u/ScallionNo9857

Now i am not a big riverdale fan, never have never will be but one thing i think the show gets a lack of appreciation for is that when riverdale leaned horror it was really good. Some of my favorite plotlines were the black hood, the farm cult, pollys death and the autore all of which i thought were very scary and genuinely did creep me out a bit. I think they should of kept the autore plotline longer as i think it was the scariest the show got for me, im really into psychological horror and the thought of someone recreating deaths with animated masks of you doing it is terrifying to me and i really think it should of been for the whole of season 5 as it had me hooked. Other plotlines were okay but i have to be honest the gargoyle king was my least fav but its just up to personal preferance.

for some reason for potassium the saveinstance isnt working and it just keeps crashing, is there a fix to this? thank you.

Does anyone have a photo (specifically with the lighting placement) for the fancy that 2026 stage? Trying to recreate it but i cannot find any photos that are of JUST the set 🥹

https://preview.redd.it/c3v4qr4fpa4h1.png?width=1192&format=png&auto=webp&s=19d5ad34cf5f85b91ac0f003c44b17ce1cb19eaf

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I’m Romani myself, and something I’ve genuinely struggled to understand is why racism toward Romani people is still so normalized across so much of Europe. I have a roof over my head, I contribute to society like everyone else, and I’ve never stolen anything in my life, yet the stereotype that Romani people are thieves is still repeated constantly as if it’s somehow acceptable. People will generalize millions of Romani individuals based on stereotypes and then act like it isn’t racism. If the same kind of comments were directed toward almost any other ethnic group, people would immediately recognize it as discriminatory, but when it comes to Romani people, many treat it like it’s justified or “different.”

What makes it worse is how casual and open the hatred can be. I’ve seen people say things about Romani people online and in real life that would get them condemned immediately if they said it about Jews, Black people, Arabs, Asians, or basically any other minority group. Yet anti-Romani prejudice is often brushed off as “telling the truth” or based on “experience.” Entire ethnic groups are judged because of the actions of some individuals, which is literally the logic behind racism in the first place. No one would accept that reasoning for other groups, so why is it accepted for Romani people?

Another thing that frustrates me is how casually people still use the word “gypsy,” even though many Romani people consider it a slur tied to centuries of discrimination, forced assimilation, and dehumanization. People often ignore Romani voices on this issue and decide for us what should or shouldn’t offend us. There’s also a weird romanticization where people associate the word with some “free spirited aesthetic,” while ignoring the actual history of oppression connected to it. It feels like people are more comfortable using stereotypes and fantasy versions of Romani culture than listening to actual Romani people.

And historically, Romani people have suffered enormously in Europe for centuries. We were enslaved for hundreds of years in parts of Eastern Europe, persecuted and expelled from countries, forcibly sterilized in some places even into the late 20th century, and targeted during the Holocaust in what Romani people call the Porajmos. Hundreds of thousands of Romani people were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, yet this part of history is barely discussed compared to other atrocities of World War II. Even after the war, Romani survivors and families received very little recognition or reparations, and many governments took decades to even acknowledge what happened. It honestly feels like Romani suffering has been historically minimized or erased from mainstream European memory.

On top of that, many of the poor Romani ghettos people point to today did not appear out of nowhere. In a lot of countries, Romani communities were deliberately segregated, pushed into isolated settlements, denied proper housing, denied equal education and jobs, and left in areas with terrible living conditions and little quality of life. Governments and local authorities forced many Romani people into these environments for generations, then society turned around and blamed Romani people themselves for the poverty and conditions they were trapped in. It feels deeply unfair that systemic discrimination creates these situations and then those same situations are used as “proof” to justify more racism.

What also bothers me is that many Europeans will claim Europe is progressive and anti-racist while still openly expressing hatred toward Romani people without shame. Romani communities are still heavily segregated in some countries, discriminated against in housing, education, healthcare, and employment, and portrayed negatively in media all the time. Then people act surprised when poverty and marginalization continue, even though discrimination itself contributes heavily to those problems.

So my question is: why is anti-Romani prejudice still so widespread and socially acceptable in Europe today? Why do so many people continue defending stereotypes about Romani people instead of recognizing them as racist? And why does it feel like Romani people are treated as the one minority group it’s still acceptable to openly hate in modern Europe?

Does anyone know why pink isnt using the older fancy that set for these new shows? Dont get me wrong i love the new set but was there something wrong with the old set or something?

This is quite far ahead as im just finishing my GCSEs but for university what ethnicity box should i pick? I know that there is a romani/irish traveler option but id be scared to pick that as i dont know if that would give me a disadvantage, would i put asian then? Or just none at all, im interested.

I am romani myself, currently in secondary school (uk) and ive been told before that i would get nowhere because im "not trying hard enough" yet im getting perfectly fine grades and surpassing most people in my class? Not to make it a competition or anything like that but do you think this is rooted in a stereotype?

just want to know if i need to bring my earplugs with me or not xx