yuuuup

my favourite genre of adventure honestly. Like yes it has me wondering how responsible the adults are buuuuut putting that aside it's amazing 🤭

When people argue that food from Chinese and Mexican restaurants in the US are not 'real' representations of that culture's cuisine ignore the historical reality that these dishes were developed by diasporic communities striving to recreate the flavors of home with available resources. Such criticism frames adaptation as a loss of authenticity, rather than recognizing it as a sincere and evolving expression of culture by people separated from their homeland.

swear to god nothing like leaving my stylus at home for two and a half weeks gives me more inspiration to draw

back home time to actually work on refs !

so far one of the highlights of vacation this year has been briefly fearing that i would have to explain the term fujoshi to my middle aged father