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#Elmo's so real

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things i enjoy about tinder in tokyo:

the amount of pornstars on here

people just posting food pics

the many men that only post their height; correct in the assumption that for some fucking reason that does make them a women magnet

the honesty of a lot of profiles: someone called himself penis uber and posted a graph with his dick stats. so if you need a dick about now, he's the guy to text and he will come to a place near you

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temperature finally dropped under 20 degrees here, but next week it looks like we get back to 23 degrees...in november...in tokyo...madness

anyone else scared shitless by the weather this year

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definitely too old for apartment sharing nonsense. this guys place i am staying at advertised his flat in a way you'd assume he had experience hosting people, but turns out any time his friends or family come over there can't be any evidence a woman is staying in one of his rooms.

I already agreed to stay outside for the day but now he suddenly needs to get all my clothes into one of his overcrowed closets? (i had like three things on hangers in the room since the closets smell like damp) + he also wanted to take my clothes from the drying rack outside (i checked with him beforehand that i could do laundry) to also put them - still damp - in a closet.

my dude. do not offer to have people stay over if that is how you are living. and has the gall to self-advertise that he wants people to feel at home while they are at his place.

(this is only temporarily because i needed a place for 10 days and the owner of the place i actually live at arranged everything, so i feel even less bad about imposing a bit since he is getting paid quite a bit for this)

also, i feel like there is no need for this. if it's dark outside, no one will check the balcony. he could always say he just allowed a friend to use the washing mashine and his room as storage while traveling etc etc.

on a general level i feel for him, like growing up in such a patriarchial society that you have to do this elaborate play to somehow connect your families sensitiveties with your own open-mindedness...but my guy...this seems stressful for everyone involved.

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hello im the same anon as before i just learned about the new attack which was indeed premeditated. i thought the post was talking about what happened with the soccer fans. im very sorry!

tbh i considered ignoring this and obviously do not know who you are anon + i am leaving out the first message i got, because i do not want to drag any other blogs into this:

do not come into my ask box and tell me that i shouldn't reblog xyz's posts because they are a zionist

if the current posting trend on tumblr wasn't so particularly dire i'd use the "woman putting box on shelf meme" with the word zionist on it, but as it stands

i obviously do not vet all blogs in a reblog chain when i agree with the content of a post; i do not mind people coming to my dms/ask box to tell me that someone i reblogged from has posted heinous shit and that i should check whether i want to reblog them

however, that means pointing out that they actually said something specific (e.g. having no compassion for the people in gaza) and not just sending a dm with "btw blog xyz is zionist"

10 times out of 10, the people who contact me like that have first heard of zionism a year ago and have never done any reading beyond the english wiki since then +

any time i have seen posts like that on my dash they weren't even directed at zionists but jewish bloggers talking about the antisemetic bs going down on this website and in general

as for amsterdam:

it boggles my mind (not really) that people cannot comprehend that making fun of dead children in gaza is vile stuff but also doesn't justify people going on a 'jew hunt' in the streets.

i am beyond making presumptions, but i cannot help but feel that the activism in support of palestine by people who message me like this extends to just that - messaging me or others - and then never engaging in actual activism.

it is calling out racism and antisemitism when you encounter it, especially among your peers, giving money to organisations that actually try and provide help to people in gaza, it means calling and writing to politicians to make your voice heard (i've decided to mainly post on tumblr about the antisemitic attacks going on in europe etc. because i feel like some people on here do not want to accept the fact that antisemitic hate crimes are globally on the rise. as for the support for palestine: i do that offline, because i do not believe there is anything helpful i can achieve on this platform).

so, i reblogged that post not just because of the "new" attack, but also because of the attack from the day before.

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reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

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Girl what

Hey so it looks like the Amsterdam pogrom was not the only planned pogrom. We do not know how planned the ones in other European countries and cities are, like if it's been planned to the same level or if they were, if they would still happen as Paris will deploy 4,000 police officers to the match because of this information and what happened in Amsterdam.

Jews in Europe, please stay safe. I hope nothing like Amsterdam happens again

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habeck verkündigt seine Kanzlerkandidatur als ob er sein neues Album droppt

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i'm kinda glad i worked 10 hours straight and my brain can't even compute this

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Congratulations 😭 and I won't say this is the MewTul effect but maybe it is the MewTul effect.

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no one told me woozoo has a cameo in love in the big city!

excited that they apparently made a conscious choice to cast people who were in indie gl/bl productions before (possibly also networking in the correct way)

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assorted thought on ep 1 of love in the big city

since I haven't read the novel, I can only comment on how the characters come across according to the progression of the show/ i am watching this very leasurely so no spoilers please

go yeong really takes me back to my early twenties. the oscillation between playing it coy and acting on a whim really encapsulates the fun mix between hormones and being promiscous but also acting like your promiscous self is a role your are playing.

and even when go yeong is in his element we get glimpes in between of who is is underneath which both makes this a great performance as well as a fun character.

he seems to be drawn to older men but i am not sure yet whether that is a real preferance or whether he is projecting something on older men he thinks he needs in his life.

the tension between him and kim namgyu is really fascinating. it is already there during the first meeting, but it feels like kim namgyu is immediately enamored by go yeong whereas go yeong eases himself into it. he seems to look for something in kim namgyu, that something older men signify for him, but from the start he seems to know that he will not get it from kim namgyu. he looks in disbelief at times, or looks at kim namgyu as if he's a fun oddity he's come across. at times revved-up to a point where it is hard to tell whether he even sees kim namgyu for who he is. i don't think he's callous, he just feels like he hasn't found his own balance quite yet, so he knows what he wants or doesn't want in the moment but not much beyond that.

and kim namgyu feels so insecure. flattered by go yeong showing interest, trying to make him work in the structured life he's created. the hill top scene really is wonderful. for once, a favourite spot of a character that doesn't feel like the most common viewing spot but a bit out of the way and in this moment go yeong feels a bit more calm and honest with himself (despite still visibly making the conscious choice to use certain "tricks" to make kim namgyu fall for him - which wasn't even necessary imo and i am not sure whether kim namgyu is seeing through it or not).

mi ae is...really well written. how from the beginning she brings up keeping his promise and it immediately sets the tone for the dynamics at work: she is so far ahead of the average societal norms that she doesn't even consider that mentioning it twice could be anything but reassurance. she doesn't care that he's gay, even more so: having gay friends is not special to her. she doesn't have gay friends to flaunt any progressive politics or create a character for herself, she very much knows who she is and is just living her life. she lives a party lifestyle but she feels mature in a way where go yeong is still searching for who he is. he is meandering around, wheras she might be on a trajectory of change but always at peace with who she is.

and once go yeong understands her, they click. i love their friendship, it is such a precious thing to find someone like that at such an important stage in life. and is a brilliant observation of the show how both get austrasized for not fitting in, despite go yeong not being out. even the blow-up of the sort-of friendship he had on campus doesn't feel like it'd be the reason. him not standing for their sexist bs feels like it was the outward signifier that he doesn't conform and now no one tries to include him even if they have no idea what initially made his friendgroup shun him. this unspoken understanding of go yeong not fitting in with everyone else that everyone just accepts and doesn't even try to challenge or find the reason for it.

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CONGRATS TO MEWTUL! 💍🎉

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omg....I didn't read the first one properly and thought it said "would fight for you in a Wendy's parking lot" 🤣

I did martial arts as well but my knee is busted...guess this is the enemies to lovers arc where the enemies part is solely due to a misunderstanding and consists of awkward flirt fighting since we are both too old to not be mindful of our backs and knees

A bit late! Hope everything went okay! 💌💘

I appreciate it all the same darling! ⊂⁠(⁠・⁠▽⁠・⁠⊂⁠)

ᕦ⁠(⁠ò⁠_⁠ó⁠ˇ⁠)⁠ᕤ square up from far away!

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Love in the Big City is scheduled to drop in 12 hours and I’m feeling so normal about it

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i want to say a sincere and deeply heartfelt thanks to tiger balm