#*issue

[arget-star]

Unfortunately photocard collecting is a one two punch of dopamine hits AND satisfying my innate need to Collect Thing I’m Passionate About

[queeerbutch]

hi lgbt+ americans, can we put away the tumblr discourse for now and talk about the fact that things are taking a serious downward turn?

an anti-trans bill just got passed on in arkansas that aims to prevent trans minors from receiving hrt, and all it needs is a signature from the governor to be made law. other states are pushing to pass similar bills. people are going to die from this. this isnt a fucking game. being queer isnt just a fun quirky part of your identity. this is real life, and it is scary, and it is literal life and death right now.

here is an article from the cut.

here is an article from insider. [sui/cide tw for this one]

here is a website where you can check on anti-lgbt legislation.

here is a twitter thread with some more info.

another thread with some more info.

[huntloyalty]

Someone recommended me the idea of reading my book before bed instead of fanfiction to get books read quicker but the problem with books is that by nature they're usually longer than fanfiction. I pick a fic that's 5k words knowing I'll sleep afterwards. I open a 300 page book and it's like, welp I guess I'm not sleeping now.

[melodramaticmonopoly-archive]

So I was told that I owe money to a previous landlord and I won't be rented to unless I pay that off. I wasn't aware, but ok, I'll take care of it. But the person I needed to talk to wasn't there. That's ok, I was told I'd get a call back in an hour. Waited an hour. Called them back and it went straight to voicemail. I'll be fine but I need to scream at the internet.

[je0nghans]

Hey like sorry to bother you and ignore me if you want but I kind of think that I unwhitewashing is a really bad thing? Like I get that whitewashing is horrible in itself but that’s something seperate, by unwhitewashing you’re kind of fetishising Asian skin, which is unfair seeing as until you’ve seen them irl you don’t know their skin colour and ahh I don’t know how to say it, I’m sorry! But I just wanted to know if you thought similar or had ever thought about that.

ahh ive seen this topic come up a l o t  this pass week. I’ve seen this post circulating a lot so I would like to assume you came from that post?? 

I basically agree with @jihooms on their post here on the issueWhich in summary: I agree they have a point with unwhitewashing not being accurate and some people don’t know how to do it but I wouldn’t go as far to say it’s yellow face and shouldn’t be done unless you’ve seen an idol live because no one has that luxury. I’m still going to expand on my views under the cut. 

I didn’t think about it as fetishising asian skin until someone made a post about it with relatively got a lot of notes, but even then I don’t agree at all. I personally don’t think concept of unwhitewashing is bad because the idea is to restore colour to someone’s complexion after they have been literally in lay man’s terms - made to look as white as paper. So I wouldn’t go as far to say unwhitewashing is fetishising asian skin because they’re at least trying to restore the colour that was once there unlike whitewashing which removes all the melanin possible. You have to admit whitewashing is pretty bad in South Korea, colourism is in their culture. We all know this. For example, Dispatch, the most notorious whitewashers around, even go as far as to whitewashing Seventeen’s Woozi - someone who is EXTREMELY PALE, as seen here. Yes, Woozi is pale, but he isn’t the same colour as white A4 printer paper. As you can see in episodes of Going Seventeen, One Fine Day 1&2 and their recent reality show SVT Club, no matter what lighting he is in, he is not that white. Another good example is Seventeen’s Mingyu, who isn’t dark in comparison to me, but darker than the other members and he’s severely whitewashed as well.

Whitewashing pictures is blatant colourism and especially as a poc and south asian, it doesn’t sit well with me, so I unwhitewash pictures. It’s something I’ve spent months trying and perfecting. It’s trying to restore these pictures to what they might have been before. I wouldn’t go as far as saying unwhitewashing is fetishising asian skin colour but I can agree sometimes people go too far in unwhitewashing and the image becomes too orange, contrasted and too dark. They basically end up darkwashing idols and making them absolutely too dark - darker than their natural skin tone. This is where I think unwhitewashing becomes a problem. People don’t take into consideration the environment the idol is in, the lighting conditions and yes you’ve guessed it - the actual colour of the idol.

Now in my case I unwhitewash and I’m confident enough to say that I do think I do a good job of preserving their skin colour - though I do put a next psd on top because I like vibrant pictures and I’m guilty of sometimes making other colours in images too saturated, but I work hard on preserving their skin tone. 

Other people like @aceshua and @booseungkuan actually unwhitewash really well! In the seventeen fandom I haven’t see any bad unwhitewashes as of recently but I could be wrong. I’ve seen some bad unwhitewashes in other places though.

Anyways, people tend to focus on the bad unwhitewashes and basically insist of stopping unwhitewashing on the whole but that just increases the amount of whitewashes around. It just makes whitewashing worse because people are turning a blind eye to it and hence, more people would begin to think it’s ok to whitewash.Unwhitewashing is at least an attempt to restore colour while whitewashing removes colour on the whole but, as I said before, darkwashing may become an issue. It has it pros and cons which ever way you choose to go is your choice.

Plus, people who actually do good unwhitewashes are sort of.. I don’t know how to put it.. like discouraged from unwhitewashing?? I don’t know about other people but stuff like this makes me feel really bad like I should stop because of how others see it. I think you should just simply educate people on what they’re doing and how they can fix it. Some people know know how to use photoshop well and that’s understandable which is why these people should be educated.

I’m sorry this is getting long but on to that point with seeing them in real life. I do’t mean to come off harsh but, that point is really unfair because how many people have the luxury to actually see an idol live? How many people actually have the money to afford to see their idols like? How many people have their idols coming to their country? 

Even if you’ve never seen an idol there’s millions of reference pictures and videos available on the internet - people have the resources to use. From experience of never seeing seventeen in my life, I have thousands of reference pictures and videos for their skin tone. They’re really not hard to find.Yes, people may not see their idol live and get to witness their idol in all their natural skin coloured glory but people have resources they can use and need to learn how to use. 

So to summarise, I would go so far to say unwhitewashing is fetishising asian skin. I’m for unwhitewashing if done right with no darkwashing, but I don’t think people should just support no unwhitewashes but instead spread awareness that they need to learn and be educated on how to do it right - use skin references, consider the environment, consider the lighting the idol is in. In my opinion, being against unwhitewashes discouraes good unwhitewashers from unwhitewashing which just promotes whitewashing and colourism - creating an endless cycle.I don’t agree on the point with seeing idols live is the only way you have the right to unwhitewash because most of us do not have that luxury. People have resources which they can use.

[cathackz]

i need a psychologist and slash or therapist bruh. so much weird shit goin on in my head that i want to talk about cant / shouldnt

[lapassionbeatrice]

it's actually so sad that a big part of 20th century/contemporary art is misunderstood and even disliked by a large amount of people who simply think it has no meaning... but no, you just need to learn how to look... if you didn't knew how to read you'd say a book is meaningless too :")