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Today at 7:30pm I finished the first book of the Vampire Hunter D omnibus, whilst listening to Buck-Tick, and I'm about to rewatch the movie for the first time since June last year, I'm going to enjoy the parallels in the book and movie and figure out the differences and similarities, it's going to be an amazing night!!

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GIRL?! 😭

I knew this was going happen but goddamn I forgot how forward she is 💔

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I've waited like 2 years to buy the innocent manga by Shin'ichi Sakamoto because it's wrapped at Barnes and Nobles, but now I have a job AND MY OWN MONEY!! YOU WILL BE MINEEEEE

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Orion Sun has become the Buck-Tick to my RnB playlist it's getting out of control

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I should be home reading fanfics and listening to gf asmr but I'm stuck here drinking a milk shake 💔 oh my life is so hard

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Watching old spongebob episodes and seeing frames that would be amazing reaction pics is torture for me

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OMFG I'M SCREWED THEY'RE TAKING AWAY OUR PHONES FOR SCHOOL!! TF?! I'M LITERALLY GOING TO BE A JUNIOR THIS IS SO CHILDISSHHHHHHHHH 💔

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OHHHHHH I JUST GOT PAID YOU GIRLS ARE COMING HOME WITH MEEE!!

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I've commented worse but this one is pretty funny

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I love Sevika, I love Gert, I love Ambessa, I love Drolta, I love Mel, I love Sojourn, I love Storm, AUGH I JUST LOVE WOC

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I want this figure so badly!! THEY LOOKS SO GOOD!! But my mom doesn't want me to (I have my own money btw) because it costs 79$ each 💔💔

OHHH COME HOME TO ME DROLTA AND ALUCARD

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If I said I have a crazy obsession with Buck-Tick I believe none of you would be suprised

⇧this photo was on the back of my phone for awhile before I accidentally got my phone wet 💔

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Drawn to Be Desired, Erased to Be Consumed: White queer gaze, Fan Revisions and Sevika

The white arcane fans have been pissing me off for a while now. Y’all are straight up racist to Mel and vilify her. Y’all love to talk about Sevika and her strap, but you only choose to love and thirst over a version of Sevika. Sevika is Black and South Asian, and white Arcane fans continue to whitewash her and reduce her to nothing but her strap. Y’all selectively consume BIPOC characters like Sevika, sexualizing them while simultaneously whitewashing and flattening the very racial and cultural specificity that defines them. You all misread BIPOC features through a white lens and refuse to acknowledge them as valid in their own right.

This is a problem with BIPOC characters in general, and it reflects a profound ignorance of racial and ethnic features. It’s especially annoying when this ignorance is paired with defensiveness when erasure is called out. Y’all sanitise anything that challenges white comfort.

Sevika is a rare example of a character who is butch, disabled, and racially coded as Black and South Asian. Instead of embracing that complexity, many fan creators selectively filter her through the white gaze, softening her features, lightening her skin in ways that align more with whiteness rather than with the culturally grounded design she was given in Arcane.

For y’all, she’s nothing but a strap with muscles. She’s a stoic domme trope to white fans People love her muscles and the fucking shimmer strap y’all love talking about but shy away from and erase what makes her culturally meaningful.

Your Favorite Butch is Black and South Asian. You just keep revising her to fit your standards. For the love of God, why is whiteness still the lens through which beauty and queerness are interpreted even in fictional spaces that are meant to be liberated from real-world biases? Y’all want ‘exotic’ but not too ethnic.

You misread BIPOC features through your white gaze and refuse to acknowledge them as valid in their own right, but what’s worse of all of this is the defensiveness and derision of white fans when BIPOC fans point these things out. Rather than engaging in good faith, y’all centre white feelings and fragility.BIPOC folks are often expected to “educate gently” or not at all. We’re not a TED talk. We shouldn’t have to to have to explain our bodies to white people like why our knees are darker or why our lips are pigmented. Y'all treat us as if we’re anomalies. Whiteness is treated as the default, and everything else needs justification.

The lack of body hair on Sevika's character design is another bone of contention for me, but that's a discussion for another time. And I know that white beauty standards harm everyone, so please do not bring that argument to me because a white woman growing out her leg or armpit hair is seen as a bold and rebellious feminist statement. Yes, she may still face criticism, but she’s doing so from within the norm, and the act is often aestheticised and commodified, but when a South Asian woman chooses not to remove her body hair, she isn’t “disrupting beauty norms”. She’s seen as lazy, dirty, undesirable and as someone who has failed to “civilise” herself. There is no celebration, no romantic filter, no empowerment. There is only discomfort.

Y’all already call Indian people dirty to the point where when there was a plane crash in Gujarat, people were saying it crashed because of the smell of Indians.

Even in South Asia, darker-skinned, oppressed -caste, and working-class women are far more harshly policed for having visible hair. Meanwhile, fair-skinned or upper-class women might be forgiven for the same features. This intra-community policing is directly inherited from British and Brahminical beauty hierarchies. White and Savarna feminism often erases it by pretending that the European beauty standards conversation is just about gender and not about race, caste, and proximity to whiteness.

I suppose my main point here is that White fans are quick to eroticize BIPOC characters and to erase the racial, cultural, and historical context that makes them whole. Your desire for Sevika is selective. You’ll write fanfics about her strap, but revise her face until it stops looking like her.

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Why do the people not yearn for knight Sevika ? I like never see anything of the sort. Do ppl not want read about Sevika losing her arm in a battle and in turn having to be looked after by a maiden nurse of sorts. Her independence is now turned into codependency on an unknown & beautiful maiden~. Ugh the class conflict of it all, the yearning, the soft touches, swift eye contact!!

You guys, stop you don’t have to beg. I’ll do it! I’ll do it!

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Eating up a grown adult on Twitter -mad about a fictional character- is so fun especially since I can speak professionally and can use punctuation marks correctly. It's also very funny to see them get mad and counter with a statement that they already said, that I already provided an answer for.

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Twitter makes me so mad that I want to start a YouTube channel to educate people

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I painted this... That is all