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Best father and son-daughter-stupid-lost-boy duo. that’s her Dad of Steel your honor.
ID by @princess-of-purple-prose
[ID: Blue Eye Samurai fanart of Eiji and Mizu. Eiji is smiling and wearing a shirt that says "I'm not the step father, I'm the father that stepped up." Mizu smiles and does a thumbs-up. End ID]
What Native people say about the use of sage: you can use sage, but you cannot smudge as nothing you are doing (waving sage around) is actually smudging. Smudging is a ceremony and you are, we promise, not smudging. Please buy sage from either us, or someone who sources the sage from us. White sage may not be considered endangered by the US government but corperate sourcing is making it difficult for us to source sage for our own religious purposes. Let alone to sell it.
What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.
Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.
1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.
2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.
3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.
SUMMARY: A new friend arrives at the house, easing the tension.
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Rating: Mature
Relationships: Mizu/Taigen, Mizu & Ringo & Taigen
Additional Tags:
Written Before Blue Eye Samurai Season 2, Canon Divergence, Set in My Delusional Version of Post-Canon, She/Her Pronouns for Mizu, Slow Burn, Miscommunication, Mutual Pining, Found Family, Mizu is Bad at Feelings, Taigen is Whipped, Fluff, Eventual Smut, Not Beta Read, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
Summary:
After Mizu successfully gets her revenge, she retires to a reclusive life in the Japanese countryside, cutting off ties with all her old friends, hoping to find inner peace in a life of solitude.
But Taigen is not done with her yet.
OR
After a lifetime of running, Mizu and Taigen finally learn to slow down, turn around, and look back. When they do, they find each other.
remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave