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Supermarketing: Getting Published!
I totally forgot I never actually posted this here! What feels like a lifetime ago, I was working on a series of blog posts I called Supermarketing. I wrote a whole bunch of them and even had a big schedule for uploading them. Then, I posted one and everything went quiet on that front. What happened? Well, the agency I was working for at the time caught wind of the concept and fell in love withâŠ
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THE BEGINNINGS OF KAWAII
No, no, you have no idea. It actually IS the beginning of the whole so-called âkawaii cultureâ. And it started because girls started using mechanical pencils, which provided fine handwriting. After being banished (more precisely, during the 80s), this kind of writing started being used in products like magazines and make-up. And, during this time, icons we usually associate with the whole kawaii industry (like the characters from Sanrio) came to life too.
And what many people donât realize is that this subculture was born as a way for young girls to express themselves in their own way. And it was also used as something against the adult life and the traditional culture, often seen as dull and boring and oppressive. By embracing cuteness, these young girls (and adult women, after a while) were showing non-conformation with the current standards.
So yep. Kawaii is important, and it all started with cute, simple handwritting a few hearts and cat faces in some girlsâ school notebooks <3
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NO OK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!
This is also how the kawaii fashions started! Girls began dressing in cute and off beat styles for themsleves, they were criticized by adult figures telling them âyouâll never find a husband if you dress that way!â to which they began to reply âGood!â
All the Japanese subcultures and fashions that evolved out of this became a rebellion to tradition and the starch gender roles and expectations the adults were forcing on the younger generations. As early as the 70s and still to this day youâll see an emphasis on child-like fashion and themes in more kawaii styles and the dismissal of the male gaze with styles like lolita (a lot of western people assume lolita is somehow sexual due to the name of the fashion, but ask any Japanese lolita and they will tell you that men hate the style and find it unattractive which is sometimes a large reason they gravitate towards the style - they can express their femininity and individuality while remaining independent and without the pressure to appeal to men)
Its so so so important to understand the hyper cute and âoddâ fashions of Japanese girls carry such a huge message of feminism and reclaiming of their own lives. Â
so are you telling me that Japanâs punk phase was really the kawaii phase
aggressive girliness is so much better than punk tbh. and so much more subversive, really. I love it.
Iâm so happy this is canon!
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I love that all of the fan art you can find online of The New Day is vividly, ridiculously tremendous.
Crappily drawn concept for a new skin for the goddess Arachne on Smite, Duchess Arachne
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Crappy post it note drawing of my Smite skin concept.
I recently came up with what I think would be a fantastic partner skin for King Ar-Tyr.
Osiris would work really well with a skin based on the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He is of course most famous for losing many limbs in his fight against King Arthur in the movie, and that would work perfectly with the way Osiris loses body parts in Smite. It'd be cool if he could leave bloody edges where his limbs come off, but I get if that might be slightly on the edge of the gore allowed in Smite.
OK, well this fills my adorability quota for the rest of the year.
Lois Lane Makes Her DC Bombshells Debut â In CHAPTER 37, the ladies get a little help from a face that is familiar to fans of both DC Comics and the Bombshells line of statues, yet new to the universe: Lois Lane! But sheâs not quite the ace reporter of The Daily Planet just yet. From the official synopsis for Chapter 37, âThe Batgirls are back! Check out whatâs burning in Burnside on the home frontâŠfeaturing Lois Lane! [The] Lois Lane [that] appears in Bombshells is a younger version of the character (late teens) prior to becoming a reporter. She âs a ânewsieâ and sells newspapers on the street corners of Metropolis.â How does Lois Lane get from Metropolis to Burnside? What role does she have to play in the âBatgirls Swing Again!â story arc? Find out the answers when the storyline kicks off on April 1, 2016.
Donald Trump: The worst at everything.
The Brain from Planet Arous (1957).
