/media/ - Media

>>37706
>>37737
My little sister used to love these things but I always thought they looked nasty. I remember the ps2 game being really weird with this make up system that let you turn the girls into horrible clowns. That and awful roller skating controls.

When I was a kid me (asian) and my asian friends used to draw ourselves blonde with blue eyes. Think it's better now though because they have different races/body sizes of Barbies.

I will always love the classic Barbie collection, Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper and Barbie in the Nutcracker were the most beautiful and enchanting toys I ever owned.. I still regret giving them up because now I see barbie collectors would give an arm to own either one of those.
I personally think there is nothing wrong with Barbie being conventionally beautiful, Barbie was never supposed to be realistic in the first place I think.
I don't like the current dolls and they ruined the appeal of the ethereal looking dolls.
I also loved the monster high and Ever after high dolls and there is not much difference I think.

>>37668
When I was a kid, I didn't like them because they're girly. I also avoided anything pink and glittery. Girly things were always being made fun of or shamed by my brother and father and I didn't want to be seen with something so embarassing.
There are reasons to not like super slim long mega-consumerist women in permanent make-up plastic dolls produced in sweatshops and all that, but when I see them, I feel a kind of resentment for my immediate family for robbing me of that simple joy regardless… It was probably for the best with barbie specifically tbf, but I wish my family had had more woke reasoning than "woman bad".
…but thinking of it, I wasn't that much of a fan of barbie for other (albeit perhaps adjacenty) reasons too. The ads were always about her going shopping, dressing up and doing her hair and it was just more boring than everything Playmobil and Lego was doing.
If I were to buy dolls for a child now, I'd probably go for smaller dolls that fit in a doll house. Barbies are a bit too big for regular doll houses and too hard, small and adult-looking to hug like baby dolls and plushs. They look like you have to prop them up if you put them in a doll house and don't want them to topple over.

As a fat little brunette girl playing with these and bratz not once did I feel like I needed to look like her. Classical feminine “I’m imagining I look like her”.
I’m not fat now but it didn’t inspire me to get surgery. I think having the dolls + toxic family and friends does it.

I wish Season 3 ended in a way that tied up more loose ends, like the relationship between In-ho and Jun-ho, after all it was meant to be the conclusion to the story
I like the American recruiter they added, it leaves you contemplating the exterior of the world and hopefully the American adaptation expands on it even if it Gi-hun is dead

The a person in the apartment complex who has been watching it daily for the past couple months, is that you Nona?

Not a lot of character development, I wasn’t wrenched over the characters that ended up dying. So much empty pauses and stares that could have been filled in with more background story, seemed lazy in end.

>>37655
>content like this
What exactly is pornographic about this game?

>>37788
TCOAL? It's not overtly pornographic however there are salacious themes in it in regards to the main characters, who are, yes, blood-related siblings. Their relationship is, however, abusive and extremely toxic. The characters both recognize this fact as do their parents. That being said this is far from the only element of the game that is horrible, it is a psychological horror game after all. There is elements of murder, the occult, demonic summoning. Background elements that server as set dressing are that of a corporation inventing the idea of a virus or plague to lock people inside apartment room, eventually kill them, and use them as food. The aforementioned siblings parents sold their children to one of these apartment harvesting operations. There's a lot of stuff going on other than the incest, however that is a main factor in it especially now since the developer has listened to the fandom and is making it that more of a focus it seems. What I played of it I thought it was okay, definitely stomach churning at times which was the intent.

>>33421
emo

>>37604
Cousin marriage is. A brother and sister would still get their heads lopped off in Saudi Arabia, hanged from a crane in modern Iran, and face either some form of execution or extensive prison time in any country based on Islamic Law for having sex with each other. Of course, how much even this strict prohibition is adhered to behind closed doors in these countries is an open question, but nonetheless…

Sociologically, cousin incest and sibling incest are very different phenomena. Cousin marriages are historically common even if there is variance in their frequency depending on time and place. They are very frequent among clannish cultures as different family branches marrying amongst each other strengthens extended kinship ties, and there is a strong inherent distrust of anyone outside the clan. Sibling marriages were rare, happening most often in the context of dynastic practices exclusive to royalty or nobility. Which is why the few known occasions when they happened as a general practice across all social strata are remarkable from an anthropological perspective. But the most well documented of those occasions, that being the aforementioned Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt, doesn't offer any significant clues suggesting that the widespread brother-sister marriages there were driven by the same social forces that motivate cousin marriages elsewhere.

So it's important to distinguish between the two for accuracy's sake. Biologically very similar as then it's a simple difference of degree, but socially quite distinct.

>>38205
I'm glad we have the top experts on incest here at crystal.cafe

This was my main motivation for becoming serious about inking.

I highly recommend Hothead Paisan, especially if you like punk-rock lesbians.

STITCHES! Hands down one of the best graphic novel memoirs I've read.

damn this thread is old, how long has been this up for?

8 years?

>>37419
I dunno, that one made me angry. Yeah, his socially captive lesbian mother was emotionally distant and scary to him. She was still the one tending to him when he was sick, and keeping an eye on what he was doing. But he didn't form a complex over his father rarely being home and GIVING HIM FUCKING CANCER. Seriously, the last few pages of the book were him acting like he escaped her terribleness and he'd never be like her, like some sort of victory that was supposed to be cathartic to us.

His little epilogue shows that his father got remarried real quick to a more palatable woman and he just shrugs it off with "well mom was complicated due to her preferences probably but this new one is real nice." Spoiled little shit.

>>33380
Which ones don't have disappointing people?

>>33379
I think Discord should be shut down by the FTC. They fund human trafficking.

>>34156
how do i find friends in general thru these apps?

I tried using the cord but every server Id join, it was like everyone already knew each other and felt closed off (id ask an interesting convo starter question related to the server but be be ignored)
then if I tried DMing random people, they either ignore me or think im some scammer. like wtf.

i hate being an autist and genuinely always finding all this confusing. i know how to have a convo and all that, but trying to find the right people + the right environment feels impossible? it just all feels clique-y. how do these people find each other in the first place.

when I do find someone, i ALWAYS get treated as the therapist friend / filler "everyone else is offline so ill talk to u" friend. feels bad man.

>>37495
You need an excuse to approach people, so joining a group actually doing/learning something makes it easier. You have reason to talk to people and to know them, then it can turn into something else.
>>37377
>>33380
You get what you put in.

>>33379
I've setup a XMPP account thank you so much!! I just don't know where to send it cause I don't want creeps messaging me lol

>>36279
Jojo is a very popular anime so popular it’s a normie zoomie show now. It’s got tons of musical references in it if you want to discover new songs and artists (most are boomer rock)

I'm in love with Romance by PENICILLIN.

I listed to early terrorcore and jump up drum and bass. My interest is rave culture so my entire music taste is just edm. I kinda wanna make a thread specifically for rave culture cuz I’ve gone on so many image boards and haven’t found a single one and I wanna discuss it..

>>38150
First encounters with X by CLAMP

My best friend had these untranslated mangas and drew from them, we were 13

Don't click if you are squeamish

>>38150
I didn't seek it out with morbid curiosity so much, but my sister was obsessed with this blockbuster movie Unico when we were all under 5 years old. This movie genuinely frightened me. Holy hell the animators were blazed on something.

>>2793
Nigel insisted that I watch this lol. My brain switched off half-way through because I could not understand what they were saying. Literally every moid in it talks like a whispery Texan Batman with high-functioning autism . Do Americans really talk like that? It made the main villain 80% less intimidating . Anyway, if you decide to watch remember to put on subtitles. Would bang Llewyn Moss.

>>25258
I would also like to know this, and what are your favorite movies directed by women?

>>36280
we do not talk like that. we are much louder

I watched Red Rocket recently. It's about how some men like Trump (borderline pedophile in this case a-la Lolita) simply get away with whatever nasty shit that they do because they have just enough charm to pull it off. Only one or two characters in the whole movie can see through his bullshit. The rest simply get taken advantage of in some way.

great game

You have excellent taste.

>>37135
Use the sega mahjong app!

>>37204
I have just stopped with public discords entirely. They're all full insufferable of moids lusting over little girls.

>>37207
I don't like having games on my phone, is there an application of it that I can run on my laptop?

just wanted to share how well ren matches against the new free bg!!

someone is about to get banished to the lands of the yi

I've started studying mahjong terminology and rules instead of just relying on the game to do everything for me. There's so much terminology to remember and I'm not even to the scoring yet.