*finishes a movie* *rubs my little gay hands together* well…better head on over to ao3 and see what they’ve got
I like that queer fanfic culture has looked at media and said “you spent millions of dollars on putting together some good AU ideas…. I’ll see what i can do with it.”
one thing that really RUSTLES MY JIMMIES is how almost every tutorial on how to draw men has a part about their lips that pretty much always boils down to “make them as thin as possible” or “blur the edges until there’s almost no discernible shape to them” and “pretty much just make them as unnoticeable as possible” because people apparently think its impossible for men to have prominent lips?? like???
DON’T be afraid to give your dudes big lips. it is absolutely not a gendered trait, and please remember not to take art advice as gospel, especially when its coming from random people online who may or may not know wtf they’re talking about.
someone: *criticizes japanese media for its misogyny, racism, pedophilia, etc*
white people in the US: Have you considered that Japanese culture is different?
Japanese Americans: *talk about whitewashing Asian roles in Hollywood and cultural appropriation*
white people in the US: Here’s an article on what Japanese people in Japan think about this topic because Japan’s race relations are exactly the same as ours.
Also like…the creepy stuff in the creepier animes out there isn’t “Japanese culture”, actual Japanese people think it’s fuckin weird and off putting and terrible as well it’s one of the reasons why otaku in Japan are viewed as creepy unsettling people
Japan isn’t a whole nation of people stroking their anime love pillows
