1. Love love love this sentence and why is the use of the word repressed so INCREDIBLY APT??????????? It feels meaningful on ALL THE LEVELS - stiff upper lip included -
Like if you’re rewarded for// if you’re not allowed to feel / express much of even your own emotions about ur own personal joys and pains - (now I’m picturing the crown lol but u get me) then WHAT HOPE IS THERE to engage with the scary scary scary feeling realms of facing how we oppress & the history & why it all matters that we can thread it all together?
2. English folk culture feels remote and its traditions are often the preserve of the right-wing.
I love this so much for many reasons cos it’s making me think & also the main thing is - isn’t it fucking interesting that I SWEAR everyone could potensh benefit from this in the sense that my personal immediate direction my mind went to was “I’d feel much better about everything cultural appropriation (looting?? Systematic looting in the present day?) -wise if there was more that people could lean into with this - and the things I will let trail off is that I randomly stumbled upon a Reddit thread that was all about denouncing the explicitly racist cooption of Scandinavian ancient culture and extremely (low bar yes but in the same way that it matters cos facing reality, I was pleasantly shocked to see this) - people fighting to say that it’s not just enough to say “that’s not us” but they need to root out the problem from within-
That was so so so so so so interesting unexpected and cool and basically thank you for all of this because OMG yes also the bit about land - !!!!!!!!!
No one gets to sell the land
No one gets to inherit the land
- that’s also something that’s just making me think so many things that I will trail off here too, internally and in this comment hehe xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx but incredible and fucking interesting the way this traversed and integrated topics I wouldn’t have 1) had a single iota of knowledge about 2) let alone had a reason to merge - ✨💖✨💖💖✨💖✨
1. Love love love this sentence and why is the use of the word repressed so INCREDIBLY APT??????????? It feels meaningful on ALL THE LEVELS - stiff upper lip included -
Like if you’re rewarded for// if you’re not allowed to feel / express much of even your own emotions about ur own personal joys and pains - (now I’m picturing the crown lol but u get me) then WHAT HOPE IS THERE to engage with the scary scary scary feeling realms of facing how we oppress & the history & why it all matters that we can thread it all together?
2. English folk culture feels remote and its traditions are often the preserve of the right-wing.
I love this so much for many reasons cos it’s making me think & also the main thing is - isn’t it fucking interesting that I SWEAR everyone could potensh benefit from this in the sense that my personal immediate direction my mind went to was “I’d feel much better about everything cultural appropriation (looting?? Systematic looting in the present day?) -wise if there was more that people could lean into with this - and the things I will let trail off is that I randomly stumbled upon a Reddit thread that was all about denouncing the explicitly racist cooption of Scandinavian ancient culture and extremely (low bar yes but in the same way that it matters cos facing reality, I was pleasantly shocked to see this) - people fighting to say that it’s not just enough to say “that’s not us” but they need to root out the problem from within-
That was so so so so so so interesting unexpected and cool and basically thank you for all of this because OMG yes also the bit about land - !!!!!!!!!
No one gets to sell the land
No one gets to inherit the land
- that’s also something that’s just making me think so many things that I will trail off here too, internally and in this comment hehe xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx but incredible and fucking interesting the way this traversed and integrated topics I wouldn’t have 1) had a single iota of knowledge about 2) let alone had a reason to merge - ✨💖✨💖💖✨💖✨
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