Hello~
I am Chi-mod
and I like to art!
My art is under the tag Chiart and Chiarts or thechidraws you can find my art blog at Chiemiart :). I am Fandom trash :D
feeling bad because my app’s install size has ballooned up to 11 whole megabytes as if folks these days don’t routinely download games with a gigabyte worth of uncompressed voice clips of 2-star drop gacha babes going “unyuuuu” when they mow down wildlife with a machine gun
(grew up in the age of floppy disks) i will be sent to the hague for this
sorry, it’s a GOOD thing if cishet people use non-conforming pronouns or dress in non-conforming ways or whatever else. for one, that person may not be cishet. but more importantly, living in a society where more people feel comfortable exploring their relationship to gender and sexuality is an undoubtedly GOOD thing
wordle and bts may seem like they have nothing in common but both have been cited by redditors as the reason why their elderly relative quit watching fox news and started acting normal again
love wins i think
you can hate wordle or bts as much as you like, but in the time honored words of a long gone tumblr user: “shit dude whatever works I guess”
“no matter how badly you think you’re doing it, someone else has done it a lot worse and been fine” is applicable to a wide, wide range of things and i say it to myself all the time
For the people who don’t know, in 1985, the Hanshin Tigers won their first (and at the time, only) Japan Series victory. Traditionally, they’ve been hard luck losers, and they’re often compared to the Red Sox in the sense of their being overshadowed by the Yomiuri Giants, who, like the Yankees, have won more championships than any other team in their league.
When they won, fans resembling the players on the team were jumping into the Dotonbori Canal in Osaka - the fans would yell out a player’s name, and a fan who looked like them would jump in. The problem was when they got to Randy Bass, who none of the Japanese fans looked like. They needed to find something resembling him and selected a statue of Colonel Sanders, who was white and had a beard like Bass, and threw it into the canal.
Colonel Sanders sank underwater, and the Hanshin Tigers did…horribly after that, usually coming in last in the league or close to it, to the point where the team was considered cursed by his presence in the canal. The team made the Japan Series a few times after that in the 2000s and once in the 2010s, but lost each time.
In 2009, the Colonel was located and recovered from the Dotonbori Canal, save for his left hand and his glasses. He’s now at a location near Koshien Stadium, where the Tigers play their home games (and where the famed national high school baseball championships are played), and can be viewed there to this day.
Fans were, however, not convinced that they had earned the Colonel’s forgiveness, since his hand and glasses were missing. In the image above, he’s been given some replacement glasses, but he still lacks a left hand.
For years, this has been my favorite baseball story, and I’m so happy that I was alive to see it seen all the way through. Congratulations, Hanshin fans!
if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do… research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?
If I were writing about firefighters I’d also, in addition to just reading about them, take advantage of Our Blessed Internet to ask actual firefighters about how shit works. I’d do the same for a minority I’m not a part of.
I remember when there was this LiveJournal community where you could just ask about anything you needed for your novel - medicine, professions, vehicles, how things function in country X - and people who knew something about that would answer.
We need to bring this back.
And apparently just this summer they DID bring it back - it’s called Little Details and it’s on Dreamwidth!!!!
