and no, someone being TRAFFICKED is not a SEX WORKER 👍

i keep seeing discourse about all sex work is just being “raped for money” and i’m begging yall to interact with literally any sex worker ever

I.O.I for "I.O.I: Loop" solo photo(s).

i prefer the silly celebration videos for the prerelease rather than getting some half inspired teaser photos but that is just me

like it’s the album’s prerelease single. the album is a month away. did you think we were going to get an entire comeback schedule’s worth of promo for the single.

holding myself back from replying to this but omg fearnots are always so goddamn annoying and miserable

unreasonably tired. what else is new

i kind of want to play tomadachi life but it seems like people get tired of it fast

a scan from FRUiTS magazine, most likely images of fasionable people in Japan.

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the original tweet was about western fans being racist in the sense that they are infantilizing east asian idols while being weirded out when a man that isn’t east asian does aegyo, so watching people defend other brands of racism in response is funny to me

watching korean fans expose themselves by getting really mad at a tweet that wasn’t even about them is so funny because people DO like gym rats who look like they bench 500kg doing aegyo and ending fairies. you just don’t want to see a man that isn’t east asian doing it

jeff landry is literally the most useless sack of shit. how can you beat bobby jindal in the useless sack of shit competition

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turning on max velocity’s livestream and immediately getting annoyed. i do this every severe weather event. it’s tradition.

watching saved! and the depiction of being raised christian is so spot on that i’m wondering if there’s like tutorials that youth pastors watch

every sm employee needs to be put in jail. just in case.

my cat’s name is hudson btw.

waow… i’m glad i did that

“i’m going to keep pronouncing wrong because i’m AMERICAN” and the rest are like “i never noticed it being said this way” and everyone is like “that’s because you’re a monolingual BUM” like omg. let’s relax. i have an idea everyone let’s relax

this probably wouldn’t annoy me as much if so many people weren’t acting with so much arrogance. like i get the the pushback against the people who seem to WANT to pronounce names wrong but that’s like literally two people. like reading through the replies, i have only seen a couple people be like

inherently disrespectful to pronounce a name how it’s read, then let’s get into the details i got all day!!!

dialect can influence the way you hear phonemes. there’s also the mcgurk effect where you can hear different phonemes depending on what movements you’re seeing a person’s articulators make. if it seems like i’m being nitpicky it’s because everyone else fuckin is. like if we’re going to say that it’s

even people who are constantly watching kpop videos and shit can still be less in tune with the exact pronunciation of words due to rate of a person speaking, coarticulation, someone’s prosody can drastically change the way we HEAR a word. beyond this, there’s literally a phenomenon where your

language and dialect, then we should be able to apply this regular ass kpop fans who say “taerae” because that is what they read it as. and again, don’t get me wrong, i absolutely feel that people SHOULD put in effort to pronounce names correctly once they realize they’ve been mispronouncing it, but

i’m not done because i keep ragebaiting myself but genuinely. how is this different from a korean person saying the name sabrina carpenter? beyonce? laufey? tyla? MARK? with the phonemes adjusted for what’s comfortable for them. if we’re able to comprehend that linguistic inventories vary by both

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📍 Fukuoka, Japan 🇯🇵 — Local Time 03:00:09 PM

scrolled so much just to find the little lady that lives here

rips

omg thank you!!! 🥲

guy who likes linguistics a regular amount