Medvedeva is a gem - she’s super young and crazy talented but still spends a lot of time scouring the interwebs for the animez and hot boys in love with each other and is generally super excited about life which is basically me as a teen except without all the crazy talent and general athleticism.

Tl:dr - it’s a standard “saving the bad boy” romance trilogy with a very very mild kinky overtone that initially gained traction by putting the names of Twilight characters into it, but really has 0 to do with Vampires, because it’s one of those fan fictions that place beloved characters into different universes and…

Think about in fashion and beauty for example - so rarely in American beauty are darker skin tones considered that when a collection caters to someone with Lupita Nyongo’s color and the dark skinned model is in the promo, the black beauty community gets really excited knowing that they can this product knowing that…

Some of the examples are a little harsh - I think in terms of gay dads and interracial couples for Cheerios and Gap ads, yeah, they expected some minor backlash but thought they would take the hit in the name of gaining some ground with a millenial audience who align with these values, but you know what? That was…

Honestly, I’m 80% sure it was more inflating manufacturing costs than anything else (although some of it is dumb MBA stuff). I work in a parallel industry and every year we spend more and more time trying to cut costs in creative, least impactful ways possible because as our workers become more unionized and more…

I would assume she identifies as at least partially middle eastern - middle eastern isn’t a skin color. It’s a ethnic identity and when you have one parent of that ethnic heritage, you probably do celebrate aspects of that culture whether it comes to food / holidays / customs and how you are raised. I don’t have any…

Also Kate Middleton isn’t that hot? Not to knock her looks, but she is a well presented woman who dresses her age and has a knack for wearing clothes that fit her body type and complexion. She doesn’t look particularly sexy (which is good given her role in society), she doesn’t look particularly youthful for her age…

How does your friend source supplies and how complex is the item? I think that’s a huge factor in this - let’s say she does a really adorable crocheted beanie, on a small scale that’s buying a lot of crocheting material (probably sourced from one shipment of online buying or going to a Michael’s) and is low enough…

It is a bit isn’t it? I think it’s all the obvious black liner she wore at the beginning but since getting hitched, and baby no.2, she (and her make up team) have really begun toning it down a lot more.

Obvious “makeup” is a lower class thing - even though the current celebrity/ “cool” look right now is a face full of slap and amazing contouring and lashes, that shit does not fly at a country club. “Classy” makeup is the kind that Kate Middleton wears.

Here’s the thing - (like many complex cases of appropriation) it feels white-washed to (insert white country here)-asians. I’m one of them, and I get it, on some level, especially with US marketing it seems really unnecessary to have a white dude atleast partially lead a fictional chinese army to fight magical…

They’re also observant (according to the Trumps that’s why they didn’t realize their fancy instagram was insensitive) - not saying that you can’t be self-loathing and observant, but someone who tries very hard to assimilate away your self-loathed religious/ethnic heritage usually walks a mile from cultural traditions.…

Mike Pence is a textbook religious extremist conservative. He will make life harder significantly harder for women, LGBT individuals and will not attempt to better the situations of the poor or marginalized communities. He will also not start a war with tweet and seems like a (awful) adult who can atleast practice…

Fanny packs made a “fashuuun” come back around 3 years ago at the same time as the summer of the Birkenstock and has stuck around since on the waists of ironic hipsters and adults who enjoy attending concerts where you have to sleep in a tent.

*correction - the show never wants the secret “twist” to be that a core main cast character who is Muslim to be the secret big bad reveal. So basically yes, there are still bad guys and some of them are Muslim but the two prominent Muslim characters are never going to “betray” the cast of the story by being secret…

Ooh! I believe there is currently a canadian show called “Little Mosque on the Prarie” which is a family sitcom. In terms of Muslim characters that are more well rounded I remember Dev Patel’s character from season 1 UK Skins (a teen show popular in the 2000s) and more recently the twins from Quantico, a Shonda…

Well the question was how abstinent were they? I know people who (like Ciara who had sex before) decided to save themselves for marriage with their partner but also indulged in some heavy petting up to blowjobs. I know zero real adults past the age of 23 who are indeed waiting but cap off naughty behavior at kissing…

I’m gonna guess that maybe OP is white or has a very fair complexion. A while back me and my husband (he’s white, I’m a POC) were mutually horrified by each other’s birth because I came out with a full head of hair and brows and he was bald for nearly over a year:

Not saying that this is not a privilege (it definitively is), but in some cultural/ethnic groups it’s a lot more common for intergenerational households to live together so while the parent usually does get free childcare they also fully support their parents in their semi advanced age as the parents typically move in…

This x100 - I love my human to death but I really struggle with this and I have literally retrained my brain in order to be a better partner to someone who is bipolar. I am not someone who is necessarily as emotionally aware, nor do I personally need as much emotional support and so it’s not really all that natural…