#sjw costume

[coolerdracula]

the way that they included Mount Rushmore as Barbies for no reason except to be like "look! there were men here but now it's women! #slaayyy!" sort of speaks to how limited their consideration was of doing actual intersectional feminism ... it's just a small detail but to use it as a silly movie prop (in a movie which bolsters American capitalism & labor exploitation via consumerist messages etc, no less) really strips (continues to strip) the site of its violent historical meaning & seems ... idk. cheap

[thenursewholovesme]

i know that we are all aware the oscars is an empty futile exercise and is not even close to fully encompassing the world of film or rewarding the right ones but it is like unbelievably insane nickel boys went home with nothing and was also not even up for cinematography editing costuming best actor and best supporting actress so on so forth. which shot in the dark here im guessing it got passed up because there is no white savior or safety blanket of dont worry we made progress so all the bad stuff is over🩷 and its so infuriating something so profound and different is ignored for being unrelenting and experimental and then the movie that does win is like sean bakers third levinson brain parasite squiggling around in the rotten dirt of sex positivity which is ensuring total destruction for all women. but you know legalize women being raped and beat for money because some of them dont even need to be backed into a corner of marginalization to do that now. and the points im making are very silly i hate all sjw virtue signaling online but since the average retard movie go-er thinks that discussing something = endorsing that it feels negligible to only reward sexualization and this narrative sex work is actually woke as fuck. they literally had the easy way out with nickel boys too. literally youd just be saying racism is bad. also i think itd be cool if there was fire breathing dragons flying at these events killing people

[maykitz]

watched a popular movie so there's a mandatory my complaints and opinions longpost

barbie is a decent comedy with great visuals for sure but i have to say the social justice dialogue was written unbearably, felt like a 2012 bad tumblr post that wouldn't end. the real shame however is that imo the movie refused to take itself seriously even for a minute at crucial moments while making its entire plot about serious things, so it was like, okay, then what's the point.. you're saying patriarchy every other sentence and talking about the incredible pressure on women and having to deal with sexual harassment etc but every single scene is played like we're in beverly hills chihuahua. yes it's a comedy naturally but firstly comedy doesn't have to mean lowbrow slapstick all the time and secondly beverly hills chihuahua understands that it can't have those dogs be talking about abortion and fighting the islamic state with little pink paw pad drones, yknow?

the parody of male identity and masculinity was overall very lacklustre and disappointing too cause it had no bite, it was more like when south park depicts a celebrity as an adult baby- trite and kinda childish and with that air of smugness that tells you the author thinks too highly of themself to even need to flesh it out. which sucks! there's so much about men to satirise and roast lol. gosling is comparably quite old and there wasn't even one hairline or forehead wrinkles comment. sort of a haha gay joke about michael cera's comedic relief character ig? and will ferrell's character could've been wholly scrapped idk what he was even doing there tbh

the big inspiring message about female empowerment, too, is a little bit undercut (haters would say demolished) by there being no bulldagger barbie (or human), margot robie's miraculous powerful ending being that she now dresses and looks exactly like as a doll except her pink shoes are now flats and there's also a breakfast club tier makeover on a teen girl who hates barbie and talks like an sjw courtesy of plebcomics to show that she is now instead happy and pink and loves barbie. and even tho there's 1 fat barbie side character and 1 background wheelchair barbie the topic of unrealistic body proportions (the #1 complaint against barbie dolls!) and beauty pressure is entirely carefully omitted. there's a moment where a narrator coyly acknowledges this like, hehe margot robie is too pretty a casting choice to make this point about feeling ugly. yeah ok but, well. you still did it though. and every other actress too. they even ditched "weird" barbie's destroyed choppy hair + sharpie on face appearance for a put together "punk" outfit with flawless makeup and styled hair. even the destroyed toy can't forego her feminine beauty makeover, and it's only then that the other barbies apologise for ostracising her. big win for looking however you want.

ryan gosling was fantastic though i was really surprised by his singing voice and performance. and i cannot overstate my praise for the costuming and set designs, actual artistry all around

[beardedmrbean]

[Huey Zoomer Anon]

After that DnD hero “fest” and the complaints about Disney Wish and Raya. I realize something

Sjws like non white cultures aesthetics

Not our cultures dynamics, values, and such

“This series is for everyone!” In a gentrified urban area of a city or theme park way

What that thing I learn because I consume shit past kid shows during my development years?

Oh right

NUNACE NUNACE NUNACE NUNACE NUUUUUUUUUUUNAAAAAAAAAACE!

Like I pointed out in my fantasy world building, I showcase that all civilizations and cultures are capable of great compassion and great violence

Oh riiight I don’t have the emotional intelligence of a 5 year old and acts like a proper adult (mostly)

Also the random black person we see in modern fantasy. A lot of people think Yasuke in shadows is that, when in reality they just do a what if continuation and after learning about a certain Southeast Asia group. Oooh someone at ubi found a post shadows goldmine.

But I think they presume every black person is a low self esteem narcissist who infiltrated the creative process while not giving to fucks about actually Africans kingdoms and tribes we can use

Also…African Americans…you know that many African groups created their own entertainment companies and such we can easily collab with?

Oh, just me? Ugh why am I more mentally mature that so many adults in my community?!

After that DnD hero “fest” and the complaints about Disney Wish and Raya. I realize something Sjws like non white cultures aesthetics Not our cultures dynamics, values, and such

I don't know that I'd say SJW's but ya lots of people like to observe or wear cultures like a costume without actually participating in them,

“This series is for everyone!” In a gentrified urban area of a city or theme park way What that thing I learn because I consume shit past kid shows during my development years?

Not really anything out there that shows the real world that's going to resonate with everyone, we all have our own unique stories after all, gotta go for a wide range the best you can.

Also the random black person we see in modern fantasy. A lot of people think Yasuke in shadows is that, when in reality they just do a what if continuation and after learning about a certain Southeast Asia group. Oooh someone at ubi found a post shadows goldmine.

ya he's far from random, still don't understand why people got so bent out of shape over him, guy was real and the story is make believe and constructed using elements of real life, really shouldn't have been a issue.

Make something about Apollo XI and have Buzz be black ya I can see issues there, the annoyance over Yasuke is confusing to me though.

Can't shoehorn someone if they actually existed, even if the story is a bit different.

But I think they presume every black person is a low self esteem narcissist who infiltrated the creative process while not giving to fucks about actually Africans kingdoms and tribes we can use

Writers and such do seem to have that as a fairly common theme

Also…African Americans…you know that many African groups created their own entertainment companies and such we can easily collab with?

Some of them are super successful too, Dre', Jay-Z and Beyonce, Spike Lee, Diddy was rollin in it even if he was scum.

Oh, just me? Ugh why am I more mentally mature that so many adults in my community?!

That's going to be different answers depending on the person and or group being addressed.

Fun times I know, best we can do is be our best self and try to lead by example if we can.

[dalesramblingsblog]

Boom has, of course, reignited Kerblam! discourse, because we live in a cold and uncaring universe. So of course, I'm going to talk about it, because, again, apparently I don't know when to quit.

And look, if you like Kerblam!, I get it. Like genuinely, I do understand why people would like it more than me, taste varies and doctors differ as a wise man once said.

But I have seen at least one person try and push back against what they see as the undue focus on "The systems aren't the problem" by saying "Well, that scene comes before Kira has been killed by the System," to which I would like to humbly and with all the kindness in the world... no, it doesn't.

Like I don't want to come across as some sort of Ben Shapiro-esque "According to facts and logic..." edgelord because I have nothing but disdain for those fuckwits, but on a basic factual level you have made an incorrect claim about the episode. The scene in which Kira dies leads *directly* into the scene where the Doctor says "The systems aren't the problem." Ryan's first line in the scene is literally "Kira's dead." To say that the Doctor is unaware of Kira's death at the hands of the System when she says "The systems aren't the problem" is incorrect.

This isn't some unpardonable sin, and I don't wish to ascribe deliberate malice to this error because that does nobody any good and I'm sick and tired of fandom discourse. But, y'know, it's there, and it's weird.

Why can some people not just like Kerblam! without telling falsehoods about the episode in its defence, inadvertently or otherwise? It's OK to like things while also conceding that they have problems, but fandom in general tends to have some problems with this.

It's not enough to like Kerblam! even in spite of the fact that its politics might not be the most sound ever devised - and frankly, while I love it, Doctor Who has some recurrent ethical blind spots that severely limit how often it can truly be cast as anything within a million miles of "revolutionary" - no, Pete McTighe has to be the second coming of Karl Marx.

It's not enough to enjoy The Talons of Weng-Chiang on some level for its good parts while conceding that it is a fundamentally racist text. No, it must be a wholly blameless piece of art that some hissy SJWs are trying to take away from "real fans" who can see clearly that the biggest problem here is a dodgy rat costume.

What is my point here? I honestly don't know. I have, frankly, next to zero interest in becoming a recurring character in the Kerblam! Discourse Cinematic Universe, but I was nevertheless struck by a weird trend of (if I'm being charitable, and I generally like to be where I can) unconscious pseudo-revisionism of a controversial episode.

Alright, nothing to see here, please disperse.

[archtroop]

Ok I'll be saying this, and damn it all.

Not watching The Flash because of Ezra Miller is a childish, sjw-ish, anti behavior.

This is NOT Miller's personal movie. Miller is just ONE actor within this project. Miller is ONE cog (a big and important, yet just ONE) in this machine. By boycotting a project, that involves hundreds if not more talents, screenwriters, producers, actors, directors, tech people, music people, visuals people, costume people, ART PEOPLE, you are spitting in the face of a whole workforce, that whole its crime was to sign a contract on a project along one other person who turned out to be a No Good Guy.

Whatever Miller did, doing and will do, should not ever be a stain over people, ESPECIALLY ARTISTS, who chance would have them working on the same project with them. That is not OK. That is not anywhere along the lines of justice. This is cruel.

This is a "FeelGood" behavior for consumers. A trendy action with zero significance and 100% bad taste.

The production and management did all they can to minimize Miller's upfollowed involvement in the press releases and commercials and interviews for the movie. What you can do is respect the efforts of the crew that worked on the project. The actors who put their best in it. The writers.

Whatever will be of This One Person is up for the courts to decide. If there is a rehabilitation, a sentence a jail time - it's not up to any of the audience to decide. It is not the case for the guillotine.

This movie is not a product of one person, not Miller's personal message to the world, not a cult leader's manifesto. The movie is not a hate crime, not a propaganda created by one Ezra Miller. It's not theirs.

It's a superhero movie, in which Miller stars as an actor.

If Jews can listen AND ENJOY Wagner's music so you can put your big boy pants on and watch THIS movie.

And if YOU personally don't like superheros, and won't be watching it, that's fine.

And if YOU personally don't like the character and not interested in Flash, and won't be watching it, that's fine.

But if you want to watch it, but won't because of ONE actor? You are doing a great disservice to the filmmakers, the other actors and to yourself.

Think about it.

[khodorkovskaya]

15.06.23

so today was eventful and uneventful at the same time. i had my lesson with lucien this morning, then went to the library, then there was the q&a session with the differential geometry assistant, then i went back to the library. so i was quite productive but it didn't really feel like it.

i started watching the new video lauren southern put out about her divorce. and likeee. she's so cringe idk. youtube's been forcing tradwife content on me lately. like i think it started with me watching fashion shorts, then i started getting a bunch of those like "dark femininity" and "old money aesthetic" videos and now it's straight up "here's how i became a traditional wife". like im so glad im not an impressionable teenager anymore. because imagine. like back in the day we had our fair share of brain rotting anti-sjw content but nowadays it's even worse.

but anyway, back to lauren southern. she's so stupid! like idk if it's her neurodivergency or what. and i want to be empathetic. but like. the decisions she's made and still makes like. girlie.

it's funny bc i skimmed thru a video essay the other day about like tumblr culture and microlabels and mogai and stuff like that. and it wasn't a super interesting video bc being on tumblr you kind of absorb all of this information against your will lol. but the person was saying that basically a lot of neurodivergent teenage girls found those microlabels and various neo gender identities comforting. because a lot of neurodivergent people feel the need to like organise everything into categories and assort and classify everything in their brains. and when the video essay author said that i was like oof i feel that so deeply. like my whole personality basically consists of lists and categories i feel very strongly about for no logical reason. everything i like or identify as has to be sorted and classified into "favourites" and "hate lists" and different levels and ranks and stuff. so i do think that if i grew up even more chronically online than i did, i could've definitely been some kind of surrealgenderkin neopronouns weirdo.

and i was thinking about that and how growing up with this kind of weirdly wired brain was very strange. because i could never like something in moderation, no, i always had to be obsessed. and i couldn't just be obsessed, there were always some kind of rules i had to follow. i had to classify my obsession, study it deeply and behave accordingly. i had to absorb it all and become my obsession.

and the funny thing about this, is that no matter how consumed id always felt by my obsessions, it was all very surface level. it felt like trying on an intricately made beautifully detailed costume, but a costume nevertheless. like when i went thru that lizzy-grant-i-like-older-men phase, it was never about actually liking older men or actually being attracted to them or actually believing that it was natural to be attracted to older men, or whatever bullshit i would say. it was about being consumed by the aesthetic of it, all while convincing myself that if i pretend and fit in hard enough into the cage i had once again forced upon myself, this lifestyle will finally make me feel at peace. and every time i would try on a different belief system, a different political point of view, etc, i would just try to follow the rules of it and force the dogmas of it onto myself, without digging deeper or asking myself why and if i actually liked the thing i was obsessed with.

like it's weird and it's illogical. but ive always perceived the world as something that comes upon you from the outside that you have to get used to. meanwhile in reality, your opinions, desires and beliefs come from within you. and ive only figured that out literally this year.

so i remember being a teen, struggling with trying to find peace with transitioning into a young woman, trying on different belief systems, convincing myself that one of them has to hold the truth. but it was the wrong way to look to begin with! you have to find your values first and then see if maybe they align with anyone else's. not the other way around! it sounds stupid when i say that, but when all you've been doing your whole life is classifying things and sorting all of your interests into boxes, you don't ever realise that your thoughts can come from within! you feel like an empty vessel, needing to be filled with obsessions from the outside world. but those obsessions will never make you feel at peace because you have to produce your own thoughts and beliefs and have your own values. and that concept is still very hard for me to grasp.

so now this is where i see the problem with lauren southern. i feel like she too was in the same scenario with her failed marriage. as a young woman she became an anti-sjw activist and then pushed herself further and further to the right, all while having the most basic and surface-level understanding of it. she followed all the steps laid out for her by the ideology she chose: be catholic, marry a man, have a child, be a housewife. and shocker! those weren't her values to begin with. so she became unhappy.

and there's something so relatable about that. like i remember being obsessed with B, the same way id be obsessed with anything. i pushed this obsession on myself and then tried to convince myself that it was for me, all while staying superficial, never questioning my choices or values. why did i like B? why was B a good fit for me? why did i have to be with him? i don't know, i just had to. it was some supernatural force i guess, convincing me that i had to follow those rules in my brain in order to be happy. but why? i never asked myself the question.

and now lauren is like "i married the guy bc he promised me i could be a housewife and he was catholic and traditional". like you see how superficial that is? it's literally the same story as collecting microlabels like pokemon bc your neurodivergent brain finds it satisfying. like catholic man? check. traditional catholic man? check. housewife status with traditional catholic man? check. baby with traditional catholic man? check. but now what's next? what's the essence of it all? why did you convince yourself that this was good for you? do you even know why you believe what you claim to believe? it's all for aesthetics and obsessive compartmentalisation.

anyway, i didn't watch the whole video because it's like an hour+ long and i have shit to do. but i did watch a bit of lana lokteff's reaction to it. and god she's such a vile woman. like as soon as i saw the thumbnail of her video in the recommended bar i had a vomit reflex lol. but in her video she was basically scolding lauren for making bad choices and not thinking things through, all while saying how marriage is so much deeper than what meets the eye and marriage is great basically. and yeah, you can't argue with that. marriage isn't just some life trophy to collect, it's a whole thing. but does the altright ever explain that to women? are those tradwives making tiktoks showing what marriage actually is? all rightwing women hear is "get married, have kids, it's great" and that's it. and if your understanding of the world is flawed because of the weird mechanics of your brain, you're gonna understand just that. and marry the first catholic man you meet like lauren southern. and be unhappy because you were never taught to question why.

[radio-charlie]

Some UiTM (local uni) campus had a few kids dressed up in KKK costumes recently. They did some album cover type of photoshoot in them lol, complete with fake blood and all.

Yes it's repulsive but I'm wondering what people are expecting, exactly, by going:

"Make sure these kids cannot find jobs" "Reveal their personal info" "Get them expelled"

It's like you all never actually tried to understand how to shift people from the right. You just parrot CIA/FBI counter-revolutionary ideas about shutting people out based on some cock-and-bull situationship drama 'red flags' system.

Yes, okay. Try to shut them out from as much of society as possible.

Who takes them in?

The most hardline, unapologetic and ruthless members of our far-right.

They do not lack resources. They can hook these guys up with employment, a support network, spaces both virtual and meatspace where they can safely air their stances without feeling judged. They might even be able to find them girlfriends :P Not that they'd need the help there lol, but it's an effective way of keeping someone anchored to a community.

So, once these guys have been swallowed up by that particular hivemind, and grown to associate all they know of solidarity, comfort, hope, and love with it, how easy will it be to deradicalise them?

You might not be able to entirely de-racism a bunch of guys in KKK hoods lol, but you could at least make sure the rot doesn't grow even worse?

Do you want to know why the SJW = Karens in HR idea has so much traction?

Because all anybody ever sees of your stupid bullshit is totally ineffectual and stupid suggestions, bellowed at full volume until the whole discussion is flooded with them. Then when anybody tries to correct that shit you start playing victimhood cards. 'Oh, you just have a problem with what I said because I'm xyz marginalised identity'. No, I have a problem with what you said because it sucks and is fucking stupid. Not because you're a woman. I too have had to live as a woman lol. The misogyny I have endured is worse than what you have experienced.

We live in such troubled times because you never admit to any mistakes. You never want to change. You just beat people over the head with the undeniability of your valid traumas or whatever and they just have to bow their heads and concede. If you're afraid of your fucking handler yelling at you for not fucking up all attempts depolarisation then wave and blink twice.

[rightnouveau]

I am unique

[thebillyengland]

Get ready for Democrat Virtue Signaling Olympics next month come Halloween.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Remember Birds of Prey?

Loads of SJWs praised the costumes of the movie, even though a) the costumes were hideous, and b) Harley was showing more skin than she did in Suicide Squad.

For capt marvel, I remember when one feminist/radfem implied men were so sexist that they, um, didn't care that Brie Larson is conventionally attractive, which is a weird flex.

Not to mention the whole "she's not showing much emotion in the trailer" -> "Oh, you think women need to SMILE all the time!?" strawman.

One of the gross things about the Left is that when media comes out that isn't to their liking, they will unremittingly complain about it, even if they aren't the target audience.

However, when something comes out that they like and the Right isn't a fan of, they will chant, over and over again, that IT'S NOT FOR YOU.

No feminist ever says "well, I don't like this, but it's not for me, so I'll just be moving along." They insist that absolutely every franchise has to appeal to them. It's psychotic.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Feeling really nostalgic about July 17-18, 2008, the last time I believed in Joss Whedon

It was just cool, you know? Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog dropped in three separate pieces over the course of the week. We'd get 15 minutes of story, and then two days to froth over the whys and wherefores in Livejournal comments before the next piece came out. And those days were so good.

Buffy fans are so fucking smart, y'all. They could combine academic rigor with unselfconscious fangirl squee. Squee was a hermeneutical method, a mode of interrogating the text--one we often dismiss and diminish, because if there's anything grosser than teenage girls getting goopy over a vampire they like, it's 30 or 50 or 70-year-old women getting goopy over a vampire they like. But it's similar to what I've seen called a "redemptive reading". You approach a piece of media specifically looking for its best parts, the pieces you love the best, and you allow yourself to fully embody the joy of liking something and caroling your joy to other people who like it too. In a perpetually burned-out time, squee can be like a desert oasis.

So the people who liked Buffy and Angel and Firefly watched Doctor Horrible in a manner both squeeful and intersectionally feminist, and saw all the amazing interesting things it was doing, showing how insecure geek masculinity fundamentally self-sabotages the main character, Billy, because the relationship he wants has been there in reach for months, and it's his own perception that he needs to be an alpha male warrior that has kept him from it. It interrogated the entire genre of costumed heroes, with two men thumping their chests and comparing their dick sizes, and none of them doing anything as direct and helpful for their society as Penny, the woman who stands on sidewalks collecting signatures to help a homeless shelter.

Part II came out on July 17, and the series would end with Part III on July 19. So on July 18, I spent most of the day reading Livejournal comments about it. There were all these theories: Maybe Penny was secretly Bad Horse, the archvillain whose approval Billy has craved since the beginning. Maybe she will collapse the love triangle with Billy's rival, Captain Hammer, by acting on her clearly-demonstrated discomfort and dumping him. Maybe Billy will learn that relationships are based on intimacy, not being The Best. Maybe Penny will become a superhero and replace Captain Hammer as Billy's nemesis. Maybe Billy will succeed and rule the world and give Penny Australia.

And then... none of those things happened. Joss Whedon ended the series in a way less progressive, less imaginative, less cool, than even the most half-baked fan theory out there. The story opened up possibilities to break out of an old, tired, toxic set of stories around men and women and sex and heroics, and then hid under a rock rather than change a single one of them.

July 19 was the day I concluded that while Joss Whedon might have his own baggage to work through about toxic masculinity, and artists have the right to make work meaningful to them, he wasn't making art that was meaningful to me. And I basically stopped expecting anything of him.

And then, for years, Buffy fans, educated and squeeful feminists and sharp pop culture critics, got told they were crazy histrionic SJWs for thinking Whedon didn't shit solid gold. For years. (I recently saw a video essay that included the line, "If you have the phrase 'mewling quim' branded onto your memory, you probably need some Metamucil" and, ouch, rude.)

There was so much excitement! A lot of us actually believed in the guy (although even then, there was enough evidence for many people to suspect what we now know to be 100% true about him.)

We wanted it to be good. We wanted to enjoy it.

I miss that feeling.

[evilhorse]

Superman goes into action tonight!

[the-one-and-only-aroace]

The real cultural appropriation

“Cultural appropriation” is an infamous term. Notably cried by triggered sjws (social justice warriors). The term has fed the flame of alt-right circles mocking the left. The phrase has taken the meaning of: the word a white sjw uses whenever a white person takes part in other cultures.

This obviously seems ridiculous. White people shouldn’t be barred from experiencing cultures that they didn’t grow up with. That often reinforces internal biases through unfamiliarity of how other races live. And besides, how do we even draw the line of which cultures are free to grab? No country is truly “white”, so should white people only be able to interact with their culture? Of course not.

So a white woman should be able to get locs in her hair? Absolutely not. In no case should white people try to emulate such things that are inherent to blackness. These two things seem like total contradictions, even though they very much aren’t.

So what is the difference between these two sentiments? Why is cultural appropriation actually bad, and what is it exactly? And yes, this is coming from a biracial latine (and don’t say a damn word about the e) person who’s very much not white, so delete whatever angry reply you have about “woke white people”.

So what is cultural appropriation? Cultural appropriation is the disrespectful and racist use of the cultures of poc (people of color) by people (mainly white people) not of the race that formed and actively participates in that culture.

Seems simple doesn’t it? But where do you draw the line? What’s the difference between wearing a sombrero on dia de les muertos and wearing box braids. There are two main deciding factors to know of something is cultural appropriation or not.

First, is what piece they are taking part in, and what it means. Wearing a kimono isn’t necessarily appropriating Japanese culture. While it does carry history behind it, there is no reverence given to it. There is no importance to it.

What wouldn’t be okay according to this factor, is box braids/any protective style used mainly in black communities. To black women (and the black community at large), their hair isn’t just hair. It carries a huge symbol of their identity. And they’ve had to fight for it. In the 90s, there were huge amounts of advertisements and products claiming to “fix” could hair.

White women (who are the main partakers in hair focused appropriation) wearing braids is an insult, it’s a flaunting of their privilege. With the natural hair movement making protective styles “trendy”, white women are suddenly showing an interest in these styles. And they can wear box braids, no one will tell them it’s “unprofessional”. They don’t have to deal with the things black people do for the sake of living their life. They get the “trendiness” of it without any of the discrimination.

The second factor is, intention. While this is subjective, it’s still important to consider. Any element of a foreign culture anyone wants to enjoy, they must respect. Dressing up in a plastic huipil as a Halloween costume is extremely racist. On the other hand, wanting to explore Mexican culture through traditional dress is perfectly fine. One is dehumanizing, treating a huipil as a fun play toy with no history. The other is respectful, it gives acknowledgment to the people and history behind the huipil.

Another part of this is the source of this os the source. Who is benefiting from your exploration? Are you buying a dream catcher from an indigenous person? Will they earn money from it? Are you buying a plastic dream catcher from a white person? Are you giving someone who doesn’t respect the significance of it money to continue selling them?

So yes, it does matter. It matters because these are real histories behind white people’s play. There are tears and blood behind the fight to live our cultures, to be ourselves. The mistaken definition white people have given the term doesn’t make it any less real. Poc fight everyday against racism, and it doesn’t give white people the right to play their games.

[dialalagirl]

Aight, the boys and Christmas. Go.

Shu- just when you think Guinness yet again will have to update the record for the most time spent asleep without medical inducement, blonde mop over here takes extra special care to hang up all the Christmas decorations, himself included. you would too after tasting Reiji’s fruitcake

Reiji- although he booked the perfect getaway from Sakamaki-household hell on Florida-lines’ luxury one week cruise, his entire trip — as expected — was ruined because he forgot Kevin. all the java in the world could and did not prepare him for the polka he had to listen to on the ride home

Ayato- his latest get-rich-quick scheme? making dash-and-runs for Charity Santa’s buckets. surprisingly lucrative. earns monthly the equivalent of what it would take to rent a furnished cardboard in Toronto, no mere feat. Fordes is even on a first-name basis with him now. but, for some reason, he still insists on the ugly sweater look. must think it goes with the one-pant-leg up thing he’s got going on he’s not wrong

Laito- is currently being blue-balled by the lack of chimneys in the neighbourhood. he figured parading as Santa would be the perfect excuse for breaking and entering your daughter’s bedroom and even spent a whole five dollars on a Dollarama Santa costume. sigh, he always figured the holidays would end with a bang, just not the kind coming from daddy shooting him in the face for making-do by entering through the front door instead. at least he had the courtesy to not enter through the back ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Kanato- Ms. Claus couldn’t be happier with ol’Saint Nick’s recent trimmings at the waist. the days of wearing the careful combination of one and three pairs of earplugs and mufflers on top of no less than four noise-cancelling headphones to drown out her hubby’s snoring are finally behind her. and who are we to thank for this Yuletide miracle? kirbo here, of course, who — without qualms — vacuumed up all cookies who had the misfortune of being out in the open. there is a petition to add him to the smash bros. roster being drafted as we speak

Subaru- went to the store to treat himself to a discount holiday lobster feast and somehow ended up taking home a pet clam. his name was Larry and he looked adorable in top hats, that is until Reiji steamed him for his fortified fish fumet. positively inconsolable ever since

Kino- so help him, he doesn’t care if he has to sit on the lap of every crusty-bearded mall Santa with musty nacho-stank for breath that our fair country has to offer. he will be the first kid on the block to own a firework shitting mecha griffin dragon cyborg, the sobering limits of reality be damned

Ruki- like the perfect twitter SJW eagle scout, he makes it his life’s mission to unleash the max-280 character rant on any and all cretins who dare post ‘merry Christmas’ instead of ‘happy holidays’. i’m sure that’s what the good lord would have wanted

Kou- his ass is commercial grass. you best believe his Christmas releases have gone more viral than Mariah Carey such that radio stations consider it a public service to put them on loop. subaru is practically seizuring from nightmares induced from seeing his face plastered just about fuckin’ everywhere, including tattooed to his own ass don’t ask, long story

Yuma- rumour has it that he keeps more than just the remains of poor Betsy (she made the most lovely roast) in the garbage cans parked outside on the Mukamis’ driveway, but who’s gonna check? not me, no siree bub

Azusa- it’s decidedly his favourite holiday. after all, a White Christmas means getting frostbite from playing too much in the snow, then burning his hands warming up by the fire, and subsequently scorching his tongue on the coco — what more could he ask for? :)

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holy shit I just went on r/rwbycritics and read through the comments under a post that was like "man can you believe those twitter loons are upset about Yangs prostetic being gone lmao" and a bunch of comments reiterating that and like, Im not even disabled and it legit made me physically sick

BUT ALSO a couple ppl were like "well its just a prop bro do those fuckkng snowflakes think actors cut their limbs off irl" but like. THEYRE IN FULL COSTUME BLAKE EVEN HAS HER STUPID CAT EARS

Literally the one good comment was the one that was like "Yang (s actress) could've just been disabled all along but the prosthetic she was wearing during the Beacon days was like, a realistic one that they swapped out for a more "prothetic-like" one when she lost her arm"

i literally had an r/rwby moderator in my twitter mentions asking if i thought they broke james mcavoy's legs for xmen — which is just grossly insensitive & not even accurate to the situation. this isn't actual actors portraying a disabled character; which is still criticized irl anyways. we want disabled characters played by disabled actors, that's part of the whole push for authenticity & opportunities for marginalized people who've been looked over & passed over for privileged actors instead.

rwbycritics has this really uncomfortable habit of times of playing too much into "anti sjw" mindsets as a pushback against the main rwby subreddit; but all that ends up doing is harming marginalized peoples anyway. we're used as props for both sides, either to attack rt or give them asspats & either way, our own agency & voice doesn't matter. it's depressing.