#japanese major

[ganondoodle]

once you notice how few characters in media have brown eyes it really becomes impossible to not pay attention to it and its been bothering me ever since

#ganondoodles talks #i now its not that there are literally zero #but it almost is #and i get giving fictional characters non natural eye colors is fun #but blue and green is still everywhere evne tho those are also real #like sometimes it feels like brown is actively avoided #going for red or yellow instead #and i know in anime especialyl theres this idea i think that similar to hair color its bcs the majority of japanese people have those #so it feels 'more special' if its anything but that #idk how much of that is true #also its not just anime #feels weird #brown is such a diverse and beautiful color #makes me sad

[sanjipussyindulgence]

i know i get pissed about the yamato gender discourse/general transphobia in the one piece fandom at least once a month... but how do you read this panel and miss the point. freedom is such an important concept in the series and, as we see from the newkamas, that includes the freedom to identify as whatever gender you want. you are actively ignoring and disrespecting one piece's values when you misgender yamato, kiku, or any other character. i hate people.

#one piece #transphobia mention #yamato #yamato son of kaido #ivankov #inazuma #one piece yamato #o-kiku #kikunojo #bon clay #like OBVIOUSLY one piece has had some problems in the past with how the queer characters were depicted. #but i think its important to remember that oda is a middle aged cishet japanese man who wrote a majority of that stuff in the 2000s/2010s #of COURSE theres gonna be issues #overall i think that the queer characters in one piece are positively depicted and its because of this message here #so when people dont get it i wanna rip their heads off

[slutforpringles]

danielricciardo: Arigato Suzuka. Short weekend but we’ll be back. @gopro

I really hope seeing this gave him something to smile about and reminded him HE'S SO LOVED 💕💕💕

#the we'll be back confidence is sending me straight back to hopium delusions #but it's lovely to see just how loved how is #and how unrepresentative the gross online discourse is of the vast majority of F1 fans #daniel ricciardo #dr3 #japanese gp 2024 #visa cashapp rb #formula 1 #f1

[superbeeny]

It's interesting that Deku's thought about that time Iida held his hand during the 'save Deku' storyline twice so far. As if Deku wants to do for Tenko what Iida did for him (ie the hero who will take the hand of a lost child).

#like I think this makes it obvious why Iida is popular in Japan despite not having any juggernaut-level popular ships #he's a good class president. Japanese fans seemingly don't complain about his screentime and role cuz he plays the role he has well #tagging cuz MAJOR spoilers for this recent arc (even if it's something a lot of people suspected would happen eventually) #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #mha spoilers #mha 419 #bnha 419 #deku #izuku midoriya #iida tenya #bnha meta #mha meta #tenko shimura #shigaraki tomura

[theloveinc]

There's a lot of validity in the idea that older Bakugo is a traumatized pro-hero with major PTSD... but you know what's kinda fucked up to think about? The fact that Bakugo is also a 22-year-old pro-hero with major PTSD even before that, too.

It's almost easy to imagine that things are actually better when he's older (the therapy finally a routine, the trauma long set and on the path to being healed)... and that it's his whole 20s that are spent as a pool of disaster trying to recover from the war(s).

He looks back and barely even remembers being twenty, much less twenty-five or twenty-seven. Barely remembers how little he slept, not at the hands of trying to balance hero work and getting a degree at the same time, but just out of the pure insomnia that came from trying to move on and every nightmare attached.

Hardly ever showering, never shaving (not that he ever grew much of a beard, but the facial hair was definitely there. There's pictures of him on the news with an awkward, grown out haircut and patches on facial hair that make him look positively... immature), barely even eating more than a few protein bars or an energy jelly drink-a day. It's a blur, and his friends are hardly there to pick him up out of it because they're all going through it, too. Somewhat.

It's definitely weird if you meet him during this period. He's not all there, at least, not all of the time. He doesn't really register your interactions, the friendship you extend to him (a younger, or ever older, version of him would've shown you that deep seeded ferocity in response, tried to bite the hand that fed him, even if it were love... but 20s Bakugo... doesn't seem to notice). Even though only one of his eyes is clouded over, the good one never seems to brighten up.

There's definitely moments when the old him shines through: when he's with Deku, when he's in the midst of battle, when he finds out that Todoroki still does a shitty job at chopping scallions. But it's a long time before he's even close to the same, able to step out from underneath the fog of simply surviving and into the sunshine of recovering.

But I think sticking through it with him is worth it.

(It's a weird moment, a happy moment, the first time you realize that Bakugo has changed. That the pouring rain outside hasn't bothered him since he showed up at your apartment. He forgot his umbrella, he's been quite careless ever since the war—wet and shaggy hair frizzed up, cheeks red from cold—but he doesn't seem to mind, with his bare feet up on your coffee table, his eyes gazing out the window. You hand his tea, and instead of gulping it down in one go, letting it burn in his throat, he winces at the heat.

"Tastes like shit," he says, and you laugh because it always does. Just this time, he noticed.)

#bakugou x reader #bakugo #this is what crocheting a baby hat does to u #no im jk i was just thinking abt bakugo being like 22 and awkward as h*ck bc he still hasnt recovered from the war #i wanna talk abt what he's like more but this is what came out instead LOL #like i think he's really stubborn abt ... coping with after effects of dying #and then before he knows it he has major depression LMFAOO #and he can like go to work get his degree do all he needs to do as a 20-something year guy #but he's not like. *there*. you know #and you meet him and he's a binch but he's not hard to get along with #and u just sorta take him in and drag him places like idk #your school's halloween night.. or even just a night out with ur friend (he doesn't even know how to order a drink) #and he doesnt even process it all until one day he's like 'dang it feels like ive been asleep for years' #and he kinda was #but he knows youre the one who helped him and now he wants to fix himself for you bc he remembers u being there for him #but he's so funny im imagining him with like. frat boy facial hair and a really outgrown ugly mullet type haircut #and lowkey with like. greasy skin (ik he's perfect but he's in a bad state and it shows) and he eats instant noodles ever day #and only watches japanese top gear #and goes on patrols where he beats the crap outta ppl and then doesnt remember it #DREAM BOY #and then he's big hero later #anyway #caitie post #gen

[eggplantgifs]

Kazuki Tomono: Underground » 2023 Japanese Nationals

#kazuki tomono #fskateedit #figure skating #japanese nationals 2023 #JN 2023 #program #request #this sp is very canadian but it works for him #i love how he flies into the stsq #i can't believe this is the last time we'll see his programs at a major competition this season :(

[blowingoffsteam2]

I’m so tired of terrible arguments for why we aren’t even allowed to have hope for sor//iku to happen

#‘you can only ship Sor//iku as long as you know it’s never going to be canon 🥰’ STOP #No one asked for your permission to have hope #also your arguments for why it can’t happen are terrible #and for the love of god stop talking about Japanese people as if they are a monolith and all homophobic #there are literally queer japanese people working on kh #ff16 has a gay relationship among major characters #disney is showing queer relationships #like I know they both suck as companies but people working there have fought for these things and WON #there is zero reason not to allow people hope #no one is forcing YOU to have hope

[miyuecakes]

@tianshiisdead help our post is blowing up

tbh the amount of tags ive seen being like "i learned something new" or expressing absolute shock at the normalization of what is essentially chinese raceplay in japanese fetish culture makes me quite happy we've had this discussion publically. because this is a subject that honestly isn't studied well but HAS history:

Desire Sung with a Lisp: Chinese Women Represented in Japanese Popular Songs During Wartime; thesis by Amane Kusai

The Allure of a Woman in Chinese Dress: Representation of the Other in Imperial Japan; chapter by Ikeda Shinobu

Politics, Art & Eroticism: The Female Impersonator as the National Cultural Symbol of Republican China [in the Imperial Japanese Worldview]; chapter by Catherine Vance Yeh

and is just... incredibly normalized, like beyond sexualized caricatures of chinese women in anime/manga. "cheongsam" is a whole category on japanese porno sites. (you can google it!)

but also the lack of awareness on this kind of aggrieves me because for me personally, the only discussion i've seen of intra-east asian fetishization on mainstream sms is like. regarding genshin's sexualization of the kimono or whatnot. it's a fair and valid critique and it is worth criticizing. the hegemony of white supremacy means that even the marginalized can reproduce white supremacist ideas against other marginalized people (it's like women who perpetuate patriarchy against other women). chinese media in general is no stranger to this, especially with it's depictions of inner asians, southeast asians, MENASA, and black folks.

but i would argue that the conversation about how japaneseness specifically is presented in chinese media takes place under a premise that ignores the reality of japan-china modern relations. there's absolutely very little recognition that in the contemporary era, japan is the largest east asian producer of culture. and as a consequence, china's pop culture is therefore heavily influenced by japanese pop culture.

i think it's unfair to accuse chinese media of japanese fetishization without recognizing this fact. unperfect example, but: it's not too different from the the fact that east asian makeup and fashion styles are popular in southeast asia. it would be bad faith to accuse southeast asians of fetishization without recognizing that east asian pop culture dominate a significant part of their media (though this doesn't excuse the fact that many seasian govts have a pretty bad history w their chinese minorities!). the fact this seems to be completely ignored indicates to me something metaphysical; there's a default guilt placed upon china wrt japan in spite of the historical-cultural facts. it's sinophobia ingrained into discursive "common sense".

on the contrary, japan's fetishization of chineseness, in it's current-day iteration, is based on racial hierarchy. maybe you could potentially make an argument that any pre-meiji objectification comes from the same place as mentioned earlier (with china being the historical lingua franca of east asia) ... but as it stands now, the casual sexualization of china comes from the imperial era which sees chinese people as an object to be dominated. if you read the sources i've listed and if you watch japanese imperial movies like Shina no Yoru and find similarities of how the Chinese female lead is portrayed to characters like Chun-Li, Ada Wong, Shampoo, etc. ... the literary legacies of japanese colonialism will reveal itself.

#not art #disk horse #rambling #you may have noticed even wrt the sources i provided that the majority of the authors are japanese. this is not a coincidence either.

[animalcrossingshowdown]

or if you've never played, just pick the one that seems the coolest

#misc polls #this one was the hardest to stick to only 12. I could probably make a second entire poll #I could probably do a 64 contestant tournament for features new & unique to NL #you can tell I combined things here that could be separate options so I could fit more stuff in #NH was pretty hard too but NL just added SO MUCH #again one of the japanese exclusive games had what were essentially public works but I'm not counting them #bc that was a MAJOR new thing for english audiences

[andifthestarsweretodie]

I just saw a blog try and pretend like Gazans aren't under threat of extinction at the moment and that Israelis are the only ones who are currently under genocidal conditions. Buddy. Buddy. Please. Israelis, from what I understand, are under threat of genocidal intent from Hamas and that's what 07/10 exemplified. Gaza is getting carpet-bombed and starved and routinely pushed to leave their land under threat of death. Refugee camps are getting attacked. Civilian casualties are through the roof. People waving white flags are still getting shot. People in Gaza don't have access to clean water, food, electricity and healthcare right now. We can go into the nebulous details about whose fault that is later: I'm just laying bare what's happening. Is it so hard for people to understand that two things can be true at the same time? Hamas is a threat and very dangerous. The people at the helm of Israel's military are using the kind of dehumanising language that illustrates genocidal intent to some degree, Netanyahu will not accept the idea of a Palestinian state period and the Israeli military is being supported by the US government. There are levels to danger. Danger is danger but only one side in this bloody, deadly conflict (on all sides) will win in a war of attrition and that's a *major* problem when the people at the helm of the side with the strong military power describe no one in the Gaza Strip as innocent. Both parties can be under threat from each other. Two things can be true at the same time.

#noodle speaks #i/p #if my wording sounds off please do let me know #civilians on both sides of this conflict are in danger and that's a major problem #i know hamas doesn't respect ceasefires #i don't expect to know what to do i'm a 19 year old. i'm getting my degree in biology and japanese not diplomacy #i just get so frustrated when people of any allegiance/persuasion try and describe what's happening as entirely one-sided or entirely black #or white

[meeko-mar]

Correct me if I'm wrong but

Friendly reminder that Katsuki Bakugou is now the only one of Izuku's friends who calls him by his given name "Izuku"...Everyone else still calls him Midoriya or Deku :')

#Which btw is major in terms of Japanese culture #Calling one by their given name is considered more intimate #and even rude or PRESUMPTUOUS in certain contexts #ITs generally only for someone you're really familiar with #so for Katsuki to go straight to calling him IZUKU #Also Izuku has always been the one referring to Katsuki as the shortened and affectionate Kacchan #PEAS IN A POD #KACCHAN AND IZUKU #my heart #Bakudeku #bkdk #just a thought #I couldn't even imagine Katsuki calling him Midoriya though #that just don't sit right #It's gotta be Izuku #At least #this is if I recall everything correctly #I reserve the right to be wrong lmao

[stirringwinds]

Japan in 1600: so, do you know this “Hollander”?

Portugal: I do. please execute him right now lol don’t fall for that fake ass “I’m such a pitiful shipwrecked castaway with scurvy” act. I assure you he’s a pirate here to plunder your ships lmao. Also he’s a dirty heretical Protestant seditionist rebelling against his sovereign lord (me and Antonio) (-:

Netherlands *sweating*: HEY don’t listen to his lies—

Japan, who got banned from trading with China during the Ming dynasty because of “Japanese pirates”, fresh off the Imjin War against Korea and China that also sought to challenge Chinese hegemony: 🤔 hmmmm. Interesting.

#shitpost #Nedpan #hetalia #hws japan #hws Netherlands #hws Portugal #the pirates were at times majority Japanese indeed #but many were mixed crews including Chinese and Koreans #but Yao was like ‘sorry you’re CANCELLED’ until further notice #even Portugal got to resume trade with China first lol

[decalcominia]

I love how they used language as a tool of power and an indicator on which side they are like for example lady maeda, having her speak in korean made her look as if they’re equals, since as a japanese person she certainly did not have to do that, but by dropping the act and taking on her native language, the language the people of joseon were forced to speak and understand, she takes the role of the oppressor again showing that, after all, she has never seen them as equals to begin with

#does this make sense #its so sad that the translation doesnt do all of this any justice #like its a major thing that they keep switching from japanese to korean #gyeongseong creature

[lunarharp]

silly neopetscore doodles from the other day. (in my modern au they are not idiots as much and have been together for a while ever since the aquarium date)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #i just kind of assume that neopets was a major part of everyone's childhood. Realised this may not be the case. but it was for them. imo #sorry for the maudlin tags on my weird last post. hopefully no-one wasted their time reading that.. #i'm still rather on the edge but i feel calmer not drawing..not being online..watching gay japanese tv..thinking. #the answers are clear..i need to Make Changes In My Life. not just draw all the time. accept my limits. #but i also want to draw. i think that is true. *bows solemnly and then leaves with an echo of my sorrowful leitmotif in the bgm* #that pink kacheek image i found truly represents life's pain and especially qifrey's and it even has glasses. Effervescent.

[juneability]

231003 ♡ tuesday. fall is hitting hard! i took a walk in the rain today to clear my mind (it didn't work) and finished a reflection journal for my international studies course (went a page over the limit but the prof is chill about that). i've been reading The Jane Austen Treasury and yearning to read Mansfield Park since it and Persuasion are the only novels by her i have not yet read.

➵ 🎧—the purple bottle, animal collective.

#june enlightenment #fall aesthetic #autumn #studyblr #learning japanese #light academia #academia aesthetic #aesthetic #psyc major #psychology #class notes #aesthetic notes #jane austen #the treasury of jane austen #reading #bookblr #currently reading

[crazyfox-archives]

An 1166 manuscript copy of The Karazu (火羅図), an illustrated astrological text with Monju Bodhisattva (文殊菩薩) in the center surrounded by the Nine Planets all below the Seven Stars of Ursa Major

From the collection of Tōji Temple (東寺) in Kyoto

Image from "東寺の曼荼羅図: みほとけの群像" [Illustrated Mandalas at Tōji: Group Images of Buddhist Divinities] published by 東寺宝物館 [Tōji Treasure Museum], 1992, page 76

#japanese art #buddhist art #illuminated manuscript #文殊菩薩 #monju #九曜 #kuyo #北斗七星 #hokuto shichisei #ursa major #京都 #kyoto #東寺 #toji #真言宗 #shingon #astrology #crazyfoxarchives #arte japonés #arte budista #manuscrito iluminado #astrología