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happy pride everyone

ah, i’m so bad at posting here. acknowledging this Day of Mourning from the lands of Kiikaapoi, Peoria, Potawatomi, Myaamia & Ochethi Sakowin people, aka Chicago, derived from a native word for garlic (mmm…) which is really suitable for me because I live here now 🌱🧄✨

whose.land are you on? talk about it over dinner this weekend with your fam & what it means to give the #landback. considering everything, listening & learning from indigenous people is the least you can do.

the trick to including powerful poetry in your original fiction when you are a shitass garbage poet is to write shitass garbage poetry and have one character recite it and the other go “hey that was shitass garbage poetry, what gives” and then explain that it’s beautiful in the original language spoken on Glaxbatrone 5 but because Modern Standard Oureenian doesn’t even have a concept of glaxons all the beauty is lost in translation.

Don't sabotage your identity trying to name it. Let it be undefined, permeable, mixed, peculiar, unapologetically authentic. Be in peace with being unprecedented, with not fitting anywhere, with being adrift. Before flight, there's a free fall.

Don’t let people make fun of you for liking japanese culture.

I am living in japan right now and let me tell ya:

There are people here who can’t speak or understand English who play nothing but Missy elliot and ludacris, even in businesses like housing offices and restaurants.

There are people who have cowboy hats and dead cow skulls in their home because they idolize what they assume American homes are like.

There are people who learn English strictly through music videos and American television shows.

There are entire karaoke bars with english songs often sung by people who have no idea what the lyrics mean.

Japan often takes American shows like the powerpuff girls and make japanese versions of them.

They often mistake common Americans for celebrities. I have been mistaken for Micheal jordan, tiger woods, Shaquille o'neal, Tyler perry, and saddest of all: queen latifa.

The act of sprinkling English into your japanese sentences is considered cute and cool and is popular with teenagers. Bonus points if you happen to use it correctly.

Japanese stores sell shirts with english on them and people buy them not knowing that most of those word combinations are nonsense.

Don’t let someone shame you for singing an anime opening, using japanese in your sentences, wearing clothing with japanese on it, ect. If anything, this is just one more thing that you have in common with them.

The American/Japanese cultural exchange is so pure and wonderful and I love it so much

OK BUT RESONATE WITH THE SHIRT THING THOUGH

My Chinese relatives buy me shirts from China with English letters on them hoping I think it’s cool

I have a shirt that says “Hi Quality Uality”

It’s amazing

It happens alot.

And then what’s really great is Americans getting tattoos of Chinese characters thinking they mean one thing when they really don’t

Also a topic where the reverse happens.

lemme tell you..i have been in a grocery store in Japan and heard the unedited Get Low playin over the intercom..it was literally a Katt Williams moment

Oh, unsensored songs are pretty common.

I should not be hearing an unsensored ‘Magic Stick’ playing at a family restaurant.

And the best thing is when literally no one shows that they understand what is being said.

I was in a Chinese cafe one time and they had obviously put on their “fuck you” playlist. I mean, uncensored versions of Fuck You by Lilly Allen, Fuck You by Cee-lo Green, etc. No one else had any idea.

Oh, also, I got my favorite shirt ever in a little tchotchky store in Sichuan:

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that last one got me holy shit.

                       i wish i had

                never met you

      TOUCH             MY              BUTT

then there would be mo need to imprese you

  o need to want you.No naed for. loring you

    No need tar crying over you.Noneed for

  heartbreaks.No nead for paln oru tears.No

    neard for forgoure promises .nead for

For every american teenager that is screaming the lyrics to their favorite anime opening, there’s likely at least 1 or 2 Japanese teens singing English profanities at a karaoke bar.

I really want that “I’m so fucking future” shirt.

Bro went to Japan and went to a karaoke bar with some high schoolers. They wanted to show me how good their Japanese rap was. Turned on kanye. Fucking sang the word nigga and everything. It was hella based

Brothers of the same soul

One time when I visited my friend in rural japan the small local department store had a flush of cereal-themed shirts. Just like, advertisements for the fucking Cornflakes chicken with slogans like “BUY ONE GET ONE FREE” and “%50 Less!” my favorite was the hat that just said “FRESH” in cheetah print letters.

Back home I was wearing a shirt that had a really confusing nonsense english at hodo. The girl running the check out was really fucking high and was losing her mind over trying to figure out what the shirt meant.

I hope random brands turn their logo rainbow for no goddamn reason. I hope they do it even if its a desperate bid to seem supportive. I dont fucking care if its shallow. Bud light made a limited edition rainbow can and white men with big trucks took machine guns on them. Target runs a line of admittedly cringe rainbow merchandise and is the subject of domestic terrorism. A random company going rainbow for a month is shallow but its showing the people that want to kill us that they can't win. The pride flag will be everywhere and itll piss them off and theres nothing they can do about it. No matter how much violence and hatred they dish out, they'll be too many goddamn companies to boycott, to threaten. You dont have to buy shit from them, just use rainbow capitalism against them.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

~Bernard Williams

rewatching parts of season 4 and Michael is such a great captain I hate that we’re only getting two seasons of it

Facts. This is why I wish the show started with her as captain. I've enjoyed the journey of watching her grow, but now we're getting cut to only 2 seasons of her as captain when we could have had 5.

Couldn't agree more. Michael is an amazing Captain, and I wish we had at least 2-3 more seasons to see more of it.

reminder this pride month that disabled people in the US on SSI and SSDI do not have the same marriage equality as people not on SSI and SSDI. its called the marriage penalty.

by getting married, a disabled person can lose their income, benefits, and health insurance.

if a disabled person marries an able bodied person, and combined their assets are $3000 or over they will lose all benefits, including medicaid (health insurance).

if a disabled person marries a disabled person, their assistance is lowered 25%.

we don’t have marriage equality until all disabled marriages are equal.

sources x x x x

maybe I am just sentimental and easily impressed but tbh I disagree with the whole “yes local theater is almost always bad but it’s still important” thing bc I think a lot of local and amateur theater is really good actually! like yes I also agree that it’s important to support local arts no matter what the quality so I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad message but I also think if we really want people to go out and support community theater it’s also important to remember that there is a lot of talent outside of broadway or major touring productions so yeah going to see community productions is not something I feel I need to begrudgingly do just out of principle it’s something I genuinely enjoy.  

Local theatre is like local music or local restaurants! It absolutely can be bad or mediocre sometimes but it can also be great! It’s as varied as any community! One of the better performances I’ve ever seen was a high schooler as the MC in Cabaret! Their performance was literally haunting.

Two lovers,

forbidden from one another,

a war divides their people,

and a mountain divides them apart,

build a path to be together-

Yeah I forgot the next couple of lines but then it goes-

SECRET TUNNEL

Star Trek Voyager: Relativity / Star Trek Picard: Penance

kitten

man. what on earth.

ok i flipped it. sorry

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

“You’re not a real Star Trek fan unless you’ve watched all the episodes of X” “you’re not a real Star Trek fan unless you like X” actually the only real Star Trek fan is my grandpa, who set his Alexa’s name to “Computer” so he can pretend to be Captain Kirk