I was tagged by @cooke_gabrielle to do my favorite/top 4 cosplays of 2014. #cosplay #top4 1) #leilei #hesienko I put a lot of work into this cosplay and I really hope to get some really nice pictures of it soon. I worked a Aki Matsuri and though I didn’t win anything I’m still very proud of the way it turned out. 2)#fatherfuji I didn’t expect to look so much like an old man when I put this cosplay together. It was so much fun to see everyone’s faces when they saw it. 3) #Scanty I think scanty has been the most fun I’ve had. It was really great to walk around with the pain and the outfit, not to mention she had been a dream cosplay of mine. With Subaru as my sister it made it all the more fun! 4)#chunli I was so terrified to put this cosplay to gather. I’ve seen so many of my mentors do this cosplay and I was kind of scared I wouldn’t live up to it. When I finally finished it it was really exciting all the lovely encouragement I got from it. This cosplay is been the most motivating cosplay for me this year. I tag @innocentlycreating @awesomesammich @littlebitx92 @auriheart
Look at this cutie!
Nov 26
Hey everyone, not that I can stop people from going out shopping tomorrow, but if you do go out, please please PLEASE be kind to the employees. Friendly reminder that a lot of them will be missing time with their family to be there, and for a lot of places it is not an optional shift, or one that pays extra. So just be kind and respectful of the employees out there. Remember:
1. Something being out of stock is not their fault 2. Yelling never solves anything 3. No they cannot hold sale items for you 4. It’s not their fault if the store didn’t have enough of an item 5. Yes they realize how early you got there, they know this because they had to be there to serve you 6. They are not going to ruin your Christmas by not having something, just wait a bit, said item will be in stock again 7. No they cannot call another store it’s going to be extremely busy 8. They are going as fast as they can to get to everyone, please be patient 9. They realize the line is long, please do not complain to them about it 10. Do not belittle them. They do have to serve you, yes, but that does not mean you treat them like shit
Happy holidays, and be safe out there!
barbabun asked: I hate to tell you, but that amazing Wonder Woman page is an edit. I can't remember where it's from, but I've seen the original too, and it made me sad to see that the one in that post wasn't something that was actually published. Doesn't make it any less incredible though, and kudos to whoever made it!!
Kyaaaaaaaah oh man! Oh well, it’s a beautiful edit and a valid point. Thanks for the info!
…it’s just a tiny, tiny window into the danger level that lgbtq people are always facing.
Walking down the street just being a human being, never knowing which person they meet is an unbalanced violent homophobe or transphobe.
I don’t know how they find the strength. It’s awful to contemplate.
Representation matters, decency matters, tolerance matters. I don’t know what else we can do to try to make things better aside from listen and speak up to the best of our ability.
I remember my father saying something similar when I was talking to him about my partner, he said something like, “You must really be in love if you’re willing to walk down the street with this person because of the idiots out there.” And that’s when I kind of realized that all those years ago when I came out to him, and he got upset, that maybe he was more concerned then angry. Maybe he was concerned because of the world we live in. On top of both of us being women, I’m black and she’s white, so maybe he was just worried because he knows of the stupidity out there.
But honestly I think we get strength from each other. I feel like someone will always have issue with me over something, whether it’s race, or my gender, or my size, or my sexuality, so I might as well be happy in this life I’m living instead of being concerned over what might happen out there. We’ve been together for 13 years and are having a blast, that’s what I’ll focus on :)
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Nov 25
There are going to be a lot of emotions today. As always, do NOT belittle someone’s feelings. Do not tell anyone that they are overreacting. That is never ever going to solve anything and will only cause more hurt. If you see someone posting about it do not remind them of the verdict and what it means, because honestly, they already know. Let them have their reaction. Let them be concerned for black youth in this country. This is a legitimate concern to have. This is not the first incident. This is not the first time we’ve been through this and there are several, several, several cases that have gone unheard, or if they have been heard, this has been the result.
Be respectful today, and every other day. This is not a day to come over and point to facts and remind people of verdicts and “justice” being served, this is a day to be respectful of people’s feelings and worries, because they’re far from being invalid. Also, if you see someone posting “Black Lives Matters” do not, for the love of everything, respond with “All Lives Matter.” We know. We know that. We KNOW that.
No one is suggesting that we exclude others, we are asking that you start including us and treating us like people instead of criminals because of the color of our skin.
If you respond with “All Lives Matter” you are missing the point completely.
Racism is a very real thing. If you can’t understand why I would post about it but support my plus size posts, then I don’t really have much to say, because as much as I am fat I am also very much black, and racism is very real, and to me this is yet another black youth on the ever growing list.
Please respect my feelings and everyone else’s feelings today. I know you’re capable of it, and I know you are all an understanding and loving group of people who I am thankful to have supporting me. A lot of people are going to need support today, so please show that same consideration that you always do.
I think the really scary thing is that this incident is something that my parents would tell me about when I was younger. When my parents talked to me about racism, I was always told that things have improved, yes, but it’s still there. I would hear stories about segregated bathrooms and all of the injustices they grew up with. But they’d tell me that things have improved. There were marches and protests and great people who fought to get us where we are now. Racism is still there, yes, but things have improved.
The scary thing is that I’m repeating the same words they told me all those years ago. I’m 31 years old and the things I say are the things I grew up hearing. And while, back then, my parents could really say things had gotten better and mean it, because they were alive when black people had to move to the back of the bus, use a different water fountain, and going to school with white kids warranted national news coverage…
… can I really say things have improved in my generation?
I mean think about it. Really think about it. The only separation of bathrooms I have to deal with are male and female. I can sit wherever I want on the bus. I went to a predominantly white college. The changes my parents saw I am benefiting from, so when they said, “There’s still racism but things have improved,” they meant it. Which, to me, meant that we still had work to do, but we had accomplished something great. But what about my generation? What about the ones growing up and seeing the events of Ferguson? Can I really tell them, “Things have improved,” can I really say that? Black youth being killed is not a new thing. We still live in a time where not only can you be killed for the color of your skin, but chances are, your killer will walk free. Not only that, chances are, no matter how many times you explain why this is wrong, why you are sad, why you are fearful, you will be told you’re overreacting. And I think the really, really sad thing is that I’m seeing people younger than me not being surprised at all. Back then, when I was told that racism was very real, but there had been improvements, there was still a glimmer of hope in that sentence. There was hope because my parents knew that those improvements were true. They were there when history was made and things changed for the better. So I know they said that to me thinking that, yeah, we’ve made changes before, we can do it again.
But this cycle keeps happening. Again and again. And I’m looking at these posts and these people younger than me are so full of pain, and hurt, and cynicism about the world we live in. There’s no, “racism exists but there’s been improvements,” because honestly… have there been?
It might be hard to believe, but I think there have been. You know why? Because we are all aware of the problem. We are all tired of seeing this happen. We are tired of being told that we’re overreacting and instead of nodding in agreement, we speak louder. I think this generation is channeling the ones before us, the ones who marched, the ones who didn’t take things lying down. People don’t understand where we’re coming from? Then we’ll show them. We’ve benefited from our past brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, and we know where we come from, we know their struggle, their history, and we are determined that this cycle doesn’t keep repeating.
And I think the really great thing is that it’s not just us saying it, it’s not just my black friends and family speaking these words. I go through posts and see these white faces getting tired of this shit, too. It’s not just us saying it, protesting it, marching about it. It’s not just us on T.V. pouring our hearts out. I go through Facebook and see my white friends talking about injustice, about white privilege, about things being unfair for me, about how it makes no sense that their black friend’s lives aren’t valued. I have a white partner who came in and hugged me over this verdict, because she knew how unfair it was. I see white newscasters calling bullshit on everything, I see popular white faces pointing out the problems and lamenting on how unfair it is that, because their friends or coworkers are black, then have more to worry about. I think that there have been improvements because, yes, there are some people who don’t get it, but the amount of people who do get it is overwhelming, and that gives me a glimmer of hope.
I have hope because I’m not the minority in thinking that this is unfair.
I have hope because I’m not the minority in thinking that there needs to be a change.
I have hope because when I see posts about it, there may be a handful of negatives, but the overwhelming positives make me think that maybe, just maybe, when I get to be my parent’s ages and say, “there have been improvements,” that I’ll mean it.
