kuchizuke woo~~

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beyonces-butt: I hate it when you’ve been really on edge for a while and then you have a breakdown...

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:01:32 +0200

beyonces-butt:

I hate it when you’ve been really on edge for a while and then you have a breakdown over a little thing and everyone thinks that you’re getting super upset about not washing your hair

Season 8 + trios → requested by mak-eba

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:44:28 +0200

Season 8 + trios → requested by mak-eba

dwalinroxxx: So lately I was having those crazy Dark!Erebor AU...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:38:49 +0200

dwalinroxxx:

So lately I was having those crazy Dark!Erebor AU plot-bunnies. Like, what if Thorin died in BoFA and Bilbo has instantly gone completely bonkers with grief, to the point that he actually summoned something REALLY BAD with his ring and force of will. Thorin is resurrected but it’s not a happy miracle but an act of Necromagic, so the dwarf king isn’t the same person he was before. Same goes for Bilbo who literally sold his soul to bring the dwarf from the dead and the price he must pay is to continue living as a vessel for the Dark Power he evoked. That evil thing is cunning to act discreet enough so nobody notices the difference at first. Thorin is crowned as a King of Erebor and though he manages to revive the kingdom to its former glory, his policy borders on cruel and downright despotic. And not one of his brutal decisions made without the knowledge and lead of the Halfling who follows Thorin like a vicious shadow and instigates him to rule with an iron fist and violently punish everyone who goes against his will.
I’d imagine Thorin chopping heads off while Bilbo, the sneaky fucker, cuts some bitches in dark corners when the insurgent dwarves keep attempting to kill them both or sabotage their ruling.
So, like, Erebor becomes a base of Mordor and biggest threat to whole Middlearth.
lol, i guess i’ll just take my pills and go to sleep K BYE

drunktaire: ♥

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:38:32 +0200

drunktaire:

♥

a-past-to-overwrite: toxeh: cynicalsleeper: this is the best...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:21:54 +0200

a-past-to-overwrite:

toxeh:

cynicalsleeper:

this is the best thing that appeared on my dash today

I’m giggling like an idiot help.

I really have to smile about this. I know my language is a weird language…

koyuta: I’m new here and I still don’t know how to use Tumblr...

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:14:12 +0200

koyuta:

I’m new here and I still don’t know how to use Tumblr well.(´・ω・｀)

headfangs: sometimes I feel like the only one who likes shishido on top you are not alone!!!

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:52:54 +0200

headfangs:

sometimes I feel like the only one who likes shishido on top

you are not alone!!!

ewelock: geometricdeathtrap: metallikato: generallegendary: metallikato: jewelstaites: how to...

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:08:13 +0200

ewelock:

geometricdeathtrap:

metallikato:

generallegendary:

metallikato:

jewelstaites:

how to give a good handjob

bop it

pull it

twist it

harder

better

faster

stronger

You pull your left hand in
You pull your left hand out
You pull your left hand in
And you shake it all about!

Cha cha real smooth

none of you ever touch a penis

EY MACARENA

mikiku: “…Because he took me away from you.”

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:16:45 +0200

mikiku:

“…Because he took me away from you.”

luccellino: ϟ for norsehomos, decades too late.

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:11:18 +0200

luccellino:

ϟ for norsehomos, decades too late.

wantstobelieve: re-imagining post-quinjet brawl in the avengers

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:54:50 +0200

wantstobelieve:

re-imagining post-quinjet brawl in the avengers

Anime and the Social Construction of Race

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:38:28 +0200

zeezeescorner:

A common misconception about anime cartoons amongst uninitiated audiences in majority-English-speaking countries is that anime characters are drawn to look ‘White’ rather than ‘Asian’. First of all, neither of terms are factual fixed categories - they are social constructions. That is, the meaning attached to race, whether ‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Asian’ and so on, and the groups classified under these labels, change from one society to another, depending upon culture, time and place.

In an excellent exploration of the social construction of race in popular culture, sociologist Julian Abagond shows that Japanese animators do not, in fact, draw anime characters to personify their aspiration to be ‘white’. Instead, these characters reflect the animators’ own cultural biases - which is that Japanese people are the prototype model of the ‘default human being’. Abagond writes in Sociological Images:

If I draw a stick figure, most Americans will assume that it is a white man. Because to them that is the Default Human Being. For them to think it is a woman I have to add a dress or long hair; for Asian, I have to add slanted eyes; for black, I add kinky hair or brown skin. Etc.

The Other has to be marked. If there are no stereotyped markings of otherness, then white is assumed.

Americans apply this thinking to Japanese drawings. But to the Japanese the Default Human Being is Japanese! So they feel no need to make their characters “look Asian”. They just have to make them look like people and everyone in Japan will assume they are Japanese – no matter how improbable their physical appearance.

You see the same thing in America: After all, why do people think Marge Simpson is white? Look at her skin: it is yellow. Look at her hair: it is a blue Afro. But the Default Human Being thing is so strong that lacking other clear, stereotyped signs of being either black or Asian she defaults to white…

When you think about it there is nothing particularly white about how anime characters look:huge round eyes – no one looks like that, not even white people (even though that style of drawing eyes does go back to Betty Boop).

yellow hair – but they also have blue hair and green hair and all the rest. Therefore hair colour is not about being true to life.

small noses – compared to the rest of the world whites have long noses that stick out.

white skin – but many Japanese have skin just as pale and white as most White Americans…

Some Americans, even some scholars, will argue against this view of anime. They want to think the Japanese worship America or worship whiteness and use anime to prove it. But they seem to be driven more by their own racism and nationalism than anything else.

As Abagond’s analysis shows, perceptions of race and gender influence how people ‘read’, understand and draw meaning from animation. For Japanese animators, their characters reflect their view of normality - that everyone in their creation is Japanese (or Korean or Chinese or wherever the anime is produced). Audiences that have an uncritical view of race and Whiteness presume that ‘Asian’ drawings should look ‘Asian’. Yet this term - Asian - means different things to different groups. In Japan, the category of Asian is not very meaningful. Instead, mainstream Japanese culture portrays the Japanese people as the ‘default human being’. Gender and class also affect how this default human being is imagined (usually male, affluent and lean).

Just all art forms embody the biases and taken-for-granted cultural assumptions about the world, what audiences see in anime drawings are mediated by the ethnocentrism of the animators and audiences. Ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s group is superior to others. Viewers who think Japanese anime characters are trying to look ‘White’ are therefore viewing this artform through ethnocentrism.

Credit
Quotation originally from Abagond’s blog, via Sociological Images.

Image of Jubei from Ninja Scroll from Jinni.

Top ten Crowley moments (according to me) - Season Gr8

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:32:58 +0200

Top ten Crowley moments (according to me) - Season Gr8

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agentbartowski: teen wolf season 1: oh this is a cute cheesy little teen drama. teen wolf season...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:22:13 +0200

agentbartowski:

teen wolf season 1: oh this is a cute cheesy little teen drama.

teen wolf season 2: goddamn shit is starting to get serious.

teen wolf season 3: ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO CONTINUES TO WATCH FROM HERE

deadsidekicks: loose lips sink ships; because gotham is their...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:16:43 +0200

deadsidekicks:

loose lips sink ships; because gotham is their mutual lover and the one that will tear them apart

01. if i had a heart; fever ray 02. cherry tree; the national 03. i am a lightning rod; margot & the nuclear so and so’s 04. dangerous animals; arctic monkeys 05. city’s full; savages 06. shadowplay; the killers 07. ares; bloc party 08. breaking it up; lykke li 09. i will possess your heart; death cab for cutie

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