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He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

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It's wild to jump the Berlin Wall of gender and experience just straight up homophobia for the first time. Like you meet the kind of cis men who go coocoo bananas at a man wearing earrings or whatever and I know all this is built on centuries of patriarchy and all that but it's literally just a bit of jewelry. Bro my water bottle has flowers on it and you looked at it like Frollo in the hunchback of notre dame. Pure foaming at the mouth. Jesus i promise it won't hurt you. You want a juice box?

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every now and then the internet decides it should revamp the ole “stop texting first and see how many friends you lose” when in reality you could literally just communicate that u feel bad that ur the only one texting first

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Whatever

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my favs from tellius >.<

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soren doodle.

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sephiran is one of my favorite fire emblem villains on account of being both horrific and extremely likable :D

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uh oh! one of your organs has mysteriously vanished! Spin this wheel to find out which one!

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For sure 100%.

I mean for my own disclaimer, I haven't experienced so much colourism firsthand as I'm mixed and live in Australia - but this is partly also because my mum saw and experienced it a lot growing up in Singapore and she really didn't want to perpetuate it with her own kids. But like I think about the experiences of my mum, my cousins, a lot of my Asian friends whose families still hold these ideas (especially if you're percieved as a woman) and it just feels so pervasive. And then of course it's so obvious in most Asian media.

I feel like I could also go on a whole rant about how racism is highly contextual and in different contexts will be intertwined with xenophobia, colourism, classism, anti-indigenous discrimination and colonialism - and how all these different factors will combine differently in different places based on their own histories - but as you said I feel like a lot of white people are still on an extremely rudimentary understanding of racism. It feels a bit dumb to say "racism isn't black and white" but like, that's the root of it, I guess. Every country has its own history and its own unique ways for people to experience discrimination and unfair standards! Japanese artists who lighten a character's skin probably aren't trying to make them "whiter", they're trying to get them to fit more with Japanese beauty standards. These standards can and should be discussed (although since I'm not at all Japanese I would in no way be an expert), but.... they're not rooted in whiteness.

Endlessly frustrating that the only people who are willing to even complain when an anime character’s skin is lightened by official sources always phrase it like “why is he white!!!” and “she’s so whitewashed in this picture” and “[japanese company] when non-white people exist:” like do you genuinely not realize that non-white people can be racist??? Do you genuinely think every one of these Japanese artists is trying to make their characters look like Europeans, and that’s where the problem lies??

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whoever bought the domain spidersge.org and had it go to a simple html page with nothing except the text of the famous spiders georg post:

Thank you. You are doing good work. Hope you have a wonderful day

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I love blocking people I've never interacted with based off their replies on some random popular post. Wow random user on a post with 50k notes with the worst take ever, I hope I never meet you and will make sure we never do

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so few people understand the art of the pseudo nap

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I get real "I'm at soup" vibes from some media crit

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Petting Sommie from Fire Emblem Engage