“it’s not possible to change the world without sacrifice. dying for the greater good is not a death in vain.” - edelgard von hresvelg
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axe kit & uniform accesory kit:
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garreg mach uniform pattern:
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i can’t fully expound her impact on fashion as we know it but i want to highlight how much vivienne westwood influenced the lolita subculture, the iconic rocking horse shoes alone have been copied by brands many times over and no oldschool coord is complete without them.
american distributors are notorious for censoring lgbt content but in the 4kids dub of tokyo mew mew a scene where the girls are picturing their ideal man intentionally changed the dancer mint is imagining into the female character she's heavily coded as having a crush on...
honestly i'm not surprised this is a take going around but i find it really silly that people are complaining about how the tokyo mew mew anime reboot "ruined" the old art style when it's just emulating mia ikumi's current style and designs from the 2020 manga short...
every time i watch enchanted with someone i have to point out the times square advert for the ill fated lestat musical in this scene and tell them about how legendary duo elton john and bernie taupin did the music and it's original cast recording is lost media
Basically everyone has a “John Lennon beat his wife” style fact that they cant stop themselves from sharing if anything even tangentially related comes up in conversation
it’s giving 15 year old me in a home made iron-on homestuck shirt while “casually” carrying printed out pages of the webcomic around school to ingratiate myself with the cool older kids in my art class and failing miserably vibes
to me tmm has some of the most cohesive and thematically informed character designs in all of the genre and the way it incorporates heavy issues like climate change and ethics surrounding eco-fascism and land sovereignty for a young target audience is impressive and mold breaking
people on tiktok will literally ask where you got a lolita dress only released in 2009 that you hunted for months on japanese secondhand websites and dropped hundreds of dollars on then get mad when you can't give them an amazon link to buy it
every time i talk about cannibalism being an incredible literary metaphor and extremely sexy i mean it in a texas chainsaw massacre way i’ve never seen hamilton
as someone with an interest in true crime i really don’t think it’s responsible to pathologize this issue the same way we do with women harmlessly enjoying romance novels etc
Of course there’s a huge backlash against True Crime. It’s predominantly consumed by women. Society cannot trust women to make decisions for themselves. Anything they like must be scrutinized and denounced.
kuromi cosplay(?) from the other day at the hello kitty cafe truck! not the usual way i like to coord but it was fun for the character 💕
#lolitafashion
it is once again time for lukewarm take tuesday. reply with your most inconsequential opinions about ttrpgs, video games, etc.
i'll go first: i like when video games have a soundtrack with a brass section. the trumpet. bwaa
sorry for spoiling the illusion for people who don’t have hottopic locally and think it’s still in it’s edgy gothic heyday but it’s basically the disney store for adults who replaced their water intake with bang energy drinks and have hogwarts houses in their twitter bios
i know the topic is tired but i truly don’t ever want to see a depiction of corsets as a torture device that our silly ancestors subjected themselves to merely to meet a beauty standard in media while we literally live in an age with plastic surgery trends
@plazynoodles
i literally cannot image the amount of cognitive dissonance required to think teenagers via fandom discourse is responsible for international governments stripping human rights
someday we need to talk about how the cosplay community has problem with generating discourse for the sake of discourse from total non-issues that usually spiral off of literally one person making a general advisory statement etc
it’s so funny to me that elsa passes the bechdel test so immaculately that the most popular m/f pairing for her is from an entirely different film franchise with no basis beyond them both having ice powers
not a lot of people know this but smewthie isn't actually the first idol group formed around tokyo mew mew! 20 years ago we had mew5.
it's really cool to see the reboot continuing this tradition ❤️💙💚💛💜
some of you guys don’t want to actually get into lolita fashion and learn the rules etc you just want a trendy searchable algorithm friendly label for generic kawaii clothing
yall have got to stop recommending impactful queer media that deals with topics like rape and abuse to anyone and everyone without disclosing those things upfront how many times does this have to be said
'it's okay for me to be rude to service workers making small talk because i'm neurodivergent' people when they find out that other neurodivergent people have service jobs and are forced to partake in smalltalk literally all day
honestly i like that lolita is an “expensive” hobby in the sense that poser influencers can’t use it as a cashgrab as easily as other subcultures, if they don’t commit they look like posers and if they do they can’t spin a profit while investing in the clothes it’s lose/lose.
actually no i'm sorry i can't pretend like people were ever normal about steven universe discourse i was in the trenches there were casualties people DIED
idk if the way i wrote this is hard to read or something but i keep having people approach this under the assumption that 4kids censored representation and not that their edit of this scene on the right inadvertently made her gayer, anyways lesbian corina bucksworth for the win.
@vampireIesbian
merging the culture of censoring shit until it’s incomprehensible and oversharing deeply personal anecdotes on that app was inevitably going to lead to unfortunate misunderstandings like this if you ask me
i'm not sad betty white died she lived a very long full life i'm sad to see people treat her like a public commodity and use her passing to construe 2021 as some nebulous taker of happiness
media literacy is so interesting to me like people understand that midsommar isn’t actually a “good for her” story because those points have been hammered into the collective consciousness but they haven’t grasped the same concept when it comes to carrie or jennifer’s body yet
the original texas chainsaw was commentary on the rural working class and the vietnam war, hooper himself said it was a reflection of the chaos happening around him with intentional political underpinnings are you actually this fucking braindead?