maybe it’s better to learn a language slowly. maybe we’re too obsessed with things happening as quickly as possible. maybe it’s more beautiful to dedicate years of your life to a language and have it grow with you as you journey through life rather than “become fluent in one week!”. idk just a thought.

do you ever want 95% of a fandom to shut the fuck up

Let me know any other characters that you have Jewish headcanons for.

I should have put sections for if you are Jewish or not Jewish because I think the answers very greatly between

In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

Hey its been at least 9 years anything changed?

nope! all quiet on the linguistic front. i am a girl now though

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

here are some resources for Indian clothing archives:

The Sari Series: a digital anthology documenting India's regional saree drapes though short films

Purushu Arie's blog; started when he was studying at NIFT, the blogger has gone on to become a leader in the neo-traditional fashion scene in India.

if anyone knows more please add links !

what the “eff” is Homestruck? o.O;; is it a anime? or is it a yaoi? I could totally get into it if it was yaoi xD;; >//w//>

8月15日

@Dsd_kgn: 8月15日は終戦の日です

Shidu: August 15th is the day the war ended.

[ EDIT: comes back to this post several months later … actually, i think he’s talking about how Japan surrendered on this day in 1945 during WWII, ending the war. but it could still be symbolic to Kagerou Project somehow. maybe it all ends on this day, as well. ]

I have literally hundreds of Hetalia AUs that I would love to share and discuss with people but like… the Hetalia fandom has gotten really weird about interacting with people outside of a set number of blogs it feels like?

I feel like new Hetalia ask blogs these days go nowhere without promos from bigger blogs. Like you either start out with god tier art or have to be promo’d by someone with god tier art to get a decent following and have a chance at some good interaction with fans. But like… it’s not just ask blogs either. It’s the same for any type of Hetalia content blog.

I know I made a post about the Devalier stuff that went down a few weeks ago, and this is sort of like an add on to that. It’s not just Devalier. It’s any type of new content creators. It’s Hetalia headcanon or moodboard blogs dying out because nobody sends requests. It’s fic blogs dying out because aside from a few likes nobody interacts with their stuff. It’s art blogs giving up because they never hear any feedback or appreciation on their stuff. Even just casual Hetalia blogs that sometimes post Hetalia and sometimes post other stuff find it hard to stay in the fandom because their followers from more active fandoms interact with them more than the Hetalia ones do.

People on here wonder why so many Hetalia blogs turn to Voltron or K-Pop or literally anything else… this is why. Because users here have gotten so used to getting their Hetalia fix from a set amount of people that they don’t care about finding new ways to interact with the fandom. If those few set people happen to promo a blog here and there? Cool! They’ll check them out, but otherwise they don’t bother.

I’m begging you people to check out the recent posts on the Hetalia tags every once and a while. Support newer content creators, interact with smaller content creators, don’t just follow the same handful of blogs for months without any change.

Interact with people! I’m always up for asks or even just casual discussion, and I know a lot of other smaller blogs would absolutely love the interaction as well. So go! Check out those recent tags! Send some asks! Toss out a few reblogs! That’s what tumblr is all about!

pet peeve of mine whenever I talk about being bisexual online and people want to make it about them

I love being bisexual but the second I talking about liking dudes I get people in my mentions going "ew dudes I'm only into women" and it's like. Hm. Well I'd like to do this to you

I wish Jews in media were allowed to exist outside the realms of Hanukkah or the Holocaust

Anon that’s emotional manipulation

Them doing that is beyond what you write. Please block them and hope that other person seeks help

No they don’t come on now , they’re just bullshitting

Listen if anyone ever says shit like this they are bullshitting cause they think you’ll bend to their will. Threatening you makes them look like the bully. Falsly threatening themselves makes YOU look bad, they never ever thought about hurting themselves come on

It is their responsibility to curate their online experience, not yours. They can block you, their choice to read the content is entirely their own. It’s guilt tripping at its finest. Block them.

we just checked in on the #hws hetalia tag after a break and now we remember why we went on the break in the first place.

forever yours,

the tumbeasts

This is most people Who left the fandom,and see it years later.

someone I follow on the bird app just announced they're starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they're reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there's 10,000 other people that will continue...but if you participate in a fic "book club" server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don't rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit "post"

this is directly related to this post I made about how fanfic authors now are treated like content mills, and not like valued members of a creative community who thrive on interaction. for the past decade, we've watched the fandom ecosystem disrupted over and over, as NSFW fan artists seek safety by putting their work behind paywalls, and self-conscious fic readers squirrel away their feelings in invite-only communities

an easy way to do your part to fight against the evils perpetrated by social media is to leave a comment on a fanfic you love

but don't take my word for it -- here are some responses that my fellow authors have left on this post:

The fact I had a fic that was fairly beloved and NO ONE commented on it because it was all being done in a fucking book club server made me want to scream.

I haven't updated that fic in two years now.

I cannot express enough how imperative it is to show the writer how much you love their work. The comments don't have to be novels themselves - even just an "I loved this so much!" Or keyboard smashing works wonders to keep the writer going. Please, we need to bring back supporting writers and artists now more than ever!!!

they should invent talking with a friend that doesnt require a conversation topic or the ability to otherwise come up with things to say

Feel free to explain why!