#Celebrations Everywhere

[kitconnor]

#happy october 3rd!

[triona-tribblescore]

Started making Angel's birthday art, had a breakdown, Bon appetite! His birthdays before he joined the hotel probably weren't the best :<

[elitadream]

Wishing you all a very happy New Year!! 🥳 With lots of cheer, memorable moments and new encounters! 💖

Also, big thanks to Drones for helping me pick a suit color for Mario! ;D The man wears fashion like a King. 👏

[lordoflightning]

haganezuka face reveal animated today guys how are we feeling

[leafspiritz]

happy mog monday everyone !!

[hayden-christensen]

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN getting overwhelmed and emotional by all the cheering and love from fans at Star Wars Celebration Live! Europe 2023 | April 9, 2023

[okletsgetnuts]

[corey-wh0re]

Do you mind? I have my own mouth, thank you. Lori Hallier as Sarah in My Bloody Valentine (1981) | written by John Beaird & directed by George Mihalka

[madeleineengland]

Jennifer Coolidge and Michelle Yeoh winning their first Golden Globe at 60 and 61!!! A true inspiration 👑

[kanene-yaaay]

First, my congrats on the new round figure so to speak!

Second, are you in pjo?! How did I miss this moment!! Now you have to tell me about this fandom with this fandom ask thing bro!

From this Ask Game

Thank you very much hehe and yesssh, I do! I read the books when I was around 12 and haven't been able to get out of this fandom even since x33. Def need to re-read them because... holy gosh it’s just so good

The first character I first fell in love with: 

GROVER! Mah dear!! He is so funny and cool and I loved how he and Percy were already friends in the beginning of the book and that friendship ony grew with their adventures.

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: 

LEO VALDEZ. I had a *light* feeling that I would get attatched when Jason described him as someone with the levels of energy high af but ??? Sacarstic?? Funny?? Charismatic and ?? Full of trauma? Excuse me sir you're my new favorite character thank you thank you

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: 

Can't think of any tbh. Most of the characters that everyone love I love too

The character I love that everyone else hates: 

JASON JASON JASON WHY EVERYONE DISLIKE HIM HE IS JUST A LIL,,,, A LIL STRONK AND DORKY GUY,,

I think that beans stopped disliking him so much after Trialls of Apollo but I remember not meeting a single person that liked him before that series sdfghjhgtfvxcv which is fair. You like who you like

The character I used to love but don’t any longer:

Hmmmm, I think Thalia? For no big reason. It's been a time since I read the books and she just slips from my mind sometimes. She f*cking rocks tho <3 queen <33

The character I would totally smooch: 

I am giving Leo Valdez a big kiss on his cheek and Reyna and Hazel and the Stoll brothers and the,,,, whole seven a,,and Nico,,,,,

The character I’d want to be like: 

I want to be kind and great as Hazel, perseve like Annabeth, strong like Nico and just.... Percy. Them <3

The character I’d slap: 

OCTAVIAN OCTAVIAN AND CALIGULA TOO BARK BARK GROWL BITE BITE I WILL BE SLAPPING THEM WITH A METAL GLOVE.

IF I SEE THEM BOTH WALKING DOWN THE STREET IT WILL BE ON S I G H T

A pairing that I love:

I love a lot of pairings (especially the canon ones because they’re so cute) but this one here I will be answering with Valdangelo (Leo Valdez x Nico di Angelo) because I am always weak for the ray of sunshine and the grumpy serious guy getting along wsdertyujcvbnjm can't lie tho Solangelo is still very good too

A pairing that I despise: 

Quiron x Percy just,,, nah,

[bookinit02]

genuinely i think if i have to see taylor swift’s name one more time i’m going to start breaking things.

[solar093-art]

ElidibusWeek2022: Day 1

Falling Stars

[kim-woonhak]

JACOB ft. YOUNGHOON & NEW

‘LIP GLOSS’ ✧ Relay Dance

[celebratingwomen]

Stephanie Hsu for Vanity Fair

[jurassicjen]

Ke Huy Quan and Jennifer Lawrence at the Oscars last night

[thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai]

Cherry Magic has graced anime fans with the first gay marriage in anime history. That coming from a country where same-sex marriage is still quite some lightyears away from becoming legal, is huge. The first spirtually recognised same-sex marriage in Japan dates back to 2016. Although society has becoming more accepting over the past few years and queer activists keep fighting for equal rights, queer people in Japan are still being discriminated (this Wikipedia article on LGBT rights in Japan is quite comprehensive about the legal situation). If you want to know what that's like, read Ryousuke Nanasaki's honest and down-to-earth biography Until I Meed My Husband--he's an LGBTQ+ activist and the lucky guy who, together with his partner, made history as the first gay couple getting married at a shrine.

At present, Japan is the only G7 nation that neither recognises same-sex marriage nor has a law to protect queer minorities. As of 2023, the current ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), regards homosexuality as a disorder and claims it can be healed with spiritual practices and therapy, and that same-sex unions should be discouraged because they destroy the traditional image of family and society.

Please let that sink in for a moment.

But then I see people (mostly on the bird site, I think) screaming "But my favourite gay anime should have been the first to have a gay marriage!!! LOOK WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US!!1!!111!!!1"™

Embarrassingly, most of these people are from my own fandom. And I'm seriously wondering whether these people are okay if this is all they care about.

YOI was very progressive for the time it was made in (it aired in the same year Ryousuke Nanasaki married his partner in a shrine). But when you start digging and read the interviews with the creators and put them into context with the reactions from Japanese anime fans, the reality of queers living there, and the obstacles the director had to overcome to make her vision reality, you can't unsee that YOI was too progressive for it's time.

Sometimes I wonder if growing up in a country that has estabilshed marriage equality years ago, makes people blind to overlook the systematic queerphobia queer people face in countries with a still mostly conservative collective mindset, even more so as seeing a country through the lens of fiction doesn't give a realistic picture of its society and the struggles its marginalised groups face (especially when these struggles aren't portrayed realistically in those works). And this is such a weird ironic since the queer stories we love with all our heart because they paint a the picture of a queer utopia are born from this society.

Progress isn't a linear process and it doesn't happen overnight. Two steps forward can mean one step back. If you push too far before society is ready for it, brace yourself for the backlash. No groundbreaking achievement has the power to tear down the walls of conservative stubbornness, it rather antagonises the people who have the means to thwart you.

If you struggle with accepting this, if you think that your selfish desire to get more of your favourite anime is more important than queer rights, if you are convinced that some animation studio owes you and make it the fulcrum of your very existence, I ask you politely and in all seriousness to please go touch some grass, educate yourself, and come back when you've found the plot again.

Disclaimer: I'm not a Japanese citizen and I don't live in Japan. I gathered these information from people living there (expats and natives), the Japan Times, Wikipedia, translations of interviews with the YOI staff, and my own research.