wangningxian-canon -> trans-lycion
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Wait wait you can't just drop that off and not elaborate. What do you mean is there a mafia presence in Wales?? Please spill, what things did you notice??
Okay so bearing in mind that I have ADHD and Chronic Terrible Observational Skills:
- I am in Cardiff
- For a concert I am attending solo
- Doors open at 5
- 4:15 ish I go 'hmm I should eat something'
- Cardiff is - unsurprisingly, being tiny and yet home to FOUR concert venues - Very Busy
- Find McDonald's
- McDonald's is very full. I recall my last concert related McDick's experience, and promptly bounce
- Directly across the street
- Is an Italian restaurant
- It looks closed but fuckit maybe I can beg for like. Bread or some shit
- Go over
- Am immediately pounced upon by the hitherto unnoticed chain-smoking woman hanging out by the door mostly hidden by a potted ficus(?)
- "I was wondering if you were open and if-" "yes yes we are open what would you like?" (strongish Italian accent)
- Inside restaurant is Deserted
- Explain that I'm sort of in a rush, am assured it's fine
- Order chicken milanese which is generally a pasta dish with a breaded chicken component
- Am led to seat nearish the front and promptly provided with a pint of coke in a glass tankard
- Am then provided with a front row seat to an absolutely incomprehensible series of people entering and exiting (and in one case walking directly into) the door to what I can only presume is the kitchen
- Starting with the guy who had been sitting at a table chain-smoking over a pile of papers
- I counted at least three people exiting at least twice without actually entering in between
- Am finally brought food
- It is a breaded, butterflied chicken breast approximately the size of my face and a small pile of pasta approximately the size of my fist
- It is all delicious
- Chain-smoking papers man reappears, now wearing a chef's apron labcoat thing
- Go up to pay, chain-smoking ficus lady is now having a very loud argument in a language I did not recognise but was not Italian Welsh English French russian Gaelic or Spanish
- She sees me, says, and I quote 'ah little girl lost, one moment' and promptly hangs up
- I am 27 and only nominally female
- I am not remotely lost
- She charges me for the pint of coke but not the food
- I try to point out that she hasn't charged me for the food
- 'do you want to pay for the food?'
- '.... Not if I don't have to?'
- 'good'
- I leave. The door is now full of half a dozen very tall very Italian men and one absolutely adorable cocker spaniel
- I ask if I can pet the dog (I have my priorities straight okay)
- I am allowed to pet the dog. The dog and I are now best friends
- The dog lead holder asks me in extremely accented but impeccably correct English if I had enjoyed the food
- 'yeah it was great!'
- Everyone laughs a bit
- I smile and pet the dog and realise I'm now late for the concert and hurry off
- I see a post on Tumblr about mob fronts and several connections are made in my brain all at once
Everyone I've mentioned this to has gone 'was the food really good?' as a like initial litmus test for front-likelihood so I'm glad to see we're all on the same page here
Jujutsu Kaisen fans: You see when he combines his curse energy with another curse energy and the power of his infinite abilities he-
Dragon Ball fans: Goku has actually now gone Beyond Super Saiyan several times to the point where, combining with Kaioken and Ultra Instinct, he has surpassed even Berus-
One Piece fans: But Luffy could EASILY defeat him because not only does he have the forthcoming Gear 5 (which is coming to the anime VERY soon) but he also possesses the will of a King which, btw only 1 in every-
Jojo fans: After piercing his stand with the arrowhead which MAY in fact… be an ALIEN bacteria covering a PILLARMAN made weapon… he activated the godlike ability of his stand which is HEAVILY implied to pass on HAMON (which was the technique his father used in part 1) and can defeat ANYONE without even-
Hokuto No Ken fans: When he punches that guy it’s cool as shit
Dorohedoro fans: God I wanna fuck that lizard
horror movie where the protagonist only has an inhale activated vape as a light source
My favourite Da Vinky twins trans ally moments:
- When they said their pronouns are they/them because there’s 2 of them
- “It doesn’t matter what your pronouns are, because at the end of the day, it’s night”
emote that i made as a joke that some how people keep using bonus: here's the emote before it fucked it all up
Thinking you can handle a 26% pre-roll but you rock up to the Subway counter and realize the fucking cold cut combo is staring at you
we need to destigmatize dropping out of college I am so serious. like dude if u realize that is Bad For You then you can just Leave. I am so fucking serious. just stop. there are other options and you don’t need to force yourself through shit you can’t do and go into debt. i promise you can just Not.
Ok silly question but im curious
"please buy crabs so that Tumblr doesn't have to implement changes we hate to become profitable" right, let me explain something about capitalism.
Tumblr didn't change course because they need the cash and are down on their luck. they did it because corporations want growth.
and that desire for growth is gonna be the same whether they have negative infinity money or positive infinity money. a corporation seeks money and growth.
if Tumblr suddenly became profitable after announcing these changes, it's not even that it would send the wrong message, although it would.
it's that Tumblr wouldn't be taking care of us better if only it weren't for the cruel realities of the world. it's a subsidiary of a corporation. it doesn't care.
it's still going to keep the changes that it thinks are profitable, and ignore changes it thinks won't be. Tumblr is not our friend, it is a website we use, and it wants to profit from us regardless of if that's in our best interest and regardless of if it has "enough" money. that is the relationship. don't get it twisted.
"yeah but Tumblr needs the money 🥺"
what part of corporations aren't our friends isn't fucking clicking
Instead of "live laugh love" or "home is where the heart is" my (wonderful, progressive, very accepting) dad put up the racism sign in the foyer
whats the racism sign?
The racism sign, as I like to call it, is from an art piece I made halfway through my first semester of art school:
It reads "any attempted theft will be reported to the police" in the 15 most commonly spoken languages by immigrants here other than English or other western european languages (in descending order).
This sign was only half of the art piece, the other half was the most stereotypically Icelandic painting I could think of:
When the piece was shown the painting and the sign were hung on opposite sides of the room, making the sign more of an afterthought for those who don't speak any of the languages written on the sign. Standing out just enough for them to notice it and maybe wonder what it said, but ultimately not giving it a second thought for the most part.
I wanted to highlight one of the most common ways racism and xenophobia present themselves here as well as the comfort of ignorance. The sign doesn't cater to you, you ignore it it, and you don't care what it might say. You don't have to think about it because it doesn't affect you.
For those who can read the sign though, or bother to translate it, this is just yet another reminder of people's ignorance and double standards. My inspiration for this piece came from my old workplace, where they had this sign hanging on one of the doors:
The main things that stood out about this to me were that
- It was the only sign on the premises written in anything other than Icelandic and/or English
- All of the additional languages (Vietnamese, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian) specifically targeted minority groups that already face discrimination here
- The location of the sign. We only had 1 of these, and they chose to put it up somewhere where only staff would see it rather than the customers. In fact, it was right next to the break room so you had to walk past it every time you went on break. And it was a sign reminding people not to steal. Big win for inclusivity here
People love saying that we're not racist/xenophobic here even though we very much are. The problem is just that so many people don't take the time to look when it doesn't directly affect them. I was very happy with my piece because people actually came up to me and asked what the sign said because they wanted to know, it started a conversation and made those previously unaware of this issue more aware. I wonder if these sorts of signs would be anywhere near as commonplace as they are if more people looked at them critically and asked "why is this the thing we bother translating?"
Anyway, all that aside I love my dad and I like the way this art piece turned out but also I am slightly worried about giving people the wrong idea when this is the first thing they see when they enter our home 💀
Well if you want my permission to show it then you have it :))
with great regret i must inform you that there is a typo in the Latvian translation, so it actually says “any attempted theft will be reported to poland”
I found out while working on this that it is extremely difficult to get 15 fully accurate translations into languages you don't speak in the span of a week but this is killing me 💀
Observation #1: The prefix "a-" means "none", such as in "asexual", "apolitical" and "Atheism".
Observation: The word "unicorn" is a combination of "uni", meaning "one", and "cornus", meaning "horn".
Conclusion:
This is an acorn.
