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In my experience as a third culture kid who travels a lot the best indicator that you as a non-x is appreciating x culture is if the locals actively invite you to participate in it with them

Yes, you are allowed to buy those handmade Inuit winter clothes if an Inuk is literally selling them to you. They would not be offering you a price point if they didnt want you to buy and wear them. And you might discover that theyre the best winter clothes youve ever worn because of COURSE they would be if theyve kept this culture warm in harsh winters for thousands of years.

Yes, you are allowed to join those Cambodians in that local holiday theyre celebrating during your visit if they literally invited you to it. They would not have invited you if they didnt want you to participate. And in the process you might learn a lot about a culture you never wouldve interacted with and you can all have a laugh together about your clumsy but genuine attempts at getting your footwork right in one of their traditional dances.

Yes, you are also allowed to ask if you can participate in something from the local culture you are visiting. Sometimes you will get "sorry, thats a closed practice" but in my experience most of the time you'll get "of course, let me show you how to do this!" And in my experience people tend to appreciate when others make an active effort in sharing their culture and wont stone you to death if youre clumsy about it while youre learning. I guarantee that the local children doing all of this for the first time too make the same mistakes you do and they can tell if youre being disrespectful or genuine.

So much "cultural appropriation" discourse really starts to sound like "you cant participate or visit any other cultures if youre from a Colonial Culture and have to stay in your little box and never relate to other people"

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Is it bad that I kinda wanna hit my crush with a car and then nurse him back to health like a baby bird or it normal? :)

yorue literaly insane

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I'm so tired of every cosmic horror twist ending up being Lovecraft-based. Secret civilization with evil monoliths? Deep Ones. Unknowable space god of horror? Tentacle-face cthulhu. It feels straight lazy at this point. I promise there's other cool non-fish and non-tentacle-based cosmic horrors, people.

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everyone share their top advice for adding whimsy to their life. trinkets habits etc. in dire need for whimsy in these trying times

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Saying “It’s basic feminism” when denying that marginalised men are not offered the same access to male privilege under a white cis-patriarchy is just as stupid as transphobes saying “it’s basic biology” about trans people existing. Like yeah, there’s a reason it’s basic. You haven’t fucking read anything beyond a high school history class about the Suffragettes (and I bet they didn’t say jack shit about Ida B. Wells).

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i love reading sad books bc when your own grief is stopped up inside you like a clogged drain you can grieve for a character on a page and understand that you're also grieving for yourself a little bit

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internet safety we were taught as kids: don't share ANY personal information with ANYONE EVER the british government: you don't want to give these random third parties your photo or driving licence showing your name, birthday, address and signature? are you perhaps a nonce?

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if you ever get the chance id love to see hawkgirl kendra saunders in your style since i know youve seen superman now 👀 her appearance in the movie was my favorite second to mr terrific

aaa yes!! omg i love her so much T᷄⌑T᷅ thank you for this ask! i really like her helmet from the animated show and comics, so hopefully you don't mind me mish-mashing the designs a bit (also, did she have highlights? i gave her highlights lol)

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look at this thang

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tsunami alert for west coast and hawaii and japan, maybe other pacific coasts. big earthquake off russia.

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WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE HORRIBLY:

1. You’ll never write anything if you don’t

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it's very important that disabled people are allowed to make bad decisions actually. that we're allowed to do things which cause flare-ups. that we're allowed to take a risk and get it wrong. that not every single second of our day has to be about playing it safe and being well-behaved and staying within our limits

and on the days when we deal with the consequences of those mistakes and bad decisions we're still worthy of a) sympathy and b) pain relief. just as we are if our illness or disability is the result of our choices in the first place

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some of you aren’t even perverts you just have normal sexual desires that you are ashamed of

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My fave part of botw is just riding around on a horse, kinda sad traveling gets so easy when u have unlocked every tower. Sooooo i think we need a loz cowboy game

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no thoughts. only lake

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btw you should absolutely read stuff you don't agree with. you should think critically about it. you should reflect and find different stimuli and maybe even form your own thought based on or opposed to it. ideas aren't contagious and reading words someone else has told you are "bad" won't infect you like a virus and make you "evil". read with your own brain.