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hello happy new year!!! because of your posts about katara and sokka being good at eskimo stick pull and knuckle hopping respectively, i got really interested in WEIO - which had me thinking, surface level, but would you approve of the headcanon of katara and aang's son tenzin being an undefeated ear pull champion both because of his gigantic ears and his pretty high pain tolerance? it's the one thing his sister absolutely cannot beat him at. also 1) what's your personal favorite event to do, and 2) do you have any other hcs of what WEIO events certain water tribe characters would love doing? sorry if this is overload or not worded coherently
God, ear pull champ Tenzin is such an inspired concept. He'd even meditate while beating everyone at the ear pull. That man was born to kick ass at ear pull
I myself have never gotten to compete due to lack of transportation and being my parents' main source of childcare later not having enough vacation days at work or energy outside of work to dedicate to athletic competition. It's that whole "culture behind a paywall" concept i've brought up before. That said i do have headcanons!
Korra strikes me as someone really into the one foot high kick and partly because it makes for a dramatic pose for the camera.
Bato loves the one hand reach and always does a flip on the blanket toss
Eska is undefeated in the salmon fillet and seal skinning speed competitions
Jinora's into the regalia competitions. She got second place once dispite her youth and has been riding that high for years
Kuruk will jump at the chance to compete in the arm pull. Why? Three words: maximum flirting potential.
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Okay i think thats all my drafts post-ursa thirst draft. I might actually be able to get to asks that have been piling up since january or even earlier than that now
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Are there any traditional ways respect was shown in Inupiaq culture? I.e in the same vein as bowing to royalty/nobility in many European and Asian cultures, or even other veins like taking one’s shoes off before entering a place of worship?
Signs of respect are a little different in Inupiaq culture because you don't really see such strict heirarchies of people and places. Bowing to those born into a higher rank is not just a show of respect but also one of submission to the believed inherent superiority of their bloodline. We didn't have that concept (in fact, a leader who expected people to bow would probably be considered a tyrant). Similarly, the ways people show respect towards holy places is based on the belief that holiness is more concentrated in these places. The "holy" in Inupiaq culture is all around us; the very air we breathe is made of souls and we only live another day because the entire world around us permits it.
What this means is the way you show respect is more habitual than gestural. It's things like not looking people in the eye or turning your body to face them (boundary crossing, you traditionally only do these things if you're about to throw a punch or have sexual interest in the person), or taking the seat closest to the entrance when hosting company (it's gonna be the coldest spot so making your guest sit there is a dick move). Not interrupting someone (pauses don't mean someone is done, no matter how long) and not being too terribly loud among people you see day to day (we're a quiet people who can enjoy each other's silence) are also good ways to show respect.
I think there was more i intended to add onto this but it's been months. I'm always happy to chat if you have further questions
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Hi! Your blog is awesome. I don't know if I'm allowed to ask non-atla questions, so I hope this is okay. I'm working on a non-avatar ttrpg campaign that takes place both in a (fictional/fantasy) northern tundra region AND during a magical endless winter. The people in it aren't based on any specific culture but, given that they're successfully living in similar environments & have for countless generations, I want to draw as much inspiration & knowledge from real-life circumpolar cultures & native science as much as possible. Do you have any advice or even just fun, underappreciated ideas for winter tundra survival, things someone who grew up in a desert like me wouldn't think of on my own? If you need/want more direction: I'm particularly looking for clothing, shelters, resource gathering-practices for non-food (esp what kinds of resources would be valuable), as well as like, any fun details that evolve naturally in a culture that formed in the tundra that you'd want to see represented. I hope that makes sense ^^; Thanks so much if you decide to answer, have a good day either way <3
[I am SOOO sorry this took so long! Tumblr kept not saving my progress when i tapped "save draft" so i had to rewrite a few of these passages a few different times]
Don't worry about asking, friend, i get cultural questions all the time and i'm happy to share.
Note: my knowledge is almost entirely based on coastal tundra peoples with access to marine mammals. That's not to say it's impossible for people to live farther inland, just that it's not my area of expertise.
Clothing
Just about everything you wear is going to come off of a dead animal. This doesn't necessarily need to be the case if your fictional culture has a means of raising hardy livestock for fiber and a history of woven textiles, but even then skin clothes are warm and generally quite hard-wearing and are a good fit for living in these circumstances.
This amount of fur means lice are a perpetual problem. If you want to make that an immersive part of the game, you can work in a mechanic for checking scalps and clothing and bedding for lice.
Bird skins can also be used for clothing and waterfowl specifically has the benefit of water resistance. Fish skin can also be used for similar properties. Animal intestines can be made into a waterproof material if sewn with sinew and soaked before finishing.
On that note i'd recommend making a list of available animals and what qualities and textures their skins and furs have. Even if you don't intend on being incredibly descriptive with clothing, it's something better to have and not need than need and not have. And if you do anything else creative in a similar setting you have your nifty little source to consult.
When it comes to the actual construction of the clothes, you want a loose fit. Trapped air ia a great insulator and you want clothes to be easy to move in. Another benefit for loose-fitting upper body garments in cold weather is you can pull your arms in and keep them by your much warmer core. Not only will this option keep you comfortable, it can also prevent muscle injury or getting frostbite
Mittens can be worn on a string yoke. This doesn't have to be exclusive to children either. Wind can pick up out of nowhere and lost mittens means fingers exposed to arctic cold which can mean gangreen and amputations down the line.
Swimming or running to deliver a message may involve stripping nude, even in cold. Clothes soaked in water or sweat are deadly in the cold.
Clothes may be stored in bags outside when not in use. The low temperatures can kill bugs and bacteria. On a similar note, boots and coats are best to be hung to dry as soon as one is indoors for the day. This may mean it's normal for people to be topless indoors.
Boots should never have holes or tears. Frostbite and resulting gangreen is already bad enough but you especially do not want it on your feet
Shelter
You're going to want dwellings to have as few rooms and windows as possible and small doors. The fewer walls you have, the easier it is for heat to circulate throughout the whole dwelling. You'll probably want one room separating the door and where you sleep. Remember: trapped air is a great insulator.
The culture I've reconnected with is semi-nomadic so the permanent houses are not always occupied and a village can seem abandoned when it's just on its "off season". You can take that or leave it depending on what you're going for.
Even if the dwelling is not a tent, you're probably still going to have poles serving as a supporting frame.
Sod houses are common due to the availability of sod (the grass and the dirt its roots are tangled in). Tents made of warm, waterproof skins (like walrus skin) are also an option.
An easy way to insulate such a dwelling is to build a wall of packed snow around and fill the gaps with loose, airy snow. This traps air the same way down feathers do.
Non-Food Resource Gathering
While I imagine you meant obtaining resources outside of hunting, in a tundra or tundra-like setting, a lot of your resources are going to come from dead animals. Your garments and shelters and bedding are likely to be made of animal skins, with hollow and/or fluffy fur for warmth, or smoked intestine or fish skin, sewn with tiny stitches and soaked to keep everything flush, for waterproof boots and overlayers. Antlers and tusks are good carving materials for things like spoons and closures and slabs for armor and handles and also talismans and smoking pipes and beads and art. Baleen is good for art too, as well as boot soles and smaller sleds and beautiful baskets. Sinew and rawhide are good for thread, ties, and rope. Bones have a near infinite amount of uses from tiny wing bones to make sewing needles to huge whale bones used to build houses.
For the purposes of working this into a roleplaying game, i'd second the recommendation of keeping a list of animals in your universe and their properties, as well as the things that can be gathered from or made of them. A sort of crafting recipe guide would allow all kinds of quests and sidequests.
There are, of course, non-animal resources to gather for non-eating purposes. Soapstone is the traditional material for oil lamps. Grasses can be woven into baskets for any number of purposes, including supports to give the uppers of one's boots more structure. Wood, in the form of slices of tree trunks, can be hollowed out into bowls and small tubs and buckets or, as logs or slats, can make up flooring. Sturdy branches can be used for frames in houses, boats, and drums, and tree resin makes both good glue and antibiotic salve for closed wounds. Sod, also called turf, makes a good building material and moss is exellent insulation in boots. You can make a list of these too, if it helps.
If your fictional culture has a strong tradition of metallurgy, then they'd also mine for metal that can be used for knives. If not, slate is another option that requires significantly less fire. You could even have both and make the metal a status symbol.
Fun Details to Represent
There are so many lovely little things that show up in arctic cultures
First, a gift economy. Where a cash economy relies on a fairly individualistic culture where you work for someone else to earn capital and exchange that capital for goods and services, a more collectivist and interdependent culture natural to the harsh conditions of the tundra tends to result in a gift economy. The currency in a gift economy, to perhaps oversimplify, is favors. Someone does you a good turn, you remember that, and when you're in a position to help, you return the favor. Usually this means basic material things like hospitality and food, but the "gifts" exchanged can also be luck! King Islander boys would often wish hunters setting out at dawn good luck, with a slab of driftwood as a token of that luck, and if the hunters were successful, they'd give the boys who wished them luck a share of their catch. I believe it was Frank Ellana who remenised that this was what the world was like before money.
Another thing that would be nice to include is parenting practices considered fairly gentle to a Euro-American perspective. Physical punishments are traditionally treated as abuse and scolding a child is not only seen as wrong but something an adult ought to be ashamed of. Discipline is instead a series of moral lessons, teaching children why what they did was wrong and using stories as examples of the consequences. Given the amount of stories about the dangers of abusing a spouse or child, i'd say a lot of these lessons were proactive and preventative. Knowing someone will be hurt by it is considered enough of a deterrence to stop bad behaviors. Traditional potty training, for example, is also gentler in comparison; starting at a younger age (about six months) with more emphasis on praise and encouragment than routine. The goal here is to teach the baby to signal when they need to go so they can be taken out of mama's atigi and relieve themself in a hygenic manner instead of holding it until they get permission. Even our take on kissing is based on inhaling instead of pecking with the lips. This kind of gentleness is usually overlooked to instead focus on the badass hunter image or overall "cuteness" so it would be nice for it to be referenced.
Oral histories would be pretty neat too. I think the idea of learning to be a historian of oral histories is an interesting one and i think it has a lot of potential plot hooks for an rpg.
That's all i have for now. Sorry for the delayed response time. Happy gaming, and i'm always up for further discussion if you would like ^-^
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Inupiaq Books
This post was inspired by learning about and daydreaming about visiting Birchbark Books, a Native-owned bookstore in Minneapolis, so there will be some links to buy the books they have on this list.
Starting Things Off with Two Inupiaq Poets
Joan Naviyuk Kane, whose available collections include:
Hyperboreal
Black Milk Carbon
The Cormorant Hunter's Wife
She also wrote Dark Traffic, but this site doesn't seem to carry any copies
Dg Nanouk Okpik, whose available collections include
Blood Snow
Corpse Whale
Fictionalized Accounts of Historical Events
A Line of Driftwood: the Ada Blackjack Story by Diane Glancy, also available at Birchwood Books, is a fictionalized account of Ada Blackjack's experience surviving the explorers she was working with on Wrangel Island, based on historical records and Blackjack's own diary.
Goodbye, My Island by Rie Muñoz is a historical fiction aimed at younger readers with little knowledge of the Inupiat about a little girl living on King Island. Reads a lot like an American Girl book in case anyone wants to relive that nostalgia
Blessing's Bead by Debby Dahl Edwardson is a Young Adult historical fiction novel about hardships faced by two generations of girls in the same family, 70 years apart. One reviewer pointed out that the second part of the book, set in the 1980s, is written in Village English, so that might be a new experience for some of you
Photography
Menadelook: and Inupiaq Teacher's Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932 edited by Eileen Norbert is, exactly as the title suggests, a collection of documentary photographs depicting village life in early 20th century Alaska.
Nuvuk, the Northernmost: Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska by David James Inulak Lume is another collection of documentary photographs published in 2013, with a focus on the wildlife and negative effects of climate change
Guidebooks (i only found one specifically Inupiaq)
Plants That We Eat/Nauriat Niģiñaqtuat: from the Traditional Wisdom of Iñupiat Elders of Northwest Alaska by Anore Jones is a guide to Alaskan vegetation that in Inupiat have subsisted on for generations upon generations with info on how to identify them and how they were traditionally used.
Anthropology
Kuuvangmiut Subsistence: Traditional Eskimo Life in the Latter Twentieth Century by Douglas B. Anderson et al details traditional lifestyles and subsistance customs of the Kobuk River Inupiat
Life at the Swift Water Place: Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact by Douglas D. Anderson and Wanni W. Anderson: a multidisciplinary study of a specific Kobuk River group, the Amilgaqtau Yaagmiut, at the very beginning of European and Asian trade.
Upside Down: Seasons Among the Nunamiut by Margaret B. Blackman is a collection of essays reflecting on almost 20 years of anthropological fieldwork focused on the Nunamiut of Anuktuvuk Pass: the traditional culture and the adaption to new technology.
Nonfiction
Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement by Dan O'Neill is about Project Chariot. In an attempt to find peaceful uses of wartime technology, Edward Teller planned to drop six nukes on the Inupiaq village of Point Hope, officially to build a harbor but it can't be ignored that the US government wanted to know the effects radiation had on humans and animals. The scope is wider than the Inupiat people involved and their resistance to the project, but as it is no small part of this lesser discussed moment of history, it only feels right to include this
Fifty Miles From Tomorrow: a Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by William L. Iģģiaģruk Hensley is an autobiography following the author's tradition upbringing, pursuit of an education, and his part in the Alaska Native Settlement Claims Act, where he and other Alaska Native activists had to teach themselves United States Law to best lobby the government for land and financial compensation as reparations for colonization.
Sadie Bower Neakok: An Iñupiaq Woman by Margaret B. Blackman is a biography of the titular Sadie Bower Neakok, a beloved public figure of Utqiagvik, former Barrow. Neakok grew up one of ten children of an Inupiaq woman named Asianggataq, and the first white settler to live in Utqiagvik/Barrow, Charles Bower. She used the out-of-state college education she received to aid her community as a teacher, a wellfare worker, and advocate who won the right for Native languages to be used in court when defendants couldn't speak English, and more.
Folktales and Oral Histories
Folktales of the Riverine and Costal Iñupiat/Unipchallu Uqaqtuallu Kuungmiuñļu Taģiuģmiuñļu edited by Wanni W. Anderson and Ruth Tatqaviñ Sampson, transcribed by Angeline Ipiiļik Newlin and translated by Michael Qakiq Atorak is a collection of eleven Inupiaq folktales in English and the original Inupiaq.
The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest: Iñupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska by Wanni W. Anderson is a collection of Kobuk River Inupiaq folktales and oral histories collected from Inupiat storytellers and accompanied by Anderson's own essays explaining cultural context. Unlike the other two collections of traditional stories mentioned on this list, this one is only written in English.
Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit/King Island Tales: Eskimo Historu and Legends from Bering Strait compiled and edited by Lawrence D. Kaplan, collected by Gertrude Analoak, Margaret Seeganna, and Mary Alexander, and translated and transcribed by Gertrude Analoak and Margaret Seeganna is another collection of folktales and oral history. Focusing on the Ugiuvangmiut, this one also contains introductions to provide cultural context and stories written in both english and the original Inupiaq.
The Winter Walk by Loretta Outwater Cox is an oral history about a pregnant widow journeying home with her two children having to survive the harsh winter the entire way. This is often recommended with a similar book detailing Athabascan survival called Two Old Women.
Dictionaries and Language Books
Iñupiat Eskimo Dictionary by Donald H. Webster and Wilfred Zibell, with illustrations by Thelma A. Webster, is an older Inupiaq to English dictionary. It predates the standardization of Inupiaq spelling, uses some outdated and even offensive language that was considered correct at the time of its publication, and the free pdf provided by UAF seems to be missing some pages. In spite of this it is still a useful resource. The words are organized by subject matter rather than alphabetically, each entry indicating if it's specific to any one dialect, and the illustrations are quite charming.
Let's Learn Eskimo by Donald H. Webster with illustrations by Thelma A. Webster makes a great companion to the Iñupiat Eskimo Dictionary, going over grammar and sentence structure rather than translations. The tables of pronouns are especially helpful in my opinion.
Ilisaqativut.org also has some helpful tools and materials and recommendations for learning the Inupiat language with links to buy physical books, download free pdfs, and look through searchable online versions
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saw a terrible post about toph and immediately thought to myself, "I'm pretty sure mostly-mundane-atla has a post talking abt the mistreatment of women in the atla fandom that describes this very incident"
so I was very glad to find it again bc honestly you summed it up very well
Putrid takes are unfortunately a dime a dozen in this fandom. Sorry you had to experience one but i'm glad one of mine could work as a palette cleanser
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Oh this is precious. I love all the little trims! It suits her so well
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A greyscale Yue for @mostly-mundane-atla's "oops! all free days" kuspuk week ^-^
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For the uninitiated, kuspuk week is an even where you draw atla characters in kuspuks because kuspuks are fun to draw and the visual nods to circumpolar clothing are very sparse compared to traditional clothing styles from other cultural inspirations on the worldbuilding. It's fun to shake things up and not have everyone in wrap garments with a cinched-in waist, especially given how anti-native the franchise and fandom can be. Basic rules are as follows
This is not a ship art event, keep it gen
Must feature at least one character in a kuspuk. This character doesn't strictly need to be Water Tribe though that is the most logical option
The kuspuk can feature non-typaical materials or decorations from other atla cultural inspirations (brocade or embroidery for example) but must visually remain a kuspuk (drop-waisted, not too fitted or belted, etc.)
Modern and novelty versions of the kuspuk are allowed (sleeveless/sideless, front zipper closure, fun pocket shapes, ect.)
@ this blog (mostly-mundane-atla) if you want me to see it. This used to be a requirement, but i'm leaving it up to you guys now
I don't have the energy to plan a whole Kuspuk Week Prompts list so anyone who wants to draw Avatar characters in kuspuks can consider Feb 29-Mar 6 an "oops all free days" kinda thing. Let inspiration take over or whatever and most importantly have fun
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I don't have the energy to plan a whole Kuspuk Week Prompts list so anyone who wants to draw Avatar characters in kuspuks can consider Feb 29-Mar 6 an "oops all free days" kinda thing. Let inspiration take over or whatever and most importantly have fun
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Remember kids: always credit examples of Indigenous craftsmanship to the best of your abilities! Not only should you always credit people who make the things you show people on the internet, but Indigenous cultures are always going to be presented by colonialist powers as less civilized, less human, less noteworthy, and crediting artisans, as subtle and neutral an action it may seem, does a fair bit to discredit that biased presentation.
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Mundane AU Katara wearing a beaded hair barrette she got from a seller at an AFN convention. You agree
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"How could anyone morally justify liking Iroh more than Zuko or Azula???" Oh that's easy. I worked food service for almost seven years straight. Iroh would have said "take your time, i'm in no rush" and would find a way to slip me a tip it was against company policy for me to accept. Zuko would have thrown a sandwich at me. Azula would have quietly complained to a manager that i'm not smiling even though i did everything else right and was visibly dead-on-my-feet tired, taking care of her after i was told to go on break because there was a sudden rush and she was glaring at my coworkers when i was about to take my apron off.
It doesn't take a genius to guess which one I'd prefer to watch on screen, now does it?
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If this rewatch of Adventure Time has taught me anything it's that Ozai should have been imprisoned in a giant lantern for maximum irony
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today, 27th january, is holocaust memorial day.
on this day, we remember the killing of 6 million jews in the most devastating moment of our history - the people we know by name, and those whose names have been lost.
i'd like to draw attention to some charities; please consider supporting their work.
85% of jews killed in the holocaust were yiddish speakers. YIVO preserve & teach yiddish. additionally, they host 23 million items in their east european jewry archive - the largest repository of its kind (a number of these materials were rescued from nazi book burnings.)
approximately one-third of israeli holocaust survivors live in poverty. the blue card foundation provide support for these survivors, including food, accessibility renovations, medical/dental treatments & more.
studies have shown that education systems fail to adequately teach younger generations about the holocaust, resulting in worrying statistics (source 1, source 2). the holocaust educational trust are working to improve the quality of holocaust education in the united kingdom.
the united states holocaust museum preserve holocaust evidence & provide educational services. with a $50 donation, you can provide classroom resources for 150 students.
(for more information about holocaust education, visit this website. the AHO consists of almost 400 foundations & individuals striving for the international advancement of holocaust teaching, remembrance and research.)
today, we pledge ourselves to remember.
we pledge ourselves not to forget.
& we say: לעולם לא שוב. never again.
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I've been on an unofficial hiatus for a while because recovery and adjusting to disability are both really hard, but i feel i do have to say something.
I am not pro-Israel. It's not just my political allignment that makes it impossible, but also my moral code.
Palestinian civilians have been displaced, wrongfullu incarcerated, killed, and otherwise subject to the Israeli government's military violence for decades now, plenty among them for peacefully protesting. Mandatory military service for Israeli citizens means any young adult who isn't willing to face jailtime for refusing to enlist is expected to be a tool of that military violence, and any who do enlist and say something in poor taste or genuinely offensive about it on social media becomes a much easier target than the ones actually in charge. Israeli soldiers ar facing depression and suicidal ideation from this war and Palestinian civilians are resorting to eating animal feed due to aid being cut off.
It is not Holocaust Inversion to say that the state of Israel is oppressing Palestinians
It is not Blood Libel to say Palestinians have had to look through rubble to find their dead childrens' body parts
Jewish people who cannot condone the actions of Israel for moral reasons do not deserve to be called self-hating for it
A massive loss of lives is never good, and it saddens me to hear of Israeli civilian deaths. I wish all those peaceful protests worked and this level of desperation had never been reached, but i cannot, in good conscience, condemn violent resistence to occupation, no matter who it comes from. Doing so cracks open the door for anyone to condemn any group they have a political grudge against for the same thing, and also to claim that they also deserve the total anihilation Israel seems intent on inflicting upon Gaza.
I hope that this war is called off. I hope that all of the hostages can return home. I hope that the brave and compassionate Israeli citizens who see the cruelty people inflict in their name for what it is and try to put a stop to it are victorious. I hope that from the River Jordan to the Mediteranian sea, Palestinians can walk freely among their grandparents' land without fear of bullets, bombs, or violence.
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Something i've been meaning to tell people from my experience working at a grocery store deli with disgustingly low health and safety standards and yeah this is probably a main blog kinda post but i'll reach more people if i post it here.
If you intend to order from a grocery store deli, try to go on a slow day. Right after the christian holidays is usually a good choice because people are trying to use up leftovers.
Wear a mask. This is non-negotiable. The pandemic didn't go anywhere and has silently gotten worse because the people incharge care more about numbers on bank accounts than human safety and lives. Do not be part of the problem. Wear a fucking mask.
If you feel like you need a reason to ask food workers to follow basic hygiene policy, you can say you live with someone who has an autoimmune disorder. No one is going to check you on this and that little nudge can help them realize they've been being careless.
Try to be concerned for them when you ask about things like if they've had a chance to wash hands and change gloves. They're under pressure from both customers and management to take as little time as possible and that shouldn't mean disregared health and safety policy but in that situation you don't get a lot of options.
On the flip side, if you request a tool or utensil be washed, because it's true that they can get dirty and make your order look unappetizing, it will take a bit. That is good! That means they're trying to get it done right! In a perfect world they'd have the chance to keep things as clean as they're supposed to be at all times but we don't live in that perfect world.
If you have a good customer service experience, try to let the people in charge know. Just hearing about that can do wonders for morale in as draining a work environment as customer facing food service.
I don't care how good the sale price is, do not demand the clerk shave six pounds of ham for you. That's a dick move to the extreme.
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Hello! Do you like Dragonball, Z specifically? Mostly I'm asking because Vegeta is like all of the worst aspects of Zuko and Azula in one person.
The sum total of my exposure to it was seeing a few episodes on the tv in this kid's room at a laundromat that played cartoon network and the room also had like a dollhouse and a box of crayons. I think i remember someone getting eaten by a snake? I was more interested in hunting down perfume samples in the magazines they had at the table and watching the clothes tumble in the dryers. Also the clip of Johnny Bravo recapping an episode that was sped up to fit in the time slot. I think F. D. Signifier talked about it once or twice but i don't think that counts.
It's not something i'd seek out because, as weird as this sounds to someone running an avatar fan blog, it's not a genre i'm usually interested in. As far as Japanese media goes I generally prefer the likes of Lone Wolf and Cub, Berserk, and the works of Satoshi Kon and Junji Ito. I think the closest my tastes get to Dragonball Z is Akira (French translated Akira my beloved) but even that guess mostly comes from one of my Akira fandom friends also being a Dragonball Z fan.
If you'd like to expand on your point, please feel free. I'm always happy to hear people talk about media i'm not into or only enjoy through second hand knowledge
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