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This is super cool

For non-Americans: this is actually accurate and reflects how Americans understand ourselves and regional identities. These aren’t official labels, but they’re not totally made up either.

I thought the Midwest was… Further west??? Also how is Texas SIX things, including “Texas”??? This is fascinating and terrifying in that order.

I’d say this map is largely accurate, through everyone is going to have their own minor squabbles with it. California seems right on, and that’s really my area of expertise. Kinda surprised by “southern great plains” dipping so far into Texas—is that really a thing? Also how stark is the great plains/midwest division anyway, I’ve always imagined them as basically the same. To people there really think of them as separate?

Part of Oklahoma being included in Deep South is such a relief. I’ve been trying to explain why my husband and I, who grew up in regions 90 minutes apart, came from entirely different cultures.

I think of Great Lakes as a small subset of Upper Midwest. Also, the lakes don’t always make the winters gentler because of Lake-Effect Snow.

i…. how is it a nazi thing????

The “White man with blond hair and blue eyes” originated as an “Aryan Superior Race” type of thing on like. 4Chan or something.

ok, if that’s true, that doesnt change the fact literally *nobody* uses it like that at all.

i’m not going to bother scraping through the internet to personally find examples, but here is a page explaining Nordic Gamer’s history and common use. it was made and used for racist purposes, and it’s absolutely something white supremacists and nazis co-opt. you just don’t blog where you see it happening.

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This version also does something I very much like and haven’t seen in other adaptations; it implies that Benedick and Beatrice were into each other the whole time they’ve known each other, but were too busy bullying each other to talk about their feelings until they thought the other person was actually interested. Also it has David Tennant in drag and Catherine Tate in a suit.

This is the best comic series I’ve ever seen

Agreed

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This mating method is actually not the norm for other slug species and this is possibly better footage than has ever been taken for science.

this two-years-old shitpost just gained a hundred notes who the snickerdoodles dug it up

In moments like this I always fall back on the fact that they also aren’t speaking English because they don’t have England or the many languages and conquering peoples that contributed to the creation of the English language and therefore the work musr be a translation into recognizable terms in our world’s terms. Call that Tolkien Brainrot.

It’s called “Translation Convention” but “Tolkien Brainrot” is funnier.

not to be dramatic but the uk is literally slipping into a legit fascist state rn, our rights to free speech are slowly being revoked and literally nobody is talking about it lmao I hate it here

honestly...talk about it. speak up about it and spread the word. minorities are suffering because of these laws and we can't even protest it right now. make people aware of it and share it. Parliament is trying to slip this through quietly while we're all distracted so let's make it harder for them to do it quietly