#it wouldn't be my social media

[newtdrawz]

Hey guys

Can someone plz send me the step by step instructions they give us in elementary school on how to not be weird and strange and abnormal and off-putting to other people and how to make friends on your own?

I think I missed it!

Please and thank you, all my love, me <3

[shadowkira]

Dungeon Meshi Text Posts:

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[icewindandboringhorror]

On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

[royalarchivist]

I say this in the kindest way possible, but I think this style of prose is more appropriate for a personal account rather than an update account. I have no idea who's being talked about half the time. 🥲

[ Tumblr meme via @mikaikaika ]

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Broke (2016): BBC Sherlock is a phenomenal piece of media and anything that seems like a flaw just hasn't been fully explored yet

Woke (2020): BBC Sherlock is an incredibly flawed series run by an egotistical writer, it never deserved the hype and is actively bad on so many fronts (especially representation)

Bespoke (2024): BBC Sherlock is flawed and bogged down by increasingly poor writing, which many fans refused to see while it was airing, leading to hugely misplaced expectations (particularly for the final series), AND it has the seeds of some compelling characterizations and portrayals, some genuinely solid performances, and touches--albeit imperfectly--on complexities that are still being discussed today (particularly as it relates to the relationship between Sherlock and John). The huge cultural impact of the show has created a massive pendulum effect in its public perception, leading to most people today remembering a caricature of the show (whether positive or negative) rather than appreciating its nuanced merits and failings...that being said Season 4 sucked

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i keep scribbling Laughingstock as soft and wholesome, when in my brain they're chaotic and wholesome. Howdy's got that high energy and Barns is always down to clown yk yk

[letheldosage]

It's difficult to allow myself to get attached to people esp within this fandom climate when they don't know my social media and know my stance on fiction. Because I'm always TERRIFIED if I get close without letting them know I can be weird, it'll just end in disgust and disdain. But it's hard after spending time with and joking around with a group of people that you can tentatively consider friends, maybe a little more than acquaintances but enough to have fun and enjoy each other's company, not to get attached. It's hard. It's so easy to be afraid and I wear my fragile heart on my sleeve but it's so hard not to smile and want more. I'll allow myself more, just this once, and maybe it'll be just fine.

[noperopesaredope]

Just saw the new Mean Girls movie, and I don't care what the internet is probably gonna say about it because IT WAS GOOD!!!!

[maddy-ferguson]

i wish people understood this

[ro-is-struggling]

soo... is twitter down everywhere else or are they just trying to silence the protests here in argentina??

Can any of my non argentinian mutuals confirm this?? I don't know what's happening and my country is a mess right now

[apolleos]

TEAM GREEN + INSTAGRAM AU (x)

[cidnangarlond]

I do think it's funny Emet-Selch is wildly popular but we hear absolutely nothing from the VA. or at least *I* haven't seen anything from him but it does amuse me. here's a man who voices what could be a called a fan favorite character and not a word from him. big fan of that

[2638582858593l]

chapter 11 of A Sailor in Search of Drowning

Sokka's olive branch. the thing is that Sokka says a lot about/to Zuko during this period, but he seldom says what he truly feels (either because he's embarrassed or because he doesn't want to admit it to himself). And while this is another instance of that, instead of being snide or cruel, he finally gives in to his sympathy and helps Zuko feel less anxious.

Umi, my beloved. 🥺

[hauntingofhouses]

i love being southeast asian.

despite whatever unhappy history, despite the rise of ethnonationalism and racism in our countries; despite the fact that most of us remain in the global south under the invisible thumb of western empires and conglomerates, exploited by rich expats and beg-packers; despite the conservatism, the bigotry, the pain and prejudice and the corruption.

despite all that, i love where i am from. this is my home.

my hands tenderly trace the lines of our history and find within it a colourful collection of influences that continue to shape us until today:

the native malays, javanese, sundanese, minangkabau, bugis, visayan, tagalog, and other dominant peoples.

alongside indigenous tribes like the iban, kadazan, sama-bajau, temuan, penan, jakun, and hundreds upon hundreds more ethnic groups.

all of us holding onto our ancestors' mysticism and spirituality and animism, the watchful gaze of legacy fixed on us as we move through an ever-changing and modernising world (and what is modernity anyway? isn't civilisation overrated?).

and then the chinese peoples. the hainanese, hokkien and cantonese and more, many of whom came here due to trade in the pre-colonial era, but then most arrived as the imported labour for the colonial powers.

but this is their home too. we live here together, and through them we all celebrate lunar new year and the mid-autumn festival. all of us give red envelopes during our many festivals. we give oranges that symbolise prosperity and ring in the year of the rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat. we hold lion dance performances in our malls and marks. we eat and exchange mooncakes.

and then the indian peoples, though mostly tamil indians from south india, but also sikhs, malayalis, and punjabis, who arrived and assimilated and spread their culture and beliefs much earlier before the pre-colonial era, causing the indianisation of southeast asia. then more indian peoples came during the colonial era, again, as imported labour, working our fields or donning the uniform of our common oppressors, kept walled away from us despite how alike we look and sound.

because truly we do sound the same. sanskrit remains an abundant source for a large chunk of our languages. i hear the vedic mantras and can pick apart words that sound familiar. hinduism and buddhism still leaves its traces in our cultures even for those of us who've shifted to islam.

and yes, islam. we're not what the west thinks of when they talk about the muslim world, but southeast asia has some of the largest muslim populations in the world. because through trade, since the medieval times, islam came here and with it brought so many arabic influences that has come to shape our languages and customs, with plenty of our cultures having since been morphed around islamic beliefs and ideas. in malaysia and indonesia and brunei (and perhaps even certain parts of the philippines) you'll find a mosque or a prayer room everywhere you go. and every ramadan millions of us fast, every eid all of us dress up and visit each other's houses for feasts and festivities.

then of course came european colonisation at the hands of the portugese, dutch, british (in malaysia and indonesia's case we got all three), spanish, and french their reigns lasting over 400 years. and from them we came european culture and more new languages, english quickly becoming a second language (or even a first language) for so many of us, missionaries building churches and spreading the word of jesus christ as the son of god; with their fair features they draw a line between us and them, between the civilised and the barbarians, between the light-haired light-eyed and the unruly dark-haired dark-eyed.

and then comes world war 2 and the japanese invasion, and for most it was so brutal and violent, and for the rest it was miserable, with famine and inflation but we were forced to sing songs in japanese anyway, to watch their planes fly in the sky towards their enemies, to swallow their ideas in our parched throats.

and then the war ended and wounds began to heal, and then came the 1980s until now with all its shiny technology: nintendo, panasonic, television and anime, and now we have leagues of people learning japanese language and culture anyway, except now it is done wholeheartedly, and as it turns out japanese isn't even that different from our own cultures anyway. houses on stilts made of wood with thatch roofs, making our living from the sea and coast, eating rice for every meal, our phonetics and theirs so alike.

and today we have waves of their expats migrating here because of course they do, we're the Global South™ and for them it's cheap and affordable, so we have little japans sprouting here and there and sometimes i go to a random street and find signs written in japanese and read bits of broken hiragana.

and it's beautiful, being able to move through this world and find the handprints we've all left upon it. it's a wonderful amalgam of so many traditions and colours and beliefs and language all mixing around in this huge bubbling melting pot.

and i'm not chinese or indian or arab or british but when i see them on tv, i'm also seeing a part of me, i hear the words in their tongue and i recognise them as mine, i eat their food and know them as intimately as my own.

but of course our politicians, our kings and our prime ministers (and the divide-and-conquer rule of colonisers now gone) continue to divide us and make us hate each other, fanning flames of distrust and fear of that-which-is-different.

it's such a shame too, because it's so special. it's what makes us us, our dozens of creoles, the way we can speak a sentence comprising vernacular from at least four languages and we all understand each other anyway.

we have a word in malay, "rojak", which is also the name of a dish that mixes a bunch of different ingredients, and is found in malaysian, indonesian and singaporean cuisine. but where i'm from, we also say "rojak" to mean anything that's an eclectic mixture of things, things that seemingly don't go together and aren't necessarily pleasing to the eye but still, somehow, it works, in fact it tastes good, spicy and flavourful and hearty.

and that's us: southeast asia, all of it, a beautiful rojak culture. and it's ours.

[xamag-draws]

Decided to rebrand a little, now that I’m more comfortable on these accounts! 

Tumblr: xamag-draws (with a dash because Tumblr hates underscores)

Twitter: xamag_draws (with an underscore because Twitter hates dashes lmao)

My public online presence has always been tumultuous, as many of my older followers know. It’s hard for me to stick with a blog and feel like I can actually post there. It’s like yelling to a big crowd of people a lot of the time! I hope I’m getting better at it in recent years though, and I’d like to keep posting here, so I’m gonna make these a bit more official (but still chill)

[fluffbeast7]

It happened :( in case you didnt know, twitter is shutting down on brazil, hopefully maybe for a while? (Im in denial) and me being brazilian cant access it anymore

I still have the app, but now i cant refresh, cant see older posts, cant see my own account, cant see bookmarks.. who i follow.. who follow me, cant see the replies of the posts i cant still currently see and im just

I didn't really think it would really happen? Im extremely, extremely upset, twitter and tumblr are the only places i had going for me, i made my cara account but still

I was at work when i got the news!! I didn't even have time to see who i should look to follow elsewhere!! We get charged if we use another method, i might as well just fuck myself i guess, i hate old men i hate old men i hate old men

I was saving as much stuff i could, i wanted my last post to be a response to his tweet alex said, but i was too late. Tomorrow ill do what i wanted to do