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[kod-lyoko]

[seraphtrevs]

STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

[audliminal]

Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other

[hail-the-villainess]

It's literally cutes when a girl's weapon is as big as her whole all of her

[nonbinary-jakey]

shit you can't make up

[kaban-bang]

[dogpuppy]

[sprakcomic]

Fodongo: Hells Bells

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[boccher]

i think every british journalist should just be gunned down

[maidthings]

On the small soggy wet archipelago that makes up the modern day united kingdom, sunny days are a rare phenomenon. As such, the peoples of england cherish each and every one, even going so far as to write songs about them in their local music. With sunlight in such high demand, to block it deliberately is nigh unthinkable, hence their cultural confusion at the invention of the parasol.

[cythraul]

So if you read the article, (1) you'll see the reporter is Japanese, and (2) the article isn't even about the sun.

Across much of the world, umbrellas are simply used to shield people from the rain or to shade them from the sun. And while visitors to Japan may see many locals using them for these purposes, parasols also serve a far more powerful role in Japanese culture: they're spiritual vessels. According to Tatsuo Danjyo, Professor Emeritus of humanities at Beppu University in Japan's Ōita prefecture, Japanese tradition holds that certain objects – including umbrellas – can serve as yorishiro (an object that attracts gods or spirits). This belief is deeply rooted in history. Umbrellas first appeared in Japan between the 9th and 11th Centuries, but instead of shielding people from the weather, they served as symbols of spiritual or political power. Early umbrellas, such as the long-handled sashikake-gasa, were reserved for religious and political figures and were held by attendants over the elite.

It goes on.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I vividly remember this happening a few years back, when a Tumblr user posted a screenshot of a published journal article about why Indian food tastes particularly good. "White people spend all this time and money trying to work out why someone else has better food than them to discover the answer is 'spices'," they sneered

And I remember someone tracked down the actual article and discovered that (a) the authors were Indian, and (b) the answer was actually a super cool exploration of how Indian cookery uses spices to create contrasting flavours, unlike almost every other cuisine, which tries to pair similar/harmonising flavours.

Something something when your desire to dunk on white/British people makes you erase the work and cultural discussions of POC

[ecl1psical]

ok this was originally gonna be a tagdump but the last comment made me think. this socially interests me enough to ramble a little.

it intrigues me how some people are so focused on calling out racism that they inadvertently circle back into having a white-centric mindset, just instead of glorification, it's demonization to the point of not reading what's being said or even who said it. i wonder if it's related to journalism speak and how people assume based on the writing style or think that the news site,,, indicates the journalist's whiteness? i don't know.

there's something about the fact this happened enough times that two instances are noted in this post, two journalists of specific cultures making articles explaining an aspect of their culture, but something about the wording or the site it's hosted on or SOMETHING made people immediately assume a white person wrote it out of ignorance or hate. it makes me wonder how many other articles detailing real history or culture were ignored because the author was assumed white.

it confuses me more when it's white people saying these things. if you cared so much about the potential racism of what's being said/written, wouldn't you want to know exactly what it is they're saying so that you can think critically about the author's intent, motivation, and background in relation to the article? or to at the very least see who the author is if you plan to form an opinion on their work?

on the other hand i can kind of understand it from the standpoint of "white people historically appropriate cultures they get their hands on and colonize the shit out of things" so it's not like i blame people of colour for being on-guard about the idea of white people writing about "why does this culture do this?" or "why is this culture's food/invention/status so good?", but if you don't know who wrote what you're criticizing you might, as the last reblog said, erase the work and cultural discussion of journalists of colour aiming to share their experiences and history.

people of all cultures live everywhere, just because it's an american or british news site doesn't immediately mean the authors are all white colonizers who want to appropriate or make fun of the culture they're writing about. don't get me wrong i'm white myself and not very scholarly-educated, so who knows, i could be way off the mark, so sorry if i spoke out of turn, but it interests me enough to talk about what causes people to jump at things like this without thinking twice.

[theconcealedweapon]

This is what's so fucked up about "nothing that requires the labor of others is a human right".

The labor is already being done under capitalism. The laborers are already being underpaid under capitalism.

When you propose removing the greedy profiteers and paying the workers a reasonable wage, people call that "slavery" while they have no problem with the current system.

They're not even trying to make sense.

[fandom-man]

[scholarlypidgeot]

@moethh don't hide this in the tags

[stargoyle]

"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

[redstonedust]

idk how to explain it but im never truly comfortable with the way people insinuate that all older folks are inherently bigoted. it always feels like it kind of hand-waves away personal responsibility like ohhhh grandpa cant help homophobic, hes old. well ive met plenty of older folks who are normal about gay people. i think grandpa could be better. i think we should hold grandpa to higher standards.

[draconym]

If your birthday is on June 14th and for whatever reason you are feeling disappointed about that, just know that you share a birthday (hatchday) with my parrot Ripley:

He is turning 16 this year and as always, we will be throwing him a party.

[draconym]

He is turning 17 this year!

[toruandmidori]

[lovesongs4robots]

also i think there is a larger issue at play here, which is how white-liberal ideology around the construction of "proper" behavior has done a number on how conflict vs. safety, and safety vs. comfort, are conceptualized in collective spaces, where for example any confrontation or interruption to actually address something potentially unsavory is seen as an escalation, borderline an act of violence the way it disrupts everyone having a good time, and "letting it slide"/moving past something/redirection is seen as a de-escalation and the righteous choice of "not taking the bait" or "being the bigger person" or whatever self-pat on the back. that is not what de-escalation is. conflicts and disagreements aren't inherently dangerous, and trying to prevent the existence of conflicts by entirely ignoring the issue because confronting it is uncomfortable and we do not want to "escalate" is not how safety is achieved.

[teaboot]

One fun thing about my town is that about two years ago, our feral rabbit population tripled, and while we mostly had grey rabbits, there were a handful of white and black rabbits as well.

Two years later, it turns out grey rabbits are hard to see on the road, and white rabbits stand out to predators, so now we have a bazillion identical black rabbits roaming the streets like lost souls of the damned

[teaboot]

Fuckign SPOTS YOU

[webhoards]