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What Smoking Entails in Manga
Last year, a survey was given to Japanese manga publishers about what top 5 manga to recommend for 2023 and the number one title was symbolic of many things related to Japanese culture - one of which was smoking.
The title was called Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You by Jinushi. I got a chance to read Volume 1 recently and it's a very fascinating romantic comedy about a middle-aged salaryman and a early 20s' female convenience store clerk and how they're bound by their love of smoking. The author made a comment saying that their admiration of how cool smoking was in fiction was a huge inspiration in creating the story.
Which got me thinking about how much smoking is prevalent in the anime and manga worlds and how much characters who smoke are beloved by many.
When I was still exploring new titles to follow in my '20s, one that stood out to me was Great Teacher Onizuka. The main character was someone who was a total idiot, but was pretty badass. Oh yeah, he smoked. I later got into Rurouni Kenshin and fell in love with Saito Hajime. Oh yeah, he smokes. A LOT. It's funny because I got into comics because of X-Men and the characters Wolverine and Gambit smoked quite a bit. I liked both, but not as much as the anime/manga characters who smoked.
When you think about it, there's a lot of anime/manga characters who smoke. Sanji from One Piece, Revy from Black Lagoon, Nara Shikamaru from Naruto, Toshiro Hijikata from Gintama, several adult characters from Cowboy Bebop (like Spike Siegel pictured above) - I could go on.
In video games, there's Yakuza/Like a Dragon characters and one of my favorite heroines ever, VA-11 Hall-A's Jill Stingray, smokes.
I love how cool all of those characters look when they smoke and I don't even smoke. I don't want to because of all the health risks smoking entails. My father used to be a smoker, but quit before I reached junior high school because he was having health problems.
At the same time, I do something a bit silly. I pretend to smoke with the air around me. I like to pretend I'm holding an imaginary cigarette to my mouth and inhale/exhale oxygen when no one's looking. It's a habit I've built from following my favorite characters who smoke.
Smoking is indeed something that shouldn't be romanticized. But I think about why people smoke in the first place - particularly my dad and Chinese people (particularly men) smoked. I remember one time when I was at a Chinese doctor's office, there was a video played for Chinese people addicted to smoking. There was a doctor in the video who said when Chinese people immigrate to the United States, they're often exposed to a lot of stressors (usually related to acculturation) that weigh a ton. Smoking is one way to help process and relieve their stress. They're coming from a country where smoking is definitely the norm in their culture.
There's a lot of talk about smoking being a sign of maturity and surviving through tough times. I decided to look up the relationship between smoking and mental health/illness. It's not surprising that there's negative effects. People with depression and anxiety may smoke a bit more than those who aren't affected by them. What makes it really hard for them to quit is that smoking has social benefits. Nicotine can help calm nerves and make smokers feel more confident in behaving in a proper social manner.
When I think about the many characters who smoke, smoking does help them before they get ready to take on a big task involving other people. It's literally the calm before the storm. Hell, I do "oxygen smoke" as a way to feel calm before facing reality or having big conversations with my friends. But I was drilled so hard by United States anti-drug programs (when compared to Asia) that I didn't want to feel like I was dying. That's why I never took the plunge despite the coolness of smoking found in Japanese media and try to encourage anti-smoking measures. Plus I think it helped that I wasn't super-stressed despite my mental illness to the point where I resorted to substances. Plus I had people who genuinely cared about my well-being and a somewhat optimistic belief in the best of humanity.
While Japanese media (and other Asian media in general) continues to showcase smoking to a decent degree, there's contentious pushback in America over the portrayal of smoking in their media. Yet smoking rates in Japan have gone down though quite a bit over the years due to anti-smoking measures. It's not as low as health organizations would like, but progress is progress.
The only thing I think we can agree on is that the world is so cruel and there should be wider acknowledgement of how the bad parts of life can lead people down to dangerous substances in order to cope. I think this is what creators intend to show when they have characters who smoke. Yeah, they look cool, but they're flawed people trying to find some sense of meaning/connection to worlds that disappoint them over and over again.
We're just trying to find ways to breathe life into inner peace, whether it's with oxygen or smoke.
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Raising Cain (Brian De Palma, 1992)
#Films watched in 2024#Raising Cain#Brian De Palma#De Palma#1992#seis#John Lithgow#Lolita Davidovich#Steven Bauer#thriller#drama#family#cult#TV#psychological thriller#psychology#bed#smoke
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Life is unfair,
Kill yourself or get over it.
Life is unfair,
Kill yourself or get over it.
— Child Psychology , Black Box Recorder
#letz-smoke-zaza#girlblogging#black girlblogger#this is a girlblog#girlblogger#these are just lyrics#not promoting#stay safe y’all#divine feminine#female hysteria#lana del rey aka lizzy grant#diary#gaslight gatekeep girlboss#we were born to die#this is what makes us girls#dollette#coquette#hell is a teenage girl#angelic#fashion#soft black girls#woc#woc beauty#child psychology#black box recorder#for the girls#lyric posting#moodboard#wedding dress#lace dividers
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how do i explain to people i dont like serial experiments lain in a "breakcore, lets all love lain, rei ayanami smoking weed, wow she just like me fr, dont get attached to the internet kids" way. i like it in a "jesus fucking christ a piece of media has never impacted me more and i think has changed my mental health in both a good and bad way. and also i love the old internet aesthetic" way
#serial experiments lain#lain#lain iwakura#webcore#old web#I love psychological horror media!!#lain would not smoke a cigarette with rei ayanami!!#they would consider their existance together#and then maybe smoke weed afterwards
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@lewis-winters my best attempt of classifying the various cigarette (and bonus syrette) holds in Band of Brothers
Most guys cluster in C and I and Guarnere has a unique hold that resembles G but is essentially reversed
#band of brothers#hbo war#hbowar#smoking#cigarette#cw smoking#cw cigarettes#i'll do one for the pacific and another for MotA#though i think the mota one will be very minimal bc not too many of the guys smoke#dana's edits#cigarette psychology
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& carl jung. thanks 😩
#ooohhh ok so freud psychology is when u like cigars and jung is when u smoke a pipe#/joke#carl jung#poll#smash or pass#smash or pass poll#tumblr polls#thank you!#old man
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#2014 tumblr#2014 aesthetic#2015 aesthetic#2015 tumblr#girlhood#spotify#tumblr girls#girlblogging#girly#angelina jolie#00s aesthetic#im just a girl#angelcore#angel#girl interrupted#daddy's good girl#beauttiful girls#this is what makes us girls#tw cigarettes#hot women who love smoking cigarettes#girls who smoke cigarettes#cigarsmoker#psychology#psychosis#just girly posts#this is a girlblog#girlblog aesthetic#just girly things#00s nostalgia#90s aesthetic
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the seamstress
#anthro art#furry art#furry horror#dog furry#dog anthro#cw smoking#cw bl00d#cw knife#this is a suuuper old oc of mine named kim#i’ve had her since i was like 14#she’s part of a psychological horror story#she’s originally human but i don’t rly draw humans anymore#& i absolutely had to make her an afghan hound#she’s rly elegant with long hair#but i never draw anthros with hair so i was like…idk if this works???#i had fun with the lighting#pls ask me to tag any cw#tw scopophobia#does it fit?? idk
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Coercion eventually got Damien out to the beach but (un)fortunately for the fireteam he’s found a bar to go hide at.
((Started this like a month ago and just finally got around to finishing it. Got lazy with the shading but whatever. ))
#destiny 2#destiny#destiny the game#Destiny Exo#destiny warlock#warlock oc#Damien-14#my oc#makodraws#yes he still smokes#he’s kept a few weird habits from his days of the flesh#that do absolutely NOTHING for him now beyond the psychological#he is a sad strange dreadful man#point and laugh
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The lights out au is the first au in a while to peak my interest : O
I gotta know, why is Sally evil and what does she do?
Also how's Barnaby doing? <: (
im Delighted to hear that!! (also hi! your laughingstock art is adorable!)
Sally isn't really evil per se... she's just sleepwalking! while having mild to intense nightmares! most of the time she just sleeps in her house, but once per day she takes a walk - a "patrol" - around the neighborhood before going back to sleep. every so often she wakes up Extra agitated, and needs to be soothed to sleep or she'll get destructive. in general, though, Nightlight!Sally just patrols and attacks anything that makes noise until it goes Quiet again
and Barnaby! well! he's having the most wonderful dreams <3
#they're both very sleepy puppets#very Whee-Snaw Snork Mimimi Snzz yk yk#yeah barn's arm is Temporarily Not Part Of Him but he's not awake to notice or care <3#and well. hm. also it depends on which part of the au we're talking about#(most of) part one? sleepies#part two & onwards? barnaby is having a bad fucking time! emotionally! psychologically! situationally!#sally is also having a Very bad time! everyone has it rough for a While!#things have to get monumentally Worse before it starts to improve!!#wh lights out au#rambles from the bog#and i will say it now: barnaby survives. so does sally. whether they like it or not#but before all that!#good dreams!#unless you're sally! then good dreams interspersed with Terrible Nightmares!#in my mind barnaby's dream is him lounging in tree's shade during perfect weather. smoking his favorite tobacco <3
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#lana
#relatable#this is what makes us girls#lana del ray aka lizzy grant#lana del rey#lana del ray aesthetic#coquette#cigarette#cinnamon girl#the virgin suicides#girl interupted syndrome#hell is a teenage girl#sugarbaby#i hate this#lana core#cherry#girls who smoke cigarettes#boys#pink#ribbons and bows#mentally fucked#psychology#i need a lobotomy#i have no mouth and i must scream#lana del ray moodboard#miss daytona#sparkle jump rope queen#lizzi grant#coca cola
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two nights in a row gripping ice cubes like i'm 14 this is fucking pathetic
#i feel like my bones are filled with concrete#i spent the day doing all the things i've been putting off#emails to orthodontist and dentist and accountant#found a gp to hopefully get a mental health plan set up with#and went searching for a psych#but fuck me that's been less that fruitful#it feels like a waste of time and energy and money#as soon as you set suicidal ideation as an issue the pool of psychs goes from 1251 to 152#and adding queer filters to that?#psychology today says go die fag#and of those how many do you reckon is eligible for the medicare rebate?#because i've emailed 4 and of those i think maybe 1 will be eligible#BUT!#they cost so much that even WITH the rebate I'd be paying $130 for a 50 minute session#it's just a waste of money#i could see a therapist every day and still see no improvement#medicare offers a rebate for 10 sessions IF i'm lucky#so that's $1300 for 50 minutes a month#i judt can't see how that's going to do anyone any good#alternatively i can sit down with rika and get my will sorted and that money can go somewhere useful#that math isn't right#it'd be $1800 for 50 minutes a month#even more wasteful#i think i'm better off finding a comfortable and private place to decay#mum might be mental but maybe she was right when she told me i should just kill myself when i was 14#i've been inhaling smoke for so long
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'Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you. '
- Sigmund Freud
#sigmund freud#freud#friedrich nietzsche#nietzche#carl jung#psychology#psychoanalysis#alfred adler#joseph campbell#smoking#cigarette#cig#smokers#literary quotes#albert camus#existentialism#classics#quotes#book quote#booklr#writers of tumblr#franz kafka#sylvia plath#classical literature
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I think Louis would get a vampiric restriction order on Lestat's behalf against Gabrielle. Because Lou would totally blame the parent here.
Anything to absolve Lestat in Louis mind and ease the guilt that he's still attracted to that man. I can easily see him turning around and saying "he's french 🤷♀️" as Daniel looks on him in disapproving horror
#the lestat/gabrielle dynamic your smoke too tough your psychology too bad they'll kill you!!!#amc hurry up with gabrielle casting its serious!!#iwtv#interview with the vampire
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imagine passing a blunt to vash & he takes a bite out of it
#trigun#talking#also here's what i think each vash iteration wouuld do about being passed the blunt:#trimax: he would say thanks & smoke it demurely and then see weed demons and have a massive psychological breakdown#tri98: takes a huge hit and doesn't cough at all and everyone is staring at him like the jaw drop meme#blr: he takes a bite out of it#tristamp: actually i think he would also have a breakdown. either that or it'd make him normal for a few hours
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Would you be willing to talk about the idea of 'psychopaths in real life'? I know you've written them but because there's so much messy pop culture around the idea of a psychopath I've never been sure of what about the idea of them is real. Are some people simply born wanting to hurt people? Or is it the result of early major trauma, or innate? I've met a lot of very cruel people but I think I'd say they probably weren't like that with select groups of people (their friends or family) rather than people they viewed as targets/unimportant/sinners/etc... Probably? I suppose I think of them more as emotionally sadistic than as fundamentally incapable of empathy. But maybe I just haven't met the right people, or known them well enough. Just an invitation to share your thoughts on the subject, if you're willing.
Are some people simply born wanting to hurt people? Or is it the result of early major trauma, or innate?
If you had an answer to this, anon, you'd have an answer to one of the greatest mysteries of psychology and sociology. The truth is, we just don't know for sure. There's a lot of good evidence on both sides, depending on who you're studying, which strongly suggests that sometimes it might be the first, sometimes it might be the second, and sometimes it's both.
But the reality is we don't know.
Scientists really, really want to find ways of detecting folks like this before some of them turn to extremely violent or cruel crimes, so obviously finding out the causative genetic and/or social factors is extremely important to them. It would save a lot of money re: governments for a start, so this is an area that's had bursts of funding over the years. But the reality is we're not really a great deal closer to figuring it out.
We do know that some folks genuinely seem to have had no social causative factors, and others folks genuinely seem to have been shaped by their upbringing. If you want to go into this there are hundreds of books and articles on the subject, and you'll very quickly see that no one is in agreement and we still have no solid early detection systems.
I've met a lot of very cruel people but I think I'd say they probably weren't like that with select groups of people (their friends or family) rather than people they viewed as targets/unimportant/sinners/etc… Probably?
The fact is, unless you were with them 24/7 you don't know how they were behaving with friends and family. In fact, this is how certain priests and cops get away with so much of what they do. There are priests who have been kind and compassionate to entire congregations and then gone on to rape 30/40 children in cruel ways that have led to many suicides, who feel zero shame or remorse and who very obviously just wanted access to children in a job that would give them community trust without having to earn it. That kindness and compassion is a performance to secure what you want.
Secondly, perhaps they were good with friends and family, so was Gacy. Many folks like this understand that they need to strategically set up networks of people who believe you to be kind etc. Being a psychopath doesn't mean you're stupid (although some are, varying intelligence levels exist), often these folks understand that to get away with doing what they truly want to do, there needs to be a cloak of 'I'm fine and normal and nice' around them. The ones who don't understand this tend to go to jail very quickly (or die very quickly due to the circumstances around their behaviours - being a psychopath is not a safe thing to be if you can't pair it with an ability to be selective).
But maybe I just haven't met the right people, or known them well enough.
I'm not going to talk about specific details of my past but I will say it's likely that you just haven't met someone on this level and/or have but are just not in their target zone because they might just be in the periphery of your experience.
Folks like Crielle exist in the world, for example, and sadly it's often more people than you'd expect. But some of those people are also incredibly intelligent and manipulative. They often operate on a level different to most of us.
#asks and answers#personal#psychopaths aren't people who are cruel to everyone all the time for no reason#they're often smart enough to know that *other* people believe in right and wrong#and to know that they won't be able to do what they want#if other people catch them doing what they're doing#setting up a smoke screen is incredibly important and#there's documentation that demonstrates these people become good at manipulation#in childhood#but yeah if we had the answers to your first questions anon#the world would probably be a safer place#you're getting into pockets of psychology and criminology that include#some of the most frustrated researchers lol#i highly recommend actually doing some reading on the subject#because this is really just the tip of the iceberg
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