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tatsukijouten sent: I couldn't sleep yo up until 7 in the morning orz AND YES I AM STILL DEPRESSED ABOUT IT oh god he needs all the snuggles ; A; JOHN GIVE HIM A HOLD ASAP DONT YOU DARE DISAPPEAR DAMN IT

omG GET SOME SLEEP DUDE

I think as long as it’s John or Karkat or someone he’s really close to i’ll be happy! :’D

Omg im just so worried they wont get along like how John and Davesprite didn’t quite get along I dont want that????? QnQ

IDK WHATS WORSE HIM DISAPPEARING OR HIM NOT GETTING ALONG deep sigh

tatsukijouten sent: EXACTLY, ALL THAT CAME CRASHING DOWN BECAUSE FUCK I AM SO EMOTIONAL AND I HATE IT AND SAGFSADFASD DAVE BBY LEMME CUDDLE WITH YOU -HUGS YOU TOO AND SOBS FOREVER-

SAME ALL THAT’S GOING THROUGH MY MIND RN IS WANTING SOMEONE TO HOLD HIM??? PLS????????

(IT’S AFTERNOON THE NEXT DAY AND IM STILL SAD ABOUT THIS OMG)

tatsukijouten sent: -gets under- YES, OH MY GOSH ITS FINE YOU SHOULD SEE MINE ; A; and i know everyone's having DaveJohn moments but DAVE HAD A BREAKDOWN THE POOR BBY AND THAT IS WHY MY FEELS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE SADAGFASDSD my bby wanted to study dead things ; n; <33333 AND JOHN I KNOW I WANT YOU TWO TO HAVE YOUR BRO MOMENT BUT DAMN IT HE WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING -IS SO FULL OF FEELS AT 4 IN THE MORNING-

NO I COMPLETELY AGREE QmQ

THE THING THAT HIT ME IS HIS MOMENT OF HYSTERIA WHERE EVERYTHING COMES RUSHING BACK AND HE RECALLS EVERYTHING HE’S FORGOTTEN OR LOST IN THESE PAST THREE YEARS

LIKE FOR FUCK SAKE HE WAS ONLY 13 HOW MUCH OF THOSE YEARS OF HIM BEING YOUNG DAVE OR LIVING WITH BRO OR MAKING MUSIC OR COLLECTING THINGS DID HE LOSE BC OF THIS GAME HE’S LOST SO MUCH 

AND ALL HE CAN DO IS LAUGH

I JUST

QAQ

tatsukijouten sent: I NEED SOMEONE TO FANGIRL AND FEEL WITH STAT O AO

I WILL HOLD YOU COME QUICK
UNDER MY FEELS BLANKET, LOVE

HOPE YOU DONT MIND MY FACE IM JUST KINDA LIKE

Anonymous sent: *holds you* *covers you in protective blanket and has hot coco* shhhh breathe through the feelings we can do this we can GET THROUGH THIS (NO WE CAN'T SO MANY FEELINGS)

THANK YOU ANON U ARE REALLY SWEET OMG????

I NEEDED A HUG RN

crankypuella sent: mig mig mig!!!! do you have pics of you and jade cosplaying from fanime?!?!?! cause i got to briefly see how great you looked but i didnt get to see you guys together and gushhhh ; u ; !!!

omg I DOOOOO OMG GIMME A SEC I FOUND THIS ONE PICTURE FROM A FRIEND BC OTHER PICS ARE OF US ARE SEPARATE sobs

wait omg lemme upload them darling to show the worldddd *//v//*

A few people had taken pictures but ive gone through the tag and havent found us yet sngklsdjng CRIES

Oki hang on tight!! (through the tag I found you in your John cosplay!!! You looked so cute jngfkdfgdgh)

Aaaahhh thank you darlings!!! Q//v//Q

Omg you guys I’m 21 today~

And Jaaade bb im sorry i didnt get a chance to chat this morning i went to go work with my mum so i’d have some money by the time you come home sobs jsgnldjfgsdfg (also she wanted company!!) but I will talk to you very very soon love!!! ://D

Anonymous sent: I have a bit of a personal debate going on in my head and would appreciate your input: Would insisting my roommate to stop changing her clothes when the blinds and windows are open and the lights are on at night be considered defending rape culture?

Because on the one hand, I don’t want to tell her what she can and can’t do in her own home and own body, and I don’t want to imply she’s in any way “asking for” creepers outside to peep, but you never know who’s out there and the thought of any perv

Right outside our window makes me very uncomfortable. :(

[TW: Talk of Rape] [TW: Rape culture]

This is quite a difficult topic to tackle, especially when it comes to your concern for someone else. 

From personal experience, I’ve had this discussion with my mother. She argues that because of past experiences, she takes precautions when changing near a window or how she dresses. These behaviors are specific to when she goes out to places considered poorer. (It’s a very classist mentality in terms of considering highly-poc-populated communities to be more aggressive than rich white areas, and also redeems them to be more sexist and harmful towards women. 

My mother’s experiences are very valid. But I personally don’t like being told I should or shouldn’t wear certain things outside or near my window because it might either offend or attract attention. Neither would I want my body or gender policed due to someone else’s fears. As of now I’ve been able to freely walk around or change in front of my own window (i do it too) without care. Nothing has happened. And that is no guarantee that nothing’ll ever happen. Nor does it guarantee that it will. 

I’ve always had the mentality that it IS good to take precautions because these attacks happen, but it’s also (if not more) important to explore WHY they happen and why they exist. 

You’re right on point, it’s rape culture. And your way of thinking precautiously is a product of it, wanting to prevent attacks or harmful/negative/objectifying attention that happens daily to female-identified individuals. Educating yourselves both on rape culture is important. Being confident about wearing what you want and showing your body how you want is very empowering. And those who have been taught this fear due to experience or what they’ve heard makes their povs just as valid.

Being careful is as important as teaching people not to rape. If anything, I think education is one of the strongest forms of prevention and safety. In the case of being in a harmful situation, one has to also recall that rape isn’t about sex or sexual objectification usually. It’s about power and loss of control over one’s body. It’s a policing of gender and one’s body. So, infuriatingly, even with those precautions taken there will never be a guarantee of safety even if we hide our bodies in fear. Just something to note. 

I think the best course to take if I were in your position would be openly talking with your roommate on this issue. You need to explore why her actions make you specifically uncomfortable. Do you fear your own safety too? Is there reason to suspect those outside to be harmful people?

Try negotiating with her on what can be done so that you both feel safe. If she feels empowered or does not live by this fear, there is little reason she should have to change the way she does things daily for the sake of those who think they can objectify her. Rather, learn from each other to feel safer in that sense. If taking precautions also makes you feel safer, consider taking self defense classes together during this summer as an alternative. You should both give a little in assuring that you are both okay. 

I wish you both luck, keep each other safe!!

-Mig

impressive-food sent: hello am Sacha, I am lounching my first blog here on Tumblr and would like to make some friends :) Check my blog and let my know if you like it! Thanks :) I always follow back...:*

Hey there Sacha! Oooh looks like you have a wonderful start to a cool food design blog! :D

I don’t do follow backs but I’ll be sure to check it out! ^u^

Feel free to check it out too, everyone :>

Anonymous sent: 29

29: Are you a tease?

idk man maybe????? 

my partner told me to “stop being unintentionally sexy” once bc i like showing my cleavage a lot :U

in private, yesss

Anonymous sent: 4, 6, 7, 14

4: What do you most like about making out?

Ahhh O//A//O um so many things?? Everything being warm and fuzzy and everything tingles and you keep flushing and everything is starting to get wet and just lips and soft skin and light moans and giggles and jfc dsjgnkdjngdfsg =////=

making out is really nice ok you find out so much of what u like HAPPY SIGH~

6: When you kiss someone for the first time, is it usually you who initiates it or the other?

Always me bc in a clingy butt that cant be satisfied with just one kiss SIGH i need like 30 jdgnkdljfhg >3<

7: What part of a person’s body do you find most attractive?

Lips and thighs yesssss *//u//*

14: Do you tell a lot of people when you have a crush?

NOPE I keep it to myself when i do, always it’s my little delicious secret =v=

Anonymous sent: 1, 18, 21, 26, 30, 48 :3

1: Picture of yourself

This is one of the most recent pictures of me sgnsdnfgsdfg. You get a dumb picture of my partner and I trying out our HS make up before making our horns pffft (im the one who kept making faces at the camera bc i really like how my lips look with lipstick U3U )

18: How can I win your heart?

Oh man um first and foremost you need to be a really good friend of mine? Like get super close to me bc i think the best relationships i have with people and my ideal relationship is one with a close friend (which happened O//v//O) so yeah!! Also i thought i wouldn’t be clingy but if you take initiative of affection at times it means a lot to me. Tell me what’s on your mind constantly, share comfortable silences with me, don’t pressure me or make me feel bad for being poor/queer/analytical/a poc/activist/ etc then I think it can work!! Just don’t let me do all the work and show that you care :’>

Just be super open-minded and not picky too omg

21: Do you cook?

Yes!! I don’t know as much as my mum does but I’m learning! UuU Tbh i prefer home cooking bc I grew up in a household that has home made food everyday, also it’s a super good and practical skill to have :D

26: Name four things that you wish you had:

1. Some privacy these two weeks bc im dogsitting for my partner and im getting all fussy jndfskdjfng =//n//=
2. Some knowledge that my vacation with my family will be ok and I won’t suffer as much as I usually do…
3. More money to finish certain projects I really wanna do!!!
4. More time to reconnect with everyone I’ve been neglecting on tumblr bc of school :’D
(Also i kinda wish i was less neglected nowadays.. like receiving affection bc others WANT to hold me rather than waiting until i seem upset or sad :’<)

30: Ever meet anyone you met on Tumblr?

YEP and it was super awkward omg usually irl friends have acquaintances that are familiar with my art so they’re fans that wanna meet me and i flip out?? Also I met a friend’s ex girlfriend in person once they were super sweet but being greeted as “omg you’re mig, i follow you on tumblr!!” is really strange fnglkdfgdsfg

48: Are you happier single or in a relationship?

I’ma be brutally honest and say it’s 50/50. Single means you just care for yourself and anyone you’re close to overall like friends and family. But it does get lonely when you are willing and wish to have a relationship, or in my case, realize how much you’ve needed the intimacy and physical/emotional closeness. 

Also I thought managing a relationship while juggling school and life would be super hard and it actually isn’t. It helps that I’m in a relationship with a friend I’ve been close to for 7-8 years. However, due to a lot of their past experiences, I have a much bigger role in supporting them in their life. Because people forget, but first and foremost he’s one of my best friends, and then partner. Being in a relationship overall is more emotionally stressful bc you suddenly have a lot more things you become aware of you didn’t even consider when single. And people need to remember that everyone has baggage, and that’s ok as long as they’re as responsible and you’re as willing to listen.

So tbh, I was less stressed single, but being in a relationship has opened up new ways of being happy I never thought possible. Being just intimate and close to someone in THAT way is just …. oh man all the hardships we go through is just overpowered by how worth it it is to spend a few hours alone just cuddling and smooching. So many feels, yo. Q//o//Q

michealsamuel sent: everything about that response was perfect! so yes, i will take Drawing I and then Animation, while taking Drawing II at the same time! i just want to talk with you for hours about all this stuff! thanks for your input! i want to(and can't wait to) talk to you for hours about all of this stuff while i'm in college!

:///D

Mick you’re really sweet omg im so glad we’re already friends or i’d be stumbling trying to find some not so subtle way of saying pssst hey hey we should talk more~

I wrote on the chat that now that I have more time I can actually peek in there and talk more! Due to all my finals I’ve been leaving tumblr on the backburner but im back!! >8D

And I am p much always up for talking about all this! I’ll add you on skype or find you now and then on the game chat too! :>

This is such a sweet message omg?????

I wanted to reply to this publicly bc it’s a topic I’ve been tackling hard in my work! 

When I took this class, among others, my partner and I always noticed certain patterns in the critiques or directions of the works we’d see critiqued. In one class (Visual Storytelling), unless your story was funny, people had a hard time giving you any feedback at all. If your work is critical, you’re feedback level is gonna get even shittier. So your work has to be top notch overall to get the attention it needs to get anywhere. :U

Lots of work used cliche problematic scenarios to rely on for humor’s sake. Most though are just plain awful depictions of the issues that still exist in this industry, like in PLAIN SIGHT oh god… (proof that yep we still need a LOT to work on)

Some examples are

• a park incident jogger/dogwalker action scenario. P much every jogger drawn by others was fat or had the plot/humor revolve around food for them. What was funny was their fatness, not even the context. Or lack there of…
• One of the first assignments for Drawing for Animation was a character with a certain job to be drawn with personality outside their occupation to show character. I drew a fat queer pole dancer. My partner drew a trans* man belly dancer. Neither of our character were thin, white, or cisgendered. You should have seen the shitty critique we got. No feedback. Just awkward unnecessary comments about gender confusion due to the feminine poses for my partner. And for my character, Candy, people would ask if “it was supposed to be funny” before they laughed. The assumption that you’re supposed to laugh first at my character is insulting alone. 
• Another assignment for showing weight in movement left us drawing my partner’s character (inspired by the strongest person in the world, this Chinese female body builder who looks incredible omg) and my character, a bear p much with a swimmer build. Our teacher’s feedback was just that we needed more variety in our shapes bc our characters were all big and/or fat. But he didn’t say that, he just said we needed more variety. I guess he doesn’t acknowledge there are different kinds of fat bodies. Also only we got that feedback…. others drew white scrawny characters for all their assignments and got nothing?????? uhhh….
• Another Visual Storytelling piece did a role reversal of a warrior rescuing prince in a tower. The woman was fat and the man was feminine. The piece didn’t mock them, and you genuinely laughed at the ridiculousness of when they look at each other with the whole “love at first sight” moment. Overall it was wonderful, but the feedback … oh god. I think the worst comment was “while you’re at it why not just put him in fishnets and heels??”
• One guy in my class did his storyboard on a man having a panic attack, and made it all flashy and exaggerated. A few people commented on how it seemed very under-researched, bc they’ve had panic attacks and anxiety problems and the representation of this work showed no truth to what an attack actually feels like. It’s not a fucking rave nightmare, it feels awful. People said they felt uncomfortable with his piece. The teacher loved it just for the technical stuff and good work, and the feedback was ignored. He’s doing this as his senior project next year. 
• My critique and direct calling out of my history of animation teacher (he keeps justifying racism in film history as acceptable humor and rape culture as a norm. If someone says something it plays off as “we need to get a sense of humor”…) my action lead me to an F on my assignment, a mandatory write up of my actions, and being told im setting up everything to my own agenda and looking for problems. Jfc. I confronted him after class and it wasn’t pretty.
• worst scenario: we have white boards open for doodling in the animation building. One week’s topic was drawing your friends as “the opposite gender” and the next was “fat week” and jfc i was so fucking angry that week. So much transphobic and fatphobic bullshit. I wrote up a letter to the head of the department and talked with his secretary. He later addressed it to me by saying he could erase the drawings and forget it ever happened with me being so “offended”…. (luckily i took pictures and threatened to share them with the school head if he didnt do something. His secretary now is allies with my partner and i to ban the animation book we use and all the problematic bs she’s had to encounter by making a diversity club focusing on these issues from different departments that are being ignored)

michealsamuel sent: WAIT. Your actual name ISN'T Mig? What is this tomfoolery. Next you're going to tell me Sai and Sax aren't birth names?!?!

omg i forgot that all those works had my full name on there sjnfglskdjnfg

WELP since I archive my work on here I might as well say it now B’D

My full name is Joann Magali C. I have a two-part name of sorts, no hyphen or anything. It’s common in my culture, but I’ve had issues with it here in America because people think Magali is my middle name or something??? :U

But yeah my first names are both Joann AND Magali :D

Throughout my whole life tho my parents called me Magali, and other than teachers, everyone calls me Magali or Mig for short :>

(“Mig” has it’s own huge story as a nickname omg but that’s for another day~)