#u cant say no in my culture

[suckerforfluff]

is it fucked up that as a filipino i dont know any filipino mc streamers or filipino streamers in general? like the ones who actually stream in tagalog/bisaya/ilocano/ilonggo/whatever dialect???

like im so envious of the ppl who are like "so and so was my childhood im excited to see them in qsmp" and here i am like "wow filipino streamers huh can't wait to meet them ^_^"

#qsmp #i would also like to preface this post by saying im from the middle of mindanao and i spent all my life hating manila #motherfucking manila why do they always get all the conventions and concerts #most of the ppl from manila ive interacted with online/irl when they learn im from mindanao say 'wait you have internet?' fuck off fuck you #actually now that i think about it maybe i dont want filipinos on the qsmp our country is so fucked up it's like the tower of babel #like what if theyre out of touch rich kids or worse like what if theyre from manila? like i cant handle that #dapat yung laki sa hirap dapat yung probinsyano #coco martin for qsmp #payag ako na tagamanila kung laki sa hirap #ALSO WE HAVE SO MANY DIALECTS LIKE HOW DOES THIS EVEN WORK? #like are they only recruiting tagalog streamers or are there cebuanos and ilonggos too? maybe even maguindanaoans? im reaching #when q said he was researching a country with an interesting culture i hope it was us #pilipinas as a country is just a whole can of worms and it sure is interesting #i also spent most of my life hating spanish ppl for colonizing our country haha and now im learning spanish haha how ironic #actually no im like cellbit im learning mexican #hi mexican ppl did u know our countries are like colony twins #girl no one is reading this

[vixenicks]

sorry for reblogging fugly trends from 2012 it's for my enrichment

#have i ever told u guys about my early 2010s fashion and pop culture fixation #i got a gen you ine aeropostle skirt recently ive never been happier #also gonna try and get my hands on some freshtops tanks #eventually #also their shorts though ive only found one secondhand listing in my size #i need the naked1 pallet or i'll die #its funny to me because like #yes within fashionblogging and lifestyle teen youtube girls from that era #consummerism was a massive thing (it still is but its so obvious when you look at blog archives and videos from that era) #youtubers with non disclosed sponsorships #bethany mota and amanda steele vaguely saying “this brand sent me this product to give to you guys!” #it was really just watching the birth of what we know as influencers today and its really interesting to me #theres a lack of cuts theres a lack of scripting theres long tangents #people were only just then realizing you can make money via haul videos and makeup tutorials #bethany mota had a fashion line at aeropostle purely because of her status as a youtuber #there was a big rise at the time of people being against flaunting overpriced designer during that time because of the recession #but there was still a hugggeee hold with consumerism and classism #hauls with brandy and f21 and ae like i cant afford that im sure you cant afford $600 at american eagle on a weekly basis #i have lots of thoughts idk #anyways backtracked #i think its funny because here i am talking about how horribly i need b&bw and vs pink #but like its all secondhand shit for $15 online now #nobody wants this stuff!!!!!! cycles!!! capitalism!!!! i dont know you get what i mean!!!!!!!!!!! #skyler posting

[mariatesstruther]

ugh get away from him jennifer aniston get AWAY

#i cant stand her bro 😭 #tried to cancel jamie fox and then got called out and now its im so over callout/cancel culture #oh rlly bookie??????? #but when its a Black man using a common reference/phrase that u misunderstood it wasnt giving forgive everyone???????? #so what is the truth #after she liked the post originally too like girl….. just say u have no spine #sorry guys i just cant to a hypocrite lmfao #i think this is the most unnecessary anger ive had on my blog but i can STAND her #pedro pascal #anti jennifer aniston #also shes besties with ellen and bashed on other women #like follow anti angelina jolie accounts is embarrassing #along with anti megan markle accounts like i dont even like her but thats so random??????

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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#im only 2 mins into the jubilee is being fat a choice middle ground vid #and so many thoughts are going thru my mind rn #(im gonna watch the rest and see if they touch on these topics) #but i have such a problem when white people talk about weight #or people of a higher class (which surprise surprise is mostly white ppl because of white privilege and socioeconomics) #like #theres genetics involved: ex. south asians ancestors going thru a famine affects how they gain weight in present day #theres economic issues involved: someone might not have the resources to eat healthily or be able to exercise like go to the gym or -> #take time off work or from family to take time for themselves and go on walks for example #things like this and more (which i cant remember atm and its gonna bother me asjdklasd) #but ya god it makes me so angry #and ppl saying its a choice like girl..... pcos exists. trauma exists. and you cant say its the ppl u surround urself with when -> #south asian culture literally pushes weight issues down ur throat every day of ur life #and gives u eating disorders without you or ur family even realizing #jfc #and for some reason i cant stop thinking about gwyneth paltrows diet asdhkjaldsd #mehrtalks #fatphobia

[snickerdoodlles]

there's a point at which someone's fear of being a dick wraps back around to them just being a dick anyways

#im side-eyeing those who reblogged my post on ethnocentrism and missed the point #but im also thinking about the tags i saw on being too scared to comment on fic #the first is being ~too scared~ to write cultures other than their own #(1. my point was people should be learning *as they watch the show* not just when they write #2. i just. jfC. stop saying youre too scared to *try* to write from another culture/POV different from your own as tho its a *good* thing) #the second is just annoying/frustrating because being too scared to participate in community is how community's die #i dont want to be dismissive of cancel culture because i do know the stories and there is always indv cases of a person ready to be a dick #but like. its just *not* a thing most people have to be worried about. very likely you're just not big enough to have that concern. #anxiety's no joke but like. u dont just accept the anxiety as the excuse. you have to challenge it. i've been there but u cant feed it. #and i dont want to sound dismissive of that anxiety but im really frustrated with seeing people throw that excuse around #without considering how their fear-based attitudes/actions come off in turn #such as not showing fandom creatives any appreciation for fear of saying the ~wrong~ thing #which comes off as creatives' stuff seeming to be ignored completely or otherwise very discouraging silence #when the only rule for tags/comments is to treat others the way you wish to be treated and apologize if you accidentally tread a toe #and being more worried about accidentally stepping on a theoretical persons toe than interested in showing actual people gratitude #like? pretty sure im not the only one side-eyeing that like ''have u really considered this feeling/logic????'' #again: its not saying that anxiety isnt a dick or easy to dismiss but i am saying maybe challenge it or at least reflect on it #i just #blahh #the commenting thing is way more mild than the other but tags arent for that conversation and i need a much better brain space for that one

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#im just gonna complain abt it here bc i just have to accept that i can't irl bc no one else gets it #its hard to b a dyslexic grad student. u have to read so much. and its good. lots of reading is good. u just have to contend with a soul #crushing amout of discouragement at the fact u just kinda cant read while ur peers r like sure i can read this in class and have things to #say abt it. if u make me read in my head in class i literally cannot fucking tell u what i just read. not a god damn thing and if i try to #let my computer read to me i cant fucking pay attention for long enough so i just have to accept that from here on out ill have to #physically read papers aloud which i hate so much. its the only way i can fucking understand things and it still makes me feel dumb bc ill #somehow still space out while reading and have to reread like 4 times before i understand wtf is being said. it takes forever and it takes #energy and i dont like talking very much and it also restricts me to only being able to read at home which is frustrating #and im like i need to stop my brain from distracting myself with things that dont matter and my counselor is like: ur ocd is trying to make #work ur whole life and im like yeah thats how i got it. its the only way i can keep swimming with the non dyslexics #so its like wtf do i do? i kinda have to take the hit and make work my whole life rn. morn the loss of other things for a while #i dunno im still a bummer rn. like im probably coming off as more an asocial freak than normal bc its hard to talk ans maintain conversation #rn. but whatever. sometimes things just suck and theres nothing u can do abt it but accept it and move on. ill learn lots of things with all #the reading i have to do and that's never a bad thing ...no matter how much i dont give a fuck abt animals #like jesus. i could not even begin to give a fuck about like 95% of mammals. fish r cool tho. plants too #but microbes is where its at. i dont understand y ppl dont understand how cool they r. oh well ill just have to tell them #if i can find my fucking enthusiasm. ugh i have to make one of my classes read a paper and i have to work with someone abt find it. she #works with like rabbits. i refuse to assign a mammal paper. i fucking refuse. we will do plants or microbes or fucking paleontology #i will fight her on this. ugh. light filtering or orchid speciation would b perfect. annoying #at least i get to work with some culturs this week #unrelated

[roakkaliha]

i have a severe case of baby face irl (to the point where ive been mistaken for a 14 year old boy multiple times within my 20s), but even so ive never been asked for IDs when getting a tattoo. which is simultaneously very surprising and not at all surprising.

#.txt #its just that some tattoo artists just dont rly care unless youre very clearly like. 14 #should they care more? yea but thats kinda just the culture here #not to mention theres technically no actual law saying u cant tattoo a minor #ive seen many places tattoo minors if they have their guardians permission #my classmate in like elementary/middle school got a tattoo in the summer before 7th grade #like a huge shoulder tattoo #there were some others that also got pretty big tattoos on their hands around middle school

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

it's all relative and cringe doesn't exist and i don't think i should care or you should care or anyone else

#i honestly treat fandom culture(?) and ooc discourse as toxic idk fr i dont like this concept #why anyone would care... sorry i came from avant-garde circles i just don't get it ! #wow i self gaslighted myself into caring about this bc “art is useless w/o audience” and #i forgot that im my own audience! since this isn't a commercial thing why should i care #anyway if some1 read this rn: i honestly think that the main point of art is to have fun n be urself n be free #peace and love on the planet earth goodnight bye ! #sorry i wanted to say this for too long. dear god like give urself some freedom.... (< @myself mostly) #n have respect like.... its basic things... to respect urself (!!!) n to respect others #self therapy kind of post. not sorry #and no u cant even imagine how confused i was w fandom culture at first

[ratorim]

I genuinely wanna go insane when i see Americans and some Europeans on tumblr.com talk about how its so evil and cruel to give a baby earrings bc “a baby cant consent” but then they turn around and say shit like this

Oh so what you’re saying is that a 4 year old can consent? 🤔

#lets not even get into the how giving baby piercings is like deeply rooted in indigenous and african cultures #and how it’s something that has literally no affect on a child they can literally just take it off if they dont want them anymore #and maybe how the country where like 80% of the male population is circumcised #doesn’t get to say shit like ‘doing unecessary procedures ur baby cant consent to is abuse’ #also a procedure that is arguably way worse than a piercing u can just temove #by yalls logic of consent no one should be getting any sort of procedure until 18. #and thats so silly i didnt even get my actual nose ring at 18 i was like 14

[dullahandyke]

>see person with irish mythology url

>'oh sweet i'll check them out'

>pinned post is collage au fic of the ulster cycle

>'We Are Fundamentally Different People'

#absolutely not slagging off this person. godspeed god bless #however as someone who spiritually believes in a lot of irish myth and old religion (not the catholicism) #i am So Incredibly Fucking Cautious abt like. the way ppl treat pantheons and myths as like. fandoms #and like thats not to say u cant make adaptions of myth! ppl do that all the time! #but u have to be cautious not to be disrespectful yknow? #like keep in mind that these are things that genuine people did and do believe in #and if u like. reduce them to incorrect quotes n stuff without being careful its easy to minimise that #esp w minority religions like jesus x judas stuff is probs weird for the christians but i dont care as much abt them #like i feel so so sorry for like. believers in norse greek and roman myth specifically #because theyve become like. pop culture mythology almost #like if i talked abt my faith and people went 'oh like from marvel/percy jackson' i think id fucking bite them #anyway long story short i wont judge u for writing fic n that for myth bcos u could have been careful writing it #but like fuck if im gonna risk reading it to find that out for myself #practically the only 'modernised' gaelic myth i seek out is stuff regarding the dullahan #and thats bcos most of it either conflates it with the headless horseman as in ichabod crane and bram bones #or treats 'dullahan' as a species and isnt specifically about Gan Ceann himself which is where id have potential problems #am i making sense? #fuck knows

[beverageenthusiast]

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#good fucking god #im hanging out w my mom and i remember why i dont love hanging out with my mom #she gives in to toxic diet culture and is a huge reason why my relationship with food is so fucked upppp #minding my business making myself a rice bowl w sweet potato and avocado w miso tahini dressing 🤌🤌 #and unprompted shes like #‘im on a new diet i cant eat any of those things i can only have 200 calories per meal #i miss avocado so much but i’d rather be skinny’ #im like BITCH???????? #thanks for sharing and also that ‘nutrition center’ u went to and bought a bunch of frozen food from is a scam #once u stop eating their special food they upsell you then ur gonna gain it all back i hate to break it to you #and also the key to losing weight is to exercise enough to offset what you eat #she does not exercise at all. #she made me fuckin weigh myself in front of her the other day and when she saw the number she was like ‘thats not that bad’ #HELLO?????? #is she trying to give me another ed? cuz her saying that is exactly how i developed an ed 7 years ago :-) #losing my mind actually #ive genuinely put in so much work and its such a conscious and constant effort to not fall back into those patterns #and here i am holding back tears while i try to finish eating

[bulkhummus]

i approach the mic very slowly, i take the deepest breath and get real close: i think wtnv would have been better if they had kept carlos as an actual skeptic

#im so curious if they’ll do anything with all this kareem stuff in regards to carlos maybe having a double #LOOK i get why they changed carlos’ character #Steve carlsberg is essentially this role #I get that why they wanted a silly scientist #And clearly i LOVE carlos #But ive been saying for years how they really missed a lot of opportunities with his character #idk i just think it’d create amusing convos btwn him and cecil #and them learning and sharing eachothers ‘culture’ #or if they did the thing where cecil led us to believe carlos was naive/ silly/ an interloper #And then he comes on and hes like smart and super stressed out #Idk it just felt more fun for carlos to be this person questioning everything cecil has built up around himself for literal safety #And still falling in love with carlos regardless of his ‘views’ #And cecil teaching carlos not to try and figure everythint out all the time #U know — balance eachother #idk idk just my opinions #I ofc like ditzy carlos too— but i cant rlly care so much abt a character i know NOTHING about after so long #kinda just feels like a disservice to not flesh out his character at this point but by all means tell me abt the sexist bathroom cat #(i love the silas arc lol) #YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN #wtnv #welcome to night vale

[dbssh]

like obviously vegeta is full of these moments of sentiment between the bullshit but i really do think nothing will ever top brink of death fully given up hope vegeta getting back up to laugh in friezas face when he sees that goku is here. they werent barely even friends.

#red.txt #for someone who talks a lot abt how goku is like inferior trash that one moment where hes like ha! frieza you stupid bitch! this is the #pinnacle of the sayain race! haha! #especially after saying the same thing abt himself not to long ago and being proven so incredibly wrong #its just SUCH a good moment and j think its easy to miss in the face of everything else going on w #vegetas death #but like. MAN #and vegeta in his own way still trying to connect w goku and get him to understand where vegeta is coming from #vis a vis his connection to his people and his family anf his homeworld #and i think thats interesting if u consider frieza as the exemplar of this colonist power #and for vegeta to finally realize he CANT succeed against it alone and that #to give goku the push he needed he HAD to level with him and find that connection between them and try to reach out #and really just be honest with him in the 'i am and always will be a little boy who lost everything' #and for goku to meet him in the middle with 'this was never my home. im not going to be a sayain like you. but i can be a sayain like me.' #was SO good #i think abt gokus response to frieza of i am the sayain from earth! sooo much #because of the way vegeta and piccolo respectively have had these two different perspectives on their heritages #vegeta as someone who loved his culture deeply and had it ripped away from him #vs piccolo who never really had a connection to it in the first place and is only as an adult trying to reckon with #how his people here vs his life on earth interact within his own identity and trying to make sense of that #and goku kind of striking that balance of embracing his lived experience as an earthling #while paying respect to that home and culture he never got a chance to know with burying + honoring vegeta #its SO fucking interesting

[carltonlassie]

I hate that everything either has to be a joke or a debate. Where is the earnestness. Where is the vulnerability. Where is the connection that yall claim to crave yet resist so hard by deflecting everything.

#its insufferable with ppl at work everything has to be a dick measuring contest or a joke #they are sooo insecure that they have to be right at all time or make a joke about it bc they dont have the emotional intelligence #to like. connect with another human being #or they're weirdly competing with coworkers when the other person is just doing their job lmao #cant be me im here to do my job and help others do their jobs well instead of feeling paranoid that others are out to squash you #who gives a shit if one person becomes a star or whatever when the rest of the team suffers #I hate grind culture + I wanna be a certified life-liver #this is also not just #work shit #but also something i see online a lot lmao im not saying i hate bantering and joking but some ppl go on stranger's post #and make a joke that doesnt land bc you dont have that rapport with the op #or get weirdly hostile and bait the op to debate u when theyre just there #idk it's super weird and comes across as insecurity to me bc its like u have to prove that youre funny or smart #when u can just be u. why do u wanna be the funnyman. funny = laughs = attention? idk. why do u wanna be right. right = smart = feel good? #what do you have to prove when u can work on yourself and feel good about urself from within. i think it's weird to use others as ur crutch #or use others as ur means to feel better about urself. where is the earnestness!!!!!!!!

[babydarkstar]

also people yelling at americans to do something about our country as if i chose to be born here, as if everyone here actually gets a say in how things are run, as if our government doesn’t actively work to disenfranchise everyone who isn’t in a position of power. fuck off

#capitalist hell #bro we’re trying. #it’s sad how aeverything is connected in life. our education system sucks #so then we have ppl who graduated hs and cant read or critically think #people who are so wrapped up in a community entangled with racism that they dont see tht Big Govt is actually to blame #people who feed into propaganda. none of us are immune including me but the right wing is the worst #like it impassions so many emotions into people who already are impressionable #the internet has also become a plague. a cesspool. and television #it’s less the internet’s fault and more the ban of net neutrality #as well as our govt literally being designed to take FOREVER to get things done #and so ppl think that’s how it is everywhere #oh my god and the anti-socialist rhetoric embedded deep into every subject of school. the imperialism. it’s sick #anyways a lot of this stuff is not our fault. most of it isnt #the majority of american people dont understand the global impact of american imperialism bc it is so ingrained in us #to believe that our govt could do no wrong and only has the best intentions and that we’re The Good Guys saving people #it’s so buried under the advertising and constant commodification of bodies and soul that we dont even have it on the radar #and that’s not a good thing. it’s not an excuse. plenty of americans see thru that. but which way u go determines how u see it #if that makes any sense. anyways im ranting. im not saying everyones completely innocent like at all #but it’s so deeply carved into the culture that it’s impossible to avoid #but so then u get a group of people who Know that our government is corrupt #but they but dont want to acknowledge that the people they support are corrupt too so they want govt but dont. its contradictory

[capfalcon]

every day i wait for the day that tofu food videos will stop infuriating me (tofu lover, chinese person)

#just saw a video from someone who was like #'the age old question: how do you make tofu taste good' ah yes. as if there isnt an entire culture (and like several others) where tofu is #more than a 'meat substitute' that has countless recipes dedicated to making tofu so fucking good. i cant #like im not upset at people making up their own recipies for tofu #i love that #do what u want w food whatever #but i will never be okay with this whole framing of tofu as this unlikable bad weird food that you have to adulterate in order to eat #ITS CALLED COOKING. #why do ppl act like the act of preparing and cooking tofu is some weird foreign concept. you marinate meat. #you season meat. you season vegetables. you prepare veggies #fruits meats breads #all of it is called COOKING #like ???????? #oh not to mention they nevverrrrrrrr seem to have even tried tofu in the actual recipies it is the star ingredient in #its all these made up recipies (which again is fine) but if youre gonna act like u invented how to make tofu taste good #then my ancestors would like to have a word w u!!!!!!! fuck off #god its like. its so #its just another way of othering chinese culture/food and saying 'look i made this food palatable and now im sharing my Secrets with you #because clearly you must hate tofu also and are in need of a new recipe' idk idk #if it was once or twice i wouldnt be nearly as mad but its so constant #like i follow this asian vegan food content creator and theyre cool! they make traditional chinese/asian recipes w tofu #as well as less traditional kinds and thats GREAT #but these non asian ppl using tofu and then making it out to be some heroic solution to making tofu not 'bad'i will BITE YOU #jordan rants