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lladmie · 2 years

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I'm really grateful that in Y0 Majima is actually portrayed as a real kind manager toward his subordinates (& only strict when he needs to be), in contrast with the way Japanese usually love to portray bosses at work: extremely abusive even though the narrative wants you to believe that in reality they do it for "your good" as a way to encourage you to do better...

#i understand it's culture #i get it but i still find that kind of behaviour toxic af and not positive at all #like y7 actually wanted me to believe isao nonomiya was a good person and boss but sorry he's still an asshole #also mad dog majima falls in the stereotype as well #majima goro #manager majima #yakuza #ryu go gotoku #rgg #yakuza 0

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gotstabbedbyapen · 2 months

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It's always "Hades isn't bad or cruel, his deeds are just metaphors of the inevitable death" or "Hades kidnapping Persephone represent the premature death".

But when the argument "Zeus has numerous affairs and many children because he represent the fertile rain" is brought up, all nuance is suddenly out of the window and Zeus is just a womanizer who can't keep it in his pants.

#hades #zeus #greek mythology #greek gods #greek deities #cherry picking who should be condemned for their “crimes” and who can be excused because “their action is metaphorical”#just shows your ridiculous hypocrisy #if you're gonna judge the gods at least put all of them on the same standard #or maybe - i don't know - understand that you're not in the place to judge the deities from a different culture???#i admit i used to have a “Hades good/Zeus bad” phase too #but i'm growing out of it because in the end i'm only reading the stories from another country

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canisalbus · 6 months

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WOAH can we see the skull if thats ok?? that sounds so cool (also only 20€????)

Also since it's hollow you can stick led lights in there for this sort of effect (pardon the mushy quality):

#like I said it's a real Asian water buffalo skull #these are carved by hand in Indonesia mostly in Bali I believe #to my understanding skull carving is a long standing tradition over there but most pieces like this seem to be made for & sold to tourists #I got this one second (third?) hand and I suspect that perhaps the seller didn't know what it was and what they're worth #and yet they graciously agreed to go through the trouble of packaging it carefully and shipping it to the other side of the country #which couldn't have been very easy since it's a big and heavy skull #answered #apricottheapricat #vulture culture #animal death #cw animal death #taxidermy #cw taxidermy

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countess-of-edessa · 5 months

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the world is so fucked up and i can't help but think the damage is irreparable when i see people talking about how unusual and prudish it is to wait six to ten dates before having sex with someone. ten dates??? roughly like twenty five hours of interaction????? ten old timer burgers and mango iced teas from chilis equals sex?????? the possibility of pregnancy, STDs, emotional devastation, lifelong consequences, not to mention just straight up the possibility of getting murdered, with a STRANGER you have hung out with for maybe like two months???? and that's a LONG TIME???? and if you feel weird about that and don't want to do that that makes you NOT HETEROSEXUAL????? THATS AN ORIENTATION???? BECAUSE ITS SO OUTSIDE OF THE NORM OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR ????? i hate all of you i hate you i hate you i hate you every day i hate and I hate and I hate you

#i genuinely genuinely don't understand how everybody who tries to date hasn't killed themselves yet #I'm not saying they should I'm just saying I don't get how they're able to continue on #i see women on social media talking about how they had to cry for a day because they slept with a man they'd been seeing for a while and #then he never called again #no joke not trying to be dramatic I would just kill myself??? i do not understand how people can keep going after something like that #i mean I would never be in that situation because everything about it is bad but like. still #I hate to kind of agree with the 'women over 25 are too bitter for love' twitter man even in a very roundabout way #but i think men AND women participating in modern dating culture have to in some way become so hardened and kill some part of themself #just to survive??? that sounds so melodramatic but like. I can't understand how else people could continue to function as human beings #when they interact with each other in the way modern dating culture dictates

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pouletpourri · 10 days

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hatsune miku and the pines twins, but everyone's brazilian

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mellpenscorner · 3 months

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Modern Writing Advice: don't load your readers down with a bunch of different names! Keep things simple so they can remember what you're talking about.

JR²T Himself: And here are these three mountains. Now listen to Gimli wax poetic about them and their names and histories in three different languages, then refer to the Extra Educational Material at the end of your volume to see what he's talking about.

#oh jirt #people who haven't read the books don't understand how much they read like travel/cultural guides at times #everyone is a linguist and is JUST as anxious as jirt is for you to know that #Also way more flower and plant names come up than you would expect #like #tolkien #buddy #I love you #but what the heck is a saxifrage #lord of the rings #lotr #the two towers

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fluentisonus · 8 months

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there are many retellings & adaptional choices i really don't like when it comes to writing new stories about old myths, and that i feel are boring or ignoring interesting points & implications or unfamiliar with the topic or ancient cultural context in a way that rubs me the wrong way. BUT the way some people on here talk about myth retellings as if retelling them is in and of itself a bad thing, or that retellings are somehow 'staining' the 'meaning' of the 'original myth', and Particularly posts that just seem to be hating on the people writing these books not for any real constructive point but just because they think Change Is Bad is going to make me feel bonkers insane fr. come on guys

#something more to say abt how you can't have a prescriptive approach to myth tempered by an understanding of cultural context but i'll add #it bc i need to chew over the wording for a sec #thoughts #anyways not phrasing it like this in the original post bc it's too blunt but i feel like people saw real complaints about e.g. mm & decided #'oh this is a thing it's cool to hate now!' without understanding any of the reasoning behind it. gah

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sparklecryptid · 1 month

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Look, I think we can all agree with the fact that abuse thrives in darkness. So explain to me why a 21 year old used the word pdfile and pronounce it exactly like that when we were talking about child abuse. Censoring the word does nothing. It literally took me several seconds to understand what she was saying. Clear communication is vital when someone comes or tries to come forward. It can be the difference between them feeling seen and heard and refusing to divulge anything. When you censor words like that in real life there can be consequences because you are obscuring information and hurting communication. Use the proper words. And if they make you so uncomfortable you can’t use them then maybe you shouldn’t be having a conversation that requires use of those words.

#I understand this is part of a larger issue regarding the censorship of words on social media #but its also part of a larger issue which is how quickly we are headed toward a culture where these things are not acceptable to talk about #where you can’t talk about sex or relationships or abuse even with those you are close to because its not proper #and GOD I’m fuckin tired

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hg-aneh · 2 months

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Sigh

I can't believe I have to say this

If you know of anyone who's y'know "bad" or anything of the sort and happens to follow me... don't??? tell??? me??

Regardless of the circumstances and actions of the person, I say this with the utmost respect and fear: I don't want to get involved

What people who follow me or don't or have me blocked or muted or whatever do in their free and irl time is not my business

I know not to mess with english-speaking communities' personal affairs now. Like, no offense, but y'all are pretty fucking creepy when it comes to stuff like that, and that's why, again, I don't want to get involved

I have enough problems in the real world currently. Please understand that! 🙏

#im not trying to be mean or anything #im just gonna put it out there #im legit traumatized by the way english speakers and gringo cultured ppl handle these situations #im not even using that word lightly #getting the anon ask that spawned this post into existence made me want to puke and do not very nice things to myself #so please i beg you #dont tell me about it like im supposed to do anything to fix things #I also understand that many people believe larger accounts have a responsibility to get this sort of stuff out there #but im not strong enough for this kinda business #yall scare me way too fucking much atp #ughhh #aneh wont shut up

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maulfucker · 5 months

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racism in star wars will have wikis saying shit like "this species that is inspired on a real life non-white people is just too stupid to use the Force"

#hm i should make an original post tag #yes this is about tuskens #they 'lack mental capacity' to be jedi. according to some writer #which is fucking ridiculous #they have enough mental capacity to have two languages (spoken tusken and tusken sign language)#(they are usually seen being used together but they can be used independently)#just because they're nomadic and hostile to colonizers doesn't mean they're stupid. or lack the nuance to understand good and evil.#in me opinion there may not be any tusken jedi but for the same reason there's no bardottan jedi - they have their own force culture #they are hostile to outsiders and defensive of their people‚ of course they wouldn't let some foreign order take their children away #i think a force-sensitive tusken would be highly regarded in their tribe. being one with the universe is a special privilege.

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ragingbullmode · 5 days

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im seeing very little coverage (at least on here) about how moo dengs popularity on the internet is leading to her being harassed at the zoo as well as how the khao kheow open zoo has a history of multiple cases of animal abuse for sake of entertainment (tw for the last link specifically- its a video that begins with a few seconds of moo dengs image but shows a baby elephant being stabbed & swat with a stick by a keeper for ‘discipline’).

while im glad that moo deng IS bringing awareness & a new love for pigmy hippos (which have a dwindling suggested 2000-3000 number population in the wild), i think we should also take into account that not all zoos/animal sanctuaries take the best interests of the animals they are supposed to care for to heart- especially ones that put more of a focus on entertaining tourists than caring for their animals.

#personal #moo deng #i understand that a lot of the ways the animals in zoos like this are treated have cultural ties & are methods that have been used #for hundreds of years but there are ways to not do that… its 130 am i cant really put everything im thinking of into a more professional #looking post but. i just think we should at least keep this in mind #something something chappell roan talking about being an overnight celebrity & being forced to cater to the publics every desire at the cos #of ur privacy #im not saying & posting all this to be a bummer btw we SHOULD celebrate her !! but we also have to be conscious about how animals like #moo deng are being handled & cared for #sorry i put so many tags im just sitting here thinking #u can reblog the post btw

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coolerdracula · 8 months

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my last reblog about ASL made me wonder about Palestinian Sign Language. I don't have much time to delve into it right now, but I did find a lengthy 2020 journal article about PSL, written by Mahmoud A. M. Abdel-Fattaha and Khalil M. I. Alawnah for the International Journal of Innovation, Creativity, and Change. here is a direct link to read it.

#bearer of the curse #it's fairly formal and more about how the language works than the culture surrounding it but I think that's just as valuable as #notes on culture -- it's important to understand the depth of it and how it fits into liguistic space since #language itself is culture #just saying that since people might expect it to be one thing when its another. free palestine & death to israel

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ovenproofowl · 5 months

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Why would they speak in whistles? They don't always. They have a phonetic language for day-to-day interactions, but the whistle-speak lets them communicate across great distances. It's not uncommon to find in cultures before communication technology evolves.

STAR TREK DISCOVERY: 5x06 'Whistlespeak'

#star trek discovery #star trek #michael burnham #sylvia tilly #startrekedit #i love michael nerding out over xenoanthropology #honestly same it's my favourite part of star trek when we learn about new species and cultures #and i just love how this episode dealt with the whole prime directive/pre warp culture #there was an equal amount of respect for their beliefs as well as understanding that they could grasp the concept of alien life beyond thei #planet without giving up on said beliefs

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kristiliqua · 7 months

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