#ask: nyomkitten

[lastweeksshirttonight]

hello! i'm not sure if you've seen this clip but

i am on a Disney semi-rabbit hole (which i don't approve of for myself, don't worry) and i just found the first 30 seconds of this interview hilarious.

it's like—he enjoyed the gig and did well at it (clips of him BTS are much more lively than these ones) but he just can't be arsed to be corporately passionate about it for promotional purposes.

My response to this is so fucking late, I'm so sorry my dear

Firstly, here's the video:

I also adore how much bullshit he's spewing out in these clips, and how he is actively to the camera's face saying that he's doing these as a promotional requirement. The bold faced lie of John watching The Lion King as a kid was also absolutely hilarious. (For background, The Lion King came out when I was a kid, and I'm fifteen years younger than John.)

I do like this quote from John, which is very much the ethos he pretends he has with comedy: "We tend to favor structure in lieu of having an emotional reaction to anything." Much like John claiming to be "allergic to sincerity", this isn't entirely an accurate view of himself.

Thank you for the ask <3

[nohkalikai]

hello <3 for the concert asks:

4. which concert is coming up next for you?

9. have you ever been to a concert in the rain?

19. do you scream and lose your damn mind or do you quietly sing along to yourself?

HELLAUR!!

4. which concert is coming up next for you?

if i'm back in the UK by then,,,, i will be going to see Crosses!! literally so excited i fucking love their new album (but i'm lowkey terrified of their fans bcs they're all rabid deftones likers)

9. have you ever been to a concert in the rain?

i have not :o

19. do you scream and lose your damn mind or do you quietly sing along to yourself?

i like recording bits and pieces of concerts so i can relive them – that's when i just lipsync. otherwise u can bet that i will be losing my goddamn mind screeching out the lyrics or riffs absolutely besura.

concert asks

[bloodkeep-escape]

happy birthday :D hope u have a lovely day and lots of favourite food/beverage/both!!

i'll send more later if the braincell cooperates, but a favourite line is Efink Murderdeath's "shit indeed" (e1 i think). Efink Murderdeath's name is one of the best running gags in the history of comedy <3

also Lilith's dynamic with her children is the best. we stan villainous gentle parenting and coparenting in this evil fortress :')

thank you thank you!!

and YEAH. her first name is knife backwards. her last name is murderdeath. i've talked about trans efink before but that's truly the most trans shit i've heard in my life and i love that for her <3

and lilith!!! she's such a good mom!!! that bit at the end where she tries to send her kids away and jason and jessa insist on staying and helping her... ugh it kills me. they're family :'')

[nohkalikai]

hi!!!!

ok first thing: i was mentally screaming SAME at everything in ur recent posts—need to overexplain!! feeling so uncertain about faith because of *gestures at evangelical fundamentalist world* yet so incapable of leaving it!!

and feeling so fED UP & WEIRD at being a national minority + (supposedly) part of a global cultural imperialist majority. it is FUCKED UP sir

also omg i did not know u were not out at church aaaa. all this time i thought u had found a cool affirming and reasonable church outside home and u were being cool there. somehow this helps with my near constant crises of identity + struggling with The Church. anyway ilu i hope better things for us

HELLO i hope you don't mind me posting this publicly.

but yes to everything. it's such a strange sort of cognitive dissonance at best and actively endangering at worst! to have to come to terms with white ppl not wanting you till you subscribe to the racist ways they do religion, hindus not wanting you either bcs you're better dead to them or completely secularized, and our own community at large, rife w islamophobia and all sorts of incredibly right wing beliefs.

i don't have a proper analysis to offer wrt how to make sense of minority in the sheets hegemony in the streets, i'm sure many people who have come before me have already done that LMAO.

i like (love) this personal essay by a friend of mine:

also yea lmao i stopped going to church. i was going mostly out of compulsion and to maintain a sense of familiarity in a completely new place. but something about going to centuries-old churches that claim to be inclusive and welcoming made me laugh. like, come ON. no matter how political the pastors are or how inclusive the community is, i can't shake away feelings of discomfort and anger. and i suppose that's been my brain's cue to remember all of paul's letters regarding the body being people instead of a building blah and blah. but i can't be fussed atm.

i guess that juggling all this cognitive dissonance is a lifetime thing, very much mediated by the outside world. i've long reconciled that my faith cannot be amorphous immaterial faith that i learnt of in bible studies; it HAS to be a material faith (thinking of Ambedkar and mass conversions).

and it's like yea, we grow up being critical of christianity in all its forms but it refuses to let u go. and that can be incredibly stifling sometimes or incredibly comforting.

[nohkalikai]

∞ :)

i love cix's music but these lyrics are like. alright. :P still i like BX's verse in the bridge more than the rest:

내게 다가 온 이 운명의 고리 다 정해져 버린 듯 해, 우리 길이 Lights, camera, action 짜여진 direction 이끌린 채 여기로 달려왔어, uh

끝이 없는 터널 속 내게 비친 한 줄기, 마치 맘이 술래가 된 듯해 나 상처 속을 걸어 매일

tr.

This circle of fate approached me It's like our path has already been determined Lights, camera, action A scripted direction Something led me here, I was drawn here, uh Inside an endless tunnel There was a reflection of light My heart feels like I've become a tagger Every day I walk through my wounds

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put a "∞" in my ask box and I'll shuffle my music player and give you my favorite lyric from the song that comes up.

[nohkalikai]

hlu friend! song for u <3

omg this is a yummy song thank u

[nohkalikai]

hlu sir, solidarity from another indian christian from a marginalised background re. the randos in your ask 🤧

for what it's worth—i agree with what you said; christianity in South Asia is a COMPLETELY different power structure from US/western Europe vibes... so much so that while reading (rightful) anti-evangelical rants i have to keep reminding myself this isn't targeted at us, a literal minority in our country

and while there's a lot of crap that's filtered into indian christian networks from fundamentalists and bigots, there is so much power and solidarity in unlearning that crap and respecting & learning from other religious groups and i love doing that on tumblr!

anyway—blessed Easter ignore the internet warriors

idk what else to add bcs u said it all!! and a blessed good friday n easter week to you toooooo!