chatonstines
marientte is living meme
illmamnim
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lesbianhatsune
lovecoregoggles
A guy just came to my house while I was home alone to ask if I was single why are men like this
Okay y'know what I’m gonna soapbox for a hot minute
When I was in high school, a man who I’d thought was the parent of a school friend followed me out to the grocery store parking lot greenhouse where I worked. It was dark, and late, and it was me, alone, in a chain link enclosure with one exit and a register full of cash. He called me up to the fence and asked if I wanted to get dinner, or go dancing. I was scared and shaking and told him no several times, and he only left when I falsely said I had a boyfriend. I was very aware that if he were to come over the fence, or just wait at the exit until I eventually had to leave, I could do nothing about it.
When my hair was very short, a hairdresser sent me to the barber’s side of the store so they could get the back of my head with clippers. The barber followed me out to my car to ask me out afterwards. I was very aware that we were the only people in the parking lot when it happened, and that the lot itself was tucked behind the building with no clear visibility to the road.
Today, a man I’ve met once made it very clear he knows where I live, and used that knowledge to express a romantic interest. If he ever decides that he’s unhappy with how I responded, he knows where I live. He knows what my car looks like. It is impossibly easy for him to determine when I’m home alone, and now I have to live with that knowledge.
Every woman I know has at least one story like this. My roommate had to be escorted to her car every night when she was a waitress, in case some man was waiting for her or a coworker’s shift to end.
If the person you want to ask out cannot physically run away from you when you are asking, YOU CANNOT ASK THEM OUT. You cannot ask someone out if they are at work. You cannot ask someone out if you’ve followed them to a remote/unoccupied/enclosed area. You cannot GO TO SOMEONE’S HOME UNINVITED to ask them out. You are not being romantic. You are not “taking initiative”. You are terrifying the person you want to woo. If they say yes, it is not because they want to, it is because they are terrified of what might happen if they say no.
I’m so tired of being terrified by men who think they’re being romantic.
“Every woman” you say. Do you personally know every woman in the world? Don’t presume to speak for others, and don’t make this a gendered issue either.
Actually every woman in the world is in one big group chat and they’re all telling you to fuck off
Her: don’t terrify women
Him: maybe some women?
Her: I’m a woman, and this is what women experience.
Him: But are you sure?
thanotaphobia
callmearcturus
yall ever heard about ao3s next of kin policy
..hmmm..
Who wants to be executor of my smut?
…is this supposed to be considered weird? I don’t get it.
I think it’s more that it was an unexpected feature. I’m glad it’s there.
Yeah I actually found it while prepping for brain surgery, and was incredibly relieved that it was a built-in feature and not something I’d have to leave convoluted instructions about or whatever. It’s a bit morbid, sure, but it’s a great feature.
…an unexpected but very appreciated feature.
This is a feature designed by women who’d been in fandom for decades, and who had faced the issue of, “X is dead, and we know she loved fandom, so… can we reprint her stories? Who can decide? Her family knows fuck-all about fandom. Who was her best friend? Do they know if she would’ve liked her story to be reprinted in the Best Of OTP Fic zine?”
Running across that once doesn’t make you think about a policy, but by the time it’s five to ten times, and then you’ve seen people vanish from the internet (might be dead; might just be not interested anymore) and nobody knows whether it’s okay to collect their fic in an archive or transfer it to a new one….
Yeah, the FNoK policy is one of the awesome things about AO3.
mimimonart
katie-wants-donut
gamingmentor101
It’s okay to be proud of yourself for small victories. You deserve it. Even small tasks can be a struggle.
torenlover
katie-wants-donut
gamingmentor101
Literally no excuse ^^^
Like, half of these are most likely Okinawans, who are tanned Japanese people, not black.
Japan is 99% ethnically homogenic, stop demanding they respect American cultural values, when you don’t even give a cent to the makers of said anime.
…. so apparently black People are ONLY in America
But definitely not in Japan.
Or anywhere else outside of Brazil, Jamaica and Africa, really. Because Africa is where black people historically originate from and America and parts of Latin America are the places where black slaves were sold to.
The world is actually a lot more ethnically homogenous than America. You don’t see this kind of racial melting pot anywhere else. You know how many Russians are black? 0.0003%.
Ok but that’s not the issue at all. The original post said black / dark skinned people. The whole point is that saying you can’t draw dark-skinned characters becuase you have an “anime” art style is total bullshit.
Also you’re forgetting about one of the best animes ever made:
Boondocks is god-tier but it’s not anime lmao
ruinedchildhood
