Bevendre
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Only a couple hours into Destiny, and I’m not really liking the game. At all. Hopefully that will change.
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I can’t get anything to look right, and my drive to draw has died for the night. Doesn’t look like Diamond’s conversion will be finished until tomorrow at the earliest.
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There are plenty of fish in the sea, but I’m kind of just flopping about uselessly in the sand.
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({so, what happens now? shifting focus to silver?})
Just for the moment to give myself a little cooldown from the serious/dramatic posts. I think it’s good to break things up a little now and then. Soon after Diamond’s conversion is finished, focus will shift back to Canterlot.
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Huh, Papi is only 70 away from 2k…..I suppose I should start work on a milestone thing soon……..
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Something’s been bothering me about people being upset over my portrayal of Celestia.
It’s not that they’re upset about it, as I’ve said before, I anticipated a little backlash.
It’s that some haven’t considered that the situation with Papi is not unlike a happy ginger Hitler marching into London with a flotilla of zeppelins and planes a year after the bombings in WWII, and asking if things are cool.Erm.
Hitler ordered concentration camps and caused the Holocaust, among numerous other things. Technically, those were war crimes, I think. And that’s aside from all the deaths caused by battle and bombing civilian locations.
Chrysalis, on the other hand, captured and replaced a high-ranking official, incapacitated a military commander, assaulted a leader of a nation, and had her changelings (apparently) round up civilians during the invasion. Maybe later she would have done something horrible, but technically she never violated the theatre of war.
What I’m saying is, yes, there would be tension, but it would not be nearly as much as you’re insinuating.
You are looking at the theatre of war as a whole, whereas I am making the comparison from the perspective of the British during and shortly after the war. Bear in mind that the Holocaust was not public knowledge during the conflicts, and therefore wouldn’t be in the minds of the British as they were hiding from an attack.
The point of the comparison is that the leader of a force who are virtually identical to another, who in very recent memory has been extremely hostile, has walked up to the doorstep of the very place just attacked and asked if things could be alright.
I compare Papi in this case to a ‘happy ginger Hitler’ because I feel the comparison apt in this situation. She is seen as the leader of what appears to be an army, and looks very similar (to ponies) to Chrysalis, just with a different color scheme. The comparison has nothing to do with the full scale extent of war crimes or the like, just the appearance and assumptions of the moment.(via mwpriddypinkie)
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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.
So let’s not use umbrella terms, regarding Asians as a monolith while simultaneously denying the regional identity of millions of people- and how about we also not engage in xenophobia?
Are you someone that thinks this way? Shame on you! You should perhaps invest in buying a map, and take a look at what countries are you know, where.
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.
Can we just say Northeast Asian for “Eastern Asia” though? For me that’s what I identify as and secondly, it feels strange to have a Southeast Asia when there is no Northeast Asia and it feels like we’re putting the Northeastern countries as the center of Eastern Asia.
While this is very true and needs to be said, there is one issue with OPs initial argument: While India is not a continent, it is considered a sub-continent. While its people are culturally and ethnically considered Asian due to cultural similarities and association, the landmass itself is part of a different tectonic plate, one which is slowly colliding with its northern neighbor which has resulted in the expansive and expanding mountain range known as the Himalayas.
I don’t understand the point of your response. India is huge, yes, but it’s not a continent. Subcontinent or not. The tectonic plates are still there. They have been adjoint to the rest of Asia for sometime now.
And the countries nearby aren’t even on the same tectonic plate.
Bangladesh for example, is on the junction of several tectonic plates. So is Pakistan. The people didn’t all just wander over from India. If you’re going to talk geographic migration, that’s a whole other conversation.
But back to the plates. 90 million years ago the Indian plate split from “Madagascar.” Since you know, South America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand were part of “Gondwana.” Is that relevant too?
India is in Asia. The end.I don’t recall denying that India is in Asia. I merely said that geologically it is recognized as a subcontinent as an adage to your comment that India is not a continent. I never mentioned geographic migration, so I don’t know where you got that from.
(via espritfollet)
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Something’s been bothering me about people being upset over my portrayal of Celestia.
It’s not that they’re upset about it, as I’ve said before, I anticipated a little backlash.
It’s that some haven’t considered that the situation with Papi is not unlike a happy ginger Hitler marching into London with a flotilla of zeppelins and planes a year after the bombings in WWII, and asking if things are cool. -
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.
So let’s not use umbrella terms, regarding Asians as a monolith while simultaneously denying the regional identity of millions of people- and how about we also not engage in xenophobia?
Are you someone that thinks this way? Shame on you! You should perhaps invest in buying a map, and take a look at what countries are you know, where.
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.
Can we just say Northeast Asian for “Eastern Asia” though? For me that’s what I identify as and secondly, it feels strange to have a Southeast Asia when there is no Northeast Asia and it feels like we’re putting the Northeastern countries as the center of Eastern Asia.
While this is very true and needs to be said, there is one issue with OPs initial argument: While India is not a continent, it is considered a sub-continent. While its people are culturally and ethnically considered Asian due to cultural similarities and association, the landmass itself is part of a different tectonic plate, one which is slowly colliding with its northern neighbor which has resulted in the expansive and expanding mountain range known as the Himalayas.
(via the-chibster)
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I still don’t get why anyone would ever sign up to work security at Freddy Fazzbear’s. Even without knowing what goes on after hours, you’re signing up for $4/hr.
“Economy sucks here. You need to have had a job to get a job.”
I get that, but seeing as Freddy Fazbear’s is a children’s pizza place using animatronics and themes that are apparently extremely uncommon outside of the US, and all narration is done with a midwestern accent, we can assume that the establishment is in the United States and therefore subject to minimum wage requirements as it is not a position dependent upon tips. As such, the security guard is accepting a job that pays significantly less than minimum wage in a time when said wage is most likely around what it is today with the tablet cameras dating the game’s setting within the last few years.
I get needing a job to get a job, but you would be hard pressed to find someone to work nights at a place for $3.25 less than minimum wage, especially in today’s economy.
how many waitresses do you know
A few, which is why I pointed out that working security overnight is not a job dependent upon tips, and is therefore subject to minimum wage laws.
(via panchito-pistoles)
