#make inflation stop

[describing-my-gender-and-failing]

Why does growing up have to be so scary?

like what do you mean I have to spend my money if I want something, and everythings so much more expensive than I remember it being.

I just want to spend it on things I like and hobbies not overpriced food.

[eddiegettingshot]

actually like... buck is not christopher's dad. he really isn't. he's helping eddie parent but he's not actually a parent himself. and i think trying to exaggerate buck's place in chris's life for the buddie of it all not only does a disservice to eddie as a father a lot of times but... to the buddie of it all. the fact that buck is not at all chris's dad right now but that chris and eddie are not only unfazed when he does but frequently invite him to touch the boundaries of fatherhood - that eddie says you were there for him when i couldn't be - speaks to the weirdness and all the things about them that they can't really name, and it doesn't really make sense to name it preemptively. buck is not christopher's dad but he wouldn't have to think twice about stepping into that role alongside eddie and eddie would let him - that's what's so insane!

[arctic-hands]

For real tho health freaks who scream about how sugar and salt will kill us all and try to push for restrictions on things like candy and chips for SNAP recipients or politicians who try from time to time to replace food stamps all together and give out Government Approved Staples like bread and peanut butter and Government Cheese are gonna kill a whole lotta sick and disabled people like

Diabetics

POTS sufferers

Hypotensives

People with peanut allergies

People with celiac disease or wheat allergies

The lactose intolerant

People who can't eat solid food

People who are undernourished for any reason and need all the calories they can pack on

So-called "picky eaters" who can't tolerate certain tastes and textures without getting violently ill

A myriad of other human conditions that cannot be neatly tallied into categories because the human body and human experience is vast and infinitely variable

But I don't think ableds really care about us and our health like they like to claim so they can harass us about it, do you?

[pillowbuppy]

I've been thinking about it cos I've been cooking up a pooltoy oc recently, I wonder what it is about ocs under that general subset (As well as inflation as a whole) that gets people like, so weird about boundaries and saying they want to pop them or whatever. Especially when the person in question has vocalised time and time again that they actually don't like that very much?

Like idk, maybe not everyone is up for that? Maybe not everyone has the same comfort or boundaries with stuff that you do. Maybe its just actually not something you should joke about with people who have explicitly said they don't like it?

I don't even hate poppin or nothing I just wish some people were more understanding in kink spaces rather than being pushy.

[pansy2005]

it’s just like literally who cares what gay fifteen year olds on tumblr dot com call themselves. “it’s cringe!! and inaccurate to achilles!!! it’s just copying sapphic!!!” WHO FUCKING CAREEEEESSSSSSSSS IT DOES NOT MATTER. PEOPLE ARE KILLING US. THIS IS SO STUPID WE ARE NEVER GETTING OUT OF HERE

[alluralater]

people who genuinely hate on everything as a personality trait tend to have pretty distasteful hearts. like why do you have no real convictions but you post about how much you hate when other people do something so small and wholly irrelevant to your existence? talking all that shit is a habit you make and create yourself. inciting random acts of it from others is… weird. being proud of it is even weirder. does your lack of decency truly feel like a winning trait to you? filling the world with reminders that you will never be pleased and you will never know nuance or perspective— these are troubling signs of a rotting personality. it’s often these individuals as well who are not so removed and detached as they often like to purport. they sit on a hair trigger for aggression. because hatred is not a passive act. it is very very active. their convictions only exist as virtue signaling for the most part and this becomes obvious when they are criticized or questioned. to live your life so causally enveloped in hatred will without a doubt rot your personality. this illusion you paint of being trapped in a world where nothing pleases you and every small thing bothers you?? it is a creation of yours and yours alone.

[deus-ex-mona]

yeah it's them again, ✨izumo edition✨

Aizo: Cheerful and athletic. During their visit to Izumo Shrine, he said “I will definitely become an idol who’ll not lose to anyone else, so please cheer me on.” when he was making his prayers.

Q: What feature(s) of Izumo made the biggest impression on you?

Aizo: It goes without saying that the shrines and temples were impressive, but I also climbed to the top of a lighthouse known as the Hinomisaki Lighthouse. I heard that it’s the tallest lighthouse in Japan, and the view from the observation deck at the top was amazing. You can see the entire Sea of Japan from up there. I hope that everyone would be able to give climbing to the top of the lighthouse a try.

Yujiro: Mild-mannered and polite. During their visit to Izumo Shrine, he said “Thank you for watching over me every day. I’ll continue to devote myself to my work.” when he was making his prayers.

Q: What feature(s) of Izumo made the biggest impression on you?

Yujiro: I guess it’d be Izumo soba, their local delicacy. It’s known as Warigo Soba, and the soba is served in three stacked tiers of round bowls, along with condiments and dipping sauce on the side. It was the first time that I had ever eaten this style of soba, and I found it to be delicious. This style of soba seems to have been perfected back when people started to eat soba as a packed meal. The origin story of the meal was also really interesting to listen to.

The Tourism Ambassadors of Izumo: Up Close and Personal with LIPxLIP!

Congratulations on being appointed as the tourism ambassadors of Izumo! How do you feel about it?

Yujiro: Through this collaboration, I learned that Izumo City has a very deep connection to the history of Japan, with the famous Izumo Shrine and numerous historic shrines and temples being found within the city. As such, I feel that it’s a great honour to have been appointed as the tourism ambassadors of Izumo City.

Aizo: You know, Izumo City is where shito, our producer from HoneyWorks, spent his youth, so I wonder if that connection to him led us to our appointments as its tourism ambassadors thanks to the Matchmaking shrines in the area. I’d like for us to show off the charms of Izumo City to many people as LIPxLIP, its tourism ambassadors.

What are your plans for this collaboration event in Izumo? Also, how did your voice recording go?

Aizo: Starting on the 26th of January, “Izumo Day”, we will commence a digital stamp rally called “Touring Izumo City with LIPxLIP” via an app, which will play our voices as you visit famous spots in Izumo. The recording was a ton of fun too. We learned a lot as we voiced our introductions about each of the featured spots.

Yujiro: There are many stories about places and people that are straight out of Japanese History textbooks, so I think there are things to be enjoyed about the tour, aside from our dialogue. Of course, there are snippets of our personal conversations included in the recordings. Like when I went into a footbath with Aizo. Right, Aizo?

Aizo: You mean that time when you chased me all the way to the edge of the footbath, huh?!

Yujiro: Is that what happened? Ahahaha (laughs).

I heard that the two of you reunited with an unexpected person while you were sightseeing in Shimane, while you were there for a tour?

Aizo: Yup, we did. We bumped into him by chance. His name’s Nagisa. You know about him, don’t you?

Yujiro: Nagisa came to our concert too. I think he became a fan of LIPxLIP too, don’t you?

Aizo: Yeah. He definitely became our fan. No doubt about it.

Yujiro: We’ll confirm it with him when we see him again.

HoneyWorks’s 6th album, which is set to be released in March, will include a recording of the Special Sunny Party (SunnyPa) Live on a bonus disc. You guys performed Shin Jidai for the first time at SunnyPa. How was it?

Aizo: Shin Jidai was a song that our seniors, Full Throttle4, invited us to collaborate on. It felt like a brand new challenge to us, as it was a song that we would not usually get the chance to sing or dance to as LIPxLIP. As such, I got the sense that we were performing it with a rather fresh feeling.

Yujiro: Our seniors were singing and dancing fairly seriously, so we were desperately doing our best so as to not fall behind them. Just like Aizo had said, I, too, felt like we had performed with a fresh feeling. And, through this performance we got to experience a sense of something that we didn’t yet have, which we are hoping that we would be able to apply in our next performance.

Aizo: The Julieta who watched the concert loved it. They said that their hearts pounded when they saw Yujiro acting all aggressively confident, since he doesn’t do that often. Right, Yujiro?

Yujiro: Weren’t there comments about how scary my face looked? I haven’t watched the recording yet, but I wonder if I did alright.

Aizo: They sure were honest, huh (laughs). Please do check out the recording, okay?

During the emcee portion with Full Throttle4 (FT4), you guys imitated each other again, didn’t you? What are your thoughts on FT4’s imitations of you two, and how did you feel about trying to imitate them again?

Aizo: Let’s not talk about the imitations! We were just swept up in FT4’s bad vibes, really. We didn’t even agree to do that beforehand, and yet they suddenly sprung it on us… 

Yujiro: That's the one thing I wish they’d stop asking us to do. It’s embarrassing, regardless of whether we succeed or fail at imitating them, and it’ll destroy LIPxLIP’s image, you know? (laughs)

Aizo: Wait, don’t tell me that emcee portion was recorded too?

Yujiro: It seems to be so.

Aizo: Seriously…? I wonder if it’ll appeal to our Julieta, though…

Lastly, LIPxLIP, please give a message to your Julieta who support you!

Yujiro: We’re truly happy to have been granted the opportunity to bring happiness to all of you Julieta, right from the start of the year, in the form of our collaboration with Izumo City. I’d like us to continue to expand the scope of our activities as LIPxLIP and meet lots of you along the way, Julieta.

Aizo: This year has only just begun, and I hope to make it a fun year with all of you Julieta. Please look forward to seeing a different and more mature LIPxLIP as compared to how we were like last year. See y’all around, Julieta!

Yujiro: See ya!

Yujiro: I’d like us to expand the scope of our activities as LIPxLIP and meet lots of you along the way, Julieta.

Aizo: I'll be really happy if our feelings of gratitude to our Julieta have been conveyed properly.

[sheepory]

btw. omnichord OM-108 confirmed to have a Canadian release price of $999.99 CAD. coming from a guy who works at a music store. in case anyone else is curious

[aingeal98]

Still can't fully wrap my mind around how the Gaza genocide revealed so many people to be comfortable with fascism and colonialism as long as it benefits them personally. There can be people you knew online for years who had very normal takes and now they're out here like "Yes Israel has concentration camps in Gaza and the most significant pro Palestinian Israeli organisation can't even say the word genocide for fear of angering their fellow Zionists, but have you considered that it's not actually a genocide because Palestinians are known liars who brainwash their kids to hate Israelis for being superior to them in every way? I'm sad that more people don't accept this as the truth as opposed to pointing out everything racist genocidal act the Israeli government, it's army and many citizens are saying and doing. Must be the antisemitism."

Like the thing is that their delusional cult bubble of misinformation, denial and willful ignorance can't last forever. Eventually they will have to reckon with their cognitive dissonance when it comes to Palestinians vs other oppressed minorities. The guilt will likely eat at them and at this point I can't find it in myself to care. The genocide is still ongoing. The apartheid state still exists and is expanding. If you support fascists then we know what that makes you and you will never have my sympathy when your victims are still wanting.

[sadlazzle]

tbh i sincerely hope none of u here r elden beast apologists. i don’t wanna hear shit abt it ‘making sense for the lore’ for there to be no torrent elden beast is a boss MADE for torrent. this last attempt i only managed to hit this massive space cunt twice, the rest of the time i spent catching up to him, and every time i did he fucked off to the other side of the arena again. arguably the worst boss in the game which rlly sucks bc it’s the final boss and tbh i expect better frm fromsoft and i dont think im wrong to. elden beast rlly doesn’t hit the mark the same as any other final bosses for me, though i will say it’s only marginally worse than soul of cinder, but for completely different reasons, and not even SoC being from ds3 can save elden beast frm this unfortunate ranking

[justapalspal]

I need to work on woodcarving again at some point. The equal footing yami b + ryou dynamic is calling so hard to me

[swashbucklery]

When you started talking about your Willow OT3 fic I realised I didn't actually know who Kit's canon love interest was. So, since then, I've been playing a game with myself to see how long I could go without learning who it was. I had suspicions, but I only definitively lost (won?) yesterday, on your post about Jade touching Kit's pinkie. It was fun, thanks for unknowingly providing me with this dumb little diversion! Now I'm gonna go actually watch the show (and then read the fic).

a;sdfk;l this is adorable and this also tells me that clearly I'm the only person on your dash watching Willow, or this would have been much more obvious much faster.

I'm excited that you're thinking of watching!! If you're using the D+ method watch fast; they're pulling it on the 26th for dumb reasons but it's SUCH a gem of a show and I do think you'll love it a lot. I think I've seen it at least a dozen times now it's really hitting the spot for me these days. And I've got more fic that I'm planning to post next week, so there is more to look out for!

[joyridingmp3]

remind me to stop trying to put labels on my gender i literally knew i was gender fluid back in 2013 and every couple of months from then ive been trying to force myself into a box of either transmasc transfem or nb and the truth is im none of those things and it doesn't matter to define it.

[todayisafridaynight]

Every guy in Yakuza seems like they have enough social awkwardness for Tien to role his eyes at…

there's no feasible chance on earth any man can be more awkward than mountain man tien I'm Going To Hide From My Friends Every Other Year And Then For A Decade After Telling Them I'd Never See Them Again For No Apparent Reason And Only Coming Back Cause the World Was Literally Ending shinhan

[waterparksdrama]

it's joever why is vip $90 and tickets $50 now.... - iz

[rhulyon]

I think every business model that is not a cooperativa should be banned. I have buying from Consum (a local cooperative supermarket) over a year and they haven't changed their products from place once.