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i don't really get it

@miralyk / miralyk.tumblr.com

Mimi | 21 | 🇻🇳 | She/They ✦
I draw and storyboard stuff I like sometimes!
Comms: CLOSED | Art Tag
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💠 PRE-ORDERS FOR TAMAGOTCHI PROGRAM AND BIT CANDY CHARMS ARE NOW OPEN! 💠

As a free bonus too, 1.5" stickers of Tron, Rinzler, Beck, and Paige are available to request, two (2) stickers per charm!

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they’re real!! shipping out this sold-out stock, but yes, pre-orders to account for future orders for these stay open for a month 💖

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people are getting the stock i shipped out a few days ago now!! the pics are so cute, i absolutely encourage and would love to see people post photos in the tags and tag me, i want to see :’’’0c!!

✦ 15 questions, 15 mutuals

got tagged by @stealingpotatoes for this meme, thank you!

Were you named after anyone?

  • no, i technically named myself! i had troubles learning languages when growing up, and whenever speech therapists tried to teach me to say my birth/legal name, i kept on saying "mimi" instead, so the nickname stuck! aside from that, my other nickname kao is taken from a maplestory npc of the same name,, a character who's supposed to be the "future version" of your player character, so things keep going full circle

When was the last time you cried?

  • a few nights ago;; i was rewatching some satoshi kon films, millennium actress and tokyo godfathers definitely got to me esp since i'm a sap in the first place, his filmography does not hold punches when it comes to hitting emotions

Do you have kids?

  • i have endless neglected OCs, other closest option is the local murder of crows i befriended ghghkdj, there's some new fledglings i've seen fly after me along w the adults (you can tell bc young crows have the insides of their beaks be pink!); aside from that, i think this stray black cat that visits me a lot could count, but he could be an old man and not count, idk how old he is

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

  • i do like dry and/or deadpan humor (esp in the "jokingly points out the obvious" way), so sarcasm's def a thing i like to sometimes hear and say! regardless, it's still p lowkey and modest, i don't want to be overly dramatic or annoying w sarcasm

What's the first thing you notice about people?

  • for both online and in-person, usually how they present themselves, like visuals (clothes, icon, art style, etc) and how they talk and interact!

What's your eye colour?

  • brown 👁️👁️ they're super dark they're nearly black too

Scary movies or happy endings?

Any special talents?

  • i don't know, maybe crocheting and plush sewing...? or befriending animals esp those w "bad luck" stigma like crows or black cats

Where were you born?

  • californiaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, still never left

What are your hobbies?

  • i like to draw, play games, crochet, sew, pet + feed cats/crows, the like! i swear i'm normal, i'm not a witc--

Have any pets?

  • my older sister's insistent on saying he's Her Pet, but i take care of a marbled tabby cat lilo (3 years old now), he's a goofy guy!

What sports do/have you played?

  • i don't know if wii sports counts but that's the best i got

How tall are you?

  • 5'0",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it haunts me

Favourite subject at school?

  • very basic and predictable answer, but art, even before i applied for my school's BFA/animation program LMAO

Dream job?

  • storyboard artist!! especially w good union networking and experience to collaborate w other cool peers and have financial stability, health insurance, retirement savings, etc; aside from that, i'd consider also posting youtube videos esp for talking about or creating more art, but i don't want to have that be my main source of income bc of how stressful that can be esp in a practical financial sense, not to mention i don't have nor want to have the,, self-aggrandizing Performative Act ghdfjkg

thank you so much for tagging me; i don't want to peer pressure anyone into doing this as well, but if you're a friend/mutual, feel free to do so \o/!

"Fandom is just for fun/escapism" means there's no quality threshold to meet to be allowed to contribute, and it is generally a space to share a common love for something rather than spend time hating.

It does NOT mean "everyone gets to publicly say, write and draw absolutely anything and be free from criticism, nothing can possibly have ties to real life harmful ideas and reinforce them, nothing should be taken seriously, everyone turns their brain off and analyzing fan content is pointless", especially since that attitude will automatically allow bigoted content to flourish and will push marginalized people out of fan spaces, or at the very least make those spaces hostile and put them in a position where they have to argue with the bigots empowered by that attitude. If it’s escapism, then make it an escapism that’s accessible to most people, which means being mindful of the consequences of the content put out, or else you’re just creating more spaces minorities are excluded from

Many people think the problem with cultural appropriation is inauthenticity (vague, nebulous) rather than marginalized people functionally getting robbed

The discourse afaik started with the very real and very insidious practice of white producers functionally dominating Black music for decades, paying Black artists peanuts or nothing & pushing for (better-paid, more mainstream-palatable) white artists playing in Black styles. In the sphere I'm most personally familiar with, it looks like most indigenous artforms that white people encounter in their lives being produced by and for settlers, and the profits largely being aggregated to settlers while traditional ndn artists struggle. I think using the terminology and losing sight of the economic damage - especially in favor of more nebulous frames like cultural authenticity - is doing real harm by dilution and contributing to the very thing it purports to fight

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twitter is dying fr

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lol

[ID: A tweet from Elon Musk's official Twitter account that says, "To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we've applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day". End ID.]

Already made a post about this but there’s a good chance Elon’s lying and the servers are just completely unstable because he refused to pay a contract with Google

everytime I watch/read about revolutionary milestones in queer history and consume pieces of unabashedly queer media I feel like I have superpowers and have become unstoppable. *rips my shirt off* AAAAAAAAAAA IM GONNA BE A SHOW CREATOR AND PUT SO MANY GAY PEOPLE IN IT YOU HEAR ME. NO BEATING AROUND THE BUSH IM TALKING EXPLICIT QUEER REP

Program love/relationships

Aka: how a single comic panel made me lose my mind.

I’ve been looking into terms and daily life in the system for awhile. Time, insults, I think I understand sleep (or my own interpretation) and Betrayal just gave me relationships.

Counterpart! It makes perfect sense, there’s not really a sense of gender in the user way. So boyfriend/wife etc is out. Partner is still too “user”.

Initially it confused me as how we commonly think of “counterpart” we’d think it more like how they’re counterparts and reflections of users and their relationships… but look at the definition’s of the word:

My heart—- fits another perfectly💕🥺

This second one is more similar to program/user but it can also fit to program love/relationships in a “kindered spirits. Alike in function and feeling” way.

If you excuse me I’m going to go be very mature about this…

Does anyone have an update on where things are at with the writers strike? It's disappeared from my various feeds and algorithms.

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The writers' strike is ongoing and the studios are still not returning to the negotiating table. Unfortunately a lot of the coverage has tapered off because we're on 50+ days of striking and it's not new anymore. The last strike in 2007 lasted 100 days, so don't be surprised if this strike lasts as long, or even longer.

The biggest recent news is that the Directors' Guild of America (DGA) voted to ratify their new agreement with the studios (article from June 23), and it appears likely that the actors' guild (SAG-AFTRA) will also take a deal instead of striking (article from June 24). Although this is disappointing news, it's completely expected. During previous strikes, the WGA held its own without other unions going on strike. Which is to say—don't be disheartened by the news that there won't be a triple strike. The WGA is strong enough!

Please keep vocally supporting the WGA online to keep the pressure on the studios & to keep WGA members motivated and encouraged! There are many ongoing donation drives, such as the Star Trek fan snack squad (Twitter account required to DM the organizer) and the Our Flag Means Death snack squad (opens the PayPal fundraising page—no Twitter required). There's a longer list of ongoing donation drives here.

The Entertainment Community Fund is also always accepting donations to support entertainment workers affected by the strike. Please boost and encourage your friends to keep supporting the strike. Hashtag #IStandWithTheWGA #DoTheWriteThing to boost the cause!