#i hate suburbia

[pascalrascal]

you know a city is car-centric when it makes pedestrians wait 5-10 minutes to cross any major intersection

#i hate suburbia

[laniidae-passerine]

if we were to look at it through a racial lens, I do find it very interesting that Jupe’s wife is white. that the audience at Star Lasso are majorly white. that he’s basically robbing the Haywoods, a black family, of their horses to feed them to an alien creature for white people’s entertainment. that he was the token asian adoptee in sitcom as a child. the model minority. fitting himself back into a system that used and failed him as a child, so he can find some semblance of respect and power as an adult man, only to still be swallowed up whole.

#the starlight group were white yeah? I only saw it in cinemas a day ago so still fuzzy but I don’t recall many other poc #still. thinking about it. special vs lucky #but what’s the difference between being named an animal and being treated like an animal. isn’t it the same thing? it just looks different #it just sounds different. being special. getting lucky. is there a true division or does it just have the same result sometimes? #I’m not saying that like. Jordan Peele thinks interracial marriage is a sign of hating yourself that’s stupid #but when Jupe specifically gets married to a white lady and lives in the neo-west #which is heavily associated (fairly or not) with white people and white suburbia #I think it does say something about him. he still needs them to like him. it’s like a sickness #nope #nope 2022 #nope movie #nope film #ricky park #ricky jupe park #jupe park

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

saw ur vents abt dungeon meishi and while I haven’t read the series yet or watched the anime I have seen bits and pieces and already saw the blowup scene where Toshiro attacks Laois and like. even I with zero context didn’t totally hate him. It sucks majorly that it had to happen but like. Toshiro is going through his own shit and plenty of other characters ALSO don’t like Laois! I think people just see that scene and project the amount of times that’s happened to them with someone in real life, which like. I get it. I’m autistic and reading that scene hit like a gut punch bc it was something I had experienced directly in real life: trying to be friends with someone, thinking you are friends, only for them to reveal one day that they couldn’t stand you and hated your guts from day one. You wonder why the fuck they pretended and let you hurt even worse than outright initial rejection. You wonder why they’d put themselves through enduring you. It makes you feel like you can’t trust anyone, makes you feel like utter shit. I 100% get why it bothers people. But you can’t project real life people you experienced onto this character that does not align at all except for this one moment. Also knowing about the author, she probably put that in on purpose as commentary for how autistics in Japan generally have to go through shit like this bc of the way their social culture is. She’s made plenty of autistic commentaries before, I doubt she stuck that scene in there for no good reason. The fact that Toshiro kept quiet and didn’t say anything until he couldn’t take it anymore is VERY indicative to me of the ways Japan’s typical social system is a struggle on all sides. Not to say these are problems unique to Japan, but the nuance needs to be understood. Toshiro isn’t being a dick just for the sake of it. I want to read it sometime so I can better understand the guy, but I don’t want to hate him based on one scene where he was an asshole. Laois is an asshole plenty of times himself, being very overtly written as autistic doesn’t absolve him from the responsibilities of being an adult.

TLDR: People tend to infantilize Laois and demonize Toshiro, which comes down to the prejudices preconceived for both of them: people see Laois, as an autistic man, as an innocent sweet guy who needs to be protected. They see Toshiro, as an Asian man, as someone who should be “polite and honorable” or whatever and are appalled when he acts like a fallible human being and not some appropriation of a fictional romanticized samurai. I understand feeling betrayed and angry seeing a character be a genuine asshole about something (social expectation does not completely absolve Toshiro of his own antagonizations however much of a reason he had) but when it’s so damn one sided, and especially in a series where almost NO one is without complete asshole qualities that round them out, I find it kind of gross that people hate on him for that. Anyway. Just wanted to send a message of support and understanding. Hopefully after I read more I can offer more analysis to corroborate with you on.

100% CORRECT thank you anon

i also understand the people who are sympathizing with laios bc that scene is very easy to relate to for many autistic or otherwise neurodivergent people (i also got a cold sweat when i was watching it bc. like. having someone you thought was a friend straight up tell you there are parts of your behavior that they can't stand is one of the worst things to experience of all time, ESPECIALLY if you were only showing that behavior around them bc you thought they were your friend and you trusted them) but it's so frustrating seeing so many people have such shallow opinions about toshiro bc of it. im on hands and knees begging people to consider the characters in three dimensions and/or develop better reading comprehension because like!! toshiro's official meeting with laios's new group literally leads with 'oh his name is actually toshiro and we never knew bc our leader had a misunderstanding and microaggressed him and he was too polite to correct him' laios is not an innocent party here!! he is not an innocent uwu autistic baby he's a grown adult man with responsibilities, in that whole time he was partied with toshiro he never learned his real name!! plus using toshiro's crush on falin as a reason to hate him, falin's adolescence was spent in a school and a social setting where she was expected to mask + her being a girl also means she is expected to mask by default -> she is better at masking than laios so why are people saying that toshiro hates laios for the same traits in falin bc clearly not?? also saw one person saying 'he only likes falin because she's hot' NO HE DOES NOT HE WOULD NOT RISK HIS LIFE HEALTH AND RETAINERS IN A DUNGEON ON A FOREIGN CONTINENT FOR THE SAKE OF A WOMAN HE ONLY THOUGHT WAS SEXY!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DUNMESHI FANS THINK WITH YOUR BRAAIN

the whole fight he had with laios where laios points out that their party is more serious about finding falin and resolving everything also drives me nuts because i've seen at least one take saying that toshiro doesn't care about falin as much as team laios because of this. which yes the fact that team laios understands the importance of health in pursuit of a goal is very very important but for many cases in east asian culture (and actually any culture with emphasis on capitalism and economic growth) productivity will get valued above all else which leads to neglect of personal health, i.e: what toshiro was doing. so this is just a clown take to begin with

also interesting to me that almost every character in dunmeshi thus far has demonstrated some kind of racial bias/misconceptions (i.e: chilchuck about elves, senshi about half-foots, etcetera etcetera) and laios and falin are no exception. race and racial differences and conflict and coexistence is also one of the underlying themes in dungeon meshi, with the elves of the west being considered a major issue to many dungeon-goers and the mayor hating dwarves and having to contend with those elves, and then marcille's motive for studying black magic and even thistle's motive for being the dungeon keeper. so it's real fucking ironic that the fans are really quick and happy to demote toshiro to 'asshole side character who is bullying our autistic rep' instead of, you know, using nuance and thinking about it

tldr; dungeon meshi has great commentary on what it's like as an autistic person in society. but dungeon meshi fans are too quick to write off toshiro as an asshole japanese guy who is ableist and getting in the way of their white woman yuri, therefore helping to promote this website's enduring legacy as the piss-poor reading comprehension website

#dungeon meshi #asks #i thought this might happen when i heard dunmeshi was getting an anime adaptation but that doesnt make me feel better abt being right #i watched the ep last night with some friends and one of the first things out of their mouth during the laios-toshiro fight was 'i hate him #and i get it bc both of us had bad experiences being neurodivergent in a shitty american suburbia town #but also like. damn girl!! already???

[witchstone]

can i not even be a part of a whatsapp group about our local nature conservancy without that jumped up wannabe estate group in our area punting their shit

#they seem to be under the impression that they can form a private security company with the word estate in ot and that makes the area #an....estate #and that because 51% of residents signed up they can start putting signs up and demanding that all other residents must acquiesce #to their rules. um. no? #no offence but if you want to live in an estate you'd...live in an estate #also c'mon guys it's because the comrades are coming up #i am...58% reading too much into this but also it's been four years and i'm just fucking annoyed about it. go away. get out of my face #stop acting like other residents are deliberately going out of their way to sabotage your project when in reality most people are fine #not me though! i'm going to deliberately phone the municipality about their newest batch of signs <3 #apologies for the suburbia blogging; can you tell i hate it here? #will delete later

[n3rv0uss7st3m]

Born to listen to nothing but (Vampire) Culture on loop for days

Forced to also listen to Suburbia Overture

#no hate to Suburbia i love it sm #but i cannot do this for much longer #i have such an awful headache and the SUBURBIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA is not helping 😞 #will wood #will wood and the tapeworms #wwatt #wwattw

[starlonga]

#i love you #i miss you #i hate you #i want you #i never want to see you again #divorce core #quotes #small town america #teencore #nostalgia #nostalgiacore #weirdcore #dreamcore #wandering #longing #complicated #cinemetography #heavy snowfall #first snow #winter in suburbia #scandinavian winter

[fallowmashado]

the agp tag sucks. liesel shouldnt complain that i clog up her url cause mine get clogged like no tomorrow. a butchwink is a thing now. its me lmao i invented it i fucking guess

did i invent pet and repete? i hope not jesus christ

#stop calling me a twink in my own tag you cunts thats so rude!!! #scarlet-riot #no forreal i make hit posts ppl see my url it becomes a concept ppl call strangers that to be funny i hate it lmao #its a real scarlet riot and everyone wants to kill each other and say kill yourself welcome to tumblr #liesel brought me here and i couldnt let go #i had to drop green day and zelda and fire emblem come onnn jesus of suburbia is that kid #or lina from drummondville lmaoo

[ariesbilly]

people who hunt for the thrill of killing an animal.... absolutely irredeemable to me its sick

#people living off the grid or it being a cultural thing like fine. understandable #people who live in fucking suburbia or down the street from a grocery store? who are just like frothing at the mouth to go out and kill #something? absolutely not #youre not doing it because you need to to survive and youre sure as hell not doing it with any respect for nature #fucking weirdo ego trip is what it is and i hate you

[fiberglassandflowers]

im still conflicted about my placements for the little shop of horrors at the moment

#talking #CLICK SEE ALL IF YOU DARE. #norman as seymour is like. accurate because Look At Him you cant tell me he wouldnt get himself into that mess. #but at the same time ramona would fit the role really well also [“strange plants are my hobby”] #but ramona ALSO works for mr. mushnik #and i want to cast vannie as audrey ii because i mean its just really good. you eat blood audrey ii how am i supposed to keep feeding you #but if ramona was seymour it would make sense for me to cast sunny as audrey ii because of the outer space aspect of its character #and dont even get me started on the placements for audrey. if norman was seymour my first thought is obviously gonna be trip as audrey #because like at first glance its like Yeah that makes sense #but at a further glance NO IT DOESNT!!! audrey is shown to be fantasizing about wanting to move to a suburbia which trip canonically HATES #BUT!! at a FURTHER glance theres that shared aspect of wanting to get out of that awful town with the person you love! #so that part does check out! however if trip was cast as audrey then who would orin be? my thought for that would be debbie and i would jus #change the part where theyre like romantic because. ew. AND that would make sense because of the fact she would get eaten #by vannie specifically in this scenario. HOWEVER #if we're gonna roll with that and just change their relationship to each other i would ALSO have to change the fact that at the end #of the musical where SPOILER audrey dies and shes like “i want you to feed me to the plant” because trip would not take that shit lying dow #BUT!! if im okay with changing peoples relationships to each other then technically if i wanted the orin thing to still work how it was #intended to then TECHNICALLY fern could get cast as audrey as well and him and norman could be hashtag platonic #but outside of miranda being cast as orin it wouldnt actually fit at all #anyway the reason im leaning more towards the norman/vannie/trip iteration #other than the fact that im more focused on those characters at the moment #is that with the ramona/sunshine iteration i have no idea who audrey would be because i havent really explored ramonas relationships #with other people as much outside of sunny and mina #and while mina fits the audrey personality a whole lot it wouldnt really work with the way her and ramona's dynamic is canonically #sigh. its a hard life for me. sorry for typing about this in the tags so much

[jpegdoll]

does anyone know any bands that sound like green day but dont use slurs they cant reclaim thanx ❤️

#i know he says fag twice but armstrongs probably gay so i let that slide #but then i heard the r slur in jesus of suburbia 😭 #ppl would be mad at me bc it was that One time (as far as i know. ive only listened to american idiot) but it still leaves a bad taste 2 me. #in general i really really hate hearing the r slur

[netgear404]

it girl.

#saccharine suburbia #beebie #it girl #i hate her #so scary

[lobotomy-enthusiast]

Suburbia Overture chorus vs Vampire Culture

#will wood #suburbia overture #who the fuck can actually sing this song #I hate you Will Wood why is your vocal range so goddamn wide

[rabbitmotifs]

magic mushrooms grow in piles of bullshit 🎶🎶

#i grew up in suburbia love us or hate us... #god falling up is one of his best songs ever

[neonsbian]

why did everyone decide now is the time to mow their lawns

#i hate suburbia so much get me out of here 😭😭😭 #vinnie talks

[wildandmoody]

i want chocolate so so so bad i haven't had a good bar of chocolate or any chocolate for that matter in forever. and i can't just go walk and get any. SAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#AM I EVER GOING TO STOP COMPLAINING ABOUTT LIVING IN SUBURBIA. NO <3. #I HATE IT HERE.

[error404vnotfound]

shout out to my friend for putting up with me breaking into song in the middle of all our lectures today the second I stopped thinking

i love her

#dandelions grow in diiiiirt and amgoc mushrooms grow in piles of. bullshit. #i grew up in suburbia love us or hate us #and #it's a half decade hangover jesus christ my aching head #will wood's fault ngl #i do love my friends