Realm of shifty pastries

Resident Bodhi Rook stan, renowned connaisseuse of men's shoulders fighting the 'germans aren't funny' stereotype one tag at a time. If this fall into thy hand, revolve

[kyungsoosus]

240607 Work

[grecoromanyaoi]

more modern viewers rly needs to learn the thousands years old tradition of "hes a cunt and a menace but i want to see what he does next"

[grecoromanyaoi]

"I hope he dies. slowly and painfully (affectionate)" has been a cornerstone of storytelling since ancient times come on now

[youhavereachedtheendofpie]

Sort of a travesty that 'economic migrant' refers to someone leaving their entire home for maybe a chance at a job in a world where no income means destitution and possibly death and not the super rich who own mansions on every continent and jet-set merrily between them but make their home address whatever tax haven lets them escape paying even what little they owe let alone their fair share

Like I'm sorry but if you're more concerned about some poor sod crossing a made-up line to be exploited for thirty cents an hour instead of ten than you are about literally anything the super rich do please reassess your priorities urgently

[mockwa]

🎼 Нетспасибо

[kacsanova]

Mit nézek

[thechekhov]

Is…. That a contrabass balalaika….?

[galadhir]

#the closest thing to Eurovision we’ll get this year

[hockpock]

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

I’m sorry, I see absolutely NO wrong instruments here

[ithelpstodream]

[iguessweallcrazyithinktho]

Its The colonization

[invisiblefoxfire]

The first time I left the US was on a trip with my grandmother to Germany. My grandmother was always traveling. Always! Always off on some holiday somewhere, always bringing back tacky souvenirs.

I spoke a bit of German but was far from fluent. I’d been a little worried about communication but my grandmother assured me we’d be fine. She did this all the time, after all.

My grandmother left me in the hotel room one morning to sleep in while she went to the nearby bakery to get some pastries for breakfast. When she returned, she looked very flustered. She got me up because she had to get this off her chest. The woman in the bakery… didn’t speak ANY English. In her words, “Not a lick of English! Not one word!” I replied, heavy with sarcasm, “Really? In GERMANY?” She didn’t pick up on my sarcasm at all and just thought I was equally as astonished as her.

Turns out every trip she’d ever taken was with some pre-planned tour group for obnoxious white Americans. Never in all her years of traveling had she just gone into a small local shop and had to interact with a local whose entire business didn’t revolve around serving people like her. It was a genuine surprise to her that a person - especially a white person! - would actually not understand English.

I later went down to the bakery to apologize as well as I could in German. Fortunately the woman found it very amusing that the American woman just kept talking louder and slower instead of trying to communicate in some other way, and wasn’t bothered at all. But from that day forward I understood something about my grandmother (and a whole hell of a lot of other Americans) that I could never unlearn. That she literally saw everywhere in the world that wasn’t America like some kind of giant fucking Disney World and everyone who didn’t speak English as some kind of bumbling savage. I was embarrassed to be seen with her, ashamed to be there with her. This is very much A Thing and it’s fucking awful.

[hooleydooleyfuckaroonie]

When I was young and traveling in the late 90s and to about 2007 I want to say? Every time we left the United states we were sat down and would go through some vocabulary that kids should know. Mainly thank yous, hellos and arbitrary pleasantries. I learned why this was so important the first time we went to France, we entered a port town after leaving England via boat. My Mother barely speaking French, it was nearing 9pm and we had missed the train because of a docking issue to get to our booked hotel. The ticket master of the ferry pointed us towards an old inn run by the sweetest woman I had ever met. She met us outside of it, waving us over and through my Mom’s poor French and the Innkeepers broken english the two worked so much out. And after signing us in before she went to prep the room herself. She brought each of my siblings a tea pot filled with some of the best hot chocolate I ever had. Because it was so chilly. The next morning she did the same. Every time I said Merci in french she’d just light up, she even help me learn a few extra things in the short time of breakfast. Apple, orange, tea cup. It’s one of my favourite memories as a kid and something I try to show to people who can’t speak English visiting America as I work retail. Because, expecting fluent English is rude. Appreciate people that can speak your language, no matter how small, because they’re doing their best.

[newsfromstolenland]

I work at a non profit that specifically works with immigrant women. I can’t give specifics of any interactions due to confidentiality, but I can say that many of the white people I work with are impatient at best and downright rude at worst to the women who don’t speak English fluently. This sounds counterintuitive, right? That people working or volunteering at a centre for immigrant women would act like that to women who don’t speak English?

These white people travel or volunteer for their own egos, their own agendas. People are props to them, and people who don’t speak English (especially people of colour) are props that they can’t use.

The English language as a measure of people’s intelligence and/or worth is exactly what the colonists intended. Don’t let yourself be a part of that.

[zoestorm]

Once I was in Germany for a work thing and the only place I could manage to get a room was this old local hotel run by an old German lady.

I speak: Italian, English, and a tiny bit of French.

She spoke: German and Czech.

It was the most fun I’ve ever had.

[mchug]

When I visited Paris, everyone told me how rude the French would be to me and how they’d *hate* if I spoke English but would hate it even more if I tried to speak French.

My sister and I both are *okay* at French. We both studied it for a few years. And all the people I met in Paris were nice and friendly as hell to us. I remember one waitress in particular who was super friendly and happy that we made an effort to read the French menu instead of requesting an English one. Everyone seemed to appreciate that we at least, tried our best in French.

I honestly am now suspicious every time someone tells me how rude the French are, especially Parisians. I’m starting to think the tourists themselves were being rude first.

[greelin]

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

[greelin]

what the FUCK man.

[toastbutteregg]

i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!

[starwarscolors]

@starwarscolors coloring a galaxy far, far away: Day #3 | Favorite Color Combination (orange + black)

[candlewinds]

- Come to think of it, you have four names. You were born as Cho Yeong, but you grew up as the assassin Naksu. Then you lived as Mu Deok, and now you are Jin Bu Yeon. […] Which name shall I call you by? - The name that my parents gave me when I was born. I would like to be called Cho Yeong.

JUNG SO MIN and GO YOON JUNG in Alchemy of Souls (2022-2023)

[myfavoriteskdramas]

Death's Game, TVN, (2023-2024).

[youhavereachedtheendofpie]

Yeah enemies to lovers is cool but what about

Enemies to nuisances to reluctant allies to partners to friends to lovers

[sci-fi-gifs]

Star Wars Andor | 2022-

[youhavereachedtheendofpie]

Something something patriarchy also forces men to tolerate and accept the violence of other men. Something something complicity is bought half by fear and half by leeway.

[hayden-christensen-archive-blog]

[figofswords]

yeah turtlenecks are sexy too bad they’re also one of the worst sensory experiences fashion has ever developed

[figofswords]

me wearing a turtleneck and fighting back nausea at the sensation: haha aren’t i hot *gags* anyone want to admit they have a crush on me

[figofswords]

same thing with chokers. look how attractive and cool and punk i look now if you’ll excuse me i need to go take this off right now or i am going to throw up

[sawasawako]

‘stories can resonate with you even when the characters are nothing like you’ is something a 6 year old would understand but it needs to be explained to fandom adults on tumblr

[youhavereachedtheendofpie]

uniting the culinary and literary arts for our special feature tonight:

Cheddar Gabler