Wisdom Comes Alone Through Suffering

20s. Writing Instructor. Grad Student in Asian Studies, focusing primarily on identity, Otherness, gender, and sexuality in Japan. Currently, I'm researching these ideas within the Visual Kei movement. Horror and Classic movies fan. Obsessed with makeup and Disney 💄👑 Nerd. Wanderlust. Background in Anthropology/Archaeology and History. V系: MEJIBRAY; GreeΣ; MORRIGAN; DIR EN GREY; the GazettE; FIXER; etc... @dozingreverse on Instagram/Twitter/Snapchat.

[fallin-maria-deactivated2020072]

Fan uploads from Twitter- Best of Kyounosuke in the promo truck ~

3/3

His smile warms my heart ~

[inari-z]

［20180306］ニコびじゅ

[bonyarishita]

Kyonosuke ~ Reiki💖

[heresiarchy]

8P-SB - super star lyrics & translation

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[shacklefunk-deactivated20220623]

exchanging grammatically correct emails with adults is the most uncomfortable form of human interaction in existence

[veraxplus]

People who unironically reblog this have to psych themselves up for 15+ minutes to make phone calls

[gravemom-deactivated20171207]

ur fucking right we do

[buzzfeed]

Critics And Fans Are Losing Their Minds Over “Black Panther”

The reviews are in: Black Panther is incredible, at least according to the few people who’ve been chosen to see it.

[fairytale-villain]

A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.

[quarterinthequeerjar]

“If I am unashamed of being queer, you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur.”

[dani-kin]

you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur

[brinconvenient]

EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT BEFORE YOU HAS TAKEN THE ROCKS AND BOTTLES AND MADE THEM INTO SHIELDS AND WINDCHIMES

Holy motherfucking shit. Don’t fucking come at me about Queer is a slur. I FUCKING KNOW IT IS. It was hurled at me like a fucking spear all through my youth. I know it’s a god damn slur. And it’s mine. You don’t get to take it away from me because you can’t take also away the scars it gave me while I was standing in front of my younger queer siblings in this community. 

[jenroses]

always, always reblog this one.

[kyraneko]

If my enemy swings a sword at me and I take that sword away from them, it’s my sword now. And the person telling me I can’t use it because it belongs to my enemy and I have to give it back to them sounds quite a bit like an enemy themselves.

[excalibelle]

^^ god that analogy

[abcnews-deactivated20251106]

North Carolina teacher has personalized handshakes with each of his students. “It was just one or two students and then it became contagious. I saw how much it meant to them.” http://abcn.ws/2jxFDgt

[de-la-poussey-deactivated201812]

Love it! lol

[clarknokent]

This is the type of stuff teachers need to do, form connections with students so they are more comfortable. That comfort makes it easier for them to focus, relax, and ask questions when they don’t understand.

[2xghi0dgh65-deactivated20190207]

“why does that character have to be queer?”

why not?

“why does that character have to be trans?”

why not?

“why does that character have to be a poc?”

why not?

[2xghi0dgh65-deactivated20190207]

this post is making straight cis white ppl angry keep reblogging it

[ryttu3k]

Another good response along with “Why not?” - “As opposed to?”

Just watch them try not to say ‘normal’, JUST WATCH THEM.

[tawananna]

my username is dozingreverse on Instagram and Twitter...I’m kind of over tumblr right now.

[tawananna]

Someone: Wow you're so easy to talk to! I feel like our personalities fit so well together!

Me: thanks i made this one special just for you

[tawananna]

I need things to pick myself up...

Fuck it. I’m going to save for IMATS NY this time. Besides, I can turn it into a nice little romantic getaway to the city for an evening.

We are also planning for Japan in June...just on the off chance the boys are coming back. Koichi is being cryptic for a reason, I’m putting a lot of faith in MiA, and I just have to stay optimistic.

[tawananna]

My sleep patterns have been so fucked up lately. I don’t really know how to fix them, but it’s freaking me out. I already set my work schedule for the coming semester with the expectation that working nights wouldn’t be a bad thing, but since I’ve been passing out around 8:30 and waking up at 3 or 4 (feeling completely un-rested) I am worried that I made a mistake. I might just have to change how I usually function, but I hate it. I’m used to a 3 am to 9 am sleep schedule...but, I’m also not half the world away from my partner anymore so maybe that’s part of it. The shitty thing is that they have a different sleep schedule from me right now, so it’s making me feel lonely. I worry I’m doing the same to them when I pass out so early and we can’t even enjoy watching a movie or something together. AHHHHH.

I think it’s all stress-induced. I don’t know if I want academia anymore. I don’t know what I want anymore. I think that’s somehow really getting to me. I am so completely unhappy right now and I don’t know what to do with myself.

We have a new graduate director and I feel like he’s going to judge me for taking an additional year to graduate. I think everyone will judge me for not applying to conferences like I said I would. The truth is that my research is pretty new and I’d really rather not rush it. If I hear one more person around me, though, make a snarky comment about Master’s degrees I’m going to lose it. I was wise enough to know I wasn’t ready for a PhD program. I am so over the attitudes and discourse that lead to elitism in academia. There’s enough elitism in vkei, thanks. I can’t escape either of them, though. I’m kind of an idiot for studying vkei in academia, haha.

[anxi-ous]

Something is wrong and I don’t know how to help myself.

[myokuro]

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[iamhannalashay]

[heathens-and-kings]

“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.

A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, “She wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!” before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.

I took in the woman’s look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,

“I am the manager.”

[owawaaa]

a thing for one of my favorite posts on this site