My reason for following you AT FIRST was because you were running a lovely little blog with a healthy dose of Naoto Shirogane. That was it. I didn't know much about you as a person, and but then I saw that post about your brother and I had to tell you how much it touched me. You followed me, and things just went from there. NOW I'm following you because I've since discovered how awesome you are in every conceivable way and you're one of my bestest buds and just... I LUV YEW, GURL. <3
I love you too! *embrace* I remember you responding to the post about my brother and being really surprised, like, “Whoa someone said something?!” Then it turned out you were really, really awesome :) We share a mutual love for Persona, and a mutual frustration with Square Enix, how could I NOT love you? (that and you’re awesome to talk to and all that jazz but seriously Square Enix why?!)
I follow you for the awesome crafts and persona stuff you post. That are you are cool person.
I feel bad for taking so long to follow you back, lol! Especially since we like the same things ^^
Oh, and to respond to your Women’s Studies comment, that’s not weird at all! I’ve only had like, one class where there were two guys, and I thought it was awesome. They definitely got some weird looks, but I thought it was cool that they were even there :) Honestly, it felt like “Women’s Studies” was more like “Cultural Studies,” when I had the right kind of professor, because we’d end up talking about everything: Race Issues, Gender Issues, Sexuality, just… everything.
I always thought it was funny that I was like, the black girl in the class. Like, we’d talk about body image and I’d be like, “… where I come from big boobs and a big butt is a definite plus.” I mean I know I’m kinda nervous to post pictures of my cosplay, but growing up, I was always around plus sized ladies who thought they were the shit ^^
I could put the obvious reasons, like we talked via email and you love P4, but the reason I really love that I started following you is because you always have valuable input to add when you reblog things - like that asking for it post, your commentary about the men being just as offended basically made me want to give you a standing ovation. You rock.
Thank you :) It’s a topic I’m kinda passionate about, having a Women’s Studies degree with my English one ^^ But I just remember that moment when I told my dad about Women’s Studies and he thought I was going to start hating men, and there was this dawning realization that, you know, there’s men who think that. We’ll be defending a cause and they think, “Great, they’re about to hate us."
And I kinda realize that, you know, sometimes we don’t emphasize that we don’t hate ALL men, just the assholes, some statements ARE made like, "Men suck,” (which I’m guilty of saying, too) and it’s said so quickly, but can be so hurtful. It’s one thing for women to defend ourselves from stereotypes and such, but the stereotypes for men? Those are also terrible! Men are weak if they show emotion. Men are supposed to be dominate, like, SUPPOSED to be! If a man loses control, no worries, it’s her fault for dressing like that. Just…
I feel like I take it personally. A little background to show what I mean. My parents divorced when I was very young, but instead of it being some terribly traumatic experience, they acted like grown ups about it. I went to live with my mom. My dad would see me every weekend. EVERY weekend, I was at his house. They worked out holidays, birthdays, just… EVERYTHING, o.k.?
When I was around 8 or 9, I went to live with my dad. It wasn’t for some horrible reason of my mom being terrible (which was the assumption, because heaven forbid I have a GOOD dad), it was because trying to take care of a kid alone in the city in an apartment, getting up at 4 am, paying too much for daycare, why go through all that? My dad was getting a house in the suburbs, getting remarried, there would be someone to watch me all the time versus my mom dropping me off at daycare (she was a single lady).
So, yes, logic.
The rolls reversed. I was now seeing my mom over the weekends, but you know what? My dad was a rockstar. My mom didn’t drive so what did he do? He dropped me off at her place every weekend. Or he had my stepmom do it. My parents were huge on telling their partners, “Hey, you’re going to see her mom/dad a lot, they’re going to spend time with her, so they’re going to be over here sometimes. Don’t like it, leave, because she comes first.”
So anyhow, I lived with my dad until college, and he took damn good care of me. Like, did an amazing job. I got good grades in school. I wasn’t one of those girls sleeping around. He would take me to see my mom (until I learned how to drive then I could do it myself), he would go and PICK HER UP to see my school events (Graduation, School Plays, things like that), and just…
… when I see post where men are being so STUPID, and other men are like, “Please stop,” I just think we focus on the stupid men too much. Yes, this dude was a douchebag, but this other dude right below him was like, “Dude, stop,” but we’re so ready to be like, “UGH LOOK AT WHAT THAT DOUCHEBAG SAID MEN SUCK!” I’m not saying this is what that reblog was doing, but just… can you imagine being a guy who isn’t an asshole and seeing an asshole post? Isn’t it bad enough that there’s the “Men are jerks” stereotype, you have to add to it?
I just remember that moment when I told my dad about Women’s Studies and he was like, “Oh.” And I remember being in Women’s Studies and let me tell you, I loved it, but sometimes there would be that one girl, or whatever, who was all, “Men are terrible look at this!” And I always felt the need to take a second and actually defend them. And I could see what my dad was talking about, because I would be like, “I lived with my dad,” and the immediate response would be, “What was wrong with your mom?” Like, nothing, damn! And I suddenly ended up turning into the one who was like, “O.K. Seriously, stop.”
… this was really long, wow, sorry ^^;;;
As the first one to recognize Jack as something real, I would think Jamie would have a personal guardian throughout his lifetime :)
whoo hoo I managed to fit this in a bit before new years day!! as my last art piece of the year, i am hoping to many more in the future. have a great 2013 everyone!!
Ow, just… ow, o.k.? I actually teared up, this just… why would you start my morning like this?!
Why are you following me?
Put a reason in my ask.
I’m curious, because when I started tumblr I thought I’d have like 10 followers, all 10 of them being like real life friends lol.
I would totally put my face 4 inches from her chest and scream, “I’M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!” And I’d make a point never to take my eyes off her boobs until she got so uncomfortable and creeped out that she decided to leave, go back home, sit on her bed in the dark, and think about how completely stupid she was to write “STILL NOT ASKING FOR IT” while asking for it.
This woman’s a disgrace.
But she’s not asking for it. This is a human body, nothing more, nothing less. It’s not being sexualized, in fact, she’s covered her nipples too. I’m sorry, h-plus, that you feel that your body and the body of other women should be considered a disgrace. Do you feel uncomfortable when looking at pictures in the doctor’s office of a woman’s naked body? And do you, leftybegone, get uncontrollably horny at the same sight? Control your python (or garden snake), man, you’re not 12. Have some maturity over the matter. If you did that to that woman, leftybegone, you’d just be putting a bad face on us guys, making us seem like sex-crazed, immature horndogs. Maybe you are one, but I’m tired people making that assumption of us as a gender. It’s disgraceful. She wouldn’t think it was stupid of her to do that if you did. You’d just make her movement more powerful.
Rape (noun):the crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
Men aren’t primal fucking animals. They’re humans that are completely capable of resisting their urges. I bet you (leftybegone) are a kid with some serious hormones since you, obviously, can’t control yourself.
“She was asking for it”. Really? Can you really blame an individual for someone else’s lack of control? The mere fact that a woman is more likely to be assaulted if she wears certain types of clothing does not make it right. She could walk around naked and that still doesn’t excuse rape. The solution to the problem is not for women to “dress less slutty” but for men to realize that a woman’s choice of dress is not an open invitation to sexual assault.
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but then again, its kind like putting a meat suit on and telling a shark not to eat you
We (men) are not fucking sharks!
We are not rabid animals living off of pure instinct
We are capapble of rational thinking and understanding.
Just because someone is cooking food doesn’t mean you’re entitled to eat it.
Just because a banker is counting money doesn’t mean you’re being given free money.
Just because a person is naked doesn’t mean you’re entitled to fuck them.
You are not entitled to someone else’s body just because it’s exposed.
What is so fucking difficult about this concept?
Reblogging for bolded commentary.
there is some solid gold commentary right here
I’m now engaged to all of you who defended her.
As angry as I get when people blame the victim for “what they’re wearing” and all of that BS, I would think that men would be angrier than me, because such statements assume that they have absolutely no control of themselves. Such statements assume that men are so barbaric, so simpleminded, that they can’t look at a woman who might be wearing a nice dress, or who might be walking alone one night, who might be a bit tipsy, or whatever the situation. They can’t look at the woman without forcing themselves on her. By blaming her because of her appearance it’s like, “Wow… can we not even have eyes and look at the opposite sex without losing control?”
That’s sort of like the assumption that all men are “pigs” or terrible people. It was actually my dad who brought that to my attention. I was taking Women’s Studies in college and he was worried that I would start hating all men – which is the stereotype. I was like, “No, why would I hate men? You raised me, I don’t hate you,” but I realized, that’s what some men think. There’s good men out there who see campaigns like this and see dumbass comments like, “Dur she’s showing her tits clearly she wants it,” or compares it to throwing meat out to a shark. Those good men probably sigh and roll their eyes the same way we as women do when we see such comments. Except in our case, we’re defending the woman in the picture. In the guy’s case, he’s trying to defend himself and break away from that thought process of, “Ugh clearly all men suck because they don’t get it.”
In reality, as illustrated by the above comments, they DO, and it has to suck to always have to defend yourself, like, “Shut up, dumbass, it’s not like throwing meat to a shark, do you really possess so little control?!” It has to suck to see campaigns like this and realize that the gender group you’re in is the reason why such campaigns exist, and comments like the beginning ones are the reason why women are worried about what they wear at certain times of the day, or when they’re walking to their car alone.
The statement “all women want it” is terrible, always has been. At the same time the statement “of course men are going to go after her” is just as hurtful.
Finally finished Baby Tooth. She was so much work. Adding and cutting feathers but so worth it. I really wanted to have good props so I’m not just like every other jack with a hoodie and a staff.
Oh my lord! Look at how cute this is!
You know that moment when.
You’re on tumblr.
And you see someone you following posting things.
And it’s not just any ordinary person you stalk.
It’s the person you stalk because they’re writing an awesome fic.
So you see them posting and you think.
“Oh hey, you beautiful person. What’s that…
IT’S NOT MY FAULT I AM JUST ANOTHER CAT IN TUMBLR’S WORLD OF SHINY TINKLY THINGS
WHICH I RECOGNIZE AS A TERRIBLE ANALOGY
(EDIT: IF IT EVEN IS ONE, I AM COMPSCI NOT ENGLISH)
CAN I PLEASE STILL HAVE THE CAKE
(p.s. this post cracked me up)
(p.p.s. the next interlude is almost finished. I am really sorry it is late! Just trying to get review replies done first.)
(p.p.p.s. tbqh I spent too much of my limited non-work time in December playing P4G. ONLY A FEW REGRETS)
I suppose if you’ve been playing P4:G that means you’ve been doing research of sorts? You know, to shower me everyone with more of your wonderful Kanji and Naoto.
YES YOU CAN STILL HAVE CAKE I CAN’T DENY YOU ANYTHING!
Just gyah it’s so mean and you’re behind schedule (was there a schedule?!) I mean I’m not like that at all with my headcanons! except the part where I should be on like Day 59 and I’m on like Day 3
You know that moment when.
You’re on tumblr.
And you see someone you following posting things.
And it’s not just any ordinary person you stalk.
It’s the person you stalk because they’re writing an awesome fic.
So you see them posting and you think.
“Oh hey, you beautiful person. What’s that you’re posting?”
“Yes that kitten is cute.”
“Look at it, hahahaha, how cute.”
“Cool you’re reblogging the T.V. series I watch.”
“That’s an awesome toy robot you’ve got there.”
“Hey check it out it’s that game series I like.”
“And oh is that-”
“WHERE’S THE NEXT CHAPTER OMG WHAT R U DOING?!”
“STOP POSTING RANDOM SHIT POST TEH CHAPTERZ!”
“I’VE BEEN WAITING SINCE FOREVER AND JUST-”
“YOU REMEMBER HOW YOU LEFT THINGS RIGHT?!”
“RIGHT?!”
“He was embracing her at the train station OMG HOW ROMANTIC and THE KANJI AND NAOTO IS SO CLOSE and just-”
“Oops I’ve started to ramble about Shortest Distance.”
“Ha ha ha my bad I meant to keep this as a general fic realization, not about THE ULTIMATE KANJI AND NAOTO FIC!”
“SERIOUSLY WHERE IS MY CHAPTER I’M GOING TO SHOW UP AT YOUR HOOOOOUSE!”
“… o.k. I’m sorry, I’m not going to show up at your house.”
“Look I just said some things.”
“We’ve both said some things.”
“You made my OTP shine.”
“I’ve been sitting on your porch waiting with wonderful cake as a gift for your greatness.”
“O.K. I’m not on your porch I just-”
“… sigh.”
Anyway, what was this post about?
I sometimes wonder if I make people feel like this with my headcanons but there’s no way, they’re not the holy bible of Kanji and Naoto.
