SHOULD WE HAVE CONNECTED?

Actually, no, I don't think that friendships dropping like flies in your late 20s and early 30s because no one has time for that between overwork and family obligations and marriage and kids and partners and the ritual of the time slayer is normal and ok. No I don't think deep conversations and spontaneous adventures being replaced with a tired coffee every six months is a normal part of growing up. I don't think that emotional intimacy and soul bonds disintegrating in the face of practical inconvenience is a fact of life. I think that means something is deeply deeply wrong with our society and I will never forgive it for the friends I've lost

ok but this unironically works. talk about how the working class is exploited and you can basically sell full-on marxism to your average republican if you do it right. all you have to do is avoid the words "Marx," "capitalism," "socialism," "communism," "means of production," etc - just use synonyms. say "big business" or "corporate shareholder interests" instead of "capitalists." say "a government that prioritizes the needs of the working people" instead of "socialism." it WORKS. I've DONE it. the hardest sell are usually things like social and racial equity, welfare, things like that, because people have been primed with the racist/classist idea that those things are somehow unfair - but you can get your foot in the door to getting them to buy into those too if you start with class issues. read up on your theory, make sure you REALLY understand your own ideology, because that will enable you to reword it and successfully sell it.

oh my god I just saw the cutest thing in the world. little Black girl with beads in her hair for the first day of school and the beads were pink then silver then a bunch of yellow then beige then grey to make them look like pencils 🥺🥺🥺 brb I will draw an artist’s rendition

i dog and i dog on grrm but every time i go on that damn subreddit i get so defensive of that old man. oh you think it's so easy? you think it's all fun and games to write a thousand page book in a multipov multicontinental densely structured narrative setting with all the world's eyes on you? go ahead u/chudmeister0621 pick the pen we're all waiting

you're infinitely more likely to see non-Asian representation in anime, such as Europeans, white Americans, black people, Latinx, etc in anime than you are any of the minorities who are actually common within Japan

and an interesting element of this is that, due to the foreign interest in anime and how that incentivizes the anime industry, a production committee is more likely to consider adding a black character to a cast than they are a korean character. there's no demand for Japanese national minorities from overseas, only groups which are considered minorities in the US and Europe

Pretty sure you could count the number of anime with Ainu characters on one hand. The only main cast Korean character in anime I can think of off the top of my head is from a comedy sci-fi series from ~30 years ago. Ryukyuan as a distinct ethnicity, one character from a show ~20 years ago. Hell, I'm pretty sure I've seen more Australian characters in anime than Korean characters in anime. Golden Kamuy is literally the only thing preventing that from being true of Ainu characters.

whos the blorbo you have the most merch of? it can be handmade or official or unofficial or ANYTHING just. merch