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I always think that the lack of sympathy shown by teens in the media is exaggerated, but then I remember that there was literally a girl in high-school who said "You ever realize that you're not the main character. That everyone around you isn't just a bunch of npcs, but they have their own lives?"

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I feel silly for complaining about not wanting any more country, only for Beyonce to come out with a great country album.

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night and day

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Social politics online is so irritating because everyone is so shit at wording themselves. I'm watching a video By Ella Pastoral on how there's anti-blackness in the Gyaru community. The video talks about the origins and ideas behind Gyaru and how it has different subcultures. It brings up B-Gyaru and some other trashy-looking subcultures, and how people mischaracterize the movement as Japanese girls intentionally making themselves look ugly.

Part of the video is dedicated to this rant about a Twitter user who made an insensitive thread where they called people dumbasses for not understanding that it's all Gyarus that appropriate black culture and that the point of the tanning is to rebel against the pale skin standards of beauty in Japan. That thread was in response to a video of a Japanese girl with tan skin and box braids doing makeup.

The person in the video calls the Twitter user and the Japanese girl, or their actions, "anti-black," and it's just like, are they? The phrase "Anti-black" implies a malicious intention on someone or something's part. It is possible that the girl *thinks* she's paying homage to or appreciating black culture without understanding the wider implications due to the history of appropriation, assimilation, and how specifically, black women have been condemned for dressing, acting, and looking "black" while women of other races of flourished BECAUSE of looking, acting, and dressing that way. Bitches like Kim Kardashian.

This isn't me excusing her. The idea that Japanese people, or people of any other culture that isn't some sort of black culture, aren't racist for wearing blackface or stealing black aesthetics because they come from a different cultural background is racist, or at the very least it can help perpetuate racism because there's the implication that because someone is from a different culture they have no obligation to LEARN, and when a black person is offended, it's actually completely the black person's fault and not at all the foreigners fault for not caring to understand why they aren't being accepted by the people are supposedly trying to appreciate. I don't think Ella would disagree with me here. I assume this was the point of the rant section of the video about the aforementioned Twitter thread, but she's bad at articulating that and connecting it to a broader point because she's barely acknowledging the possible intent of the girl with the box braids, instead opting to call her actions anti-black.

When it comes to that Twitter user, their thread was insensitive. I do however, think they were responding to a specific type of person. You see, online especially, there is this type of person, who tends to be more liberal in terms of their politics. They LOVE Japanese animation and/or fashion aesthetics, but then they have a weird hatred towards Japanese people and don't even try to understand their culture. They're the type of people who think that Lolita fashion is meant to sexualize little girls. If this person is truly blasian (people lie about their race all the time online), then it's unlikely that they were actively trying to dismiss black people and may have only been using the "It's not all Gyaru" defense because they felt like once again, people were refusing to engage with Japanese culture and score few brownie points by calling something racist or fetishistic. Ella later said the person in the Twitter thread probably has a fetishization problem, but in light of what I just typed about, that feels dismissive. Oftentimes, in America, Asian people tend to group themselves together because socially they're put in the same box and the cultures were all treated the same. Bitches were all oriental up until very recently. So yeah, it probably hurts them as someone who's half Asian to see people dismiss Asian cultures and ideas as racist or fetishistic without addressing the nuances or looking at other aspects of what is being critiqued.

It's around the 20-minute mark that Ella really starts spitting. She talks about how some Gyaru girl's tendencies to tan their skin to black complexions and steal black hairstyles aligned with the false idea that Gyaru is meant to be ugly, is anti-black on principle. That using black aesthetics as a means of counter-culture against Japanese ideals is anti-black as it's insinuating that black people are somehow in opposition to Japanese people. These are great points, but I had to sludge through a rant with half points and a shotty example to get there.

Ella Pastoral isn't a bad channel. Quite the opposite, but I feel like she was being a bit internet-brained with this video, which is something no one is above. It is also worth bringing up that there are times when people are TOO defensive of one's culture that they'll use bad examples or straight up just defend racist behavior. Like, remember that Japanese comedian who came under fire for doing blackface? I once saw another Japanese guy who was RAISED IN AMERICA defend him because "He wasn't doing blackface. He was just parodying Eddy Murphy". Okay, bitch. Whatever you say.

Edit: I do want to preference that the rest of the video is fantastic

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Respectfully, anyone who believes that Roxas shouldn't have come back in kh3 is wrong and also doesn't know how to make a satisfying end to a characters narrative.

I could maybe forgive thinking Naminé or Xion shouldn't have returned, as they at least got to make the informed decision to return to their counterparts themselves. It would still be wrong but I can at least forgive it.

But Roxas? His entire story is about being allowed to be yourself regardless of what anyone else around you says you should be. It doesn't/shouldn't matter if he comes from Sora, because he is someone else entirely. It's his life, not Sora or anyone elses. Having a story like that end with him being violently forced to return to Sora when he doesn't even know anything about what's going on is flat out bad writing.

Did he accept that he had to die for Sora? Well, sure, but only after getting to beat him within an inch of his life. Only reason he accepts it is because he literally has no other choice but to. He can't keep clinging to the anger and misery at his circumstances forever.

And, you know, it probably helps that the person this was all for also fucking hates it. In no way is Sora happy about what happened to Roxas. Of course he'd bring him back, it's Sora. The situation is so unfair and tragic that having it end with him just staying in Sora forever would literally go against the essence of the entire series.

Kingdom Hearts is, at it's core, a series about bonds. Roxas was established basically immediately as having very important bonds! His best friend literally died for him! He has friends that don't even know it because it was another version of them, but they still feel that bond to him anyway! You really think they should've just thrown away a character whose bonds transcended the boundaries between data and reality just like that? Get real.

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That moment when you were supposed to be sleeping or writing, but instead you stayed up til the next day playing Sucker For Love: A Date to Die For

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fascinating to me how quickly we forget that the cycles repeat. people treating 5-15 year olds like this breed of superchild created to do evil and taint the world. that was all of us. "they're wrecking sephoras" you would not survive a 2015 hot topic with this mindset. "they're falling for the stanley cup thing" buying on trend overly robust camping gear for every day use is like. a middle class tradition in this country. our glorious kånken backpack vs their wicked stanley cup.

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Working part-time for so long has convinced me that next to no retail job should be longer than 6 hours if that. I couldn't even imagine bullshitting at an office job for more than 4 hours at this point.

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To all you bitches who reach for the back tray while getting samples or reach into the bag of utensils in the cart, I hope somebody hits your car in the parking lot while you're in the store.

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“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this

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bruh

Im fucking tired.

This is ineffectual. If a kid want to look at porn, they will find a way, and even if they don't the internet is far too broad of a place for this to mean anything.

This is just meant to "Put the fear of god" in gay people. More examples of dickheads trying to conflate homosexuality with pedophilia and say that these people don't belong around your kids.

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The way I thought these were ocs for the longest time

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I think at this point, we should just start seeing online leftist essayists and streamers in the same way we see celebrities. "This person is or is probably trash, but the content's good, so I'll keep watching/listening."