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I would love to make one post about aotearoa without people bringing up hobbits on it to be so honest with you guys

listen I understand. they're amazing movies and I do think it's awesome that they were filmed here!!!!! but holy shit! it's the only thing anyone seems to be able to talk about when there is ANY discussion of these islands!! I would super love to be able to discuss our ecology, politics, culture, landscapes, and people without needing to hear about hobbiton every single time

I don't knowwww. it shouldn't be a huge deal but at the same time, the image an overwhelming amount of people have of aotearoa comes from those movies. our struggling ecosystems get overshadowed by fields and grassy hills and other non-native biomes that were explicitly chosen to depict the england-inspired fantasy land of middle earth. these same biomes only exist here because english settlers historically slashed and burned massive swaths of forest to create them, and now they're framed as famous and beautiful. mass deforestation of precious native forests. I don't know man. it annoys me juuuuust a little when every other post I make about this place gets a lotr joke plastered on it.

The only difference between a chud religion and a woke religion is whether or not said religion has the weight of the government or other powerful institutions behind it. No matter how beautiful and egalitarian and morally aspirational the original texts of a religion are, there is absolutely nothing stopping institutional actors from twisting those words to defend the powerful and demonize the powerless. Bitches in the U.S. will be like "Buddhism is such a peaceful religion, you never hear about Buddhist extremists" yeah of course YOU haven't heard of Buddhist extremists you couldn't find Myanmar on a map if your life depended on ir

As an aboriginal australian myself, I really wish more people knew what happened here. Most people I mention to online, dont even know what an aboriginal australian is. Our history is awful. There is no words to describe what happened here. It was a wipe out. They tried to eradicate us. Our bloodline was so destroyed, there is no way to trace us completely by DNA anymore. Please people read and learn about what happened to us. And how to this day it is still affecting us.

Say Junkrat and Roadhog were fucking, no one bats an eye. Say Junkrats the top and everyone loses their minds.

I'm probably being annoying but it does beg the question why everyone expects older men, fatter men, taller men, more muscular men, etc., to be the top, and it all just comes back down to heteropatriarchal ideas of sex and gender. It's all mascara for ukes again.

It's mascara for ukes all the way down.

it's always "did you really need to burn down your workplace to prove a point" and never "how was the revenge arson? did you have fun doing revenge arson? were the flames pretty?"

um.

I cannot stop crying. I’m doing everything I can to keep my little siblings fed and alive, but I cannot do this alone anymore.