#ask sheps

i do remember this as i became more aware of fiction effecting reality and when she had changed her handle, i was hoping she was wanting to get away from all that, but…

i do recall when she followed me with her non-art acct for a bit before unfollowing me suspiciously after i had ranted about sh#ta/l#li still being extremely dangerous material and still in the same category as owning CP of real kids, so i wonder sometimes

11:A song that you never get tired of

numbers gotten from twitter!

@supersheps (chosen at random) 5,10, 20, 2

2:A song you like with a number in the title

aran - Cloud 9

5:A song that needs to be played LOUD

Ametsub - Rufouslow the whole album All Is Silence, really. it’s all chill electronic noise stuff

10:A song that makes you sad

Sana - Space Dog it’s in English, but look at the lyrics in the description anyhow and get a feel

20:A song that has many meanings to you

the context is some person made up some bullshit story about some Evil TransGenders stepping off a bus to beat up OP and their friend down while wearing t-shirts that say “Down With Cis”

essentially using some bullshit story to gather attention from other cis ppl who’re like “i can’t believe that happened!!” (spoilers: it never happened)and using it as some excuse to be transphobic

at least is what i can gather/remember

oh! they’re just disposable face masks, i think i got mine from walgreens? cvs? someplace like that :0

i come in boxes of many and i can use em for maybe a couple or so days if need be, so they can last a long time!

it’s essentially fetishizing the culture in question (Japanese culture, occasionally Korean culture but those are more specifically referred to as Koreaboos)

holding it up on a pedestal higher than others for being “exotic” and “quirky” when it’s more often than not just what a lot of people absorb from anime and manga, which is, based on what a friend often tells me, just a very small part of the culture as a whole, and so many make judgments and such just based on that alone

liking anime and manga is fine, it’s media and we’re constantly absorbing that stuff

it’s a problem when we’re holding it up to some pedestal because it’s “foreign”

there’s a lot to this but it’s mostly more specific instances of weeaboo-ism and otaku culture. i might be having a Bit of trouble explaining this due to how general the question is, but

a lot of general stuff i work from is thisisnotjapan and some stuff my friend says since they are effected by this stuff on a regular basis and i’m more often than not there to hear what they say about it

but general problem: weeaboo-ism (a part of it, anyways) is a problem in praising the parts of culture they care about (media and fashion) and putting it on a throne and calling it holy and pure when. there’s way more to it but weeaboos so conveniently leave it out, lmao