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leifor:
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“ leifor:
“ Spock and Jim come across the Mirror of Erised
@toastybumblebee thanks for inspiration~
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@leifor tbh I can see this as the plot device you’ve mentioned.
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@trekkie1701spirk yeah, i prefer this too
here’s a...

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setheverman

Anonymous asked:

What's your favorite animal and why?

setheverman answered:

cat… soft..

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padawanlost

Believe me, I understand clunky dialogue.

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bigskydreaming

There are long threads on twitter of doctors and nurses with literal decades of experience in pediatrics, trauma care, and emergency assistance talking about how they’ve tried volunteering their services at any of the centers where immigrant children are being held. Only they’re all being turned away and told DHS would prefer to work with volunteers who are ‘trained specifically for dealing with these situations’. One doctor with sixteen years of experience as a trauma doctor was told she was ‘overqualified.’

No. They’re turning away qualified medical practitioners looking to volunteer for the sake of the children, because said medical practitioners are mandated by law to report any child abuse they witness. The only doctors and nurses they want in those places are ones they can count on not saying anything about what goes on in there.

The fact that these doctors and nurses are trying to volunteer because they WANT to help these kids is literally what’s disqualifying them in the eyes of the evil pieces of shit who are running these places.

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hanromi

FMA After the fight - Wrestle!!

A more lighthearted scene featuring the gang when they’re not on duty!

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deadcatwithaflamethrower

Do not give up.

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nightsofnuru

Note taken

chokesngags

Is that a fucking bear??? I never really believed bears could run fast. Jesus Christmas.

crazycritterlife

Holy shit, its like terminator bear

zooophagous

Fun fact, a sprinting bear can run as fast as a galloping horse. Now if they replaced all the horses in the Kentucky Derby with bears, things would get a lot more interesting.

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pr1nceshawn

Nice Shot!

ywg

i love her little victory hop

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rosebeaches

I love kids they’re all like.. “when i grow up i’m gonna be an astronaut and a chef and a doctor and an olympic swimmer” like that self confidence! That drive! That optimism! Where does it go

alex-riko

It gets destroyed by adults not believing in you and telling you to pick a realistic career. And by society creating all these obstacles to the point that you’re too tired to try.

seeminglycaptivating

But they’re not really unrealistic, SOMEBODY is going to be an olympic swimmer and it might as well be you.

seeminglycaptivating

Actually I want to talk about this a little more than I did, because olympic swimming is incredible and works perfectly to talk about attaining goals.

I used to be a varsity swimmer, and I was damn good, but I was forced into it by my parents and completely lost my love for it and therein my drive. But in high school I was swimming against such talented swimmers like Olympic Swimmer Missy Franklin. I’ve met her, and the main difference between her and me was that I was strong but had no passion, but she was strong BECAUSE she had passion.

And I could have been good, really good, maybe even Olympic good. I even have the predisposition for it, been swimming since I was 2 years old, have a mom who was almost an olympic swimmer. Missy didn’t have either of those things, she just wanted it, loved it, had been doing it for a long time, and decided she was going to kick ass at it.

Right, that’s great and all, but I completely missed my opportunity to be an olympic swimmer, yeah? and can never achieve those dreams I had as a kid? No, not even though. There was this whole thought that female athletes peak when they’re 17 years old and lose their skills quickly after that, and male athletes peak around 19. But then Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres shows up. She was an olympic swimmer when she was 17, 21 and 25. Pretty normal age for retirement. She had a few kids. She kicked butt at being a mom.

And then at 33 years old she decides she’s bored or something gets back in shape and kicks so much ass at the trials that she lands herself on the Olympic Team ONCE AGAIN. And then 8 years later, she decides, heck I’m 41 now, no one has ever made the olympic swim team as old as I am, I want to get in shape yet again and teach these children how sports work.

And she still has the record for oldest US Olympic Swimmer, not even any men have beat out that record.

So basically what I’m saying is you could be an olympic swimmer, you really could be. And there are obviously a lot of things stopping you and trying to get in your way: your brain, society, too much chocolate cake for example. But if you really dedicate yourself to it and love it with all of your heart you could, you really could.

And lets say olympic swimming isn’t your jam? That’s cool too. There isn’t a single skill in this world that you can’t learn if you absolutely love it and want to. Any skill you want is going to take time. There are countless famous people who started learning a skill after 20, 30, 40, or even 50. Not a single person has even been president under age 35 (most likely because you’re not allowed to be, but there’s a reason for that). Whatever you want to do you’re probably going to be bad at first, and I’m talking really shitty.

Van Gogh got started in his 20′s and was thought to have no artistic talent at first and was forced to sit in the back of classrooms where the worst artists in the class sat. So yeah you’ll probably be bad, like really bad and everyone including you will think you’re bad. If you stick with it though, if you’re willing to work for years and years, if you keep loving it after all the pain it’s given you,

then you might just paint Starry Night.

ooksaidthelibrarian

#looks like there’s still time for me to learn how to draw

… YES. As someone who started drawing at 35 and who always was like: ‘eh, I can’t draw a stick figure to save my life, but I would love to be able to’ this is near and dear to my heart. If you want to draw, start drawing. Keep drawing. Be shit at drawing at first. Keep it up, doodle things on scraps but also draw stuff you don’t think you can draw. Challenge yourself, you will be surprised what you can do. It will be frustrating at times, but it will also be awesome. It is SO much a matter of practice and dedication, not talent.

aria-lerendeair

This applies for writing, too.

Don’t ever think for a second that it doesn’t! Want to start writing? Then write! You will get better the more you write, the more often, and you will improve, all of the time, as long as you dedicate yourself.

lauraannegilman

The worst lie we tell ourselves is “it’s too late.”

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trinspector

This was one of the less successfull fights with my bro vs Ebrietas (she head-slammed him too many times and he died too fast:( ), but I love how at the beginning when beast bro hit her with fireball she just went completely still for a few seconds, as if she was looking over her shoulder and thinking “bruh are you for real”.

I’ve never seen her do something like that before, it was funny and weird.

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gahdamnpunk

They struggle cause they don’t wanna pay minimum wage, cause Mexican workers are literally paid $4 an hour

100usd

it’s almost as if the southwestern us economy is run off of immigrant and prison labor

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monteswisha

A bird in the hand is worth a thousand words

theladypirate

@feynites

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writingwithcolor

I’m writing a modern fantasy novel involving several explorers going out to document mythical creatures suddenly appearing in modern society, and the main human characters are usually one of two explorers from several different countries, two of which are from japan. I wanted to have one of them be a more urban city person who’s involved with Japanese subcultures like kawaii, and the other from a more rural and traditional part of japan to kind of parallel each other. I’ve done thorough research, but I’m worried about the second Japanese character from a more rural place becoming a token oriental asian, how can I avoid that?

Traditional Japanese Characters as Stereotypes?

I’m going to open this up to Japanese followers (and Japanese followers only, if you aren’t Japanese, please refrain from commenting. Here is why). However, I would also like to add that the term “Oriental” is offensive when referring to Asian people, and that you really shouldn’t use it to describe characters.

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zenthisoror

Japanese outside of Japan here - my mum’s family are all from a traditional rural prefecture (Wakayama), so all my Japanese living experience is deep country and the cities still absolutely stun me!

I’m not sure what your question is as such (…..why would the character be token Asian just from coming out of the country?) but I can offer you some tips on writing a rural Japan character.

First off, just because they’re rural doesn’t mean they’re detached from the subcultures. We still have access to subculture media in the bookshops, and the internet makes accessing goods that show your participation in a subculture tribe a lot easier than when I was little. The only difference between town and country is the likely chances of meeting somebody who shares that subculture interest with you. Population is draining towards Tokyo and the countrysides are emptying You’ll probably find it harder to find somebody in your neighbourhood who’ll dress up with you than you would if you were living in a Tokyo suburb, but the internet also makes finding someone else nearby who might be interested easier.

Secondly, think less of this character as ‘rural’ and think of them as ‘belonging to X prefecture’. Regional prefectural pride is strong, especially outside of Tokyo! You only really think of yourself as ‘rural’ or an ‘inakamono’ when you’re in, well, Tokyo, and which place you’re form ceases to matter as the city-ness of Tokyo overwhelms all differences, but, even in Tokyo, you still say that you came from e.g. Wakayama prefecture.

What does this mean for your character? Well, maybe it means pride. it means embracing the prefecture dialect - which every prefecture has, and some places are wildly different from the Hyojungo standard. It means, taking pride in athletes and celebrities that came from your prefecture (e.g. Hyde, lead singer of L’Arc en Ciel and midget narcissist was a Wakayama boy). It means knowing all the local produce your prefecture is famous for and major tourist spots! And loving your prefecture for it.

It could also mean self-loathing if they feel that the prefectural identity is stifling them, e.g. Character Y wants to be a visual kei rock singer but he’s stuck in Wakayama prefecture, helping his dad fishing or tending the mikan trees, and there isn’t enough time for all that music. Maybe he hates how his CDs are stored in a spare box for packaging satsumas in.

If your character is growing up rural, chances are they have family already rooted there and it is very likely that they know somebody involved in one of the traditional industries of the region, so farming or fishing, so they’re more in tune with the seasons than perhaps the city character, as the seasons are defined by produce and the fishing/farming calendars, as well as tourism (and, may I add, that the seasons are pretty important in Japan in general).

Not to be cliche, but it is likely that they are also more in tune with nature, the mountains and the sea, simply because they’re so accessible, as well as being important for knowing what’s around to eat.

Also, it’ll be worth thinking about issues affecting rural Japan as these will play into the people your character has grown up with and their life experiences. Depopulation and youth drain to the cities means small class sizes, less experience with massive crowds, a chance that you really do know everybody in your neighbourhood (and they’re very likely to randomly turn up at your door to chat), and you’re used to seeing lots of elderly and extended family who are willing to share traditions with you.

At the base of it, if you think of your character as Y who is a human being who happens to live in e.g. Wakayama prefecture, rather than Y is rural, you’re already in a better place for working out their point of view, and what they might love, hate and want to change about their world. For example, my mum hated being hemmed in by the forested mountains all the time. She thought they looked like dark walls that were going to trap her in a pokey backwoods prefecture forever. I love the the forested mountains because I like how they shape the skyline in a soft way you don’t see where I live now, and when the rain or the yellow dust from kousa drifts over them its beautiful.

‘Rural’ isn’t a personality label. It’s a starting point for working out what your character’s life experiences might be, so their background for their most thoughtless assumptions, or judgments for how actions and decisions might pan out, or what specialist knowledge they might have been exposed to.

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that-jupiter

think about why you want to parallel them. what purpose does it serve to have “rural” and “urban” Japanese characters in a modern fantasy? (urban fantasy? contemporary fantasy?) this seems like a really, really nuanced cultural comparison of two aspects to Japanese life and culture. it’s not something gaijin would understand, I think. also curious what you mean by “traditional part of Japan” because boy oh boy there is a LOT. same with subcultures. Japanese street fashion is a huge subculture with more subcultures in it, and that’s just one thing. kawaii isn’t a subculture anymore, by the way. it’s become a huge aspect to popular culture–subcultures are “underground” or “alternative”, and when you’ve got kawaii in business branding and on public transit, it’s no longer a subculture.

characters who are foils in literature are usually used to contrast the protagonist (the main character) to another character with the purpose of highlighting and uplifting the protagonist. the majority of foils, with similar characters contrasting each other, are a protagonist/antagonist or protagonist/sidekick relationship.

also curious what mythical creatures you’re going to be including. and also where the story will be based.

icykynite

Japanese person living in Japan here. What do you mean by ‘rural and traditional’? Because when I think 'traditional,’ I think about someone from Kyoto who is all about keeping the old cultures of Japan alive. And 'rural’ would be someone that lives in the countryside areas like Wakayama or Nagano or something. If you were going to put this on someone young, that wouldn’t make sense to me because a LOT of young Japanese are more forward-thinking than before. And someone with that mind set, I would think would fit more with an older, elderly generation really. Though, I’m not sure what year your story takes place and everything, and what kind of creatures appear, it’s hard to gauge what you want out of your Japanese characters here…

5h1njuu

Japanese outside Japan but with with ties to Tokyo and Kyoto. There’s something about these character settings that irk me and it took me some time to figure out why. Here are some general observations

Echoing @zenthisoror, there is definitely a real urban/ rural divide in terms of how life is experienced (pace of life, access to public transport, access to nature, access to necessary commodities, healthcare, banks, stores, diversity, occupations etc.)
I also agree with @icykynite that there is a difference between “rural” and “traditional.” We don’t magically all become master craftsmen who wear kimono and compose haiku while we stare at the sunset because you stick us in a village. There are factories, fisheries and farms in the countryside that are all essential to rural life and very modern and not “traditional.” Conversely, you will often find people living in urban areas who are highly traditional.
Similarly, just because a person is part of a subculture doesn’t mean they live in an urban area. However, being a part of a subculture in a rural area sticks out more because there are fewer young people, and young people are the primary participants in subcultures in Japan.
To that end, the juxtaposition of the “rural traditional” Japanese person and the “urban kawaii subculture” Japanese feels rather forced, and dare I say, rather clichéd and stereotypical in its own right?

Insightful responses above, thanks!!

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