my piece for akiangel zine

hug someone u love !! 😊😊💖💕💕💕💕🤗

despair inducing image that you can hear

Only Missed is Good Triples.

the end of another year without you.

                                                         “I’m one hell of a villain”                                                             for @sshiroyasha

Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary needs your help!

Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary is currently under attack by neighbors and other townspeople who now think that the dog sanctuary has grown too large. In an effort to keep their promise to keep the dogs and give them a safe place until they cross rainbow bridge, the dog sanctuary needs to move within 60 days.  Moving is expensive and requires a lot of work. OFSDS is asking for donations to help them move their belongings, essentials, and of course the dogs, safely. Please follow this link to donate; remember, every donation counts!

Please reblog this post to spread the word!

ATTENTION EVERYONE!!

OFSDS need our help. They have 60 days to move and they need money to do that.

If you can, please donate. If you can’t, please reblog.

The Three Laws of Fandom

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.

i love u leo thank u for scaring the storms away

can you prove he DIDN’T scare the storms away?

Sugawara Koushi

more baby animals here

Regent style like Elvis✨ 今日はエルビス風。 しかし換毛期…厄介。 mofmo第4回公開されました！ うにはろ連載です👇 https://mofmo.jp/account/other/397 #shiba#shibe#shibainu#shibainuuni#shibalovers#shibaoftheday#shibastagram#instashiba#lovepets#lovedogs#loveshiba#dog#doge#doglovers#uni#unistagram#dogstagram#instagood#love#tokyo#japan#happyface#unihalo#柴犬#柴犬うに#dogoftheday#うに#うにはろ#halo#halostagram

The whole “married with kids” ending wouldn’t even be so bad if there was actual romantic development with the endgame couples. But coupling some popular ships, usually where only the woman expressed her love, and letting the fans make this cobweb of every moment that can pass as romantic is unfair. It’s not our job to pinpoint when they might’ve started falling in love. Show some flirting, a proposal, a kiss or something.

Learn from Fullmetal Alchemist!!! It’s the perfect example of shonen manga nailing the “married with kids” ending!

I love how the tags on this post are about both Bleach and Naruto. How two huge fandoms fell in despair in the same year.

The difference between those three mangas though:

*clear throat* I research her (FMA) in there picture top is not real.. here this is true Hiromu Arakawa  (FMA). And you are welcome. c: thanks to google.

actually, that’s Paku Romi, or Romi Park. she’s the voice actress for Edward. I recognize her face (I’ve met her in person), and even if not, the name in the lower right says it’s her.

don’t always believe Google.

*shrugs*

She is mother to three children. c:

Hiromu Arakawa is a “cow” manga artist she want to be a cow so what she is so proud lol

The whole “married with kids” ending wouldn’t even be so bad if there was actual romantic development with the endgame couples. But coupling some popular ships, usually where only the woman expressed her love, and letting the fans make this cobweb of every moment that can pass as romantic is unfair. It’s not our job to pinpoint when they might’ve started falling in love. Show some flirting, a proposal, a kiss or something.

Learn from Fullmetal Alchemist!!! It’s the perfect example of shonen manga nailing the “married with kids” ending!

I love how the tags on this post are about both Bleach and Naruto. How two huge fandoms fell in despair in the same year.

The difference between those three mangas though:

*clear throat* I research her (FMA) in there picture top is not real.. here this is true Hiromu Arakawa  (FMA). And you are welcome. c: thanks to google.

Today, let’s talk about LA FARFA MAGAZINE.

“We don’t promote losing weight or gaining weight, because there are women that look gorgeous regardless of what they weigh,” Kon, editor in chief of La Farfa magazine, tells The Japan Times. “Our view is that people should not be defined by the size of the clothes they wear.”

La Farfa magazine, believed to be the first one in Japan aimed at generously proportioned women, features models that weigh between 60 and 120 kg. A distinctive feature of the fashion magazine is that it provides the weight, the height and the body measurements of each model on the page since, according to Kon, “it is more convenient for the readers.”

The creation of the magazine stems from Kon’s own experience. She says regular fashion magazines featuring slim models were of no practical use to her, but she enjoyed checking the latest trends anyway.

Then came the recent expansion of overseas retail clothing companies in Japan — including H&M and Forever 21 — that allowed women to enjoy stylish clothing for a reasonable price, and in bigger sizes.

The media has also started to embrace plump female celebrities in the past few years, with comedians such as Naomi Watanabe and Kanako Yanagihara being popular. Terms such as puniko and pochako, which can be roughly translated to “squishy girl” and “pudgy girl,” have gained ground this year, with some mainstream fashion magazines such as CanCam publishing stories on the movement.

“There was demand for our kind of fashion magazine,” Kon says, as she gives her take on the trend. “Personally, I feel that men are looking at women differently than before.” She adds that while dating a slender woman was considered the ideal not too long ago, men now appear to be seeking partners who can provide iyashi (healing).

“There have also been changes in how women see men as well,” she continues, pointing out that the height, income and academic background of men may not be the prized qualities they were a decade ago.

Initially unable to find any agency with plump models, Kon says her team recruited candidates straight from the streets. Many of the fashion brands were also reluctant to provide sample clothing for La Farfa “since they couldn’t tell what our publication was going to look like at first.”

But that changed quickly after their inaugural issue in March sold out its 80,000 copies. La Farfa was first intended as a bi-annual publication, but the publishers quickly agreed to make it a bi-monthly instead.

La Farfa says it does not use digital methods to make its models look slimmer, but will take advantage of their body features to display the models’ “glamorous” side. Make-up pages are filled with advice for round-faced women, instead of teaching readers how to use cosmetics to look thinner.

“Initially, there was feedback from readers saying our models weren’t pretty, and that dressing them up doesn’t change the fact they are overweight,” Kon says. But she adds that responses from the readers have become more positive recently.

Kon is aware that losing weight remains a vexing issue for many people today. She is not critical of those trying to shed some pounds, but she has her own take on it.

“Whether you want to lose weight or not,” she says, “you must begin with accepting and being happy with who you are now.” She adds that trying to lose weight because you aren’t content with who you are “won’t change the situation.”

True to the spirit of La Farfa, Yaseru Festa isn’t out to pressure people into being thin, just to be happy and healthy, Kuraishi says.

“We just want people to find the best service or product that is suited to them.”

Source Japan times

Check the website of La farfa magazine: http://lafarfa.jp/