Blown Out of the Canon

A very accurate and timely twitter thread. 👌

[Twitter user @unsolvedtwt is also on tumblr: @kindaunsolved ]

biden: im 17 followers away from 270… mutuals pls rb to boost!!

People of color made this election. White people need to do a lot of reflection especially white women. Your support for a racist misogynist who has 14 accusations against him including a child went up.

I boosted this elsewhere, but I feel like I should post it here too.

I will be posting the link to the thread AND the link to the ballot checking site in the reblogs because tumblr hates links. If you reblog, PLEASE reblog that version.

Nevada. Likes to charge, reblogs to cast. Just one more folks.

Twitter got me weak

help me manifest blue pennsylvania

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let me be very clear that if you voted for donald trump or support him in any capacity you are not welcome here. my blog is not the place for you and i do not want you interacting with me. 

don’t blame states that go red on people not voting and blame it on literal generations of gerrymandering and voter suppression and the whole ass electoral college that y’all barely have a grasp on.

black people in the south vote blue and get shadowed out by white people that vote red. and then the state turns red. and then people yell at black people and nonvoters, all while ignoring radicals/leftists/progressives in southern states working harder than your average Blue state citizen to flip senate/house/local seats in any way they can. and then those blue state citizens will make jokes about innocent people dying in hurricanes and natural disasters and dying at the hands of the very structures they claim to be against. im so damn tired.

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Please, people currently freaking out about the numbers, you have to try to calm yourselves down (myself included) if you don't, you are playing into Trump's plan to disenfranchise mail-in voters.

The election is NOT going to be decided tonight! No matter what the media is trying to push.

Mail in votes count as legitimate votes, and it might take until Friday or beyond to count most of them!

it’s 2:00 am in the east coast, and if you’re reading this... as a concerned friend, please take this as permission to close your phone for the night and unplug from all news coverage. if the red on the US map is scaring you, just remember... red mirage. remember just HOW many people incredibly voted early. remember that Republicans tend to vote on Election Day and those ballots get counted first. remember that we never really determine the winner of an election on election night. states have until Friday to finish counting all their ballots. we are going to be okay. please breathe, be kind to yourself, turn off your zoom camera tomorrow, and do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself. sending everyone, especially my BIPOC folx, LGBTQ+ friends, immigrant friends, and Muslim siblings my love and strength. we’re gonna be alright!

You can like really weird, dark, fucked-up fictional shit without having been traumatized. You don’t need to justify your preferences in fiction by saying it’s therapeutic.  1) it’s no one’s business what demons you carry around in your head, and 2) sometimes people just like things.

This is a map of Asia. North Americans, you may notice this map is not solely comprised of Japan, Korea, China and Thailand. People in the UK, you may notice India is not  a continent. That is, if those of you who generalize entire continents can even pinpoint India on a map. Indians are Asian, gasp! And not all brown skinned people are Indian, also, gasp! There are an alarming amount of people, of all ages, from all backgrounds, who seem to be unable to process this.

I’m ethnically Asian. Since Asia is an extremely large continent, I could be from any number of countries. I am neither from India, China, Korea, Japan or Pakistan, yet not so surprisingly, I am still Asian. 

Yes, there are commonalities across regions, through the conflation of cultures, colonialism, globalization, transnationalism and movement of diasporas. Sometimes these are all the same thing. Rickshaws, rice and curry can be found across the continent. But let’s not overgeneralize. You can also find Buddhists, Catholics, Muslims and Hindus across Asia. Cantonese Speaking Chinese Muslims! English Speaking Indian Jews! 

No, we are not all the same. Orientalism? (Please look up Edward Said for basic concepts) No thank you. 

Geography, people. It’s important. 

This pops up on my dash every so often. I reblog it again, not just because I wrote it, but because nothing has changed since I first posted this.

What’s cool about Iran is that it falls in 3 different regions of Asia so depending on what part of Iran you’re in, you can kind of get culture shocked a bit. The central and western part of the country is West Asia, the north east is Central Asia, and the southeast is in South Asia. 

To the folks wondering about Russia being included, I want to mention that the cultural debates and angst about that has been going on for CENTURIES. While France has been pretty fetishized all the way back from Peter the Great, there is no question that we are not Europe, even with that influence showing really obviously in historical seats of power like St. Petersburg. Nonetheless, the whole country was under control of the Mongols (The Golden Horde) from roughly 1242 to 1480, and that left an enormous Mongolian and Tatar heritage that remains to this day. The ancient Scythians are huge in the cultural imagination as well. And besides… look at the Russians who are outside the standard “Kievan Rus” phenotype (which most folks assume is how all Russians look.) 

Here are three of the 30 distinct ethnic groups in Siberia alone:

Buryat grandfather, photo by Alexander Newby

Evenk children, photo by Evgenia Arbugaeva

Young Yakut couple, photographer unknown

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AS SOMEONE WITH NORTHERN IRANIAN (AZERBAIJANI)/RUSSIAN/ HAZARA-PERSIAN/ UYGHUR-CHINESE ANCESTRY THIS IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL POST 

And that’s why sometimes you’ll see a person with curly black hair, pale skin, and hazel-green eyes (my grand-father’s sister) who turn out to be Chinese. Mad recessive genes game at play, I swear. Mongols, they really got around. 

some of you people NEED to be fucking reminded that loving minorities will always be more important than hating bigots

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