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i'm hungry again but the med that makes me puke hasn't kicked in yet and i want my stomach to be empty when it does kick in
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i thought i read somewhere new zealand has extremely strict immigration barriers for anyone with long-term health issues
like they try to keep out immigrants who are very fat or have diabetes because they don't want added toll on their health care system, i think that would apply to MI folks as well
like they try to keep out immigrants who are very fat or have diabetes because they don't want added toll on their health care system, i think that would apply to MI folks as well
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11687091/Earth-has-entered-sixth-mass-extinction-warn-scientists.html
mb hillary will pick bernie sanders as her vp
you can knock the state sanctioned heroin system all you want but it all but put an end to new addicts in the country
i'm lactose intolerant and i love fudge rounds
global warming should be taken more seriously tbh
I have a boyfriend who I am very happy with. However, I would like to smooch some random pretty ladies, and random pretty ladies seem interested in smooching me. How can I go about this in a way that's best for everybody involved?
My boyfriend is going to be out of town this summer, and I've got an amazing summer haircut that's been getting me a good amount of attention from other women (women hitting on me at bars, coming up and kissing me at karaoke). My boyfriend knows that I think pretty ladies are pretty, and during a recent conversation, I asked if he'd be okay with me making out with women while he was gone, and he said it would be okay as long as I told him after it happened.
Why now? It sounds fun, and sexy, and it's something I've probably always wanted to do but never really got a chance to during my single times. I love my boyfriend and have absolutely no intentions of leaving him for somebody else, but this would add some excitement to my summer.
My boyfriend is going to be out of town this summer, and I've got an amazing summer haircut that's been getting me a good amount of attention from other women (women hitting on me at bars, coming up and kissing me at karaoke). My boyfriend knows that I think pretty ladies are pretty, and during a recent conversation, I asked if he'd be okay with me making out with women while he was gone, and he said it would be okay as long as I told him after it happened.
Why now? It sounds fun, and sexy, and it's something I've probably always wanted to do but never really got a chance to during my single times. I love my boyfriend and have absolutely no intentions of leaving him for somebody else, but this would add some excitement to my summer.
Although these withdrawal symptoms are uncomfortable, they are not dangerous. They simply reflect your body’s readjustment after losing the neurochemical effects of the antidepressant; experiencing these types of symptoms does not mean that you have become “hooked” on the medication.
then y call it withdrawl? i never rlly understood this tbh
then y call it withdrawl? i never rlly understood this tbh
Peter Parker and his alter ego Spider-Man must be heterosexual and Caucasian, according to a legal licensing agreement between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Entertainment. The information was disclosed in a massive document release by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which released this week 276,394 private files, emails and financial data onto its servers
lol if you think japan would include a trans guy in a video game
My co-worker was out of town for an office pancake breakfast. In her absence, we decided to make her up a breakfast plate. We ended up making a vitruvian man made of sausages on a royal chinet plate and hiding it in her office. She found it, and then the vitruvian man began to travel office to office. It was sealed with tape, but that didn't stop it from starting to go mouldy.
The vitruvian man was hidden in desk drawers, under paper piles, behind coats. I knew it was my turn for the vitruvian man to end up in my office but when I got in, I couldn't find it anywhere. Later in the day, one of our VP's came in to meet with me about a serious matter. He asks me a question, and in thinking of my response, I look up. There on the ceiling, mission impossible style, is a mouldy man made of sausages with it's taped on smiley face looking down at me. I awkwardly carried on the conversation with the VP through random laughter which didn't make sense to him. I had to throw out the plate after that. In total, we had it moving around the office for about a month.
The vitruvian man was hidden in desk drawers, under paper piles, behind coats. I knew it was my turn for the vitruvian man to end up in my office but when I got in, I couldn't find it anywhere. Later in the day, one of our VP's came in to meet with me about a serious matter. He asks me a question, and in thinking of my response, I look up. There on the ceiling, mission impossible style, is a mouldy man made of sausages with it's taped on smiley face looking down at me. I awkwardly carried on the conversation with the VP through random laughter which didn't make sense to him. I had to throw out the plate after that. In total, we had it moving around the office for about a month.
when i went to arizona i had chicken and dumplings bc people are always raving about them and omg when the waitress brought my food i thought what in the horqness hell is this
it tasted like shit too
it tasted like shit too
nonas curious about how state sanctioned herion works should read this
https://news.vice.com/article/only-in-the-netherlands-do-addicts-complain-about-free-government-heroin
it's an interesting read
https://news.vice.com/article/only-in-the-netherlands-do-addicts-complain-about-free-government-heroin
it's an interesting read
i will forever read naoto as trans but the game itself doesn't know if it wants to portray a trans guy or a crossdressing girl
how many cis girls consider sexual reassignment surgery js
how many cis girls consider sexual reassignment surgery js
this is super qt
http://goldnosering.tumblr.com/post/121349649310/tahreza-me-as-a-mother-oh-my-god
http://goldnosering.tumblr.com/post/121349649310/tahreza-me-as-a-mother-oh-my-god
i see ebolanona has found a new bone to gnaw at
do you know what the rate of female officers in the Japanese police force was at the time of Persona 4’s release? Under 7%. The numbers are increasing, so they might have been even lower when the game was first conceived. Is it any surprise that Naoto didn’t feel safe within this environment as a woman?
As for female Japan Private Eyes in Japan - Yes, they exist. Mostly as divorce/affair detectives, as I was told by a Japanese professor of mine once. Not homicide detectives, however. They are only called upon for family matters. Is that the line of work Naoto would want to go into, you think? And if you now go and say “But within the universe of the game, Naoto’s mother was a detective too!” then I go: Naoto’s mother is only ever mentioned as a unit with her father. Who’s also a detective. Which brings up the implication that Mrs. Shirogane might have more or less acted as her husband’s “sidekick”, which is only furthered by how Naoto’s grandfather, also a detective, is on his own, but male. Naoto clearly isn’t sidekick material, which would explain why her mother isn’t the ideal she strives for, aside from her obvious exposure to the very male-dominated mystery-genre in Japanese pop culture.
Also, I love how that article brings up “Japan’s Trans Culture” in the title, but never actually talks about Japan’s “Trans Culture”, instead bringing up data from Wikipedia about very recent law changes, that have, by far, not become common practice yet. In fact, it is actually INCREDIBLY hard to change your legal gender in Japan, since it’s tied to a long number of conditions, including being unmarried, having no children and also having had Sex Reassignment Surgery beforehand.In Persona 4, this kind of “romanticized” queer character would have had no place, as the story speaks of real issues that real Japanese teenagers have and analyses them in an Jungian context. Having an actual LGTB youth, on the other hand, would have required the story by default to tackle the actual reality of Japanese LGBT Culture that is never shown in any of these romanticized works: We would have seen adult characters’ reactions to the subject, as well as the horrible social rejection they would have faced - which, in the context of Persona 4’s narrative, would have probably lead into a so deeply unlikable Inaba (Not that Inaba’s society is very likable to start with) that it would have been highly uncomfortable to play the Daily-Life portions from that point on. It would have undercut the mood of the game to a point that the narrative would possibly have collapsed on itself, unless said character had been killed off at some point or turned out to be the killer - and I don’t think I need to explain how both of these would have been HORRIBLE writing choices.
However, this is both still assuming that queer representation, at any point, was even intended in Persona 4’s narrative, which it wasn’t; reading the Japanese version of the artbook reveals that both, Naoto and Kanji’s characters were altered heavily during the development process and that the gender-problematic in their arcs was added only rather late. It’s easy to rewrite single characters within the boundaries of the narrative you’ve crafted; rewriting the entire narrative just to befit the needs of the arc of one or two characters, however, means starting from scratch.
As for female Japan Private Eyes in Japan - Yes, they exist. Mostly as divorce/affair detectives, as I was told by a Japanese professor of mine once. Not homicide detectives, however. They are only called upon for family matters. Is that the line of work Naoto would want to go into, you think? And if you now go and say “But within the universe of the game, Naoto’s mother was a detective too!” then I go: Naoto’s mother is only ever mentioned as a unit with her father. Who’s also a detective. Which brings up the implication that Mrs. Shirogane might have more or less acted as her husband’s “sidekick”, which is only furthered by how Naoto’s grandfather, also a detective, is on his own, but male. Naoto clearly isn’t sidekick material, which would explain why her mother isn’t the ideal she strives for, aside from her obvious exposure to the very male-dominated mystery-genre in Japanese pop culture.
Also, I love how that article brings up “Japan’s Trans Culture” in the title, but never actually talks about Japan’s “Trans Culture”, instead bringing up data from Wikipedia about very recent law changes, that have, by far, not become common practice yet. In fact, it is actually INCREDIBLY hard to change your legal gender in Japan, since it’s tied to a long number of conditions, including being unmarried, having no children and also having had Sex Reassignment Surgery beforehand.In Persona 4, this kind of “romanticized” queer character would have had no place, as the story speaks of real issues that real Japanese teenagers have and analyses them in an Jungian context. Having an actual LGTB youth, on the other hand, would have required the story by default to tackle the actual reality of Japanese LGBT Culture that is never shown in any of these romanticized works: We would have seen adult characters’ reactions to the subject, as well as the horrible social rejection they would have faced - which, in the context of Persona 4’s narrative, would have probably lead into a so deeply unlikable Inaba (Not that Inaba’s society is very likable to start with) that it would have been highly uncomfortable to play the Daily-Life portions from that point on. It would have undercut the mood of the game to a point that the narrative would possibly have collapsed on itself, unless said character had been killed off at some point or turned out to be the killer - and I don’t think I need to explain how both of these would have been HORRIBLE writing choices.
However, this is both still assuming that queer representation, at any point, was even intended in Persona 4’s narrative, which it wasn’t; reading the Japanese version of the artbook reveals that both, Naoto and Kanji’s characters were altered heavily during the development process and that the gender-problematic in their arcs was added only rather late. It’s easy to rewrite single characters within the boundaries of the narrative you’ve crafted; rewriting the entire narrative just to befit the needs of the arc of one or two characters, however, means starting from scratch.
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