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The last page of chapter 89! you can put whatever you want between his hands :)

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they match....

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i guess i never really thought that hard about it before but im laughing about the idea of saikis limiters right now….. oh year i have to wear these goofy little things that stick directly into my brain at all times or else the world could end at any minute. but anyways

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i survived a tuesday, and for what? wednesday? disgusting.

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important!!!

transcript:

A person with a somewhat masculine voice says in a higher pitched tone, “Blue hair is weird!” They then change their voice to their regular tone, and say, “I’m gonna teach you this how I would teach a child. I don’t know your life story, but for the sake of making this an educational video, I’m gonna use stereotypes, so only take what resonates with you.

One child is born in a seemingly functional, to their awareness, loving family, while the other is getting quite the opposite. You can’t choose that you’re born with it, so you’re put out in this world and the majority of your peers are like you, and the majority of your teachers, parents and authority are like you, and the majority of the media out there is showing people like you. So all of the kids that are not depicted by this media feel erased and different immediately from the time they’re born, how they are born. You may feel too feminine as a boy, too masculine as a girl, like you’re in the wrong body, like you don’t think exactly neurotypically as everyone else, you’re too thin, you’re too thick, you’re too dark, you’re not dark enough. Kids like this immediately understand the struggle of not being accepted by the majority, and if it’s not the peers doing it, keep in mind they have the same authority and media only depicting the majority of one type of person.

So both the outcasts and the masses are gonna ask the same question of how do I fit into society, and the majority of the authority and media is gonna be saying things like “God is the answer,” “man marries woman,” “girls are this way, boys this way.” You have a set amount of rules that if you have no reason to question, you’re not gonna disagree with. But when this world has taught you it’s not for people like you, you’re gonna ask, “why is it that way?” which brings us to, “who is teaching us this?” Oh, people from this era or earlier, who’s making this stuff, people in this era or earlier, “Let me do my research on who taught them that stuff.”

A common flaw with human beings is that they accept societal norms that are only in place for a little bit over their lifetime because they never lived to see a reason to question it. When you are born in a world that’s seemingly against you, you have reason to research why these traditions are in place, and you say, “Wow, if I happened to be born in the 1900s, pink was for boys and blue was for girls, and cheerleading is for boys and heels are for men, and the bible was changed to be anti-gay”. It’s almost like what we are taught is unreliable and not inherently factual, and in the time this was being taught, no one in the masses was disagreeing.

Everyone’s born in a box, but we weren’t all born with default settings, so we learned that humans can express themselves however they want. The way you think that only natural hair colors is normal, or how you dress is the right way, or blue hair automatically makes you weird, or pronouns equals liberal, that is taught to you. If this existed in the 1900s, this would be awesome [he points at blue hair], and this would just be english language [he points at pronouns]. When you’re wildly accepted by the masses, I see why you wouldn’t want to step down, you’re at the top of the pyramid. But the reason that we dye our hair blue is that the only people that wildly accepted us are other people who weren’t afraid of being different.

Now listen, maybe you just like authentically being a part of the masses, maybe your true self likes this stuff, that’s fine. But you also have to acknowledge that you were taught to avoid anything that would get you bullied or a negative reaction by the masses. So therefore, who’s really the top of the pyramid? [He flips the pyramid drawing upside-down].”

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Art study 💃 n dabbling in semi-realism (?)

N E ways, Teruhashi is fun and her eng va is fun and I love her very much <3

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good morning gay people, I’m late for school but nonetheless I’d like to share my new absolute favourite thing: saiki’s canon reason for not “turning to the dark side” or fucking killing somebody being “dude idk my mum said.”

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I think the pikachu ad guy should be the new tumblr sexyman. I think it would be extremely funny.

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Go Girls Go! | First Dyke March in Washington DC, 1993

#ignoring the notes i love this

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British transphobes have graduated to claiming that bisexual women are tainted by our association with men and thus change the “vibe” of women-only spaces. It’s true, every time I walk into the room, I’m also bringing the spirit of every man who’s been inside my vagina. They live up there like lil ghosts. 

This people are genuinely the goofiest dumbest bigots. 

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"Skating is a lot more fun when you skate together with someone else." This one's not as big a surprise I'd think since I made Langa and Reki charms awhile back, but I'm stoked to finally have a mosaic for this show! I did not expect to enjoy Sk8 the Infinity as much as I did and I'm glad I didn't sleep on it. It's silly but the characters have heart! I will definitively be making this one a print in the near future too~!

#oh my god #<3

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Xiao sketch-

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ever have a blorbo live in your brain for so long they become their own blorbo variant that’s no longer fully attached to their source material and your original blorbo is still beloved and dear to you but now you also have a mutant blorbo clone who is dear to you in a different way? 

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the secret to life is to always use more spinach and less rice than you think you’ll need

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Throwback Thursday: a helpful chart describing the major behaviors of dragons I made when I was 7

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fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

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