trashflatmate:

I’m not saying that Archie would be smokin’ with sleeve tattoos and tight crewneck t-shirts or anything, but–…wait, no; that’s precisely what I’m saying.

But really, I just like beefy dudes snuggling with puppies. Or Poochyena, as the case might be.

I approve of this.

aeriktirel:

that-fabulous-bastard:

henryismywaifu:

tinybookling:

littleblackchat:

lifeiscaulscott:

semiauto14:

daissychainss:

dilfweed:

jennaavh:

madmints:

takesabeating:

cheshireinthemiddle:

ginzers:

spoopy-roxxi:

ginzers:

spoopy-roxxi:

ginzers:

Teach children that this is not ok

Teach children that there’s nothing wrong with this

I’m really not understanding why you think cultural appropriation would be ok, unless you are assuming that the girl in the picture is part Japanese.

Yellow face yet she’s using white makeup in the traditional style but okay.

Cultural appropriation isn’t a thing, hon. ☺️ Cultures should be shared by all means.

I disagree. The makeup is clearly reflective of traditional Geisha makeup which is yellowface and therefore racist. Furthermore, the girl is wearing a kimono, a garment that has for ages carried cultural significance. Assuming that she is white how can you think this is ok? And cultural appropriation isn’t a thing? What rock do you live under? I suggest you educate yourself on the differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.

I am japanese, in japan at this very moment. The only people who think culture shouldnt be shared are racists like you.

A vast majority of Japanese people actually enjoy other people making an effort to spread and enjoy japanese culture, and encourage it. Many make businesses in deliberately taking pictures of people in kimono. A common omiage (gift) for foreigners from japanese people is traditional japanese things such as kimonos, tea seats, shisa dog statues, ect.

And to top it off, basically 80 percent of japanese customs, traditions, and food, came from other countries. Japanese is an integration of different cultures, like america. Japan takes influences from places like korea, china, russia, and europe. If japan stuck to itself, there would be no tempura, japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, japanese bread, japanese curry, j- pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques. The picture is not “yellow face” they are not making fun of asians. In fact, it looks like they put extra care and research into their work.

The only reason that you have a problem with this is because that little girl is white and you know that it is acceptable on tumblr to crap all over white people. The only racist here is you.

Rekt

b t f o

Dang she got shut down.

Damn I’ve never hit reblog so fast in my entire fucking life

Daaaaamn

Pew pew pew

I reblog this every time I see it

I live in Japan and I’d like to back up this sentiment. 

Recently a museum in Boston came under a lot of fire for allowing visitors to wear a ‘kimono’ (it was featuring a painting my Monet of a girl – a white girl – in a kimono, and the museum had replicas made that guests of ANY RACE could wear to mimic the painting, Pageant-of-the-Masters style). After protests and heated debate, the museum closed the event.

I was living in Japan at the time, and out of all the *actual* Japanese people I asked, not a single one was offended by the event. Rather, they were excited that people half a world away were showing interest in their culture, and were sad that visitors could no longer enjoy the event.

This party, though somewhat silly in application, is an attempt at experiencing and appreciating another culture. The mom who put this together is not an expert on Japan, but she did her best. She got a lot of things right: there are few things Japan loves more than tea, Pocky, and sakura. 

Where do you draw the line for who is “allowed” to learn about Japan? If the girl were of Japanese descent, would that make it ok (even though her citizenship would be the same as the girl from the photo)? If one of the girl’s parents were from Japan, then would it be ok? 

Are you only allowed to make pizza if you live in Italy? If you’re an Italian immigrant? How do we decide these things??

You can’t say you want to dismantle racism and then in the next breath make rules – based on race – for who people can wear, try, or eat, especially when the intent is obviously to have fun experiencing a culture (as opposed to having fun by making fun of a race or culture, like blackface does). 

When you tell people they can only experience things ‘meant for their race’, it totally smacks of segregation to me and I can’t stand it. As someone who (obviously) loves Japan, I say let people learn about it, let people experience it, let people appreciate it. You don’t have to know every single thing about a culture to enjoy it.

fucking people got owned is what, fuck i hate how people say you cant do shit when culture should be shared and is shared its how it grows and changes through fucking generations itS HOW YOU LEARN about the world and just fucking, tumblr fucking stupid like 70% of the dam time

research and respect is not the same thing as appropriation. 

^ That.

Thank you! My Japanese friends don’t find this offensive, the amount of times that they seem happy for others to appreciate and try Japanese culture. 

meeshay:

owynart:

Say helo to my cat man who doesn’t understand that ARMOR is supposed to PROTECT YOU

oh no

Nommy :3

ashlinfarblade:

More than about 1500 years ago in the Eorzean calendar, three great mage capitals thrived: The Mhachi, the Nymians, and the Amdapori.

The start of the 5th Astral Era began with a rediscovery of magic, and a great mage Shatotto discovering a way to utilise the Aether surrounding them instead of their internal Aether to cast magic. Hence, the first Black Mage was born(This Shatotto also called down Meteor and used the starshards from that to create the Stardust Rod). The Mhachi primarily resided around northwest of Mor Dhona, around the Yafaem Saltmoor.

In the city of Amdapor lived the bastions of White Mages. The White Magic relied on the balance with the environment to provide succor – a comfort, a relief, in response to the development of Black Magic that utilised the Aether around them.

The Nymians lived on Vylbrand, and while they were a small maritime nation, they were considered superb tacticians. It has been said that,“A single scholar can fully support a party of marauders.”

Initially the three Mage nations lived in Harmony but everything changed when the firenation Mhachi attacked. 

Well, to be fair we don’t have concrete statement of who started the war, but what evidence we do have points to the Mhachi as the instigators.

As the war progressed, what Surito Carito and Alka Zolka in the SCH questline tell us, was that some Nymian seafaring traders got shipwrecked and landed on a desert island inhabited by a tribe of Lalafells. The seafarers got assitance from this tribe to set them afloat once more, but not before gifting them an ampoule as a gift (why are a lot of images for a googe image search of ampoule a lightbulb)

This looks about right.

So the seafaring Nymians went back to the City of Nym and then had the vial put on display in the royal hall. Slowly however a taint had spread throughout the city of Nym, and one by one the Nymians fell into a curse, transforming into the Tonberries we know of today. Through Surito Carito and Alka Zolka’s research, we find that the ampoule contained a voidsent, which was then finally cleansed through the 50-60 scholar questline.

With the Nymians out of the picture, the Mhachi turned their full attention to the Amdapori, continued their assault on the White Mage capital. From what we know, the Mhachi were proficient with summoning/utilising Voidsent, and thus had sent their voidsent to assault the City of Amdapor. At some point in time, the Mhachi grew desperate and summoned what E-Sumi-yan had described as a “King among demons”, Diabolos.

Lets pretend that diremite is a voidsent, okay?

This is why in the Lost City of Amdapor Hard Mode, corpses of Amdapori and Mhachi are shown wearing the AF gear.

In the chaos, the White Mages seemingly had abused their own power and thus the Elementals grew disappointed and angry at man’s actions, and their rage gave form to Oha-sok, akin to an elemental primal. It was this collective rage of the Elementals that ushered in a Great Flood that caused the Sixth Umbral Era.

BUT WAIT!

Turns out the Mhachi somehow got wind of the Great Flood and had prepared a means to try and survive it. The had created the Void Ark, to be powered by the Voidsent to weather it out.

This does mean that some Mhachi survived somehow, as it is speculated by Surito Carito that the remnants of the Mhachi ended up founding the nation of Belah’dia, which then separated into Sil’dih and Ul’dah.

Many thanks to Anwyll/Anonymoose of Gamerescape and FFXIV official forums, and to @folkenface for proofreading ❤

Also thanks to Y’mir Tia (BLM), Roxy Migurudia (SCH), and the random Roe and Au’Ra for providing the roles of MRD and WHM respectively. This does not likely accurately depict what races actually were those nations however, as far as we know.