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In case anyone was wondering, Mei’s halloween costume is called a ‘Jiangshi‘ and it’s probably one of my favorite cultural monsters. :D The Jiangshi is also known as ‘the hopping vampire’ and I first ran into it on a game called Ragnarok Online.

While often mistaken for a zombie, it is in fact a vampire (despite the fact that it’s a reanimated corpse) and is typically dressed in garments from the Qing dynasty. They move only by hopping around (hence the name) and often have their arms outstretched forward permanently, both due to rigor mortis. They also feed off of the life energy of their victims (much like Mei in overwatch), which is where the vampire comes in, although the Chinese claim that the slavic vampire had no influence on the Jiangshi.

You can stop a Jiangshi one of several ways, from apparently sucking their held breath out of them, which causes them to turn into a normal, lifeless corpse, to throwing rice and small objects in it’s path, which will force it to pick up and count each grain. (Counting vampire. Hmm..)

The weaknesses of a Jiangshi include the blood of a black dog, a wooden sword made from a peach tree, a hen’s egg, glutinous rice (by extension of its use in the attempt to draw poisons from a living body), and the urine of a virgin boy. (Yikes)

 They’re controlled by the talisman that’s placed on their heads, and like a western vampire, anyone who’s life force is drained by the Jiangshi becomes a Jiangshi themselves.

Here’s a few examples from pop culture you may recognize as a Jiangshi.

Nightwalker Heartless from Kingdom Hearts

Lee Pailong from the Shaman King manga/anime.

Hsien-Ko from the Darkstalkers fighting game.

Thanks for taking a look, I know the Jiangshi isn’t a very popular monster in western culture and I know a few people have been curious about her new Halloween Skin so I thought I’d make this post. :D

#this is so cool omg

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The Shape of Water (2017) directed by Guillermo del Toro

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A true hero

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Fact: You can realize you are bisexual at any age. You can pick a new label at any time.

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it really sucks… not being the right kind of chubby. like i know everyone is like “body positivity~~~!!! chubby is IN!!!!” but y'all know you’re only talking about people that were skinny/athletic and put on some weight. or are chubby “in all the right places” (aka chest/ass) like those of us that have always been overweight and have been treated as such all our lives are still stuck forcing ourselves and torturing ourselves. like we were overweight and put down for years before this “body positivity” thing started and now we’re not the right kind of “chubby” to be celebrated.

#ive got a moderate amount of fat in the ''wrong places'' so i dont fit in the normal definition of chubby

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Reblog if you know that the US Has No Official Language

Cause you do now

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we’reくコ:彡 entering squid territory

 くコ:彡                                                                       くコ:彡                              くコ:彡  くコ:彡                                                        くコ:彡                           くコ:彡 くコ:彡

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Dream girl:

Yellow with black stripes Six legs Antenna Compound eyes Collects pollen and nectar from flowers

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mercy in the ptr

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wear headphones before hitting play 

#tf2

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pro tip:

stop feeding your compulsion to actively seek out content that you know is upsetting. 

stop visiting tags that upset you (you should probably blacklist them) 

stop visiting blogs that you’ve blocked, and/or that you know is going to post about stuff that upsets you. 

stop hate reading. 

I know from experience that it can be addicting because getting angry about stuff is just a good of a distraction as any. but it’s such a pointless, self destructive, and avoidable source of negativity in your life. 

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 if you have a romantic crush on me send me a ★

 if you have a platonic crush on me send me a ☆ 

 if you wish we were friends send me a ✯

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regardless if it’s canon, if someone draws momo like this:

they’re sexualizing a 15 y/o girl

#bnha

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I managed to dig up the Mii Channel’s midi and soundfont in the code of the channel.

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I just want to bring to attention the fact that Horikoshi gave All Might’s character his particular appearance out of spite, All Might looks the way he looks out of spite

People actually said “who would want to look like him?” and “ugh he looks old” and “it would be more appealing if he was pretty and attractive”

So Horikoshi was like “Nah fuck u he’s great as he is” 

and I love this even more because everyone loves All Might, he didn’t need to be a pretty boy to be a fantastic, well-written, and lovable character and also the fact that Horikoshi drew him like this and puts even more effort into drawing him out of spite is hilarious to me

#hes my dad #bnha