idk if y’all americans and that know this, but in Australia instead of snow at christmas we get these lil shiny bugs everywhere and they’re attracted to the christmas lights and we call them christmas beetles
and despite being australian they don’t bite or anything they just crawl around on your hand and it’s such a good and pure feeling and yeah
‘despite being australian’
This is so fucking wack
You guys really just hate any woman using her sexuality to make money. You’ll consume all her media for free but the moment she wants something in return y’all get spiteful and way outta pocket about it. The whole “but Snapchat doesn’t allow adult content!” is fucking weak because I’m sure y’all still posting ass and thirst traps constantly.
I don’t even know how this alone would be an act of tax fraud, you have no idea what income she reports, but the fact that y’all feel SO strongly about this shit that you try to fuck up people’s livelihoods for the laughs is garbage. I hope the next time y’all need any assistance everyone spits in your face.
It’s been awful on Facebook. Men would go and harass women who do sex work. And start posting edgy memes and saying really disgusting shit. And these are the same ones that are like “I respect all women! Why don’t they like me!?” 🙄
the sites that we use to sell our content TAX US . i’ve sent in the tax forms on more than one occasion .
and of course they aren’t out there reporting their weed guy to the irs. it’s pure hatred of women
The incel army CAN’T report you to the IRS even if they wanted to.
I can’t find the post but I saw one floating around about how it’s weird that Christmas is celebrated at Hogwarts
I feel like my fellow Americans might not realise how much of a Thing™ Christmas is here in the UK. You think America is Christmas-saturated? Nah, son. America has the overwhelming commercialism and the annual FOX news handwringing, but it has nothing on the UK when it comes to Christmas being a culturally embedded institution. You think the yearly Rudolph airing, manger scenes, and Christmas lights are a lot? You have seen nothing.
And I say that as an American who used to think the exact same thing here.
The Brits are so into Christmas that they associate it with Britishness itself. I’m not even talking on a political FOX news talking points level, but on a deeply engrained 1500+ years of cultural saturation level. There is no distinguishing between the two. If you’re British, you drink tea, you eat curry, you go down the pub, and you eat mince pies at Crimbo.
Thing is, it’s also extremely decontextualised from religion here. And I don’t mean in the plastic merchandising way we do in America, I mean that the religious meaning has been almost totally replaced with cultural meaning. It’s much rarer here to hear conservative people insisting that “Jesus is the reason for the season.”
Anyway case in point, here is a picture of my VERY diverse, VERY secular university’s library that I just took:
It looks like this all over campus. I’m not even kidding. Not a manger or cross in sight, but Christmas still permeates the entire place, because this is Great Britain and you will pry Christmas from the Brits’ cold dead hands. And yet it’s still a diverse place. I can hear at least three different languages being spoken right now, one of them non European. The woman behind the desk in the photo I just took (you can’t see her at that angle) is an East Asian Muslim. She’s worked there as long as I’ve gone here. My school is utterly committed to diversity and makes a point of its international and interfaith presence.
And yet…it’s still the UK, so as soon as December rolls around the decor starts going up.
Anyway all my rambling is to say that it quite simply would not have occurred to JKR that Christmas being celebrated in Hogwarts might come off as strange, or even seen as antithetical to Hogwarts itself as a school of witchcraft and wizardry. For the majority of her early readers, before it went international, this likely also went totally unquestioned. They are British, and in Britain, and therefore they celebrate Christmas. Not to do so would’ve been considered absolutely bizarre, if not out of the question.
This is, in fact, what makes Scrooge’s refusal to celebrate Christmas so shocking in A Christmas Carol, and why his hatred of Christmas is so closely associated with his antisocial behaviour. He is not merely refusing to participate in a holiday, but he is refusing to participate in society itself. That’s how Victorian Brits would’ve read that story, and I dare say that it’s probably how a lot of Brits still subconsciously read it today. For Christmas to go uncelebrated in a British book for British children about British children (and set in Great Britain) would simply not be something that would have occurred to JKR, her editors, her publishers, or her initial target audience.
Now, I’m not saying all this is right or wrong. I’m just saying that it is how it is. But it’s easy for us Americans to forget that Britain is actually quite different from us. We share a language and many cultural traits, but it’s different, with different assumptions and norms. Hell, it’s part of why I was so blindsided by culture shock six months into my residency here.
Anyway cultural context is important to keep in mind when you’re analysing/writing meta for books from another culture, and yes, the UK counts.
This.
Our non-religious primary schools put on the Nativity. They have Joseph and Mary and a kid in a donkey onesie and a plastic doll for baby Jesus. Guarantee the vast majority of those kids are from non-religious families, never go to church, and don’t really have much of a clue about the biblical origins of the play they’re doing in the sports hall with all their parents squished in to watch during the final week of term.
See also: why Father Christmas shows up in Narnia to give the children their weaponry, and the hobbits in Lord of the Rings refer to “Christmas trees”.
Obviously there are people who don’t celebrate and there are Complex Cultural Reasons, and It Isn’t That Simple, etc etc etc etc. But it is also a nation that had a revolution and overthrew its own monarchy in the 1600s, replacing the king with a parliament, but then parliament canceled Christmas for a few years and then finally banned Christmas entirely, so they revolted again and re-installed the monarchy.
Insert wry on-the-nose comment about politics here.
i hate when memes become outdated and i have to deprogram myself from referencing them anymore. whenever my mouth says “this is so sad” my brain immediately follows it up with “alexa play despacito” but i’m not ALLOWED to say that anymore
how DARE u make this post uplifting and cute
If my parents can use slang from the 80s without even feeling self-conscious then I can use a meme that’s a little stale
if you’re offline or away and i message you something (like a link to a meme or a picture or w/e) honestly just assume that i’m just leaving it there for when you get back and not expecting you to answer straight away. i don’t need you to respond with “hey, sorry, i wasn’t at the computer!” or anything. i was leaving u a gift for later.
This also applies if you’re online and just don’t want to or have the energy to deal with humans in the moment. Just because we have the ability to reply in real time does not mean we have the obligation.
Make it feel like you are outside also turn on your volume
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watch the ball
breath in and out with the box
((Reblogging here because some people in the community are having issues with anxiety or relapse. Take care everybody <3))
In association with the music boxes, may I add Madeon’s Adventure Machine. You don’t have to be a fan to have some fun with this thing.
Actually helped
Kintsugi philosophy - to embrace and highlight the history, struggle, repair in gold for that is where the true beauty lies.
holy shit
me: i really need to talk this out with someone
my anxiety: ur coming off needy. isolate urself and handle it. all u need is U!
this is one of the Russian Chaos Agents tumblr banned lmao
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