SnowFlakes

With all the Sword Men and Sword Women currently down for the count, Sewing Girl has to leave her spindle and help with battle stuff for a couple of weeks and she hates the entire thing.

It's boring--you can't sing or tell each other stories when you're trying to be stealthy. It's repetitive--there are no patterns to make, no colors to change, it's just forward-forward-forward all the time.

Anne Carson (2009)

Arthur S. Way (1898)

George Theodoridis (2010)

Ian C. Johnston (2010)

E.P. Coleridge (1910)

Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)

John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)

R. Potter (1906)

M. L. West (1987)

William Arrowsmith (1958)

Philip Vellacott (1972)

Michael Wodhull (1782)

Kenneth McLeish (1997)

David Kovacs (2002)

Andrew Wilson (1993)

I’ll see to you.

I’ll look after you.

I’ll take care of you.

I will take care of you.

I will take care of thee.

Then I’ll look after you.

Thy weakness I will tend.

On my fostering care rely.

But I’ll be right beside you.

But I’ll be looking after you.

Well, I will take care of you.

I’ll look after you if that happens.

My care shall watch around thee.

Have no fear. You are in my hands.

Orestes

It’s horrible.

It’s rotten work.

Madmen are hard to handle.

Loathe task to touch the sick.

It’s difficult, touching a sick man.

It is disgusting to touch a sick man.

It would be horrible for you, my friend.

Loathsome it is to handle the diseas’d.

It is annoying to have to touch a sick man.

It’s unpleasant looking after someone sick.

When my sickness comes, to touch is revolting.

It’s unpleasant to be in contact with a sick man.

Getting close during an attack can be dangerous.

It is a difficult and dangerous task to touch a man thus disordered.

A man disordered thus, to guard, to hold him, is an unpleasant office.

Pylades

Not to me.

Not if it’s you.

Not to me for thee.

Not for me, with you.

Not with you, for me.

Not for me it won’t be.

Not for me to touch you.

Not for me to touch thee.

Not to me, when it is you.

Not for me, when it’s you.

Not so to me, while you I tend.

Not when I’m looking after you.

But for thee, delightful to my love.

I’ll do it.

When an Ur guy / sells Nanni things / but the copper’s bad, / He simply records his complaint for all time / “I got a bad deal / I’m maaaaad”

Of all the bugs in the sea, the lobster bears the crown;

The rising of the sun, the wheeling of the gulls,

Glooooooooooooooria Vagari locusta Glooooooooooooooria Vagari Locusta

Seagulls in the sky abiding Watching now for all they're worth "What has caused these crazed decapods To traverse the barren earth?"

Nephropidae keep their mysteries Frozen solid on the page Evermore their pincers clicking In percussive pilgrimage

It was Christmas Eve, babe, In the fish tank. A crayfish said to me, won't see another one. And then he sang a song, 'The Old Bay Seasoning”. I dreamed of the beach, babe, And got to reasoning. I'm gonna have some fun ‘Cos I’m the lucky one. I’m the last in this line And near the water. ‘Cos “Happy Christmas” Means lots of greeting, And lots more eating, So for us it just means slaughter. If I walk like a man And carry a fan, Then I can stay cool Between surf-line and pool. 'Cos if I get spotted Too far up the shore, It’s only drawn butter That’s waiting for me. You were red! I was blue, I looked nothing like you! I got out of the water Before it was hot. The chef’s knife was swinging, The hash it was slinging, So we nipped round a corner And into the night. Now the lads who go out fishing With their nets in Galway Bay Have all returned to port For Christmas Day. You’re a shrimp! You’re a wimp! You’ll evolve to a chimp, Lying there like a crab or a cod on a slab! You look like an oyster! You couldn’t be moister If it rained all the way from your face to your arse! But the lads who do the fishing From those boats on Galway Bay Have docked beside the pier On Christmas Day. You could be quite a dish, But so would any fish, With lots of flavoured creams Piped all around you. I’d rather swim, babe, Deep in the sea, babe, Just you and me, babe, We'll keep well clear of Mayo. And the lads who'd be out fishing In their boats on Galway Bay Are at home and getting drunk This Christmas Day.

Here's the original - warning, contains Language, Imagery, Poetry, Emotion, Adversity, Despair, Hope, Love, Implied Smoking and Artistic Monochrome.

or the Winter Festival

Of Your Preference.

And I’m floating in a most peculiar way

Don’t the stars look very different today

Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles

I’m feeling very still

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Tell my wife I love her very much”

She knows

“Your circuit’s dead,

There’s something wrong

Can you hear me

Can you?”

“Here am I floating ‘round my tin can

Far above the moon

Planet earth is blue

Cartoon design is based off of 70s/80s fashion

So, it’s not wrong.

It’s rather likely

what? *unrolls paper* why are you giving me a deed to the.. oh, oh no.. fuck.

they're my monkeys now

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.

"I cannot wait for the time that I (a Scottish Person) no longer need to know how many Electoral college votes Georgia gets."

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