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journalist gets real yakuza members to play yakuza 3 and asks for their opinions on its authenticity

“What’s with all the fucking gaijin in this area?” “Dude, don’t say that, use gaikokujin, it’s nicer.” “Oh, shit, right. What’s with all the fucking gaikokujin in this area?”

“The breaded pork cutlet bento box is like mega power. More than ramen. That’s accurate.”

all of them start dragging kiryu for his shitty cheap shirt for five minutes

“Shooting people sends a message.” “So does shooting anything.”

HAPPY BDAY DEAR @holioc !!

Yuzuki and Enbi in a date at Mana’s bakery 💕  Yuzuki is not pleased.

you people will just. say anything

here is the original comic strip:

what the bechdel-wallace test is not:

an academic analysis of media

a bar that determines whether or not a movie is “bad” or “good” (by which i mean if a movie doesn’t pass the bechdel-wallace test that doesn’t make it bad, and if a movie passes the test the movie is not automatically good)

supposed to be taken seriously

what the bechdel-wallace test is:

a personal litmus test created by a lesbian who was, presumably, frustrated with the fact that women could not exist in the movie without a relationship to a man

it is not a way to “police what women speak about” because it does not apply to real people. it applies to fictional characters. also, the bechdel-wallace test does not stipulate that there can be no conversation about a male love interest. the women just have to talk about something other than a male love interest.

the reason the male love interest stipulation is there is because like… this test was created by a butch lesbian woman to determine whether or not she wanted to watch a movie. removing that part of the test violates the spirit of the test. it’s silly because it’s not supposed to be serious.

I find the Bechdel-Wallace test important as a way of talking about the state of media. Because any individual work may not pass the Bechdel-Wallace test for a variety of reasons. But when you look at how many works fail it, that tells you something about the representation of women in media. It tells you two things: that there aren’t many female characters, or at least not as many as there are men, and they’re not in leading roles (and thus not getting as many conversations per piece of media), and that when they do talk it tends to be about the men in their lives, whether romantic interest or not. Whether or not any one movie or book or TV show is good or bad is irrelevant. What’s important is the overall pattern.

You only have one giant paragraph, so it's just a wall of text

Similar to the previous point, you don't have paragraph breaks when a new character speaks

you don't include quotation marks

tumblr specific: your fic isn't under a readmore

tumblr specific as well: your fic is all written in the smaller text (example: this way). This is just accessibility, and i've also heard this doesn't work well with text to speech but maybe that has been resolved by now?