coordinates
I’ve been too busy to update as much as I would like lately, but here are some of my coordinates from the last three months. I never quite know what genre they should be classified under since I draw inspiration from all over the place, so please pardon any perceived mistags - I’m just tagging based on what’s generally in my wardrobe and who I think this might interest.
Merry Christmas!
- uwen
💚 #greenhair #circlelenses
….IDK
*insert Regina George screaming in anger at the top of her lungs when she finds out the truth about Kalteen bars gif here*
LMAO
I have tears
that audience shot oh my word
This is hilarious and I feel it’d be even funnier with context
Idol fans plz explain
Japanese idols are generally contractually forbidden from dating or marrying because as an Idol their personhood is a commodity and they are selling the glimpse of an idea of a potential relationship to lonely otakus.
Idols are meant to be pretty, fun, cute, and flirtatious, so that fans can fantasize about being with them which drives sales of branded merchandize.
An Idol that has romantic or sexual pursuits is no longer perceived as available, in addition to it conflicting with fetishized virginity.
Basically, the Idol industry in Japan is the epitomy of a misogynistic sex-sells industry where the product is a fantasy relationship with a woman who is performing to make herself desirable.
Many, many idols are extremely salty about this and will go to great lengths to mock and disparage the system, but they can’t do much to get it changed or go against it because their entire career will be destroyed if it is publicly discovered that they have or have had anything close to a relationship or sex.
And the companies absolutely do fire idols who do so, and destroy any potential they have as a career public figure for the rest of their lives. It’s horrifying.
So, in response for portraying a forever single virgin that can’t date, she savagely drags her “fans” who are more likely actual forever single virgins who will never get a date because they fantasize about getting with a highly fictionalized celebrity personality :v
Many idols “graduate” (卒業) from the profession (a special graduation ceremony is held and everything), and it is often surrounding rumors that they are dating someone.. (Atsuko Maeda, the first real face of AKB48, was rumored to have been dating Eiji Wentz a few months before she announced she would be graduating).
Interestingly in 2chan internet slang, the same word “graduate” (卒業) is used when an otaku has lost their (romantic or sexual) virginity as well. A cultural example is of course Densha Otoko… That story was all about the message board trying to get Densha to “graduate.”
( ˘・ω・˘) I’m sure you all could guess, but… Fans lament an idol’s graduation, but cheer on the graduation of an otaku.
