thinking about plushies. they are a really interesting piece of the material culture of the 21st century world. these (usually) small, soft objects would be tremendously hard to produce within living memory. and yet now in a time where they are made en masse by machines and sold at costs equivalent sometimes to less than an hours wage, we continue to treasure them.

plushies are loved in a way that no other commodity or even creature is loved. we always allow ourselves to be vulnerable to them. we pour in so much love and joy and sadness that we build them into these perceived emotional automata. this effigy of feeling. they give it all back.

i think about when i was a child and broke down and damaged several of mine, or in my mid teens very nearly partrd ways with one to prove my maturity to myself only to turn around and take them back. they werent mad. they never were. they cant be, but they wouldnt be anyway. I think I finally forgive myself now. I still hug the same bunny who will never have that ear back every single day.

it's this odd casual spirituality we dont call much attention to, even as plushies are kept near by people of all ages and classes. it's a tradition belonging to the masses with their feelings, and the artisans with their visions

its beautiful, it is grotesque, it is mundane. I love it. I think it shines grrat praise on us all that we have created this.

message to all leftists: understand that landlords are bad because they are extorting you in exchange for a basic necessity of survival, not because they are "lazy" or "don't have real jobs"

This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

i don't really like when people say dungeon meshi is accidentally good autistic representation, because while i understand not wanting to make conclusions without explicit confirmation from the author, there's always the weird assumption that non-western authors somehow don't know about things like neurodivergency/queerness/etc. (on top of the assumptions that east asian authors are somehow more naive or oblivious to "western" social issues).

given that dungeon meshi started being published in 2014, it's not really a "work belonging to its times"—it's as contemporary as any other media we discuss on this site, which means it should be fair to assume it engages with contemporary topics (and at the very least, you shouldn't say that the representation is accidental with so much confidence)

but anyways, the chapter "perfect communication" in ryoko kui's "terrarium in a drawer" is some of the most straightforward autistic representation I've seen, and from now on I'm going to assume that laios's character writing is absolutely intentional in that regard:

Happy workers day❤️🇵🇸

Creds to PFLP

I wish all Comrades a great International Workers Day!

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

O workers and free people of the world, unite against the enemies of humanity.

Long live the first of May, and long live the struggle of our people.

i cannot possibly be the first person who has had this idea

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

And finally I managed to draw what I wanted! This is Berkan in Minotaur form. This form is unique because he is a chimera of several species. Chimeras are people similar to werewolves, only each has its own unique abilities or shortcomings, the shape of the beast can be different and even combine several species.

um. anyways

zeuszilla trend got me actin silly

dang your art is neat!

I forgot the asks where a thing and probably missed this for 500000 years! Tyty♥️ i appreciate it

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