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People’s propensity towards making anime characters white when there’s zero real indication of that being the case is…interesting.

Arguments about hair/eye color also don’t work bc we’re constantly given characters whose unnatural or unusual features are supposed to be read as being natural in-universe.

#‘oh well this character’s hair is nuturally blonde so they’re white’ meanwhile another character in the same series has naturally pink hair #would be less annoying if a lot of those same people didn’t get weirdly upset when fan artists w/ realistic art styles choose to draw these #characters with ostensibly Asian features #bc when that happens it really shows how it’s not just a silly fun head canon but a presumption of whiteness as the default

taking a break from corny shonen boys in favor of the green yuri 🫡

There’s an old tokrev meta that I came across claiming that Kazutora’s story/arc is about. abuse and this might be nitpicking but…it really isn’t, imo? Kazutora’s history with abuse is the context through which the readers understand why he thinks and behaves the way he does but the core of his arc imo is more so about 1. how these kids, who are all entrenched in violence, rationalize and justify the violence they enact against each other (tangential but as contradictory as it may seem (and as contradictory as their logic is) irl gangs actually do follow strict codes of conduct & moral frameworks) and 2. being confronted and coming to terms with the harm that you’ve caused yourself and the people around you.

Tbh, w/ the exception of the Shiba family, the majority of the abuse & neglect in tokrev primarily just backstory for the characters. Which, tbf, does make sense bc the average kid from a normal & stable environment isn’t going to end up in motorcycle gang by age 12.

#tokyo revengers

As someone who grew up going to church & in a culturally Christian country, Japan's culture re: suicide, but especially how suicide used to be treated as a form of accountability or repentance, is weirdly fascinating to me. Like, I wonder how much of its history of normalizing suicide and how it may intersect with other social issues contributes to why the country struggles so much to lower its suicide rates.

#tw sui talk #ended up on a internet rabbit hole about how it wasn't entirely uncommon for parents of criminals to kill themselves & their kids in japan #until more recently after reading a b*ha meta #the fact that while su*cide is not really something that can ever be seen as a positive anymore there's still also a history of #normalization is interesting to me #i was thankfully never explicitly taught it was a sin or anything but obviously it still influences how people talk about it here #also thank god my mother agreed to raise me in a liberal protestant church and not the orthodox church bc that would've been nightmare fuel

the chairs at the coffee shop i'm working out of today are too tall for me to keep my feet on the ground but my go to alternative of sitting cross-legged in the chair is also a no go bc the seats are too narrow...

#when you're in your late twenties but you look like a kid bc you're short & can't sit in a chair w/o your feet dangling in the air

noutise

Is anyone looking forward to the new Haikyuu!! movie?

i need someone to explain to me why japanese kids/teens wear their school uniforms to funerals, is it just because it's probably the most formal clothing they own or...?

amortmiux

RAHHHH

rhinco

i love you semicolon. no one look at my 80 word sentence

creekfiend

in general I find that "why did someone behave this way" is almost always answered by "behaving otherwise was too difficult and frightening for them at the time," and then you have to dig into why that is. people behave in ways that feel 1. easy for them (do not require much thought or effort) 2. accessible to them (patterns that have worked many times before) and 3. safe for them (apparently predictable outcome)

this is true even for behavior that is absolutely horrific and totally unacceptable. which can be a tough thing to accept, I think.

quotespile

“My anger scares me, my fear scares me, and somewhere in there is shame, too — why am I so enraged and so scared? I am afraid of going to bed and of waking up; afraid of tomorrow and of all the tomorrows after.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

My brain runs through what I want to say faster than I can get it out in a post, so sometimes I'll post something and then come back to it later, only to realize it's full of typos and incomplete sentences that I didn't notice as I was writing it because my mind filled in all the blanks for me.

#this is why i need to let things sit in my drafts #me: *thinking i made a post clearly outlining my thoughts*#anyone who actually reads this blog: wow this is gibberish

morphogenetic

(wanting to make a post about something but it reveals too much about your personal life) i have had a negative experience

Genuinely so confused by people who talk about Dostoevsky like he was a progressive dissident. As soon as his life was spared from execution, he became a devout tsarist, and most of his writing is about how he thought Imperial Russia and the Orthodox Church were the last bastions of the civilized world and that they were under constant threat of collapse at the hands of degenerate atheists and socialists.

#I think people only ever heard about how he was almost executed for participating in socialist reading circles #so they kind of gloss over the fact most of his writing actually mocks them #(makes specific references to his contemporaries like Turgenev and ridicules them too! It's actually kind of funny.)#his work is interesting but good ol' fedka was no dissident

bananonbinary

weird take about fiction: sometimes, actions that would be abusive in real life, hit different in a story. and sometimes i see people react very very strongly to those actions, and i totally get it, because like, that can be extremely triggering and ymmv on whether its handled well or not, but it always makes me a bit. hm.

like, i think the most obvious one is slapping/hitting. in real life, there is basically no situation where that is acceptable, unless you're actively defending yourself/someone else. but fiction is inherently larger than life, its about how it feels, subjectively, over what actually happens, literally. sometimes a character who has never before been violent will hit someone, and it's intended as like, an indicator of how fucked up everything is. that shit is going down. or, a character will trash a room, throwing things and destroying everything in their path. and then its never mentioned again, everything just continues as if they HADNT destroyed their own and other people's property in a frankly terrifying display, because it was just a cathartic moment to represent the storm of emotions the person was feeling. and when i see people like 'this character is an abuser, the story needs to address this,' i think maybe its actually okay for fictional characters to do shitty things and not have it framed as shitty, by the story itself or even on any sort of meta level, with the intended audience reaction. sometimes the point is just to resonate with your emotions, not to dissect the literal sequence of events.

bananonbinary

like obviously ive been on the 'you can portray whatever you want in fiction, its all a pretend game' train forever. but i think the important thing to me here is that, you can also defend bad things in fiction. not just 'they did everything wrong and i love that,' but even 'they were 100% justified when they did [thing that would be extremely bad irl].' cause its like, ok, they did do that, but like it was the only way to tell the story well. dont worry about it.

#like there're topics i personally don't want to interact w/ esp not in certain formats but #most fiction isn't going to be a morality play #nor will it always follow real world standards or logic that's why suspension of disbelief is a thing

seirxi

I absolutely adore your drawing of kirishima in your last watch drawings, him doing the little peace sign is so so so so cute. I feel bad for asking, but would it be okay if I used that as my pfp with credit?? I just love it so much^^

yeah sure! Here he is on his own without all the text

#Kiri and Shouto are so cute here wahh

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