I’m sorry but you do very much need to listen to punk to be punk. it is literally a music based subculture. punk as we understand it today would NOT exist without this expansive music history. “having the values” w/o listening to punk just makes u an anarchist. take inspo from the subculture if u wanna idc but don’t go calling yourself punk when none of the music you listen to is even remotely close. it’s like calling urself a metalhead when u don’t even like metal.
Because gatekeeping is punk AF, right?
oh my god this isn’t fucking gatekeeping it’s the bare fucking minimum to listen to the music of a music based subculture if you want to be part of it. stop being a weenie
MYTH: Americans set off fireworks on the 4th of July, in honor of our Independence Day
FACT: Americans set off fireworks from approximately June 20th—July 20th, for no reason other than this is the time of year that you can literally buy them at any grocery store
Don’t get me wrong the USA is a hell country and most of what is considered usamerican culture is a fucking NIGHTMARE and a lot of us are suffering both in and out of the country bc of it but. There’s certain things that people outside of the USA make fun of and not in a jovial way that I’m like hmm. Fucka you actually
“why are the food and drink proportions so big” why shouldn’t they be??? What’s so bad about nobody feeling like they’re still hungry and also often times it’s with the intention of having leftovers bc you’re not expected to clean your plate at restaurants. Also who doesn’t like a large beverage????
“americans are so FAT and LOUD and CHEERFUL” yeah and our meat is also fucking huge. got any other cool and rad things about us???
“ugh [insert food that is usually either southern food or immigrant food but especially biscuits and gravy for some fucking reason???] Looks so gross and unhealthy why would you eat that??” Because it’s fucking good and tasty what’re you talking about
“why would you take a road trip???” Well historically it’s because due to the infastructure and lack there if that was established in the 1940s and continues to this day road trips are often the cheapest and most accessible form of travel and they come with the added practically that depending on what supplies you bring what season it is and what car you have you can sleep in said car during the journey which is an added level of both convenience and cuts down on costs further.
For most people though it’s because it’s fun go grab a bunch of snacks and a friend or two and go some place it rules
“cringey Americans use FAHRENHEIT for WEATHER” my thermostat is always set at 69 😎😎😎😎
Can we please make the deep sea the next cool desirable “final frontier” pretty please. I want Elon Musk to design a horrible Tesla Brand submarine and go down to map the Mariana’s Trench for commercial development and watch it crumple like a tin can the second it reaches 200 meters
ID: A photo of a marble statue of Apollo edited to have laser eyes and be holding a red dodgeball. end ID
One of my favorite historical deepdive topics is the friendship between CS Lewis (the author for The Chronicles of Narnia) and JRR Tolkien (the author for The Lord of the Rings).
There’s so much good stuff to talk about like how Tolkien nearly broke off his friendship with Lewis because he wanted to put Santa Claus in his books, or how Tolkien got pissed about CS Lewis being called an “ascetic writer” in an interview because he watched him sling back 4 beers at lunch the day before. Plus the fact that Tolkien famously hated his work being taken as an allegory or metaphor, meanwhile Lewis was like “if one person doesn’t understand that the lion is Jesus I’ll shoot myself”
But I think my favorite piece of their history together is the letter CS Lewis sent to JRR Tolkien describing Aslan.
Because you think back on this time period and go “everyone was so stuffy and uptight and miserable, they’re nothing like us”… but then the first ever drawing of Aslan by CS Lewis was this
