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you can't "protect trans kids" if you're too scared to interact with them btw

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wanted to share euni cho's norigae designs here for the folks who don't use twitter 🥰 their caption:

Norigae designs for #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS 🎀 Norigae are traditional Korean decorative pendants — the Huntrix girls rock cute, modernized versions, while their mentor Celine, from an older generation of hunters, keeps it classic in traditional style.

(the zoey and rumi charms on mira's norigae 😭💕 SHE LOVES HER GIRLS!!!)

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EVIL EYE EP IS OUT‼️‼️‼️

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There's something about atheism that I've repeatedly tried and failed to put into words on several posts on this blog but I think I finally got it.

Atheists are the only religious minority who, even (or sometimes even *especially*) in ostensibly progressive spaces are not allowed to ever act like they're sure of their beliefs.

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In America, “Lemonade” refers to a drink made with lemon juice, water, and usually a sweetener of some type.

In England, “Lemonade” is a fizzy drink more akin to Sprite or 7-Up.

In Japan, there’s a drink called “Ramune”, which is a japanification of the word “Lemonade” but it takes its meaning from England, so it’s a fizzy drink - though lemon is probably the hardest flavour to find, and it comes in almost and fruit you can imagine, as well as matcha and yogurt flavours. I have tried most of these. There are multiple companies that make Ramune and while the iconic bottle shape is nearly identical, the packaging is different.

Yesterday I went to a Chinese restaurant, in America for context, and on the counter as you walked in were three Ramune bottles, in pink, blue, and yellow. I didn’t have the time as I walked by to see what flavours they were, and I couldn’t tell by the colour of the soda inside either, so when I sat down I asked for a “Pink Ramune.”

Our waiter, an older Chinese man in a stylish vest, told us he didn’t have any pink, just yellow, so I figured they were out of the pink and blue and said “alright, that’s fine.” not having known what flavours any of them were anyways, and able to enjoy any except matcha, which tastes like burnt seaweed soda.

He comes back to the table with a can of Minute Maid Lemonade, taking us full circle. It was so funny I didn’t even protest and accepted my role, because technically if you think about it he brought me the “right” drink.

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boomer take incoming but there's something that ends up kind of anti-social about social media in the way people use it as their only avenue of disseminating information. like the amount of times that I have completely missed big news from my friends or relatives because they're in the mindset that posting about something on Instagram is the same as telling people. they don't think to send a text or pick up a phone because they posted about it. so if you either aren't on Instagram or just didn't happen to see that post, you get to find out months later something like your cousin is pregnant or your childhood friend is engaged, and now is probably annoyed that you never congratulated her, when you literally didn't know, because she didn't actually tell you, because an Instagram story is actually not the same as telling people your news, but she thinks it is.

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again.

redrew a piece from 2021

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zag is so silly

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sorry if i'm gonna be quiet for a while. my country recently introduced laws that make it so that in order to use social media to the fullest (not being able to view ns/fw content and in a few cases, not even having access to dms), i HAVE to give the sites my id/face scan.

it goes into effect july 25th. it'll probably effect here too, since this place allows mature content (tho not full on ns/fw)

i'm very distressed about it bc i might end up not even being able to talk to my internet friends. i don't really have any irl ones

if i have to disappear on most socials by then, you know why.

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You left, without so much as telling me good-bye.

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can you take my white ass to funkytown

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every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

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"You could get up early and do it before work" I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let's focus on things that happen in the real world

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A Victorian puzzle purse for a special someone's birthday 💌 ✨

See it unfolding here

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Run, boy, run. This world is not made for you.