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my mostly G rated anime (or... something) blog

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[hellsitegenetics]

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[littlestpersimmon]

mutual aid and rent relief for S as she battles stage IV breast cancer

some  info:

The country they are currently immigrated to does not allow mutual aid, so this will be our only opportunity to crowdfund. S’ brother, L, is returning home for a week to arrange paperwork for their mother. Once he leaves, I will remove this fundraiser for S and her brother’s safety. Thank you so, so much.

Hello everyone, I am posting this on behalf of my three cousins, who are requesting mutual aid from the people online in more fortunate circumstances. They are three immigrant workers from the global south and medical refugees in a country in West Asia. Currently, my cousin S is fighting stage 4 breast cancer, and due to a deeply upsetting and misogynistic situation, she, alongside her brother and sister, all working class, were forced out of the home they were staying at. 

My aunt recently had the opportunity to come and help S with her illness; Unfortunately, while there, she suffered two heart attacks. I am gathering funds to support S in three ways. First is to extend our aunt's visa as she is in no condition to return home. Second is to alleviate their food and housing insecurity, as their combined income is eaten away by S’ cancer treatments and rent. Third is to pad their emergency funds, as S’ chemotherapy is unavailable in our home country and only available in where they are currently immigrated to.  Again, we are so grateful beyond words for all the help!!

Visa: 1,000 usd

Rent and food alleviation: 500 usd

Emergency funds: 200 usd, anything extra we receive.

Support L

Support L

[littlestpersimmon]

UPDATE:

Hey everyone, an hour after I published this 4 days ago, ko-fi temporarily unpublished the page so I could verify some information with them. Today Ko-fi approved, and donations can be resumed. We are currently 10% of the goal, I also wanted to share some more verifying information on S' situation here, here and here. please note the pathology reports are from 2 years ago, and her illness has progressed since, but I was told by her doctors her prognosis is still very good/ she is very responsive to treatments. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH AGAIN

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[divine-buster]

always fascinated by the geography of high fantasy books. in some books the authors clearly have real world places in mind and its fun to try to place them

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

can't lie it does fuck me up deeply that in flashbacks touga's hair is already long while saionji's remains comparatively short and then you think about how touga in the movie reflects that he grew his hair out to please his adoptive father who was sa'ing him... and how in an interview about the movie it was stated that the sheer discrepancy between his normal life with nanami and saionji by day and being assaulted by his adoptive father by the night caused him to start dissociating... and that it was that very sense of distance and detachment he began projecting as a result of that which led to saionji beginning to feel inferior to and resentful of him...

[anonymous-gambito]

#only mf who will say they only have one friend with a smug tone

[filletedfennysnake]

juri canonically wears a shirt underneath her jacket (we see it amongst the clothes she throws on the floor during one of her sad gay showers) like any normal person would. but then there’s touga and saionji. who are both rawdogging the student council uniform experience in a way that causes me extreme psychic damage to imagine. putting aside the sensory nightmare that is stiff starched fabric against bare skin, you just know those jackets stink so so bad. there is ZERO buffer between the white cotton(?) and their nasty teenage grime. plus touga probably drenches his in rose cologne or some shit, which just makes it worse. and we’re supposed to believe all the ohtori girls want these idiots? it boggles the mind, truly.

[wirm-boy]

Been thinking a lot about the way Saionji sets up the expectations for both the audience and Utena of what counts as “abusive” in episode 1, which allows Touga and later Akio to better slip under the radar

[divine-buster]

in my opinion the only character in utena who actually seems like they could be trans is miki

[dharr5]

every episode with these assholes istg

[optimysticals]

Black Educators Teaching English in Asia

Hello Tumblr-folks!

I'm posting this on behalf of my amazingly wonderful friend Shantá who is currently in Scotland working on her Master's Degree. And that means writing a dissertation. Which in her case means doing research.

I know how the web of shares works on Tumblr and I am hoping that we can share this far and wide so that it will come across the dashs of those who fit her demographic.

So if you ARE a Black educator (you don't have to be American) who teaches or has taught English in Asia, PLEASE click the link and fill out the questionnaire. Research Study

If you DON'T fit that demographic PLEASE share this post so that it can make it to the right eyes.

I have been talking up how helpful all of our followers and mutuals on Tumblr are with this kind of thing, so let's show off how great we are!

Without further ado, here is a little intro from my badass bestie:

Hi! My name is Shantá and I am a postgraduate student at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. I am from the States, but relocated to the UK to pursue my master's degree in Global Business Communication. After successfully passing all my courses in the first term, I am now spending the summer working on my dissertation, which centers the lived experiences of Black educators teaching English in Asia. My focus is primarily for those with experience in TESOL/TEFL spaces, but I am open to participants in the JET Program or other programs where you were/are teaching English in an Asian country.

You may be wondering, what this has to do with my specific program. Since English is often considered the "global language of business," I am investigating who gets to be the face of this global language.

If you or someone you know has this specific background and experience and would like to contribute to this research study, please complete the attached/enclosed questionnaire. Please note that the questionnaire will be available online until 23:59 BST on 28 July 2026

Although the questionnaire outlines pertinent information on the privacy policy as well as the data collection and use, I understand you may have some additional questions about the research study. If so, please feel free to send me an email at d.mcdonaldbey.25 (at) abdn.ac.uk

Thank you!

Research Study

Go forth and share!

Thanks! Adrian @ Optimytical Studios

[angelgesic]

I hate the clingy incestous little sister Archetype so much in anime because nothings ever done with it outside of it being a male gaze fetish. Like wow ok the 50th little sister competing and hating with the other female cast while the older brother is uncomfortable and plays dumb and just HAPPENS to accidently be in situations where he sexualizes her. Im sure it'll do something the next 50 times I see it.

But one of my favorite characters of all time is Nanami Kiryuu. The concept of a girl who idolizes her brother and does the whole clingy incestous little sister song and dance, not nessicarily because shes incestously attracted to him but because she feels like if it wasnt for her connection to him no one would love her the way that they love him.

And them being blood related siblings is the only reason that not only everyone loves her, but her own brother loves her too. Like she genuinely feels she is so worthless and unlovable on her own merit that she needs to cling to touga for people to care about her. Like you would think in a situation where its revealed two characters like this are adoptive siblings nanami would be overjoyed so she can be with toga. But she isnt. Shes angry and distraught and in denial that that is her blood relative.

And then she is presented the opportunity to have sex with (and i say this loosely RGU clearly plays what happens as implied assault) touga she backs away in disguist because. Shes not attracted to him. She just wants someone who is guaranteed to love her no matter what. And your family is supposed to. Because thats your blood. They are the only people who are guaranteed to love no matter what. They should anyway. And she sees those lines blurred in real time by touga and thats not what she wants. She just wants him to care about her.

It breaks my heart to think about it.

[ID: Official Revolutionary Girl Utena art of Touga and Nanami at a dinner table; Touga is sitting back smugly while Nanami lays sprawled over the table with a pitiful expression. End ID]

[finitoland]

revolutionary girl utena: adolescence of utena (1999) - art direction by shichiro kobayashi

[visenyaism]

at the medium-expertise high-intensity low-commitment part-time semi-seasonal call-me-and-I’ll-drive-out outside job experiencing coworker lore at concentrations that would be lethal to the median busybody

[visenyaism]

sideways off a tree 30 feet in the air and semi upside down clipping cables listening to my 23 year old coworker I see seven to ten weekends a year explain how things may or may not be off with her late 50s early 60s I’m too polite to ask boyfriend who she’s legally married to but they also are still trying for a baby. the world is a place full of people in it.

[maggotfeed]

gay ever since he was born

[jakzibi]

yearner boy🫠

[threedollarsdotcom]

our labs are hard at work on a new type of girl who can escape