biggest-gaudiest-fish:

masochist-incarnate:

neutralfangirlshitethenamestaken:

hailstormdeath:

shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey:

belinya:

daisyinaglass:

idkwhatimdoingbutimgonnacontinue:

osheamobile:

homicidal-barber:

awordwasthebeginning:

stardust-rain:

today in ‘i wasn’t actually expecting this, but i really should have expected this’: i do a lot of visa application invites for people for work, and the passport first page for just about every country i’ve seen has clear, black text printed on light/white background with maybe some simple pastel-coloured designs. and for the first almost-three-decades of my life, i was happy in the naive belief that all passports around the world were similar; that one day all countries of the world gathered in Geneva or wherever and formed a Passport Design Committee where they all agreed on the general aesthetics for passports worldwide. 

then, about two weeks back, i saw an american passport for the first time, and it straight up has a giant-ass flag, an eagle, a fucking ear of corn, and the first line of the constitution on it, the text is on glaring multicoloured backdrop, and while i was caught off-guard by it, it is also completely in line with its country of origin, and also i feel like this tells me everything i need to know about america as a nation. 

@languagecrazy @misacoh

for anyone wondering if it’s really that bad

…American here and I really shouldn’t be surprised to find out that nobody else in the world does this and yet every single fucking time

I am shook. Other places don’t do this?

I always forget how absolutely ridiculous our passports are.

Fam, they’re all like that. Every single American that has a passport has this design.

Same. I also forget we are ridiculously dramatic when it comes to literally everything

So wait what do other countries passports look like?

White background, black text. No where near as dramatic as yours

its really a cry for help

“God bless America”

No, God SAVE AMERICA

Or you know destroy it, whichever is quickest