Until the Earth is Freeeee!!!!!!!!!

Very likely that I missed a lot, but I’m mostly going off of the bs I’ve seen from these clowns (China’s included because of the way tankies talk about protesters and indigenous peoples in China; similar reasons for Russia)

and these please 

This was the south of Ukraine.

Bialystok, Poland (by Wojciech Kulak)

Kinda in love with the idea that different places on other sides of the world can look so similar. Something something universal human experiences

Like. Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland?

Miami and the Gold Coast (in Aus)

New Zealand and Oregon

The great plains and the Russian steppe

India and fiji

Gonna consolidate a couple additions/recommendations from others

Napa Valley, California and Tuscany, Italy

Appalachians in America and the Grampians in Australia

Black sand beach in Iceland and New Zealand

Aurora borealis and australis

Congo and Amazon rainforest/river

desert roads in Australia, South Africa, Argentina, and Mexico

Mountains in France and Korea

Highlands in India and Wales

India and Ireland

Australia and Ireland

adding on to napa/tuscany -- southern portugal and yarra valley, australia

I came to a realization recently that I still struggle to properly articulate but: online leftists who have extremely socialist progressive politics but still think its okay to partake in like doxxing and harassment and other toxic practices are eerily similar to conservative Christians who piously go to church every Sunday but still verbally abuse service workers and leave 50 cent tips

Its that same. I guess. Cognitive dissonance between beliefs and actual behavior. That idea that you are a good person because you believe the correct things which conveniently absolves you of having to be conscious of your own behavior and how you treat people. Its okay that you called your Olive Garden waitress a dumb bitch because she brought you bleu cheese instead of ranch with your salad because you can just pray your sins away to Jesus and still get into heaven. Its okay that you told someone who you didnt like on Tumblr to kill themselves because you have "trans rights are human rights" and ACAB in your bio. Its that same kind of Performance of being a Good Person TM while still deciding its okay to treat the people you consider to be "beneath you" like garbage.

Your beliefs are simply step one in determining your personal character, frankly one of the easier steps. The next and more important step is *how* you, personally, treat the people around you. And frankly, you could have the most progressive politics known to mankind but if you still act like a middle school bully at the most minor percieved infraction then you are not a good person. Full stop.

My toxic European trait is thinking I can understand writing in any language if I just focus hard enough

Vilafranca de Conflent, Northern Catalonia.

Photo by imma_alfe on Instagram.

Please include what language your name comes from, if you know. I'm very curious

As someone who's last name is Polish and Welsh, so like if Europe's two most unpronounceable languages had a baby, this is important to me 😂

I know this place! I pass by it every day- it’s Second Story Books in Washington DC :D

It continues to astound me that westerners will say shit like “yes Russia has done bad, bUt uKrAinE hAs DoNe bAD tHinGS tOo”

The vast majority of people aren’t denying that Ukraine is an imperfect country. The majority of people are aware there are bad parts about Ukraine. The vast majority of people will not deny that there are bad Ukrainians.

Anyone with a brain will know that a the population of a country of around forty million is going to have people who aren’t perfect little saints about it. No I would not be surprised to hear there have been Ukrainian soldiers who committed war crimes; quite frankly I’d be shocked if after all the looting, abductions, tortures, mutilations, rapes, murders, destruction and whatever other horrendous thing the Russians have done I found out not a single person maybe sought revenge for that (and no I’m not saying warcrimes are okay but Jesus Christ use your brain for five seconds. It’s a war, of course not everything will be heroic and nice)

Sure, that stuff will need it’s prosecution in due time, and sure, there’s probably things you could reasonably criticize the Ukrainian government and army for (incidentally, many Ukrainian journalists continue to do so, even in English, but who’s counting)

The thing is that most of you who bring up Ukrainian faults use it to distract from the fundamental reality of this war: Russia is invading Ukraine and committing genocide. The victims of genocide and invasion shouldn’t have to be saints for you to not treat these sides as equal. Because they aren’t.

Believe it or not that applies to the victims of imperialism, colonialism, and war in general. I don’t know why we in the west have this obsession with perfect victims, but it has to stop. Even when we advocate for victims we act as though they were these beacons of life rather than tackling the simple truth that genocide, mass murder, and oppression are simply not justified, regardless of how “good” or “bad” the victims are.

People are flawed, cultures are flawed, so stop with this shit of “who has committed the most sins” so we can get back to genocide being wrong, thanks

Look at our smol happy President. 🥺

World Map of literature

The Americas

Canada - Anne of Green Gables U.S.A - To Kill a MockingBird  Mexico - Pedro Paramo  Guatemala - Men of Maize  Belize - Beka Lamb  Honduras - Cipotes  El Salvador - Bitter Grounds  Nicaragua - The Country Under my Skin  Costa Rica - La Isla de los hombres solos  Panama - Plenilunio  Colombia - 100 Years of Solitude  Venezuela - Dona Barbara  Guyana - Palace of the Peacock  Suriname - The Price of Sugar  French Guiana - Papillon  Ecuador - The Villager  Brazil - Dom Casmurro  Peru - Death in the Andes  Bolivia - Bronze Race  Paraguay - I the Supreme  Argentina - Ficciones  Chile - The House of the Spirits  Uruguay - Soccer in the Sun and Shadow  Cuba - Havana Bay  Haiti - Breath, Eyes, Memory  Dominican Republic - Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao  Bahamas - The Measure of a Man  Jamaica - A brief history of Seven Killings  Puerto Rico - When I was Puerto Rican  Lesser Antilles - Wide Sargasso Sea  Greenland - Islands, the Universe, Home

Europe & Russia

Norway - Hunger  Iceland - Jar City  Sweden - Gosta Berling’s Saga  Finland - The Unknown Soldier  Denmark - Feeling for Snow  Latvia - Nāvas Ena  Estonia - Truth and Justice  Lithuania - Black Sheep  Belarus - Voices from Chernobyl  Ukraine - Death and the Penguin  Moldova - A Siberian Education  Romania - Forest of the Hanged  Bulgaria - Under the Yoke  Poland - Pan Tadeusz  Germany - Buddenbrooks  Netherlands - The Discovery of Heaven  Belgium - The Sorrow of Belgium  Luxembourg - In Reality: Selected Poems  United Kingdom - Great Expectations  Ireland - Ulysses  Czech Republic - The Good Soldier  Slovakia - Rivers of Babylon  France - The Count of Monte Cristo  Spain - Don Quixote  Portugal - Baltasar and Blimunda  Austria - The Man Without Qualities  Switzerland - Heidi  Italy - The Divine Comedy  Slovenia - Alamut  Croatia - Cafe Europa  Hungary - Eclipse of the Crescent Moon  Bosnia and Herzegovina - Zlata’s diary  Serbia - Dictionary of the Khazars  Montenegro - Montenegro: A Novel  Albania - The General of the Dead Army  Macedonia - Freud’s Sister  Greece - The Iliad  Russia - War and Peace

Asia and The Middle East

Turkey - My Name is Red  Georgia - Knight in the Panther’s Skin  Armenia - The Fool  Azerbaijan - Blue Angels Iran - Shahnameh  Iraq - The Corpses Exhibition and Other Stories  Syria - The Dark Side of love  Lebanon - The Hakawati  Israel - Mornings in Jenin  Syria - The Dark Side of Love  Kuwait - A Map of Home  UAE - The Sand Fish  Saudi Arabia - Cities of Salt  Qatar - The Emergence of Qatar  Yemen - The Hostage  Oman - The Turtle of Oman  Kazakhstan - The Book of Words  Turkmenistan - The Tale of Aypi  Uzbekistan - Chasing the Sea  Kyrgyzstan - Jamilia  Tajikistan - Hurramabad  Afghanistan - Kite Runner  Pakistan - The Reluctant Fundamentalist  Nepal - The Palpasa Cafe  India - The God of Small Things  Bhutan - the Circle of Karma  Bangladesh - A Golden Age  Myanmar - Smile as they Bow  Laos - In the Other Side of the Eye  Thailand - The Four Reigns  Vietnam - The Sorrows of War  Cambodia - First they Killed my Family  Taiwan - Green Island  Sri Lanka - Anil’s Ghost  Mongolia - The Blue Sky  North Korea - The Aquariums of Pyongyang  South Korea - The Vegetarian  Japan - Kokoro  China - The Dream of the Red Chamber  Malaysia - The Garden of Evening Mists  Brunei - Some Girls  Indonesia - This Earth of Mankind  Philippines - Noli Me Tangere  East Timor - The Redundancy of Courage

Australiz, New Zealand & The Pacific Islands

Australia - Cloudstreet  Papua New Guinea - Death of a Muruk  Vanuatu - Black Stone  Solomon Islands - Suremada  Fiji - Tales of the Tikongs  New Zealand - The bone People

Africas

Algeria - The Stranger Libya - In the Country of Men Egypt - Palace Walk Morocco - The Sand Child Mauritania - Silent Terror: A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery Mali - Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali Niger - Sarraounia Chad - The Roots of Heaven Sudan - Lyrics Alley Nigeria - Things Fall Apart Cameroon - The Old Man and the Medal Central African Republic - Batouala South Sudan - They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky Ethiopia - Beneath the Lion’s Gaze Somalia - The Orchard of Lost Souls Democratic Republic of the Congo - The Antipeople Uganda - Abyssinian Chronicles Kenya - Petals of Blood Tanzania - Desertion Angola - A Gloriosa Familia Zambia - Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier Mozambique - Sleepwalking Land Zimbabwe - The House of Hunger Namibia - Born of the Sun Botswana - The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency South Africa - Disgrace

Reading that nowadays Latam owes everything to the Spanish conquest is awful, but reading some Latam people wish they had been colonised by the English is... even more twisted??