Assumption of Risk on AO3
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it’s a lot of fun, go read it! :)
idk why introverts have a reputation of being quiet and shy people who’d rather be alone. have you ever been friends with an introvert who’s decided you’re worth their time? we turn into the clingiest, most needy pieces of shit on the planet because there’s so few people we actually can stand
That’s exactly what all the people should know.
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So the book I randomly pulled off the shelf at the library (because it had a maple leaf on it to signify a Canadian author and the name suggested she was a woman of color) turns out to have a Singaporean Canadian kinky queer lady who works as a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in Toronto as…
People in the rest of Canada often perceive Alberta as a monolith. You know those Albertans: they all vote Conservative, they have all that oil money and want more, they do not care about the environment, they pay no sales tax, they are more American than Canadian, and now that they are running the federal …FYI
Related (earnest) question: is it just an external perception that Calgary tends to be divided between corporate/”big business” types and hippies or hipsters and younger crowds, whereas Edmonton aims itself more at the working class? Or is that something noticed/considered in Alberta? It’s always been the impression I’ve gotten from the two, but I’ve barely spent two weeks of my life in them, combined.
Calgary definitely has the big corporate head offices. While Edmonton has been known as having the worker bees, it’s also full of art/cultural activities and has a tonne of young people — its pop’n grew by 60K in the past year, majority between ages 18 and 35.
Pathfinder
Eeeeep. I just had a quick tutorial with Mr. Hope that felt like when my Dad was trying to help me learn math. *blech* Why does my brain work so well in some ways and so poorly in others that seem rather easy?
People in the rest of Canada often perceive Alberta as a monolith. You know those Albertans: they all vote Conservative, they have all that oil money and want more, they do not care about the environment, they pay no sales tax, they are more American than Canadian, and now that they are running the federal …
FYI
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The Titanic theme played on the recorder.
JUST WHEN I THOUGHT IT COULDNT GET ANY FUNNIER IT GOT TO THE DRAMATIC BUT AT THE END OMG
I fucking lost it at the end I caNNOT OH MY GOD
OMG I WAS SNORTING SO HARD
THIS IS MY FAVORITE POST IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE
I AM LIKE SOBBING
I can’t believe I made it through the whole thing.
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Plus, you forgot an “eh” in the last sentence: “everything outside of Toronto is far away, eh, why go there?”.
I didn’t spell it “Tuhronna” either.
At least everyone else in the country can unite on the fact that the second ‘t’ in Toronto is pronounced? :P
And honestly, I don’t even really use the “central” Canadians thing. BC is BC, The Prairies are always “The Prairies” to me, unless I’m speaking about one in particular, Ontario is two wholly separate things between north and south, Quebec is Quebec, and in six weeks in the Maritimes I’ve already been picking up a lot of the subtleties between New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI.
(Newfoundland has always been its thing because my mom’s a Newf and I grew up on a steady diet of Newfie music and family history. :P)
(Probably worth bearing in mind I’ve now lived in 4/10 provinces - and visited all of ‘em but Newfoundland and PEI.)
I get the identity thing - and I’m not arguing against it - but it is something that was created politically as an “us against them” pile of crap. With some validity, given history between the provinces, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a construct.
Also I am from BC and therefore insufferable. :P
I agree re: Tuhronna, and re: everyone not living there (and many who live there) hates it.
I never knew, growing up, that there was a Central Canada … literally I was taught there was the West and the East. Or, even more painfully, that there was the West, the East, and the bits beyond the East. This only changed in my very early 20s.
You can believe the folks living in Ontario use the term (Central) all the freaking time. I guess there’s a reason I moved back to AB … I couldn’t ever in the four years I lived in Ottawa get comfortable. It’s a whole different world there. And maybe I’m continuing the construct with my attitude. Maybe I’m wrong to do so — despite the clonky conversation here, you’ve made me think some (and thanks to Prokopetz too).
I had to Google this. Worth it.
The sexual tension in this commercial is stronger than the vibes between MCU Steve and Bucky. What the actual hell.
The fandom is growing.
Seriously watch the commercial. It’s worth it.
Oh my gods, did no one watch that before airing it? I’m dying.
Wow, for once tumblr wasn’t exaggerating about the sexual tension between two characters.
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Western Canadian Literature: “The prairie is cold and empty, like my marriage.”
Eastern Canadian Literature: “The sea is cold and empty, like my marriage.”
Cultural differences.
Ontarian Literature: "Everything West of us is "The West," everything East of us is "The East!""
The Prairies are not “Western Canada.” They contain the geographical centre of the country.
That. Is not. “West.”
Contrary to your tags, admistthetrees, Alberta is NOT part of Central Canada.
BC, AB, SK, MB = all western.
I will fight to the ends of the Earth on that one.Note: no disrespect, here, but… no. :P
The geographical centre of the country is in Manitoba.
The literal dividing median (line of longitude) of the country is about a 20 minute drive east of Winnipeg.
Manitoba and Saskatchewan, along with northern Ontario, are undeniably the central chunk of the country.
Alberta you can sort of debate about. But the Prairies as a whole? They are emphatically not "Western" Canada. The only reason they’re called that is because the Federal government is in Ontario, and half the country’s population is in Quebec and Ontario.
I mean, seriously, geographically speaking? Quebec and Ontario are not “central” Canada. The only way they’re “central” is if you look at the terms from a population-density standpoint, but no other country on the planet (except the US, wherein “north-central” = “midwest,” because it is west of the population centres on the east coast but not actually on the west coast) defines their country in those terms.
North, East, South, West, and Central are all geographic terms. Interpreted that way, the prairies are not West. They’re the centre.
I can only tell you that I’m *this* close to being physically ill that a person is telling me that the Prairies/any part of the Prairies are part of central Canada. I am not using hyperbole. I shake my head at you, Mr. I don’t look at links because I know I’m right.
Commenting on the post and the tags -
I’m aware of the historical and cultural things, but even by the cultural definitions… BC is pretty distinct. BC has more in common with Washington State and Oregon than with any of the Prairies. (And I say that as a lifelong “northerner,” from the province where the top two thirds of the geographical landmass are called “the north.”)
There’s definitely a distinct political cultural thing to each term, and there’s established links with each of them.
But that doesn’t make the fact that Ontario basically went “everything west of us is The West and we are the geographical Centre of the Universe!” any better. :P
The Prairies are distinct from BC (and each other, but with more similarities than to BC), the Yukon is the weird link between BC and the territories, Nunavut and NWT are distinct from each other and the Yukon, everyone is different from Ontario, and really the only heavily unified region culturally is the Maritimes. (Newfoundland and Quebec are off doing their own things, generally.)
I’m aware of the whole “western identity” thing (christ, I grew up with parents who voted REFORM), but that doesn’t mean the term is actually accurate - or any less of an imposition from Ontario and the stereotypical Torontonian “everything outside Toronto is far away, why go there?” viewpoint.
I think the big reason you got the negative reaction you did is that, in the process of complaining about Ontarian cultural insularity, you - perhaps unwittingly - committed the same error yourself. Speaking as a Prairie boy, we have just as much experience with Bristish Columbian assholes attempting to dictate our own cultural identity to us as we have with Ontarian assholes attempting to do the same.
While I’m sympathetic in principle to any effort to call out the Toronto art scene’s tendency to lump everything West of the Great Lakes into one big ball, if the only way you can think of to defend your own cultural identity is to throw ours under the bus? No. Fuck all y’all.
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this, thanks.