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Also on this, the return to using “girl” for things. Girl-bossing, just a girl, etc as positive and reclaimed sayings is amazing.

Okay, so one of the things I’ve been seeing people talk more about with Barbie, bimbocore, and the return to pink is that we are recognizing the way the “I’m not like other girls” mentality was not our fault. With all the media depictions of a normal girl being someone all-consumed with romance and boys and makeup and fashion and pink and gossip, the “not like other girls” phase arose out of a need to prove intelligence and personhood. We felt like we weren’t the caricatures of girls we saw, and in our need to prove this we did what we felt like we had to, often involving compete pivots and rejections of anything remotely related to this part of ourselves.

The rise of Barbie and pink and fashion aesthetics come a rise of reclaiming these aspects. We are taking back what it means for us to like pink, taking back an interest in fashion and makeup, without losing this understanding that we can be individuals, that we can be intelligent. We are understanding that these aren’t exclusive.

I’m so proud right now.

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Okay, so one of the things I’ve been seeing people talk more about with Barbie, bimbocore, and the return to pink is that we are recognizing the way the “I’m not like other girls” mentality was not our fault. With all the media depictions of a normal girl being someone all-consumed with romance and boys and makeup and fashion and pink and gossip, the “not like other girls” phase arose out of a need to prove intelligence and personhood. We felt like we weren’t the caricatures of girls we saw, and in our need to prove this we did what we felt like we had to, often involving compete pivots and rejections of anything remotely related to this part of ourselves.

The rise of Barbie and pink and fashion aesthetics come a rise of reclaiming these aspects. We are taking back what it means for us to like pink, taking back an interest in fashion and makeup, without losing this understanding that we can be individuals, that we can be intelligent. We are understanding that these aren’t exclusive.

I’m so proud right now.

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The rich class used to subsidize artists, like fully house, clothe, and feed them while they worked on their own schedule and I feel like we need to bring that energy back. Billionaires now are really out there getting their art for free.

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Are you a teenage girl? Do you have a really hot, rich, and popular girl reigning over your school with her two loyal followers? Do they instill both terror and respect? Do they have a nickname with one word that sounds like a title? Have you been forced to join their group even though you aren’t rich like them? Are you going to get revenge on being ordered around by the head honcho by fantasizing about her destruction to your outsider friend and decide to solve your problems by poisoning said honcho and thereby becoming even meaner than she had ever been?

Congratulations, you’re either in Mean Girls and cruelly playing with someone’s body image or in Heathers and descending down a path of murder and destruction that almost gets your whole school killed. We love these teen classics ❤️

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Concept:

Crochet secret messages in clothing. Except instead of ‘in an espionage way’ do it ‘in a cheat-sheet way’.

Like, “Oh this? This isn’t suspicious, it’s just a shawl my grandma made for me for good luck.”😉

And then BE the academic weapon because you are using techniques that were used in literal warfare.

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THE FITTED VEST WAS THE 90s VERSION OF RETURNING TO THE CORSET SILHOUETTE

How did we not realize the extra garment to snatch the waist was leading up to this? Now I know why I’m obsessed with both.

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I also just remembered a separate incident where a hamburger joke in PJO almost got me detention in 6th grade.

Turns out, giggling during a math test, even if you are done with the test, and then causing your whole table to erupt in giggles is NOT OK.

It was my first detention and I was so anxious I tore the cheap glue off of my pocket thesaurus and got a reputation for anger issues because I was literally ripping the book apart. Oops.

So… I guess Percy Jackson ruined my reputation before it ever helped it.

With the Percy Jackson tv series coming out, I’m reminded of that time for 7th grade summer reading I opted not to read any of the specific books on the list, but the option of 5+ books of your choosing. And then freaked out the other kids on the first day of class when I whipped out The Heroes of Olympus series with a ton of sticky note annotations poking out that literally just said “lol”.

That miscommunication of academic rigor helped me out majorly, shout out to Peter Johnson.

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The good news is that if I’m ever in a plane that crash lands on an abandoned island, one of my glasses lenses are thick enough to start a fire 👍

The bad news is that, until then, I’m stuck looking at the sun through a lens that’s thick enough to START A FUCKING FIRE.

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With the Percy Jackson tv series coming out, I’m reminded of that time for 7th grade summer reading I opted not to read any of the specific books on the list, but the option of 5+ books of your choosing. And then freaked out the other kids on the first day of class when I whipped out The Heroes of Olympus series with a ton of sticky note annotations poking out that literally just said “lol”.

That miscommunication of academic rigor helped me out majorly, shout out to Peter Johnson.

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It’s always funny to me when I bond with someone over mutual complaints about dealing with people. Like not a particular person, just people in general. Cause theoretically it should be like:

“Oh yeah sometimes I just get so burnt out dealing with people they suck”

“Ha ha yeah…”

“Oh my god, as a person yourself you must find this so insensitive”

“No actually I fully concur, people suck”

…

“But not me though right?”

And instead it’s just:

“Oh my god people suck I’m so burnt out from this”

“Lol yeah, I feel you my dude”

“Dude 🥹”

“Dude 😉👍”

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Ok, so I’ve thought this for a while. But the whole trend of “would you still love me if I was a worm” HAS HAPPENED. To Benedict Lightwood. In The Infernal Devices. And his sons did NOT love him anymore.

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It’s occurred to me just how wild it was for people to consider any human to be gods incarnation, chosen by god, or inherently superior.

Like, they really looked at someone sweating and fumbling around the same way they do and were like, yeah this is majesty, I will worship and believe in their lineage’s right to rule.

Though now that I consider it a majority of the population wouldn’t have actually even met any royal, those who did were nobles who were definitely just capitalists, and then servants who wouldn’t rat on the lameness of a boss who could literally have them killed with no consequences.

So, yeah, nobody thinks a person who sweats is cool.

…God I hate the heat.

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To all the people who think apocalyptic clothing aesthetic is tight, industrial-feeling, torn, and black, do I have news for you.

In any of the human-on-human apocalypses, yeah, that might be true. But the more popular ones, like zombies, would probably result in any areas with pre-made clothes being dangerous or empty, and in the off chance you DO find something, it is not going to fit perfectly like that unless you or someone you know has the time and the ability to alter clothing.

In most “safe zones” or “bases” in the zombie apocalypse worlds, food production, defense training, and wall building are usually prioritized. However, this overlooks the amount of young kids and injured adults who can’t really do that. They would likely be the people who care to the wounded, and also the ones patching up the holes in the clothes to make them last as long as possible.

My point to this aesthetic is that craft stores are probably not as dangerous or empty, and grabbing yarn an easy stop on the way to get the wood glue, spray paint, and decorative icing I’d imagine people could use. With the rise in popularity of the fiber arts, there’s a higher chance of SOMEONE in this base knowing how to crochet or knit to create new clothing that keeps warm and actually fits.

So rather than an industrial look, I submit there’s a HUGE lack of crochet/knit apocalyptic fits. Additionally, since zombies are usually able to track through smell or hearing and not sight, and the amount of black yarn is probably limited, I submit that these fits could be pink, or lime green, or orange, and nobody would complain because they have some damn clothes and this isn’t a fashion show.

That is all.

Thank you for your time.

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Do you ever have just a really good moment or something and it’s like, “whew, existential crisis averted.”

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Separately, I realize my tumblr username might’ve been a clue of my asexuality.

Among aesthetics.

God am I dumb.

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This. But not just with the main characters or side characters. For all I know everyone on every show and book is supposed to have insanely high libidos where sex is the point of everything.

But, like, sometimes they say how invalid this is through someone else. Like, I love House M.D. okay? And I cannot put into words how disappointed I was getting to an episode in a later season where House goes out of his way to prove that an asexual couple isn’t normal. The guy turns out to have a some medical reason for not being interested in sex, and the girl liked sex all along and was faking. This wasn’t even the main story line of the episode, just something that was apparently necessary enough to include.

And I love House, but this fucking sucked.

One of the things that baffles and pains me most, is the way authors will go to extra lengths to dunk on aromanticism and asexuality as concepts, even when there isn't any reason to. Especially the times where romance and sex only come up SPECIFICALLY to let a character say "Of course I feel attraction, I'm human/of course I fall in love, I'm not heartless" and then never again.

They're not satisfied with just saying nothing. They have to take the time out of a busy narrative, competing with who knows how many things that didn't make the cut, to deliver this message.

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This might sound dumb but is there something like tinder but asexual inclusive/oriented? Like, okay, we live nearby, wanna go watch a movie? Be my significant other but only cuddle watching Netflix and maybe hold hands while running dramatically through a parking lot while drunk at 2am? Kiss me on the cheek when you leave for work in the morning because we live in the same house but in different rooms and you’re my emergency contact and we love each other the ways the Greeks had words for without romance or lust.

Because people with romance make that one of their most important relationships with another person, and if you want to find something that meaningful nowadays sex seems to be an expectation at some point in the relationship. Basically I just want a really good really committed friendship where if one of us decides they want to be a parent in the future I would co-parent or something.

Like is this only me or am I especially codependent?

Tumblr has gotta have the largest collection of aro/ace people around so does somebody know where I can find this? Will somebody make it?