well now im curious

meeee

i'm the guy who writes the books that the protagonist in supernatural horror movies frantically reads somewhere in act ii. job's pretty easy. lot of "legends of vampires have recurred all throughout human history" and "demonologists agree that the quickest way to un-summon a demon is to trap it in a cursed object". no citations of course; they don't pay me citation money. i had to learn html back in the early aughts when everyone started seeking their supernatural info on websites they found via top search engines like FINDLER and WEBSIGHT but that's died down now which is great because i didn't have it in me to pick up css. currently working on a new book about horses that are evil. it's called HORSES THAT ARE EVIL in all caps so the protagonist can find it quickly to yank off the library shelf. it will be published 35 years ago.

"how do i know a woman wants me to talk to her in the grocery store" are you an elderly woman with valuable information about cooking, cleaning, or saving money? if you answered no, then women do not want to talk to you in the grocery store.

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being in the pool while it’s raining should be considered an emotion

that emotion is called Being A Frog

So these tourists came to a city with a bunch of “tourists go home” “tourists not welcome” graffiti and instead of idk maybe looking into why locals want tourists gone they film the grafiti, post it on tiktok with a caption “wow i feel so welcome” and like comments like these

And then they’re suprised when locals tell them to fuck off

I’m pretty sure the the video was filmed in barcelona (not 100 % because i can’t find it atm) but there are countless people in the comments explaining to this person that locals literally cannot live in their houses because of airbnb and other stupid shit made for tourists. Did the creator acknowledge these comments? No.

#yes the graffiti is in barcelona!#and the comments are full of people saying to suck it up and that we need their money because ‘we dont live a comfortable life’#the video just went right over peoples head and they genuinely didnt understand#that the housing market is severely fucked up in places like bcn#like genuinely the comments in that video make me want to nuke northern europe#other comments include our stunning ‘20% youth unemployment rate’ and how we need their money#when the ppl in service jobs (especially hospitality ones) in tourist heavy areas are severely underpayed and overexploited#and another brilliant comment saying how we have nothing to offer the world except for our sunshine and how again ‘you need our money’#so quite literally northern europeans especially british people can rot in hell when they treat us like their fucking playground

exactly! @minglana​

The funny thing is that they don’t want to grasp that people can’t live in the majority of Barcelona and surrounding cities and towns LITERALLY.

In the really touristy parts of Barcelona (half the city) there is no housing market because there are no homes in the market because everything is fucking Airbnb. If you don’t live in Barcelona, but you live in the surrounding areas the little housing options there are inaccessible if you are a resident because it can cost over 300k-400k in places like Hospitalet del Llobregat (5-6 years ago the majority of housing in the city was 200k or less unless you went to specific parts with luxury flats).

People can’t live in Barcelona because there are no grocery shops or essential shops to have a normal life. When I was young and up to my teenage years (I’m only 25 btw) Barcelona was known by the small multi-generational business and artisans. If you needed something you went to X store that was in X place, and you knew it was good because your grandma used to go there when she was young (the thing being food, clothes, furniture, anything you could imagine). Nowadays all these small business have disappeared (I know some of them are barely surviving but when I talk to them all of them are saying that they don’t know how much longer they can stay) and in their place a bunch of souvenir shops that sell sevillanas (from Andalusia), tango (from Argentina), mariachi hats (from Mexico) and Son Goku T-shirts have opened thus making that the few people who lived there unable to subside (you need food and this type of things).

Starting in May and up till October you can barely go to the city centre and surrounding areas (where all the official buildings are, the majority of offices, etc) because of the tourists. They are literally EVERYWHERE. You can’t catch the metro because it is full of tourists, you can’t catch the bus because it’s full of tourists, you need to add 10-15min (or more) to your commute because tourists will be in the streets and are going to block the fucking way and won’t let you walk.

Tourists are simply rude and uncivil. You can’t grasp how rude they are. I haven’t been treated worse than how tourists treated me. They pee on the streets in the middle of the day, they drink and vomit everywhere they are, they go nude in the street even by schools playgrounds, they do drugs, they are in the way. ALWAYS. They have 0 spacial awareness or something because they will stop in the middle of a busy street and cars will try to go around them. You will lose your train because a tourist was in the tall and didn’t let you walk by or let you help them. You will be late to work/school because tourists will stop in the middle of the street and didn’t let you pass (and if you dare to tell them something or even worse, touch them, be ready for an altercation). Be ready to be treated like garbage, be ready to be treated as if you are barely human, be ready for tourist trashing your shop/restaurant/place because “españa.sangria.fiesta” and because they are too lazy to parent they children. Be ready to have the laws of your city changed because tourists can’t act in public and now hotels don’t have balconies, windows don’t open or there are no pools. If they are renting a flat (Airbnb type of thing) be ready for constant fights, police calls, not being able to sleep, garbage “falling from the sky” (the tourists flat)…

What some people don’t seem to grasp is that the tourist issue is not a new thing, maybe the tourists are finding out NOW because for them we were like the monkey exhibit at the zoo but in 2015, Barcelona mayor was elected because her opposition to what the tourism have done to the city. People have been done with tourists destroying the city for so long that 10 years ago it was what made political parties win elections. Maybe those tourists should reflect in the way the act or how they treat someone else’s home instead of crying because people are fed up with them.

I am from Eivissa, we usually joke that the tourist season begins when the first tourist jumps from a balcony to their death. That whole text over here is why we make those jokes.

Hi! I am from one of the Mexican cities that inspired the movie Coco (Oh, why do I even try to hide it at this point, everyone knows where this is) and while tourism is, and always has been, our main source of income, it is also ruining the local economy.

My state is both the poorest and the most expensive in the entire country. Housing prices are through the roof, in large part because landlords would rather rent to tourists for a few weeks than to a local for multiple years. Because they are much more profitable. They come from rich countries with strong currencies, and our salaries can’t keep up with the difference in value. The whole thing is extremely gentrified. Food and other basic goods and services are getting pricier and even my family, being as extremely fortunate as we are, have started to struggle economically.

Tourists are also very insensitive, and they treat us in a way, like we are some sort of attraction. They take pictures of people without their consent, people who are just living their lives, because to them, our way of life is itself exotic. Not to talk about rude, entitled, and outright racist behaviour. Triple that when it’s about indigenous people, tourists can’t be normal about indigenous people in a thousand years.

So in recent times, we’ve seen a spike on hostile graffiti directed towards tourists, particularly Americans. Because they are literally the fucking worst and I feel like a lot of people are finally tired of pandering to them and being displaced by them. Of having the cost of living being so unbearably high and the salaries so criminally low. And having the goverment enable this in the name of profits. Profits for who? Defenitely not for the people.

It’s just so exhausting. Even more so when you remember the complicated dynamic the U. S. and Mexico have going on. The fact that they can easily come here, but we can’t go there, not even for vacation, without having to jump through hoops. It’s unfair.

I don’t know how to end this. I don’t know if there is a way to fix it, or lessen the harm somehow. I think getting to know new places is great, and sharing our culture is (at least to us Mexicans) a great joy, but if it comes at the cost of harming people, is it really worth it?

Street Artist Transforms Ordinary Public Places Into Funny Installations 

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"hyperfixating on the live action little mermaid for a full month straight and not being able to think about anything else except halle bailey's ariel + jonah hauer king's eric and feeling like a giddy little kid again whenever you see anything related to the film" was not on my summer 2023 bingo card but here we are

europeans have types of racism i didn't even know existed

you can drive for two hours in europe and pass through 17 different types of racism

“American ideas of race don’t apply in Europe” true! Very true! Y’all have race divisions like shrimp colors.

*ariel finding the green mermaid figurine in eric’s library*

eric: “ah, my little mermaid”

me:

this is what i’m talking about!!! you can see the confusion and how conflicted eric is here written all over his face. he’s under ursula’s spell and thinks he’s found the girl who rescued him but his feelings for ariel are so strong that not even ursula can make them disappear, yet ursula’s spell is making him drawn to her and he doesn’t know why, then he asks grimsby where ariel is because he still cares so much for her despite being under this spell and he’s worried about her having left the castle 😭😭😭😭😭😭

unlike in the animation where eric completely forgets ariel even exists while he’s under ursula’s spell

Toucan: “that there just ain’t natural”

this is how you lose the time war 💙⏳❤

a study i did because i realized idk how to draw environments at all LMAO

STOP SCROLLING THIS IS A PAINTING

(image description: a painting of a green tile bathroom. there is a window in the shower, a towel hanging just beyond the door, and a white sink that has a mirror over it. there is a green bath mat on the floor. end ID)

Alright poll time (First time doin one of these lets goooo)

maybe you don’t believe romeo and juliet were actually in love and think that’s the point but i’m built different

first they phased out the 22 episode season then they phased out the 13 episode season and now they’re phasing out the 10 episode season like can you guys go watch fucking movies or something and stop trying to “tighten” television

We need to go back to more episodes because shows can’t be action or drama all the time, there needs to be breathing room for both the audience and the characters. There need to be good filler episodes where the characters get to just have fun and develop outside of the main story. Side quests and downtime are important to storytelling. We need to see the characters be regular people with regular problems in between the big stuff.

THERE WAS ONLY ONE CHAIR because presumably, the queen doesn't understand Eric's fascination & servants keep away out of respect for him. So, there's no use having chairs around since nobody hangs out with him here. The implication that he must've felt alone for years until, well, her. They're twin souls. I'm gonna sob in the corner real quick.

AND

This should not be applauded, but that mofo knelt on the floor afternoon 'till evening so she can sit (or not, she might be sitting on a box here) on the only comfortable seat in his library. like a fucking gentleman. 

A prince on his knees, literally and figuratively. gddamn it, disney.

Different Stories Resonate with Different People

I will always reblog this.

I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.

@signoraviolettavalery I meant to ask last night if you’d ever seen this comic before.

This is one of the few things I always reblog when it comes round, because everyone should get to see it.