iara!!

she/her

[lea-ts-deactivated20211009]

there’s this interesting tendency that especially young ppl have when it comes to art where they want to “consume” art by women, lgbt ppl, poc, to make themselves more feminist, anti-racist, etc, and then when they discover these artists have flaws too, that they aren’t perfect representatives of the social movement that’s being projected onto them, they don’t know what to do with that so instead of engaging with these new perspectives they return to art by straight white men who avoid saying something wrong on these topics by simply not speaking of them at all

[myboyfriendpetebuttigieg]

Most targets of “cancel culture” are women and people of color for this reason.

[courtesyname]

There’s also something very paternalistic about judging art from anyone who isn’t a white man by how flawless and “non-problematic” the representation is in their art while we judge (mostly white, mostly western) men by the metric of good prose, good characterisation, themes and narrative for example, when it comes to books. It feels as if the “universal” work is reserved for them, while everyone else gets to sit at the kids table and get an award for stuff like “book with most likeable bisexual character”.

[lamuliz]

Don't stop talking about them. We need to be their voice.

Inspired by the amazing poem by dana

[popsunner]

So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

[popsunner]

Oh! I forgot to mention! I saw him at lunch the same day, and he ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, pointed at this super sweet girl who comes to GSA and asked if she’s gay. I told him he should ask her because that’s not my place and he said he would.

I thought that would be the end of it.

Except ten minutes later he came back and told me he found out (she’s bi) and that both of us have a shot. I said “You more than me.” because he’s attractive and popular. 

But this wholesome dumbass looked really confused and asked, “Because I’m tall?’

[popsunner]

So this isn’t lesbian/jock solidarity but I thought you guys would want to know-

My math teacher was trying to fix the rolling whiteboard and he just offhand said “This would be easier with a wrench”

And deadass, dudebro said “Hang on” and then proceeded to pull a fucking wrench out of his backpack

[popsunner]

Update- after school today he saw me in the library and he didn’t say anything? He just pointed at the book he was holding and I gave him a thumbs up because it’s a pretty good book, and he went “Yes!” Really quiet and pumped his fist and then left

[popsunner]

Okay so today he asked me if I know how to help people having a panic attack and I was like yeah? And he smiled at me and then went “cool I think I’m having one”

And I was like what the fuck Colin we’re in the middle of Tech class sit down and we went out in the hall and sat there for a while and he told me about the test he’s stressed about so we kind of went over his study guide and when he was feeling better he kind of like… smacked his head against mine gently? And I helped him up even though he’s almost a foot taller than me and yeah

[popsunner]

Today at lunch we walked to the football field and laid in the grass and I told him thank you for being my friend (because I don’t have that many) and fistbumped me and said, “You always looked so nice and chill, how could I not want to be your friend?”

And honestly y’all, I would’ve started crying if he hadn’t sneezed and accidentally smacked me

[popsunner]

Thought you guys would want to know-

Gray is me, white is Colin. We’re idiots

[not-today-thx]

I FOUND THE HIMBO POST

[oh-hey-its-harry-the-ghostie-boi]

THIS

[missdove]

Anyone by @gentrychild

Imagine a world where your quirk determines your path and your worth. A world that has no place for a quirkless boy.

Despite that, Izuku is determined to become a hero. Until he realizes no one will let him.

So he accidentally creates a helpful (criminal) organization.

And he (not so) accidentally steals One for All.

May contain Izuku technically becoming a villain but still helping people, All Might running around like a headless chicken to find his stolen quirk, and All for One refusing to just go away.

the full version of my animatic for gentry’s fic

[breha]

it took all my concentrated effort not to cry in public reading the end of the fifth season so tag yourself so i can pretend everything’s fine

[sakeitlove]

YATORA YAGUCHI and HASHIDA HARUKA (BLUE PERIOD) TWITTER LAYOUTS.

like/rb if saved.

[darlingsterns]

i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave” 

[darlingsterns]

at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it

[h1king33k]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B4Zm-Aa74Y&t=2613s

[drek-odradek-deactivated2022031]

omg BLESS YOU for the link and the time stamp that was as glorious as described by the OP

[bythestardoggedmoon]

Y’all failed to mention that HE posted the video HIMSELF and liked every single comment oh my god

[shinelikethunder]

you: “chaotic lawful” isn’t a valid character alignment this guy: …hold my beer

[bearfeat42]

Aziraphale energy

[cinderswrench]

I love this post

[malenamoonlight]

Manaus health care system collapsed today. There’s no more oxygen in the hospitals and other health units. The situation is so horrible that, to not asphyxiate and die, several patients are sharing the same oxygen cylinder. This is a humanitarian disaster caused by the genocidal president. This piece of garbage is sabotaging us since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic.

I’m sorry for this post, but I’m so angry right now… While people are suffocating and dying, the president and the health minister criminally insist on neglecting Coronavirus pandemic, stimulating people to go out and crowd, undermining the science efforts and spreading fake news about the vaccine. I hope that one day this psychopath answers for his crimes.

[snipertf2-archive-deactivated20]

Manaus (and pretty much the entire State of Amazonas) is going through a public health crisis due to an increase of Covid-19 cases. Manaus’ public health is collapsing due to a lack of proper necessities for their Covid-19 patients and all patients are being manually ventilated or taken off of oxygen. Here are some threads and news articles regarding the situation, as well as some donation links.

Article 1 + Article 2 + Article 3 + Thread 1 + Thread 2

Donate + Emergency Commissions (all payments go directly to the Projeto Mais Amor) 

[lqbangtxn]

So, i know this has nothing to do with BTS directly but we need help, please take a moment to read the banners even if you cant help donating money tou can be aware of what is happening 💜💜

[jolivira]

BRAZILIANS ARE DYING ASPHYXIATED IN HOSPITALS

THE HOSPITALS IN MANAUS HAVE RAN OUT OF OXYGEN TANKS AND WATER. PATIENTS ARE DYING.

NEWBORN BABIES ARE BEING PUT INTO AIRPLANES AND SENT TO OTHER CITIES TO GET OXYGEN AND TREATEMENT. 

THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T GIVE A SHIT. WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS DOING TO MANAUS IS GENOCIDE.

please if you are seeing this share the information and please share the possible ways of donating!

“BORA AJUDAR” IS AN NGO WORKING WITH THE HOSPITALS AND HELPING THE SITUATION.

THEY ARE NOW ACCEPTING INTERNATIONAL PAYMENT THROUGH PAYPAL

I am also doing sketches if you send 5 USD to my paypal!!

Doctor Who fandom if you like or enjoy my art at all or any brazilian fanartists, PLEASE help boosting this

[liquidjapanesetit]

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN MANAUS

here some external links so you can have extra information

Covid-19: Brazil hospitals 'run out of oxygen' for virus patients

Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.

Short of oxygen, Brazilian city of Manaus forced to evacuate Covid-19 patients

Dozens of COVID-19 patients in the Amazon rainforest’s biggest city will be flown out of state as the local health system collapses, authori

SE VOCÊ É DO BRAZIL VOCÊ PODE DOAR POR ESSES MÉTODOS QUALQUER QUANTIA AJUDA

PLEASE SHARE THIS MY COUNTRY IS PASSING THROUGH A CRISIS KEEP YOURSELF INFORMED ON OUR SITUATION

[illogical-bullshit]

What are your thoughts on cultural appropriation?

I think it’s often exaggerated to hell as I’ve seen it on tumblr. That’s not to say it doesn’t exist, though.

A white person wearing a kimono won’t singlehandedly kill the Japanese population, and is in fact often seen (with good reason) to be respectful. A lot of Japanese people like foreigners wearing their clothing - they’ll give them as gifts, help them put them on and be delighted that someone is embracing this little part of their culture.

You know what’s cultural appropriation? Taking something of historical or religious significance and making fun of it or outright desecrating it (looking at YOU, j-law in hawaii), simplifying something to an outright offensive portrayal of what it actually is instead of looking into the significance of it (see: geisha, who have slowly become to be associated with ‘comfort women’ or courtesans because of how ‘exotic’ they were perceived to be), racism (wearing a sombrero hat is all in good fun, but when it accompanies blackface / racist remarks, stereotypes + accents, not so much ), and lumping cultures with a common signifier (native american reservations, asian countries, african countries) and heavily misattributing things to them based on assumptions and rumors, which are often racist, especially things that might be practiced or be more common than your average American state, but absolutely do not represent them in any way and sometimes aren’t even a cultural thing at all. (China and eating dog; Indians being scam callers and/or inherently misogynistic, etc)

There is no reason for culture not to be shared and embraced in a respectful way – even ignorant, if the person is willing to listen and learn – and there is nothing inherently wrong, in my opinion, if culture just happens to be a tourist attraction, sometimes. Take pictures to your delight, so long as you’re not banned from doing so. Do yoga and find inner peace or whatever. Participate in tradition and be amazed, amused, poke a little fun because culture is bound to be different from what you’re used to and it’s not always considered good, it’s not always awe-inspiring, sometimes it’ll be a little silly and you’re not obligated to fully immerse yourself into appreciating it - sometimes you just experience it and move on with your life. 

We are what we are because of the way culture has evolved, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to take some random user’s icy take on gatekeeping at face value. 

[carinavet]

As an anthropologist: fucking thank you!

I also want to make a quick note on the term “cultural appropriation” itself: It is not by definition a bad thing.

Cultural appropriation is, simply, doing something that is common to another culture but not your own. Human beings have been appropriating each others’ cultures since one Neanderthal looked over at what another Neanderthal was doing and said, “Nifty.”

A Swede learning to cook stir-fry is cultural appropriation. A Korean eating pizza is cultural appropriation. An American wearing a kimono to a festival in Japan is cultural appropriation. But that’s fine! There’s nothing wrong with sharing ways of doing things, there’s nothing wrong with participating, especially when the sharing of knowledge/methodology improves people’s lives!

What isn’t fine is, as OP said, being disrespectful. Treating sacred objects as decoration is not okay. Misusing terminology is not okay. Forcing a group into a debt to you specifically to the point where they have to make and sell you cultural objects for a pittance, and then turning around and selling those objects to tourists and making bank is not okay.

What also isn’t fine is seeing a picture of someone whom you assume to be white wearing a sari and bitching her out because you don’t know that she’s half American and half Indian and that’s her fucking sari. What isn’t fine is seeing an American at a festival in Japan and bitching him out because you don’t know that his Japanese friends dressed him up for the festival because Western clothes would be totally out of place. What isn’t fine is speaking over minorities as you try to “defend” them from what you deem to be bad behaviour when your judgement is based in your own ethnocentrism.

Human beings are curious creatures. We’re always going to want to see what the other guy’s doing. There’s nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is taking advantage of the other guy or spitting on the things that are important to him. And that’s equally true when someone is saying “Stop abusing our culture” and when someone is saying “Please participate in our culture.”

[beseeingyouinmydreams]

I have never been so happy to find a post on tumblr in my years on this app. Thank you so much for this!!! Can’t agree more!

[cobaltfluff]

so.. I watched SK8… and this scene highkey gave me Ash watching Eiji pole vault over the wall feels … so here’s a crossover (traced)

thank you, Hiroko Utsumi, now I am very emotionally invested in these skateboarding boys as well

[peterkavnsky-deactivated2020051]

you know what? accents are actually lovely. like you can learn all the languages in the world and you still have a part of your own with you. that’s cute

[colorisbyshe]

i won’t ever go on tiktok but i love that other people go on tiktok and find the good ones for me

[panjiro]

Anime Recommendations

I'm bored so I decided to try to do a list of animes that I recommend, enjoy!

1. Honobono Log (10 episodes)

Synopsis: Some of us are fortunate enough to have a partner to confide in on our bad days. In even the most devastating times, we can depend on our comrades for support. Others are incredibly lucky to have a special someone that they can just randomly embrace. No matter the situation, there always tends to be a close ally to help us get by. Honobono Log showcases the best and worst of couples and families, enticing romantic-comedy lovers with various relatable situations.

Why you should watch it:

It’s really cute, I loved the couples so much

The episodes are short (2 minutes) so you can watch very fast

It’s really good to watch it when you are sad or feeling alone

2. Starmyu (36 episodes + 3 ovas)

Synopsis: The series tells the story of the five students; Yuuta Hoshitani, Tooru Nayuki, Kaito Tsukigami, Kakeru Tengenji, and Shuu Kuga as they struggle to enter the musical department of Ayanagi Academy, a school focusing on music. They need to be accepted to the Star Frame Class, which is directly taught by the members of Kaou-kai, the most talented from the musical department who stand at the top of the pecking order within the academy. Luckily, they are spotted by Itsuki Ootori, one of Kaou-kai members.

Why you should watch it:

The songs are enjoyable and make you feel motivaded

The plot it’s not strong but if you are bored or want to watch something more simple then this anime will work very well

The characters are pretty...

3. Vinland Saga (24 episodes) TW// blood, violence

Synopsis: Thorfinn is son to one of the Viking's greatest warriors, but when his father is killed in battle by the mercenary leader Askeladd, he swears his intent to have revenge. Thorfinn joins Askeladd's group in order to challenge him to a duel, and ends up caught in the middle of a war for the crown of England.

Why you should watch it:

Ok first of all I just want to say that this anime/manga is my favorite and I love Thorfinn so much (his character development >>>>)

The anime is really good if you want to binge-watch something

The plot is amazing and the anime showed just the tip of the iceberg 

It’s going to make you want to read the manga (as you should!!)

4. Tsurezure Children (12 episodes)

Synopsis: Young love—it takes many unique and fascinating forms that flourish as children begin to mature into adults. From being unable to confess to not knowing what real love actually feels like, various obstacles can arise when learning about romantic attraction for the first time. But underneath all that, young love is something truly beautiful to behold, leading to brand new experiences for those young and in love. Tsurezure Children depicts various scenarios of young love coming to fruition, along with the struggles and joys that it entails.

Why you should watch it:

It’s going to make you laugh SO MUCH

Each couple is unique, cute and funny on their own way

Really good to watch it when you are feeling stressed or tense

I hope that you liked my recommendations and sorry for the english mistakes, my writing skills aren’t the best 🤡