#just following my train of thought

[gothhabiba]

Forgive me if this is a bad take but like. If one wanted to like. Do outfits based on where you're going. Why not just buy some when you get there? Like. Surely that's in budget for "go to a country across the world", gets you something more authentic, does the "supports the economy" thing people always claim tourism does (without exclusively supporting the tourism economy, in this case) and like. Isn't just broadcasting your preconceived notions.

I get what you're saying! I do think buying clothing in a specific place makes sense. though there are drawbacks to that plan for anyone who has really specific needs with regards to what clothing they wear.

I'd question what "authenticity" really is or means, though. the thing is that there are malls in Morocco (and a lot of other places) that sell clothing from major global brands. for better or for worse, the global export of "Western" fashion has impacted what people wear almost everywhere on Earth. you could buy blue jeans and a moto jacket from any random Zara in the US or Europe and you would look more "Moroccan" than someone chasing a made-up idea of "Moroccan"-ness, whether they're purchasing those clothes inside or outside of Morocco.

"authenticity" is a trap that destroys what it searches for. it can only ever chase after the ideal, the stagnant, the atavistic. if it cannot find what it searches for (because tourists and industry, in encroaching further into areas they deem "remote" to find the "untouched" and "authentic," by their own logic deplete the exhaustible resource of "authenticity" that they imagine exists), it creates it—there's a "race to the bottom" where anything familiar is deemed inauthentic (even if it "really" represents the lives of people in a certain location), and anything bizarre, odd, strange, or gross is deemed authentic (even if it really doesn't). people in "remote" villages in Africa straight-up invent fake weird rituals to satiate this desire amongst Western tourists and photographers. you see a similar pattern with food culture.

there's this idea that you travel to "explore," that there's something daring and intrepid about going specifically to certain locales, because you're encountering the unfamiliar and becoming "cultured" and learning more about different people. yet in order for this self-concept of "daring" and "intrepid" to hold, what you encounter must be sufficiently shocking. white / Western people will travel to a "third-world" country supposedly in order to expand or challenge their own expectations, and then get angry and complain whenever they don't find exactly what they already expected!

to return to the question at hand—you're going to be able to find kaftan and gndourat and djellabat and blaghi in the souaaq of any city, yes. whether these are "authentic" "Moroccan" garments is a more philosophical question, as many of these shops primarily cater to tourists and sell garments in a Moroccan style that have in fact been imported from China... and, because the shops stock what sells, and tourists buy what they like, and they like what they already expected to see, the shops are geared towards what Westerners associate with "Morocco"... meanwhile, many of the garments that e.g. Zara stocks in their European stores were in fact assembled in Morocco! so what constitutes an "authentic," "Moroccan" garment, exactly?

#to be clear I'm not implying that any of this is news to you #just following my train of thought #travel #authenticity #mine

[deerspherestudios]

Does Mychael have a phobia or some kind of fears?

Mychael is my favourite beloved character that makes go vfvrjtvtrvytfvtyfjuhujuun👹💟. That makes me want to squeeze his neck and ssnsmssnsbnssnsmswnnsnmssmsnsmmsssnsmnss😔💟💟💟💟

Snowstorms, thunder/lightning and water wells.

In no particular order :-)

(Oh, and trains/train whistles.)

#mushroom oasis vn #mychael ask #guess the trauma but its just weather hazards #also losing my mind at the format of this question #coherent thought followed by rabid simping #love to see it <3 #edit: i added trains for reasons

[extracurious]

I just have finished drawing this.

How lonely she felt in those days...

Wished her favourite person was there with her. 🥺

THOSE UNSPOKEN WORDS AND LINGERING THOUGHTS......

Chapter 1: A Friend?

To be continued...

-extracurious

#across the spiderverse #miles morales #spiderman #gwiles #gwen stacy #into the spider verse #spiderman atsv #ghostflower #spiderman art #george stacy #my post #art #my first fanart #comic based on gwiles' lives before spider society(mainly just following their train of thoughts)

[loisfreakinglane]

#darkangeledit #dark angel #william gregory lee #tvedit #max guevara #jessica alba #tinga smith #lisa ann cabasa #zack #max x zack #max x tinga #tinga x zack #mygraphics #gif #guns cw #i'm trying something new again! idk how successful it is! or if ppl follow my train of thought! but i had fun! #it's feelings about zack hours #zack: YOU'RE BEING DUMB YOU'RE GONNA GET CAUGHT I AM LEAVING #also zack: actually i secretly stayed in your vicinity just out of sight so i could save you at the exact right moment #perpetual big brother #(literally how did they decide who was big sibling vs baby sibling bc they don't know their birthdays but anyway)

[eemoo1o-tfrmoo]

Headcanon that Astrid wanted to name her and Hiccup’s (first) daughter after Stormfly but knew that she couldn’t because it isn’t a “Viking” name, so she chose “Zephyr” as tribute.

#I just thought of this #after thinking about my soulmate theory followed by Stormfly naming a hatchling when in thw (place) ‘Astrid’ and then I flipped it #httyd #how to train your dragon: the hidden world #httyd thw #astrid hofferson #stormfly #zephyr haddock #headcanon #my headcanons #original post #if you don’t get it just google weather/wind terminology

[catastrxblues]

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#okay i actually want to rant a bit 😭 - not advised to read this because then you might get brain damage #because oh my god??????? weird #(was going to write an entire diary but nvm here’s the gist of it) #basically i was coming home from this chem thing right #i used the train as i always do when it comes to this. and because the new station just got a shiny renovation it is now connected to the #new mall in front of it (we have two now it’s an addition to the first one). and guess what 😭 #i had to go in and get to the first mall because my dad said he’d just pick me up at the lobby instead of the bus stop in front of #the station entrance right. #and when i was on the elevator going up on a call with my mom about food orders 😭 #the guy i used to have a very very VERY heavy crush on in middle grade got to the elevator leading down just as i was on the landing 😭😭 #and i had to make sure i wasn’t hallucinating so as he was descending and his back turned to me i examined the back of his head and i’m #pretty sure it was him. curiosity killed the cat i should’ve remembered that shit because you know what my stupid ass did?? #i was already walking away on my way to cross to the first mall but then that curiosity got the better off me and i steppedonto the elevato #leading down 😭 and followed him out into (apparently) the fucking bus stop #oh my goddd I JUST REALIZED this is my the one moment help #except i don’t think he recognized me because i was never even friends with him lmao. wrote tons of poetry about him ✅ #actually had one proper conversation with him ❌ #i was delusional and kept alone with my thoughts living in my head do not judge me #but seriously even though i don’t really care about him anymore this would’ve been (unfortunately) SUPER important to middle grade me #she would’ve taken it as a sign or something and write like five pages about it #and i just keep thinking about that #funny how things change because IF YOU KNEW how many credits and exaggerated compliments i gave him in my old journal #oh you would’ve laugheddd #like i used to SPEND SO MUCH TIME pondering over him it’s so 😭 #i used to have an oc and i think i based it on my idea of him and then i think that idea of him was even the reason i started to TRY to #write poetically. and i used to relate every taylor swift love songs to him (esp the ones in debut lover and rep and fearless) IT WAS SO #FUNNY LOOKING BACK AT IT NOW #i think he did see me though. i put on this act as if i was searching for someone confused and then (my go to) pretended someone called me #and then i whisked off as if to find that someone #i’d like to think i look pretty cool though. not because of anything (def not my looks because i was SO TIRED from that extra chem lessons

[bisaster-energy]

im not even done my current kuwameshi fic and im already getting ideas about new ones...

#kuwameshi #give me a sec i'll reblog later with the actual idea but like #WHAT IF UM KUWAMESHI BUT UM. PRINCESS BRIDE AU... #i also have another song fic idea but it's way sillier than the one i have on ao3 #based off you me and steve by garfunkel and oates #i got the idea cos i just remembered when yusuke got back from training with genkai the 1st time and instead of a 1 on 1 date with keiko #kuwabara is also? there? and it's just so funny to me like what. and then they're supposed to all 3 go to the movies together? #AND WHEN THEY GET THERE THE 2 BOYS DITCH KEIKO?? for a mission yeah but she doesn't know that!! #and then yusuke and keiko actually go on a date alone and it gets interrupted cos of younger toguro #and shortly after kuwabara shows up so it looks like he was bound to come across them?? #as far as a i remember the next time yu and keiko get together alone is the day he tells her to just wait and she's like im literally #not gonna wait for you <3 and it was so funny she just walked off lmaoo #anyway im trying to say i wanna make a silly little fic addressing the fact that keiko is like. pursuing her crush on yusuke #but kuwabara is kinda just. always there and it's fun she does like him but it's just awkward #planning on having her ask kuwa to maybe give her and yusuke some time alone like maybe just avoid their next outing #and kuwa is like oh damn :( ok good luck and yusuke shows up to the date and he's like woah wait. where tf is kuwabara? #keiko is like bruh. and she makes up some shit about him mentioning that he felt sick or wtv and yusuke is like ''then y are we here? #i should check on him. i dont think that guy has even been put outta commission by anything but my fist!'' and keiko just follows him #cos what else can she do. and kuwa is fine ofc and yusuke is like bro what gives i thought you were sick and kuwa is dense sometimes but he #catches on from keiko's desperate look and he's like well i got better *flexes his arm* and yu is like i knew you were too dumb to catch #a cold. and he's stupid happy that kuwa is fine and can come with them after all ''hey he's fine ya hear that keiko'' #and then keiko is watching this whole exchange eyes blown wide open and she's like actually i just remembered i have plans #you two should totally go without me tho and yu agrees so easily that it just solidifies that she made the right call #kuwa is looking back at her all confused and she gives HIM the good luck thumbs up. he gets as red as his hair and #yusuke is worried he really is coming down with something

[floating-in-the-blue]

Is it just me or is everyone else also encountering way more posts containing screenshots of other tumblr posts? Like what's up with that shit?

REBLOG DON'T REPOST!!!

Ffs. It's been a (very sucky, shitty) problem for art posts for years but now it's also just random text posts?!

Just don't steal other people's posts, it's not that hard. You're already on the reblogging website. Just reblog that!

#saw one person in one of my followed tags who'd repost fandom posts #their blog had a lot of screenshots from Twitter and other Social Media as well so at first I thought they just didn't get the reblog thing #but they had also reblogged things so ... #in the end I blocked them #training myself to pay more attention to it and not engage with repost posts #tumblrfloat #hellhome #how to tumble

[subwaytostardew]

Oh hey! Maybe if the player sides with Morris a good point to be made is how Mayor Lewis hasn't really done much for the town, like the bus being unable to transport people, or the golden Lewis statue?

Oh, that's a good suggestion! The Joja route would definately have to play into how everybody in the valley is kind of awful (I do love how much things suck in stardew). I had the farmer's distaste for Pierre in mind as a reason to shop at Joja instead but was stuck on the community center side of things... Lewis being an awful mayor is an interesting angle. We haven't thought about their personal relations with Mayor Lewis too much since submas toss the mayoral side of things to Drayden (and even then... Lewis doesn't want to do much. Which is fine for them since they don't want to get stuck in meetings together. They try to stay out of each other's way...) Lewis doesn't help out at all with the bus so he wouldn't do anything for the railroad.

As for the station, it's basically a second community center that Morris plans to take over. While the twins have their qualms about the other townspeople, Morris directly antagonized them from the beginning so their hatred for him takes precedence (even if he is probably the best at what he does in my opinion). A Joja route would take some reworking if the player were to side with Morris and we would have to consider the possibility of them taking the station from the twins too (red flag!).

Thinking about it... It's somewhat fair since the twins aren't exactly the best either... They have dependency issues and are dying from overwork because of the station. ;;>.> Taking the station from them might be for their own good (they did mention giving up in the intro events...). I don't think actually having the option to work with Morris and take the station for Joja would make much sense though since realistically, they would just head back to Nimbasa. Not sure how a friendship with them can happen like that but well... we'll figure it out eventually! Thank you for the suggestion!

▷ Station Steward Thylak

#mail car connecting line #Sorry if my thoughts are a bit jumbled... I haven't sorted much out and I'm just thinking aloud really #This mod is made with the idea that everything in stardew kind of sucks in mind. It's only fair that submas have their own issues. #Their relationship progression leans heavilly into the fact that they're in a vulnerable place in their lives. They aren't following their #So they're prone to unhealthy obsession and a little desperate in their loneliness #Not sure if that outweighs getting their trains confiscated by Morris but... the idea of a super manipulative farmer is interesting to me #I don't think that would happen realistically though since Emmet doesn't trust anyone enough already

[angeat]

sun, i won’t spare you

moon, i won’t spare you

#this is about my au and makes no sense in any other context #ryou bakura #johan andersen #yugioh #ygo #yugioh gx #fanart #digital art #sedagoe #you know actually it can make sense you just have to follow my specific train of thought but it’s still better with context

[juniemoe]

do you ever think about what kind of lives your dragon age ocs had if they lived in a modern AU

#ok so damian would 100% be a med student i have that image so vivid in my mind #he'd like to be a pediatrician spesifically #and he would be into digital drawing and photography #would go to the gym like 7 days a week lmao with no cheating #he would live in england i think #would have at least three pitbulls #and a motorcycle #he would go to a lot art galleries and museums and have a picture of him and fenris kissing in front of some famous painting in instagram #speaking of instagram he has over 10k followers on his personal account and even more on his art account #oc: damian #sorry i've given this a lot of thought sksalskdk #sulahna would work a boring office job to make a living but would love to actually be a writer #but she has her son to think about so she can't just quit her well paying job to pursue her dreams yet #she'd be a stress baker and coffee snob also a gardening enthusiast #grows her own veggies in her little patio #her husband is still dead and she's very sad but then she meets an intriguing stranger in the train on her way to work 🫣 #oc: sulahna #i haven't given a lot of thought what ashara would do because she's a little undeveloped still #but i think she would be a florist #with her own little shop #and would send secret messages through the flowers she gives to her friends/family #oc: ashara #oc tag #sorry for rambling i just think it #it's fun to think about

[betasuppe]

I don't know if enough people are talking about it, but sincerely, the launch on Lightcycle/Run is absolutely fluid, fast & dope as all HELL♡

#tron #tron lightcycle run #havent seen many vids of the launch #so i thought id toss mine out there #dying to get back asap as i havent been since the cast previews smhhhhhh #i have some others following the lightcycle trains outside but #idk havent decided if ill post them too just yet x0 #idk more tron on my blog is def not a bad thing lol #nok vids #also #lol sorry for my dorky ass laughter #i was like a kid let loose in a candy store giddy out of my mind to be there lmaooo

[lohstandfound]

Dumb deities au concept

Someone comes up with the brilliant idea to put Jake and/or Brooke in charge of some social media content, especially around this new exhibition

The problem?

Brooke has almost zero idea how to even work a phone properly and Jake doesn't understand social media

It becomes clear very quickly after watching Brooke and Jake attempt to make videos that maybe the 'youngest' out of them are not actually the best option

#lohst.txt #bmc #be more chill #jake dillinger #brooke lohst #deities au #awkward tiktoks are how Michael finds them #This is 100% inspired by tiktoks of museum people talking about their collections and preservation and restoration #Jake has had more important things to worry about than mastering social media #I like to think this takes place in the few weeks following Brooke's 'mysterious arrival' as Jake's partner/assistant/whatever lie they tell #Jake finally seems to be more sociable and the two of them could bounce off each other #So in theory it seems like a good idea #In reality not so much #But I think eventually Brooke would figure it out pretty quickly #Messing with Jake's phone while he works #As Brooke gets more comfortable being free she begins chatting to Jake's coworkers #(her coworkers too. She's just somehow become part of the team but no one complains. No one really knows what she does but no one complains) #I'm losing my train of thought #And I feel like these ideas are going to start becoming not coherent #And it's late so I'm going to stop now

[lavampira]

I knew involving myste in this sidalia fic because of the timeframe & setting was going to be an emotional gut punch but I am well and truly spiraling over alia trying to console the inner childlike grief that she hasn’t pieced together is of her own making and the fact sid is helping and protecting it solely because alia wants to help said child and maybe a little that he was a traumatized child who grew up into a protector of traumatized children

#it’s not a novelization of the quests but touches on inbetween moments in flashbacks of alia’s feelings & sidalia getting together #and i am so beyond gone. an emotional puddle. boy howdy if i can finish it before i travel next weekend y’all will see soon #do not question where my brain is at rn just follow my adhd train of thoughts boy ! #dani.txt #oc: d'alia liveq #alia/sid #drk spoilers

[scattered-winter]

TRAIN TO BUSAN????!!!!!! its literally the most perfect zombie movie EVER

YEAH. god...yeah.

I finished it like 3 minutes ago and I've just been sitting in utter shock for that entire time like. holy fucking shit. holy FUCKING shit. that was the most stressful 2 hours of my entire LIFE.

also . I can't think of any other zombie movie where the characters actually like. tried to help each other. usually it's every man for himself but there were so many times when people held doors open just a half second longer, or they helped others get up, or they used their own bodies as a wall so a larger number of people could escape. and like that shit made me tear up almost as much as all the death scenes because it's all about the HUMANITY of it all!!!!!!! instead of abandoning the pregnant woman and the elderly woman and the little kid, the entire group fought like hell to keep everyone alive, not just the young strong people. and the fact that the pregnant woman and the kid were the only ones to survive speaks VOLUMES because they wouldn't have made it that far if everyone was like that businessman guy who could only think of himself. in fact, if everyone on the train was only trying to save themselves, I'd bet that nobody would have made it out alive.

I'm just. g o d. I can't even form coherent thoughts right now because I just kept getting bowled over by little moments of humanity even in the face of all that shit. and my entire brain is reduced to soup but I mean that in the best way possible because that was probably the best zombie movie I've ever seen in my life

#GOD. i literally cant even form thoughts its just a garble of weeping and crying #THE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN THE FATHER AND THE SOON-TO-BE FATHER. THE WAY THEY HATED EACH OTHER AT FIRST BUT THEN. BUT THEN. #THE SOON-TO-BE GAVE PARENTING ADVICE. AND SAID IT WAS ALL ABOUT SACRIFICE. BEFORE SACRIFICING HIMSELF TO SAVE HIS WIFE #AND UNBORN KID. AND EVERYONE ELSE IN THAT GROUP. #AND THEN THE FATHER WENT ON TO FOLLOW HIS ADVICE AND DID THE SAME THING FOR HIS OWN KID. AND FOR THE SAME WOMAN. IM FUCKNGKIFNDKFJDKNGJ #also the difference between the businessman (who was only thinking about his own survival) and the father (who went from only caring about #his own and his daughter's survival to caring about the entire fucking group) #because the businessman killed everyone who came into contact with him. either on purpose or just by the nature of bringing a whole horde #of zombies down on them and leaving them to die #whereas the father (after joining the group) helped everyone in that group survive far longer than they would have if everyone was working #alone #and like YEAH only 2 people total survived but the thing that gets me is that neither of those people were ever trying to save themselves. #they survived BECAUSE they were the first to help others. and in return everyone was inspired and turned to help them. #it all came full circle in the end #and GOD. IM FUCKIN JJHHFGSDHJFHJFHJSLFJDSJF #GOING LITERALLY INSANE. IM GONNA REWATCH THIS MOVIE 574 TIMES AND INJECT IT INTO MY BLOODSTREAM #asks #rye 🍞 #train to busan

[gemwolfz]

sometimes i think i should call myself a keroro kinnie on account of Hes Just Like Me Fr but also i know there are real actual keroro fictionkin folks around here and like. I dont want to appropriate your culture yknow

#this sounds like a joke but im /srs #ive been here in the age of tumblr where people who took kin stuff really seriously #ive followed kin blogs i think. the types that do divination and let people post canon calls and all that #or maybe i just scrolled them frequently? #idk i was a homestuck when i was 13 so i fell in with some of the kinnie crowd #but yeah i know its like. a whole thing. spirituality and shit #so its like! it feels rude to call myself a keroro kinnie if i dont mean i was literally keroro in a past life in another universe #y'know. #(ive always been jealous about it like bro no fair why don't i have kin memories that sounds dope as shit) #...anyway ive totally lost my train of thought