the real enanan irl

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1. Favourite colour: Teal

2. Last song: Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry

3. Currently reading: Outlander Series (technically it’s collecting dust on my bookshelf because I mostly read fanfic…)

4. Currently watching: Single’s Inferno, Medium, and forever casually rewatching SPN

5. Currently craving: the bag of sweet chilli & sour cream chips I bought earlier (just waiting for kiddos to go to bed)

6. Coffee or tea: coffee! An iced latte any season.

2. Last song: Dance On The Moon by AURORA

3. Currently reading: fanfics…also Caraval

4. Currently watching: nothing much but ig I’m trying to get through Witch Hat Atelier and rewatching The Owl House

5. Currently craving: 🥟 gyoza 🤤

6. Coffee or tea: hot chocolate…tea ig if it’s just those two (I like matcha)

2. last song: jack wolfe singing and then there were none from spring awakening

3. currently reading: just finished rereading crooked kingdom (but also rereading atcoewfa over and over)

4. currently watching: friends and new girl

5. currently craving: some haribos rn

6. coffee or tea: i love a frappe with coffee in it

Last song: he's my man - luvcat

Currently reading: six of crows (almost done let's freaking go) and atcoewfa

Currently watching: stranger things, community (I'm perpetually watching community come on), and game changer/dropout shows in general

Currently craving: a cat tbh. Or some chocolate.

Coffee or tea: chocolate milk

ty for tagging me!!!

Idk whose been tagged already I probably shouldve checked but it's too late now

fav color: PURPLE (i have had an emotional attachment to this color since i was like six okay)

last song: cars and gasoline by esha tewari

currently reading: rereading the great gatsby, the inheritance games and also various fanfics... ;)

currently watching: ... rewatching willow cus i do that every summer...

currently craving: uhhhhh i mean a strawberry gummy bear sound real nice rn tbh

coffe or tea: OMIGOD ICED COFFE MY WILL TO LIVE

bro i love being tagged in these things this is mega cool

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1. Favourite colour: uhhhh light green light purple light blue and light pink I like colours

2. Last song: Where The Streets Have No Name by U2

3. Currently reading: casmund fanfiction but also Project Hail Mary fire book btw

4. Currently watching: Life In Pieces, Scrubs, Smash, and Schitt’s Creek

5. Currently craving: sushi someone buy me sushi please

6. Coffee or tea: I like iced lattes and iced cappuccinos but not coffee or tea

and tags!

@wildpoet42 @always-a-monarch @missdiorfairy444 wait idk my mutuals off the top of my head if you see this do it

1. Favourite colour: purple all the way (plus purple/yellow combo is elite)

2. Last song: cigarette smoke by Olivia Rodrigo (had the new album pretty much on repeat since it came out lol)

3. Currently reading: uhhhh.... fanfiction, if anything 😭 (I have been writing so much and barely reading rip)

4. Currently watching: also barely been watching anything rip but my current background bingewatches are WWDITS and Community (I haven't watched it in SO LONG bc it was off streaming and I missed her so much)

5. Currently craving: actually just had dinner (halloumi wrap) but I am fancying a piece of fruit for something fresh

6. Coffee or tea: coffee!!! Usually cold/iced but sometimes hot. I drink tea occasionally, usually if I'm ill - either spice blend type teas or masala chai

2. Last song: Welly Boots by The Amazing Devil

3. Currently reading: I just finished Wildwood Imperium and I'm about to restart the Underland Chronicles

4. Currently watching: I just restarted watching Outlander from the beginning, I'm on s1e4.

5. Currently craving: Cotton candy slushie......

6. Coffee or tea: Coffee yes yes

- favourite colour: green or purple methinks

- last song: ‘twin sized mattress’ (front bottoms)

- currently reading: ‘the dragon’s apprentice’ book 2 (james riley)

- currently watching: uhhh brilliant minds, supergirl, star trek discovery, and probably more that I can’t remember rn :p

- currently craving: good gyoza I haven’t had any in months and i’m dying over here (/hyp)

- coffee or tea: tea for sure, but I don’t mind coffee I just don’t drink it

favorite color: pink, light pink. see: pfp

last song: hymn to the decadent life

currently reading: malice by keigo higashino

currently watching: ?nothing

currently craving: anything to make these Cramps go away

coffee or tea: tea 1000%

last song: headlock by imogen heap

currently reading: allegiant by veronica roth.no I have not continued reading it since my last tag game…😭

currently watching: technically a Lot of things bcz I have a habit of starting animes and Never finishing them.but most recent is dr stone

currently craving: pizza, ice cream bars, lemonade tbh

coffee or tea: I don’t like either I’m sorry…I prefer water malt and soda.but if I had to pick one, it would be tea, bcz the few times i had coffee no amount of sweetener could make it taste good or make the terrible aftertaste go away 😭

last song: father time by kendrick lamar

currently reading: nothing lol

currently watching: ninjago masters of spinjitzu (childhood show of mine, mostly looking at it through a critical lens this time though)

currently craving: fried broccoli

coffee or tea: either works

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Happy 35th Anniversary Sonic!!^^🎉

my point is that, sonic fans fundamentally do not understand art, and that especially shines in discussions related to frontiers

It's common sense here, except for USians, so I'll analyze it a bit more for the dominant demographic here. In a globalized setting, the most dominant culture affects the others and sets the trends. The way our language works, how we think, our levels of politeness and intimacy, and our levels of respect. (flash news, they are going down 😂)

I don't want to imply that there is nothing good in the US. There are plenty of positives in the country. It's just that for the rest of the cultures online it's a constant daily fight to not forget our roots, with the degree US media and brands have permeated our lives. In Greece at least we watch more US American media than Greek media nowadays, and many of our shows are rip-offs of USian ones, with little adaptation to Greek reality and culture.

And to demonstrate the amount of this exposure, a 22-year-old Greek asked me the other day "if something happens we call 911, right?" This might have literally cost them their life, in a dangerous situation! Because all the movies and songs they consumed (not an unusual thing for the Greek youth) were what they knew. And I found a similar comment in this comment thread.

It's about American media drowning out native language media all over the world, and workplaces requiring the English language in your repertoire more and more. It's about proper translations and foreign language dubbing of films disappearing because "everyone speaks/should speak English anyway." All of this is leading to the deterioration of native speaker groups of languages worldwide.

In my country, Dutch language courses can't find enough people who want to study the language, while English language courses are overflowing with people who want to study the language. There is even widespread distaste for the Dutch language for being crude or sounding rough or what have you. That's our native language!!! That is our culture in its purest form!!! That is knowledge we inherit from our parents as they did from theirs!!! That is how we learned fairytales and folk stories and myths!!! That is the language that shapes our communication and our way of thinking!!! To hate your native language is to hate yourself at the deepest level.

And yet it's so normalised. Droves of foreigners living in the Netherlands will never learn a word of Dutch, because "everyone speaks English anyway." We are the world's leaders in non-native understanding of English, but it comes at a cost. A grave cost we will continue to pay.

If you're looking to support your non-American friends in any way that is not performatively shouting "I hate being an American" into the void, first of all, unlearn that hatred of yourself and your culture. You are of no help self-flagellating, and there is a difference between holding your country accountable for its issues, and denying yourself your culture because your country is doing and has done bad things.

(I am not going to get into arguments about whether or not US American culture exists. It does, and if you think differently you are welcome to change your mind.)

Secondly, learn about other countries. Learn a bit of Chinese. Take an interest in the Italian political system. Ask your friends about their countries' folklore. Watch documentaries about art from Nigeria. Absorb information that is not fed to you by American media.

And thirdly, quit expecting your non-American friends to communicate in a way that appeals to you. The French and Dutch will always seem rude to you because our way of communicating is far more direct than the way you communicate. People from other cultures may seem vague to you because their way of communicating is far more indirect, and you're not used to that either. Quit being frustrated when you don't get what we mean exactly. Quit assuming we mean the absolute worst thing you could imagine just because you didn't get what we meant the first time. Ask us to explain if you need us to, and learn to accept that we are different from you.

Emerican Johnson once had a good video (which I can't find any more) about how he moved from being a capitalist into a socialist, which involved leaving the USA and then realising that people outside of the USA can't choose to ignore politics from the USA because of how much it affects everyone.

There's a good video by Jack Saint on cultural cringe, and how even unintentionally when there's a culture which is considered modern (like it fills the cinemas) it can make your own culture seem boring and shitty meaning you go towards the other culture and abandon your own history and sometimes even language. Like an interesting example of this is how 'white walls' are considered cool in Indian social media because of how there's so many people from the USA who have just plain white walls for their videos, rather than traditional Indian house designs. Especially because IKEA is expensive and out of reach for most people in India, so having a plain painted white wall with IKEA furniture is actually a status symbol!

There's been so many times I've tried to get through to a bunch of people from the US the sheer amount of stuff we can't avoid. But I think the indoctrination which people in the USA do go through has been made quite clear in some of the recent videos from Evan Edinger, where he can point out where the absolute nonsense he's recieved in his comments is mentally from, as he grew up in the USA but once he lived in another country he realised all the wool which had been pulled over his eyes.

temporarily coming back to post cus something possessed me for 16 hrs to make this

These days it solely exists as a mechanic to sell things that isn't really based on anything, and I cannot be mad about it because it means we get gems like this