Not A Classic Rock Fan In Particular, But I Do Enjoy The Genre And Just Wanted To Add My Two Cents: I

Not a classic rock fan in particular, but I do enjoy the genre and just wanted to add my two cents: I enjoyed listening to quite a few of their songs, but then grew tired of them very quickly. I think Maneskin make well produced rock. They have a great singer. They play their instruments well enough. Though nothing extraordinary, they'll probably get better with time. Their lyrics I can't judge since I don't speak Italian, but their themes seem to be decent with a nice message. Their real strong suit is their looks and branding. And that's about it. They are good, not great, at what they are doing, yet what they are doing is nothing special or new. Maybe it's enough to bring back some attention to rock music, but it will not be enough to kickstart any new movements or influence the direction of rock music in a new or subversive way. Things like that come from strong and vibrant underground scenes, wich Maneskin is not a sign of. I'm sorry, but they just aren't that innovative. They don't need to be either, but some people set them on this pedestal and it kinda irks me...

Is it just me or is it true, that everyone who is in the classic rock/ rock fandom gives a shit about Måneskin? Like they are viewed as some form of rock in the media (maybe also as a band who keeps rock alive idk) but no one who actually listens to rock music gives a fuck about them?

Gosh they are so bad :/ they are like the European version of Greta van Fleet (no offense)

My bad but xenophobia is discrimination based on cultural differences and implies that it's hate against people coming from somewhere else. That's not the case with a lot of hate against ethnic minorities that have been part of certain regions/countries for century's. Maybe there is something getting lost in translation as well idk

ykw im actually extremely tired of europeans butting in to conversations about race to say 'actually there is racism against white people in europe :/' cuz no there isnt, yall need to cut it out. there is rampant xenophobia in europe, that is true and its a major problem, but the fact is it would be worse if you werent white. its extremely tone deaf of all of you to make the claim that white people experience racism anywhere when we both know damn well being discriminated against for not being from western europe would be worse if you arent white. as a caribbean native i know this because of the way our diaspora in europe is treated (since theyre both foreigners and nonwhite) and the state of territories like martinique (literally european, still experience discrimination). what you experience isnt fucking racism, and its not comparable to the racism europeans of colour face. just because you experience some discrimination doesnt mean you dont benefit from whiteness and you should all shut the fuck up and realise your hands arent as clean as you seem to think.

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I look at my reflection in the mirror and I can't see me. I ask myself 'is that really me?'. The memory of the first time this happened still haunts me and I relive it over and over and over. Objectively I know that it's me, but when I see my face I can't see me and when I see my body I can't see me, no matter how hard I try. In fact I have a hard time even conceptualizing a holistic image of my outer appearance. Its just all disconnected features, that don't fit together and that, even If I were able to add them up, wouldn't look like me.

I have a special quarrel with my female body. I feel utterly disgusted even by the mere possibility of getting pregnant. I hate the fact that I am able to get pregnant, to an extent that I would probably end my life If I ever did, even If with the option of abortion. Even thinking about it right now is physically painful. My chest hurts and I want to throw up. Just how it looks is upsetting to me as well, but I don't know why.

This has sabotaged all my sexual and thus also all my romantic relationships with men and woman alike. I tends to get with feminine men with long hair, but I ask myself constantly 'what If I don't want to be with them, what If I want to be them?'. What makes it especially suspicious is that I like guys who may look like me If I were male almost to a 't' the same hair and eye color and clothing style, roughly similar in height, weight and facial features. If the men I had dated would have been woman, I would have had dated my doppelganger. Its creepy.

Is it bc it's a female body or is it just bc I hate how it looks? I know I want it to be firmer and skinner, although I way at most 55 kilograms at a height of almost 170 centimeters. Its the same thing yet again: I know I'm not ugly by societal standards bc people have told me so all my life. I know that my face outshines my body by millennia though. But even my face I can't really say I feel like it's beautiful. Its just there.

When I look at myself I don't feel the sensation I usually get when looking at something I find visually pleasing. I wear extravagant or weird clothing and make up, that I think are beautiful, in order to help the disconnect. But its not enough and I come to realize maybe it will never be. I have been living like this ever since I was a pre teen. I turn twenty-one soon. It's been ten years and I'm tired. Sometimes I imagine myself in a male body. Sometimes it gives me a sense of peace, most times it scares me to death.

I have a difficult relationship with being a woman, in the social sense, being assigned female at birth. Being raised as a woman was incredibly painful to me at times, not bc my gender expression, witch was always feminine, clashed with the expectations but my personality did, in a big way. Yet when I look around at other woman I can see the same hurt in their stories. I can see myself in them in a way I will never be able to do with a man. My relationships with woman as a woman are the most defining of my life. Female companionship is life changing. Only among woman I can almost feel what might be called freedom, what might be called peace. I realized: I could never live life as a man. I don't want to live life as a man. But should I be male, am I a man? Maybe non-binary? But what do I do with my body in that case? I don't know, I just don't know. It kills me.

Maybe seek professional help and not rant on tumblr, but one of those costs money and the other is free. I don't know what's wrong with me. Maybe I am dysphoric, but I do have genetic dispositions for depression, bipolar and schizophrenia, so who knows. I just know that this can't be normal. Or do other people live like this just fine? In this agony?

As a side note: This was pretty heavy stuff and I am truly and deeply sorry If I failed to tag one of your triggers. If you feel like it just hit me up and I'll add it. I also thought about adding a trans tag but I think I invade your spaces enough already, so please also hit me up If you think I should take a tag off this post.

Yeah no as someone coming from Europe Easter certainly has pagan roots or at the very least traditions imbedded in it that are pagan. There is so much more to our Easter celebrations than just eggs and a rabbit. We light a huge fire on the saturday before Easter and have a folk fest*. We then roll literal fire wheels through our villages. We cut branches of certain trees and bushes and decorate our house with them. That's not Christian and nobody really bothers acting like it is.

*first documented in 800 ac

Easter customs and pagan origins

Easter is widely believed to have pagan origins. It’s repeated so often that the belief comes more from the repetitions than from any actual evidence. It’s possible that a couple of Easter customs have pagan origins … possible.

Myth #1: Easter is based on a festival of the goddess Eostre.

No. Romans were celebrating Easter 600 years before Eostre came along. We’re not even totally certain that Eostre was a goddess: there’s only one reference to her in the historical record, in 8th century northern England, and it could be a folk etymology.

Myth #2: OK, it’s based on the Germanic goddess Ostara, then?

No. Jacob Grimm invented Ostara in the early 1800s. She’s a conjecture, based on Eostre.

Ostara does appear in mediaeval German sources … as the name for the Christian Easter festival, not a pagan goddess.

Myth #3: Ishtar, maybe?

Nope. Easter only has the East-/Ost- name in English and German. Nearly every language calls it something based on Greek/Latin Pascha or Hebrew Pesach.

Myth #4: Well at least the bunny is pagan.

We don’t know that. The bunny first appears in Germany in the late 1600s. And it could be a variety of critters, not just a bunny.

Germany was thoroughly Christian at the time by the way.

Myth #5: But isn’t the bunny sacred to Eostre?

No. Grimm made that up. Only one reference to Eostre, remember? It’s in Bede, and he doesn’t mention bunnies. The bunny first appears in 1600s Germany, Eostre is in 700s northern England.

Myth #6: Well it’s based on the equinox, and that’s pagan at least.

Not particularly. What do you think might have been the earliest attested Roman equinox festival?

Go on, guess.

It was Easter.

Myth #7: It’s bloody well based on a lunar calendar! It must be pagan!

The ancient Hebrew calendar is pagan?

All calendars were lunar a few decades before Easter came along. If they had really wanted something pagan, they’d have used the Roman calendar or the Alexandrian calendar … which were both solar!

Myth #8: Hot cross buns are pagan.

No they bloody aren’t. They were invented in protestant England in the 1700s. They’ve always been mainly commercial anyway, not a church thing.

Myth #9: But I heard they were ancient Greek?

That myth comes from an 1876 book and even the author thinks it’s a weird idea. He just quoted it from someone who was very, very wrong about how ancient Greek works.

Myth #10: But the Romans made bread that was quartered. Gotcha!

I had a pull-apart bread the other night. I didn’t call it a hot cross bun.

Anyway, Roman pull-apart loaves found at Herculaneum are in eighths, not quarters.

Myth #11: I also heard they were invented in St Albans in the 1300s?

First, that’s Christian.

Second, sorry St Albans, it isn’t true. The story comes from a baker in Wardour St, London, ca 1850. He made it up for an advertising flyer, to make his buns sound cooler.

Myth #12: Easter eggs are pagan!

OK, at last we get to one that’s actually possible! Painted eggs are a really widespread custom and there might be a link.

And it might also be that eggs were an Easter treat because people abstained from them during Lent. We don’t know.

Myth #13: Wikipedia says the eggs come from ancient Mesopotamia.

The ultimate source for every single one of Wikipedia’s citations is a book talking about Christians in 17th century Turkey and Persia. Not ancient Babylonians. Wikipedia is wrong.

Myth #14: Aren’t Easter eggs based on phoenix eggs?

It’s true ancient Christians did like the phoenix as a symbol for Jesus’ resurrection.

But phoenixes didn’t lay eggs, in the myth that was current at the time. The new phoenix supposedly grew in the rotting flesh of the old phoenix.

So is there anything pagan about Easter?

Well, maybe the eggs. Maybe.

And if Bede is right about Eostre, then the name ‘Easter’, in English, and only in English, is pagan. (Personally I doubt it: I suspect it comes from a Germanic word for the season of the equinox. Details here.)

And I won’t touch Jesus’ supposed resurrection. I’ll just say: that’s complicated. Dying-and-rising gods aren’t as common as some people say, and Frazer basically designed the idea of them around Jesus, and Mithras doesn’t die, and Osiris dies but doesn’t have a resurrection, and … well, complicated. (More detailed discussion here.)

Further reading with sources and stuff: Part 1 | Part 2 

Couldn't agree more. The movie was enjoyable, yet still a huge let down. A YouTuber I'm subscribed to mostly for AOIAF content really praised the book series and also mentioned in one of his videos how Pauls character is not a hero but a cautionary tale. The movie may have hinted at this with Paul's religious war dream/vision. I just hope this dose not turn out to be some weird good vs. evil colonizer narrative after all, but I don't really have high expectations on that end...

reviews that complain about Dune being bleak and humorless make me want to throw myself against a brick wall.

listen.

Dune is not for everybody. there are many people who won't enjoy it, many who will think it's weird and strange, and whatever. and that's fine. there plenty of valid criticisms of the movie out there, but sweetheart, this ain't one of them.

hollywood's obsession with making mass profits off of movies that passively amuse and entertain people has brainwashed most of the movie-going population into thinking that all good sci-fi/action/adventure movies must have comedic overtones, and that humor is the only way to engage with a movie and its characters (looking at you marvel). i laughed maybe TWICE during the entirety of Dune and i was more invested in the characters and the story than i was with the last three star wars movies.

Dune is a political-thriller space opera. it's an EPIC. it's bleak because jihad and exploitation are its central themes. inserting comedy into the film would have been an enormous disservice to the story and its themes.

we finally got a blockbuster movie that's refreshingly innovative and unique and y'all are whining because it doesn't fit your expectations based on years and years of consuming formulaic, action = humor media. i am going to scream.

never invite me over again just kidding, please do! i really wanna make out with you