Thanks to AuroraLive for the request!
This time I draw a picture of eating cake for Rin's birthday~ 🎁
In addition, Rin’s birthday goods have also been released. If you want to know more details, you can go there and take a look! 🎉 https://x.com/nekoyarin/status/1717924605862760525?s=20
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P2,3
A few thoughts when attaching the drawing😳
I go out everywhere in catears, it amazes me that people are so fascinated by this. It's not just doctors appointments, it's clothes shopping, grocery stores, to work, everywhere. I don't leave the house without them, and if I do, I feel like I left the house without shoes on.
But I know some, not all, want to know why, so this is why I'm making this post separate. I do for a number of reasons which are (in no particular order):
because I can.
because it spreads joy.
because it pisses religious conformists off.*
I'm highlighting that last part because Christians, Catholics, Mormons, and Evangelicals to name a few hate anything that is reminiscent of Animism. If you don't know what Animism is, it's the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Wearing the ears or parts of an animal, embodying traits of that animal, having that be part of your identity, even in just play, is calling back to old cultures, some dead and some struggling to still survive, where the belief that wearing a necklace, ears, or pelt of a slain animal would imbue the wearer with the spirit of that animal. To discredit the practice, these religious extremists will call anything reminiscent of Animism childish, immature, perverted, etc. as if to place their own spiritual values as more a credible practice.
The fact that I just casually walk outside, everywhere, with catears on and literally no one thinks I'm immature for it, and in fact, spreads joy and happiness where I walk is extremely aggravating for these religious fanatics. And this leads right into my fourth and possibly the most important reason for me choosing to wear the catears:
My ancestors wore the pelts of animals for this exact purpose as part of their religious beliefs.
Now many consider the religion and it's faith dead, especially in modern times, but enough of the religion survives through common culture and historical record that I wholeheartedly disagree. In that vein, my choice to wear catears is in part religious or spiritual in nature. While a pelt would be more formal, I live in a world where human negligence has endangered many species and I wish not to contribute to the ongoing environmental harm we passively inflict by deliberately going out and hunting for a wild cat pelt to drape about my shoulders (also in part because I think I'd get fucking killed if I'm being realistic). The catears for me, are a modernization of the spirituality. It's a personal choice, and one I don't feel the need to defend further past this point. I encourage others to wear the ear-headband of their choice for their own personal aesthetic or religious reasons. If you like them, wear them, even just in play, they're harmless. Assign your own meaning and reasons for doing so at whim.
As an aside: "TK" as a nickname was not something I expected when I came up with the name Tali Sidekick ... not sure how I feel about that yet.
I am crying so much rn-
while chatting with @monosanimegenericzone the glorious idea came that the bebis play video games. And one of the games was among us...
I am literally wheezing rn
It pisses me off wikipedia has the gall to say "JK Rowling misgendered a group of transwomen" when she was listing off SEXUAL OFFENDERS. DID THEY NOT FUCKING LOOK AT THE TWEETS BEFORE WRITING SUCH GARBAGE? Predators absolutely deserve to be "misgendered." And it's a locked page. No way to report it.
context is a luxury only afforded to the guys committing the sexual offenses (did you ever think that maybe they wouldn't have done it if they hadn't been misgendered? what if that 14 year old girl was mean to him?) and never to the people accurately describing them as men
like wikipedia is supposed* to be neutral and the concept of misgendering in general is so not neutral, there's no value judgment in the statement "this man is male" but we're supposed to act like it's incitement to violence