i just found out merriam webster has a time traveler feature that tells you some of the words that were “born” the same year as you. it’s pretty neat yall should do this
i’m the same age as twerking and bromance guys
‘Internet service provider’….how fucking old am I???!!
I’m the same age as pole-dancing you guys
oh my god????
There were way too many good ones for ‘95 so i had to screenshot
This is もちアイス (mochiaisu) and the “soft skin” is pounded rice cake. The white stuff you see on the outside is powdered sugar so they won’t get sticky. It’s very delicious on a hot day and you can get these at the right self-serve frozen yogurt joints. Unfortunately North America sells one mochiaisu for a dollar and some cents whereas in Japan you can get these by the boxful in any supermarket.
Want it. Nnh
you can make it yourself at home folks! Mochi is really simple to make, all you have to do is take 2 cups rice flower, mix with 1 cup water and ½ cup sugar, boil it in a pot or put in a ceranwrap covered bowl and put in microwave for 7 minutes. turn off the heat and stir it until it becomes solid and sticky. Then you can roll it into balls with a little bit of rice flour on top to keep it from being too sticky. Then you can eat it just like that, cover a scoop of ice cream and freeze it to make this, or you can make Strawberry Daifuku which is strawberries and red bean paste (anko) wrapped in mochi. I make it all the time!
Aww damn i gotta do this!!
Waaaaant. You’d find them in regular supermarkets in Seattle. Out here? Not so much. 😦
Two lesbian witches are about to take over your TV – and we’re so here for it.
A Discovery of Witches, which is coming to Sky 1 later this year, will feature Sarah Bishop, a powerful lesbian witch played by Doctor Who and Arrow star Alex Kingston.
Together with her partner, another witch called Emily Mather, Sarah raises her niece Diana, teaching her how to use her powers to fight in a centuries-old struggle between supernatural beings.
Alright monster high tag I’m going to explain you about racial coding because some of you still can’t understand how a cartoon character can be a monster and have a “human race” to go along with it.
So first off we do not live in a bubble. Nothing created exists in a bubble. It is all influenced by the surrounding culture. Black children are going to look at Honey and say “hey, she has hair like mine” and relate to that. Mexican children will look at Skelita and recognize the sugar skull and be drawn to her. Things do not exists in a bubble.
Now for racial coding. Racial coding is when you take a non-human character and code them as a specific type of race, or ethnicity. Now, sometimes racial coding can be racist. Examples:
All these characters are very obviously supposed to represent a certain race even thought they re non-human. The problem is they are represented racistly.
Now on for some good examples!
Luigi is a car, we all know he is Italian.
Flow is a car, we can still tell she’s black.
Eduardo is a imaginary friend, we still know he’s latin@
Wilt is an imaginary friend, we can still tell he’s black
Jinafire is a dragon, we all know she’s Chinese
Marisol is a Maricoxi, she is still obviously South American & Latin@ (tbh she reads as Peruvian specifically to me)
Hello Kitty is a cat, because she is created in Japan and is often displayed as participating in Japanese culture we know she’s Japanese.
P.S. I will not be responding to racist trying to defend themselves.
Wilt is black?
Yes he is! they’re not even subtle about it in the show, but let me give a few examples from least important to most important.
Wilt’s voice actor is Phil LaMarr
The kid (pictured: man) who created wilt is Jordan Michael’s… an obvious Michael Jordan parody.
He was created in “The Hood” and this was his surroundings.
Most of this can be found in the wiki for Good Wilt Hunting. but the strongest piece of evidence for Wilt being black doesn’t come from that episode but it is directly related to is how he sees himself.
and that is the prop arm he wears over his stump to prank little kids in the Halloween episode.
Black skinned props and prosthetics aren’t exactly easy to find. (there’s a joke about this in the movie Bad Santa where the black elf character has to wear elf ears that are white skinned because they don’t make black elf ear props or if they do they are extremely hard to come by.)
which means Wilt had to activity search that prop out or make it himself because that is how he seems himself. His creator was black ,his neighborhood was black so even though he isn’t human. he feels black.
So if he was human, he would be a black human.
Holy crap this post is so long I’m sorry I couldn’t reblog this as a shorter link but this is super informative and SUPER IMPORTANT!
Hello Kitty is actually British. Source: I just watched a Netflix show where they interviewed people involved with Sanrio, and that has apparently always been the case. I can’t remember the reasoning behind that decision, but there ya go.
(It’s “The Toys that Made Us” in case anyone wants to go verify for themselves.)
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