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liking a character ≠ condoning their actions

understanding a character ≠ condoning their actions

relating to a character ≠ condoning their actions

This is a big thing I feel the game and to an extent the fandom is missing. Goro’s love for and jealousy of Akira is very much there and it’s beautiful and sad and enthralling to watch but I want to see him develop friendships with the rest of the characters.

-I want to see Goro just being able to vent to Yusuke about the stigma of being a bastard child because Yusuke would understand and even teach him to see beauty in a world that has been nothing but cruel

-I want to see Goro working out with Ryuji and gushing over sweets with Ann

-I want to see more of Goro’s competitive relationship with Makoto especially because they seem to go to the same cram school; I want to see them study together as friendly rivals for top of the class

-I want to see Goro watching Featherman with Futaba and discussing different restaurants with Haru

1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not.  Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”

2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.” 

Unless the cosplayer has already done so themself, DON’T FUCKING TAG REBLOGS OF COSPLAY PHOTOS WITH HOW THE COSPLAYER IS MARGINALIZED.

Because, here’s the thing. When you tag someone’s photos as shit like “#poc cosplayer” or “#disabled cosplayer” without us specifically setting the precedent that it’s okay to do, your entire reblog becomes a massive backhanded compliment like “wow, she’s pretty good…for a person like THAT.” This goes double for shit like “#plus size cosplayer” because hey, guess what, a lot of people don’t like having that pointed out! 

You could say they…..inspired you.

Recent incidents of Trump officials being confronted in public for their role in the administration’s separation and imprisonment of immigrant families have driven renewed concern about the lack of civility in U.S. politics. The Onion presents tips for staying civil in a debate about child prisons.

Avoid unkind generalizations like equating the jailing of ethnic minorities with some malevolent form of fascism.

Consider that we all have different perspectives stemming from things like age, ethnicity, or level of racism.

Recall that violently rejecting a tyrannical government goes against everything our forefathers believed in.

Find common ground by recognizing that some kids are huge assholes.

Make sure any protests are peaceful, silent, and completely out of sight of anyone who could actually affect government policy.

Give your political opponents the benefit of the doubt by letting this play out for 20 years and seeing if it gets any better on its own.

Realize that every pressing social issue is solved through civil discourse if you ignore virtually all of human history.

Remind yourself that you’re just two people having a cocktail at the same D.C. party and that politics is a game to you.

That’s the world’s most successful chef putting himself in a position to learn from chefs around the world in world-class restaurants, grandmother’s houses, in a cramped make-shift kitchen on a rocking and speeding steam train, and more. He doesn’t shy away from learning from people who’ve never been in the remote vicinity of a culinary arts school or run a “professional” kitchen.

It took 30 people to hand dye AND hand stitch the first 2 pride flags- 30 people of various identities came together to create the first symbol of pride. Hot pink was removed due to fabric shortages and turquoise was mixed with indigo to have the darker blue we have today.