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Soon I’ll be deleting this account and moving to a new one. There are a few reasons for this: my likes are glitched up, I’d like to re-do and maintain my tags more seriously, I want to sweep up potentially embarrassing old reblogs/posts, and lastly I just want a fresh start

Samus Aran - Super Smash Bros Ultimate

- was an incredible chef and writer beloved by so many

- very open about his struggles with drug use and abuse as well as depression, and in testimonials from fans used to encourage people he met in their struggles to get clean 

- an outspoken and passionate advocate for the “me too” movement, to the point where he penned an essay highlighting the horrible treatment of women in the food industry and his own failings and regrets in that regard for not speaking out against it sooner

- frequently challenged western views on the countries and places he visited; one of the clearest examples i can think of was an episode of parts unknown set in iran where the highlight was the normalcy of the lives of people who live there - he went bowling with them, for example, and spent an hour calling out the bizarre westernized views of iran and it’s people as tragic, war-torn and oppressed.

- spent so much time focusing on the people in the places he visited. he ate at their homes, in their backyards, anywhere they would like him to, as much (if not more) as he did at fine dining restaurants. he was generous and kind, and the show was never about “poverty porn” but rather about showing that these are real people, with real lives just like ours, and treated them with respect and graciousness.

- was an outspoken trump-hater particularly when it came to immigration rights, discussing the impact that mexican immigrants had on his love of cooking and his desire to be a chef.

- someone asked what tony would cook for trump & kim jong un if he was asked to cater their meeting and he said “hemlock”.

- a friend of obama’s, having dined with him many times before; when someone asked if he would do the same with trump tony said: “Absolutely f—ing not. I’ve been a New Yorker most of my life… I would give the same answer that I would have given 10 years ago, when he was just as loathsome.”

since asian pacific american heritage month is coming to a close and we’re heading into pride month (and my birthday month) i figured why not give people a chance to help out a poor queer filipino,,,!

i’m currently on summer break and am looking for a job, but in the meantime i really need to save up on funds bc (1) i am moving into my first apartment in aug and need money for rent & groceries then (2) i quit my on campus job at my university bc my bosses were extremely racist towards me and my other coworkers of color, so w/o that job, i’d need to find another way to support myself. my parents refuse to help me out in any way and i can’t see myself surviving the school year without a job (not to mention i can’t drive) to continue paying rent, my phone bill, health insurance, etc. i’ve never had to resort to making a post like this but i’m not in a good place right now, financially. 

my paypal -  https://www.paypal.me/ghostlyjules

“Ah! Another like me! We’re few and far between these days, aren’t we?”

And I was like oh man this guy’s sense of humor really aligns with mine! And I laughed and made some other joke about being immortal and thought that was the end of it,

but this man.

He stood by the register for five more minutes. Maybe more. Which let me tell you is an EXCRUTIATING amount of time for something like this to happen.

And he just kept upping the ante!! He starting talking about some REALLY specific details regarding day-to-day life in the 1300s to the point I started getting worried that I’d misled a genuinely immortal being to believe I am also immortal.

He eventually politely left when I got too busy with other customers to awkwardly respond.