#jirai

[hpdamechan]

so depressed i cant even tumblr post

[slittersinzion]

yolo

[losertimeboy]

I may be avoidant , a loser , weird , paranoid and antisocial but at least I uhhhh …. uuhhhmmm …

[dollyseal]

who is Ed and why does he always have a trigger warning associated with him

[hpdamechan]

awww awww I’m so cute

[angelfies]

tooo lazy to cut more what am i good for

[slittersinzion]

Since I’ve seen some mixed opinions about this topic, I’m asking those who would most likely be most educated to form an opinion of their own And see what the Jirai/“landmine type” community is mostly in agreement upon. feel free to not answer, as thats alright. I havent done much research, as I want some opinions on their own.

Is there a difference between jirai and jirai kei?

Do you personally think a person needs to dress jirai to be jirai?

jirai is short for jirai kei, so there's no basis for the separation. they both refer to the same subculture. someone is jirai just as much as they are jirai kei. personally, i think a jirai should try to fit the lifestyle just as much as the fashion. it doesn't make sense for a jirai to ignore one or the other. they both make up the subculture. plus, there are so many different styles associated with jirai kei these days. dark girly, french girly, casual, seisho, suna, tenshi kawaii, subakaru, a jirai can find any style they like and wear it out. if, as a jirai, you choose to ignore the fashion, you choose to ignore the majority of the community. you choose to alienate yourself from the community you want to associate yourself with. that's why i said it simply doesn't make sense. you have to share some obvious similarities with other landmines so that they can recognise you. online, it's not that much of a problem, because you can just tag your posts as jirai, and other jirais will see them and know you're one of them. but irl? if you don't dress jirai kei, how will other jirais know? this subculture is meant to bring us closer together. that cannot happen if we don't have some form of denominator for our community, and that just so happens to be the clothing style. you can honour our history without overlooking our reality. japanese jirajo didn't start out wearing these clothes. there weren't many stores selling them. but they worked themselves to the bone to popularise it, so we really shouldn't bash the people requesting jirais to stop separating the lifestyle from the fashion.