im gonna say something controversial, but the same way we expect americans to learn about cultures of the places they’re visiting you need to be aware of american culture when you visit usa too.
and ofc im talking about tipping culture. idgaf if it’s fucked up that we have to tip bc their employers don’t pay them enough, YOU KNOW this is expected of you, you KNOW this is part of their culture, and YOU KNOW that not tipping will affect them negatively.
it’s is disrespectful to walk into someone’s house in japan without taking your shoes off and it is disrespectful to not tip in america.
Just to shout this to the rest of Americans who don’t tip too. It’s not about customer service or saying they did a good job.
It’s literally their pay.
I’m not joking. I have friends who were servers. They made $3.25 an hour. That’s way less than the already ridiculously low minimum wage of $7.25.
Some states have laws that allow employers to pay less to employees who ‘work for tips’. And it’s legal. Completely legal wage theft. You should always tip in these states especially. It’s ridiculous and unfair.
It shouldn’t be happening but it is so suck it up and fucking tip 20%.
in regards to my previous tags (the ones restated in the tags of this reblog) it’s worst than I thought
The United States government is literally disappearing people to a gulag with no due process and yet it’s the stock market crash that has finally pissed conservatives off.
the other 25% shouldn’t be in mega-prison either, btw
Saw this on Twitter and I obligatory need to share it
So she actually said that she does not see the appeal in Senshi at all and that the panty shots weren’t intended to be horny - she just has a neighbor who looks kind of like him and does laundry in his underwear. Which she finds kind of weird and offputting, and put into his character to be funny.
But that’s the thing. She doesn’t exaggerate or grotesqueify or alter people’s bodies to fit some standard. (Except insofar as she draws different species differently, and those are exquisitely practiced to ensure they have the same diversity of appearances that humans do.) She just presents people exactly as they are, complexities and oddities and all.
It just so happens that when you present people exactly as they are, what you present will be beautiful and alluring to many. Even the things you yourself might find weird and offputting. Honestly I think it’s a touching example of how you don’t have to see the beauty in everyone for the beauty to be there, simple honesty is enough to let the wonder of people’s humanity shine through.
I’ve reblogged this before and I’m going to do it again because it really, really, REALLY cannot be emphasized enough that you do not know who an artist is just based on their work.
I could trot out any number of pop culture saints who have turned out to be monsters, which is perhaps the big reason why you should be wary of projecting what you see in a person’s work onto the person who made it. You get taken advantage of, sometimes in horrifying ways.
But on the less horrifying side, this is also just… one of the things that’s really cool and arguably the POINT of art?
Ryoko Kui draws things that don’t appeal personally to her with a deep dedication to craft, and that dedication creates images and artwork which appeals deeply to the people who ARE into whatever it is she is drawing.
She has no idea what it’s like to be a person who is into bara hairy men, and yet she makes images that sing like music to that exact group of people. Isn’t that fucking magic? Isn’t that enough?
