wanderer

Miraculous Parallels: S02E09 & S05E09

It would be lying/wrong

I think people, women and girls especially, need to know that if you have a good thing going with another female friend, roomate, a cousin, a siblings, etc–then you don’t have to feel like marriage is like and endgame or something (if that makes sense). Ya know, lemme just make this girl centric. 

Let me clarify. I see a lot of girls having happy relationships with their sisters, cousins,best friends, roommates to the point where they’ve been living together for years and are comfortable with it. And becuase of that comfort with the girls they’re living with, a lot of women just end up wanting to live/stay with their roommates, best friends, sisters/cousins, etc., for the foreseeable future. 

And when a lot of girls bring this up, they’re met with “well one of you is gonna get married” or “no boy friend in the picture” or “well you can’t stay together forever/you can’t plan your lives around each other” or “what about if one of you gets a husband”

and like–seriously, just stop. when girls mention wanting to spend their lives with their boyfriends and shit, people don’t give them this much flack. girls are expected to pack up their lives to move with their boy friends/husbands.

but god forbid, two girls are just happy with each other, are in a place of comfort with the other that they wanna live together and spend their lives together (either romantic, familial or platonic), then people start to criticize them. So my point is, girls if you’re living with another girl and have been for years and you two are comfortable staying with each other and have basically spoken about just wanting to stay with each other, then do that. if this person makes you comfortable, makes you feel safe and happy, and supports you (whether romantic or not!) then do not let people ruin that bond or shame you for not getting married or being with a man or anything like that. like if you  have something good going, then keep the good going.

and this doesn’t have to be romantic (if it is that’s fine too!!).

also re ppl being like “ well you can’t stay together forever/you can’t plan your lives around each other “

um thts literally what romantic couples do? or at least are expected to do anyway, esp women in cishet relationships sooo

You can totally plan your life around your friends, or one very close friend. Romance is fine, but not a prerequisite. Love is not limited like that.

“Romance is fine, but not a prerequisite. Love is not limited like that.” A+ quote.

One of the most stable households I know is a friend who moved in with her friend and co-parents the friend’s kid. They’re not lovers, either. Just absolute besties making a beautiful life and family together. It’s a wonder to see.

@blastlight

reblog this version instead you little shits

please oppress kim dokja moodboard

SIKE! Not today horny art hand

angel dokja

Kim Dokja energy

hahaha, what’s up? its ya boi, skinny peni-

This time I have been dragged into a new fandom, Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint. And like the unproductive little shit I am, instead of making proper fanart I have drawn the OT3s with dead memes. Was I giggling my ass off when I made these? Hell yeah.

also is Kim Dokja dying a lot even a spoiler at this point? Its been pretty much a given though throughout the novel so why bother ffffff

Today we’re featuring dumbass Rat bastard #1, chaotic dumbass Rat bastard #2 and the one and only dumbass psycopath Sunfish bastard. AKA Kim Dokja, Han Sooyoung and Yoo Jonghyuk. 

Anyways, we have to bully these dumbasses to hell and back. 

The entirety of orv webtoon ch12 is just

Tattoo KDJ

To celebrate the first of Halloween, I have to share with you my recent discovery: The Living Tombstone’s remix of Spooky Scary Skeletons and Freaks by Timmy Trumpet & Savage have the same BPM.

“Xak is 14 now and still begs my Dad daily for his upside down belly rubs”

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When I read a multi chap fic and perfectly aware I can’t leave kudo for each chapter but try anyway

Representation - Why It Matters

“They look like Ainu people,” my grandma had commented as I showed her Princess Mononoke. I had never heard of the Ainu people before. I asked her who the Ainu are, and she said, “they’re like Japanese Indians,” meaning Native Americans. “Mountain people.” 

After we finished the movie I immediately went to Google to look up the Ainu. My grandma was right, on some level. The pictures I saw of their garments, their houses, their salmon culture, their faces… it all reminded me so much of the tribal culture I grew up around in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. 

I told my mom what my grandma had said about the Ainu, and my mom said, “oh yeah. Grandma is Ainu.” Whaaaaaaaat? Apparently at one point my grandma had gone back to Hokkaido to visit family, and she brought back all of these unusual souvenirs. Wood carved bears and wood carved bearded people, a mirror with a wood carved woman’s face, and other little things that had always been a part of our household. The little knickknacks that are never questioned, but are some how just kind of always there. I didn’t know that they had come from Japan, and I certainly didn’t know they were Ainu souvenirs. 

Of course, my mom didn’t have the internet at her disposal in the 70s, and at the time misunderstood what it meant to be Ainu. She assumed that Ainu was a general term for people from Hokkaido, as opposed to a specific ethnic group. My grandma denied being Ainu, having grown up Wajin, but my grandpa seemed to suspect otherwise. “Sayuri, I don’t know why you deny your heratige. Of course you’re Ainu, look at your big mountain feet!” my grandpa would tease.

The more I read about the Ainu and their history, and the more I looked into my own family history, the more questions that had always nagged at my family seemed to be answered. The question of why we were always so different.

This whole journey started with a movie. Prince Ashitaka is Emishi, and there’s a lot of complicated history about the relation between Ainu and Emishi, but the point is would I have ever learned learned anything about my family background if this culture had never shown up on screen?

People who see themselves and their culture represented all the time take for granted what that can mean. For some people, it’s literally life changing.

Maybe my life wouldn't be better if I had magic powers but I'd at least have different, sexier problems.