A media whore let's be honest here. In my 30s.

[pondnaravit]

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest the contract is broken

[viciousland]

I'd give my left tit for the show to use angel by massive attack

[viciousland]

We really lost an opportunity to bomb a shit ton of billionaires during Bezos wedding

[dailyhistorymemes]

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

[paula-of-christ]

[im-the-princess-now]

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

[dresshistorynerd]

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.

[trickstertime]

Then in 2020:

Irish people donate €2.5m to Native American tribe devastated by coronavirus

Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’

[jennybobenny73]

Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:

Eternal Heart Sculpture to Honor Choctaw/Ireland Relationship to be Unveiled at Choctaw Nation Capitol - Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun

[bebemoon]

speaking of halloween- if you don’t know what the fuck this is, i am begging you to educate yourself<3

[bebemoon]

happy october ! please rise for the anthem

[thepoweroffriendshipgivesumoney]

Fun fact: This music video was released in July 1997. They had no obligation to make this in any way Halloween themed. The song probably isn’t on many Halloween playlists. But the Backstreet Boys wanted to do it this way, and had to fight the record label about it.

[sugary-mystery]

MANDATORY REBLOG!

[politijohn]

[lierdumoa]

There's another post on here where this woman talks about dating a rich guy and she was like "oh you can't drink alcohol on a public sidewalk here" and he was like "Sure you can -- it's $500." Like he'd done it often enough that he had the "price" memorized.

[mckitterick]

the word "privilege" comes from the Latin privilegium, meaning "private law," or law granting one person or group benefits others don't enjoy

[philosopherking1887]

I remember reading an article about Koch Industries that said they just budget in fines for violating environmental regulations and lawsuit settlements for damage and accidents caused by broken pipelines -- it’s cheaper than installing cleaner, safer equipment.

Fines that aren’t adjusted to the means of the violator are worse than useless.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Punishable by fine = legal for the rich

[abimee]

I hate the trope of "I refuse to hit women!! [Gets decked]" cause it's boring but I do like the trope of someone in an RPG going "hey I don't wanna hit a kid that's kinda fucked up" and the kid just obliterates them

[abimee]

"i refuse to hit a woman!" = Sexist, overdone, does nothing to actually empower the woman or make the guy seem nice

"I refuse to hit a kid" = valid, even funnier when the kid whips absolutely ass in one go

[inotrope]

Avatar: doing it right yet again

[depsidase]

[theconcealedweapon]

[violentoffender]

[televisionenjoyer]

[tbposting]

drives me absolutely insane that somewhere, someone who makes six figures thinks of THIS as "unskilled labor."

[theconcealedweapon]

[justfeedit]

In every generation there is a chosen one…

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Trump got rid of all his appointees, except for a guy named Anthony Vizier, who eventually orchestrated Trump's downfall.

[confusedwriter404]

[oldblogarchived]

i forgot how fucking weird november is theres no afternoon its just night after 2pm

[dzamie]

when it rains you simply do not get a day

[halfbakedideas]

northern hemisphere people, are you okay??

[midnights-dragon]

northern hemisphere person here!! no

[breadlesbian]

i still do not understand what possessed so many well-respected actors to do the spy kids movies like

did they pay really well? did you want these beautiful, terrible movies to be a blemish on your career forever?? why

 antonio banderas did so many high-profile movies then in spy kids he looked like this

tony shalhoub has won multiple emmys but he did spy kids and

even fucking george clooney wtf

steve buscemi is pretty goofy but still

salma hayek’s pigtails in this wow 

elijah wood was the lead in a movie that’s tied for the largest number of oscars of all time and he played a character creatively named “THE GUY”

sylvester stallone is like a cultural icon and he played not one but FOUR ridiculously dressed weirdos

alan cumming is the only one i can understand 

[using-sideblogs-deactivated2020]

Are you saying spy kids wasn’t a masterpiece my fellow blogger???? Source?????

[cloudstrifefan7]

i will not tolerate this slander

[edwardsscissorpants]

“When I was doing ‘Spy Kids,’ the Weinsteins asked me […] ’Why are you making the characters Hispanic? It doesn’t make any sense, isn’t this supposed to be for everybody?’ ‘Well, it’s based on my family.’

[…]

People have come up to me for a lot of years since and said ‘You changed my kids’ whole life. They see little kids who are Hispanic that are spies and they saw your name as the writer and director and you changed their idea of what their future could be.’ The ripple effects of that one movie were enormous.”

- Robert Rodriguez (x)

[critical-quit]

Also maybe sometimes actors like to play roles that are silly and fun? I can’t imagine any of these actors didn’t know exactly what they were getting into and, based on their performance, didn’t have a good time

[bizarrodf]

CRITICAL INFORMATION: The entire concept of Spy Kids came from Robert Rodriguez’s desire to make an action film he could watch with his kids. With intentions like that, it’s pretty easy to understand why so many famous actors with kids of their own would be interested in it.

[agooddaytowhy]

Let us not forget the Machete cross over…

[deggowaffles]

1) SPY KIDS changed my life. It was the first movie I watched where I thought “hey hang on those people look like my people”

2) I’m deeply in love with the understated shared universe of Robert Rodriguez movies ranging from SPY KIDS, MACHETE, and FROM DUSK TIL DAWN.

[taraljc]

also well-respected actors enjoy playing different characters, and working with directors with whom they have had great experiences. so yes, George Clooney killed a bunch of vampires including Salma Hayek that one time, and in a parallel universe they are super spies. And Rodriguez recognised the immortal blistering hotness and epic range of Carla Gugino from Spin City and shared her with the world and we should totally thank him.

[vaspider]

My kid’s dad and his buddies call stuff like this “summer camp projects.” Sometimes actors want to go to summer camp.

[knifefightscene]

If cancel culture is real you guys would have stoned this fucker

[knifefightscene]

Banana country 😭

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

M*rvel actors have literally all of the money and fame any human being could ask for and they still feel the need to go and commit hate crimes any time someone criticizes their fucking Raid Shadow Legends commercial ass movies

[fascinationstreetmp3]

Eric Bogosian and Luke Brandon Field as Daniel Molloy INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE