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22.07.2020 03:57:25
Megan le Faye

SkodenStoodis wrote:
Megan le Faye wrote:
peeslurper69 wrote:
people who’re into “”cottagecore”” and “”cryptidcore”” just say you hate native ppl ... “”goblincore”” just say you hate jewish ppl.. im abt to gut your ‘core’ like a fish!
I literally had no idea what any of these were until you just brought them up but based on what I pulled up about them on Google cottagecore seems to be based more on Medieval European themes than anything else? What does this have to do with Native culture?
first to correct you, "Native culture" isn't necessarily a thing - "Native cultures" is more appropriate as Native people are not a monolith! secondly the basis of cottagecore is revolved around the idea of "moving to a piece of land and growing crops" but that take tends to be a lot more nuanced and ignores the plight of Indigenous people and our relationship with the land + how colonialism has tried to take that away. it's rooted in fascist propaganda based ON the idea of colonialism and purchasing private property, which again ignores Indigenous people and our sovereign nations. 

"cryptidcore" is a whole other minefield i'm not articulate enough to explain but from my personal experience cryptid communities seem to throw around a lot of Indigenous figures and have painted them as these ~spooky~ figures (such as the w*ndigo) when these figures have their own respected place within each culture. that's as far as i can explain as my experience as a Native person though
I meant "native culture" in the context of any sort of native culture, not as a generalization by any means. My articulation isn't the best when I'm in full-blown insomnia mode though so I understand why you'd feel the need to correct my poor wording. Although I don't think the cryptid "fandom" is intentionally appropriating anyone's culture, those sorts of folks (though they're mostly white for sure) seem just as obsessed with figures such as the Krampus (German) and nymphs (Greek) as they are with more ethnically diverse ones - ignoring cultural significance all together and reducing everything to not much more substance than a meme. It's kinda cringey and insensitive for sure but... At least they're inclusive and relatively indiscriminate in their silliness I guess?

I'm a quarter Mi'kmaq by blood myself, but was raised in a fairly eurocentric household and have a tragically limited connection with what native roots I do have so... Yeah. Can't speak much for the culture of even my own specific Indigenous American bloodline without feeling like I'm whitesplaining.


22.07.2020 03:57:25
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22.07.2020 05:20:06
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oreos + nutella is very good

22.07.2020 05:20:06
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22.07.2020 07:29:46
StrangeKindOfWoman

I hate talking to people who don't speak my language very well. Yeah, I know it is difficult to learn but I hate it anyway.

And I do realize the irony of me trying to write this in the best English I'm capable of :D

22.07.2020 07:29:46
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22.07.2020 07:44:43
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the word “sapphic” was a mistake

22.07.2020 07:44:43
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22.07.2020 09:00:25
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charles manson's songs are good

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22.07.2020 16:46:02
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oreos only taste good when they're deep fried. they are disgusting otherwise

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23.07.2020 02:30:49
scapegrace

every musical is shitty and brain dead except dreamgirls . no point in individual critique of musicals because they already have no merit on the basis of being musicals. the part where the talking transitions into the singing is the worst part 

23.07.2020 02:30:49

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23.07.2020 05:24:43
Megan le Faye

scapegrace wrote:
every musical is shitty and brain dead except dreamgirls . no point in individual critique of musicals because they already have no merit on the basis of being musicals. the part where the talking transitions into the singing is the worst part 
Okay but have you seen Across the Universe

23.07.2020 05:24:43
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23.07.2020 06:39:57
Megan le Faye

The whole "not speaking ill of the dead" thing is a really weird social taboo that needs to be deconstructed a little. Like obviously it goes without saying that you should never ever go out of your way to shit-talk a deceased person to their loved ones but acting like someone was a literal saint just because they're no longer on the mortal coil kinda reeks of bullshit. There's a fine line between common courtesy and being fake af, I just hope when I die there won't be a bunch of phonies that didn't like me or didn't even know me going around blubbering on like I was God's goddamn gift to this world because that's lame and hypocritical. If you've got beef with someone in life there's absolutely no reason you should be expected to sugarcoat the impression that their character left on you in death.

23.07.2020 06:39:57
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23.07.2020 09:10:35
clematis

i have no idea if this is unpopular or not bc i cant think of anybody who likes this kind of thing but u still see it everywhere - i do not like jokes where the punchline is just *gross thing*. like oh. this movie character is projectile vomiting on someone else. oh. you say ur favourite genre of music is shitting and farting sfx. thats just eewwww to me its not rlly funny!

(im kinda paranoid i fucked up somehow in posting this but pls be kind if i did smth dumb, im not super used to forums aaaahhhh)

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