Salty Crys noises

Just a personal blog full of random things, from fandom otp's to rp otps to headcanons.

[buzzfeed]

This Woman Helped A Little Boy Overcome His Fear Of Sleeping Alone By Painting An Awesome Galaxy In His Room

[outspokenimperfection]

she tryna do this for me too or…

[maarjanichill-3-deactivated2017]

Honestly..

[weloveshortvideos]

there’s a goat! why is there a goat!? oh my god! there’s a fucking lama!

[yourweeaboobs]

PLEASEEE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD UNMUTE THIS HE’S SO PERPLEXED

[artdad]

yea im into bdsm

Beautiful Dogs Surrounding Me

[tinybed]

dog #1 is nervous for the big show, dog #2 comforts him

[plumeternal]

i love this story

[senkkeidraws]

calling attention to: reaper’s waist

[hwoaarang]

You look like you’ve seen a ghost.

[lavender-insights]

[bob-belcher]

[mangopapi-deactivated20210928]

Awwwww

[n0kiv]

My sensitive self can’t take this. this is beautiful 😫😢💕

[onlyblackgirl]

I love Gordon.

[bitter-and-queer]

She’s blind and he was making all the points about the pie in a way she could respond to: sound. He is an amazing man

[steven-universe-official-deacti]

My favourite thing about Overwatch “Discourse” (and fandom discourse in general) isn’t the discourse itself but rather the people who genuinely believe this kind of thing is a benefit to certain social groups.

Like… people are supposed to believe that bored and bitter teenagers arguing over fictional character’s sexualities is social justice. That’s the real comedy here.

[ad-hominem-sappies-deactivated2]

And that it some how applies to everything in the earths motion

[daphnis-is-screaming]

What fandom discourse looks like to some people:

What it actually is: 

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[cantaloupejackaloupe]

for anyone who doesnt play overwatch, heres essentially whats going on in no particular order

symmetra, someone who’s INDIAN and likely practices HINDUISM if anything at all, was given a CHINESE QIPAO skin and the skin is literally called QIPAO and its still sexualized, bc apparently qipaos and chinese clothing arent constantly sexualized enough

mercy, some WHITE WOMAN, was given a skin based off chinese new year colours, and even worse, a highlight intro where she, a WHITE WOMAN, writes the CHINESE character for good fortune

tracer, a WHITE WOMAN, was given a highlight intro where she does the CHINESE lion dance, the very traditional and culturally important CHINESE lion dance

YELLOW-FACE zenyatta, winston, reinhardt, and roadhog to give them journey to the west themed skins, these four NOT CHINESE characters are given very CHINESE themed character skins

YELLOW-FACE ana’s skin, you know, ana, the dark skinned ARAB MUSLIM WOMAN FROM EGYPT

using CHINESE CULTURE as an ~EXOTIC~ aesthetic for tons of sprays

junkrat, who is NOT chinese, has a voice line where he speaks a CHINESE phrase for good fortune in the new year, and is deckd out in CHINESE fireworks which are actually CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT and used in CHINESE new year festivals for a reason

in short this event is a fucking racist mess

[skycompass]

Okay, this has to be one of the most misinformed posts I’ve seen about Overwatch, so sit your ass down as I refute this point by point. (If you need credentials I’m actually Chinese plus I play Overwatch on a regular basis :V)

First of all, Lunar New Year is not a religious celebration. It is just a celebration of the new year on the lunar calendar, as the name might suggest. Religion has nothing to do with this. Also, Symmetra isn’t actually wearing a qipao, it’s just her usual outfit recoloured into the LNY colour palette. Which is a shame, but that’s Blizzard’s only crime in this regard.

Are white people not allowed to speak Chinese? At all? And wear Chinese themed clothing? It’s not even based on racial stereotypes so there’s nothing wrong with Mercy (and everyone else’s outfit). There’s only one Chinese person in the Overwatch cast. Did you really expect them to load everything on just her and ignore everyone else? I, as a Chinese person, would have been really disappointed in that case. (On a side note, I’m kinda sad there aren’t more Korean themed stuff but Blizzard chose to focus on the Chinese aspect of Lunar New Year I guess.)

The lion dance is not a religious dance. It’s a celebratory dance and also one of skill. The lion’s dance isn’t limited to just Chinese performers, people of other cultures can perform it if they are capable of doing it.

Hahahaha, bud have you LOOKED at the skins? None of those four costumes have anything resembling a yellow face.

Please. Go on. Point out the yellow face. Also thematically each of these four characters fit the skins they’ve received. The protagonist of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong, is a monkey. Why not give it to the gorilla? Zhu Bajie is actually a pig. Roadhog is pig themed. This makes sense right??? Sadly I’m not as familiar with the other two main protagonists but I can guarantee if I did the research I’d find nothing wrong.

The sprays as far as I’ve seen have all been respectful and none of them are offensive. Just a bunch of Lunar New Year symbols.

See point above about speaking Chinese. Not to mention, Junkrat says Gong Xi Fa Cai perfectly, it’s not a racist imitation? It’s a well wishing phrase often said during Chinese New Year to wish the recipient prosperity and fortune. What’s wrong with that?

To conclude, Chinese New Year is a celebration that is open for sharing, and Blizzard as far as I’ve seen has been respectful of the event and the Chinese culture. So, OP, shut the fuck up.

Edit: I missed the point about Ana, but that one’s not any terrible either. Just google Chinese masks and you’ll get a ton of pictures of masks that resemble the one Ana wears. No problem here.

[cannedebonbon]

Another Chinese person weighing in here. Everything @skycompass said is pretty much on point. Lunar New Year is NOT a religious holiday, even though it is culturally significant. Everyone is welcomed to participate as long as they’re respectful of our traditions, which Blizzard has been. Adding on to the Journey To The West thing. Zenyatta is casted as “Tang San Zang (唐三藏)”, which is the Buddhist monk who freed the Monkey King from his imprisonment. His character is all about preaching peaceful resolution and the way of zen. Sure sounds like Zenyatta, doesn’t it? That’s because Blizzard has done their research. Anyway, this Chinese person is going back to playing Overwatch and trying to get myself that NON-SEXUALIZED Chinese outfit for the Chinese character, Mei. ;)

[shinywoopwoop]

Yet another Chinese person here… I LOVE just about everything with this update. Everything @skycompass and @cannedebonbon said above I fully agree, there’s nothing about this update I find offensive. I could write a very long novel of a reply to this, but I feel it unnecessary as most of what truly needs to be said I feel has been said and I’d just be adding fire to the unnecessary flames possible. But I will say this. For anyone who fears how offensive this update is, Overwatch is a big game in China. The first country anyone thinks of when they think of the lunar new year. If you truly think it is offensive, look for major backlash from the Chinese overwatch community. Look for it, but I highly doubt you will find much if any at all. If the players from the country a lot of these skins and such are inspired from aren’t freaking out in a negative way, neither should you. And lastly for anyone who feels there’s a problem with Mercy writing a Chinese Character, or Junkrat speaking Chinese is some kind of problem… you need to get out more. Like I’m a recent college grad, and you know what I met a lot of? Chinese language majors and minors, you know what almost all of them were? White. I met so many white people who spoke better Chinese then me, and can write the characters really well. The subjects of Mercy and Junkrat’s writing and speech is something I could see any one of those people doing, it’s not just restricted to Chinese people. And about those fireworks, OP’s argument that they are “ CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT and used in CHINESE new year festivals for a reason “ calm yourself friend. Fireworks are fireworks. Sure the Chinese love them but like damn… they’re fireworks. If Junkrat went and visited China he could probably get his hands on all those fireworks, To my knowledge there’s now law keeping those specific kind of fireworks out of white peoples hands.

[teapartyspider]

Ok long post but I’m so glad people said stuff about this cuz this person honestly believes sharing cultures is racist

[liache]

dva’s bunny icon being used as a feminist symbol in women’s marches in korea is the best possible outcome and also a great fuck you to the grotesque dudebros who have been overly-sexualizing her from day 1 just bc she’s their manic pixie gamer girl/appeals to their weird asian fetish

dva doesnt belong to men

[madreesh-deactivated20180423]

Can we all just take a second and appreciate the way this girl slayedddddd she just did a full face with no brushes INCLUDING THE FREAKING EYE LINER???? Omg bruh

[assgod]

that liner was way too tight

[helmiruu]

Sindragosa~

[localstarboy]

I Can’t Believe We Use To Do This 😂😂

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

This is so lit

[musiqlxvechild]

This made me so happy!

[scallywagsupreme]

These young ass middle school kids couldn’t appreciate this fully 😂😂😂😂

[dragonpark-deactivated20160930]

Black history 🙌🏾

[jjsinterlude]

I used to FUCK IT UP to walk it out & the stanky leg!! I wish he would’ve done pop lock & drop it 😂😂

[toobi-tooblack-coffee-deactivat]

@laforet-noir

[mellowyellowmixy]

Omg yesssss 😩🙌🏼

[matchingvnecks]

[teachingwithcoffee]

It’s time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem Masquerading As Christmas Carol

[bigbutterandeggman-deactivated2]

Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s. 

So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem. 

BUT! Let’s look closer! 

“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.

See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.

Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.

So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.

[glumshoe]

It was originally written and performed by a married couple who created it as their parlor act…. but yeah, there’s no reason to make more covers of it because Ella Fitzgerald already sang it and that’s about as good as it gets.

[lucianite]

FUCKING THANK YOU

[laur-rants]

My favorite game involves a previously dead commander and their scar-faced, visor-wearing boyfriend.