SHOULD WE HAVE CONNECTED?

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

Let the historical record show that Mr. Beast was entirely ignorable if you were just like doing literally anything else. I've been on youtube as long as it's been around and I've never been recommended a video by him. I see him in passing as a meme. I thought he was a made up joke, a caricature of bad youtuber content miners until someone I trust confirmed his existence to me in late 2025.

your boyfriend isn't thematically significant

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