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I’ve said this before but I would love to arrive at a point where it’s no longer standard to say “we’re just friends.”

The fact that you could be friends with someone for a decade…

share laughs and secrets and fight and hurt each other and forgive each other and defend each other and grow and change together and just see each other and understand each other in a way maybe nobody else can…

The fact that it’s possible to share that kind of bond with someone only to have it be reduced to

“Just friends” …?

Sure, not all friendships are profound or even long lived, but damn.

I think we’re doing the whole concept of friendship a disservice with that.

Also here are some alternatives:

“We’re not dating”

“We don’t like each other in that way”

“We’re not a couple”

Etc. etc.

It’s possible to get the idea across without minimizing the relationship that you do have with them.

i’m not even ace.

but like, dude, I am beside myself excited by getting the covid vaccine bc my bff moved near us last year and we haven’t gotten to see her yet.

She is not JUST anything. She holds another part of my fuckin soul. She is, in every way that matters, my soulmate, and I love her so much it hurts sometimes.

And also we’re not dating.

If you’re not more inclined to say “oh, no, we’re not dating” instead of “no, we’re just friends” if someone mistakes you and a friend for a couple, then frankly I feel sorry for you.

‘cause Fizzy will never ever be just ANYTHING.

I’ve had this idea for the past few days but basically after the Hargrove-Mayfields moved to Hawkins Max notices that Billy always checks the mail. At first she didn’t notice anything strange until Billy would check the mail & return with nothing, but then Neil would come in before dinner he always had a stack of mail in his hand.

Max just writes it up to being one of Billy’s weird quirks. Like how his eyes look so dull and lifeless sometimes, and how he always stares at the front door like he’s waiting for someone to come back during dinner.

Until one day Billy hands her a letter from her dad, and tells her to not let Neil find it. Then she realizes he’s waiting for a letter from someone.

Max doesn’t figure out who Billy was waiting for until a letter arrived three weeks after the fourth of July. It was a letter from his mother apologizing for taking so long to write to him.

OH.

person not involved in The Discourse: wow both sides on this need to touch grass lol theyre both wackos

side A on The Discourse: i would like to exist in peace

side B on The Discourse: everyone on side A should kill themselves

This is the horrors of capitalism, fighting off some kind of bloodborne pathogen while still going to work.

Billy's the guy that gets all the babies staring at him with those huge wide eyes like he's the oddest, most interesting thing they've seen in their whole 5 months on Earth.

Steve's the guy that makes eye contact with a baby once and they start crying like their life has been threatened and mommy needs to save them.

Billy: This baby won’t stop staring at me.

Steve: Aww, how adorable… *waves at the baby*

Baby: *wails*

Billy: Nice one, jackass.

"what's your dream job??" Uhh to have 17 weird little hobbies that I don't have to be good at and hang out with friends. I get money via being the world's specialist little princess

Yay for diversity!

Holding back the Devil with his bare fucking hands

A Perfect Blue AU featuring Billy? Billy, a popular model turned actor who decides to participate in a really risky “adult” scene that could either end his career or push people to take him seriously? Billy gaining a stalker who pretends to be him, and then kills a bunch of people involved in that scene? Billy becoming a suspect, questioning his own reality? Coming face to face with his stalker? Fighting for more than his life, but his identity? Hello!

Fun fact- my apartment building used to be a highschool back in the 50s

It is EXTREMELY liminal

@toalwaysbeconfused oh, they kept most of the buildings original features

Hell, my living room has a chalkboard and built-in shelves

so....how haunted is it?

I think a big thing that people are overlooking is how Hobie looks out for his own and how much that coincides with punk culture.

Him looking out for younger teens is so fucking punk of him. He lets Gwen stay with him because she's vulnerable and struggling, he makes her a watch, he lets her keep his shoes, etc. and it's not out of romance, it's because she's family. Same with Miles; he knows Miles is naive and wants to help him, because he's been in the spider society longer and he knows what's really going on. He sees the adults, who are supposed to mentor them, targeting Miles and he just knows it's flat-out wrong and that he wants no part of it.

Hobie takes on such a big brother role for the other characters and I love it. He's more mature than the other teens in so many aspects, and he uses his experience to teach them how to get by because that's what being punk is about

You can only reblog this today or until the next Monday, June 19th, 2034.

Won’t lie, if I were having a rough time and the office himbos brought me mac and cheese I would be cured.

Small, clumsy kindnesses, earnestly given, are more healing than you would believe. More adults should be willing to show the tender caring that a little kid expresses when they say, “You looked sad, so I brought you a rock.”

[Image description: Screenshot of a tweet with the handle redacted. The display name says “do not quote retweet or @ me please”. The tweet itself says, “Woman in my office is going through a breakup and the work guys chat was trying to think of something nice to do for her and one of the guys said, very sincerely, said ‘women like mac and cheese, right? maybe we can do something with that?’” /end ID]

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THE BEGINNINGS OF KAWAII

No, no, you have no idea. It actually IS the beginning of the whole so-called “kawaii culture”. And it started because girls started using mechanical pencils, which provided fine handwriting. After being banished (more precisely, during the 80s), this kind of writing started being used in products like magazines and make-up. And, during this time, icons we usually associate with the whole kawaii industry (like the characters from Sanrio) came to life too.

And what many people don’t realize is that this subculture was born as a way for young girls to express themselves in their own way. And it was also used as something against the adult life and the traditional culture, often seen as dull and boring and oppressive. By embracing cuteness, these young girls (and adult women, after a while) were showing non-conformation with the current standards.

So yep. Kawaii is important, and it all started with cute, simple handwritting a few hearts and cat faces in some girls’ school notebooks <3

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NO OK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!

This is also how the kawaii fashions started! Girls began dressing in cute and off beat styles for themsleves, they were criticized by adult figures telling them “you’ll never find a husband if you dress that way!” to which they began to reply “Good!”

All the Japanese subcultures and fashions that evolved out of this became a rebellion to tradition and the starch gender roles and expectations the adults were forcing on the younger generations. As early as the 70s and still to this day you’ll see an emphasis on child-like fashion and themes in more kawaii styles and the dismissal of the male gaze with styles like lolita (a lot of western people assume lolita is somehow sexual due to the name of the fashion, but ask any Japanese lolita and they will tell you that men hate the style and find it unattractive which is sometimes a large reason they gravitate towards the style - they can express their femininity and individuality while remaining independent and without the pressure to appeal to men)

Its so so so important to understand the hyper cute and ‘odd’ fashions of Japanese girls carry such a huge message of feminism and reclaiming of their own lives.   

so are you telling me that Japan’s punk phase was really the kawaii phase

Kawaii is so goth

Metal heads Stan for our sisters in lace

I did not know this but I love this form of feminism! 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

Which is why you get bands like BABYMETAL, which toured with Judas Priest for a while, looking like this:

Metal heads Stan for our sisters in lace

Bruce is so much more unhinged than Vance is but Vance would also kill anyone who looks at Bruce the wrong way so they’re unhinged bfs

Vance being completely touch averse even with his family but suddenly Bruce comes along and Bruce’s touch is the only thing that can keep Vance’s sanity intact

In S5 of Stranger Things I hope Steve Harrington either dies or loses a limb. Why losing a limb? Because then he wouldn't be stuck as the babysitting mommy trope anymore. Plus, the whump.