life after coffee

and several other "coherent" thoughts

[zoomar]

Have you had your dinner?

[flamingthespian]

[blackvelvetofnight]

love when creatures sniff your hand and are like. ah understood

[legbootlegit]

How to make a bug kisser 😘🐛

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Bug Kisser; allows the wielder to safely kiss bugs (and other size class tiny and below creatures)

[ts-parallels]

all too well (10 minute version) // t.s.

[unbotheredmuse]

[podle5]

why not both?

[lancelought]

oh you’re insufferable? *suffers you easily and gladly*

[goodomensbutwrong]

Gabriel: “Sleepy” sounds so much better than “tired”. Everyone needs to stop saying “tired” and start saying "sleepy”.

Aziraphale: I’m so sleepy of your shit.

[stars-bean]

The Aristocats (1970) dir. Wolfgang Reitherman

[coffeefueledsassmachine-blog]

#cat

[8-bitstories-deactivated2020062]

[hohslop]

if y’all aren’t stanning simu liu already, tHEN WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE??

[coffeefueledsassmachine-blog]

FINALLY!

[indiedrone]

but mom how will other people know that you, a white Texan, are a Christian

[fullblownpanic-deactivated20141]

same

[paroxetini]

Jesus

[ahs-delrey]

I bet those two are couple now..

[fullblownpanic-deactivated20141]

I’m gay

[indiedrone]

me too

[kateordie]

This is such a great story

[indiedrone]

update from Houston pride 2019! we’re friends

[tiktokarchive]

[pizzanet-blog1]

whoever created chinese food is my hero

[panducky]

probably the chinese

[sixpenceee]

A compilation of dog halloween costumes too good for this earth. You can view my halloween tag here: http://sixpenceee.com/tagged/halloween/

[cookiecarnival]

[maritsa-met-deactivated20210227]

The Racist Backlash Against Marie Kondo

The sneering and commodification of the Japanese author and host reveals a truth: White people really don’t like it when they feel like an

“In a 2016 feature for The New York Times, Taffy Brodesser-Akner took note of this palpable dislike American women seemed to have simmering under the surface at a conference for the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). While the women all had varying organizational methods, they were “fairly unified in their disdain for this Japanese interloper.” One member told Brodesser-Akner that Tidying Up is a good book only if “you’re a 20-something Japanese girl and you live at home and you still have a bunch of your Hello Kitty toys and stuff.” Brodesser-Akner notes this was not the only statement she heard during the convention that displayed an “aggressive xenophobia and racism” towards Kondo, but it was the only one appropriate enough to publish in the NYT.

Brodesser-Akner noticed many of the women felt they could’ve easily come up with Kondo’s methods, and were a bit begrudging about giving her her full due. It’s easy to see this thinking reflected today. Sarah Knight, author of the book The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, has made a lucrative platform off of being the antithesis to Kondo, copying everything from Kondo’s naming convention to cover design. “I too enjoyed Kondo but *mental* decluttering was largely unrepresented in her book,” wrote Knight on Twitter, ignoring that mental decluttering is the central tenet to Kondo’s ideology. Peter Walsh, from TLC’s Clean Sweep, went on the Rachael Ray show alongside Kondo to demonstrate his methods; the audience, a majority white women, seemed distinctly unimpressed with Kondo (needing to be coaxed to applause by Ray), but gave Walsh a wave of ecstatic sighs when he suggested you can store belts in a paper organizer.

There’s this sense that no one is actually listening to Kondo. She’s been reduced to an anime caricature, a fantasy creature who paradoxically both elicits dread and is easily dismissed because of her stature. White women writers found a way to profit off their collective disdain for her, and her intended meaning has just gotten buried and buried under think pieces repeatedly renumerating how wrong she is. She literally just wants to help people declutter so their physical belongings no longer take a mental toll on their well-being.”