Why

She had a dream and she realized it.

Hey wait but sit down

This is Megumi Igarashi

She’s a Japanese artist

Japan, the country with some of the most fucked up pornography and the penis festival

Where the vagina is basically illegal to talk about 

So she did a bunch of art featuring 3D sculptures of her vagina, including this kayak, and was put in jail for it

She was indicted again in December on obscenity charges for selling vagina art to crowdfund for the kayak and could spend two years in prison

She plans to turn her trial in to a manga comic. She seems pretty sure she’s not going to do any jail time but if you’d like to help her pay for her inevitable fine and court fees, you can check out her online store. There are little glow in the dark vagina characters.

Wow I’ve seen this reblogged a ton of times without seeing the whole going to jail part.

Here’s a recent article about her from July of 2017.  It looks like she did some brief time in jail, and is currently still working on this artistic effort, as well as trying to raise awareness about a new terrorism law and the jail/prison system in Japan. 

Reblogging again for the updates!

I went from “wow why” to “YES GIRL” in 2 min.

"Witches riding non-broom cleaning implements" gag always funny, congratulations to everyone who has ever made some variant of this joke, please keep making it

thinking abt a witch perched on a roomba, spinning through the air...

Give me someone who has some fucked up tastes in fiction, but is kind and respectful to real people, over someone who only ever ships the healthiest ships and stans the purest characters, but is rude and cruel to real people, any day of the week.

Your goddamn fictional preferences don’t show what kind of person you are; your actions do.

It’s not a hard concept to grasp.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it a thousand more times: No piece of dystopian fiction has ever been a prediction of the future. They are observations and criticisms of the present. 

“Wooow! How did Orwell predict the surveillance state so well in 1984??” 

He didn’t. He was making an observation of the surveillance state that already existed in his present, and exaggerated it to make the metaphor obvious.

Learning and discussing these works in terms of them being predictions and having test questions like “do you think his prediction came true?” is not only pointless, but actively counterintuitive. When you frame these works as being ‘people from the past knew that the future would be terrible’ you shift the entire perspective to one of some kind of nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist. 

These author’s aren’t oracles. They’re satirists. Their predictions ‘come true’ because they were already true when they wrote them. 

here is seal cancan, my thesis film, completed at last!

(please do click on the source to watch it on youtube if you want to see it in full quality)

[among us] blue crewmate and his red imposter friend that stalks him to protect him from other imposters

Behind the scenes: the Bingo cards

Haven’t signed up yet because you don’t know enough about the event? No idea what the cards look like or what to expect? 

Wonder no more! This is an example bingo card we made with random prompts from our list. The list itself has 120 prompts (but we keep adding to that) and most of them are vague and will appear on multiple cards. We’re very excited about seeing the different takes on the same prompt. Others are unique and will pop up only on a single card. 

When you sign up, it takes up to 24 hours to get a card and then you can start writing, or swap out up to 2 prompts you don’t like.

Sign ups are open here!

Got any questions? We’re here to answer them!

How close do their borders come to?

Hmmm…Seems like they touch.

hmm??

…you have to be kidding me.

…..

…Wow….

my weirdest hobby is re-creating memes in html so i have a crisp, HQ version of them to use and edit whenever i need

you’re doing god’s work here

meme restoration. my hobby is called meme restoration

You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?

Still working on Premiere, but here’s some more OP content from my TikTok (@nostalgia_penguin)

My whole family owns/operates/works in Chinese restaurants so lemme tell you: -We chop all our vegetables FRESH -We butcher our own chicken from whole chickens (we strip the breasts/tenders from the torso; we debone the thigh meat) -We use the bones to make chicken stock for our soups -We roast our own pork/ribs in an in-house smoker -We peel and devein all of our shrimp BY HAND (this is what i did as a kid) -We make our own dumplings/wontons/egg roll/spring rolls/breaded shrimp BY HAND (none of these are frozen) -We used to make our own dumpling dough from scratch, but it was a lot of work and we switched to premade but many other places still do this -All sauces and marinates are made by hand (no premade/store bought) -All gravy is made by hand from scratch -All soups are made from scratch -Egg Foo Young takes FOREVER TO MAKE (there are like 7 different steps and you can only make one order at a time) -An average take out restaurant has 3-6 employees (oftentimes family) -Most employees work 6 days a week/60-70 hours a week -Many employees live with their employers, sometimes very far away from their families (ie a father sending money back to his wife and kids in China) -Owners (such as my parents) usually work 7 days a week, 364 days a year (we close on thanksgiving) -Oftentimes kids will be helping out/hanging around bc they can’t afford childcare (I’ve been cashiering since i was 10) SO WITH ALL THIS IN MIND, it’s really hurtful when someone complains about our prices. Averaging $5-$10/person (which is FAST FOOD LEVEL PRICES), the food you get has fresh vegetables, fresh meat, no weird preservatives—all cooked to order. “HOW MUCH did you say this cost??? WHEEEEW!” “You’re taking all my money!” “(Asks for extra thing) Why does that cost extra?” “So what do i get for free for spending $20?” “How’s your pork made? It ain’t dog meat, is it?” —all hurtful things I’ve personally heard and had to grin and bear For some reason, it seems people don’t respect Chinese restaurants. You would never treat a Western-owned restaurant like this. Even places like PF Chang and Panda Express (who DO NOT use fresh ingredients) can overcharge out the wazoo but no one complains because they’re oftentimes being served by Western faces. It really hurts for people to act like my family’s hard work isn’t worth anything to them. Treat your locally owned business with respect. Treat your Chinese restaurants with respect. Really think about the food you’re getting and all the work that goes into it. Think of all the hard working people behind bringing you this meal you’re about to enjoy, a meal you didn’t have to prepare (this goes for fast food too). Above all else, TREAT OTHER HUMAN BEINGS WITH BASIC DIGNITY.

^^^ all of this. Read it.

As a chef, Asian food is very complex and intriguing. Please respect the craft!

cc @creepingmyrtle for the food-and-race project

It’s not just America–when I lived in London this was EVERYWHERE. Chinese food meant cheap food, low-class food. Ugh, I’m getting mad just thinking about some of the conversations I used to have with my classmates.

A lot of the time, there’s hours of prep work ahead of time. Soups are usually made with broth carefully boiled from scratch for hours. There’s usually a lot of different varieties of vegetables going into whatever dish you’re getting, especially if it’s rice or noodles. With Cantonese restaurants, Chinese customers also usually expect tong sui (a variety of sweet custards or warm soups ) which are usually made fresh every day after hours of prep, and is usually served after dinner for free. Sometimes, restaurants provide fortune cookies or fruit instead. It’s usually only served after dinner if you dine-in, but anyone can ask for it and they will give it to you.

And my family, like many Chinese families, will usually order the more complex and time consuming dishes we can’t cook ourselves at home. And usually (excluding buffets), usually restaurants will happily cook you custom order typical chinese dishes, even if they aren’t on the menu, as long as they have the ingredients. They won’t charge you much more for these dishes either - it’s usually comparable to what you would already pay for a similar dish on the menu. 

A lot of work goes into making the food delicious and affordable, so please treat your local restaurants with love and respect.