#not my tea tbh

[saytr]

Enemies to Lovers because i talked with @ladyblorg 😅

[bacchuschucklefuck]

no more fan-ta-sizing about it! everything's already changed~

[thebreadmantm]

These cats have taken over my brain

Champion dose NOT like the cold tea, and he keeps hissing everytime Jon tries to warm it up in the microwave

Cat!martin by @ultramarinaa !!

[satans-knitwear]

It may have been accidental, but i think someone irl asked me out for a drink 😱😻Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

[neorhythm]

*chanting* BOYS NIGHT!! BOYS NIGHT!!!

got the idea from this tweet.

i'll include the uncropped version under a read more. i spent way too much time on wallace's fluffy robe to not include it lol

[crystallizsch]

idia’s simultaneous call-out and self-reflection while also still being directed at rollo hits really hard man 😭

like he's not just talking to rollo, he is also acknowledging his own feelings especially with the whole book 6 debacle

[s0ull3ss-p3rs0n]

Headcanon that Cinder can create weed smoke by chewing on weed leaves, and emitting smoke from his mouth, so when he blows towards someone and the smoke hits them, they get high as balls.

He has done this to Jay several times btw. And did it to Nokt once for the funny but he almost murdered him afterwards so it never happened again.

[iron-sparrow]

Elftober 【第十二天】 Knowledge

Yeah, that's a cup of pearl milk tea in Yein's hand. I'm using today's prompt ✨KNOWLEDGE✨ as an excuse to drop some mad unsolicited facts about the popular Taiwanese beverage. What's the occasion? Some dumb racist motherfuckers going viral, particular in the English-speaking Asian social media sphere.

So anyway, pearl milk tea (珍珠奶茶) originated in Taiwan (ROC) back in the 1980s. Some of you likely hear bubble or boba milk tea more; the "bubble" refers to the literal bubbles (泡泡) that form when shaking the tea, while "boba" refers to the enlarged tapioca balls. Yes, "boba" is actually derived from Chinese slang for large breasts, coming from Hong Kong sex symbol Amy Yip.

You'll find plenty of trivia all over the Internet about tapioca milk tea, but I want to stress the importance of this drink as a cultural icon for an entire nation that has struggled for decades to be recognized by world governments as its own country.

In Taiwan, bubble tea has become not just a beverage, but an enduring icon of the culture and food history for the nation. In 2020, the date April 30 was officially declared as National Bubble Tea Day in Taiwan. That same year, the image of bubble tea was proposed as an alternative cover design for Taiwan's passport. According to Al Jazeera, bubble tea has become synonymous with Taiwan and is an important symbol of Taiwanese identity both domestically and internationally. Bubble tea is used to represent Taiwan in the context of the Milk Tea Alliance.

Ignore your own feelings about pearl milk tea for a moment to simply appreciate its cultural impact around the world and how much that means to the millions of Asians spread around the globe. Here is a drink that came out of a Chinese-speaking nation that's been so widely accepted in its most basic form, without having to be altered ten different ways to be more palatable and marketable toward locals. It's a big deal, really, especially given the Western world's longstanding xenophobia toward Chinese people and just about everything we do or eat or whatever. While Japanese and Korean cuisines have enjoyed elevated pop status (double-edged blade there), the information war against Chinese continues and affects how we are perceived versus other Far Eastern ethnicities.

And how many instances have we seen by now of White people attempting to "rebrand" Chinese food (and mahjong lol) by claiming to have discovered a healthier, cleaner way to make it? Further perpetuating the belief that Chinese food is unhealthy or dirty, which can't be separated from the enduring sentiment that we are vermin or a virus since immigration out of China to NA became a noticeable trend in the 1800s.

The latest racist nitwits attempting to colonize for profit is a couple who appeared on Dragon's Den (like Shark Tank but Canadian, for those who didn't know) trying to get backing for their Montreal-based company, Bobba. Yeah. They fucking called it "Bobba."

"Yes, I'm talking about bubble tea: that trendy, sugary drink you are queueing up for, and you are never quite sure about its content. Those days are over with Bobba."

With their whole chests, these people had the caucasity to pitch this company to a panel that included Simu Liu, who has always been very outspoken about struggles unique to the Asian diaspora.

When grilled by Liu over their disrespect toward the origin culture, the idiot with the leopard-print collar went on to say "it's not an ethnical product anymore," because he and his business partner threw in popping bobas and fruit teas and juices. Hey, newsflash, chucklefucks ⸺ popping boba pearls and fruit teas/juices are also staples for most modern Chinese tea shops.

Simu Liu was the only one of the three panelists to offer scrutiny, even pointing out that the products the couple offered did not mention anything about Taiwan, despite the one guy's attempts to win Liu over by saying they're working with a Taiwanese manufacturer.

The couple is being torn apart online for very good reason, and I'm an even bigger fan of Simu Liu after his very eloquent summation of why Bobba (ugh) and the way it's being pitched is so problematic.

To quote author and journalist Kat Lieu, who founded Subtle Asian Baking ⸺

It's not that selling boba or other Asian products is wrong, but the issue arises when they're marketed as superior or "better" while portraying the original product as inferior, strange, unhealthy, or dirty and make a profit. It's crucial not to erase the identity and culture from which these products originate. To the person who said I appropriate the French when I make madeleines, tell that to my colonized Vietnamese ancestors who were forced to bake baguette for their colonizers

Before you come at me about not liking the texture of boba pearls or the flavor of traditional milk tea or whatever, bear in mind most legit tea shops will offer a variety of drinks with different toppings. Look around, explore your options, and most importantly, do not support colonizers.

Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'm gonna go get me some fruit teas with diced kiwi and aiyu jelly.

Back to your regularly scheduled Elftober tomorrow.

ELFTOBER PROMPT LIST

[cata-strophes]

sorry im not drawing much but much but here, i did this months ago for an event :) (it was supposed to have an angel duo prequel but i never did it sorry 🧍‍♂️)

[helixcraft]

slight spoilers for the new ovenbreak event but these sprites are killing me there is something deeply wrong with them

[v0rpalalice]

[evadingreallife]

(yes im coming for yall)

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

knee socks, hollywood forever cemetery 05/05/2018 🤍

[mochiajclayne]

The crack fic potential of Morgans just straight up writing that everyone in the Worst Generation is gay and dating each other with the exceptions of Bege (his wife is one of Big Mom's daughters and writing a shitty article about them means death), Urogue (the bird thinks he's not tabloid-worthy), and Blackbeard (no one wants to date him) and people initially brushed it off until the Strawhats and Heart Pirate alliance was exposed in public then everyone's like wait the bird might be onto something here and it got worse when people actively shipped them to the point that Kid, who normally doesn't give a fuck about tabloids, went ahead with an extremely cheesy gesture to tell everyone that he's dating Killer and he'd kill anyone daring to pair him with another pirate and Drake attacked Apoo out of pettiness because why did the general public decided to ship me with your acoustic ass. Hawkins is pretty much mortified when his cards told him he'd be dating one of them and Bonney doesn't give a single fuck. What the public doesn't know is that Luffy and Law were pretty much dating in the New World (but no one in Dressrosa snitched) and Zoro isn't even trying to cover up the fact that he's pining on a certain blond cook.

[nagoriyukidding]

A little Blazamy doodle!

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

every time there’s drama in this fandom, it always involves tamlin. icon behavior