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the new footer absolutely SUCKSS and not just in a "oh i don't like change" kind of way! But in a did you even TEST THIS WITH REAL PEOPLE kind of way. It's in the stupidest order. And why do you have to have two steps to reblog???????????? That's bullshit. Like we didn't already have enough problems with people not reblogging stuff anymore, they just decided "let's make it even harder!!" 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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#shiori is 15 she cant drink

... Shiori are you drunk?

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Okay, since there's a lot of examples being given in reblogs of both western and eastern media, I'd like to point out that that these are from cultures that express racism in different ways. As this is a majority English-speaking site, a decent amount American at that, I think that everyone here has a good grasp of the kind of mindsets that affect and are expressed through western media. But on the other side, though... Well, let's get this out of the way. Your animes, your JRPGs, your mangas? You have to remember these are being created by people from southeast-asian countries, and by and large a HUGE percent of the population there is, well, asian. Especially Japan. And of the non-asians living there, they're further taken out of the public consiousness by media erasure. Don't get me wrong, they're not in any way ethnostates, and there's plenty of racism and division, but these racial lines aren't drawn based on color. I doubt that anyone would be able to differentiate between a Yamato Japanese person, an Ainu person, a Korean person, and a Han Chinese person based on their skin color alone. None-the-less, the lines between such ethnicities are where the battles of racism tend to be fought in places such as Japan. One big effect of such delineations? When not grouped into the big glob called "foreigners", POC hardly even exist in the public consciousness there. When they are, they're often drawn very exaggerated because in an ethnic group with such small physical differences, someone from a different ethnic group entirely is going to stand out a lot. This... often can get pretty bad. But the main thing is, if an anime or manga wants to portray that someone is black? It will let you know. Oh yes it will. So your danganronpas, your myheroacademias, your kingdomheartses? Chances are, they were created by an asian person only thinking about other asian people. All those light-skinned characters? Not white, but asian. And jumping off from that... The dark skinned characters you see in anime? Most of them are just intended to be tanned. This isn't as exonerating a fact as you might think, though. That's because... da da da daaa! It's classism and misogyny!

While the intrinsic skin color of asian people tends to be in a more narrow band than in more diverse places, there's also the extrinsic factor to take into consideration. Now, I'm not an expert in these cultures, and my knowledge is mostly based on my knowledge of Japan, buuuut at least there... Traditional beauty standards involve light skin as a very important part of it. These traditional standards are pre-industrial, so there's a very clear divide between the upper class, always indoors, and the lower class, predominately saddled with manual labor outdoors. So because one group is getting a lot of sunlight, and another group is getting much less, the class disparity is pretty visually obvious. Add in the misogyny, that high-class women should be spending even less time outdoors than the men, and you get a cultural practice of painting one's face using lead-based powders to seem "more beautiful". If you've ever wondered why depictions of Geishas tend to look like that, that's why. Coming into the modern era, with the rise of office work, the automation of manual labor, the birth of the middle class, and the supposed abandonment of the feudal system, this standard is no longer enforced by class, and is instead more fueled by tradition. And where there's tradition, there will be counterculture. Younger generations spiting traditional ideas by doing the opposite. In this case, it means fake tans. Newer fashions, juvenile delinquents, all that stuff gets mixed in with it, so you have young people tanning in order to portray rejection of societal norms, and over time those things get conflated. So now, when you see a darker skinned character in eastern media, it's probably to communicate one of a few things: Masculinity, athleticism, and/or a subversion of tradition (which, in a conservative lens, also becomes 'nefarious'). I'll leave off by repeating that I'm not using this to justify or excuse this habit in eastern media, or to erase the feelings of those who were negatively affected by those portrayals, just trying to make sure you guys realize that while these are both bigotry and stereotyping, it's a different kind of bigotry than you might expect if you're stuck seeing things through a eurocentric lens.

we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

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donald trump will die on july 20th 2025 at 1pm pacific standard time

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this is both beautiful and terrible. the written aspect made me feel like getting punched in the gut. 9/10 would recommend

I FUCKING HATE YOU PEOPLE (Sizhen System, 2025, pixel, critical thinking worksheet, paper, the "environmental impact" of "AI image generation", earnest hatred, Google form, .png, time, .pdf)

I FUCKING HATE YOU PEOPLE is an interactive multimedia art experience by Sizhen System, an alias of NYT-acknowledged and Academy of American Poets-published poet Nora Hikari. It features a series of AI-generated images of fictional White female US American military soldiers, drawn in an "anime" style, in various levels of eroticism and pornography. The images contain various computer-generated hallucinations of what the image model conceptualizes as "American iconography." A critical element of the images are the ways that the machine corrupts these actual images -- flags, in particular, as well as the distortions which arise in anatomy, increasing over the course of the image series.

Following the series of images is a piece of creative nonfiction writing in the form of a six-page interactive "worksheet", styled as a classroom worksheet for a hypothetical course in "Johnny Jackass’s Introduction to Non-Terminal Thought" and titled "Sizhen System's Curricular Torsion 6: WHO'S AFRAID OF THE CRITICAL THINKING SECTION?" In addition, there is a public Google form which allows participants to submit their answers to the worksheet directly to the artist.

Artist statement: "I made I FUCKING HATE YOU PEOPLE because I fucking hate you people. Your reactionary sentimentalities cause you to refuse to reckon with anything that could possibly expand your consciousness unless you are literally bludgeoned over the head with it. This piece is Not Art. There is No Art contained within this piece. This device is a weapon designed to hurt the reader/viewer. Any and all art which comes from this piece, or is produced by this piece, is purely incidental, and not the political responsibility of the artist, who did not make a piece of art."

The full body of the work can be found as a compressed file, with assets, at this link: https://system-wires.itch.io/i-fucking-hate-you-people

THIS NON-ART PIECE CONTAINS SEXUAL NUDITY AND IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR PEOPLE WHOM THAT IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR.

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"love is for thise who love to work" is like some nazi-tier ableism, but if it's to dunk on ai 100 thousand people suddenly turn into little hitlers who love to bootlick the opressive institution of the school system

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Theoretically i can get behind letting students use ai to cheat but isn't it terrifying that people are using it to cruise through medical school or engineering, where not knowing stuff can kill people?

how do you think medical school works

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im as much of a luddite as anyone else but like 90% of the time you anti-ai people are like seconds away from calling people and their art degenerate. like i’m sorry some people can’t be assed to draw with their feet like that one artist you googled and don’t care about. unfortunately i will be joining the war against stupid and useless and lazy people on the side of stupid and useless and lazy people.

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me when i encounter a pathetic sopping wet towel woman with bags under her eyes and no social skills

“pathetic sopping wet towel of a man x woman that is way cooler than him” has and always will be THE peak hetero dynamic btw

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much less alarmed by the 'cognitive impact' of LLM use than I am by the fact that so many people apparently believe your brain can atrophy or permanently lose function in the space of four months because you used fancy sparknotes to write a couple of essays

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does anyone remember when taylor shot a hostage saying they couldn't take any chances and it turned out to be nice guy

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hello new person first: you should see the "Normal" end as well! second: the creator has drawn such: Moge-ko and Lord Prosciutto

have a daughter.

played mogeko castle today and it was verrry interesting o_o

the story was soo interesting, while my screenshots are limited bc tbh i wanna play the Game, it was soo cool to travel through all the different floors and across the different dimensions and all the mogekos we got to meet. also moge-ko is soo cute even if shes like a sadistic sick bitch. neko girls are allowed to be crazy bitches and thats on GOD.

i lovedddddd nega-mogeko/defective mogeko and hes soo sweet, :(( deserved so much better but then again. uhm. horror games do be about horrors and there are a LOTTT of endigns where yonaka (main character) is just either raped or brutally eaten alive or used to breed, its soo FUCKED. i liked it a lot! :)

do NOTTT press that button !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ya

this was yuri in my heart

LMFAOOAOAOAOA WHEN I SAW THE DIALOGUE OPTION TO ELOPE WITH THE "DEFECTIVE" MOEGEKO LMFAOOAOAOAO????

kinda drove me crazy. even if it wasnt really him yk.

no comment o_o

well anyway im highlighting the stuff that interested me or made me laugh, but a good like 75% of this game is STRAIGHT horrors and like every ending is a bad ending. all roads lead to misery (except maybe prosciutto love story???????????)

ANYWAYYYYY

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#There's a multi-chapter arc where they find her as a lonely boy #and they she finds out about her true identity #and then when offered the choice immediately is like 'yeah. girl please' and becomes a girl and has no regrets

Hey now, hold on just a minute, we don't want to misrepresent that scene, that's the one that people end up getting wrong ideas about!

No, what happens is she tries to haggle for a 'free trial', but gets denied, and she has a minor crisis over whether being a girl would mean none of her friends would like her anymore. After she's reassured, she agrees to do it in order to solve the succession crisis.

Then she erases all traces of her having ever been a boy and it becomes an unspoken taboo to bring it up because being reminded of it makes her upset.

With all this Wicked talk reminder that in the Oz books the rightful ruler of Oz was actually a trans girl named Ozma who explicitly named Dorothy a princess of Oz and considered her a "constant companion."

Also, this art from "The Road to Oz"

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actually as a lesbian i'm not attracted to men. it's actually not nuanced at all for me. yes even whatever exception you're thinking of. hope this helps 👍

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i am begging people on this site, especially new kpop fic writers, to use tags properly. only put tags that are relevant to your post.

i am SO TIRED of the tags i follow being clogged with unrelated shit because someone thinks it's a good idea to spam tag their posts with everything kpop-related even if it isn't remotely related to what the post is about. all it does is make the tag page useless! you are making it harder for people to look for what they actually want to see!!

IF YOUR FIC DOESN'T ACTUALLY CONTAIN SMUT, DON'T TAG IT AS SMUT. i am SICK of people tagging their sfw fluff or angst fics or even fics that are only a tiny bit suggestive with smut because they think it will give it more reach. you know what that does? it means that people who have smut tags blacklisted CAN'T TRUST THEIR BLACKLIST AT ALL. how the hell am i supposed to know if my blacklist is working properly if people keep tagging their sfw fics as smut? and i can deal with it fine bc i'm an adult anyway, but what about minors who are repeatedly told not to interact with smut posts? and then you hide all the sfw posts in the smut tags anyway so minors can't even reliably tell what they should and shouldn't interact with.

stop hijacking the tumblr tag system to treat it like an algorithm, it's a tool for navigation and filtering. the more you misuse it the worse you make it for everyone on this site.