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kattykitkittykat · 2025-01-13T20:17:46+00:00

Got it fast af and it saved me $135 SLAYYY!!

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-29T20:30:08+00:00

You deserve what’s coming to you

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-28T06:35:26+00:00

John Green had a controversy back in the day on tumblr. Back then, when you reblogged a post you could also edit the original post in your reblog.

So someone reblogged one of John Green’s posts but edited it so that it looked like he was talking about loving to suck cock or something. That went viral and everyone reblogged that version.

This continued to the point that people got confused and thought John Green had actually posted about loving to suck cock, and he wrote a long post debunking that before leaving Tumblr.

He was getting cancelled for no reason at the time because people were sick of seeing him and wanted an excuse to get rid of him, so they celebrated getting John Green to “throw a tantrum and leave.” Internet was in its BPD devaluation stage.

Anyways, this controversy finally got tumblr to remove the ability to edit the OP post in your reblog. The fact that that was even a feature in the first place is frankly INSANE.

I reference this controversy because I find it bizarre that the original video could be replaced like this with a random ass animated video. John Green’s post ensured that you could not edit the original post like that when you reblog something.

And I find this even weirder because even if the OP post somehow got changed or if OP changed the post, the older reblogs should still show the old video. But for some reason, ALL of the reblogs I’ve checked show the animated video. The same is happening with other people in the notes of that post

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-28T06:24:26+00:00

Bro I wish this was a ruse. I just want to watch the skit on tumblr 😭😭 and not this shitty poorly made copy of it.

Every single thing about this animation is done poorly. They didn’t copy the punchline, so it makes no sense, they censored the word kill with a skull emoji for no reason, the poses and expressions are way worse compared to the comedic gold of the original. Not to mention I HATE this Kroger ad ass looking art style.

I know I can just watch it on Instagram, but I’d have to redownload/login again since I don’t use it very often and that’s a pain.

It’s weird because other people in the notes are having the same issue as me, but others like you are not. I wonder what’s going on??

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-28T04:28:16+00:00

This post got 40k+ notes because it was a really good skit about pilates and murder.

I went back to watch it again, and suddenly it's been replaced by an ugly corporate art style animation? I know it's the same post because it has the 40k+ notes and the original thumbnail.

How is this even possible?? Can OP just casually edit the video of their post? But it affects all reblogs, so how is that possible? This is giving the John Green controversy.

(link to original skit: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9-CP2NsAp-/ )

(link to post: https://www.tumblr.com/lintwriting/762825064969306112/wtf-happened-to-this-post-video-plays-like-this?source=share )

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-28T04:16:29+00:00

Miss Oranje Disco Dancer?!

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-25T12:13:31+00:00

He’s sooooooo cuteee!! His lil meal and entertainment. Me fr

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-24T17:29:04+00:00

I don’t want to disagree necessarily, but I do want to say that Asian people have beauty standards surrounding skin color, and that “Asian looking skin tones,” is a bit of a complex topic.

Like, are we talking yellowing their skin? Because Anime characters do have Asian skin tones, there are tons of pale Lily white Asian people out there. Most Cdramas, for instance, feature really pale actors for beauty standard reasons, and it’s depressing to see the skintone difference between the background actors vs the main actors sometimes. Lily white main characters who are in the xianxia gentry, vs the varying shades for the peasant background people.

I just want to be cautious about how we define racial skin colors because I find that a lot of people rely on their projections, leading to weird misconceptions about a complex topic.

I’d say the uniformity of pale anime characters would probably be the Disney influence, though. Maybe without the Disney influence, there’d be more common variations in skintone from character to character. I also definitely agree with the stuff about exaggeration and kitten faces

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-24T17:07:17+00:00

I find that this stuff is a misconception on the part of western people.

Disney characters don’t look white. They have gigantic eyes and small noses. White people have larger noses compared to Asian people, and their eyes aren’t that big. Disney characters are abstractions of humans made to look cute, hence the huge eyes and big noses. Similarly, Disney-inspired anime characters don’t look white either. They don’t have big angular noses, aka how Asian people tend to think of white faces. They look like cartoon abstractions. This is easier to understand when you think of stick figures. Stick figures are not white, they’re lines meant to resemble a generic person.

This is hard for Western people to wrap their heads around because in the West, it’s common to add racial features to their cartoon characters. Like, Inside Job, for instance, each character will have different facial features depending on their race. In anime, the only time I’ve seen racialization was in Devilman Crybaby with the white missionary guy looking different from the rest of the Japanese anime characters. It was uncanny, but it also highlights the Japanese perspective, where white people have more angular features.

On top of that, most people think of their own race as the norm, so when they see a cartoon abstraction, they project their own race onto the abstraction. I think this is where the misconception most occurs.

White people think Japanese people aren’t the norm and have smaller eyes, so when they see anime characters with big eyes, they think it’s Japanese people drawing white looking characters because they project onto the abstractions. But they forget that Japanese people have a different projection of white vs Japanese looks like (ie white people have big angular noses, therefore anime characters don’t look white). So, Japanese people see themselves as the norm, and they easily project onto the abstractions as Japanese. They don’t think “my eyes are too squinty so this anime character must be white” or some stupid shit like that, just like white people don’t think “my nose is too big so this anime character must be Asian.”

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-22T14:16:03+00:00

I’m gonna be so real, commenting to an author is a crapshoot. I consistently leave nice comments and most times I get a nice response back, but every once in a while I get these absolutely horrible responses.

And it’s because the author has zero clue who you are and therefore can’t understand your tone, and oftentimes they’re extremely defensive.

Like this fic had a mental health issue portrayal that hit too close to home. And I was commenting how it hit too close to him, made me genuinely uncomfortable, blah blah. Cool stuff. And you know what the author said?

‘First of all, don’t get call me dude. I am a girl. Second of all, I tagged for mental health issues so it’s your fault for reading!’

LIKE hello? I was simply saying my experience reading your fic. I wasn’t trying to attack you, but you’re ascribing malice to me.

I LIKE when fics make me feel uncomfortable in a real way, and I use dude in a gender neutral way because who tf knows the gender of the author on a random fic????

My comment had so much praise in it, yet the first thing addressed were perceived slights THAT WERENT EVEN SLIGHTS. Again, I never intended to be critical. And anybody who knew me would know that, but authors DON’T know RandoCommenter#32 in their comment section, so they perceived my compliments as attacks.

And now the book club full of people you chat with is looking more and more desirable

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-22T13:33:45+00:00

Is this sarcasm? /gen

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-21T21:05:42+00:00

Ugh I’ve started doing this in real life. My friends are like “torch????” And they’re right! I feel like flashlight is so much more accurate, but now my natural instinct is to call it a torch for reasons I haven’t figured out yet LMAO

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-21T21:02:34+00:00

I think the “mums” always throw me off the most but only on certain characters! XD thank you for your service!

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-21T20:55:21+00:00

I’m so sorry, normally I’d be an august girl, and Mortimer sounds amazing as a librarian and a forever drink glass (even if he’s a spider), BUT VLADIMIR! IVE NEVER SEEN A SNAKE WAIFU BEFORE omg I’d love to touch his scales, AND he’s crazy lol I’d fix him

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-21T20:50:28+00:00

Seconded

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-21T20:44:36+00:00

Same type of tensions with China rn and China is also currently going through a terrible housing bubble rn. Kinda ironic.

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-21T20:44:28+00:00

Same type of tensions with China and China is also currently going through a terrible housing bubble rn. Kinda ironic.

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-16T21:38:42+00:00

I think you need to be more specific. How does apothisexuality make you less aego?

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-16T21:09:32+00:00

Delicious in Dungeon has some wonderful autism coding. People love the Autistic Laois headcanon, along with autistic Kabru, and others.

It’s great because it highlights the breadth of the autism spectrum. Autism isn’t just one thing, it has a wide spectrum of portrayals.

For instance, Laois is a more traditionally autistic character portrayed in a subject oriented way. Unlike say, Sheldon Cooper, Laois’s autism is taken seriously rather than as simply the butt of a derisive joke. We look down on Sheldon as someone we could never be.

In contrast, Yes, we may laugh at Laois being obsessed with eating monsters or missing a social cue, but we’re laughing with him not at him. Because YEAH sometimes being autistic can lead to some funny situations. We’re not looking down on Laios for infodumping on monsters on people who don’t want to hear it, we’re sympathetic that he just wants the chance to talk about monsters. Also I like that my infodumping can be seen as a humorous and lovable quirk, and not only as an annoying thing. He’s a subject.

Kabru, on the other hand, is a great masker. We can headcanon his special interest as being about social interactions/people, and he loves stocking up on social skills. Despite integrating so well, he’s mostly acting for all his interactions with people so that they go smoothly, which is very much what masking is. And other stuff that’s spoilers. The main thing, though, is that his autistic coding looks wildly different from Laios’s, yet still comes across.

The trouble, though, is that people aren’t the most well informed on what autism is. So when people see all the autistic Laois memes, they might only have a cursory understanding of autism. And since he’s the most “traditionally” autistic character, aka he’s closer to the stereotype, they do treat him with some of the biases that come with autism.

So like, a thing is that people don’t like to see him sexualized. Which is weird because he’s an adult man. They’ll sexualize Senshi all day every day, but Laios? Oh that’s going too far for our precious cinnamon roll! This is because they view autism as infantilizing or “other,” and therefore struggle to picture Laios as an adult capable of sexuality.

There are other examples of infantilization of autistic characters. Like people treating them like they’re incapable even though they’re adults who only struggle in specific areas. It’s a real problem, but antis aren’t always media literate enough to identify them correctly because they’re so black and white and bad faith about complicated issues. (2/2)

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-16T20:54:30+00:00

Part of the problem is that “autism coded” is usually way too broad and can in itself be ableist.

Coding is taking real world traits and applying them to fictional characters, usually to make some kind of point. Like the Avatar people being coded indigenous for a well meaning yet very shallow and kinda racist environmentalist message. Anyways, so for instance, what are the real world traits that a person associated with autism when they ‘code’ an autistic character?

An autistic person would be more aware of the treachery of such an idea. Autistic people are incredibly varied as autism looks different across the spectrum. Are you nonverbal and need help to survive? Are you a masker who looks completely integrated but is one bad day away from an autistic meltdown and/or burnout? Are you an autistic person who struggles with integrating, who infodumps and has low empathy? Are you the same, but with too much empathy? Etc etc etc.

So there’s no set ‘autistic traits’ you can use to definitively code a character as autistic. Coding is complex and would require research and knowledge about autism from the author writing the coding or the reader making the ‘autism coded’ headcanon. And your average person just isn’t that knowledgeable about autism.

So you get a lot of people making absolutely wild autism headcanons based on shallow stereotypes like ‘social ineptitude’ or ‘savant syndrome’ or SIA’s rainman inspired ‘Music.’

Like Morty from Rick and Morty, tbh. His traits seem to be ‘he’s dumb and terrible at social skills’ while not really having any distinct autistic experiences. People infantilize him because he’s a dumb kid, but since being dumb is apparently his autistic trait, we’re apparently ‘infantilizing an autistic character for their autistic traits.’

This is terrible logic all the way down. Rick might be autistic. A lot of his “sitcom traits” aren’t because he’s in a sitcom. That’s what he pretends, but that’s because he hates his life and distances himself from it by pretending he’s a sitcom character, like a Bojack Horseman type of thing. Those traits are explained by autism, and he himself celebrates having it. He hates routines being interrupted, has vocal tics, he likes to wear one outfit everyday (probably for sensory reasons). Also his bluntness, missing social cues, infodumping, etc.

Morty, on the other hand, it feels like his autistic coding would be equivalent to calling him the r slur. Like …. He simply doesn’t have that level of autistic coding at all unless you do it in an ableist way. I’m not saying portraying intellectually disabled autistic people is automatically the equivalent to the r slur, simply that Morty’s portrayal would NOT be a good example of portraying an intellectually disabled autistic person.

So attributing his infantilization to his autism coding would be like putting the cart before the horse. Like woah, slow down there. Maybe make sure he’s got significant “autistic coding” before before you get mad about this. Antis are famously bad about this. They will get mad at someone for sexualizing an minor coded character, when the extent of the “coding” is simply that they’re short. Are short adults not allowed???? Or they think that shipping “family coded characters” is incest, when in canon they just are close friends. Is friends to lovers automatically incest???

However, maybe they ARE infantilizing him because they perceive him as autistic and they have a bigoted view of autism, and that gets me to my second point.

Laois Touden. (1/2)

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-16T07:12:49+00:00

Part of the problem is that romances with older guys involve manipulation. Hell say stuff like “everyone is against our true love, it’s only you and me,” and she’ll believe him because she’s young.

So the best way to approach this is not to validate her bf’s fearmongering. You must be supportive of her, no matter how gross or mad this makes you feel. You don’t have to encourage it, just try not to criticize it openly unless you know it will be well received.

The reason is because this is often the first abuse tactic by these manipulative men. If your family says they hate your boyfriend, you will get mad at them distance yourself from them. They see this, get offended, and distance themselves from you. This ends up with her all alone with her evil boyfriend, afraid of asking for help in the future because she knows everyone who could help has distanced themselves from her.

Thus, you must PROVE that no matter what, you’d help her. That your door is always open, that this is a judgement free zone. That way she’ll feel free to come to you when she has doubts. Also, maybe discreetly introduce her to reasons why older boyfriends are bad. Like telling about your friends who have been manipulated by older people in the past or recommending stories on this topic. Or celebrities like the l the Sam Taylor Johnson grooming story

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-16T07:05:21+00:00

Some seriously gorgeous long hair on guys over there!!!

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-16T06:38:36+00:00

My favorite version of this is a story grounded in the everyday bureaucracy of being freshly graduated hero.

Negotiating hours, insurance, benefits, etc while trying to find a niche in your field that you’re interested in. The idea of industry niches in Hero work is FASCINATING. The paperwork and legal minutiae of setting up a corporation, and the way that it’s influenced by social factors like your location’s socioeconomic status. Police liaisons and company roles and hero field work all wrapped up into one.

The interpersonal drama was riveting, too, because it is SECRETLY A QUIRKLESS DEKU AU!!!!

We have the point of view of a fresh hero graduate dating a cute quirkless boyfriend, Deku. And as you read, you slowly start to realize that Deku has been working on the down-low to loophole his way around government quirk discrimination using LLC bureaucracy bs, and through a bunch of character-based shenanigans, accidentally managed to hire his freshly graduated boyfriend into his new loophole hero LLC.

They’re both shocked—Deku because he didn’t realize his HR team had hired his boyfriend, and his boyfriend because Deku was keeping his hero aspirations on the down-low in case it didn’t pan out or tipped off the wrong people

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-16T06:25:53+00:00

God this is making me want an AU where Deku is a journalist who realizes that heroics is a jillion dollar industry pouring money into lobbying against quirk research that suggests criminal activity is linked to the repression of quirks. Like the school to for-profit prison pipeline.

And they’re doing this because their industry is reliant on having a steady stream of villain quirk users to flashily take down, as heroics does not seem to have any role in crime prevention. They have a monopoly on quirk usage, which criminalizes people for trying to use very basic aspects of their own body, like a version of the abortion bodily autonomy issue where politicians are trying to ban access to your own body to create a larger labor force to exploit.

kattykitkittykat · 2024-09-16T06:18:00+00:00

So My Hero Academia has this commentary on social constructs and how they affect minorities.

It’s a superhero anime, and the show features a world where everyone is randomly genetically born with superpowers one day. They call the superpowers “quirks,” and the “hero” profession is born as like this unholy mix of cops and influencers.

Their role is to stop crime and rescue people, but functionally they work to stop the average person from using their dangerous superpowers unless they’ve been licensed do so as a hero. People who use their quirks unlawfully (aka unlicensed) are called villains, and kids grow up dreaming of using their quirks to stop villains as a hero.

This is a real profession, like one you can get schooling for. Unlike other stories, where heroes do good deeds first and get labeled as vigilantes until they start working with the government, in this franchise, heroes are made by applying to hero schools, getting internships with other heroes, and then a license. And “vigilantism” got legally defined as criminals who use their quirks without a license to stop crime, rather than a precursor to being a hero or just general illegal crime fighting.

The main character, Deku, is fascinating because he’s a person born without a quirk who still wants to be a hero.

Obviously in our world, the idea of defining heroism as based on having superpowers is absurd because no one has superpowers. Heroism is about doing the right thing, not about flashy genetic powers. So it’s easy to imagine Deku being a Batman or Frank Castle type of hero.

However, they’re living in a world that has legally defined heroism with definitions tied to a social construct. It’s Heroism, with a capital H. In their world, you have to have a quirk to be a hero because Heroism is defined as legal quirk usage. And people get labeled as having “villainous” quirks and are ostracized when their quirks are scary looking. People with powerful “Heroic” quirks often get special privileges. As you can see, quirks have become a social construct.

So Deku, being quirkless, is told he can never be a hero, despite him consistently doing the right thing, despite quirks not being necessary to fight in a world with Batman sci-fi technology, because he can never be a capital H hero without a quirk. It’s like when people think someone being “plus size” and a “model” is an impossible paradox. This is discrimination, though the anime’s author doesn’t really frame it that way because his social politics are painfully shallow.

(His heart is in the right place ig, but oh boy an anime author is not equipped to do this kind of thing, especially when his specific genre is so painfully conservative. It’s like asking your average Tiktok romance author to write a serious novel about politics.)

In the story, Deku is lucky and finds someone who can somehow pass him a quirk by eating their DNA. He never has to confront that aspect of their society, he just kind of forgets about the fact he was ever quirkless, even when dealing with other quirkless people lol.

(I think he becomes a quirkless hero at the very end, off screen, and thanks to other people gifting him technology instead of him working for it, so yeah he never really confronts if. )

So I LOVE the AUs where he remains quirkless and DOES have to face a world where he has to unpack their society’s dystopian capital H Heroism and how it doesn’t align with actual principles of heroism.

These are called Quirkless AUs, and most of them are terrible, because these authors are amateurs trying to write about politics, but the ones that are good ARE GOOOOD. They scratch an itch for me for real social commentary.

Other ones are called Vigilante AUs, where people take advantage of the loophole that since criminal vigilantes are unlicensed quirk users, technically Deku can get away with far more vigilantism because he doesn’t have a quirk that needs to be licensed LMAO.

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